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ActiveWin iPhone/iPod Touch App Released | |
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| Time: 11:33 EST/16:33 GMT | News Source: ActiveWin.com | Posted By: Byron Hinson | ||
Yes the ActiveWin iPhone/iPod Touch app has been released onto the Apple iTunes App store. The application is free. We have already sent in a new version to Apple that will get approved within the next couple of weeks there will be another free update out adding new features and even more polish. Beyond the RSS feeds and web links, The ActiveWin app contains in-app email, Twitter integration, search, and a full-screen web browser. There are many more creature-features for you to explore. It even features parental controls. If you input your own Twitter account, you can also tweet ActiveWin articles as well as reply to their twitter posts.  As of today our specially designed mobile area made specifically for this application has launched and will contain iPhone/iPod reviews in a special format designed only for smaller screens. A new tips section has also been started and all are accessible via the application menu. Let us know what you think of the application and what you would like to see added to it in the future. Feel free to review it on the iTunes store as well. The ActiveWin app is based on an application you can also buy on the App store called Flitter! so if you like ours, support us by purchasing Flitter! | ||
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| #1 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at 9/17/2009 1:09:11 PM |
| St. Ketchum of Redmond will not be pleased. |
| #2 By 13997 (68.118.60.164) at 9/17/2009 1:18:34 PM |
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Cool, now out of the millions of cell phone users something less than 1% can use...
Popular and 'large' market are not the same thing, just saying. PS Have you submitted a WinMo version yet? |
| #3 By 3 (213.81.83.50) at 9/17/2009 1:49:30 PM |
| Send us some Win Mobiles and we'd be happy to. Sorry to disappoint you by developing an app in our spare time for free for hardware we use due to getting no win mob hardware from MS. Can never please some of you miserable muppets! |
| #4 By 432 (209.167.107.58) at 9/17/2009 2:22:47 PM |
| Byron....I am pleased! Very pleased indeed. ActiveWin on my iPhone....fantastic. |
| #5 By 32313 (208.131.186.2) at 9/17/2009 3:05:55 PM |
| Great job Byron! The app looks fantastic, was checking it out on iTunes this morning. Very surprised you got through taking into account the submission process developers have to face when it comes to Apple. When I get my iPod Touch, I will definitely be loading it up. Thanks! |
| #6 By 8273 (24.17.217.93) at 9/17/2009 4:09:28 PM |
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"Can never please some of you miserable muppets!"
Nice way to treat your customers, Byron. |
| #7 By 150 (213.81.83.50) at 9/17/2009 4:32:01 PM |
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No one here is a customer of mine, i don't do anything on here anymore, i just helped finish the app! I'd rather be honest here - Harsh but true, so many moaners here it is unbelievable sometimes, sometimes seems like a school playground rather than adults talking and discussing things. I love the site because i worked on it for so many years, but i can't say i enjoy it anymore. Getting this App done with Doug was the best experience i've had here in about 7 years This post was edited by Byron_Hinson on Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 16:34. |
| #8 By 241283 (202.126.87.100) at 9/17/2009 4:35:16 PM |
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@Byron - I am really disappointed with your reply here. You should not forget that there are Windows Mobile users too who are ActiveWin lovers. I would like to know what stopped you from developing an application for Windows Mobile. I dont have an iPhone and not sure what this app does - if it just pulls RSS feeds, then why do you think its hard to develop for Windows Mobile?
Thanks, Chaks |
| #9 By 150 (213.81.83.50) at 9/17/2009 4:39:27 PM |
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#8 - no windows mobile hardware what so ever here or with doug, we worked on this as a side project, i can't afford to pay out for a Windows mobile and this is all none paid work (no money for me or doug comes from awin, just real life work) from us in our spare time, believe me if we could do a Windows Mobile app we would, but there are more experienced people here with that kind of hardware who probably could help out with that side of things more...for me the project is over.
The app pulls the feeds, can email links, articles, twitter articles and links, bookmark pages, put articles into vaults etc. Unfortunately Apple were more forthcoming to help out producing something like this than Microsoft have been (from my personal experience) and considering what kind of site this is that is a surprise. This site is very hard to develop for right now, me and Doug had to work with an 8 year old web site engine, yet still try to make the app modern, something this site certainly isn't. Again believe me - this site deserves a Windows mobile app. So best people to tell that to is to those who run it who will hopefully read your complaints. This post was edited by Byron_Hinson on Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 16:45. |
| #10 By 241287 (70.119.253.211) at 9/17/2009 8:04:36 PM |
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Chaks,
Really because both Byron and I had iPhones and and I was an iPhone developer it was a logical choice given we were limited to our own resources and... well, time. Also, as Byron stated RSS file downloads are not the point really, its the cocoa touch framework, the language, etc. that are all very different from anything in the .Net or win32 realm. You should be able to use Byron's mobile web content though, (such as his game reviews, etc) even without the awin app. His content is not necessarily related to the iPhone. |
| #11 By 2 (24.239.197.85) at 9/17/2009 10:48:51 PM |
| Lloyd and I are working VERY hard to finish this new site - it is not a pipe dream. What you will see when it is done will astonish you. I promise... Beta very very soon. According to Lloyd as of 8/30 we were 95% done with the beta. He is bustin' his ass |
| #12 By 18818 (75.56.243.122) at 9/18/2009 12:03:54 AM |
| Thank you for putting the time and effort into developing a free application. I know I will be checking ActiveWin.com more frequently now. Thanks! |
| #13 By 143 (96.28.65.208) at 9/18/2009 2:54:06 AM |
| What no ActiveWin Fart app? |
| #14 By 31750 (195.7.90.67) at 9/18/2009 7:32:18 AM |
| I installed the app but I can't figure out how to get to referred articles (done in the web UI by clicking the article's title). Is that a limitation or am I just slow? |
| #15 By 150 (82.132.139.139) at 9/18/2009 8:19:48 AM |
| Little icon in the bottom right of the app should open in a full webpage. Thanks for the comments |
| #16 By 241287 (70.119.253.211) at 9/18/2009 8:37:21 AM |
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@permb
No, you are not slow :) As Byron mentioned the little chainlink icon in the lower right of the phone takes you to the awin article via the built-in web browser. I thought I was being clever with a chain icon :) You can read a user guide that explains all of the buttons on all of the various screens here: http://www.dyerware.com/home/index.php/products-main-menu/flitter There are some differences between activewin and flitter (for example, you can email the activewin editors from the main page), but for the most part they are identical as far as the UI goes, so you can use all of the flitter docs and faqs on the web site to help get the most out of it. There is a new version submitted, and a version in work as we employ a two-week development cycle (or try to, lol) to parallel the app store review schedule. So ask away if anyone has any suggestions! -d |
| #17 By 13997 (68.118.60.164) at 9/18/2009 10:33:52 AM |
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"Can never please some of you miserable muppets!"
Wow, you are not only an ass, an ignorant ass. MS will probably send you WinMo hardware WHEN THEY START MAKING IT. Oh wait, Microsoft only makes the WinMo OS, which they have made now for over 10 years. I know you know this, there is no need for you to be a di*k. Or have you never reviewed Windows because Microsoft never sent you a Microsoft computer too? PS And I love that you admit this freely, like it is a 'good thing'. Like I said before if you are in journalism or have some mouthpiece in the 'news' industry, Apple sends you free crap. This is how they control the media/marketing to keep people in favor. I also work with the journalism industry but I personally don't accept Apple 'evaluation' products (with no return date after evaluation so people can skip over that 'ethics' thing). You are truly a tool... |
| #18 By 150 (82.132.139.139) at 9/18/2009 10:46:03 AM |
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Apple never sent anything. They were helpful with the development. I review what I'm sent. The iPhone I bought. There is no logic for me to buy a windows mobile to develop an app. We get no money and work for free so explain the sense of wasting money on something like that. As I said. If we had one for review I would have used it to make an app. We haven't got one. Others here have and could easily work on an app but unless myself or Andre do things ourselves nothing ever happens.
Thus you have an app on hardware I own. I'm happy to be a tool when it comes to speaking to people on here who just moan for moanings sake yet know nothing about how things run here...or don't as the case usually is. |
| #19 By 150 (82.132.139.139) at 9/18/2009 10:58:16 AM |
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Also if questioning ethics. It's actually Microsoft who let us always keep the hardware. Apple never have. So once again no logic there. I've spent my own money in the £4000 mark on keeping the site review hardware up to date with help from Lloyd and bob too. That's £4000 I don't get back. So give it a rest.
Seriously though there is not one reason to moan at me and doug over a non existant windows mobile app. I agree one hundred percent this site should have one but what can doug or I do. Spend money of our own on what has been a 9 year stagnent site or work on something that we didn't need to spend loads on the complaint should go elsewhere I'm sorry for the muppet comment as it was out of order but this site is the most frustrating one behind the scenes and I'm happy to explain why via email as I know it would be removed here |
| #20 By 241287 (166.195.238.182) at 9/18/2009 11:41:47 AM |
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Just to reiterate, apple had nothing to do with this. Neither awin nor dyerware had any contact or product courtesy of apple. We used our develpment assets.
-d |
| #21 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at 9/18/2009 11:50:28 AM |
| I don't know about the iPhone or WinMobile stuff, but for Blackberry development the RIM SDK has an emulator (that runs on Windows) to let you test your code without having to have every BB phone and every OS release. In fact, you don't have to have a BB at all to develop apps for it. |
| #22 By 28801 (65.90.202.10) at 9/18/2009 12:15:40 PM |
| Good point latch! Visual Studio had one for Pocket PC. I'm sure the have one for WinMobile. |
| #23 By 241287 (166.195.238.182) at 9/18/2009 12:26:59 PM |
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Yes all three have excellent simulators, but you can never go by simulator alone
-d |
| #24 By 150 (213.81.83.50) at 9/18/2009 12:29:29 PM |
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If anyone wants to develop a Windows Mobile app make sure you mail bob about it. As doug says - you'll need more than just the simulator as the iphone app process has told him. Again a Blackberry app - same again mail in bob if you can develop one as I'm sure there are blackberry users here.
There was never ever an agenda here to just do an "Apple" app. |
| #25 By 7754 (206.169.247.2) at 9/18/2009 3:01:27 PM |
| Sorry to see you taking so much heat for this, Byron... throw people a bone and they bite you! Seems quite ungrateful. Not that folks have to bow down to you or something, but... I can completely understand why you'd feel frustrated! It may not mean much, but as a person who visits this site daily, I thank you for your contributions to it. |
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