Piet Jonas

New iPhone Project: Call Checker

2008-07-02T23:14:00.003+02:00

In a global world it becomes more and more difficult to keep track of the local times of all your important contacts. If you want to avoid to call them at a bad time this application is for you. A quick check tells you whether it's the right time to call or not and who is available at the moment.

If you enter the phone number a simple tap is enough to initiate the call.

callchecker.speedymarks.com

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New iPhone App: Workout

2008-06-17T11:01:00.002+02:00

Interval training is one of the best methods to enhance your physical fitness and burn calories and is therefore a basic part of many physical exercise and workout sessions. It is broadly defined as repetitions of high-speed/intensity work followed by periods of rest or low activity.

This application helps to manage and control the intervals. Just define the duration of the work and relax periods and the number of cycles you want to do.

Despite enhancing your health this application can be used to structure any kind of repetitive work.

workout.speedymarks.com

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New iPhone App: Photo Finder

2008-06-06T21:30:00.004+02:00

Get inspired by finding out what photos others have shot on a certain location. Adjust the map to the area you want and get the most popular or most recent photos from Panoramio.

photofinder.speedymarks.com

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New iPhone App: Compass

2008-06-04T21:48:00.004+02:00

This application adds the missing compass to the iPhone. You just have to see the sun and know the time to determine the north direction. Use it for all your outdoor activities whether it's hiking, biking or for a boy scout camp. This compass is not affected by magnetic anomalies.

compass.speedymarks.com

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SpeedyMarks on the side

2008-05-22T15:46:00.001+02:00

After optimizing all my iPhone applications for the browser sidebars it's now time to put the SpeedyMarks itself into the sidebar too.

It's great to have all your visual bookmarks only one click away without creating or switching tabs. Just put

http://www.speedymarks.com/sidebar.html

in your sidebar and there you are or simply click one of these links:

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You will see that the sidebar version shares the same SpeedyMarks as the desktop version (from either cookie based or server based storage) but comes with its own settings for background color, SpeedyMarks size and link target.

Please note: Alternatively you could use the iPhone version of SpeedyMarks, which works great in the sidebar too but it manages its collection of SpeedyMarks indepently.

New iPhone App: Photo Tags

2008-05-22T15:37:00.004+02:00

Search, view and slideshow the latest photos from Flickr and Photobucket for any combination of tags, out of curiosity or for your own inspiration.

Manage your tags in a hierarchical way in order to fine tune your search.

phototags.speedymarks.com

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iPhone apps in browser sidebar

2008-05-19T16:36:00.008+02:00

As you probably know it makes complete sense to run iPhone optimized web applications (e.g. the mobile Google Reader) in the browser sidebar. iPhone applications are usually optimized for a 320 pixel wide browser window which is the perfect size for Firefox's sidebar and Operas panels especially on todays wide screen monitors where a full screen web page would be too wide anyway.

Of course you an run all my iPhone applications in the sidebar already. Just open the application in Firefox or Opera, add a bookmark and check Load this bookmark in the sidebar on Firefox or Show in panel on Opera.

But if you want to run more than one of my iPhone applications in the sidebar you need to create a lot of bookmarks and constantly click your booksmarks to switch. There is no need to. Just put

http://start.speedymarks.com/sidebar.html

in your sidebar and you can easily switch between all my iPhone applications on your sidebar. It even comes with a convient button to add the bookmark automatically:

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New iPhone App: Weekday

2008-05-19T15:33:00.004+02:00

Did you always want to know which day of week you or one of your friends was born? This iPhone web application calculates the day of the week for any date in the past and the future. It's useful to plan your holidays and trips or just find out the day of week for your next anniversary.

weekday.speedymarks.com

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Login to WorldWatchr and Share Your Webcams

2008-05-15T15:38:00.004+02:00

After storing your SpeedyMarks on the server you can now do the same with your webcams on WorldWatchr:

Just login using your (existing or to be created) Google Account and all your webcams are stored on the server (on the Google server farm to be precise). This makes it possible to access your camera collection from everywhere even with multiple browsers. And the best, it works with the iPhone version as well, where you will see exactly the same webcams:

Don't worry, WorldWatchr doesn't ever see your Google Account password, rest assured. If you logout you are back to the local cookie based storage specific to each desktop and browser (and you have the option to clean your server storage before you leave).

Now you have the choice to either use the server and share your WorldWatchr webcams or keep them completely local and private.

Login to your SpeedyMarks

2008-05-10T00:17:00.004+02:00

As a SpeedyMarks user you might have noticed the new Login link on the upper right hand corner:

An often requested feature of several users has been the server storage of the visual bookmarks. Yes, I heard you and I'm excited to let you know it's done now. Just login using your (existing or to be created) Google Account and all your SpeedyMarks are stored on the server (on the Google server farm to be precise). This makes it possible to access your SpeedyMarks from everywhere even with multiple browsers. And the best, it does work for the iPhone SpeedyMarks as well, which are separate from the desktop bookmarks:

Don't worry, SpeedyMarks doesn't ever see your Google Account password, rest assured. If you logout you are back to the local cookie based SpeedyMarks specific to each desktop and browser (and you have the option to clean your server storage before you leave).

Now you have the choice to either use the server and share your SpeedyMarks or keep them completely local and private.

New iPhone App: Astro

2008-05-10T00:03:00.003+02:00

Explore the night sky, the mars or our old moon with the help of Google Maps. Click on the map to pan around quickly and zoom in to examine craters, spots or nebulas in more detail.

astro.speedymarks.com

New iPhone App: State Quiz

2008-05-09T23:35:00.002+02:00

Test your knowledge and spot the states of the USA on the map.

statequiz.speedymarks.com

New iPhone App: States

2008-05-09T22:31:00.003+02:00

Do you ask yourself sometimes, where in the USA is this state? This application shows each state of the USA on the map. Either select it from the list or jump around randomly.

states.speedymarks.com

New iPhone App: Sunset

2008-05-09T22:21:00.004+02:00

This applications helps to calculate the sunrise and sunset times for each location in world on each day of the year. Enjoy planning your next holiday, trip or photo session where ever and when ever you want to go. Just click on the location, choose date and timezone and optionally add 1 hour daylight saving.

sun.speedymarks.com

RSS Awareness Day

2008-05-01T19:34:00.005+02:00

To day is the RSS awareness day. Therefore I would like to take the chance to point to my RSS Feed Reader application for the iPhone.

New iPhone App: Country Quiz

2008-04-15T10:24:00.002+02:00

Test your knowledge and spot the countries of the world on the map. Choose from different regions. Start with the easier ones like Oceania and North America before you test yourself on Europe, Africa or even the whole world.

countryquiz.speedymarks.com

New iPhone App: Countries

2008-04-15T10:19:00.003+02:00

Do you ask yourself sometimes, where in the world is this country? This application shows each country of the world on the map. Either select it from the list or jump around randomly.

countries.speedymarks.com

The Cloud on the Air

2008-04-09T15:02:00.011+02:00

Cloud computing is on everyone's lips nowadays. New web sites are started daily which try to replace your local installed applications, e.g.:

Office - Google Docs, Zoho Office
PIM - Webmail, Google Calendar
Imaging - Photoshop Express, Picnic
Dashboard Widgets - Widgetop

You can even have your whole desktop in your browser but that seems a little bit to much for me.

So what's the advantage of cloud computing? Obviously you only need a web browser and that's it. All your documents are stored on the internet and you can access them from everywhere. There is no need to install applications locally and keep them up to date.

But there is a second advantage. Having your apps and docs in your browser means you don't need a big computer anymore. But what will be the perfect machine for the Cloud? It doesn't need a big hard drive, an optical drive and a very fast CPU but it still should have decent screen and keyboard otherwise working will be a pain (which disqualifies ultra small laptops like the EeePC).

For me it looks like as Apples quite new MacBook Air is the perfect choice. It doesn't compromise on display and keyboard but otherwise it's as thin and light as possible which makes it easy to carry it with you and work from where ever you want. Not to mention the quite long battery life. The only feature missing seems to be a built in LAN connection (although you can buy a USB ethernet adapter). Of course the MacBook Air can connect via WLAN but a wired network is usually faster and much more reliable.

Finally there is the visionary name of it! Did Apple have to the Cloud in mind when they named it MacBook Air? I doubt it.

New iPhone App: Morse Code

2008-04-04T17:52:00.003+02:00

Translates text into morse code and sends the message with a blinking iPhone.

morse.speedymarks.com

New iPhone App: Bestsellers

2008-04-04T17:48:00.003+02:00

Never miss hot new releases, movers & shakers and best selling books, music, DVDs, games, software, electronics and much more on amazon.com again.

bestsellers.speedymarks.com

New iPhone App: Language Translator

2008-03-30T23:31:00.003+02:00

Translates any text between different languages using Googles language translation service. It can even detect the source language.

translator.speedymarks.com

New iPhone App: Plotter

2008-03-14T11:29:00.004+01:00

A simple function plotter. Just enter the formula and the range for the x-value.

Available functions: sin, cos, tan, asin, acos, atan, sqrt, exp, log, pow, abs, round, ceil, floor, random, PI

plotter.speedymarks.com

New iPhone App: Calculator

2008-03-12T10:44:00.002+01:00

This is a full text calculator. Just enter your formula in the text box and tap the '=' button. You can use the Google calculator as well (e.g. for unit conversions).

Available functions: sin, cos, tan, asin, acos, atan, sqrt, exp, log, pow, abs, round, ceil, floor, random, PI

calculator.speedymarks.com

New iPhone App: Feed Reader

2008-02-29T23:41:00.003+01:00

This is just another RSS news feed reader especially optimized to read full text feeds like an eBook. It has an autoscroll feature to make reading long text as easy as possible without the need to scroll manually. You can jump quickly between the different articles.

In order to add feeds quickly it has built in feed search. Just type in the search keywords (e.g. news, sports, lifestyle, finance, games, ...) or the URL of a feed or the URL of the web site it is published.

You selection of feeds is stored locally in a cookie. There is no need to login or register.

rss.speedymarks.com

New iPhone App: Games Counter

2008-02-29T23:35:00.003+01:00

A simple game counter. Track the score of different games easily without doing marks on paper. Perfect for sports, board-games, birthday parties and so on.

counter.speedymarks.com