Comments on: Free Reign – Free iPhone Apps Roundup #9

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 19:11:41 +0000

thanks for the comments, Steve.

I'm actually on Rogers in Canada, and as far as I know my connection was pretty decent, but the servers might have been pretty busy at the time, so another try wouldn't hurt.

By: Steve Murch

Steve Murch — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 02:06:39 +0000

PS: One way of verifying whether it was your 3G/Wifi connection speed or the servers is to visit a desktop that's connected via a broadband line to the Internet and visiting our mobile-friendly version of the site, www.bigoven.com/m (note the trailing m). I've just tried it now and it's pretty lickety-split, so my hunch is that you either hit it during very peak time or your AT&T or wifi connection could have been a little pokey. (This shortcut can be used for Blackberry, etc.)

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 02:02:45 +0000

Thanks for the feedback on BigOven. Since the free app connects to an online recipe archive, the speed of display/searching is limited by your current 3G or Wifi connection speed. We also have had a pretty overwhelming number of users of this app, and, while it runs on multiple machines already, we'll look at expanding it. It's currently approaching its 2 millionth download, so the servers can get hit pretty hard at various times. Hope you have a chance to try it again!

– Steve (founder, bigoven.com)

By: Thomas

Thomas — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:24:29 +0000

@kbrian
thanks for that feedback. Didn't think about that, but I guess I'm so used to the iPhone photo resolution looking like crap on the device anyway that I didn't notice or even think about it. That's not good!

By: kbrian

kbrian — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 03:23:29 +0000

Here's a non-strength for Polarize — the output resolution sucks (450×520). In the Polarize group on flickr, the author says Apple is refusing to let him update it with a version that outputs at a higher resolution.