18 Sep 09 BNO News Works Out iPhone Dilemma
Just a week or so ago, BNO News (@BreakingNews), Twitter’s kings of domestic and international breaking news, announced rather unceremoniously that they would no longer support their newly released iPhone app.
With the newest revision of the app just weeks old, BNO’s announcement came as a huge surprise to me. Given the fact that I am a fan of breaking news and mobile computing, I was concerned (OK, as concerned as someone can be about an iPhone app).
A request for more information received no immediate response and as quickly as the statement was made, the tweet was deleted and followed up with a promise to clarify their statement later in the day.
At the time I speculated that it was probably a disagreement between BNO and their Iowa-based app developer, BitMethod– probably over royalties or rights to any user information collected. Well, nice to see I wasn’t too far off.
While it took BNO a little longer to get back to inquiries than anticipated, they finally responded today:
Last weekend, a misunderstanding between our team and the company developing
our iPhone application led us to temporarly suspend the use of the
application. Later that day, our companies agreed to a solution and took
appropriate steps to prevent this from happening in the future.We want to let you know that the BNO News iPhone application remains
supported by BNO News and that a new version will soon be released, in which
we hope to provide you with an even better service by offering you more
options.If you have any comments or suggestions for our application, feel free to
e-mail us with your thoughts at support@bnonews.com.We hope you will continue to enjoy using our services, and find them useful,
and hope you will accept our apologies for any confussion about the
application.Thank you.
BNO News
Let’s hope that doesn’t happen again!
25 Aug 09 App Review: ‘FTP On The Go’
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FTP On The Go Current version: 2.1 (rel. 8/25/09) Size: 0.7 MB Price: $6.99   |
Whether you’re a Web designer or system administrator, you probably don’t see too many days pass without logging into an FTP for one reason or another. Personally, I find 90% of the issues I deal with when away from my office are technical in nature– and 75% of that 90% could be solved by a robust mobile FTP client.
Let me say first that I am a huge fan of free apps (or nearly free– let’s face it, 99 cents is almost free), but that said, I understand that a powerful FTP client is no small project and given the niche value of such an app I bumped my willingness to pay up a few notches to between $5 and $10.
First, here’s a few features of “FTP On The Go” I found useful:
- Upload video or pictures directly to FTP from iPhone
- Web browser tab to quickly view your modifications to a site
- Pause file transfers
- Download from FTP and save locally
- Uploading a file renames overwritten file in filename.old.html format
Of course “FTP On The Go” performs most of the features you would expect from a basic FTP
client like creating or removing directories, changing user permissions (chmod), etc. (see screenshots below)
However, I searched the App Store far and wide and didn’t find a single app that rivaled “FTP On The Go” in terms of features.
With all of that productivity comes a few drawbacks. Most notably, exiting to the home screen does not save your session and you must login again. Additionally, the lack of a landscape mode makes editing lengthy HTML or PHP files a bit of a chore.
Those few issues aside, “FTP On The Go” is a great way for a developer to stay connected to their desk, even when waiting in line at the local Starbucks.
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