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Windows Phone Marketplace

October 4, 2011 No comments

Marketplace & Mango

With the recent release of the Windows Phone 7.5 update, code named Mango, Microsoft also released the Windows Phone Marketplace (http://www.windowsphone.com/marketplace). This is pretty big news for all of the WP7 users out there–although there were some 3rd party sites that would host some basic information about the available marketplace apps, none of them were full featured and didn’t really allow you to discover any great apps through their interface. The official WP7 marketplace provides all of the same information that was previously available only from Zune or WP7 marketplace app, and really makes the experience of looking for interesting apps much more useful. I’m excited about the work the Windows Phone team has put into this latest release, things can only get better from here. Hopefully the WP7 will be able to grab a larger share of the market as a result of this hard work.

In other news…

Although I didn’t make an announcement or blog post about it, the sc2 Forum Reader app has also been recently published to the marketplace. I’ll put up a post in a few days or so, but for now you can check out the app directly in the new WP7 marketplace: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/apps/c3754510-58c7-4e0d-a9f5-a831797e7085.

Check out all my of apps in the marketplace here: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/search?q=johnhforrest.com

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d3, wow Forum Readers Currently Bugged

September 26, 2011 No comments

Blizzard recently updated the HTML of the pagination so the threads are currently only able to download the first page. I have posted a fix to the App Hub and the update should be available in the next few days. I apologize for the inconvenience!

I am working on a change in the underlying engine so that the HTML configuration can be downloaded on the fly from my server rather than being hard-coded in the app. Additionally, I plan on adding functionality to allow you to directly access the URL of each forum and thread, so if this happens in the future you will be able to copy and paste the value into the web browser and view it manually.

In other news, I have ported all of the latest engine changes to WoW Forum Reader Lite, and am currently in the process of doing the same for the paid version. This allows for better performance, tombstoning, and other optimization features that may the app quicker for you to use.

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Diablo 3 Forum Reader Certified!

September 22, 2011 No comments

The WoW Forum Reader has finally for Diablo 3! Now, you are able to follow all of the latest updates of the recently started Closed Beta right on your Windows Phone! Tomorrow morning the app will be released on the marketplace, so give it a shot and download it for FREE.

See more at the full project page: here.

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WoW Forum Reader 2.0

September 17, 2011 No comments

See the project page for all of the screen shots and information on the app.

Last week I released a new version of my app, WoW Forum Reader. I spent a lot of time overhauling the main UI to make interacting with the app more straight forward and fun. Here’s a list of features added in 2.0:

  • Blue post tracker
  • Realm forums added
  • Favorites list for forums
  • Context menus on forums and threads (hold down on an item for it to pop up)
  • A brand new UI for the front page
See the screenshots below for the latest changes.
The opening screen now consists of 3 panorama items. The Blue Tracker allows you to quickly access all of the latest posts by Blizzard employees. The Favorites page displays all of your favorite forums–you no longer have to navigate through the forum browser to access your usual forums!

        
The Realm Chooser unlocks all of the realm forums that were previously unavailable. Simply scroll through the list of realms and choose the one you want to read (or add it to your favorites for easy access).

Another important feature that was added to all threads and forums, is the context menu that allows you to add an item to (or remove from) your favorites.
I hope you enjoy all the new additions, comments and suggestions are welcome and appreciated!
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Why are sundials so interesting?

May 9, 2011 No comments

“Heavenly radiance fills the aether, its rays parallel and straight and, so long as nothing is there to interrupt them, invisible. The secrets of God’s creation are all told by those rays, but told in a language we do not understand, or even hear–the direction from which they shine, the spectrum of colors concealed within the light, these are all characters in a cryptogram. The gnomon—look at our shadows on the Green! We are the gnomon. We interrupt that light and we are warmed and illuminated by it. By stopping the light, we destroy part of the message without understanding it. We cast a shadow, a hole in the light, a ray of darkness that is shaped like ourselves—some might say that it contains no information save the profile of our own forms—but they are wrong. By recording the stretching and skewing of our shadows, we can attain part of the knowledge hidden in the cryptogram.”

- Neal Stephenson, Quicksilver

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