lol nice work Ken! On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Ken Young <r...@cfa.harvard.edu> wrote: > If Sean is ever to begin receiving daily orders for pallets of 50,000 > 3G-enabled Freerunners, certain core applications must be attractive, > quickly responsive, and absolutely bullet proof. We all know what these > applications are: Dialer, Contacts, Meteor Shower Information, SMS > Messaging and Calendar. Let's be frank - Meteor Shower Information has > long been the weak link in the Freerunner's PIM (Planet Information > Management) software suite. This has been, I believe, one of the biggest > barriers to mainstream consumer acceptance of the phone. > Well no more. A new version of the orrery program (version 2.6) is > available which provides several essential pieces of information about meteor > showers. It puts YOU, the Freerunner owner, in charge of your nightly > meteor watching activities. > > Version 2.6: > New user features: > > Added meteor shower information. There > is now a page under the "opts" menu which > gives information about all meteor showers > for the year (the year can be changed with > the "time" menu, of course). Things > such as the dates of the showers, the > maximum rate of meteors per hour, the > phase of the moon for each shower's peak > and the number of dark hours, are shown. > Also shown is the number of dark hours > for the next or current night. The "items" > menu allows you to specify that meteor > radiants for currently active showers > should be plotted on the sky display. > The radiant position moves against the > background stars as the shower progresses. > > Added a way to change the sky display's > center azimuth quickly. Now, if you > tap the center of the pan area or press > (long tap) anywhere in the pan area, a > compass will appear which will allow you > to select a new center azimuth with your > finger or stylus. When you release > pressure on the screen, the display will > be redrawn with the selected azimuth > at the center. You can still pan in > the old way by tapping in the panning area > (bottom 1/5 of the screen). > > Bug Fixes: > > Fixed a bug which prevented fullscreen > mode and flashlights from working under > SHR. > > Fixed nonstandard date display > > The new version is available here: > > http://projects.openmoko.org/frs/download.php/778/orrery_2.6_arm_2008.8.ipk > > I thank the International Meteor Organization > (http://www.imo.net/imo/intro) > for permission to use their data to produce the meteor shower > related displays. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community >
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