Trekkit Adventure

Jeff in Cuba

Check out Jeff in Cuba. Jeff is the lead designer for the Trekkit look and feel. He might work for Orange Sprocket but he is a part of the Trekkit family. Thanks Jeff for letting us use your vacation as a featured Trekk.

Click on the Trekkit logo above to see his Trekk in full screen. Safe and Happy Trekks everyone!

(Source: trekk.it)

New Website is Live!!!

We are super pumped to start letting people see the new website this weekend.  

The site is about 80% done and we will aim to have it all finished in the coming week.

Lots of new features so take a look…http://www.trekk.it.

Don’t Have An iPhone? No Worries!

Along with our new website design (which we are super pumped about) we have added a new feature for users of Android, Windows or Blackberry devices. 

Although you won’t get all of the features of using the TrekkTrakker for iPhone, you can still take pictures and geotag the photos.  The photos will show up on Trekkit as any other photos would. 

You won’t get the trail to connect the pics (until we finish the code for Android and other phones), but at least you can see what Trekkit is all about.

There is an FAQ article here concerning this topic.

Need Help?

Looking to find your way around Trekkit?  We have a number of useful links for you.  All links can be found from the website under the ‘Help’ menu item. 

To get started, you can check out the FAQ here or look at the knowledge base.  Both of these get updated regularly so check back often. 

If you can’t find the answers in there, you can always contact us or leave feedback.  We read every entry, good or bad. 

Lastly, to get an idea as to what the Trekkit Team is up to, follow us on Twitter, Facebook or view our blogs (which if you are reading this, you have found 8-).  

Trekkit Logo Design

Adventurers Wanted!

Hello everyone,

We are looking for a few adventurous souls to help us in the final leg of our journey. Our destination is to get our TrekkTrakker iPhone app to the Apple App Store. But in order to do this we have to test, test, test and get the final bugs and gremlins out of the system.

If you have a Apple iPhone 3GS or newer we would love your support and feedback.

Here are some links to get your started:

How to get the TrekkTrakker iPhone App

Roadmap of New Features

TrekkTrakker Manual

Video on How to Use Trekkit
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Send Feedback Anytime!

Beta testers get the Premium edition for free when we launch Q1 2012

Thanks! Thanks! Thanks!

Safe and Happy Trekks,

Ryan, Paul, Kristy, Eddy and all the folks at OrangeSprocket

Visit The Trekkit Website!

Becoming a Trekkit iPhone AppBeta Tester

If you are familiar with Beta Programs for the iPhone and want to jump right in, start with the Quick Start section of this blog.Following the Quick Start section is the Becoming a Trekkit Beta Tester section for those who would like to read more about the process.

Quick Start

• Best is to follow these steps on your iPhone. Please forward this webpage or the link below to your iPhone. Makes it much smoother.
• Navigate to this link (http://tflig.ht/pCInhD) and register for TestFlight. Follow the Yellow Brick Road.
• When the new beta (1-2 days after step 1) is ready you will be emailed with installation instructions.
• Enjoy the app; feel free to leave feedback at our contact page (http://feedback.trekk.it/).

Becoming a Trekkit Beta Tester

As we begin the start of our Beta Testing, we want you to try the iPhone app and provide any feedback (good or bad) so that we can make the app better.

Trekkit uses an app called TestFlight (www.testflightapp.com) so that we are able to install the app to your iPhone before we release it on the Apple App Store. TestFlight will email you latest versions of our app and help keep you up to date throughout the beta process.

The reason we have to use TestFlight is Apple does not allow developers to send anyone their iPhone App without it being downloaded from the App Store.

So how do you test then?

Apple has a process which you can send up to 100 people a test version of your application BUT you must register their iPhones/iPod with Apple before this is allowed. TestFlight helps us manage this process.

 To get started, on your iPhone:

 1.       Navigate to this link (http://tflig.ht/pCInhD), to register your device.

 Please complete this step on your iPhone/iPod you wish to test Trekkit on. If you are reading this email on your desktop please open this email on your iPhone or forward this email to an email account you read on your iPhone.

 2.       You will need to sign up for the Trekkit Beta through TestFlight.  When you click on the link in step one you will see the follow form below. Fill in the form and click ‘Register’.

 

3.       Upon completion, you will see a thank you screen.  Scroll to the bottom of the message and click ‘Open Dashboard’. 

 

  

 4.       You will now be taken to the Register Device screen.  Your iPhone/iPod needs to be registered with Trekkit so that we can add you to the Beta Program.  Click ‘Register Device’.

5.       Once the device has been registered, you will need to install your iPhone’s profile to TestFlight so that we can add the Beta TrekkTrakker to your iPhone.  Click ‘Install’.  A popup will appear.  Click ‘Install Now’.  The TestFlight profile is installed to your phone.  Trekkit is now notified that you wish to participate in the Beta.

 

6.       You will receive a ‘Success’ email from Test Flight letting you know you are signed up.  You do not need to do anything with this email.

 

7.       Now that your iPhone/iPod has been registered with Trekkit, we will add you to the Beta Program.  As soon as the next beta is released, we will send you installation instructions. This could be an hour or 1-2 days depending on our next release milestone.

When the installation instructions are emailed to you, open that email on your iPhone and click ‘Install’.  The TrekkTrakker will now be installed on your iPhone and ready to use.

  

If you click ‘Install’ and you see the Register Device Screen it means the device has not been successfully registered or that the beta we released did not include you (Ooops 8-) ).  Just wait a couple of days and we will send a new version to you that will work.

 

That’s it.  You will now be able to test the iPhone Trekkit app.  The Icon will look like this:

  

The manual for the app is available here (http://content/docs/trekktrakker_smartphone.pdf).

If you have any questions or would like to leave feedback anytime, please use our contact page (http://feedback.trekk.it/).

Trekkit iPhone Beta Roadmap

Roadmap to 1.0

We will be adding additional features over the coming months to our iPhone app. We are looking at releasing a new version every two weeks until 1.0 is golden and ready to be submitted to the Apple App Store. There may be releases between Betas to fix critical bugs along the way.

We will also be listening to you, our beloved Beta Testers as to what features you would like to see. Many of these features will be slated for version 2.0 as we need to get 1.0 out to get to 2.0, but we do listen.

If there is a bug or you wish to suggest a feature, please use our contact page (http://feedback.trekk.it/) to let us know.

Beta 2 Features

·         Website redesign

·         Share with Facebook

·         View My Trekks from iPhone

·         View Current Trekk from iPhone

·         Bug Fixes

Beta 3 Features

·         Mobile Version of My Trekks and View Trekk Page

·         Link to Manual Functional

·         User Preferences – GPS Accuracy, Auto Update Trekk, GPS Logging Frequency

·         Bug Fixes

Release Candidate

·         Link to Adventure Page to an actual adventure page

·         This should be feature complete and if no serious issues the version released to the Apple App Store