Contest: Win a Pass to the iPhone App Workshop
Do you have an awesome idea for the next great iPhone application? Or maybe a funny or creative concept that would look hilarious on the touch screen? Here's your chance to make it a reality.
blogTO and the Rich Media Institute, Toronto's arts-centric digital media playground and learning center, have teamed up to send one lucky (and creative) blogTO reader to the iPhone Application Development for Flash Developers ($399 value).
If you're a developer with some experience programming in Flash and ActionScript, all you need to do is tell us one brilliant or hilarious idea for an iPhone app, and you could be going to this weekend's workshop on us!
The iPhone Application Development Workshop is an opportunity for budding developers to burst onto the scene, learn about iPhone SDK and earn an RMI Certificate from the Rich Media Institute.
The workshop will introduce both the design and programming elements of creating and deploying applications for the iPhone, and will cover the Objective-C programming language, X Code, Interface Builder, and the iPhone emulator... allowing you to make brilliant apps like the cheese grater above (or perhaps something more useful).
How to Enter:
Post a comment below, anytime BEFORE Friday, December 5th at 10am, describing a unique idea for an iPhone application of your own invention.
Friday afternoon, we'll award one especially creative/funny inventor with a full workshop pass to this weekend's iPhone Application Development for Flash Developers!
Prize Info:
Date: December 7th - December 8th, 9:30 am - 5:30 pm (~8 classroom hours a day)
Instructor: Echo Mobile
Value: $399
Location: Rich Media Institute - Toronto (156 Augusta Avenue, Toronto)
Please note: The workshop requires some experience programming in Flash and ActionScript, and you must have an Apple computer running the latest Mac OSX (Leopard) that is capable of having the iPhone SDK installed on it.
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Comments (22)
I have zero of the skills required, and have no intention of entering this contest, but do have some serious wants as a user.
For the Apple apps / the OS: landscape email (and no, not using an app like Firemail). Copy/paste.
For new apps: a Vintages (LCBO) product search, a gps-enabled TTC schedule app, and a Twitter mobile client that allows for SMS use (since it got axed last week).
You can make a Home Screen icon out of an LCBO product search:
1. Open Safari
2. Navigate to http://lcbo.com/products/productsearch.shtml
3. Zoom the screen to the Product Search table on the right side
4. Hit the plus button on the browser's bottom toolbar
5. "Add to Home Screen"
And there you go, instant app-like access. You will need to go online when using it, but an app with a built-in database would need to be updated constantly to avoid being out of date anyway.
My app would be called Breakfast. As in, "Cookin' Breakfast".
The primary interface would be a frying pan, and there would be a row of icons for bacon, eggs, sausages, and pancakes along the bottom.
Your breakfast, your way! Drag some bacon strips and sizzle them to perfection, and when they are just right, throw on a few eggs. Why not rub your finger over them to scramble, but make sure not to burn yourself.
Once the edges of your flapjacks start to brown, a quick circular motion will slide your spatula underneath to unstick them. Then flip them over with a flick of your wrist! If you're too forceful, they might go flying off.
Once breakfast is all done, why not send it to your friends?
Breakfast!
Like many tv addicts who are 'net savvy, downloading your favourite shows or series can become tedious. going to the same torrent sites over and over, queuing up the latest episodes in the same manner over and over. multiply this by your search for movies times cartoons and you have endless hours spent dawdling in front of your computer when you could be busy watching them.
A bloated desktop app could probably handle these tasks as a multi-functioning web browser/torrent client/search portal etc. - but that isn't necessary.
Think of this: A lightweight app that allows you to setup what sites you use, what shows you like to grab from them, and automate it. Incremental episode numbers can help in sorting, along with a few "catchers" to make sure it completed each task successfully. Once setup, it simply remotes into your desktop computer and grabs the goods which you could then feasibly send elsewhere or have setup to stream.
I suck at AS and don't own a Mac so I can't enter, but I think it'd be worth it to make watching tv juuust a bit easier.
My brother is the dev, though he uses Linux and Windows, not Mac, but would love to attend the workshop. Anyway, an App I really wanna see is one that contains MENUS of restaurants.
By typing in a name, or by using location services, you find and choose a nearby restaurant you're interested in, and it displays it's menu palette. It also would show you the menu for the respective time/date, like brunch/dinner or fests/specials.
And to make it bigger, the app would also include grades (reviews) on individual items, ex: 4/5 stars for Butter Chicken
Hmm...what about a blogTO iPhone application, with location-aware neighbourhood maps and restaurant reviews, so I can go to the blogTO app and find out in two clicks what the best cafes, bars, shops, etc are within walking distance of wherever I am at that moment?
Just throwing out there.
My idea is to do an app that is like those old pens you used to see where you turn it over and the girl (or guys) clothes fall off and they are now in their underwear.. this would be a free app with the upgrade being a paid app when you can also remove the underwear.... but I do not own a mac... :-(
I have two serious ideas.
1. TipTracker - for people who work in the hospitality industry. A little app that lets you enter your sale, tips and "tip-out" after every shift, then keeps track of it all for you. Servers are terrible at writing this stuff down and never really know how much they make. Would be very useful.
2. Scoresheet. If it hasn't been done already an app that lets you enter scores from a game (e.g. Scrabble, darts) and either counts up or counts down for you automatically.
Unbelievable!! 10 minutes after I posted here I started getting spam. Stop selling your mailing lists!!! Brutal.
Editor's note: under no circumstances does blogTO disclose reader email addresses to third parties. This has always been the case and will continue to be the case. Cheers, Jerrold Litwinenko, Editor of blogTO.
Here's my app idea: Shazart
Basically its Shazam for Farts. For those of you who haven't tried Shazam, it allows you to hold your iPhone to the radio then it records a brief clip of the song that's playing. It then figures out the song and send you a detailed description of the Artist/Album/Record Label...
With my app you can record your Farts using your iPhone. Once the app has analyst the clip it will return a detailed description of your output.
I don't have an iphone - so i don't know if these exist (but i've got leopard):
* a tool to search wholesale wine importer lists - so you can see how much you're being jacked by the restaurant's markup (Lots of restros intentionally sell wine that isn't sold by the LCBO so you have no idea of the cost.)
* an iphone version of notational velocity (great notepad tool to enter and find random bits of info)
* a tool to take photos of opening hours signs to answer the question: "Is the video store, beer store, library, etc. open?" upload, tag and share with others.
I've got more!
After being contacted by this sites administrators I am confident that they do not share personal information and I apologize for my previous post accusing them of doing so.
Ever been at home feelin frisky while your boyfriend/girlfriend/hump buddy is out of town? Your getting all hot and bothered... so whatcha gonna do?
Well then..my sad and lonely friend - you need...."Tickle Me Pink" The exhilarating new iPhone app that puts ipleasure in the palm of your hand! Here's how it works.
1) Take a pic of your favourite naughty bit
2) Send the pic to your partners iPhone with "Tickle Me Pink"
3) Your partner gets your pic - its fullscreen and in vivid HD!
4) Press and hold your iPhone on your naughty bit.
5) Your partner then starts rubbing your pic...
6) Your iPhone delivers the juicy goods and starts to vibrate. The faster your partner rubs the harder it vibrates!
7) Before you know it your screamin at the top of your lungs, writhing in pure ecstasy.
8) After a serious rubdown you light up a cigarette and think to yourself - this ain't my grandma's phone sex - this is iphone sex 2.0 baby! Welcome to your Carlsberg years!
Ok so there it is in a nutshell (ahem) The best iPhone app just yearning to be created. I'm a Flash Developer and Interactive Designer with a shiny new macbook and iphone and a little too much spare time on my hands(cough). my girlfriends currently across the pond enjoying the sunshine while I'm here cold and lonely. So throw me a bone(cough)already and hook my nerdy ass up with the opportunity of a lifetime!
PS. If I win this, I'll give free "Tickle Me Pink" rub downs to the first 10 lucky people. BlogTo staff get first dibbs ;)
Did someone win? I'd vote for the TTC and BlogTO ideas. Kenny's menu thing would be useful but sounds insanely impossible to fulfill, and a BlogTO app would approximate that enough while also extending beyond restaurants.
Heck just a BlogTO mobile version would be swell, but auto-locating on the Google maps via GPS would be the real feature.
There's no way Apple would ever approve Justin's TV/movie pirating app, but it'd be great for jailbroken phones...
I think I might've just suggested that BlogTO award BlogTO the prize. Um Yeeeah.
Wow, actually tough to pick a winner!
My conscience says we can't award the prize to a blogTO writer, just to develop a blogTO iphone app. However, I predict that one will be available in the semi-near future, since it's a GREAT idea that can incorporate some of the restaurant menus and business hours info mentioned above.
My FAVOURITE idea was from Rob, with the pens. However, since he doesn't have a mac he unfortunately can't attend the workshop. The most useful idea, imho, was the TipTracker (although I was advised that there are calculation apps which can be used for this).
And so, after much deliberation (and at the risk of being accused of only wanting a rub down)...
mr. wizard is our winner! A racy/cute/sexy idea, but I think the back story of your girlfriend being across the pond is what sold me. I expect you to build this app and use it...
"If you build it, they will..." haha well... you get it. Congratulations!
Congrats Mr. Wizard! For what it's worth, I have no development skills whatsoever, so that blogTO idea wasn't my entry. It's just something I really hope someone makes. =)
FYI:
A blogTO mobile version has been around for a while, and a blogTO iPhone app is already in development! :)
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