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A comment on the problem "GJ freezes when I add a photo from my photo library." in HappyTapper.com:
Hi Carla. Yes. I have the 3GS running the latest OS. – Dougal, on October 16, 2009 21:49-
Dougal replied on October 11, 2009 09:08 to the problem "GJ freezes when I add a photo from my photo library." in HappyTapper.com:
I had the same problem. This is what happened.
(1) I did an entry. Took a photo. Pressed retry. Took another photo. Resized. Tried to save but couldn't. Then the original entry had been deleted.
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Dougal -
Dougal started following the idea "auto-scrolling" in HappyTapper.com.
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Dougal replied on October 11, 2009 09:06 to the problem "Gratitude Journal Autocorrect and capital letters issue" in HappyTapper.com:
I have the same problem (autocorrect does funny capitalisation for first word of each line) but have also noticed that it deletes the cloud bullet point as well. -
Dougal started following the problem "Gratitude Journal Autocorrect and capital letters issue" in HappyTapper.com.
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Dougal replied on July 24, 2009 05:41 to the question "How about making an iPhone app that syncs with the web app (or an iphone/mobile optimised website)?" in SpicyElephant:
Doing spaced-repetition from my phone was a big priority so, after waiting for a few months, I decided to give spicy elephant the flick and migrated across to www.surusu.com Extremely simple interface and has Japanese comics motivating you along the way but it's very, very quick and robust. Check it out. -
Dougal started following the question "How do I add my personal avatar/profile pic?" in TwitPic.
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Dougal asked a question in Ping.fm on March 08, 2009 06:37:
BUG: Ping unnecessarily truncates emails before posting to TwitterWrote the following message in the subject of an email to be posted to Twitter:
"Melbourne guy looking for #macdonations to help victims of the #Victorianbushfires http://macdonate.kadane.net/"
What showed up in Twitter was:
"Melbourne guy looking for #macdonations to help victims of the #Victorianb"
How can I fix this?
Cheers,
Dougal -
Dougal asked a question in SpicyElephant on March 01, 2009 02:53:
How about making an iPhone app that syncs with the web app (or an iphone/mobile optimised website)?How about making an iPhone SpicyElephant app that syncs with the web app?
With your flair for user interface design, SpicyElephant belongs on the iPhone. I'd make it a paid app too so it makes SpicyElephant more self-sustaining.
At this stage, I'd say your main rival would be "iflipr" which has a great UI but, alas, isn't based on the SM2 algorithm.
If you're worried about coding in Cocoa, maybe start with a mobile (iPhone) optimised website. That way, you'd increase traffic to your site and, presumably, the number of conversions to the Premium service.
At the moment, while SpicyElephant is usable on the iphone (via Safari), it's really slow and hard to read as the font's really small.
Mobile phones are ideal for spaced-repetition learning applications. They're always with you, are small enough to use most places surreptitiously, have built in alert systems (SMS, alarms, email) for learning schedule reminders, and are becoming ubiquitous.
Basically, I'm wanting you to rejig SpicyElephant so it makes studying in bed all that easier!
Anyway, I hope you give some thought to porting SpicyElephant to the iPhone.
Cheers,
Dougal -
Dougal asked a question in SpicyElephant on March 01, 2009 02:05:
How about an option for daily email reminders, but *only* if there are cards to revise that day?At the moment, reminders are only sent out weekly.
How about including an option for daily email reminders of cards to revise? However, there's one caveat: the reminder is *only* sent out if there are cards to revise that day.
If there are no cards for that day, no email reminder gets sent out and you would know that you didn't have anything to revise that day.
It might be helpful in the email reminder for that day to include (1) the number of cards to be revised that day; (2) the estimated time taken to revise them; and (3) a hyperlink to the SpicyElephant study page.
This would save time as you wouldn't need to log-in to SpicyElephant unnecessarily on days where there was nothing to revise.
I would recommend such an email be sent first thing in the morning (say 5am) so that people reading emails in bed (i.e me!) had the opportunity to do some early morning study.
Cheers,
Dougal -
Dougal asked a question in SpicyElephant on March 01, 2009 01:50:
How about coloured icons to make card ratings more intuitive?I know you've spent a huge amount of time creating a very user-friendly interface so I thought you might consider this to make it more intuitive.
How about adding coloured backgrounds to the ratings icons, or even colouring the icons? I would suggest a gradation from green ("perfect") through to red ("unknown"). I think this would make it more intuitive to rate each card.
The more green your rating, the happier you would be to keep going through to the next card. The redder your rating, the more likely it would be flagged as something you still hadn't picked up and perhaps needed to pause (or "stop") on for a while longer.
If a learner is struggling with a certain card, I think they should be encouraged to properly encode the association between the question and the answer. Having them flag a card with a red rating might be one way to do this.
The reason for red and green is that they're hard-wired into the human brain so don't require extra "cognitive load".
The colour scales used in GetSatisfaction might give you some ideas.
Cheers,
Dougal -
Dougal asked a question in SpicyElephant on March 01, 2009 01:22:
How about enabling the creation of new cards via email?How about enabling the creation of new cards via email?
An obvious way to do this would be have the subject of the email become the question and the email itself become the header.
Each account could have there own email address (comprising their username and some randomly generated suffix) to which they could email cards to learn.
This is similar to the idea of being able to create to-do list items while on the go (i.e. rememberthemilk, JOTT etc).
That way, if you found yourself wanting to learn something while out and about, you could quickly email spicyelephant and know that it would be automatically scheduled into your learning curriculum.
Issues you'd need to consider is to which deck these cards would be attributed. You might have a unique deck for emailed items.
Pragmatically, however, I don't think it really matters since, presumably, you'd want to learn all cards equally otherwise they wouldn't exist in the first place.
Cheers,
Dougal -
A comment on the update "A fork in the road (An important announcement about I want Sandy)" in I want Sandy:
Hey Rael and Twitter, as a Dial2Do user, I can say that Dial2Do and Sandy *were* the perfect match. It'd be great if you could all work something out. – Dougal, on November 26, 2008 21:53 -
Dougal replied on November 26, 2008 11:41 to the idea "Tips on recording reminders via voice using Dial2Do and GoPingMe" in Dial2Do:
Oops, made a mistake in the example I gave above (copied and pasted the wrong one). It should have read...
...Say: "10 minutes space ring dad p colon 10 space". Dial2Do will transcribe this as: "10 minutes ring dad P:10 ."
Hope this makes sense. Glad you found it useful Sean.
Cheers,
Dougal -
Dougal shared an idea in Dial2Do on November 26, 2008 01:30:
Tips on recording reminders via voice using Dial2Do and GoPingMeI wanted a service that would remind me to do something in the future then pester me until I did it. GoPingMe.com looks like a good answer. I worked out how to use it with Dial2Do so I thought I'd share it here.
NOTE: I don't use the native Dial2Do reminder service because you can't set a time in the future to be reminded on.
SET UP
* Sign up at http://www.dial2do.com/home
* Click on the green "Do More" tab at the top
* Click on the purple "Make your own command!" tab on the top right
* In the say field, type "Ping me" (or whatever you prefer)
* In the "Do what?" field, select "Record and email". This will change the final field to "Email who?"
* In the "Email who?" field, put in your private GoPingMe address
* Click on the grey "add" button
USING DIAL2DO & GOPINGME
* Ring the Dial2Do number
* The voice says, "What would you like to do?
* You say, "Ping me"
* The voice says, "Ping me. Okay please record your message. [beep]
* You record your message (see below)
* The voices says, "That's done."
* You hang up
TIPS ON RECORDING YOUR MESSAGE
You need to say the word "space" after the initial time and again after the repeat/pester me etc instruction.
E.g. Let's say you want to remind yourself to ring your dad in 10 minutes and to pester yourself every 10 minutes until you do.
Say: "10 minutes space ring dad p colon 10 space". Dial2Do will transcribe this as: "1 minute does this work again? P:10 ." (A fullstop is added, but not directly after the number.) You'll then get the message "does this work again?" to your GoPingMe email/mobile repeatedly every 10 minutes. Very nifty.
IF YOU DON'T SAY "SPACE", IT WON'T WORK
However, if you don't say space after the time and the repeat/pester instruction, Dial2Do inserts a fullstop as the very next character. GoPingMe doesn't recognise the time or repeat/pester instruction if there's an extra fullstop straight after, and so you get an error message.
E.g. In my first attempt, I said: "two minutes does this repeat reminder arrive p colon 7". This was transcribed: "2 minutes. Does this repeat reminder arrive. P:7." - notice the fullstop immediately after the "minutes" and "7". I then got an "Need help? Sorry I couldn't do this." message from GoPingMe. So looks like you need the spaces.
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A comment on the question "What is an alternate service to I Want Sandy?" in I want Sandy:
I agree with you Fox. Go Ping Me looks good. – Dougal, on November 26, 2008 01:21 -
Dougal replied on November 25, 2008 22:23 to the update "A fork in the road (An important announcement about I want Sandy)" in I want Sandy:
Rael, I think you've made a big stuff up. Despite how you frame it, this is a career lowlight for you.
When you read the hundreds of complaints you're going to receive, I do hope it gives you pause for thought. You seem like a lovely guy, but it's obvious you're blinkered to something extremely important. Now's the time to get clued in to what you're missing.
Whether or not people should put their trust in a free, web-based application, the fact is they do and they did in Sandy. What's more, you know they did. You have betrayed that trust.
I already pay for a Remember the Milk subscription and would have gladly done the same for Sandy. Yes, I would have paid for both because Sandy offered something unique.
As an Australian, I've already been shafted by Twitter when the text messaging service was shut down here with little warning so I don't share in the enthusiasm for your move.
Rael, thank you for Sandy. I do wish you every success for the future but on one condition: you learn the few home truths you're currently blind to.
If, however, you remain as blinkered in the future as you are now, then I hope you *don't* make it big again. The people who have contributed to your success don't deserve to be shafted a second time. -
Dougal started following the question "IWANTSANDY.com Price" in I want Sandy.
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Dougal started following the idea "keybord shortcuts!" in I want Sandy.
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A comment on the idea "Mobile site for iwantsandy?" in I want Sandy:
Great work Fox! Had to laugh. Had just emailed a blog post that mentioned a Lana Turner poem to my friends and thought I'd emailed you accidentally!
You can check it out the original post here if you're interested (and there's a link to the poem): http://www.43folders.com/2008/08/06/l... – Dougal, on August 19, 2008 00:09
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