Wine on the iPhone
The Apple iPhone will be out in a few days. Unless you have been hiding under a rock you have probably heard about it. When I am not writing and teaching about wine, I am a Mac software developer. The iPhone will allow you to access an actual fully functional web page from your phone, and this brings up some interesting possibilities.
The games, all except the crossword puzzles, at WineEducation.com will work fine with the phone as is, as will the rest of the site. As a wine and computer guy who is itching to develop for the iPhone the question begs: What would you like to see?
There you are, in a wine situation armed only with your iPhone. Myriad choices assault you. Knowing it is your only hope, you click on your bookmarks, and help arrives in the form of WineEducation.com. You access maps, a glossary with pronunciation key (a real life saver) and if you have already signed up you access a data base with hundreds of my wine reviews.
Have I solved all of the world's mobile wine needs already? Does WineEducation.com contain everything that you will ever need to know?
You can take quizzes, you can play games, you can even watch my videos (on YouTube - once they are available I will put up a link). What else do you want to do with wine on your iPhone?
How about manage your cellar? Applications on the iPhone will be limited in their scope, but this is conceivably something I could create. The only real use I can think of for it is so that you could access your inventory from anywhere, say when you are buying wine.
A wine inventory is only useful when it is accurate. Other than in professional settings I have not seen a lot of people who are willing to run to their computer every time they take a bottle out of their cellar. This simple fact has kept me from devoting my life to creating the perfect cellar software.
So what is your next suggestion? Think outside the box. Drop me a line or leave a comment, and let me know what you want wine wise for your iPhone.
The games, all except the crossword puzzles, at WineEducation.com will work fine with the phone as is, as will the rest of the site. As a wine and computer guy who is itching to develop for the iPhone the question begs: What would you like to see?
There you are, in a wine situation armed only with your iPhone. Myriad choices assault you. Knowing it is your only hope, you click on your bookmarks, and help arrives in the form of WineEducation.com. You access maps, a glossary with pronunciation key (a real life saver) and if you have already signed up you access a data base with hundreds of my wine reviews.
Have I solved all of the world's mobile wine needs already? Does WineEducation.com contain everything that you will ever need to know?
You can take quizzes, you can play games, you can even watch my videos (on YouTube - once they are available I will put up a link). What else do you want to do with wine on your iPhone?
How about manage your cellar? Applications on the iPhone will be limited in their scope, but this is conceivably something I could create. The only real use I can think of for it is so that you could access your inventory from anywhere, say when you are buying wine.
A wine inventory is only useful when it is accurate. Other than in professional settings I have not seen a lot of people who are willing to run to their computer every time they take a bottle out of their cellar. This simple fact has kept me from devoting my life to creating the perfect cellar software.
So what is your next suggestion? Think outside the box. Drop me a line or leave a comment, and let me know what you want wine wise for your iPhone.
posted by Wineguy at 1:20 PM
1 Comments:
I wrote a cellar database for my Xda II mini, a Pocket PC, using software called XSForms, which could synchronise with desktop Microsoft Access, to a point. This was a pretty good solution since I could access the data away from home on my Xda (eg while buying wine) but to select wine (eg for Christmas lunch) I needed to be able to view the cellar contents on the big screen with full Access database reports. Unfortunately synchronisation between Pocket PC and desktop Access appears to have dropped out of Microsoft Activesync so I now only use the desktop version. What it demonstrated to me is that it is worth having a pocket inventory of your cellar. A web app for iPhone looks like the ideal solution since you would then be able to forget about synchronisation. I have tried to set this up using Zoho Creator but it does not work with the iPhone yet. It would be great if someone else could get this working.
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