Let it Snow

Apple just put an easter egg into its Apple Store app. In order to activate it you have to type 'let it snow' into the search box.
Cool idea especially since I created an app lets you do the same with every photo in your album on your device:



Even shake to let it snow is supported.

letitsnow.speedymarks.com

Roll a dice on the watch

The new version of my Letter Dice app runs now on the Apple Watch as well.

The new app has more predefined dice (A-Z, 0-9, ...) and supports the iPad multitasking (split view,...) of iOS9.



http://letterdice.speedymarks.com

Cook your easter eggs with Boiling

It is widely known, that the boiling temperature of water isn't constant. It depends on the air pressure. Only for the mean pressure at sea level it will be 100°C (212°F). Therefore with rising altitude the boiling temperature will drop quickly. On Mount Everest it is 68°C (154 °F) only. Why bother? The time to cook eggs depends on the temperature, which means above sea level it takes longer to cook them to perfection.
So far you could have used my Boiling app to calculate the boiling temperature for any altitude. But many modern smartphones come with a internal pressure sensor (e.g. the iPhone 6, the Nexus 4). So with the new version of Boiling you can calculate the water boiling temperature for your current air pressure which not only depends on your current altitude but on the current weather as well.



http://boiling.speedymarks.com

Happy cooking!

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:

1. Compass
2. Thesaurus
3. Temperature
4. Wind
5. Length
6. Altitude
7. Country Quiz
8. Moon Phases
9. State Quiz

Contact Mailer: Version 1.0.2 is out

The new version 1.0.1 of my Contact Mailer application is available in the App Store now.

It fixes the bug of the missing phones, emails and addresses.

Contact Find: Version 1.1.1 is out

The new version 1.1.1 of my Contact Find application is available in the App Store now.

It fixes the annoying bug of version 1.1 that results for phones, emails and addresses didn't show up when you did a search all.

Compared to the old 1.0 version it adds several long awaited features:

• Much faster startup because the contacts only have to be imported once and are cahced afterwards


• Faster search


• Search for several keywords. It finds the contacts which contain all of them


• Explicit search for job, department and company field


• Newlines in the notes field are preserved

Contact Find: Version 1.1 submitted

Today I submitted the new version 1.1 of my Contact Find application which is available in the App Store.

It adds several long awaited features:

• Much faster startup because the contacts only have to be imported once and are cahced afterwards


• Faster search


• Search for several keywords. It finds the contacts which contain all of them


• Explicit search for job, department and company field


• Newlines in the notes field are preserved

Contact Find: Version 1.0.13 is out

As promised the new version of Contact Find is available in the App Store. It fixes the crashes which a few users experienced on application startup. In addition (as you can see in the screenshot) I increased the fonts in the search box a little bit to make it easier to use.

Contact Mailer updated

The Apple App Store has a new update to my Contact Mailer application for the iPhone which fixes occasional crashes.