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Bye guys(kinda)

well guys today i bought me an iphone. my sister is now going to be using my wing. i just made her a dialer skin so dont worry. i just extended my skinning platforms. i know ive been gone for a while but i just moved in to a new home so i didnt have time. when i finish he dialer i will post here.
but in the end, i might not be on as much anymore. just in case i dont, this is my good-bye to you guys. if it werent for you guys, i think i would have thrown my wing away but i didnt because you guys made it usable. but im only 16, i need a phone that focuses more on fun and music.
thanks again guys,
Albert

kidnamedAlbert said:
well guys today i bought me an iphone. my sister is now going to be using my wing. i just made her a dialer skin so dont worry. i just extended my skinning platforms. i know ive been gone for a while but i just moved in to a new home so i didnt have time. when i finish he dialer i will post here.
but in the end, i might not be on as much anymore. just in case i dont, this is my good-bye to you guys. if it werent for you guys, i think i would have thrown my wing away but i didnt because you guys made it usable. but im only 16, i need a phone that focuses more on fun and music.
thanks again guys,
Albert
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Albert, you helped me out and I learned alot from you! You will be missed, promise to stop by and say hello now and then! I wish you the best!
Cal

Thanks for all your hard work, skinning and mostly for your orginizational skills in keeping the skins thread running productively and peacefully ( such that it was ). We will miss you and look forward to your return. And you will.
My wife has an iphone that I fool with from time to time, Steve Jobs and Apple will crush the inspiration and creativity out of you in no time. Entertainment aside, unlike WM , the iphone is done Apple's way or not at all.
Good Luck, Denco

thanks for the excellent skins, etc.! Best of luck with your new toy...

Blah! NOOO! Read this first! By Steve Davis of ppcmobility. Btw, I'm 16 too and I find out that the Fuze is still much better than my friends' iPhones.
Top 10 reasons iPhone is not good.
Time for my list. I’ll start backwards… well in order… at 10. Well.... 9 is good for iphone users
10. iPhone(Apple) users. Don’t get me wrong. I like people, but iPhone people and Apple people are their own breed. They always think that Macs are the best, Apple is the best company ever and the iPhone is the best thing since sliced bread. They will push the iPhone on you until you hate everything Apple. This includes you Walt Mossberg. Apparently for the price you get one iPhone and a few pounds of smug to carry around with you. When the iPhone 3G came out I had to keep checking my phone to make sure I really did have 3G for years because the way it was advertised I was certain they were releasing something so new to the market I couldn’t have had it already.
9. Applications made free for iPhones. I can go over a lot of applications that come out for iPhone that are free and good, but were out for Windows mobile for years beforehand and were not free. Shazam is out on Android and iPhone for free. They came out with a program called “TagIt” in 2006, but that has disappeared and they only have the service for iPhone and Android or for people in the UK(no offense, US gets stuff first 9 times out of 10). Pandora! Free for iPhone and its BIG NEWS, but its been out for Windows Mobile for a while, but you had to pay, which is not cool. I’m sure there are more out there, but I cant think of them right now. Those are the 2 big ones.
8. Cut and Paste. BGR is right, this is a big problem. Just because the Macs dont have mice with 2 buttons doesn’t mean you need to cripple your iPhone to not be able to copy and paste! (I know you can right click NOW but that’s kind of new).
7. 1 word, Flash. Skyfire has recently given Windows mobile users the benefit of Flash websites. I’d expect the best phone in the world to do the same. Flash mobile has been out for a while, but what sites recognize flash lite 3.1 or mobile 7? And Safari is constantly touted as the best browser. The numbers are simple - SkyFire loads WebPages much faster than Safari plus you get the real internet (yeah, with Flash, etc). Oh and congrats iPhone you finally have more choices.
6. Non-Replaceable battery. Now sure, the iPhone battery will last FOREVER, but what if it doesn’t? What if I want more than the 5 hours of 3G talk time Apple specs out? What if i want a high-capacity battery without cracking it open or putting a strange case on it? Given most phones will get thicker with a bigger battery, but you don’t have to void your warranty or use a case you don’t want to use. This really goes to the core of how Apple makes money. The original Mac cases could not be opened so you would be forced to buy a new computer and there was no ‘upgrading’. The iPods also have a non-replaceable battery. The reason is simple - when the battery dies this forces you to buy the newest version and since everyone loves Apple they shell out more money ever year for a slight upgrade. This may also explain why other items on this list are here; it gives Apple a reason to release iPhone v3. And don’t even get me started on the proprietary plug instead of mini-USB which is now becoming standard for PDA’s
5. Multitasking. There is some misconception about this and theiPhoneBlog has a good write-up about it and the deal is that Apple only allows its own apps(mail, phone, etc) to multitask. 3rd party apps cant. I’ll get into that in #4.
4. Install whatever i want without jailbreak. So with Windows Mobile, not only can i edit the registry, but I can install WHATEVER I WANT without jailbreaking my phone and potentially bricking it. I find it hard to believe that they can demand the price they do and lock your device entirely and not get heat for it. If Windows did the same thing they would get destroyed for it.
3a. The Screen. I hate hearing that the iPhone has such a beautiful screen. Guess what? I can see pixels. All of them. If I pick up my Fuze I don’t see any thanks to the glory that is VGA. I’m sure Apple will release a VGA screen and then I’ll hear all of the media hype about how it’s the sharpest screen ever even though we all know the Touch HD has the same dimensions with a higher resolution.
3b. The User Interface. The user interface of the iPhone is merely an application launcher and if you want more than that or a different look then Apple will tell you to look elsewhere or wait for their next latest and greatest release. It is literally nothing more than a page of shortcuts and people love the simplicity and entire lack of actual interface. And the intentional minimalist look for the iPhone (with a single hard button) also breeds this inefficiency. If you’re in an application and want to use the phone there’s no ‘phone’ button. You have to go home then launch the phone.
2. Customization of icons/themes/skins/BACKGROUND again without jailbreak. Just about every phone on XDA has a thread for “post your today screen”. For the iPhone, those forums need to be in the jailbreak sections. How hard would it be to make it standard to be able to have custom icons and skins? And changing the background was one of the bigger gripes I had when looking for a phone. It may not sound like much, but I want to do what I want to do. Why do I need to conform to what Apple wants? The name iPhone is a misnomer. It should be Steve’s Phone because he found some settings he likes and told you to like them too
1. MMS. Why cant i sent a MMS to my friends who have iPhones? When I ask them, they just say “email it to me”. Well I don’t want to. I can MMS pictures to my other friends, I’m not going to make an exception for my iPhone friends. You CAN get a MMS app for the iPhone, but you need to again Jailbreak it and then you’re good to go.
These reasons alone weren’t why I got the Fuze, but they did help in the long run. Hopefully you weren’t swayed by the hype and advertising like everyone else. What’s #1 on your list?
And if you are interested in what an iPhone can do when you jailbreak it, check out this link wouldn’t it be nice if it could do some of that right out of the box? Like a Windows Mobile phone?
Let the bashing begin…
-SCDavis
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Kraize said:
Top 10 reasons iPhone is not good.
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It comes down to this:
With Windows Mobile, I feel like the phone is mine. I can adjust whatever, and install or create quite easily whatever. I can change battery or whatever, and I can switch to a bigger battery or whatever. I can do almost whatever I want, and whatever I need it for.
It's my tool of choice, or whatever...

Hey, props to knA , lets not let this turn into another iPhone sucks thread.
Thanks again kid

rhov23 said:
It comes down to this:
With Windows Mobile, I feel like the phone is mine. I can adjust whatever, and install or create quite easily whatever. I can change battery or whatever, and I can switch to a bigger battery or whatever. I can do almost whatever I want, and whatever I need it for.
It's my tool of choice, or whatever...
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aaaaaaaaamen

Good luck with your new device
Hope in the future you come back!

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hahah that is rich.

Yeah seems youll probably be like me, passing by from time to time. Totally agree that I needed a phone for more fun and music though. Stupid cracked screen now
Anyway have fun with your iPhone

Good luck to you. You'll be missed

maybe next year ill get whatever new htc phone is the greatest. btw, im still gonna skin i have too much time on my hands and i honestly find skinning FUN

kidnamedAlbert said:
maybe next year ill get whatever new htc phone is the greatest. btw, im still gonna skin i have too much time on my hands and i honestly find skinning FUN
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I know what u mean, I'm a skinner myself . SKIN THEM ALIVE!

kidnamedAlbert said:
maybe next year ill get whatever new htc phone is the greatest. btw, im still gonna skin i have too much time on my hands and i honestly find skinning FUN
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What's the matter with the HTC Touch HD? Even PDAEssentials, which normally worships the iPhone, admitted recently that the HTC Touch HD won in their iPhone-HD-X1-Storm head-to-head.
rorydaredkign said:
Yeah seems youll probably be like me, passing by from time to time. Totally agree that I needed a phone for more fun and music though. Stupid cracked screen now
Anyway have fun with your iPhone
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Hahahahahahaha...*draws breath*...hahahahaha...
Oh wait - I got that stupid smudge of doom and massive realignment problem on my Touch.
Touchphones are clearly still in their early days.

well, i have my iphone 3g for about 4 months now, while most of the glorious why iphone is not good list does not apply to me... with the exception of flash and UI, i am pretty happy with it. iphone comes with a lot of features i dont need to hunt down in WM, and a lot of interesting apps after it is jailbroke (seriously, if you can handle a WM, jailbreaking iphone should be a no-brainer process). i can safely say i probably wont get another WM device unless WM7 is significantly better than WM6.1, but i definitely wont get the next iphone... if theres a next one... back to symbian i guess...

[APP] Birdy Bounce -[R]- 11/23/2010 -[U]- 01/25/2010 -[V]- 2.1

Name: Birdy Bounce
Our old game "Doodle Tower" has been removed from the marketplace because of the similarity of its name to the name of another app, but we did not give up and started working on a successor. We were very careful in the development process to avoid any further inconveniences and are proud to finally be able to present you our new game Birdy Bounce for Windows Phone 7. The game is available for FREE, we want that everyone who previously downloaded our old game can upgrade for free. However, it will not stay for free forever, so better hurry!
App Description:
In Birdy Bounce, you are steering a young bird on its way up to the horizon by using the accurate tilt controls of your Windows Phone 7 device. Be warned, the way is dangerous and many birds before you fell to their death. Only the fittest will survive this dangerous travel - how far can you get?
The gameplay experience provides a vast amount of different platform types you can use to jump higher and higher. There will be breakable, moving or thorny platforms and even some that give you a turbo boost and some that vanish before your eyes when you aren't fast enough.
The levels of Birdy Bounce are generated by an intelligent level randomization algorithm which provides a new experience every time you start playing while avoiding impossible situations to keep the fun for a long time.
We are planning to release continuous updates containing new platforms, effects or characters. We are always looking for new ways to improve the gameplay experience our game provides. Feel free to contact us to tell us your feedback and ideas, it is highly appreciated.
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Source: Mod Monkeys
Download: Birdy Bounce (Free WP7 trial available)

Hello!
I downloaded this game and...I LOVE IT!
It runs smooth, the gameplay is very funny and different from other games, it's beautiful...Well...Just give it a try!
Thanks a lot!!

and another real cool game
and ofcourse thanks for it being free

Ok the 4 days of the welcome back sale we configured are obviously over now. Microsoft just updated the price to 0,99€. Sorry that I posted in this forum that late, but most people read about it in other forums where we posted the news, so I think we reached a lot of people with this sale.
And I believe that 0,99€ isn't too much either for this app, the free offer was primarily for those who bought "Doodle Tower". We wanted that they can upgrade for free.
I wish all buyers as much fun as possible with the game. Make sure to write a review in the Zune marketplace if you like the app or if you have anything that you don't like. We are trying to read every single review.

I love your game...its very addicting!

love it
I love this game one of the only good game on WP7

Unfortunately, paid apps are not allowed under Rules 7 and 11 of XDA. You cannot advertise the sale of a paid app unless you are providing it for free to the community or at least provide a lite version. I will close this thread right now and if you can provide the community with any of the aforementioned options, please feel free to get in touch with me and I will be more than happy to unlock this thread for you.

Thanks for re-opening the thread. I added a note about the free version of the game in the first post. It's playable up to a score of 12-15k (depends on the current situation of the level generator) so make sure to check it out. There is no time limit, so you can theoretically play with the free version forever without paying a penny if you like to.

I wanted to buy this game when it was still called doodle tower but couldn't find it anymore. I noticed the name changed so I was able to pick it up for free. Nice game and smooth. Only little bug I noticed is that the game icon in the games hub is zoomed making it look ugly. Icon gets normal again when you pin it start, but in the games hub it is keeps zoomed in. I noticed this bug also with other free apps.
Has this something to do with my phone (hd7)? Or is it app related

I really believe that's a general OS problem. Microsoft only says they want icons in 3 special resolutions. I provided all resolutions and the icon is still buggy in the games hub, I really don't know what I should change.
There are many developers complaining about this in the dev forums, but Microsoft doesn't provide an official answer.
Good to hear that you like it. I would love to see a review in the marketplace if you'd like to =)

Hey the detail suggest its free, while it asking for 99 cents.

Really fun, happily paid for it.
Would be cool if you could add in some more platform types.

awesomecomb said:
Hey the detail suggest its free, while it asking for 99 cents.
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The detail says it's free for a limited time. This introductory sale is over now. I already sent in an update to change the description, but I have to wait for Microsoft to approve it.

Gotcha, takes a little while for it to update.

I did say it already but I love this game ( at 29K now )
the latest update is also cool , now we can see hour latest scores
but here is a suggestion :
it would be nice to have a auto save at some time (20k 30k 40k etz) .

Autosave doesn't seem appropriate for this game, though maybe support for saving the state when you exit could be cool, so you could pick up where you left off (since quitting isn't really the same as failing).
Great job, I will post a review in the market place!

LOVE this game. Favourite so far. LOVE IT.
Suggestions are, if you're looking for some are...
Up and Down moving platforms.
Mute button
Obstacles and shield power up
springs power up for multiple longer jumps but less than green boost
Naming highscores
Multiple highcores shown ingame as you pass them.
Bird to look like a bird than a peice of toast

henchturk said:
LOVE this game. Favourite so far. LOVE IT.
Suggestions are, if you're looking for some are...
Up and Down moving platforms.
Mute button
Obstacles and shield power up
springs power up for multiple longer jumps but less than green boost
Naming highscores
Multiple highcores shown ingame as you pass them.
Bird to look like a bird than a peice of toast
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and most important :
a hight score validation process , so we can show off hour hightscore

This game is crack...I love it! Now you just need to make friends with an illustrator to make it is as gorgeous as it is addictive.
Not a criticism per se, but if this game were as pretty as say, Angry Birds, you'd be rolling in the cash.

Ok guys this is huge. Here comes the first sneak peek into the upcoming huge graphical update for Birdy Bounce!
All screenshots are for demo purposes only! The real game might look different, the color fading from one color to another will be very smooth, I just had to pack it into some quick screenshots that you can see some of the color themes that await you! The screenshots are from the upcoming Mac OS X version of the game, there are things that will be different in the Windows Phone 7 version!
I don't want to talk much, it's time for some eye candy!
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Majesty: Fantasy Kingdom Sim - check it out

Ran across this last night perusing the Market with 'AppBrain' - a market overlay app which suggests favourties.
It's a God game, fantasy setting. There are a series of scenarios and the premise is that each time you must build up a little town, hiring Rangers, Warriors, Wizards and Paladins to stave off a variety of monsters and achieve an objective.
This is a professional quality game and looks excellent. The U.I. is easy to pick up, gameplay (at least as far as I've got) is balanced and fun and it's pretty addictive.
If you like this sort of game or even if you are just curious, go download it now before they bump the price up - introductory price was just $1 last night! Go get it before it inevitably becomes HOT!!!
**Edit: Correction it was UK 99pence so about $1.60 or so. Still an absolute steal, this game is a real gem. I got through another couple of levels today and it still doesn't disappoint. Not sure how many levels there are but I will definitely go back and re-play several after I get through them. It does add challenge and strategy in appropriate amounts: I failed one particularly fiendish level two or three times before figuring out a strategy that works and I'm still learning as I play. There's also online play apparently - presumably head-to-head, I haven't tried it yet. Fun, fun, fun!
Oh and I have no affiliation with the game whatsoever - never even heard of the development company before - I'm just a long time (semi-lapsed) gamer finding a good fix and wanting to share.

This stupid thing has me gaming again as well for the first time in ages, hooked on dungeon defenders. I'll give this one a try when I get home tonight, thanks for the tip!

Just bought it, unfortunatly the price is already up to 3 something USD.
Edit: Pretty fun, I didn't pick it up too fast, but its well made, and looks like it should be fun so I'll keep it. Thanks for pointing this out.

Good game. I'm enjoying the heck out of it. Thanks for the recommend.

Just installed it, paid $3+ (charges in euro by the way) graphics looks good... will spend a day or two till I decide if it's worth it or not.
But for those who want to get a pretty exciting game, try dungeon defenders. installed it and so far that game is so great! nice well done graphics! got in on sale for 99cents..dont know how much will it cost now, but trust me, it's worth it!

Finally finished Majesty last night, eight scenarios in all though the map where you select scenarios looks like more were intended. Perhaps content that was unfinished at release, perhaps a paid expansion. I will be re-playing all of them with the knowledge I have gained and I am sure they will be rather easier the second time through.
Each scenario is different and each has an amusing little story to set it up. As you progress you get access to Elf and Dwarf allies, though not both at the same time of course. In some scenarios you do not have access to one or more of your troop types.
I would have liked a few (2-4) more scenarios but even at $3-ish I would still consider it a good purchase. The two enhancements I would really like to see are adjustable difficulty levels and a free play mode using a random map selection and perhaps allowing the enemies to re-build their generators (buildings) after you have destroyed them.
Still a fun little game with great production value! I would happily pay a couple more bucks for an expansion.
Dungeon Defenders is up to $4.99 now I'm afraid, wish I could have found that when it was 99 cents. Maybe if they have another sale... I wish Marketplace would let me set up a watch list for software I am interested in but not wanting to buy right now.
Happy gaming!

I don't know for sure but I think this is based on the old PC game majesty. It certainly reminds me of it.
There was a sequel to that, so maybe we'll get more.

999ping said:
Finally finished Majesty last night, eight scenarios in all though the map where you select scenarios looks like more were intended. Perhaps content that was unfinished at release, perhaps a paid expansion. I will be re-playing all of them with the knowledge I have gained and I am sure they will be rather easier the second time through.
Each scenario is different and each has an amusing little story to set it up. As you progress you get access to Elf and Dwarf allies, though not both at the same time of course. In some scenarios you do not have access to one or more of your troop types.
I would have liked a few (2-4) more scenarios but even at $3-ish I would still consider it a good purchase. The two enhancements I would really like to see are adjustable difficulty levels and a free play mode using a random map selection and perhaps allowing the enemies to re-build their generators (buildings) after you have destroyed them.
Still a fun little game with great production value! I would happily pay a couple more bucks for an expansion.
Dungeon Defenders is up to $4.99 now I'm afraid, wish I could have found that when it was 99 cents. Maybe if they have another sale... I wish Marketplace would let me set up a watch list for software I am interested in but not wanting to buy right now.
Happy gaming!
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What was your strategy to the last stage Dragon Hazard that can only be unlocked when beating all the other stages with GOLD status?

Actually, I only unlocked the Dragon level very recently.
I have not been able to beat it yet - haven't upgraded my g tab install of Majesty in a while so I'm still playing without the difficulty levels. (By choice)
The best approach I have found so far is strategically placed Dwarven towers - North, South, East and West - supplemented with Necros and Warriors, but I've only been able to get through the first couple of waves of Dragons. They just keep on coming and if you don't kill them quickly, they accumulate and take out your defenses. The waves of Undead and the Harpies just add to your woes.
- Necros are invaluable for the 'Wither' spell and their lifetaps
- Dwarven towers are necessary to hold the Dragons away from your other buildings: a Dwarven tower is about on par with one Dragon and is superior to a Wither'd Dragon; two Dragons however will make mincemeat of a tower pretty quickly
- The other trick seems to be getting your warriors leveled and upgraded to the point where they can actually take and dish some damage to augment the towers. Aggressive expansion early on helps.. I think getting more money to hero's early on (by setting easy cash objectives) might help also.
The problem is that once your initial crop of heroes starts getting killed or one of your towers gets taken out, you are pretty much screwed.
If you figure out more, please let me know.

good game 10 char

[App][Free] AmazingWeather Lite v 3.2

What's better than a great paid app? A great Free app! We are happy to launch AmazingWeather Lite, the same app you love in a free version. AmazingWeather is a gorgeous, simple and informative weather app for WP7 which has almost all what you can ask for!
The app features detailed data for weather conditions such as temp, wind speed and direction, humidity, sunrise and sunset times, quick five days overview and a detailed view with a text forecast, detailed conditions for the next 24 hours with charts and many more.
**currently the app available in English only, we will add German, Spanish, French soon
**IMPORTANT If you have set your phone's display language to German, Spanish or French the app settings will not open, we are truly sorry and an update has been submitted for testing to fix this issue.
The choice between a metro theme with two shades or a realistic theme with astonishing animations is yours to make, in addition to the live tile theme either realistic or metro.
The free version has these limitations:
-Advertisements.
-One live tile that updates every 24 hours.
Changes in v3.2
- enhanced live tiles.
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Full: In Marketplace
Lite: In Marketplace

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Program crashes on my Lumia every time I want to enter the settings.
Look an feel is cool but with crashes not worth 1,49

Nice looking and I am sure a lot of people appreciate the free version and can live with it's limitations, both apps are not for me, though. The free version is too restricting (24h refresh, single live tile) and the paid version is simply... paid. I can have pretty much the same functionality with my HTC Hub for free (allthough not as beautifull).

Great app... I do not mind ads but and single live tile, however a live tile which updates daily is useless imo... I cannot buy the app due to the restriction of buying apps in my area.. and I will not use the free version due to livetile update limitation...
I will definitely use this app if live tile can update hourly . at the moment, stormglass is my choice. Thanx

Thankyou for making this app!

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Program crashes on my Lumia every time I want to enter the settings.
Look an feel is cool but with crashes not worth 1,49
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An update has been submitted to fix this issue, plus the full version should not crash on settings you can try it out as there is trial available.

It keeps saying "radar imagery is not available for this location"...

Ok I have to be honest. This has always been a top notch, visually stimulating application that is comprehensive and well thought out. My issue is with the marketing. This has been the case from day one. I'm saying this as a consumer since I'm not a application developer (yet) and as a creator since I do make music, poetry and write books. I'm also saying this as someone who appreciates the great job you have done on this application.
I feel insulted when using your products because of the way the trial and free application have been formatted. When it first arrived I jumped on it because it frankly looks better than anything else out there (and still does - great job!). Since so many weather apps promise a lot and come up short on delivery I went with the trial. If I'm correct, the trial worked for 12 hours. This pissed me off. Really - I couldn't get 24 or 48 hrs to watch the weather read out change, see the visuals morph into the next day's forecast? That's the wow factor (the hook). That's the showoff feature for all your friends and family no matter what platform they use. Look at my weather app. This is the ****!!!! Instead I looked at a dead application that didn't give me the opportunity to even see if I liked how it worked and see if it was accurate in it's readings along with having the beauty of a super model. Needless to say, I uninstalled the trial and never looked back.
Then, I saw that you created a free application. Cool. I'll try it again and see if something can finally upstage my simplistic but consistent WeatherBug. Well the visuals, etc... are still there, but once again I feel cheated. The live tile gets updated once every 24 hrs. I could understand every 4 hours, but once a day? That's simply useless. Once again - uninstalled and not looking back.
Generally I would say nothing, but today I'm on a roll and truth be told - I really like your programming skills, imagination and ability to create beauty. Please stop being unfriendly. It's not helping. Allow the casual user in and let them fall in love with your fantastic work. Make the free app useful and change the live tile update and I swear your sales will increase. You deserve to make a lot of money on your work. It is truly a great piece of art you have created, but if you keep blocking people out, you are losing the thing you seem to want the most - people taking notice and spending money.
Best of luck and please keep programming.

addicus said:
Ok I have to be honest. This has always been a top notch, visually stimulating application that is comprehensive and well thought out. My issue is with the marketing. This has been the case from day one. I'm saying this as a consumer since I'm not a application developer (yet) and as a creator since I do make music, poetry and write books. I'm also saying this as someone who appreciates the great job you have done on this application.
I feel insulted when using your products because of the way the trial and free application have been formatted. When it first arrived I jumped on it because it frankly looks better than anything else out there (and still does - great job!). Since so many weather apps promise a lot and come up short on delivery I went with the trial. If I'm correct, the trial worked for 12 hours. This pissed me off. Really - I couldn't get 24 or 48 hrs to watch the weather read out change, see the visuals morph into the next day's forecast? That's the wow factor (the hook). That's the showoff feature for all your friends and family no matter what platform they use. Look at my weather app. This is the ****!!!! Instead I looked at a dead application that didn't give me the opportunity to even see if I liked how it worked and see if it was accurate in it's readings along with having the beauty of a super model. Needless to say, I uninstalled the trial and never looked back.
Then, I saw that you created a free application. Cool. I'll try it again and see if something can finally upstage my simplistic but consistent WeatherBug. Well the visuals, etc... are still there, but once again I feel cheated. The live tile gets updated once every 24 hrs. I could understand every 4 hours, but once a day? That's simply useless. Once again - uninstalled and not looking back.
Generally I would say nothing, but today I'm on a roll and truth be told - I really like your programming skills, imagination and ability to create beauty. Please stop being unfriendly. It's not helping. Allow the casual user in and let them fall in love with your fantastic work. Make the free app useful and change the live tile update and I swear your sales will increase. You deserve to make a lot of money on your work. It is truly a great piece of art you have created, but if you keep blocking people out, you are losing the thing you seem to want the most - people taking notice and spending money.
Best of luck and please keep programming.
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OK first we are very sorry for being unfriendly, but to be honest we are trying too hard not to be but the issue is that we have a limited bandwidth (number of daily requests to the Weather Service) due to high costs of the service, around 400$ monthly
As you know the live tile in the Full application is updating hourly, and to do some math, if a user have 1 city only times 24 update per day that's almost ~24 request per user for live tile only, well if you multiply that by 2000 users only its almost 48000 request per day and that is huge number.
so we've decided to go Ad supported, and giving users hourly live tile updates, we think in couple of days we will reach our bandwidth limit, that's why we've limited the updates to one city 24 hours a day. ;(, however depending on the Ad revenue we will consider hourly updates.
We hope that clarify our point of view.
EIZ

dfulgo said:
It keeps saying "radar imagery is not available for this location"...
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...ohh, now it's clear, thank you

dfulgo said:
...ohh, now it's clear, thank you
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As for the radar, we are working on expanding the areas of coverage, as our weather service ("weather underground") does not provide coverage for some parts of Europe, we are searching for alternatives right now.

Thank you Sir, I'll wait for it.
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eizsoft said:
OK first we are very sorry for being unfriendly, but to be honest we are trying too hard not to be but the issue is that we have a limited bandwidth (number of daily requests to the Weather Service) due to high costs of the service, around 400$ monthly
As you know the live tile in the Full application is updating hourly, and to do some math, if a user have 1 city only times 24 update per day that's almost ~24 request per user for live tile only, well if you multiply that by 2000 users only its almost 48000 request per day and that is huge number.
so we've decided to go Ad supported, and giving users hourly live tile updates, we think in couple of days we will reach our bandwidth limit, that's why we've limited the updates to one city 24 hours a day. ;(, however depending on the Ad revenue we will consider hourly updates.
We hope that clarify our point of view.
EIZ
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Yes you have and it is greatly appreciated.

[COMPETITION] BiteBook - Fish Logging

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BiteBook.net​Apple App Store Download​Pebble App Store Download​GitHub Source​
Application Overview
BiteBook is a simple fish logging application. When you're out on the boat, hanging over the railing of a jetty, or trying to paddle your kayak, getting your phone out of it's waterproof case to launch some fish logging app with a million options is just the worst. Who wants to go through that after landing a trophy catch?
BiteBook aims to solve this problem by providing a minimal iOS application that logs only the species, location, weight and length of your catch; with a Pebble integration your phone can stay stored in a safe and waterproof place. The Pebble application doubles as a simple watch face, and keeps you updated by showing how many fish you've caught during your current trip and, more importantly, how many fish you've caught in the area you're fishing.
Supported Platforms
Because iOS is my strong suit and there's already some open source examples for Pebble integration, the application will initially be iOS-only. It will be coded with cross-platform architecture in mind, and I'll be working on adding support for Android shortly after the Pebble Developer Retreat.
Designs
I've finalized the designs for the Pebble application, and have a mostly-complete UI done for the iPhone app. The iPhone app is subject to have some UX changes as I work through the project. I've attached the current designs to the thread.
As for the logo, it's a tweak of a purchased design. At least the name is original; came to me within the first few minutes of thinking about app names, which is awesome, because usually that takes longer than development.
Development Plan
Because I'm submitting an iOS application, which has to be whitelisted by Pebble and then also reviewed by Apple, I'll be working on that first. First I'll implement design, then data storage and structure, and then talking to the Pebble. I'm eager to try out the new UI builder at CloudPebble, and testing the Pebble->iPhone connection will be hard without a good basis, so I may have to start work on the Pebble app sooner than I'd want.
I've done a good bit of prep work for this project through my past; I've done mobile development, I've coded on fishing-related applications (and done designs), I've done a half-dozen Pebble faces, and I just started toying around with getting an iOS app to talk to my Pebbles. I'm hoping this is a straight-forward project.
I'm a bit A.D.D. with my dev, and my day-job has me working with a team in India for the next few weeks, so expect odd hours and seemingly out-of-order updates.
About Me
I'm a software architect by day (or, as previously mentioned, night... for now). I work for a company called Appcelerator -- we're a mobile development platform. I've been working in the web and mobile software industry for just over 7 years now and love playing with new technology, so I own 3 Pebbles (soon to be 4 I hope). I live with my lovely wife in Austin, TX, having just moved here this month from Florida.
XDA:DevDB Information
BiteBook, ROM for the Pebble
Contributors
mcongrove
Version Information
Status: Stable
Current Stable Version: 1.0
Stable Release Date: 2014-08-26
Created 2014-08-15
Last Updated 2014-09-05

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v1.0 - Project Status Updates
August 14th
Just before I submitted an entry to this contest I came across an open source module for integrating the Pebble SDK into the Appcelerator platform. I took a look at it and played around a bit with the integration, but since I'm not an Objective-C guy that's as far as it went. Yesterday I finally had the time to really start testing out the Pebble -> Phone communications, and the module was totally borked on that topic. (Phone -> Pebble I got working right away a few days ago with minor troubles.)
I spent hours trying to get it working by looking at a million other people's code and copy+pasting (like I said, I'm not into Objective-C). Finally, thanks to a friend and colleague, I was shown the error of my ways and together we resolved it. Which is great, because for a minute there I thought BiteBook was DOA. And also great because now the module can be fixed and can inspire others to hack on a Pebble.
Only 10 hours left until I can stop wracking my brain about all the "what-ifs" and just start coding this thing.
August 15th :victory:
Well, the time has finally come, and I've been working on the ground work for BiteBook since I woke up (at 3pm... thanks, India). I've taken an open source boilerplate I helped architect and popped it into the iOS project, and I've been tweaking it to work for my specific needs. Some of the screens are already laid out, and by the end of the day I should have the bulk of the screens mocked up and ready for wiring.
Thanks to the new CloudPebble UI builder I was able to do a quick mock-up of the Pebble app. I needed to do this because I have to start preparing for iTunes app store whitelisting and have to submit screenshots + banners to both iTunes and the Pebble app store. Looks great on my wrist; went and took a photo while holding my fishing rod:
August 16th :good:
The app is progressing nicely. I finished setting up the database scheme (after spending a few hours running in circles trying to import an SQLite table). I wrapped up the bulk of the UI work, and connected a lot of the screens to the database. Tomorrow I'm going to try and wrap up the logging form, add in some Pebble connection code, and start on the Pebble app.
August 17th :good:
I finished the logging form today, so the bulk of the iOS app work is done; it'll just need some tweaking and fine-tuning from here on out, I hope. I also got the phone pushing data updates to the Pebble, which was quite easy thanks to my prep work. The main Pebble screen is also done; very quickly, thanks to CloudPebble UI builder. I'm struggling on figuring out how to send the species list from the phone to the Pebble. It's a lot of data, and I'm also not good enough at C to understand the best way to store that data. I asked a few days back on the Pebble forum for some help, but the answers were way over my head. We'll see what happens.
August 18th
I just finished up adding all the Pebble screens to the app; I had to re-work my architecture a bit to make it more MVC-ish. Again, CloudPebble UI builder came to my rescue and shaved a few hours off the dev time. After struggling more with the species list problem, I've decided to cut out that functionality for the initial release. Pebble app dev is pretty much wrapped at this point; I just have to get the Pebble to send messages over to the iPhone. Then comes lots and lots of testing and tweaking, because I'm not entirely happy yet with the communication connectivity. I also spent a little time and made a website this afternoon; check it out at BiteBook.net
August 19th
Did a lot of code clean-up today; also started to add some polish to the application. I moved the settings screen from one of the bottom tabs to a icon in the title bar. I also finished the Pebble to phone communications, which took a lot of work, but is working nicely now. The connection is great, and works perfectly when the iPhone app is in the background. I also took a few minutes to add the map screen back in for some added functionality.
August 20th :silly:
I spent all of my dev time today trying to re-implement the species selection list. After finally getting it working, I ended up ditching the entire thing. It's just another step in the set-up process and takes away from the whole "simple" vibe that BiteBook has going. Wasted day, but that's alright. I have some ideas of how to log more detailed species information, so maybe I'll try and get that working tomorrow. I also squeezed in a few tweaks to the settings screen (added 'contact us', 'share this app', etc) and re-worked some DB logic to fix a minor annoyance.
August 21st :victory:
As promised, I came up with a half-solution for the subspecies problem. On the watch it'll just capture the major species group (e.g. "Bass"), but on the phone you can specify a subspecies (e.g. "Bass, Largemouth"). Tomorrow I'll work on adding an "edit catch" option on the mobile app so you can go in after you're done fishing and optionally specify subspecies for your catches.
I'm not sure how much I like this method, and might ditch it in favor of having the subspecies selection be another screen on the Pebble app. So you'd select "Bass", and then be presented with the subspecies to select from. I'll have to ask my lone beta tester what he thinks; he's also my boss, so he knows how to be brutally honest with me.
I went out fishing last night with BiteBook on my wrist and it came in handy. After two weeks of just nibbles I finally found the fish; hit 5 bass and 2 sunfish. All were quickly logged in BiteBook; I'm sure the fish appreciated getting back in the water faster! A few people who walked by stopped to watch, and most of them asked what I was doing with my watch; everyone seemed to really like the app, and they all loved the Pebble. No surprise there.
August 22nd :good:
I finished the "edit catch" functionality. It all works quite smoothly, so I'm happy. I also added a new "Syncing" screen on the Pebble so the user knows something is happening, and added an error screen in case the data fails to send. I also added in some different vibrations (one short for success, three rapid for error) so the user doesn't have to stare at their watch. Yay for UX improvements.
I'm not quite sure what to do next. I'd love to tackle the Android stuff, but I don't think I have quite enough time to do that, and I don't want to devote myself to it and then have a problem with the beta take me off in another direction.
August 23rd
I did some "beta testing" today; by which I mean I went fishing and didn't do any coding at all.
August 24th :highfive:
Did some more beta testing... but for real. I walked around the lake, ensuring that the background mode works, the geolocation catch count updates, etc. All is well. Did some minor clean-up to get things sorted, and added database versioning for future usage. I think I'm going to submit the app to the app store tomorrow unless I can think of any last minute changes.
August 25th
I woke up today and tried submitting BiteBook to the Apple App Store, but am getting a nasty error about app entitlements. I spent a few solid hours trying to get around the problem to no avail. Hopefully Pebble's support team can assist.
August 26th :silly:
Figured out what I was doing wrong. I had checked the external accessory entitlement when creating the App ID with Apple, but that's a beta feature and isn't necessary for the Pebble connection. I removed that and all worked well. I submitted my iOS app to the App Store, but then realized I messed up in creating my Pebble app (I had it as "companion only"). Had to fix that, then update the deep-link in the iOS, and upload the new binary. Ugh, what a mess. Hopefully changing the Pebble app ID doesn't mess with the MFI white-listing. Fingers crossed.

v1.0 - Complete
Development of the first version of BiteBook is completed. The iPhone application is currently under review by Apple and should be available in the App Store within the next week.
With that consideration, I will not be providing any more daily development updates on this thread for a while; I will resume once the next version of the app is underway, or if any interesting events occur.
Thanks to everyone for following along thus far. Please keep an eye here for the link to download BiteBook from the App Store, or check out the website at BiteBook.net

BiteBook Now Available
You can now download the BiteBook iPhone app from the App Store. See the link at the top of this thread.
From within the iPhone app, click the settings icon in the top-right and then click "Download BiteBook on Pebble" to get the Pebble watch app.
Feedback is welcome and much appreciated!