Hey everyone,

Just a quick update on iFlash touch development. I’ve had more time to work on it recently, and have made some good progress getting the card show up and running. It truly feels incredible to flick through your cards… much better than I could have imagined!

Anyways, things are still in a kind-of-crazy state, but that’s how it always is with software development. I’ve had an application icon designed, and I think it looks amazing (!), but I’ll preview that at a later date once I’m closer to release :-).

I’m currently aiming to have a beta ready by mid-to-late December. I’ll post more about that once I’m ready to begin the beta program.

Thank you all for your patience! I know that iFlash touch is taking longer than expected, but I hope it’s (ultimately) worth the wait!

- Davey

So I’m currently working with an artist to figure out what the icon for iFlash touch should be, and I wanted to as a quick question from everyone :-).

When you think of knowledge and learning, what immediately pops into your mind?

Any responses would greatly help! Thanks! (and yes, I’ll have another post detailing the current status of iFlash touch soon).

- Davey

This is long overdue, but here’s a first look of iFlash touch running on an iPhone. Please don’t take this as an indicator that it will be released soon, because it is still far from complete, but do know that I’m actively working on it!  :-)

Anyways, enough talk. Here it is!

Nothing too exciting yet, but it’s a good start (especially considering how my original sketch for this screen looked). You’ll notice that the Deck Library is going to be built right into iFlash touch, so anyone, whether they have iFlash on the Mac or not, will instantly get access to over 2,500 decks. Pretty awesome!

I’ll be revealing more screenshots as development continues, so stay tuned!

- Davey

I’ve decided to merge Loopware/iFlash’s blog and my personal blog under the same davidmcgavern.com umbrella. However, I’m still keeping the two separate if you only want to read one or the other :-). Here are two links you can use if you only want to read either the Loopware blog or my own journal:

Loopware blog posts

Journal blog posts

Thanks!

- Davey

Hey everyone,

So I’ve converted back to WordPress for my blog. I liked Chyrp, but upgrading it was too much of a hassle to keep using it. Unfortunately, during the conversion process all existing comments were lost, but feel free to leave new ones!

It’s been a while since I’ve posted about iFlash on the iPhone, and unfortunately I don’t have much to report. I’ve been busy doing an internship at Apple for the last 3 months, which has put a damper on my plans to have a working version out soon. I’m hoping to find some time to work on it soon though, and I’ll try to blog about it more regularly once there’s more to see.

If anyone’s interested in seeing the mockups, I could probably find a way to get those posted as well.

Thanks!

- Davey

Hey everyone,

Sorry about the downtime. I’m still working on getting the blog back up in running order. Thanks!

I often get emails asking whether I know of a good flash card program for Windows, and I never have a good answer to give. All of the ones that I have seen are either 1) way too complicated, 2) the interface is horribly bad, or 3) both!

Does anyone know of some good Windows flash card programs out there? I’m having a hard time finding one to recommend. (And, if you happen to make one for Windows, please email me!)

Thanks!

- Davey

Update: The built-in updater now works again. Thanks for your patience!

Just a quick note. If you try updating through the iFlash updater (by clicking the iFlash menu and selecting “Check for New Version”), iFlash will report that it can’t reach the Loopware servers. Until I fix this problem, you can download/update iFlash by visiting the following link:

http://www.loopware.com/iflash/download.php

Thanks!

- Davey

I know that many others on the web would like to see some version of Adobe’s Flash on the iPhone, but I really can’t begin to understand why! Flash on the Mac is slow and buggy, and is used mostly for two things: YouTube and advertisements. On the phone, YouTube is already covered by a very slick (and native!) movie player, and who really wants ads on their phone?

Apple, if you’re listening, don’t add Flash to the iPhone!

Just a random thought. :-)

I’ll be attending Apple’s World Wide Developer’s Conference (WWDC) when it begins on June 9th. Last year’s WWDC was an incredible experience, so I can only hope that this one will be even better! And yes, they have lots of iPhone development sessions :-).

Attending WWDC this year? Not attending? Just want to talk? Leave a comment!