Archive for May, 2009

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Friday, May 29th, 2009

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SurveillanceShaker for iPhone released

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Finally SurveillanceShaker is in Apple’s AppStore. SurveillanceShaker is the iPhone version of SurveillanceSaver, which has been downloaded more than 50.000 times and covered by BoingBoing, TimesOnline, Financial Times, Wired, …

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SurveillanceShaker brings more than 1000 CCTV cameras on the iPhone. It becomes an addictive live soap opera when watching places around the earth in real time and guessing what will happen next. You’ll see live images of streets and buildings but also surprising images of russian internet cafes, hotel lobbies, server rooms, barns with little pigs and many more. Just shake or double-tap your iPhone to switch to the next camera.

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=312295632&mt=8

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The iPhone App is based on our public-viewpoints project. public-viewpoints is a geo-webservice serving links to public CCTV cameras around the world. It allows queries for CCTV cameras via geo location (Lat / Long, Country, City) and returns GeoRSS, CSV or simply the link. public-viewpoints is a Google App Engine project written in Python.
http://public-viewpoints.appspot.com

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iSplinter rejected again, and again, and again, ..

Monday, May 4th, 2009

apple rejected the application three times without really looking at the changes. meanwhile iSplinter only shatters photos, not the screen shot of the iPhone UI anymore. they are still complain user confusion because of UI misbehaviour. but there is never an answer to my replied mails. the only thing to do is resubmit a new app and wait for a rejection email.

the sad thing is that in the meantime apple accepted a similar app on 1 may: iShatter

in real life (my apps are only for fun) apple’s policy puts small companies on jeopardy while the whole app store business relies on these developers.