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Good news of the week, AMT Mobile 1.0.2 is now available on the App Store.

This minor release fixes the Info-Train panel to use the new shiny (and less functionnal) AMT website.

Posted by Olivier Hill in Mac at 09:04 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0)

Well, a new version of AMT Mobile will soon be finished. Once submitted, it should hit the App Store in a couple of weeks. The next version will bring even more features and ease of use.

In the meantime, a new domain is now available, the whole project will be available through www.amtmobile.ca

Posted by Olivier Hill in Mac at 20:31 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

Didn't take long, AMT Mobile is available on the App Store.

I have created a small landing page with the application details. I will add support and FAQ soon to that page, as well as the French version of course.

Posted by Olivier Hill in Mac at 06:18 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

After a lenghty process, AMT Mobile will hit the Apple Store in the next hours.

If you take the train in the Montreal region and you want something to track the schedules, or even know when the train is out of service (believe me.. this happens quite frequently), go grab a copy, it's just 99¢

Am I working for the AMT? No.. Do they know about this iPhone App? No.. Why did I do this? Because I was bored back in March and some people were insisting on me putting this on the App Store.

By the way, between the time I submitted the App and the actual launch date, someone has released a global public transportation mobile app. I think it's something like YUL Mobile or something (not to name it!). Of course, my app is better, faster, more efficient and saves the environment, but feel free to try both, I'll read the comments and improve as necessary.

Posted by Olivier Hill in Mac at 19:38 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

Stay tuned, I should release my shiny iPhone app on the App Store shortly. Just have to go through that program enrollment thing with Apple, spending $100US at the same time. Oh well...

I'm really puzzled to see if there really is a business model behind building those apps. At 99¢, ROI takes a long time. Worst when you consider development time and costs (more on that in another post).

Posted by Olivier Hill in Mac at 18:05 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

I just released GeoIP 1.0.5 on PECL. An excerpt from the ChangeLog:

• Small bug in phpinfo() when printing version number could crash PHP. (in 1.0.4)
• Fix memleaks, bug #14851
• Small patch for MacPorts by jhohle
• Add geoip_time_zone_by_country_and_region() and geoip_region_name_by_code() (thanks to Sid Dunayer)
• Add continent_code field for City Database, only if using GeoIP lib 1.4.3 or newer

Since most of the features are very dependent on the GeoIP Library version you're using, I do suggest you upgrade the installed library on your system before upgrading the PECL counter-part.

I have also upgraded the PHP documentation, which should appear on the mirrors by next week. I am now working on documenting the added functions, mostly that FIPS 10-4 thing in geoip_region_name_by_code().

One thing to note about this release though is that the time zones returned by geoip_time_zone_by_country_and_region() with library 1.4.5 don't seem to make any sense here. I have opened up a bug report on SourceForge for libgeoip, will see if it gets resolved in the next release.

In the meantime, happy IP Geo Localization with PHP!

Posted by Olivier Hill in Internet at 15:02 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)