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The last days I worked a lot on MiGhtyDocs. Now a new version is in the review process for the iPhone App Store. I submitted it today so let’s hope that it is in the store by the end of the next week.

Whats new?

• Basic Spreadsheet Support
• Folder Support

These are the most requested features. I hope you like it and let me know what’s not so good and what should be done till version 1.0

At this point I announce that the 1.0 version of MiGhtyDocs will no longer be free. It will cost a small amount less then $5 USD. The exact amount is still to be defined. Tell me what you think is appropriated!

The Update

Lets start with the update of iPhoneNotes. I released version 0.8 of iPhoneNotes. This version works now with firmware 2.0 and some bugs with firmware 1.1.2 are fixed too. (I’ve got some bug-reports about that). Now when I was bugfixing iPhoneNotes I was thinking of the future of iPhoneNotes. The best way to keep iPhoneNotes alive would be a complete renew. Something with an alternative Notes application on the iPhone which makes it possible to us it without a jailbreak. And the ability to sync with the notes from Apple Mail. But currently I don’t have the time and the motivation to build such an environment. That means that iPhoneNotes will stay how it is now for the next future.

P.S. probably I can motivate my self to do some work for a future iPhoneNotes application when someone out there takes the initiative for it.

The New Releases

Marks: That is an application for students to manage their credits and marks. (for more see the product page) It will be available in the iPhone App Store for $0.99. Currently it’s “in review” by Apple. So it’s just a matter of time till it is finally available.

MiGhtyDocs: Let’s you view your Google Documents on your iPhone and have them available wherever you are. Even if you haven’t an internet connection. This app is avialable in the iPhone App Store when apple approved it too. It’s only version 0.5 so it has just some basic functions and a lot of possibilities to implement new features in the future. I’m very interested in your feedback for this application. So that I can implement your requirements in future versions! MiGhtyDocs will be available for free. (donations are always welcome)

iPhoneNotes 0.8
Marks
MiGhtyDocs

After some time of silence (i had a lot to do for the University) I’d like to post what is going on with V1ru8.net. How you’ve seen, two weeks ago i released a new version of iPhoneNotes 0.7. I think thats a quite final version but maybe it’s the last version of iPhoneNotes because of the iPhone 2.0 firmware. If it has a proper implementation of Notes synchronization I will stop developing it and it is possible that I release it under GPL. So that’s all about iPhoenNotes.

Now I’m working on a new Project called Marks. It’s a small iPhone app for students to manage their modules, credits and marks.

I hope this application will be available at the App Store in mid june. If you have any ideas or wishes what should be included in this app – then let me know!

Now let’s start to search a vacation job. I’d like to get one where I can work on a software project. But there are just two weeks time so I think I try to get a vacation job at the company where I made my apprenticeship and administrate Windows NT domains

iPhoneNotes 0.6 is out now with a brandnew icon (thank you verry much Cola Sheep).
The bad appostrophe bug is fixed too. Check it out http://www.v1ru8.net/iphonenotes

Today I can release a new version of iPhoneNotes. It supports now colored notes on your iPhone. Have a look at the product page

iPhoneNotes 0.4 is out now! See the product page for more information.

I’m glad to release a new version of iPhoneNotes today. I fixed some bugs and since 0.1.1 I’ve added some new features like auto-update and a Bonjour browser. iPhoneNotes is now Universal Binary!
Download: iPhoneNotes 0.3
Changelog:

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Since I’m developing the iPhoneNotes application i worked alot with the iPhone Notes database. This database is the data-source for my app. But it has a terrible layout:
CREATE TABLE Note (creation_date INTEGER, title TEXT, summary TEXT)
CREATE TABLE note_bodies (note_id INTEGER, data, UNIQUE(note_id))

• column note_id is assigned to the rowid from the Note table (don’t like that but it works)
• In the Note database is the title of the note stored. And in the summary column is the content of the note store if it isn’t too big (absolutely don’t understand why?!?!)
• the data column from the note_bodies database contains the content of the note always. But in a really strange pseudo HTML format. Every line is in a div element and sometimes it has a br element at the end of the line. The problem is that these div tags are not every time closed correct. So it is impossible to parse it with an XML parser.(I hate things like that)
• Because the content of the note is stored twice it has a terrible data redundancy! I don’t understand why that is needed.

So Apple please update the notes application in version 2.0. The actual note’s db is not how things should be done!

Since apple is building and updating the iPhone software they’ve forgotten to deal with the Notes on your iPhone. They’ve just backed up them and thats not enough for me. So today I release an application to manage the iPhone Notes on your Mac.
Currently implemented features:

• Download notes from your iPhone
• View the notes
• Edit (change,add and remove)
• Save them back to your iPhone

All that is currently just possible with a jailbroken iphone and installed OpneSSH over WiFi. But I’m trying to support a cable based notes transfer which should work with every iPhone.

Known issues:

• Works just with 1.1.3 or higher
• Only over WiFi with a jailbroken iPhone
• Sometimes nothing sows up. Just try to download the notes again and have a look at the log window

Download here: iPhoneNotes 0.1.1

This software is totally free and comes with absolutely no warranty

Update:
Version 0.1.1 added with fixed resizing problem.

Now I’m using the iPhone firmware 1.1.3 for almost three weeks. Now it’s time to write a short blog post about it.

It’s definitely the best update since the iPhone is on the market. It has a much improved stability and it’s much faster then all prior releases. The cover flow does not anymore crash all the times! I’m very happy with the new links in your springboard feature, that’s super! The lyrics feature is pretty good when you are watching podcasts!

The google maps locate me feature is not working very good. Most time it displays a radius of over 20km. But one time it helped me actually finding a location . Although i must say i love the paper scrolling effect in the new maps app. Please make more suggestive use of the core animation technology.

So now I’m waiting for the SDK. I have already an idea for an iPhone app but maybe it will take till summer to realize it because I will never have the time to work on it . However I hope i can release an other iPhone tool soon. Be patient!

Recapitulatory i can say the update was absolutely worth it. Till it is so easy to update with ZiPhone (actually it’s even easier then it was on my last blog post) everybody should update!