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iKeepActive and iKeepActive Lite back in App Store

Both iKeepActive and iKeepActive have been voluntarily removed from the App Store last year, but have been re-instated with new versions in the App Sore after the 2015 Holidays. Both applications include updates to their core functionalities to use the newest Apple OS X APIs EventKit and AVFoundation, retiring CalendarStore and QuicktimeKit, respectively. This will fix compatibility issues with the newest versions of OS X. This also means that support for Snow Leopard, Lion, and Mountain Lion have been retired.

iKeepActive has also been updated with some graphing of your progress and muscle coverage from your workout schedule, while the Lite version only focuses on the API update.

 

iKeepActive

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iKeepActive Lite

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Jeff

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Introducing Trivia Channel

In early September, I was among the privileged to receive an Apple TV 4 Developer Kit. I have used some of my time since, to create something that the whole family can participate with in the living room: a Trivia Game.

TriviaChannel is an Apple TV 4 app which quizzes you and your family on dozens of topics, rewards you with bonus points, or penalizes you for incorrect streaks. It hooks up to an open database called QuizBang, which allows registered users to contribute their own trivia content. It contains over 2,200 questions currently.

You can say your answer into the Apple TV remote by holding the Siri button while saying aloud “Answer A”, “Answer B”, “Answer C” or “Answer D”.

The first version of TriviaChannel has been accepted into the App Store this Monday, and therefore will be immediately available upon launch of the new Apple TV living room box set. Future updates for adding features to the app are to be expected.

Update: Screenshots added, now that Apple TV is publicly available.

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Introducing Cocoatainer

After eight years of active Open Source contributions, I ventured into commercial products for the Mac and iOS platforms and haven’t looked back. Well, it’s been another seven years since and it’s a good time for reflection – while still going forward.

I’ve been working on something to tie both of these things together: an open source Inversion of Control framework for iOS developers. Cocoatainer provides Dependency Injection via the constructor. It can be used in both Objective-C and in Swift, is covered by unit tests, and comes with several examples. It has many features, which you can read about on the Bitbucket page, where you may also download it.

https://bitbucket.org/staeryatz/cocoatainer/overview

Cocoatainer is released on the MIT license, which is pretty open and permissive for commercial use.

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iCaption 2.4.2 Released

iCaption 2.4.2 has been released today, to address the following issue:

– Fixed a bug from iCaption 2.4.0 where loading subtitles previously made would result in bad times on systems with region settings using ‘.’ as a number separator and ‘,’ as a decimal separator.

 

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iCaption 2.4.1 Released

iCaption 2.4.1 has recently arrived, as a bug fix release. See changes below.

– Fixed a bug from iCaption 2.4.0 where the video playback and seeking started from the markers with a timing tolerance (in some cases a few seconds).
– Fixed a crash from iCaption 2.4.0 where the playback to the very end of the video crashed the application.
– Fixed a crash when loading another video while still playing a first video would crash the application.
– Fixed a rendering artifact in the waveform visualization when jumping between sections in the video and playing them out of sequence.

 

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iCaption 2.4.0 Released

iCaption 2.4.0 has recently been released, adding new features requested by the users.

The audio and video core of iCaption has been re-written to take advantage of OSX 10.9 Mavericks’ AVFoundation (the QuickTime API is deprecated in 10.9). Warning: All OSX versions prior to 10.9 are now unsupported. Support for non-Apple-friendly media formats will be affected as a consequence. For Snow Leopard, Lion or Mountain Lion support please continue to use iCaption 2.3.0.

  • Added the ability to instantly edit the subtitle’s start and end times in the timeline by dragging them (without pressing the Apply to Subtitle button afterwards). Apply is still used to move the entire subtitle.
  • Added the ability “Add Next Subtitle”, which starts at the end of the currently selected subtitle, with the same duration.
  • Added drag and drop for opening supported media formats.
  • Added drag and drop for opening supported subtitle formats.
  • Fixed search for subtitle translations to use the new search API by AllSubs.org.

 

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Food and Moods Mobile 1.1 Released

A new version of the food and mood tracker for iOS has been released recently. The list of changes are below:

– Abbreviated the application name to “F & M” so the text now fits properly underneath the icon on the home screen.
– Added support for the iOS 7 look and feel while still maintaining iOS 6.1 support.
– Added offsets to food entries in the correlation view to address some overlapping issues when there are many food entries in between two mood entries.

 

Update now, or get it for free today!

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Food and Moods Mobile

About

If you suffer from digestive problems, allergies, nutrient deficiencies or unexplained changes in moods, then perhaps something in your diet is a contributing factor.

From the same author of the original 2011 Foods and Moods application for OS X, Food and Moods for mobile allows you to track what you eat and how you feel while you’re on the go. The mobile version has the same summary view to help find commonalities, in addition to a new correlation view, which graphs out your moods and meals in one-week slices.

Features

For each meal entry you can track:

  • Date and time of meal
  • Type of mail
  • Description
  • Location

For each mood entry, you can track:

  • Date and time of mood
  • Description
  • Location
  • Rating of how you feel from 1 to 10


Unfortunately, the OS X version is currently not iCloud compatible to sync with the mobile version, due to a more efficient data structure for mobile. The OS X version may be updated in the future.

Food and Moods mobile is now available in the iOS App Store. In the spirit of celebrating the launch of the new app it will be free for a limited time starting in September.

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iCaption 2.3.0 Released

iCaption 2.3.0 has recently been released, adding new features requested by the users.

  • The Preview is now combined with Play/Pause, which is toggled with the Command + P shortcut.
  • Added the ability to add subtitles on the fly while the video is playing, using the ‘[‘ and ‘]‘ keys in combination with Command for the new subtitle’s start and end times respectively.
  • Added trackpad support for the changing the timeline scope.
  • Two-finger horizontal swipe while the pointer is in the time line will move the scope one minute forward or backward.
  • The pinch/stretch gesture while the pointer is in the time line will zoom in and out of the scope.
  • Updated the documentation.