Posts Tagged ‘iPhone’

Where’s Gordon?

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

Screenshot of WheresgordonI guess it’s time to blog about this one.  I have made a page on this website that shows my current location.  Anyone can access it.  There is also a little date chooser with the ability to go back and show places I’ve been throughout the day on any particular day (back to the 13th of August).  It’s been a while in the making.  I actually got something working a little less than a month ago but am finally now writing about it.

Here’s how it works:

  1. iPhone gets current latitude/longitude location via GPS satellites orbiting in space.
  2. Location is logged to a file on the iPhone every time I move 5 feet.
  3. Every 5 minutes the log is uploaded to gordonchild.com.
  4. Website writes all locations received to database.
  5. Google Maps magically shows the location and paths on a map.

I’ve been wanting to do this ever since I got the original iPhone, but since it lacked GPS capabilities I never was able to.  I got the new iPhone 3G about a month and a half ago and have been enjoying the GPS goodness that it has.

Additional things I plan on adding:

  • Pinpoints of pictures taken on iPhone at the location it was taken
  • Pinpoints for any location that I spent more than 1 hour at
  • Ability to view path by time of day
  • An estimated-path-taken if path has moved drastically from one location to the next.

Note to all stalkers, mafia, CIA/FBI agents and bigfoot: Chuck Norris is my bodyguard.

Note to all ninjas: You are welcome to come play RockBand at my house anytime.

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LDS Scriptures on iPhone

Friday, August 1st, 2008

I’ve heard it said that if you don’t like the price on something, just wait for a bit and it will change or something new will come up with a better price.  The only exception to this would be gas, as the price on that keeps getting worse.  :P

ReadScriptures.com is a website that has the LDS Scriptures available for the iPhone and iPod Touch.  They have, since the announcement of the iPhone SDK, promised an offline reader. For a while many people have been looking forward to this offline reader of the scriptures for the iPhone and iPod Touch.  This morning this has been released on the Apple Application Store for $14.99.

To myself, I think that this is a little over priced.  Nonetheless, they have the potential of doing a lot with this application.  They have the potential of improving it tremendously.

In the mean time, I think I’m going to develop a LDS Scriptures reader using Apple’s SDK.  I would make this available for free on the App Store.  It would probably have less features than the one currently on the App Store, but nonetheless would be available as a poor man’s version of the scriptures with the same content.

I’ve told a couple people of my intention to do this.  And they’ve suggested to make it “donationware.”  I’d have to check with Apple’s license to see if I can do this.  But the idea would be to make this available without any required payment.

Update: It appears that someone has already beaten me.  There is a version of the scriptures on the AppStore that is free.  So there’s no reason for me to do this anymore.

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