Piet Jonas

Monday, October 22, 2012

App Updates for the new iPhone 5

The new iPhone is out with a new 4" retina display. Although all of my apps work out of the box a few have already been enhanced to use the full size of the new 19:9 display:

Where - New app for iPhone

Did you ever wonder where you are while you travel and what might be interesting nearby? With this app long distance travels don't have to be boring anymore.

Features:

get name of the nearest place, its area and country
look up the location, area and country name on Wikipedia
links to nearby Wikipedia articles
thumbnail images of nearby Wikipedia articles
sort Wikipedia articles by rank or distance
open the map with your current location or the location of the selected Wikipedia article
switch the Wikipedia language
metric and imperial units

where.speedymarks.com

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Wind - New app for iPhone, iPad, Android, Wp7 and the BB PlayBook

Do you want to go sailing, windsurfing, biking or just out of the door? This application shows the current local outdoor wind speed (in beaufort, mph and km/h) and direction, measured by a nearby weather station for which it uses your current location.

Features:

the background color changes with the wind speed
the direction of the wind is shown on a live compass
The wind is automatically updated every hour
The location is automatically updated when you move more than 5 miles/10km

wind.speedymarks.com

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Seasons - New app for iPhone, iPad, Android, Wp7, BB PlayBook and the mobile web

Countdown to the exact start time of the next seasons.

Features:

for the northern and southern hemisphere
animated background

seasons.speedymarks.com

Monday, May 7, 2012

App Updates for the new iPad Retina Display

The new iPad is out with a gorgeous high resolution display. Most of my apps support the retina display out of the box quite well but here are a few which have been enhanced to look perfectly on the new iPad:

Friday, April 20, 2012

Degrees - New app for iPhone, iPad and BB PlayBook

Convert between degrees Celsius and degrees Fahrenheit.

Features:

°F/°C converter for any arbitrary value
tap and drag the line to snap to multiple degrees
nicely animated thermometer column
background and column color depends on temperature

degrees.speedymarks.com

Length - New app for iPhone, iPad and BB PlayBook

Turn your device into a ruler and measure small distances in either imperial inches or metric cm and convert any value between the two units.

Features:

inch/cm converter for any arbitrary value
tap and drag the line to snap to multiple values of 0.05in (left side) or 0.1cm (right side)

length.speedymarks.com

Monday, April 2, 2012

Units - New app for iPhone, iPad and Android

Convert between many units from several categories and different unit systems (metric, imperial, ...).

Features:

categories: length, temperature, capacity, weight, energy, power
access previous conversions from the history list
categories have different colors (in the history as well)
flip units

units.speedymarks.com

Monday, February 20, 2012

Contact Find - Address book access

You may have heard about the iPhone address book access disaster.

Just to make sure: My Contact Find needs to read all of your address book data in order to search it. But it never ever sends that data anywhere. The contacts data stays inside the app and can't be read by anybody else (thanks to the iPhone sandbox environment).