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Re: Introducing GPS Tracks: Background Location Tracking for iPhone

John A. Debay — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 00:47:59 -0000

Unfortunately it does not, though that's a feature we'd like to include in a future version.

Re: Introducing GPS Tracks: Background Location Tracking for iPhone

John A. Debay — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 00:14:56 -0000

Strange. Did you happen into an area where you might have lost GPS coverage? As I mentioned in my other comment, feel free to email me at contact@highorderbit.com if you'd like to discuss further.

Re: Introducing GPS Tracks: Background Location Tracking for iPhone

John A. Debay — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 00:11:58 -0000

Hi Craig,

The iPhone manages which apps it will allow to run in the background. If you're running a memory-intensive app like Google Earth, the iPhone OS might start killing apps that are running in the background if it needs to free more memory. The OS doesn't give other apps any opportunity to stop itself from being killed and doesn't receive a notification that it will be killed. This isn't typically a problem under normal use, though.

If it does happen though the app will save all data that was recorded up until it was terminated.

Please let me know if there are any other questions I can help you with. Also feel free to email me at contact@highorderbit.com.

Re: Introducing GPS Tracks: Background Location Tracking for iPhone

John A. Debay — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 10:14:08 -0000

The settings for GPS Tracks are in the built-in Settings app. From the iPhone home screen, tap Settings, then scroll down to GPS Tracks. You can access the app's settings there, including changing the units from metric to English.

Re: Introducing GPS Tracks: Background Location Tracking for iPhone

John A. Debay — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:55:41 -0000

Sorry, I meant to clarify something: the app will record your GPS position without a 3G or WiFi connection. It won't have the benefit of "assisted GPS," where the phone uses its data connection to find an approximate location quickly before the GPS antenna is powered up and communicating with the satellites, but it will work eventually. If it's not working for you, please let us know.

There are no offline maps, however. To view maps, you do need a data connection.

Re: Introducing GPS Tracks: Background Location Tracking for iPhone

John A. Debay — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:35:35 -0000

Right, forgot about the waypoints. While you're recording a track log, just tap the "+" button in the lower right hand corner. It will drop on your current location. You can then tap the pin on the map and drill in to view details, rename it, or delete it.

Re: Introducing GPS Tracks: Background Location Tracking for iPhone

John A. Debay — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 19:25:12 -0000

Hi,

Thanks for taking the time to give your feedback on GPS Tracks.

With respect to the app not recording your trip back, there is no reason why the app would decide to "stop recording." It's possible the app crashed on you, or that the operating system decided to kill it to free up memory, which it can do at any time and provides no warning.

To eliminate the possibility that it crashed on you, you should check that you've updated to the latest version of GPS Tracks. To find out what version you have installed, tap Settings, then scroll down to GPS Tracks. You'll see the version number on that screen; it should be 1.0.1. There was a bug in how the track log was drawn in 1.0 that could cause a crash. There are no known crashes in 1.0.1.

Again, it's also possible the operating system just decided to kill the app. This is always a risk with any iPhone app running in the background and there's nothing that can be done about it. I've never seen this happen in practice, however.

If you're running 1.0.1 and still having problems, please let me know. I'm happy to help you work through them.

Re: Introducing GPS Tracks: Background Location Tracking for iPhone

John A. Debay — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:16:31 -0000

Hi Peter,

Thanks for the feedback! These are great suggestions and we'll definitely consider them for inclusion into future versions.

John

Re: Introducing Chirpy, A Twitter Direct Messages App

John A. Debay — Fri, 21 May 2010 15:17:58 -0000

One thing that may solve your problem for you is to turn off push notifications for direct messages in Twitbit. That way you'll get mentions pushed to you via Twitbit and direct messages pushed to you via Chirpy.

To turn off push notifications for direct messages in Twitbit, open Twitbit and tap the Timeline tab. Then tap your username at the top, which will bring up the list of accounts. Tap the blue arrow next to your account name to see settings for that account. You can then disable push notifications for direct messages only.

Re: Twitbit 2.1 Available Now

John A. Debay — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:29:37 -0000

We are working on this feature and it should be part of the next Twitbit release, which will hopefully be submitted within the next week.

Re: Building Xcode Projects in Vim with Rake

John A. Debay — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 12:56:26 -0000

Excellent. Glad it helped.