Hi all, Peter Brantley has an interesting blog post
[http://blogs.lib.berkeley.edu/shimenawa.php/2008/07/14/the_show_room_library]
in which he laments the lack of ebook or library-related apps for the
iPhone, citing this past weekend's 3G launch as a missed opportunity.
Is anyone working on
I've looked around, and haven't seen anything yet. I did suggest to
Tim Spalding that perhaps a LibraryThing app that used the
location-based services to find library holdings in your immediate
area might be a good idea. :-)
Jason
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 9:47 AM, Paul R. Pival [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Paul,
Thanks for the pointer to the great post!
I've been thinking similar things and am starting some beginning plans here.
Our biggest challenge is actually getting our hands on an iPhone because
there are some issues with the university paying for monthly cell phone
plan. So we thought we'd
Even before creating apps
1) how does the library web site and catalog work on the small screen?
What about subscription services like EBSCO, etc.?
2) walk through the stacks with it. how reliable is the wifi connection?
As I said at top tech trends, I want to stand in front of a shelf
Good points Karen!
All stuff we've got in our plan to check out and test long before we start
developing apps.
Karen
On 7/15/08 9:17 AM, Karen Coyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Even before creating apps
1) how does the library web site and catalog work on the small screen?
What about
Plenty of room to sync most library catalogues onto large Gb devices though -
how about catalogue on SD card etc.
kc wrote:
2) walk through the stacks with it. how reliable is the wifi connection?
In terms of 'library applications' I note there are a number of 'applications'
on the app store
Our biggest challenge is actually getting our hands on an iPhone because
there are some issues with the university paying for monthly cell phone
plan.
I understood the developers SDK included iphone/itouch simulation so that you
don't need the actual device in front of you to develop?
Owen
On
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Our biggest challenge is actually getting our hands on an iPhone
because
there
I think LibraryThing should have an iPhone ap. --- Tim establishes an
iron-clad IRS justification for writing off an iPhone!
T
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Houghton,Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Fernando Gomez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Any thoughts about a convenient way of storing and (more importantly)
indexing retrieving MARC records using GAE's Bigtable?
GAE uses Django's object-relational model. You can define a Python
class, inherit from
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