Thursday, May 20, 2010 Numbric and Finger
Numbric and Finger got mentioned in by ZDNet blogger David Morgenstern in the article Apps that turn your iPhone/iPod Touch into an external peripheral.
We put a lot of work in Numbric and Finger. This is a hugh recognition and encouragement to our team to be mentioned by independent blogger in ZDNet US main site.
We have to express special thanks to interface design team in BeansBox and Vanilla Design for their contribution to Finger and Numbric respectively.
To celebrate this, we are doing a promotion till end of May.
Finger – From USD $4.99 Now only USD $1.99
Numbric – From USD $1.99 Now only USD $0.99
Monday, May 17, 2010 Vinko's Thought reviewed Numbric
Vinko is an active tech blogger in Hong Kong. His blog – “Vinko’s Thoughs On…” reviewed Numbric last week.
“… Numbric is one of those cool iPhone apps that enables the transform of the iPhone into something other than a simple smartphone…”
Find out more of his view in his post.
Monday, May 10, 2010 Announcing Numbric
We are excited to announce Numbric today!
Numbric turns your iPhone into a wireless number pad.
Numeric data input is always a pain with notebook-size keyboard. Numbric solves this problem. It offers you a near full-width number pad that connects wirelessly (over Wi-Fi) to your Mac.
The user interface of Numbric is made specially in landscape layout to allow wider keys and more finger space. Each numeric key is almost as wide as keys in Apple keyboard. You can now type with a finger dedicated to every column in Numbric’s number pad without cramping your fingers.
Setting up Numbric is easy. Install Headnix Connect for Mac OS X and pair Numbric with your Mac. Headnix Connect takes care of IP addresses and networking protocol for you.
We built Numbric with a unique set of features to meet user’s data input need:
- Numeric key pad
- Symbol key pad
- Gorgeous night mode – eye-comfy mode for use in dark condition
- Configurable zero key – optional double/triple zero key
- Return lock – made for spreadsheet user, set return key behavior between “move to cell below” and “move to next cell”
- Landscape orientation – wider key, more finger space
Enjoy the convenience of a dedicated number pad anywhere without getting an extra USB one now!
Numbric is available in iTunes App Store for USD $1.99.
Device Requirements
- iPhone or iPod Touch
- iPhone OS 3.0 or above
Headnix Connect Requirements
- Mac OS X 10.5 or 10.6
To get more information, please visit Numbric’s website: numbric.com.
Press Contact: Bill So
Press kit with screenshots and icon is available for print and web media upon request.
Wednesday, Apr 14, 2010 Debugging objc_msgsend
Got a clueless exception caused during objc_msgsend:
#0 0×91610ed7 in objc_msgSend ()
#1 0×01025958 in ?? ()
#2 0×30245c32 in __CFRunLoopDoObservers ()
#3 0×3024503f in CFRunLoopRunSpecific ()
#4 0×30244628 in CFRunLoopRunInMode ()
#5 0×32044c31 in GSEventRunModal ()
#6 0×32044cf6 in GSEventRun ()
#7 0×309021ee in UIApplicationMain ()
#8 0×000025f8 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffff0c0) at /Users/bill/Source/__my dir__/__my app__/trunk/main.m:14
Did a Google search for objc_msgsend debug. There are quote some resources related to this problem. I found the post in Hamster Emporium particular useful: So you crashed in objc_msgSend(). I am no GDB expert. The GDB commands there are super helpful! Awesome!
Thanks “Hamster Emporium”: http://www.sealiesoftware.com/blog !
Wednesday, Mar 17, 2010 Linking multiple Xcode projects
Just started using the multiple project support in Xcode to link up targets and sources in different projects. It’s quite handle.
Here’s some reference information:
Wednesday, Feb 03, 2010 Wondering how to find the frame of status item?
There’s no public API to get the frame of NSStatusItem. So… google around and found a great post at The Synapse Project – NSStatusItem’s position
Thursday, Jan 28, 2010 iPad - I don't know what the heck i have to do with it...
The iPad… Steve Jobs calls it a revolutionary device.
Hm… I watched the keynote of the event. I am not convinced it’s revolutionary. I mean, compare with the launch of iPhone, it’s not revolutionary at all. People’ve been using crappy symbian and win-mobile devices for years. The iPhone is the first smart phone which is usable! Multi-touch, maps, the safari browser… everything is unprecedented.
This iPad thing… there’s not much “soft” innovation there. It’s mainly a content consumption device. I want new hand gestures, new ways to use word processor, new ways to read books… Now, it’s more a super-size iPod Touch to normal people. By normal people, I mean people who don’t care it’s IPS LCD, Apple’s own silicon or if there’s multitasking.
Ha… maybe it’s Steve’s plot. He purposely leaves rooms for us to innovate on those areas. Maybe, later, there will be a super cool NYTimes reader by NYTimes, super cool graphing and data analysis app and a super-sized Finger?
Haha… I don’t know what I will do with Finger for iPad…. That’s worth some brainstorming session this weekend :)
Apple’s presentation is definitely focusing on contents and entertainment. These are, well, straight forward innovation. This hugh multitouch screen + App Store offers golden opportunity for the publishing industry to innovate their contents for this new media. But, what’s other killer usage? Should an indie like me who won’t be writing my own memoir nor interested in gaming be excited?
Without multitasking and a hardware keyboard, I don’t think it’s possible to directly port traditional desktop app to this thing. I can almost certainly say it won’t be a pleasure to type simply because you can’t rest your fingers on the on-screen keyboard. Another bumper, user can no longer reach the whole screen with one thumb.
Hm… a large screen where there’s no multi-window support and multi-task support… should I layout my app with more data? Just layout tiered data on the layout instead of the drill down paradigm in iPhone?
That’s the challenge… I don’t know what what heck I will do yet…