1Password for iPhone/iPod was released today. It’s a life-saver on the desktop and I was waiting for the native mobile application.
Meanwhile I really believe it must be my karma or something, maybe I killed a fly by accident recently, I’m sorry!
Again, I downloaded the app, installed it, finished the initial setup and it kept crashing each time I tried to access my passwords. Not quite what I expect from software which holds a good part of my confidential information.
At the support forums I found the thread dealing with exactly the same problem. The developers already released version 1.1 and 1.2, both of them are sitting at Apple and waiting for approval:
Version 1.1/1.2 is a lot more stable and we’re just waiting for it to be approved in the App Store.
That’s good, basically, but we remember, the last time it took Apple 23 days to approve a 1.0 to 1.1 update containing a few bugfixes. Let’s see if they have speed up approval processes and will release an updated 1Password before summer ends…
According to Google LatLong they’ll appear as option when directions are 10km or less.
It’s still beta and you’ll notice that junctions and frictions of certain pedestrian paths don’t seem to work correctly. For instance drop the start and end points outside the park and Google Maps makes you walk around and not through the park. Even though using the park paths would be the shorter (and quicker) route.
I had the brilliant idea to use my iPod touch as eBook reader, since there are all those wonderful applications floating around after the firmware 2.0 update. So I decided to pick an eBook reader at the iTunes App Store, paid for it, downloaded it, and it crashed every time I tried to open an eBook. Sweet.
I emailed the developer about the bug. Within a few hours I received an answer telling me the bug is already fixed in version 1.1, but it’s stuck at Apple’s approval process and he has no information when Apple is going to release his application.
Today, a week later, still no luck reading eBooks. Instead I found a note at the developer’s website.
Just a quick update as many have asked. Version 1.1 of BookShelf was submitted to Apple on the morning of July 15th. It’s been listed as “In review” status since then. My emails to Apple have received either a tracking number or no response at all. I have no idea when 1.1 will be released by Apple.
Sorry that I don’t have more useful information on this. The AppStore experience has been incredibly frustrating so far.
This is indeed frustrating, for me as customer, who bought an unusable product, too. After MobileMess, Apple seems to create a bottleneck at the App Store. I’d recommend developers to release less and release major updates. Expect some time waiting at Apple’s App Store gates, the gate keeper is busy.
The problem: friends live in an area which is not covered by any map – it’s not in the local street map, Google map or any navigation system. Every time they give away the address, they have to explain where it exactly is and how to get there.
The area is old, but it was formerly used for garden plots only. As it happens often in Vienna, people started building small houses in their garden plots, then small houses start growing and transform the area into a (legal) residential area for permanent living with all necessary infrastructure provided.
Maybe their street doesn’t appear on a map because it’s a small and not a new area. Landuse slowly has changed over the past years, streets and pathways have been there for a long time but weren’t always publicly accessible. Maybe that’s the reason this area is still not in the radar of the big 2 street mapping companies: the area isn’t flagged as “recently developed, please map”.
The solution:
I showed them how to map their street in OpenStreetMap, with the result that they finally can point visitors to a nice map when asked where it is and how to get there. Mapping in OpenStreetMap through the browser interface is very easy and they will probably map their neighborhood too since it’s a totally blind spot on maps.
Mr Ice T once said that Sade is the most stylish singer he has ever seen live.
Even though I never had the chance to attend a Sade concert, I have to say that after the performance of Madita today at a free afternoon Jazz Fest Wien concert, I think she’s on the best way to become Sade’s successor. Madita combines a light soul voice with smooth lounge sounds, and she does it in a very easy and stylish way when she’s on stage.
It was a really great show and we need more afternoon concerts of that kind!
Autodesk and the Centre for Geoinformatics (Z_GIS) at Salzburg University announced today a cooperation on a Digital Cities research project. According to the press release, Salzburg will be the first city worldwide fully covered with such a 3D-model:
Imagine a combined digital ecosystem that can capture, analyze, and visualize projects on a city and regional scale—an open platform that supports secure and robust integration of CAD; building information modeling (BIM); and geospatial, simulation, and visualization data.
I don’t know the details of Autodesk’s Digital Cities, but as I read the short descriptions it’s aimed to become the Swiss army knife of city planning. Unlike so many other 3D-models, which look impressing at a first glance, Digital Cities doesn’t only scratch on a city’s surface but integrates all underlying information and data a city is built on. That’s truly an ambitious project. [via OTS]
A fascinating concept: because unhappy with conventional map presentations where every map feature has another distance to the map viewer, the architect Lindsay Churchill turned a globe inside out and put the viewer into the center. The result is the Mapparium, a three-story glass globe, at The Mary Baker Eddy Library in Boston. A must-visit especially for people who like maps and cartography.
The glass surface produces interesting acoustics inside. You can speak to your friend standing at the other end of the room by whispering to the wall, or standing in the center of the globe you’ll hear yourself talking in surround sound. A recommended visit for sound artists and engineers too I’d guess.
The map itself is a historical snapshot of what the world looked like in the nineteen-thirties – Russia is the Soviet Union, Colonies in Africa and Yugoslavia as one country. It’s interesting to see how the political world has changed. Especially at that scale.
Seems like the soccer event has some more impact on maps in Austria: on Google Maps you’ll find now real time public transport information too. The maps not only show the station locations, but also provide timetable information about what bus, tramway, subway or railway line there is available, when the next one departs and let you choose between car or public transport directions.
Not as mind-blowing as 3D Vienna in MS Virtual Earth, but probably very useful to arriving Euro 2008 tourists. Well, since gas prizes are increasing rapidly, locals who made the switch to public transport will appreciate that information too.
