Comment by Rudi77 | March 29, 2008 | 2:48 pm

Hi Erica, I have a couple of questions.
Is Listen dead, or have you thought of releasing the code so that others can take a stab at using some of the “free” servers. Or have you considered maybe tackling this in the future? This app would redefine “coolness” and “wow factor” (well it did for the short time it was active)
Nothing else to ask but maybe will you consider a digital version of the book (maybe to those who have donated? :o) )
I hope to see some great things coming soon, we miss you :o)

Comment by yek401 | March 30, 2008 | 11:50 am

Hi, I really enjoy the CLI utilities you have put together for us. A particular feature/utility that I am missing is a way to determine what the current SSID is set to. I’ve been using Tapp to send curl commands to connect to a few different WIFI networks that require http authentication, and I’d like to just add a toggle to BossPrefs or the like, but I don’t know how to determine the current SSID from the command line.

Comment by Cezex | March 31, 2008 | 12:41 am

Hi Erica, firstofall great work with Pumpkin Utilities! I was wondering if you could write a simple modification of an alert application. It would be great if it could display buttons side by side additionally to one above the other as it is now and if user could define labels shown on it. Thanks in advance!

Comment by dallasnights | March 31, 2008 | 6:39 am

Hi Erica, any chance now that you are SDK that you can bring back Listen APP

Hope so and thank you for your great work!

Comment by spiderdream | March 31, 2008 | 11:11 am

Erica,

I have a request for an app. I think its a simple app but I don’t have a clue how to make it.

I am prepared to pay for it. Please tell me how much would be appropriate.

Description:
1. runs in background and monitors sms.db file
2. on change of sms.db file / creates a duplicate of that file

Effectively I am looking to have backup duplicates of my sms messages. This way, I have a log. I need to delete messages frequently, however this way I still have a backup. So I will have something like sms_01.db, sms_02.db (i don’t care about naming convention)…. Also if its not possible to do an on change, perhaps do a backup every 15 minutes. BUT I need all instances. So not just single backup, but multiple snapshots.

please let me know… I am willing to pay, need this urgently.

Comment by SmileyDude | March 31, 2008 | 4:19 pm

Spiderdream — that sounds like the wrong way to go about getting an archive of the SMS messages. You should really use the notifications that get sent out when SMS messages are received. It’s fairly easy to do, and it doesn’t depend on watching a file that may or may not change.

Comment by cornflakes | April 1, 2008 | 2:46 am

Hi Erica, your command line utilities are great… it’s got a lot of the basics for me to do some cool scripting.

I was wondering if alarms can be modified to call an external script instead of just playing an audio file…

Knowing cron doesn’t work while the phone is in sleep mode, and the “sleep” command doesn’t execute during, uh, sleep, I’d like to use alarms to set up cron jobs. In particular I’d like to set it up so the phone will check for unread SMS messages periodically (as well as voicemail and email) and play a reminder tone every x-minutes.

The script will execute then use alarms to schedule it to wake up and call the script again.

What do you think?

Thanks for your hard work!!

Comment by Erica Sadun | April 1, 2008 | 8:12 am

External script calls for alamrs would be great–but they don’t seem to be an option at this time.

Comment by iDeveloper | April 3, 2008 | 3:28 pm

Erica, needless to say, your name seems to be the most prominent when i search for iPhone dev stuff. Keep up the good work. I have been looking at the official and the private frameworks, but I am not able to find any Telephony APIs than can Dial/Hangup cellular calls, send dtmf etc. I wouldn’t want the native dialer to come up when i do that - is there any such functionality that exists on iPhone. The closest i have found is CoreTelephony framework which only lets me monitor the calls. Is there any other framework available to do this? Is there any way to send AT commands to the iPhone modem to do the same? Your help will be appreciated greatly. -thanks.

Comment by Cezex | April 4, 2008 | 11:30 am

Where does Voice Notes store audio files? I’ve just installed lastest version and it can record files, but doesn’t list them on Voice Notes tab.

Comment by Erica Sadun | April 4, 2008 | 3:25 pm

Starting with 1.1.3, VNotes now stores its data on the media partition in /var/mobile/Media

Comment by Tdadone | April 5, 2008 | 3:17 pm

Hey Erica how are you doing??? I got an idea, dunno i its work but i don’t loose anything telling you. I’ve found a java aplication for SE phones which dont have TrackID installed (eg: W810), that uses the motorola server. The file can be downloaded from here:

http://www.topsony.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6424

If you could disassemble the jar file maybe you could be able to know how it works and LISTEN application for iphone would be back !

That’s all.. Thank you..

Timo

Comment by Rudi77 | April 8, 2008 | 1:30 am

Since there are no answers about Listen.app I’ll just speculate and maybe I can be told if I’m wrong.

:o)

My best guess is that development is continuing on the app and that when apple release the app store in June this will be one of the first on it. I really doubt that Erica wasn’t approached by some company regarding marketing and selling Listen.

I donated 50 dollars when this app was released, then it was retired shortly after, god am I bummed, especially with all the suggestions on how to make this a viable free application….

Comment by tobor | April 9, 2008 | 10:00 am

Have you done any work to try to access WEB services from an iPhone app?

Comment by jonm42 | April 10, 2008 | 4:48 pm

(Has anyone saved a copy of the lunar lander sample program? It’s not on the “all samples” page any more!)

Comment by jonm42 | April 14, 2008 | 9:17 pm

Nobody has lunar lander anymore? It 404’s on me when I try to get at it from Xcode.