When I Smile

Well, in the never-ending promotion and trying to expand smiling to the universe, I’ve put up a fan page on Facebook.  It’s nothing special right now, but hey, it might link you to other people who like to smile, or at least like to be fans of Facebook fan pages.

It took a couple of tries, but the Make Me Smile app is now a Universal App, meaning that for your purchase it will work on your iPhone or iPod touch, and it is also designed to work even nicer on an iPad.  If you install it on your iPad, your “Smile” picture will fill up the entire screen, the app works just as well in landscape mode, and it’s bigger and beautifuller!  If you’ve got an iPad, please feel free to install it, and give me some feedback on how it’s working for you.  Me, I don’t have an iPad yet, as my upcoming wedding has a few more expenses involved leaving the iPad a little bit further down on the budget list, but hey, the simulator I’ve got says it looks nice, works great, so I want to hear from you!

Thank you to those who have gotten my app so far and are checking the website for what’s coming.  I just wanted to give you a quick note that version 1.2 should be coming in the next week adding the ability to select you Smile Song to play to help make you smile, and then some time gets shifted to making the app iPad compatible!

Thanks for your comments!

First, I would like to thank those of you who downloaded the Make Me Smile app, and I hope it is there for you when you need something to bring a smile to your face.  That said, I was a little sad when I read one of the rating comments from someone who bought the app and didn’t like it.  I guess all I can say is if you do get the app and there is something you don’t like about it, please let me know.  You can e-mail me here, leave a comment, or just use the e-mail feature on the app.  I do want to know what you think, and any ways I can make the app better.  So instead of just being sad, let me know why the app didn’t help so that in the future maybe an update will include the feature that will make you smile!

I so wanted my first post announcing my first iPhone app to be filled with gloriousness, with “Hey, go out and get it!”, with “Let me know what you think!”, with “Sure, I know it’s $.99 and you want it for free, but hey, I do have plans for a limited, free version with ads someday, but really, will an ad above a picture that makes you smile really make you smile?”, and “I have lots of ideas for future versions, but if there are any suggestions you have please throw them my way!”, and all kinds of other fun comments like that, but then I downloaded my app when it was officially approved on Monday.

Low and behold, a little bug that I thought I fixed somehow re-appeared. The thing is it was a bug that might make you frown and not smile, especially if the first “Make Me Smile” picture you took using the app was priceless, because, well, there was a glitch where the app wouldn’t save the first picture it took. All other pictures would be saved to your library, but not that first one. So instead of a joyous “Holy crap, I made an iPhone app,” all of a sudden I was just saying “Oh, crap.” And made my previous post.

But alas, I plugged away at truly eliminating the bug (Please, please, please don’t be there anymore!), and Version 1.1 of “Make Me Smile” is available for download in the app store, and it only has one goal: To be able to, when you need one, make you smile.

Yes, I do have a lot more features in my head planned for the app, I’m hoping to utilize the Twitter thing and a Facebook page for updates and general smileness, but for now, thanks for your support, suggestions, and smiles!