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We are very happy to announce that Linkinus is now available on the Mac App Store! In celebration, we’re offering a limited time discounted price of only $5! If you have been waiting for a reason to buy, now is the time! You can get it right now on the Mac App Store!

We’ve been getting a few questions about how things will work for existing customers, we’ll outline the details below.

Q: If I bought Linkinus from your site can I get updates through the Mac App Store?

A: Unfortunately Apple does not allow us to migrate existing customers to the Mac App Store. If you purchased Linkinus from our website you can continue to receive updates from our website or the “Check for Updates…” menu inside of the application, just as you always have done.

Q: I want to buy Linkinus from the Mac App Store but it says it is “Installed”

A: If the App Store replaces the buy button with an “Installed” button, you have an existing version of the application on your system. To be able to purchase Linkinus from the Mac App Store you have to move the copy you purchased to the Trash.

Q: Are you stopping updates for Linkinus if I didn’t buy from the Mac App Store?

A: Absolutely not. We will continue to support and issue free updates to all customers who purchased Linkinus 2.x outside of the App Store until version 3.0.

PS: If you’ve bought Linkinus on the App Store, we would absolutely love it if you could rate and/or leave a review. This really helps others find our great software!

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Hi everyone!

As a Black Friday treat, we’re offering discounted prices on iOS versions of the Linkinus IRC client. For a few days only:
- Linkinus for iPhone is $0.99 instead of $2.99.
- Linkinus for iPad is $1.99 instead of $4.99.

On a related note, updates of these apps are being reviewed by Apple, and add full multitasking support as well as iOS 4.2 compatibility, as well as a few bug fixes. The updates should be up soon.

Get them while they’re hot on the App Store!

Tags: app store, black friday, discount, ipad, iphone, irc, Linkinus, thanksgiving

I’d like to introduce everyone to the first game in our new Tap N’ Learn series, TapQuotes; hundreds of fun and insightful quotes right in your pocket.

What’s inside?

• Learn Mode: Study quotes one by one. Shake or double-tap to display random quote.
• Everything: Direct quote access by sorted and searchable list
• Play: Random, timed quizzes to test your quote knowledge
• History: Progress-based live-updating graphs
• Game Center: Leaderboards and Achievements, match your wits against players from all around the world and unlock achievements to gain that extra boost you need to put you in the top spot!

Screenshots

TapQuotes is compatible with iPhones, iPod touchs, and iPads running iPhone OS 3.0 or later, and supports Game Center on OS 4.1. Grab your FREE copy on the App Store today!

Tags: app store, free, game, game center, giveaway, iphone, iphone 4, quotes, tap and learn, tnl

Hey folks!

Just wanted to let you all know that Linkinus for iPhone 1.1 and Linkinus for iPad 1.2.1 are now available in the App Store. This pair of updates fix several user-reported issues and are highly recommended for all users.

What’s New?

• Support for /ignore and /unignore
• Font size and other style preferences now take effect immediately
• Fixed a bug where certain visual settings weren’t applied properly
• Fixed a bug where input bar may be hidden below keyboard under certain circumstances
• New Style: I Are Sea!
• Updated Styles: Better link detection, removed flash embeds, resolved several minor UI glitches in Control, Circus, Midnight, and Whisper.

Linkinus is the most powerful and flexible internet relay chat (IRC) software for iOS there is, yet it’s easy to use and newcomers will instantly know how to use it thanks to its elegant design and over 330 built-in networks. You can purchase both Linkinus for iPhone and Linkinus for iPad on the App Store.

Tags: app store, ipad, iphone, iphone 4, Linkinus, Updates

Hey everyone, it is with great pleasure that I announce the immediate availablility of Linkinus for iPhone! Now, you can enjoy the most powerful and flexible internet relay chat (IRC) software on your iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad or Mac.

Linkinus for iPhone provides many great iOS features, including:

• (new!) Multitasking: stay connected in the background for up to 10 minutes at a time. You’ll receive a notification when your about to be disconnected so you can jump back in if you’d like to remain online
• (new!) New Styles! Control, Circus, Midnight, and Whisper!
• (new!) Media Embedding: Just like the desktop! Get inline images, audio, and some HTML5 video. (More embedding options coming soon!)
• (new!) Configurable style options including font size, emoticons, timestamps, nick coloring, and more!
• (new!) Adjustable scrollback buffer
• (new!) Sort user list alphabetically or by privileges
• (new!) Redirect CTCP requests or notices to console, current window, or separate window
• (new!) Auto-correction (toggle on or off to your liking)

Aside from these great new iOS features, it shares many great features found in the Mac and iPad versions, including:

• Network selector helps you pick servers from the most popular chat networks
• Connect to an unlimited number of networks and channels
• Highlights: IRC can be overwhelming, but with Linkinus you’ll never miss an important message. When someone mentions your nickname, that line will be highlighted so you don’t miss it.
• Identities: it’s you, on IRC. Save your preferred and alternate nicknames in a reusable fashion. And if you provide password credentials, Linkinus will automatically authenticate to NickServ, NickOP, Q, X, G, SrvAuth and AuthServ.
• Displays IRC colors
• Autoconnect/autojoin features
• All standard IRC commands supported from the input field, such as: /me, /all, /away, /ban, /bankick, /clear, /nick, /join, /query, /notice, /quit, /part, /topic, /server, …)
• Blowfish support in channels & queries (/setkey sets the key, /delkey removes it, /key shows it). Automatic key exchange is also support via /keyx
• Channel op commands (/op, /deop, /voice, /devoice, /halfop, /dehalfop, …)
• OPER commands (/oper, /kill, /gline, …)
• Exploding emoticons (tap to cause them to explode)

Linkinus for iPhone costs $2.99 and is available now in the App Store.

PS: A note to our iPad users: These great new features will be available in Linkinus for iPad 1.2, submitted to Apple and waiting for approval.

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As promised, Linkinus 1.0.1 has passed Apple’s approval process and is available in the App Store.

What’s new?

• Added interface for adding custom networks
• Added support for extended /server syntax: ‘/server hostname:port password’ (standard server) and ‘/server hostname:+port password’ (SSL server)
• Fixed an issue with the ‘/whois nickname’ command
• Fixed a bug where channels/connections wouldn’t be deleted appropriately
• Redesigned app icon

Screenshots

Here is a screenshot of the new custom server screen:


We also made some slight modifications to the interface to make things a little easier to use. For example, you no longer have to go into Edit mode to connect or disconnect to servers. Simply click on the blue disclosure button and you’re off to the races.

The navigation bar button layout has changed a bit, so that the + and Edit buttons are aligned more closely with Apple’s built-in applications and now the Channels tab is the default, allowing you to start chatting immediately after opening the app.

This should address our two most requested features: Custom servers and SSL. We’re already hard at work on version 1.1, subscribe to our RSS feed to stay up to date on the latest and greatest.

Tags: app store, ipad, Linkinus, Update