Friday, February 27, 2009

iSpot The American Football - coming soon


With the success of the iSpot The Ball iPhone application I've now created a version for those who like me love American Football, the initial version will have 50 images and 2 game options to choose from, this will expand to 100 and have updates each month.  

This game has turned out to be a beautifully simple but enjoyable time filler game, each image is shown with the ball missing and you just have to find it, never as easy or as obvious as you might think.  If you have any images you would like me to include in this game then please send them to ispottheball@caloreez.com and I'll include them in future releases even if its just you and your mates having a laugh, don't just play the game....be in it.


Number Crunch - app update



This game is proving to be my most popular app and I'll be looking to make some improvements over the coming months, please send me your suggestions on what you would like to see.

The high score system will be improved to add trophies and monthly winners for each level.  Also looking to give the game a graphical makeover and lots of game options planned.






Pucks - High score tables are coming



With the Number Crunch game high score tables being a great way to build some competition into the game I will be looking to add this to the Pucks game.


Personal Best - App update









I've had some brilliant emails on this app, this actually gets more emails then any other app and all the suggestions so far will really help to shape the app into something quite special.

Keep the suggestions coming.

Every week I try and add something new to this app, it's something I use everyday and I know people out there who are using it are finding it really useful as well.

The latest update includes a auto date/time set when a personal best is achieved, this was a request from a Phil Chung, he wrote a very nice email on what he would like to see and one being the ability to see when a personal best was achieved so if you flake off you can see how long it takes to get back to that best.  it's made a nice little addition to the app.

Another user request from Rory Robinson was to include decimal places for the millisecond, this is also available in the new update.

The next update will be the ability to specify your headings for start/personal best, you could change the word 'start' to 'worst' for instance, this enables more customization to the app.

Also recently had a brilliant email from Dave Spitler who was also nice enough to put a review on the USA App Store as well, thank you Dave for this and I hope you will continue to find it useful, he made some excellent suggestions and made the point that reporting and more details would be very useful, this is something I'm very keen to include over the coming weeks/months.  

I'm considering using the review in the app description as it's better then any sales pitch that I could come up with:  "There are lots and lots of programs that offer to let my iPhone replace the clipboard that I carry in the gym, but I dont need those.  Paper works just fine for recording the sets and reps that I do on a given day.  But being able to access Personal Bests for given exercises! (As in "Wow! that was impressive. Is that a new personal best?") Very nice and exactly what I needed.  Even better for me would be the ability to capture the best I do each year (along with the date) so that I can see how I am progressing year over year. But this will do nicely while I wait."  

Everyone who makes a suggestion that makes it into the app will get a credit here to say thanks and I hope to constantly improve the app to include as many suggestions as possible.


iSpot The Ball - Game option added


I've had some feedback on this game asking if the ball can be revealed as soon as it's found, this has now been added as the main game option with the old way of playing set as a second game option, this really has improved the game no end and it's a nice challenge to see if you can get the ball the first time.

This update should be available in the next 3-5 days pending app store approval.



Revision Aid - online editor update



The new online editor for Revision Aid is now live and available to use at www.irevisionaid.com.

I've been working on this over the last three weeks and it's nice to now see it being used, 

*Update notification*

A couple of small issues have popped up, when you create a Quiz online with some empty entries the word '' appears in the quiz data, this has now been fixed and the update for the iPhone app has been submitted to Apple.   This update should be available next week as the current app store approval takes between 3-5 days.





Welcome

Hello and welcome to the JSS Developments blog. I'll be using this blog to update everyone on all projects, products and development updates that I'm working on.


Who is JSS Developements?

My name is Jason Savage, a 37 year old developer who has a passion for software developments of all shapes and sizes. Over 10 years experience writing everything from Financial Software to Intelligence Software for the Police.

What are the current developments?

iPhone developments:

http://www.inumbercrunch.com/
An addictive numbers based game for all ages.

http://www.irevisionaid.com/
A revision/study aid to create a quiz.

www.caloreez.com/pbest.html
A personal best recording system for fitness and exercises.

www.caloreez.com/pucks.html
A fun sliding target based game.

www.ispottheball.com
A simple but fun find the ball game.

Please goto the respective websites for more information for now, information updates will be posted on this site.

This site will also be used to help inform users when techinical issues arise with either the apps or the websites, if any of the websites are down then this will be the place to come to find out whats happening. I've had one of these issues recently that caused one of my sites to be down for a few hours and was one of the inspired reasons for creating this blog.

About Me

Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom
My name is Jason Savage, a 37 year old developer who has a passion for software development of all shapes and sizes. Over 10 years experience writing everything from financial software to Intelligence software for the police.