We would like to use this post to explain recent issue DailyHoroscope users have experienced.

Many users could not post the horoscopes to their Facebook profiles/wall, getting strange errors with some random website names and just weird application names.

Many of you have written us about this problem (THANK YOU! We really appreciate your feedback!). We have investigated this issue since then but there was not a lot of information and since this problem was not persistent, meaning that it was only happening sometimes, it made it so much harder to track and understand the reason to this problem.

We think that we have now a good idea about why this is happening and how to fix this. Thanks to active Facebook developer forum.

At this point we would like to state and clarify the following:

• This issue was not caused by the recent update.

This issue was caused by something internal to Facebook API implementation, which however coincided with the recent update and of course many users thought this is because of the last update. We know that this is the case because other developers integrating with Facebook APIs experienced the same problems both on iPhone and Android.

• This is not malicious behavior of DailyHoroscope

To the remaining skeptics out there, who still think that this was some malicious behavior of DailyHoroscope. This issue is easy to reproduce on the Facebook website itself – just open the following URL in your browser: http://www.facebook.com/connect/uiserver.php

• We fixed the issue (we really hope so…)

While we think that we have successfully fixed the issue using a workaround to prevent this bug in Facebook access APIs from happening again, we can not be 100% sure because in the first place this error was not happening all the time and although we tested the fix a lot, we could have just been lucky (or unlucky actually) to somehow fall on all the cases where this bug in the Facebook API does not happen.

If you still are experiencing problems after the latest upgrade - 1.8.3, please write us to contact@comitic.com with as much information as possible so that we can further analyze this and hopefully fix this issue for good.

We would like again to thank all the users who have reported this problem to us and provided further information when we tried to debug and fix this issue. Thank you!

We also hope that the users who reduced the rankings of the application will consider raising them back. Thank you for your continuous support!

A new version of DailyHoroscope is coming to Android soon.

Not too many updates in this version though. The core development guys behind DailyHoroscope had to shift the focus to other things but they are getting back on track to bring more updates, improvements and new features!

We have good news that we wanted to share with you as soon as possible. They say one image is worth thousand words, so here it is:

As many of you know, sharing to Facebook using the regular intent mechanism on Android is well, impossible because Facebook applications screwed up is not using the intent parameters properly. We are almost done with an explicit sharing option to Facebook to be available in the next update to the DailyHoroscope for Android.

Maybe by the end of the next week, who knows

Today in the early noon we have released the new version of DailyHoroscope.

The new version has reworked icons and the red color is back by a popular demand!

We also changed the former drawer icon to grey icon to be more universal and match with all the current themes and any future ones as well. We also decided to drop the drawer in favor of popup window which seemed to make more sense and fits better with the new Android 2.1 and 2.2 user experience.

We have also tried to fix a bug that occasionally resulted in the application crash. The crashes were very rare and we were able to get the information about the crashes with the recent change Google made to application control panel to include application crashes. After analyzing the logs we applied a fix. This should result in even more stable working of the application.

In the late afternoon, we realized that there was a small bug in the released version and we immediately started to work on eliminating it and soon posted the updated version to the Android Market.

Enjoy the application and as always – don’t hesitate to let us know what you think in the market comments, emails or here on our blog.

DailyHoroscope application for Android, BlackBerry and iPhone gets a more universal date. We have set the date by default to an American standard which is month/day/year e.g. for the April 21 2010 (today) that would be 04/21/2010. This confused some people, not to mention is somewhat specific. So today we have updated the date format to be more universal. From today it will say “Apr 21 2010” and not 04/21/2010.

Thanks for your feedback, we really appreciate it and listen to all of it!

You are welcome to try out the newest beta release of the DailyHoroscope for BlackBerry. You can download it over the air (OTA) by opening the following link in your BlackBerry browser:

http://bit.ly/dhberryNN

.: Notes about networking :.

When you first open the application, it can seem that it is “stuck”. This is because it tries detect and establish networking connection. Wait for 20-30 seconds and try to open your sign. If it works – great, enjoy the app. If however it does not work and you get error dialog, please try clicking on the sign again. If is still does not work, please go to “Connection Settings” and click the “Reset networking setting” button. Get back to the main screen and try loading a sign again.

If that still does not work for you, you can try to set the connection method manually in “Settings” menu, although we recommend using “Automatic”.  By default, networking method should be set to “Automatic”. You can switch it to other available options and there is “Test” button right beneath the selection. Press on the “Test” button to test your setting, you will be told whether the setting worked or not by either seeing:

“Connection established!” or “Connection FAILED” messages.

***Please note the first time you try to use the application it can prompt you with a permission dialog to connect to a web server. If you accidentally clicked “deny” then the application won’t work. You can change these application permissions by going Options -> Advanced Options -> Applications -> DailyHoroscope, then click the Edit Permissions menu item. There you can check whether it has “Connections” option set as “allow”

We truly hope that this new version will work for you. In case you still experience problems, please do not hesitate to contact us. If this version fixes your problem, please also spare 10 seconds and write us back that it worked. We ‘d really appreciate it!

Thanks for your patience and continuous support! We hope you will truly enjoy the application.

We have been hard at work, working on the latest update to the BlackBerry version of the DailyHoroscope. The newest version at the moment is 1.2.0. It is ready and we have started to push in app update as well as submitted the new version to the App World, which will hopefully get checked and approved an be available for in App World update within the next couple weeks.

If you have a blackberry and do not have DailyHoroscope application, you can download DailyHoroscope from the App World or if you prefer for some reason, you can try our DailyHoroscope over the air (OTA) download.

You can follow the above link on your BB browser, or type it — http://bit.ly/dhberry directly.

We will keep working and improving DailyHoroscope to match the functionality of DailyHoroscope for Android.

We just posted the new update to our DailyHoroscope for Android twitter account you can download the new version from there. We will see whether people encounter any nasty bugs and if not, we will release DailyHoroscope on Android Market tonight!

Those are the new features in 1.7.1

• Now you can calculate which Chinese animal symbol you are. On the Chinese horoscope screen press on the ? help badge and enter your birthday.
• Explicit share menu button for even easier sharing
• Sharing of the Chinese zodiac for 2010 is also possible now

We had the poll with unfortunate low turnaround regarding the “?” badge placement to calculate the Chinese animal symbol and based on a few opinions that we received and out own considerations, we decided to place the badge on the bottom.

We added the new explicit share menu button that complements the original long click on the content. Also notice the new and cool icon of 3Banana notes from our partner – Snaptic for “My Notes” menu option.

Enjoy the new version and please let us know if you find anything wrong.

We just published DailyHoroscope 1.7 to the Android market

New in this version:

Widget support (yey!)

Now you can add your sign as a widget on the homescreen. To add the widget, long press on an empty space on your homescreen untill a menu will pop up.
Select Widget or Android Widget and then find DailyHoroscope and click on it. You will see 12 signs – tap on the sing you want to add. You can add more than one repeating the procedure!

Note:  The widget icons will have the same color theme as the main application. In the future, we will allow for custom colors for each widget.

The widget icons will look best on a darker backgrounds.

Enjoy!