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Re: Interceptor

Roel Wijmans — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:30:27 -0000

Hi,

Being an avid iPhone lover, i went looking for a website/forum where I could read up on all the applications but wasn't able to find any that were mostly developer based. There are plenty of forums out there that are user based, but these are very difficult to read as many users post many different threads on the same topics.

After contacting a number of developers and receiving great feedback, the myPhone Apps Forum was created. Why would I create another forum? Well the myPhone Apps Forum is Developer based. There are only single threads per application and they are moderated and supported by the developers themselves. This makes the forum a great place for both developers and users to easily keep up to date on the featured applications and get great support from the developers.

Although still in the early stages of setting up the forum, the response has been extremely positive. Even from Apple themselves. The custom skin for the forum has only just been finalized and we are currently adding application threads for those developers who have expressed great interest from the start. Once we have a good number of developers on board, we're going to target the users.

Some of the benefits of the iPhone Apps Forum are

For Developers
- There is no cost involved. At all.
- A single place to answer questions, respond to comments, receive bug reports and feature requests.
- Running a forum takes an enormous amount of time. iPhone Apps Forum does the running of the forum for you.
- Users read the application threads and get answers they would otherwise email you with. Saves you time in support emails.
- More exposure for your applications.
- Developers have moderation privileges to edit or delete posts if they feel it is required.
- Several Moderators in place to combat spam and help keep the forum clean and on topic.

For Users
- A single place to get questions answered by the developers of the application.
- Read about new applications they didn't know about.
- Discuss applications with other users.

But rather then telling you about it, please come and have a look at the forum at http://www.myphoneappsforum.com. I would love to hear your feedback. If you are interested in adding your applications to the forum, please have a read of the following thread and send me the information required. I will have your application threads setup within 24 hours of receiving the information.

http://www.myphoneappsforum.com/please-read-bef...

Some of the applications already featured:
- MyMemory
- Kyodai
- Chain Timer
- Tea Timer
- MiArtPak
- Crosswords
- iFive
- Word Party
- Alphonetic
- Escape Pod
- DataCase
- Meet Bubble
- Spin the Bottle
- Whack a' Gopher
- WikiMe
- Elevens
- Elevens Balls

Look forward to hearing your response to the new forum.

Cheers
Roel Wijmans

Re: Ben.geek.nz » Sliming?

Ashleigh — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 02:16:11 -0000

i thought you had to use cold water on it ?

Re: Ben.geek.nz » Sliming?

Angie15 — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 05:50:50 -0000

I purchased this tea in a store in Hamilton. I have been using it as a hot drink once in the morning and again at night. Initially I did have stomach cramps and it certainly cleans you out. I go to the gym 3x a week, cardio every second day and a free day on Sunday. I also eat 6x small meals a day. This tea has flattened my stomach in 7 days not that it was overally fat it just had fat i could not move through excercise.
I drink loads of water a day as well, so have not noticed dryness. Im yet to jump on the scales however I know i have lost some weight my pants are falling down its only my hips keeping them up.

Re: ESky Honey Bee King 2

jawnlooi — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 03:55:36 -0000

hey man wheres the updates! :P

Re: Logitech SqueezeBox Boom and Duet

Bill Moore — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:26:01 -0000

Great review. You can find stations like GeorgeFM and the others listed already in RadioTime, try the search feature or browse by location.

Re: Ben.geek.nz » Sliming?

fatty — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:58:20 -0000

hya
iv tried this tea i think its the best slimming tea i ever tried...it does work...lol

Re: Vodafone MusicStation and DRM-Free Tracks

JC — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:37:54 -0000

$2.50/month is pretty nice

It's a shame producers are creating music with a limited/tinny range of sounds in order to sound accurate on cellphones, though.

Bleh, music on PSP, pumped out of my speakers from a PC or on plain on CD/Vinyl can't be beat.

For now.

Re: Idea Factory

JC — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 10:08:53 -0000

Fantastic point. Explaining why a gadget is useful rather than just saying 'it has 8 flavours of wifi and X gigs of Y RAM and blah...'

Re: Idea Factory

Peppery — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 11:47:36 -0000

That's a tad /too/ geeky for this "hypothetical" show.

Re: Idea Factory

NZJoe — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 07:44:51 -0000

Translation of geek to English. Like explaining the _benefits_ of the feature of the gadgets, not just talking about what it has, but what it means to the user.

Re: Idea Factory

Me — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:35:38 -0000

Hello

Re: Idea Factory

beng — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 02:56:03 -0000

Thanks guys! Keep 'em coming if you think of any more.

Re: Idea Factory

nzpcmad — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 02:53:48 -0000

You've probably done this already but this search on Google should provide tons of inspiration:

(best OR hot) gadgets 2008

Re: Idea Factory

nzpcmad — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 02:33:42 -0000

GPS stuff - the kind you use for geocaching and that kind that "drives" your car.

Re: Idea Factory

nzpcmad — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 02:29:58 -0000

Does "gadgets" include toys?

e.g. the latest "Game of Life" has a whizzy "gadget" (you may have seen it on TV?) that handles all the paperwork, assets, money etc.

Re: Idea Factory

matthewbuchanan — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 02:07:49 -0000

Learning/universal remotes
Noise-cancelling headphones
Wireless picture frames
Polaroid Pogo (zero-ink photo printer)
PS3 as media centre (how good is its Blu-ray, other competitors?)

More as they come to hand... :)

Re: Idea Factory

Steven — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 02:02:31 -0000

Ideas: is it better to build a DVR (MythTV etc) or to splash out for MySky and what's the difference between 1080p and the other TV's for blue ray etc and how that might drive the choice of tv I buy next. Also how internet video hooks into that would also be of interest to me especially since I have a Slingbox (which you might want to review) .... just a few ideas there. Also robots??!?!?

Re: Idea Factory

beng — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:58:13 -0000

It's pretty much all gadgets. Not much scope for web at this stage, but
maybe I can work it in later.

Re: Idea Factory

nzpcmad — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:55:13 -0000

Is it a gadget show or a tech. show? All your themes are gadgets.

How about 3 minutes gadgets, 3 minutes Web 2 and 1 minute "Site of the Week"?

Kitchen gadgets and pocket knives sounds boring. Tech. is more interesting and they seem to be very different audiences.

And ensure that you have a podcast so people can listen if they miss it and a web site (blog) that people can go to to get a summary / all the links etc. Reading those long URL's on air sucks!

Re: Idea Factory

James — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:28:32 -0000

If you get your hands on the UK Channel 5 show called "The Gadget Show" that would give you good ideas - basically Top Gear for Gadgets all in a fun, not too geek way.

Re: Idea Factory

Ben Young — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:26:50 -0000

Who is the audience? should ask yourself that first.

Some ideas I would have is, what are some good blogs for non technical people, like PopSugar network, why should I skype? how can i skype? Help the users become engaged through things they already love or things that will help them.

For example I have seen uptake on twitter as a way for a family to stay connected, skype to allow free calling to family, PopSugar to replace a weekly magazine.

Re: Idea Factory

dan — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:24:53 -0000

I guess the first question is, what have they already done?

One thing that has become very mainstream over the last year is Guitar Hero / Rock Band. ;)

Re: Things are Afoot

Campbell — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:29:21 -0000

Hmm Tagged as "tv", "gadgets", and Someone from TVNZ contacting you on the about section a week ago. The plot thickens

Re: Google Android G1 on T-Mobile

Stu — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 01:57:48 -0000

From a developer point of view it looks like a mildly interesting platform. It's Java based (rather than J2ME) which is nice. However the downside of that is the hardware and UI libraries are all Google code. This means essentially you're coding to yet -another- vendor specific platform - about the only code you'll be able to keep common is your business logic. As lightweight as J2ME is, at least it's standards based.

The G1 as a device doesn't grab me at all though with that fugly Sidekick-like design. Hopefully future Android devices will be sexier...

Re: Spring Cleaning

Scott — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 06:27:50 -0000

It's retarded in Opera 9 too.