Greg In The Desert

A bonus iPhone app of the week is released by AT&T. The app lets the user provide feedback to AT&T, dropped calls, voice quality and etc, along with GPS coordinates.

AT&T Mark the Spot is free from the iTunes App Store.

AT&T Mark the Spot is an application that provides customers a means to provide feedback on network user experience to AT&T.

Features

- Simplicity of operation
- Submit a real time report capturing local GPS coordinates at time and place of event
- Submit a report after the fact when a customer is not at the place of event
- Submit a report of dropped call, failed call, lack of coverage, data service failure, or poor voice quality
- Submit optional specific comments about an event
- Receive an SMS acknowledgement that the reported event was sent and received successfully

AT&T is committed to providing its customers with the best network experience possible.

This application will help contribute towards this goal and its utilization is greatly appreciated.

The local TV news station KOB has more on the iPhone balloon tracking application. The app is written by Anthony Cardinale and is a real time tracking application. It’s being tested by 5 ballon pilots and chase crews at this years Albuquerque Ballon Fiasco, I mean Balloon Fiesta.

“At some point, every pilot could be using this, and we are going to have a free version that allows people to come to the Balloon Fiesta and load it up to see where all the balloons are in real time,” Cardinale said.

Might make going to the Balloon Fiesta worthwhile.

The Mac home automation software Indigo that I use was updated to version 4.0 Beta. A list of changes are available on the Perceptive Automation message board but the big changes are: Pro and lite version, folder support and iPhone application.

I’ve been using the beta of the Mac and iPhone apps since they came out. They are still rough around the edges (that’s why they are called betas) but are still very functional.

Indigo itself hasn’t changed much except the addition of folders in the UI. The big change is support for IndigoTouch, which runs on the iPhone and the iPod Touch. IndigoTouch has basic functionality; you can control devices but not set them up, you can control existing actions, you can view but not edit variables and you can interact with control pages.

I’d like to see the ability to create devices on the phone which makes it easier to install new devices. I’d also like to see the log and the time date action in real time.

I did have some trouble getting it set up. It will connect, via bonjour, to the server when on the same network which works flawlessly for me. Getting the ports configure through my firewall so I could connect outside the network was a bit of a pain. It’s working now without much problems and using the prism service would eliminate the need for this.

Below are pictures of the interface on flickr or you can visit the set.