Greg In The Desert

I do not yet own Aquarium Strip Ease. I like the concept, use water test strips and compare them to the colors in the app. The app will explain what steps are need to improve water quality and presumably keep a log.

Based on the screen shots, I think the app could use a little more polish and could look more like a standard iPhone app. I would also like to have a similar app with full aquarium tracking functionality. I have bought and deleted a fair share of iPhone apps, I will wait and see what other reviews think.

Aquarium – Strip Ease 1.0 is $1.99 on the iTunes store.

This version of Aquarium – Strip Ease supports API® 5 in 1 Test Strips, and Mardel® 5 in 1 Test Strips.

If you use a different type of strip and would like to use it with Aquarium – Strip Ease you contact us using the special email address found within the app we will work with you to include your strip in the next version.

Strip Ease is an easy way to read aquarium test strips. Simply dip your strip in your aquarium then match the colors on the strip with the color pads on your iPhone and find out quickly what your water condition is.

Features:
• API® 5 in 1 Test Strip Comparison
• Mardel® 5 in 1 Test Strip Comparison
• Fresh and Salt Water Testing
• Stores Water Test History
• Email Test Results and Test History

API® is a registered trademark of Mars Fishcare North America, Inc. and is in no way associated with Aquarium – Strip Ease or Key Lime 314, LLC.

Mardel® is a registered trademark of Sentry AQ and is in no way associated with Aquarium – Strip Ease or Key Lime 314, LLC.

Perceptive Automation has released Indigo 2.5 Beta 11 which now includes the long awaited Insteon Link Management. Links are a way to create scenes or groups with a single command sent through the power line. It also allows the setting of individual ramp rates and brightness levels.

I’m not completely familiar with Insteon PC software, but I don’t think there’s a software package that allows both link management and control of triggers and scripting in a single package. Yes, I’m a Indigo fanboy, but for good reason.

Here’s some screen shots of the new features:

Manage Insteon Device Links

Edit Action Group

The Omni Group has put up a teaser page on their next generation web browser. I used Omniweb when it first came out. Allthough innovative for it’s time, it seemed to quickly get left behind. Now it looks like they will lead in innovation once again. One feature I like is the ablity to have site specific settings. This means I should be able to make web sites for work look like the browser is on Windows and the rest of the world can know that it’s a Mac.

Of course Safari still offers some benefits like bookmark syncing via .mac, but there aren’t many more (and who knows, maybe they will address these). Camino, once my primary browser, was a great browser but has fallen back in the developement department. Although the latest builds are seeing improvements.

[Update:] Think Secret has more info along with some additional screen shots.

Mac Rumors has a link to some screen shots of Panther. These look pretty real to me. However I am somewhat disappointed at the picture of what appears to be a new type of Finder window. I hope that Apple isn’t trying to copy Micro with the look of navigating the hard-drive. However it does look like they took the metal and aqua “themes” and combined them together. That looks pretty nice, as compared to the inconsistent metal look that they randomly spread around now. And I do believe that Apple has purposely let these and the leaks of the “G5″ powermac leak to build up hype before the WWDC on Monday.

If this is the new finder view I will be quite unhappy.

[Update:] Just for the record, I was wrong. The new finder rocks. Could have done without the metal interface but I’ve gotten use to it.