Late last year, FreshApps, like many sites fell a victim to a WordPress attack which compromised some of the code files on disk.  Although unfortunate, we were able to restore from a backup and get Fresh Apps running again.  However, there was one side affect that disabled the ability to add or update apps on the site. [...]

We have had countless emails with the one following question in common, “What can I do to have my app reviewed by FreshApps?” Well, after much deliberation, we have decided to give developers the opportunity to have their app reviewed by our app review team for a fee. We call it, Pay Per Review. Before [...]

Oh media temple… It seems like it has been nothing but a struggle. After months of hosting FreshApps with Media Temple, we have decided to sever the relationship, the following are the accounts and reasons why: Media Temple, oh how I loathe thee, let me enumerate thy failures: WordPress + Media Temple = a lethargic [...]

We are excited to be right on top of the best technology. For those of you who are new to this fat, FreshApps is built on the foundation of WordPress. Sound crazy eh? But it’s true. WordPress is a crazy powerful blogging engine that we have modded to our likeness in order to showcase for [...]

We have just made it easy for you to share your favorite iPhone Apps “Freshness” with everyone! Introducing the Freshness Badge. It’s like adding a mini version of FreshApps to your website, facebook or MySpace page. Freshapps is all about sharing your iPhone Apps, and the new Freshness Badge allows you to do this in [...]

We constantly have apps added every single day. – Some are not formatted correctly – Some list the price as Euros – Some add the screenshot with thumbs in the picture All… not very good. Thus, we need a couple of people to wade through the apps and approve the apps that are worthy of [...]

Well, it was almost painless. Moving DB’s and upgrading is never easy, but nevertheless we are excited to announce that FreshApps has moved over to Media Temple! We have had lots of problems with our old server, but now those problems have been whisked away with our new host. If you have not had a [...]

After doing lots of research into commenting systems that integrate with WordPress, we have decided to use IntenseDebate. Intense Debate was actually purchased by the company that makes WordPress called automattic last year. The problem was that WordPress has a great commenting system, especially since WordPress version 2.7 where the comments are threaded. Still the [...]

A few weeks ago, an article that featured FreshApps made it to the home page of Digg.com.  Naturally, quite a bit of traffic flowed through this site and on to FreshApps (~20K uniques within 30 minutes).  Being that FreshApps is a WordPress site and has many additional database queries, this traffic brought FreshApps to its [...]

It’s official, FreshApps.com has started creating iPhone App reviews! We have recruited some very talented individuals to write some of the best iPhone app reviews on the web.  But Brandon, aren’t there already sites out there that do this? Well, if you’re like me, you have a many places you visit to aid you in [...]