http://www.luaye.com Blog, images and projects: Feed luaye.gif http://www.luaye.com 80 35 Sat, 31 May 2008 00:25:48 +0200 The Future There is going to be iPhone2.0 release in June (so they say) and from then on, installing third party applications on iPhone will become official. Web-app will surely become history. iConvert is probably going to go with it. The only way to keep out of history would be to develop this for native application. To do this, I need apple's iPhone SDK, which I can get for free. BUT.. i also need a MAC... which is not free and I do not own one. Not sure if it is worth investing just to develop an application that will probably be only suitable for free distribution. And so, I think iConvert's future is quite dim. It would be a waste to let this application sink in as newer breed of apps comes in. My own fault for buying a TV and then a WII instead of buying a MAC ! :P Oh well, at least it was fun making and I learned a lot of things.]]> Sat, 31 May 2008 00:25:48 +0200 Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:09:59 +0100 Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:43:05 +0100 [Screenshot 1] [Screenshot 2] I wrote it with personal use in mind but half way through I decided to go public. It is currently hosted here: http://meatarian.co.uk/iphone/iconvert/ If you are not using Safari, the app will not visually render properly, in other words - ugly. You can still use it. App specifications: - Run on a single html page: so that users won't need to reload the page while using the application. This way users can go offline after first download - Javascripts for functionality. I wish I can use flash but iPhone currently doesnt support flash :( not even flash lite... - Simple, fast and short to the point - to use - Shows all possible unit conversions in a single page - Updates conversion values as typed in - Shows relation of currently selected unit to the rest of the converting units before/after user started typing in the conversion - Shows full and symbolic unit names - Allow users to add their own conversion formulas _____ Things I might be adding on next: - Ability to hide, move up, mode down units to help organise - Remember user added units and settings _____ Currently the application is on version 1.56 with quite a lot of fixes, upgrades and tweaks since the first: v1. I submitted the application in apple.com/webapps/ at version 1 when all of the basic function were working. To my surprise I had hit rates I never even dreamed of. I was getting about 4 hits per min on the first day as apple marked my application as featured/staff pick app. It was on the first page of 'Calculate' apps. I now wish I bought a new domain for this application as with growing popularity, if the application URL was shorter it would have been easier for users to remember and use. - not a problem if they bookmarked it ofc. Hit rates are now down to about 1 hit per minute. I guess this application is not something you need to use often. With the ability to run all in 1 page, users don't need to come back here often as well. That might explain why hits have decreased. Another explanation would be that the application is simply boring :P I might buy a new domain if hit rates keep up at this level for a few more weeks. ]]> Fri, 07 Dec 2007 11:56:01 +0100 My first desktop in 4 years " blog post. [View] What I didn't thought of... was that these mice works wirelessly... yah? so... signals need to use air-medium to travel to the receiver, for the receiver to tell the computer that it has moved. so... the time taken to deliver the signal proportionally depends on how long it takes to travel through the "medium", air, (as well as other factors, ofc). Most of cableless mice claim it works up to 10 metre...so I never thought distance from receiver was the case. I was already having this bad latency issues even when I put my reciever plugged on the desktop which is right behind the desk(not directly under), - about less than 1 metre away. Since the day I extended the mouse receiver with a USB extension cable and placed within 1 feet of my mouse it have never done the lag or jumping or hanging any more. It works as good as i hoped before i bought it. It still have a abit of latency, but its very much neglectable even for intense gaming. - I thought about it when I was talking to my house mate Ivan a few days ago, he got a different Logitech wireless gaming mouse. The difference to mine is that his comes with a reciever+charger docking that can be placed on his desk. So... now I use a wirelessly connected, cable extended - to where I sit, wireless mouse. Have to live with it for now because its the only mouse I know that have 10 customisable buttons (+ 1 scrolling)... 10 buttons!]]> Fri, 14 Sep 2007 18:09:20 +0200