Posted by: teeshotlive | August 30, 2008

TeeShot 1.5.1 begins :)

As with any big release, there are issues that slip through our testing and the great input we got from beta testers and the lengthy Apple review process.  

As people are downloading TeeShot 1.5 we are seeing two issues that I will be fixing for 1.5.1.  I am going to hold off a little bit before finishing it so that any other things that pop up can get fixed then too.  I figured I would start this post to let you know about them in advance to try to reduce any confusion or frustration.

1) Stableford scoring.  I am getting some reports that stableford scoring may have some issues with adding up the points for the main user.  I am investigating this now.

2) Downloading courses with geotagged greens marked.  I’m feeling pretty stupid about this one.  The course validation didn’t get updated to know about the geotagging fields, so you can’t download a course with geotagged greens in it.  Ugh.  I have a fix for this already.  Because of this, I am pulling back CourseBuilder 1.1 which makes it easier to set the geotag locations for greens because you wouldn’t be able to download the courses you had tagged.

If you have already downloaded CourseBuilder 1.1, please go grab 1.0.3 again (it is now back up on the site) and I will upload 1.1 again as soon as I get this issue resolved.

Sorry for these problems but I will get them fixed as soon as possible.

-Chris

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Posted by: teeshotlive | August 29, 2008

TeeShot 1.5 Approved!

I received an email from Apple tonight that TeeShot 1.5 has completed the review process and will be live in the store within 24 hours.  Thanks for everyone’s patience!

As a reminder, there is a bug in the iPhone that can cause data loss if you download updates directly on the phone so make sure you download the TeeShot update using iTunes and install it from there.  Apple is still investigating this issue but it has not been fixed yet.

Thanks again for your patience and enjoy 1.5!

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Posted by: teeshotlive | August 28, 2008

Introducing PracticeTee

I am excited to announce a new iPhone application from TeeShot Software.

PracticeTee lets you get the most out of your golf practice time. Whether you are at the driving range, putting green, or practicing your short game in a practice bunker, PracticeTee lets you track all of your shots and then provides detailed statistics that help you look for weaknesses and see how you are progressing.

Trying out some new clubs? Use PracticeTee to see how you do with each one and make it easier to figure out which of those sweet new drivers should be the new big dog in your bag.

Check out some screenshots from the new application.

PracticeTee Home Page
PracticeTee Session Page
PracticeTee Shot Details

PracticeTee Statistics
More PracticeTee Statistics
PracticeTee Edit Club Page


The primary goal of PracticeTee is to help golfers who are looking to get a little more out of their practice sessions.  Now you can track information about your shots and see how your practice changes over time.  Of course, you don’t need to enter all of the information for every shot — just enter what you want — but tracking your practice over time will give you a great picture of where your strengths and weaknesses are for each club in your bag and help you practice smarter.

PracticeTee will be available in the iTunes Application store soon for $8.99.  While it was uploaded to the store today, we’re seeing it take about 10 days to 2 weeks to actually go public.

As always, feedback is welcome!

-Chris

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Posted by: teeshotlive | August 18, 2008

TeeShot 1.5 uploaded to iTunes store

I’m thrilled to announce that TeeShot version 1.5 has been uploaded to the Apple store.

This is a very big release for TeeShot, including nearly all of the top feature requests from our users including:

  • Tracking scores for up to four players
  • GPS shot tracking and distance to the green
  • A scorecard view for seeing the whole round at a glance
  • More statistics including average shot distances, fairway percentage and more
  • Support for courses measured in meters as well as yards
  • Stableford scoring
  • Enter handicaps for each player and calculate a handicap index based on your rounds
  • One new language - Spanish
  • Lots more improvements to TeeShot’s award winning feature set 
Over the next few days, I will be updating the website to include information about version 1.5 as well as a new version of CourseBuilder that lets you set the GPS coordinates for greens.
 
I want to thank the folks who helped test version 1.5 and the users who have been a big help translating the text for the new features into German, French, Spanish and Norwegian.  Without them, version 1.5 would be much less polished than it is.  Thank you!

 

-Chris
**Update 29 August **
I just received an email from Apple saying that version 1.5 is ready for sale.  Usually this happens a few hours before it shows up in the store, but this is a very good sign!

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Posted by: teeshotlive | August 14, 2008

TeeShot 1.5 is almost ready…

I’ve had a bunch of folks asking how 1.5 is coming, so here is an update.  

TeeShot Version 1.5 is code complete, and we’ve gotten some great feedback from our small cadre of beta testers.  With just a few localization bits to come back, we are pretty much ready to go, so I expect to be able to upload the final version to Apple at the beginning of next week.  When that happens, I will also update the 1.5 preview with the final images as well as updating the rest of www.teeshotlive.com with up to date quickstart and screenshots pages.

A few more things have made it into the 1.5 release that I think you all will be quite happy with.  

  • Displaying distances in meters as well as yards
  • Stableford scoring
  • EGA as well as USGA course handicap calculation
  • Average and max distance stats for each club
  • A few new shot result types
  • One new language - Spanish
  • and a bunch more nice little touches…

In addition, I am working on an update to CourseBuilder that lets you enter the GPS coordinates for greens.  I’ll include some directions for how you can use Google Maps to figure out this information without even leaving your desk.

Finally, as a little teaser, we have another very cool thing in development that we think you’ll be pretty excited about but more on that after the 1.5 release.

See ya on the first tee!

-Chris

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Posted by: teeshotlive | August 6, 2008

Version 1.0.2 Released

Great news!  I just received a note from Apple saying that 1.0.2 has been released.  It should start showing up in the store over the next few hours.  The biggest fixes in 1.0.2 are a fix for the Shot by Shot scoring crash, and a fix for statistics when you don’t play all 18 holes in the round.  Statistics should now be accurate for 9 hole rounds as well as 18.

Yay!

Now that this is fixed, we can really focus on finishing up 1.5.

See ya on the first tee!

-Chris

IMPORTANT UPDATE: A small number of people have run into an issue with their data being lost during updates. While the iPhone is supposed to retain data during application updates, it looks like it occasionally doesn’t do this when downloading the update directly on the iPhone. I have not yet seen any reports of this happening when the update happens through iTunes so to be safe, you might want to download all iPhone application updates via iTunes for now.

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Posted by: teeshotlive | August 4, 2008

TeeShot 1.5 Preview - GPS

Here is the next installment in the TeeShot 1.5 preview and this time we’re going over the GPS shot tagging features. TeeShot 1.5 takes advantage of the iPhone 3G’s GPS transceiver to add two nice new features.

1) Measure the distance of each shot by tagging the starting locations.  TeeShot then measures how far the shot was that got you there.

2) Measuring the distance to the green.  Once the greens on a course have been tagged with GPS locations (a very simple process) you can see how far you are from the green whenever you tag a shot.

The information collected by tagging your shots will also make it possible for TeeShot to give you average distances for each club as part of expanded statistics in an upcoming release.

Check out the screenshots here and let us know what you think!

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Posted by: teeshotlive | July 31, 2008

Test Round for GPS

I just got back from playing my first test round at Heron Links using TeeShot’s GPS features which will be in version 1.5.  I found a few issues that I will definitely fix before it is released, but in general it worked pretty well.  I was tagging the GPS location of the greens on this little par 3 course while also tracking my shot distances.

Now, because I was playing as a single, I was trying to keep moving so I wouldn’t slow down the folks behind, and the few seconds it takes to get a decent GPS coordinate can be nervewracking when you think someone is waiting on the tee but if I was playing with anyone else, I think the time spent waiting for the iPhone to get a decent coordinate would be no problem as I waited for another person in the group to take a shot.

One thing I realized is that tracking shot distances with clubs is going to be a bit more nuanced than I thought.  If you’re hitting a little bump and run with your 9 iron and it goes 30 yards up to the green, I don’t think you will want to include a 30 yard shot for your 9 iron distance statistics so when I get to club distance averaging, I think I will only count tee, fairway and perhaps approach shots.

Oh one other thing.  I want to thank the US Navy’s Blue Angels who flew right overhead while I was on the 4th tee.  Clearly they were there to celebrate this first GPS test round and I really appreciate their support :)

See ya on the first tee!

-Chris

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Posted by: teeshotlive | July 30, 2008

TeeShot 1.5 Preview - Multiple Player Support

Over the next week, we’ll be posting some previews of new features that are coming in TeeShot version 1.5.  The first feature is also by far the most popular request so far.  Multiple player support.

When TeeShot 1.5 ships, you will be able to track the scores for up to four players but there is more to it than just adding players to the round.  Check out the screenshots here and let us know what you think!

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Posted by: teeshotlive | July 30, 2008

Great Review at MacWorld.com

MacWorld did a great review of all of the golf applications for iPhone today and they named TeeShot “The best of the bunch” and we got 4 out of 5 mice.

Wow!

Thanks MacWorld for this great coverage. You can read the whole article here.

This is awesome!

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