It's Halloween and time to celebrate so we're given away 10 licence to any application on the iPhone we have published its simple and easy just add me on MSN or sent me an email via the contact page.
There are only 10 licence up for grabs first to contact me will receive.
* You must be a new user to our products and not have your device registered with a current product. Offer expires at midnight on the 5 November 2009. Application range includes any iPhone product excluding Cydia Store products as we cannot activate without you purchasing.
Apple today opened and application and registered a demo account on an application under review they opened the Application at 18:12 today its now just under 6 hours this happened so what are they playing at?
You just take a look at an application do a function (Have prove) and they just take a break and return. Surely it does not take 6 hours to confirm a App Store application.
Kinda Annoyed with the App Store Review Process.
Disclaimer: Apple & App Store are registered trade marks of Apple Inc.
LockToDo allows you to view tasks and manage option on your lock screen from an helpful application. You can then be alerted of new tasks on your lock.
LockToDo - The design, idea and concept explained. LockToDo is a simple application which has been developed by us. The application allows you to manage tasks for your lock screen. You can add a task you need to complete then it will list them in order of importance.
The design as seen below was drawn up and 9 hours later an Beta Application was ready this was tested and submitted for release after it was tested by Ollie Kett and William Young.
The idea was brought to our attention by William Young after seeing out LockMail application he wanted to view tasks from his Lock screen.
Concept Designs Below
Disclaimer: Designs, Drawings, Idea, Concept and Development are Copyright Ollie Kett 2009
SMSLock was released today the application which allows you to view unread and read text messages from your lock screen. It totals up the amounts and gives you a number depending on unread and read messages.
Messages can be scrolled on the lock screen. You can purchase this from Cydia for $2.99 watch out for our next release in the lock screen range which is going under building process.
After the release of LockMail we have been working on an SMS version this will be called SMSLock. This displays all SMS on your lock screen. This application will be released very soon as part of our iPhone applications it will work the same as LockMail and will most likely be $2.99 to purchase. It alerts you of unread and read messages
We're starting to develop a system which allows us to send pictures straight from our devices either laptops, computers or mobiles on the go. This system will be linked with this blog and below you can see two items which have come in from a photo upload.
You can see this example below however its in Beta and only works on the homepage. We're working on obtaining a grid view for the system as well as lightbox pop-up style as this will be better for the user to view.
Today was the release of the Windows 7 operating system i was able to download my copy a few minutes past midnight last night.
I have downloaded the copy and installed in on a Virtual Machine on my MacBook. As backing up on my Windows Machine it taking amazingly long 106GB of the network to backup and then check everything is there doing this by files in a folder and size of network.
You can watch some of my Windows 7 live stream here. (Not Live anymore)
Connection gets cut and i lose the ending part however you can catch up with the images on my mobile uploads found on Facebook.
Adding all this up Windows 7 is fast compared to Vista and may even be faster then Windows XP. This looks a good operating system which has come out of Microsoft and it might just push them back into the market. To provide them with a very large hold again.
Windows 7 is released tomorrow or at midnight tonight. You can download it straight from Microsoft online. Students with either .ac.uk (Uni) and .sch.uk (Sixth Form, College, High Education).
You can purchase a copy for £30 + £4 for a service which offers you to download it any time you wish so you can redownload. Also for £9 you can get them to sent you a copy.
So £30 + £4 + £9 = £43 = Bargin!
So this allows you access to Home 32 & 64 bit as well as Professional 32 & 64 bit all for £43. Seeing that Professional is retailing at £159 this is saving you alot.
£159 - £43 = £116 Saving! Thats a saving of just over 72% on the Retail price. Tidy :)
These most likely also work on other platforms other than the iPhone
Ok, Many people use various applications for the App Store and pay to use there Hotmail account its actually free to connect using the stand application via POP3 & SMTP.
Use the follow settings to connect using Mail App on iPhone
Firstly setup an mail account as "Other" the following details are then to be used. Enter username and password. Click "Next".
Important:Make sure you select POP3 at the top
Incoming Setup
Host Name: pop3.live.com
User Name: username@hotmail.co.uk
Password: password
SSL: ON
Port: 995
Outgoing Setup
Host Name: smtp.live.com
User Name: username@hotmail.co.uk
Password: password
SSL: ON
Port: 587
These settings work like a treat on my iPhone. Currently i use my own email server and Exchange so i will not be using this feature however many people do use this an i've setup this up on a couple of people's iPhones now and it works
A simple line of code may have been annoying some of you that use our products in our activation platform some of you might have now we're been having a few issues over the last fews days this is actually because of a stupid error code mistake.
This part of the code
or die();
Only being 9 characters long (include space) was causing error across the whole platform as it was performing an error out instead of running the code.
Very annoying :( - Anyways a remote patch has been supplied and it seems to be working now.
If your on of those people with LockMail crashing then you will most likely be on the 3.0 or 3.0.1 firmware. This is because LockMail was completed on 3.1 SDK and with a 3.1 device. As LockMail was started as a project on the 3.1 SDK i have not looked into downgrading my SDK them compiling for 3.0 as this would seem a large waste of time for me as most devices should have 3.1 or above as Apple also seems to have this shown in the App Store now.
So the way to solve your problem is simply upgrade to firmware 3.1 or higher - It will be better for you as well as it contains bug fixes and updates by Apple. Upgrading may require you to follow a method on iClarified for help.
How my Activation Platform works and why it cannot be broken.
On the client side upon the first open they will connect with server and receive a 0 then go to activation stage them complete the payment and return where the device is activated then there UDID and unique changeable key is send to the registered server and updated. You now have access to the application.
Upon access the application again it goes straight in to the application upon notice that the device UDID state is registered. However the red rings show that these stages could easily be broken to allow then application to open without fail which would mean access to the application. However yes you have access to the application but are blocked from the server.
Upon opening on the application a new 32 charter key is generated and updated to the server via your UDID. This key is processed by the server so it will check the remote database for a 1 or 0 once it goes to the server and check this is where your hack would break as it would require for the server to 1 to then generate you a new access key. So if there server shows as 0 and the client side shows as 1 you will not be generated a key meaning that the application would just open and work however data saving and input fields within the application would not process and to process they require the generated access key which is unique every time.
Access inside the Secure Access Layer (Orange Box) requires matching UDID, matching generated key and a value of 1. Any data inside the orange box means it checks this data every time so the if 1 statement process by the check is run inside the Secure Access Layer.
If you are having troubles with any activation either with LockMail or another application we offer we now have a client activation auto-activation system.
If you think you have troubles then go to the follow
https://olliekett.com/payment/activate
Once you go there pending accounts on the Payment system will automatically update. Once they you access that link they are automatically managed by our system.
So its time i started developing for the App Store. I submitted my first test application on the 4 October but did not say anything as it was really just an application to go though the process of getting into App Store ready. The main concept of the application is to display an a display of this blog in an application from an RSS feed. Its simple but just an simple application to get to the app store.
However on the 14 October, 10 days after submission, Apple rejected my application due to the issue that is there was no connection to the device or it was present in Airplane mode that it would display no data. I have now corrected this with an alert which displays the error and resubmitted to the App Store. Hopefully will be released shortly.
I've now completed the design, concept and have the full idea for my App for the Application Store there is no other Application like and it hopefully will be used my many.
Work will start on this application within the next few days and will be submitted to Apple within a week hopefully. No information is going to be released at this moment as its a unique application i don't want anyone to get hold of the idea and get into App Store before me.
Been ill Today People however this has allowed me to reflect on projects - Havong my first app store app rejected by Apple an update has been sent to them to so that will hopyfuly be submitted. Also LockMail has been submitted to Cydia and come out of Beta - Thanks to all Betas you we will able to have access to application for FREE
In other news I have today while laying in bed designed a plan ad concept for a large iPhone applications which will hopfuly hit big this is all hush at the moment so I can't release anything but once it's submitted you will get information. Anyways if people see me on FB that's because I leave PC on 24/7 same as MSN.
For a long time now i've been 50/50 about putting comments on my blog to i open it for people to comment or do i keep it shut so only i can comment.
For a trial time i've built a comment system and im going to allow the users to leave comments if the system becomes useless or covered with Spam then i will just close comments off.
At the moment the comment system will require a security check to make sure your a human or a computer.
User comments will be posted in light grey and the Admins / Mods comments will be posted in light yellow. Remember anyone can use the same name but only comments in light yellow are my Admins / Mods.
The blog uses Ajax live posting to send comments to the database as this is a trail its beta process and i've quickly put it together to you may find some bugs if you do then you can leave a comment :) or email me.
The LockMail Beta 1.0 has been rolled to developers on the LockMail Beta Repo.
apt.lockmail.eu
You can download files however the program will not work unless you UDID has been registered on the Beta Program its not too late to register - Email me.
If you are using it you will need access to some vital data which includes the mail server setup use the following for the follow is required just enter the details as shown below
Application data sending between connected server and receive. When accessing data on a remote location via application it requires two things a unique UDID and unique Key. The UDID can easily be taken and used to obtain information so also a Key is used. This Keys all the time.
Upon editing your data your Key becomes invalided and if you quit without saving then a new Key will be generated the same as if you will save a new Key will be generated. This key will update a random times - Different for each users.
Upon a change you may be asked to open the application to reset your new Key with your device.
This Key system is programmed to make sure the data is 100% secure the connect between the server during this periods is made via 128-bit SSL
I'm requesting up to 20 maybe more depending on how testing is required. As you can see from the pictures below its a new iPhone application which will become released on Cydia. At the moment its running under Blue Front however Beta testers will find the release name in the beta bundle.
To become a beta tester you require
An jail broken iPod Touch or iPhone running Firmware 3.0 or later.
Knowledge of adding Sources within Cydia
To provide your UDID for the Beta program.
If you wish to become part of the product please contact me via my contact page or add me ollie@okuk.eu on Windows Live Message
Last night an issue occurred with an old application named SweetMail our connection system to this domain name was restored online as part of our auto-backup process and therefore it regained server. This was an complete error for SweetMail.
However it was not completely a mistake as it was tasked to restore. We are hoping to release a better version of SweetMail with a new name and more features then SweetMail offered. Watch this space.
We've recently completed the website of an air spray artist Andy Hosegood. We developed a website to display all his work and show it off on a classy website.
[qtitle]andyair.co.uk[/qtitle][q]I am a Sussex based airbrush artist, with over 6 years experience in airbrushing. I trained in illustration, although at the time, the subjects that interested me horrified my tutors! Needless to say, the airbrush was a tool that was frowned upon, so it was some years before I got round to using one.[/q]
