New versions of Crème and Crème Light are now available in App Store. Here’s the change log.

• FEATURE: picture uploading from camera or photo library to Twitpic or yFrog.
• FEATURE: limited support for iOS 4 multitasking.
• CHANGE: now using iAd instead of AdMob for ads (Crème Light only.)
• BUGFIX: layout is better in titles of the composer view and list view (positioning, text shadow), now consistent with browser title.
• BUGFIX: if Twitter sends invalid statuses (as happened on Aug 23 due to their API bug or sth like that), no more crashes
• BUGFIX: Twitter API addresses fix: less failing when starting the app for the first time
• BUGFIX: URL shortening is more resilient and does not insert bogus results any more if there is a problem with the request

Some other notes, too…

It’s been many months since the last release. We’ve had some personal life changes that at times took away the time to work on the app. It’s all good. Plus, this summer we dealt with infrastructure, such as packaging and open sourcing PlainOAuth, Crème’s login engine for Twitter’s new OAuth security infrastructure, and implementing and testing cloud sync that we’ll heavily use in future versions and that’s already powering Crème’s syncing in version 1.5.

We apologize if you tried out Crème or Crème Light in the past few months, and found the initial experience disappointing. We had some serious bugs that prevented many first-time users from using the app properly. If this happened to you, we humbly ask that you try again with 1.5.

Crème remains an interesting hobby. The great thing about hobbies is that they tend to be persistent, and we have no intention to stop development, even though this summer it appeared we slowed down. Twitter remains an intriguing platform to work with, and we don’t at this time have intention to expand to other social platforms.