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This one fixes several issues related to hidden documents and folders and should start-up much faster for those who have a lot of docs.

New York, NY Jun 14, 2011

New York, New York – Sounds Broken Inc. has announced gogoDocs 1.1.4, an update to their wildly popular Google Docs reader for the iPhone and iPad. The application supports reading documents uploaded using the “upload any file” feature of Google Docs. gogoDocs now supports viewing most types of documents, listening to audio and viewing fullscreen video, as well as sending video and audio to the Apple TV and other devices via AirPlay.

gogoDocs 1.1.4 features:
* New – Streaming to AppleTV for multimedia files such as mov, .mp4, .mpv, and .3gp MPEG-4 Part 2 video (Simple Profile) AAC-LC audio at up to 48 kHz, and MP3 up to 48 kHz, stereo audio as well as most image formats
* New – added room for reading in landscape mode
* File support for MS Office and iWork files that were not converted to Google Docs format on upload
* New – In-application searching by file name
* Very Fast PDF reader built right in
* Document Sync – get instant anywhere access to any document, spreadsheet, presentation, or pdf you have synced. Great for flights, subway travel – any place your internet connection is unreliable
* Document Stars – ensure important docs are synced by just starring them. And change the starred status of docs right from your phone for streamlined management

What People are saying:
“This app is truly excellent. Like best the auto sync on start-up and unique one screen to show local copied and google files and not multiple screens of other apps.”
“This is a really handy viewer. I’ve been using it to read some of my larger PDFs and the pages appear so quickly. The jump to last place viewed is really handy!”
“Great program, I’m able to view all of my things. I have been using it to view big PDFs, and I really like the star sync feature.”
“A very good stable implementation of a GoogleDocs reader. Thanks!”
“It’s so so close to being the perfect google docs app.”

Device Requirements:
* iPad or iPhone, iPad
* Requires iOS 3.1.3 or later on iPhone, latest firmware on iPad
* 4.9 MB

Pricing and Availability:
gogoDocs 1.1.4 for iPhone is $2.99 (or equivalent amount in other currencies). gogoDocs 1.1.4 for iPad is $4.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and is available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Productivity category.

Sounds Broken inc:
Based in NYC and Washington, DC areas Sounds Broken Inc. was founded in 2005 by Cocoa developer and entrepreneur Jonathan Saggau. Sounds Broken Inc. is a Mac OS X and iPhone software company. If you can program it, control it, drive it, compile it, touch it, or talk to it with an Apple device, we make it work better. Copyright (C) 2005-2011 Sounds Broken Inc. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. Google Docs(TM) is a registered trademark of Google Inc.

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Jonathan Saggau
President

UPDATE: Fixed in the latest version of gogoDocs (1.1.4). Head over to the app store to get your copy.

We are currently working on an issue where a folder that was uploaded through the Google Docs web site using the new “upload folder” functionality does not appear in gogoDocs. For now, we recommend that you upload files via the two other means if you wish to view them in gogoDocs.

UPDATE:

The reason that they’re not showing at the moment is that the documents themselves, but not the containing folders are marked as hidden on upload (or “Don’t show in home”). We do some fancy filtering of the feed to remove hidden files and empty folders as Google Docs used to treat hidden files somewhat differently than they do now. Since hidden files are removed in gogoDocs so are those, now empty, folders. We’re working on an update that makes your files and folders list more accurately follow the way Google now displays them.

Workaround:

Currently the easiest way to view any files uploaded in this manner is to log into Google docs through your browser and mark each document you want to see in gogoDocs with “Show in home.” This will unset the hidden flag on the documents. You can select multiple documents to make this go faster. Here is what it looks like on Google Docs when you do this.

New York, NY – Sounds Broken Inc. has announced gogoDocs 1.1.3, an update to our wildly popular Google Docs(TM) reader for the iPhone and iPad. The application supports reading documents uploaded using the “upload any file” feature of Google Docs(TM). gogoDocs now supports viewing most types of documents, listening to audio and viewing fullscreen video, as well as sending video and audio to the Apple TV and other devices via AirPlay.

What people are saying about gogoDocs:
* This app is truly excellent. Like best the auto sync on start-up and unique one screen to show local copied and google files and not multiple screens of other apps.
* This is a really handy viewer. I’ve been using it to read some of my larger PDFs and the pages appear so quickly. The jump to last place viewed is really handy!
* Great program, I’m able to view all of my things. I have been using it to view big PDFs, and I really like the star sync feature.
* A very good stable implementation of a GoogleDocs reader. Thanks!
* It’s so so close to being the perfect google docs app.

Features:
* Document Sync – instantly view any document, spreadsheet, presentation, PDF, audio, video file, or image you have synced. Great for flights, subway travel, or any place without a reliable internet connection
* Document Stars – change the starred status of docs right from your phone
* File support for Google Docs native files (Document, PDF, Spreadsheet, Presentation in native Google Docs format)
* File support for MS Office and iWork files that were not converted to Google Docs format on upload
* File support for multimedia files such as mov, .mp4, .mpv, and .3gp MPEG-4 Part 2 video (Simple Profile) AAC-LC audio at up to 48 kHz, and MP3 up to 48 kHz, stereo audio as well as most image formats
* Full screen video
* Syncing Preferences – synchronize starred documents to your phone by default, or have all, only visited documents, or none of your documents synced
* Long PDF Support – gogoDocs handles long pdfs with ease, unlike other viewers that crawl and crash
* Automatic Bookmarking – continue reading where you left off
* Document List Filtering – quickly filter your document list by type, starred, hidden, and file name
* Document Sharing – Email any of your saved documents as attachments
* Portrait and Landscape mode document viewing, pinch or double tap to zoom

Device Requirements:
* iPad or iPhone

Pricing and Availability:
gogoDocs 1.1.3 for iPhone is $2.99 (or equivalent amount in other currencies). gogoDocs 1.1.3 for iPad is $4.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and is available worldwide exclusively through the Apple App Store.

We have been seeing PDF files repeatedly exporting incorrectly from google’s servers, which causes an “empty docs” error and which eventually causes a CAPTCHA error. This has been happening lately to a lot of applications that use the documents API from Google and is a bug in the Google Docs servers. This has been happening since about last Wednesday; Google tells us that they are working on it.

Update: Looks like this is working now. See Here for Google’s progress in case the issue comes up again.

Update: The latest version of gogoDocs fixes this bug.

Google has a bug in their export server that is causing documents requested to come down in the wrong format. The issue is documented here:

http://code.google.com/p/gdata-issues/issues/detail?id=2157

This is the error you would see in gogoDocs: “This document can’t be viewed. The file format is invalid.”

If you would please login to your google account and put a star on that issue, it would help to get them to fix it faster. We are also working on a workaround in our code, but as you probably know, Apple’s update and approval process means that we are at least a week from seeing that version in the app store.

This problem is specific to using Google’s new editor to make docs. You can turn that editor off in your Google docs preferences. Uncheck the box labeled “Create new text documents using the latest verson of the document editor.” Doing so will make all new documents viewable in gogoDocs. You may have to copy and paste any problematical documents (or export and reimport them) to get those to work.

If you bought a shiny new iPhone 4, you might notice some pixel jaggies when you’re using the current version gogoDocs. Rest assured that as soon as our already submitted bugfix version is approved by apple we’ll submit a new version that makes your PDFs look just as clear and crisp as that retina display can render them. If you want to test our iPhone 4 version, get in touch!

Update: The latest version of gogoDocs fixes this bug.

Google has recently changed the XML representation they give our application regarding who you are sharing your documents with; they have added access to whether you are sharing a document by publishing it to anyone / everyone who knows the URL. Since that information is not expected by either version (iPhone or iPad) of gogoDocs, the application crashes when you scroll to a document that is shared to anyone / everyone where anyone is also allowed to edit the document. The crash only happens under the very narrow circumstance wherein everyone can see and edit your document.

If you’re willing to temporarily turn off worldwide editing of any document you’ve shared, that should keep the app running happily while we wait for Apple’s approval of the fixed version. If you are unable to do so, we are offering a limited number of beta copies of the application to users who have hit this bug, we ask only that you delete the beta version and install the official version from the app store once it is approved as it will eventually expire.

If you would like to join the beta test group, please contact us at:
info [at] thisdomainyouareon [doht] com.

If you have seen this error message, you are not alone. This is a problem with the Google docs servers. As it turns out, this is an error that is happening to a small percentage of users of a number of applications that use the Google docs API servers, not just gogoDocs. Some files that are not “normal” Google docs, those files uploaded using Google’s relatively new feature of being able to upload any file, will suddenly and consistently trip this error. One thing you can try is to remove any files you might have uploaded to Google docs around the time that this error cropped – up. If you do find a specific file that causes it, do PLEASE (!) let us know what kind of file it is as it seems that it only happens to a small number of accounts and a small number of files.

The engineers at Google are much more likely to find the problem if we are able to give them more information about it. See here, here, and here and star the issues and/or add any information you are able to find to the comments thereof. The more stars an issue gets the more attention and higher priority it gets from the Google engineers.

Sounds Broken Inc. today is pleased to announce version gogoDocs 1.1.0, an update to their Google Docs(TM) reader for the iPhone. The new version now supports the new “upload any file” feature of Google Docs(TM), including audio and video files, as well as filtering your docs list by name. Newly supported file formats include:

* MS Office and iWork files that were not converted to Google Docs format on upload
* Multimedia files such as mov, .mp4, .mpv, and .3gp MPEG-4 Part 2 video (Simple Profile)
* Audio files such as AAC-LC audio up to 48 kHz, and MP3 up to 48 kHz, stereo audio
* Most image formats Read the rest of this entry »