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sloono SMS v1.0 veröffentlicht

posted 7 Nov 2011 02:23 by Andreas Greifeneder [ updated 7 Nov 2011 02:27 ]

As this is just interessting for german speakers, the following text is in german only.

Soeben wurde meine erste Windows Phone 7-App veröffentlicht. Sie wird wahrscheinlich nur für wenige Leute von Nutzen sein. Hauptsächlich habe ich sie aus Eigeninteresse programmiert, da ich kein SMS-Paket bei meinem Handyvertrag habe, jedoch ein Datenpaket. Daher nutze ich bereits seit längerem http://www.sloono.de, um meine SMS zu verschicken. Es gibt dort zwar auch eine Mobilseite, jedoch muss man dann immer die Kontakte hochladen, damit man sie auswählen kann. Mit meiner App "sloono SMS" kann ich jetzt aber direkt auf die Kontakte auf dem Handy zugreifen.

Vielleicht kann das ja noch jemand brauchen...

Den Download gibt es auf dem Windows Phone Marketplace: http://www.windowsphone.com/de-AT/apps/ee26afc2-85a5-4964-b9ce-e11007c80e2f

Pocket PC Geocaching Tools v4.0.3 released

posted 15 Aug 2011 09:45 by Andreas Greifeneder [ updated 15 Aug 2011 10:09 ]

I just uploaded a small update. The following changes were made:

- Changed Grabbed Images routines to decrease the waiting time, when opening a cache description
- Added new cache attributes
- Fixed problems with ' in State or County when correcting coordinates

Beta of GSAK 8 released

posted 9 Aug 2011 11:38 by Andreas Greifeneder

Today Clyde released the first beta version of GSAK 8. This version now supports the new geocaching.com API, so PQs can downloaded directly into GSAK. Furthermore it's possible to download cache descriptions directly without creating a PQ before or log founds from within GSAK. Some more interesting features were added also.

Download:

http://gsak.net/board/index.php?s=c7661fac712abd56ed132fe0c45d316e&showtopic=19095

But the best (at least for me): A short compatibility check with my Pocket PC Geocaching Tools showed NO problems.

PQDownloader broken

posted 6 May 2011 11:16 by Andreas Greifeneder

geocaching.com changed their webdesign on 4th of May. Unfortunately my PQDownloader is not working anymore and I don't think I'll be able to fix it. The good news is, that they announced today, that the API for 3rd party applications is almost finished:

http://feedback.geocaching.com/forums/75775-geocaching-com/suggestions/1050915-api-for-3rd-party-applications?utm_campaign=Widgets&utm_medium=widget&utm_source=feedback.geocaching.com

So, PQDownloader won't be needed anymore anyway.

Development stopped

posted 10 Apr 2011 03:26 by Andreas Greifeneder [ updated 10 Apr 2011 03:30 ]

This is a repost of a post, that I published on the old website on 5th of November 2010, when version 4.0.0 was released:

If you have read the release notes carefully, you probably have found the following paragraph:

This is the last major release of this software. That means, that no new features will be implemented and from now on only bugfixes and GSAK compatibility fixes are provided.

I started to develop this software more than 5 years ago and released 23 new versions since version 2.0.0, which was released on 05th of February 2006. One major step was the support for GSAK databases with version 3.0.0 and as far as I know, this is still a unique feature for mobile geocaching applications, not only for Windows Mobile, but also for all other platforms, like Symbian, Blackberry OS, iOS, Android or the brand new Windows Phone 7.

Most of the time I had great fun to develop it. But then Microsoft announced, that Windows Phone 7 will not support "old" Windows Mobile software and so declared WM to be a dying platform. That was basically the main reason, why I'll stop to invest more time into development. Furthermore I expect, that the number of Windows Mobile users will fall rapidly within the next month. The second reason is, that also things in my personal life have changed.

Still the good news for all users are, that I'll keep up the support, unless I find another mobile geocaching software, that fits my needs as perfect as my own software. ;-)

As mentioned in my previous post, I don't know, if I will port my Geocaching Tools to WP7. At the moment I really feel very tired...

I want to thank all of you for the the good ideas and bug reports. :-)

Home moved again

posted 6 Mar 2011 03:01 by Andreas Greifeneder

As I did have some serious problems with my webserver, I decided to move www.seventeenfour.com to Google Sites. It offers quite nice options and all for free.