6ix Passions

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Posts tagged Apps

Dec
8th

Mon

TaskPaper

For a while I was simply using the default OS install TextEdit application to take note, write to do list and assign tasks to my team. For me there was nothing more simple than that, so nothing more useful.

Until Frank found and shown me this little software, TaskPaper, a task and list editor on steroid.

The base concept of the software even extend itself to other platforms (Windows, BBEdit) on the Web with TaskODone and even as an extension for TextMate, the most popular Mac developer editor.

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#apps

Sep
4th

Thu

5 iPhone Applications That Replace Your Tools

Wired made a rap-up the iPhone apps that may replace some of your items in your toolbox: A level using the built-in iPhone tilt-sensors, a measure tape using the 3G GPS, SpeedAlert, a GPS-based speedometer, a Caliber for more accurate measurement and…

a Hammer

This one is free. Hammer is an application which works without a download, and is available for both iPhones and the iPod Touch. The best feature, and one unique to the apps we have tested, is that it actually works with the power off. Simply locate the nail you want to hammer home and start hitting it with the end of the iPhone. A lack of weight makes this less effective than a real hammer, but this is offset by the convenience of always having it in your pocket.

That was a good one… So I had to stand it out here.

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Aug
27th

Wed

DataCase - Turn Your iPhone As A Flash Drive

Using Wi-Fi, drop files on your iPhone and share them easily. You can view your files natively if they’re in MS Office, text, or PDF formats. Others on your network can drop files for you to view. At $6.99 on the App Store, it’s a pretty good deal.

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Schramm's Take on His Favorite iPhone Apps

I already talk about Aurora Feint, and I certainly agree with Mike, this is the most addictive game in the App Store, plus it’s free.

Matthieu, an office colleague, was not convinced about it until he felt asleep on it yesterday. It’s so addictive, I still miss my bus stop. What a game!

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Aug
26th

Tue

Cycorder - Free iPhone Video Recorder

Can’t wait to install it.

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Aug
7th

Thu

STM Mobile - Future Improvements

As many iPhone users and Montrealers, I bought (for only $0.99 on the Apple App Store) the STM Mobile iPhone application wrote by Ian Cloutier, an independent and not affiliated developer to the public transport organism. To build his database of bus route schedules, he used a technique called site scraping or sceen scraping to extract the data from the STM website.

The STM mobile application have been conceived with a continuous connection to the Internet in mind as each time you need to access your bus schedule(s) or to add it to your favorite stops, a query is done to the server to display the result.

Contrary to probably many iPhone and iPhone 3G owners of Canada, I don’t have the latest data plan, so the STM Mobile is almost of no use for me as it’s only display the two next bus passing times in your favorite stops. Having to walk and take the subway before I get to my bus stop, the passing times STM mobile shown me while I had a Wi-Fi connection back at the office are to late.

So I suggest some improvement for the future release(s) to Ian:

Being able to add a bus stop to your favorites without having to launch a search query to the database. Currently an user need to check the next passing times of a bus route to add it to his favorite stops.
Being able to cache all the passing times of the stops of your favorite stops for off-line use. To access those cached passing times a simple link can be added to the bus stops added in your favorites. This will let the users to access all the passing times of his favorite stops quickly (online as off-line).
In each subway station description, adding the link(s) to the bus route(s) deserving the station.
In the favorite stops page, adding the instruction on how to add a stop. For the first time user it’s difficult to understand how to add a bus stop to his favorites.

UPDATE: Ian Cloutier respond me yesterday that most of the suggestions will be integrated in the next upcoming releases. Thank-you Ian for this wonderful iPhone app and its future development.

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