Erica Sadun
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Erica Sadun | 10:28 am | December 3, 2007 | Bug Reports, Bug Fixes, Feature Requests, Admin, iPod touch, Software, iPhone
1.Bluetooth Support for iPod Application in iPhone Unlikely to happen any time soon. I haven’t done any Bluetooth development. 2.Sendsong: Add Audio Editing Tool to Pick a 30 Second Clip for the Ringtone. Possible but hard. Added to the To-Do list. 3.Send and Receive Any File Using Bluetooth See #1. I haven’t done any Bluetooth development. 4.Make It Mine: Create Install Package Done 5.Voicemail: Trick Visualvoicemail Application to Launch without Subscribing to Such Service Something I’ll look into. 6.Sendsong: Add Sorting, 7.Sendsong: Add Searching On my immediate to-do list. 8.Sendsong: Add Paging to Avoid the Crash for Scrolling Lists That Are Too Long Hopefully sorting and searching will take care of this without paging. 9.Vrecord : While Recording Is in Progress, It Should Not Lock the Screen Even If Auto Lock Is Enabled There is, unfortunately, no way to override this preference without restarting SpringBoard at this time. 10.Assign a Video to a Caller Sorry, this isn’t going to happen. 11.Fix Libpurple to Allow More Than One Libpurple App to Run at a Time Much as I’d like to redesign and rewrite the entire iPhone OS, it’s unlikely that I have time to do so. This is an unlikely item. 12.Dynamic DNS Client (GUI Native or Cmdline) I would love to do this. I’m not entirely sure how though. 13.Xlaunch: Allow Changing Visibility of Multiple Items at a Time like Customize Hmmm. Maybe. Let me see if I can think of a clean way to do that. 14.Xlaunch: Allow User to Change Order of Installer and Xlaunch This is primarily a safety issue because of all the tech support, letters, overhead from people who accidentally push one or the other off screen. So…maybe. But probably not. 15.Voicenotes: Add Voice Mail Import Done. 16.Xlaunch: Segregate Visible and Invisible Apps into Separate Sections I actually tried this and decided against keeping it. It’s too hard to find apps when you have to search two different lists. I like them combined better for overall usability. I’m also working on the double-listing bug when people use a symbolic link between /Applications and /var/root/Applications. 17.Sendsong: Adding Twice an AAC Track Should Not Add Duplicate Entry into the Ringtones List. Known issue. Working on it. Don’t forget you can remove ringtones by tapping Edit. 18.Xlaunch: Crashes Due to Use with Afp Temporary Files in the Applications Folders I believe this is now fixed. Let me know. 19.Make a Utility like ‘Alert’ That Displays a Simple Table of Multi-Selectable Items Done. It’s the -T option in alert. 20.Voicenotes and TAPP: Fix the Keyboard Bug Fixed in VoiceNotes. Are there people still using Tapp? 21.Xlaunch: Allow Removing Items from Button Bar This has been in the app for forever. Just toggle the visibility of the item you want to remove. 22.Xlaunch: Doesn’t Allow Installer to Be on Button Bar Aesthetics. Safety. Hmmm. Maybe. 23.Various: Fix the Bug Where Email Is Not Properly Sent I have been unable to duplicate this error. Please give more details.
Erica Sadun | 9:55 am | November 7, 2007 | Open Discussion, Feature Requests, Utilities
I’ve created this post as an open discussion thread for the Erica Utilities and I’m linking to this from the utilities page. Please feel free to ask questions about the utilities, leave comments, suggestions, and feature requests here.
Erica Sadun | 9:40 am | October 31, 2007 | Update, Feature Requests, Utilities, Software, iPod touch, iPhone
Over in Erica Utilities, I put a demo Mac client for catching files sent from your iPhone. This app receives files you throw from the iPhone command line using the “throw” utility. Right now, you must tap the sender’s name in order to download the file to your Desktop. I’ll get around to making this automatic–and maybe with Leopard, I’ll change the destination from your Desktop to your Downloads folder.While this (and throw and catch) all work well–and you’re welcome to use them right away–I’m trying to step back a little and plan where to take this next. I am designing a protocol so this technology can expand to general file sharing between iPhones, Macs, PCs and other portable devices. Right now, the apps I’ve produced send two things: the file and a requested name. This obviously needs to be better and more completely designed but within the iPhone limitations. Unfortunately, you cannot easily go back and forth with the current CFNetwork implementation on iPhone so you cannot handshake, etc. That means the package needs to be sent with all authenticating and descriptive material in one chunk.Here’s my first cut at a list of items I want to include in this protocol. Please comment and make your recommendations.
Erica Sadun | 1:43 pm | October 28, 2007 | Feature Requests, Bug Reports, Admin, Utilities, Software, Applications, iPhone
I’m about to do a few updates on Voice Notes and need your feedback. Voice Notes is my iPhone recording program. It allows you to record your voice using the speech-specific AMR format, and then play back those notes, manage your notes library, and share those notes by email.
For those of you familiar with VNotes, what features do you want to see? What changes do you want me to make? Bugs to fix? Here’s my current list of feature improvement goals. Feel free to add!
Sharing Add a feature that allows you to share wirelessly between iPhones. Add iPod touch receiver & playback.
Voice Mail Scan the voice mail folder as well as the recordings folder, so you can play back and share vmail as well as vnotes.
Beeps Users have requested quick beeps at the start and end of recording.
Improved renaming Better names and debugging.
Import into iTunes Frankly, I am nowhere near figuring out how to add to your music library. But this remains on the list as a feature I’d really like to add.
Scrubber bar This one is low on my priority list, guys. A scrubber with pause/stop, positioning.
MP3 conversion The magnificent core of wickedpsyched.com has ported ffmpeg to iPhone. It converts amr to mp3. But given how huge this tool is, I’m hesitant to include it in the otherwise compact VNotes distribution.
So that’s my working list. What do you guys want to see? Let me know in the comments.