iMind Software

After long time we refreshed our award winning Budapest Timetable application in the Apple AppStore.

The main element of the update is the ability to update, however silly this sounds. From this point on the application downloads and updates the fresh timetable database regurarly.

Many things have changed on the market since we published the program. iPhone4 is here, needing higher resolution and the wave of new Android handsets give us the final impulse to finish that version also. One thing is constant: our app is offline, using internet connection only if it refreshes the database, but you can do this at free wifi points at home or in cafes. It’s still an important feature for youngsters using iPod touch or people having an expensive 3g connection, like tourists.

The application sends us anonymous usage statistics if the user opts in, which helps us to tailor the features for their needs. The UI elements were polished by Zsolt from volll again.

Have you seen the new version? Come and check out the project’s web-, facebook- or twitter site.

After we got really nice feedback about the app, many companies started new mobile projects with us. We can’t wait to have them public and show them to you :)

Are you going to start mobile project also? Why don’t you drop us a mail, we would be happy to talk about it.

I try to write down my experiences of Os X politely.

As we cannot develop softwares for iPhone on any platforms other than Mac, I have to use a Mac Mini.

What I like:

It's nice. The little tray down there, on which there's a little spot lamp lighting the running applications' icons, is really cute.

I also grew to like that I can quickly change between the desktops by clicking on the icon of the running application.

What I don't like:

Under Linux, I always set the mouse in such a way that the window, above which the mouse is currently staying, becomes active. I'm really used to it and like it, for me it helps many times that e.g. I see the full window of the browser, but I modify the source code in the window above it, which is partly covered by it. There's no such a setting under Os X. Furthermore, I noticed that sometimes one click is not enough either. Sometimes I have to click two times to be able to write where I want. The first click switches to the application, and the second one puts the cursor to the place where I want to write.

There's another function which belongs to handling windows, and I use it many times: I can move a window by grabbing it anywhere, by pressing Alt and pressing the left button of the mouse, or I can resize the window with the help of the middle button of the mouse. This is a great help, especially on a large monitor; it's good that there's no need to aim precisely but you can rearrange the windows with the help of the keyboard. I miss it really much.

I didn't manage to get used to the speeding of the mouse, and I couldn't switch it off either. As for me, I like to cover a big screen by relatively small moves. But under Mac, sometimes my mouse rushes out of the monitor, because the speed of it is increased due to the quicker moves.

I couldn't get used to the keyboard either. Apple + C / apple + V is really uncomfortable, somehow my fingers are being twisted by it. But switching the apple and control keys didn't work either, because this way I kept pressing the bad ctrl + c combination in the terminal.

It's also very annoying that when I use the computer with vnc and there's no monitor plugged in, it does not offer the certain resolution which would equal my notebook's resolution, so I have to be careful not to pull the mouse down too much, because then it would mess the whole thing up. So, I had to put the tray to the left side, which is not as beautiful as when it's down.

And of course there're a lot of other things which I haven't learned or haven't set, but apparently, those are not so important, I can still work in this way.

All in all, personally, I don't like it so much, but of course, that's a matter of taste...