In the works for iPhone

For now I’ll let the image speak for its self.

Yes, that icon does say ‘NorthDrama’.

Stagehand: Coming soon for iPhone, Tech demo on iPad

Today I finished tying up some loose ends with Stagehand for iPhone. I hope to submit Stagehand for iPhone very soon. I also have a small tech demo for those of you that have iPads. The demo only features the gels from Stagehand, but they are presented in a unique way. Check out the demo by pointing Safari on your iPad to ‘http://web.me.com/pangle/techdemos/stagehand/view_gels.html’. I would then suggest adding the page to your home screen, and launching it from the home screen for the full experience. Please provide feedback, both positive and negative, on this tech demo.

CNHSMedia for iPhone Now Available

After just 7 days of development (and a few more for the app store approval process) CNHSMedia is now available on the iPhone and iPod touch. Now students can read news articles, watch daily announcements, and even read publications such as the award-winning ‘The Triangle’ and ’33 Things’. Columbus North is the first high school in the United States to have an application for viewing news on an iPhone or iPod touch. We are very proud to be serving our news in such an innovative and technological way. In the coming school year, we hope to also push the boundaries of online media on the Columbus North news website, cnhsmedia.com.

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CNHS Media Mobile

Well, about 12 hours ago I was asked if I would be able to create an iPhone application for Columbus North High School’s publications department. I accepted. Now, 12 hours later, I have finished my first Proof-of-Concept. The application is able to read information from the CNHS Media website using the RSS feed that was already in place. The data is parsed and presented in an easy to view style. Below are some images and video of the application in action. (I would recommend watching the video in fullscreen mode.)

Jazzing up Stagehand’s UI with JazzUI

This past weekend I went ahead and created a new UI kit for Stagehand. You may ask why I went through all that work, as I already was using a perfectly fine UI, and my answer is: ‘because JazzUI is better’. JazzUI is a much lighter weight framework that iWebKit was, and it provides a more consistent interface between views. It is also darker, which is a plus for situations where you don’t want to adjust your eyes just to check a gel number.

JazzUI weighs in at just 4kb of CSS and 200kb of images. (The images have yet to be optimized.) The only thing left to do is parse all of my gel information so it can be properly formatted for JazzUI. In the meantime, here are some pictures of the new UI.

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