Separating title, author and content body

When writing brief description about a photo, if you make the top part of the description as:

<title>
by Some One
<the content body afterwards>

The "title", "author" and rest of the content will appear in a standard way in the RSS here.

Panacea in the computing world -- reboot

"There's no reset buttons in life!" someone shouted, but fortunately, there are plenty of them on all kinds of electronic devices and for a good reason.

We have encountered several instances when user complained that they couldn't successfully upload pictures. In quite a few of those instances, after a reboot pictures were uploaded successfully.

Even before the application is used, immediately after install or update it could help too. . .

USiT iPhone version

It's finally here. The iPhone version of the app can be downloaded directly from iPhone units or going through the iTunes on laptop/PCs


http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=305895286&mt=8

By searching the words "USiT" or "Cincinnati" from iPhone "AppStore" or iTunes can also get to this app.

Android application in action

This application USiT was intended to support different kinds of mobile devices with the commonalities such as: GPS, camera and accelarometer . . . the kind of smartphone with "large" (for a phone) touch screens. The iPhone application was developed first, but due to the long lasting approval process by Apple, the iPhone app is still pending. Now Android phone users are getting a jump on those iPhone users, with pictures rolling into this place.

http://photos.cincinnati.com/

The above map is also embeddable:

http://photos.cincinnati.com/embedded

Waiting for username and password

In case you are waiting for user name and password sent out from the USiT application and it never arrived, it could be that the email has been sent straight to your junk email folder. It's sad but true that any short and computer-generated email could be mistaken as junk mailby free email providers such as Gmail, Yahoo or Hotmail.

It's probably for the well being of everybody.

In case you've entered a wrong email address

We have a tester who accidentally (didn't pay attention to what the keyboard was recommending) entered a wrong email address during the registration process. Since all the subsequent processes such as "resetting password" or "managing photos" were dependent upon a correct email address, such a problem didn't seem to have an easy remedy.

The solution, email support@cincinnati.com and ask for help from "digital/technology staff" of cincinnati.com. Describe the differences in spelling of the email addresses and someone should be able to correct the entry.

Uploaded photos lost with iPhone

It is not completely known why, but some pictures do get lost in the transmission, as "vanished into the thin air" kind of lost. We can't blame the wireless communication anymore as we used to, since we are talking about 3G now, and TCP protocol is supposed to guarantee the delivery.

We used the NSURLConnection initWithRequest method, and supposedly it is calling the "CFNetwork/342.1 Darwin/9.4.1" to send the photos. CFNetwork is the most reliable way to send large amount of data with iPhone, or is it?

Maybe we can look at other ways to send data with CFNetwork in iPhone SDK, but for now, try sending photos when you have strong signals with either 3G or Wi-Fi.