WWDC: Today’s keynote included many things we already knew about the iPhone, and few things we didn’t. Here’s a quick summary from the team at WSP Online – on site at the Keynote in Moscone Center, San Francisco CA.
Bulpadok has just published The Hidden Park, an adventure game with a difference – you! Developed in association with WSP Online Solutions, and Conduct, The Hidden Park uses the iPhone’s GPS to immerse you in a world within your local park (currently 10 parks around the world are supported, with more promised). Using the accelerometer, [...]
The guys at BudTrap have a great idea. Create a device, which clips into your iPhone/iPod, stops your headphone getting tangled, and costs just $5 – with $1 being donated to charity. On top of which, you get 5 additional “buddy” devices which you can share with your friends.
They are also into working out how [...]
I’m not sure about you, but we’re well into the 2009 NRL season and the lack of a decent dedicated NRL app has been something that has bugged me. The AFL has had dedicated iPhone Apps since the start of the season, while the NRL has been stuck with rubbish apps that simply link to [...]
Bulpadok has just released their first iPhone app – Fairies Everywhere is a great camera based game that brings your iPhone to life!
Take a photo, shake your iPhone and magic fairies appear everywhere around you. Save the photo to your camera roll, and you can print the pictures for your kids.
Great fun and [...]
WSP Online Solutions have just launched Footy 2009 – a fantastic fully featured AFL app which is now available on the App Store. You can purchase it from the App Store here.
It features:
Latest AFL news fully licensed from the ABC, displaying full news articles within the App.
Live Scores including game details, goal kickers, possession [...]
One of my favorite applications for the iPhone, Fairfax Radio News, is currently being featured by Apple in the New section of the App Store in Australia:
Fairfax Radio News provides the latest national 3 minute radio news bulletin (for Australia) direct to your iPhone – and it’s updated 24/7. Very handy when you are on the [...]
The CFA Bushfire map that I developed last weekend to help people find where the CFA incidents were occuring during Victoria’s worst ever bushfires has been updated, and is now more iPhone friendly. Browse to here on your iPhone:
http://blog.evandavey.com/firemap/
And you will now be able to more easily search and use the map on your [...]
UPDATE: Google is now tracking this information in a gadget. You can view here:
http://blog.evandavey.com/firemap/google.php
You can view the map I built (with historical incidents and wind direction) here:
http://blog.evandavey.com/firemap/
You can view metropolitan incidents at the MFB site here:
http://www.mfb.vic.gov.au/Incidents/Major-Incidents-Map.html
Original Post:
I know a lot of people who could’t find an easy way to visualise where all the fires [...]
Fairfax today released a very handy iPhone App that provides you with the latest radio news on your iPhone. Fairfax Radio News provides access to the most recently aired news broadcast from the Fairfax Radio network (which consists of 2UE, 3AW, 4PC, 6PR) direct to your iPhone.
It turns out to be an amazingly useful App [...]
EIATRACK today launched an iPhone application to compliment their subscription web service.
The iPhone Application provides subscribers with the following features on their iPhone:
Reg Alerts
Special Reports
Subject and Substance Reports
Events
The application is a free download from all users and can be accessed from the iTunes App Store. EIATRACK has further information on their website.
Apple has just released iPhone firmware version 2.0.2 via iTunes. Simply plug your iPhone into your computer and you will be prompted to update. As usual, all we know at this stage is that it contains bug fixes however hopefully we’ll find out more as time goes on…
Update: it’s rumoured that this update [...]
WSP Online Solutions, a division of WSP Environmental, today launched its Australian based iPhone development services. iPhone application development is somewhat of a niche market, given that Objective-C (the language used to development native iPhone applications) is not commonly used outside of the Mac community. As a result, the Australian based iPhone development community is [...]
I’ve just updated the firmware on my iPhone to version 2.0.1 (after much buzz on the web about its speed improvements). The update applied fine, and my phone does seem a bit more responsive – however it throws an error regarding my carrier settings update failing each time I connect the iPhone to my computer.
See [...]
Optus has just announced iPhone plans including pre-paid and post-paid plans for those who registered on their iPhone site.
To summarise these:
$79 a month gets you an iPhone for free
Include 800MB of data per month.
Unlimited data usage in the first month applies.
Prepaid the phone costs $729 for 8GB and $849 for 16GB phone
These are pretty good, [...]
The 3 mobile network is trying to convince apple to let 3 sell the 3G iPhone in Australia. They have launched a new website, three.com.au/iphone, which is now live and allows you to register your interest in the iPhone on 3.
If you’re a 3 customer (like me) then head there and register your interest and [...]
Steven Jobs announced today at the WWDC KeyNote presentation that the second generation of the iPhone will include 3G support, GPS and retail for $199US. I attended the KeyNote presentation and the announcement and the features of the iPhone are amazing, particularly when some of the games and 3rd party applications were demonstrated.
WSP Online Solutions team members today launched a series of personal blogs aimed at providing an insight into their fields of interest:
Green Design Basically
Product Ecology
What is out there?
We look forward to the interesting and informative content of each! More information on the WSP Online Solutions team can be found at their website.
On Friday the 16th of May, WSP was awarded the 2008 DuPont Innovation Award for Sustainable Services. The team was recognised for driving sustainable outcomes through innovative online solutions. More information is available on the WSP Online Solutions website and news article.
Examples of these solutions include:
EIATRACK – the standard in environmental regulatory tracking
Greenfly – Online [...]
I’ve modified my CSV to SQL conversion tool (csv2sql.com) so that it now can produce both INSERT and UPDATE SQL statements from your CSV file. Previously the tool only created INSERT statements, so you could easily insert all your CSV data into your database table.
However this is rather limited – what if you want to later [...]