simon-may.com » web

Why I’m still using the Daily Burn Web app not the app app

Simon — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:50:00 +0000

I’ve been trying to use the Daily Burn iPhone app for a few days and I just can’t use it properly. For some tasks that should be simple, it’s over complicated and takes too darn long. Here’s 2 examples:

Here are the steps with the iPhone App to enter some food I’ve just eaten:

And here it is with the web app:

Not only is it a whole screen less, I can just enter the serving size, I don’t have to use a silly spinney thing (actually 6 in total!)

Next up the app doesn’t show all my workouts, despite “synchronising” every time I launch it. On the left is the web app and the right the iPhone app, notice that 4 – Barbell lifts and Shoulder Press is missing on the right.

So this is why, for now, I’m sticking with the webapp.

Other stuff you might like here

HelloTwitFace – now with Summize search!

Simon — Tue, 20 May 2008 15:21:50 +0000

For the past week I’ve been toiling away on integrating Summize into HelloTwitFace. Summize replaces TweetScan as HelloTwitFace’s replies and search tabs. This was a challenge as I’d already built in RSS reading capabilities to read the TweetScan results, but Summize works with ATOM. I did some diggining and finally got it working…and I have the start of a Summize .NET API.

I think this is the first Windows Mobile app out there to include Summize capabilities. Summize rocks by the way, it is SUPER FAST!

Deets on how to use what’s new after the jump.

So how do those new features work then? Simple, you click on “@” to see all replies sent to you, including those that just mention you with an “@” in there and thoser replies that come back when people have responded to many people at once.

Search is simple too, click the “Summize” tab and enter the search criteria. All your searches are cached locally on your device. Note not the actual results but the search criteria, I did that ‘cos like the rest of the app, I find it useful.

The final change is also one that’s under the hood, but it won’t crash now when TweetScan goes down.

Final comment, when you download me, follow me, @simonster , on twitter. I release HelloTwitFace about 24 to 48 hours in advance on twitter and to AppToDate users.

Technorati Tags: hellotwitface,summize,twitter,hellotxt,facebook,winmo,windows mobile 6.1,windows mobile,mashup,microblog

Other stuff you might like here

Facebook chat is coming to a jabber client near you soon

Simon — Wed, 14 May 2008 17:53:30 +0000

[EDIT: Linked it up

]

A few sources are today talking about facebook opening up their chat application to jabber capable clients. I’ve talked about this before and I can see this being the killer thing for the fb chat platform, which to be fair has been lack luster in its growth.

I see this as being a kin to to twitter opening their api, just like most tweets come from other app’s that’s what will happen to the fb chat platform.

Notice that I’m calling it a chat platform.

Opening it up in this way is going to encourage some really cool app developers to come out with cool things! On the mobile front apps like palringo are gonna sky rocket in their use, any kind me identity aggregation will take off with high use of the elements the combine. The very widespread and diverse user case of fb will lead up to more people chatting. I think we will also see some asynchronous methods me using fb chat popping up, like sms to chat services.

This space is gonna get very cool, very quick, mark my words!

Posted from moBlog – mobile blogging tool for Windows Mobile

Via: Paul’s blog, techcrunch

Technorati Tags: facebook,social networking,palringo,chat,jabber,cool stuff,web2.0,geek

Other stuff you might like here

hellotwitface minor update

Simon — Thu, 01 May 2008 09:37:46 +0000

Ok. That caught me out. I think twitter updated their xml format on Tuesday. On Wednesday hellotwitface stopped working, it wasn’t immediately obvious but they added an extra tag inbefore the user tags on the friends timeline.

It’s now fixed and an update is available through apptodate.

I’ve also included a sneak peak at the next release, with is using http://tweetscan.com to fine all your replies. hellotwitface is moving into a phase me becoming a mobile mashup for twitter and related services.

If there’s a feature you’d like comment on this post!

Posted from moBlog – mobile blogging tool for Windows Mobile

Other stuff you might like here

HelloTwitFace 2.0 Available

Simon — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:52:27 +0000

It’s taken me a couple of weeks but here is version 2.0 of HelloTwitFace!

This was quite a major update, the main portion of which was moving away from using m.twitter.com to using the API and the great new tweets display that includes the image of the person twittering. There’s what’s new:

Nice twitter interface
New De-Scobleizer tab – the ability to move one of your contacts into a separate tab
New Icon
Automatic refresh at user set interval up to 10 minutes

Go get it from here!

Technorati Tags: hellotwitface,winmo,windows mobile,twitter,hellotxt

Other stuff you might like here

next hellotwitface update

Simon — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:50:26 +0000

Another hard night of geeking out and I’m almost there. There are a few ui changes to make and I still have to work out how to create a cab that doesn’t overwrite all files but its getting there.

The new version has a nice new twitter tab.

Posted from moBlog – mobile blogging tool for Windows Mobile

Other stuff you might like here

Coding horror

Simon — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 08:50:40 +0000

This weekend was purposed to see the launch of some additional features in hellotwitface , unfortunately that wasn’t to be. The reason, the resulting 37mb cab file!

It was that big because I used an API I found on the net to do the twitter stuff. to get pound that I started to write my own code to interact with the twitter api.

Hopefully then a release is imminent. I’ll be staying with hellotxt for posting, and I have some more stuff. o do before I move the facebook tab to Api.

Posted from moBlog – mobile blogging tool for Windows Mobile

Other stuff you might like here

HelloTwitFace update

Simon — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:59:59 +0000

I’m planning on updating HelloTwitFace at the weekend, probably late on Saturday with new feature I’ve been working on. I’m going to move the twitter tab away from simply using http://m.twitter.com to using the twitteroo 1.4 API to build my own twitter stream. I’m planning on including an interesting feature in that too. The option to keep the mobile page will be there still too.

For now, as they’ve been requested and I need to upload them, here are two screenshots.

Technorati Tags: hellotwitface,hellotxt,twitter,winmo,facebook,mobile,web2.0

Other stuff you might like here

HelloTwitFace launch

Simon — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 22:42:37 +0000

I’ve just spent this evening on a bit of a GeekOut quest. I’ve just put the finishing touches on HelloTwitFace. It’s a really simple app that combines three of my favourite mobile sites, hellotxt, twitter and facebook.

I think this is the first app to include hellotxt in any way, let me know on that one.

It’s a very simple Windows Mobile app that draws the mobile versions of the above into a tabbed environment and uses hellotxt to do the updates. I’ve been using it for a week and it seems to work really well. I’ve also built in MoDaCo AppToDate support and it works just great!

Now to tell people about it! Oh and sorry about the rubbish Icon!

Technorati Tags: hellotxt,facebook,twitter,windows mobile 6.1,winmo

Other stuff you might like here

On10.net cover WinMo 6.1

Simon — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 06:06:38 +0000

It’s quite interesting watching the various feeds and streams of news on the Internet, I’m getting quite good at things now and have started to notice a definite reporting curve. One source I watch is Channel10, a Microsoft channel for enthusiasts. These guys are “on the tail”, they wait a few days and help to continue to generate buzz.

They’ve published their “top” (or all 10?) new features of WinMo 6.1 just here. My favourite is:

3. Threaded SMS – threaded text messages make it easy to follow the conversation

By the way, channel10 is one for your TVtonic or BigScreen headlines subscription, their videos are great. I got into them with their CES coverage.

Technorati Tags: winmo,on10.net,tvtonic,windows mobile,windows mobile 6.1