Some people have reported they are having issues during the registration process (basically they enter the email and activation key, click the Validate button and nothing happens). In order to make things more transparent, I have updated the code (build 2.0.7) to show an alert if this situation occurs. What I have found is it seems to be related to country/area firewall, blocking the connection with Kwiksher’s website. How to solve this? If you are facing this issue and, after a few tentatives, cannot complete your registration process, follow the instructions in the new Registration tab (more on that on the update Settings documentation): Step 1: Send me the number…
Archives for September 2012
What a week! Kwik 2 is launched!
The past days were pretty crazy here at Kwiksher. As many of you know, I decided to leave my 11 years old full-time job at Microsoft, to dedicate my entire time to Kwiksher, Kwik, and other ideas I have in my mind at this moment. So, last Friday was my last day at Microsoft, which I will miss for sure. “Oooops, shouldn’t you talk about Kwik?” Yes, of course! 🙂 The intro was just to share last week’s craziness, having to work full time at MS, finishing all Kwik 2 bits, polishing the website, working with a video editor guy in Latvia till last night and making easier the purchase/activation…
Announcement: Partnership with Digital Storytime!
Today I am very happy to announce our partnership with Digital Storytime, probably the largest and best children’s storybook reviewers website. With the quality of Kwik made storybooks improving every day, it is important to have a place where parents can get trusted reviews before purchasing book apps to their children. Digital Storytime has provided top quality reviews for more than 500 storybooks, becoming naturally the first place where authors and consumers go before buying or planning new apps. Now, Kwik users will be able to speed up their storybooks’ ratings and/or having a full review, paying less than non-Kwik authors. For full information on how the services work, please check http://digital-storytime.com/reviewRequest.php#1…
Migrating from Kwik 1
With the upcoming release of Kwik 2 on September 18th, you may be asking how compatible is the new plugin with the current one. This post tries to clarify some anxieties 🙂 As I briefly mentioned in a previous post, Kwik 2 brings several new features that are not compatible with Kwik (you cannot create a project in Kwik 2 and expect to import/work it back in Kwik 1). Also, due its focus on full apps (not comics), some features available in Kwik are not available in Kwik 2. Let’s talk about what is NOT available in Kwik 2: Comics: some of you already know that Kwik 1 can create…
Contest Winners Announcement
Last week we received the last batch of submissions for the first Kwik+Corona Labs+Code and Web contest. In total, 15 submissions, from children storybooks (the majority), to comics, adult storybook and games. Overall, great projects, making all of us very excited. Thank you very much for the submissions! Also, my kindest words to David and Inna from Corona Labs, and Andreas, from Code and Web! The following topics were evaluated to select the winners: Originality; Quality of illustrations; Story (for game or storybook); Use of Kwik 2 native features; Estimated time for publishing in, at least, one major store (as Kwik 2 is coming just in a few days, we…