Chi lo avrebbe mai detto, oltre a leggere la mente nella famosa serie di telefilm Heroes, Matt Parkman è anche uno sviluppatore per iPhone. Il suo vero nome è Greg Grunberg e si è divertito a creare Yowza. Cos’è Yowza?

Il programma consente di visualizzare i buoni sconto di ristoranti o negozi direttamente dall’iPhone o iPod Touch. Quando ci troveremo in una città, infatti, grazie al GPS interno sarà possibile ricevere la lista dei punti vendita che forniscono sconti e scaricare il buono sconto da far valere alla cassa.

Purtroppo Yowza è disponibile solo negli USA poichè non gestisce un circuito di shop europei. Sarebbe utile anche da noi. Dite che Parkman mi leggerà nel pensiero e provvederà?

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Matt Parkman di Heroes è uno sviluppatore per iPhone

Filed under: Software, Internet, Internet Tools, iPhone, iPod touch, App Review

I've been using 37signals' Basecamp to manage projects large and small for almost a year now. It's tremendously useful, and everyone I've shown it to falls in love. While the folks at 37signals have produced some great applications, they've left the extras to 3rd party developers.

I've been using Outpost for a bit, and this week I had a chance to try out Base Tent [App Store link]. While not as pretty as some of the others, it works very well.

The Pros

When first launched, Base Tent asks for your login criteria and begins its initial sync, which was much quicker than I anticipated (note that I did all testing over EDGE). Four tabs label your Dashboard, Projects, To Dos and Milestones, and they use the same color coding you'll find on Basecamp.

Below is a series of icons that let you re-sync, access the app's help pages or add and remove accounts (I only have one account, but I imagine those with more than one will appreciate being able to jump back and forth). Best of all is the option to find tasks, etc. assigned to a certain contact. Of course, the purpose of dropping ten bucks on an app like Base Tent is ubiquitous access to Basecamp.

Click any item in the Dashboard to jump directly to it. Reading and responding to messages is intuitive, though longer threads take a bit of time to load. The app includes an option to view a message title, post date and author or the full text, which is nice. Responding to a comment is just as easy as you'd expect and syncs as you publish.

The Projects page lists all aspects of a given project. What's really nice here is the option to move between projects and contacts with a click, just like Basecamp's "Switch to a different project" feature. I had a very easy time adding to dos, responding to messages and setting up appointments from the road.

The Cons

Base Tent syncs upon launch to look for changes. Unfortunately, this process commandeers the display until it's finished. Additionally, and I know this is a bit superficial, but the Dashboard screen looks a bit cluttered. I'd like for the "Completed By" text and date to be a bit smaller. Finally, I know they're going for the Basecamp "look" with the tabs, but they seem cramped in the iPhone's display.

TUAW Buying Advice

The good news is that none of my complaints are about the app's performance. Interacting with Basecamp via Base Tent, which is the point after all, is pleasant and reliable. Many of Basecamp's customers, myself included, depend on the data in Basecamp for our living.

The developers have told us that a major update of Base Tent is complete and currently awaiting approval at the App Store. At $10.00 US it isn't the cheapest solution in the App Store (nor its it the most expensive), but it's worth it.

TUAWBase Tent offers mobile access to Basecamp originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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In this week’s show a verdict in the Pirate Bay case, Sun finally finds a buyer, a whole heap of green news for Earth Day and a high-tech way to get around on the Tokyo subway.

Bump is a contact-swapping app that debuted on the App Store about a month ago. And when a Connecticut teen downloaded it on Thursday, Bump secured a place for itself in iPhone history.

In this week’s Macworld Video, Chris Breen caps off a week of coverage with a video overview of what you can do to make your Mac mini a welcome member of the family AV center.

Filed under: Books and Blogs, Developer, Deals, iPhone, SDK, iPod touch

Some time ago I reviewed iPhone in Action from Manning. While there are other "starter" books out there, if you know how to code and you want to get up-to-speed on everything from web apps to the SDK, this book is a great primer. Of course, the pending 3.0 update to the iPhone's OS will add many new features, and the book's authors are hard at work with an update that I'm told will be available as a downloadable e-chapter. The authors will first serialize it on their blog, so you can keep up there as well.

Until the update is ready the good folks at Manning have provided a code that'll get you 50% off iPhone in Action until April 30, 2009. To get the discount, just go to the site and when you order use this code: tuaw50. Remember, this is only for the current edition of iPhone in Action.

TUAWGet 50% off iPhone in Action until April 30 originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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SpiderOak's online backup and synchronization gains dramatic performance enhancements in its 3.0 release, according to the developer.

Every beta has bugs. But there's a bug with the Safari 4 beta's Save As command that's so annoying, Ted Landau can't ignore it.

Oggi vi mostriamo un simpatico video nel quale un iPhone e un Palm Pre si sfidano in una lotta stile Batman anni ‘60.

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