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For a while now my LIRR application called iLIRR has had code to detect pirated versions. Up until recently the code only logged that the user was running the iLIRR (v1.0.0) application. After some time I decided to activate the stop code. The user is now shown a UIAlertView which explains the reasons behind this pop-up message and gives a link to quit the application and go buy it, or just quit. An image of this message is shown below:

As mentioned the user is also logged, below is the log list:

2009:06:13 10:49:20: udid=>1817df42d81ed4b666f5de37b9386b6c574c9d56,application=>iLIRR,
2009:06:13 10:49:30: udid=>1817df42d81ed4b666f5de37b9386b6c574c9d56,application=>iLIRR,
2009:06:13 10:49:39: udid=>1817df42d81ed4b666f5de37b9386b6c574c9d56,application=>iLIRR,
2009:06:13 10:49:47: udid=>1817df42d81ed4b666f5de37b9386b6c574c9d56,application=>iLIRR,
2009:06:13 10:49:57: udid=>1817df42d81ed4b666f5de37b9386b6c574c9d56,application=>iLIRR,
2009:06:13 10:50:06: udid=>1817df42d81ed4b666f5de37b9386b6c574c9d56,application=>iLIRR,
2009:06:13 10:50:25: udid=>1817df42d81ed4b666f5de37b9386b6c574c9d56,application=>iLIRR,
2009:06:13 10:50:37: udid=>1817df42d81ed4b666f5de37b9386b6c574c9d56,application=>iLIRR,
2009:06:13 10:51:30: udid=>1817df42d81ed4b666f5de37b9386b6c574c9d56,application=>iLIRR,
2009:06:13 10:52:48: udid=>1817df42d81ed4b666f5de37b9386b6c574c9d56,application=>iLIRR,
2009:06:13 10:53:00: udid=>1817df42d81ed4b666f5de37b9386b6c574c9d56,application=>iLIRR,
2009:06:13 13:51:04: udid=>1817df42d81ed4b666f5de37b9386b6c574c9d56,application=>iLIRR

As you can see the user was determined not to get the “Crack Detection” Screen, but finally gave up.

After some thinking I decided to look into adding a search bar to the ilirr application where the station list can be very large (esp. with the new City Zones). Well I finally got it working after about 20 minutes of research and testing. Below is a screenshot, I am very excited about this new version!

This is a graph of before and after updates were made to the iLIRR when data is being downloaded to the device. Thanks to some new method of downloading data not only is iLIRR faster but it also uses less memory (which helps battery life)

I have completed work on iLIRR version 2.0.0!

What’s new:

- Branch Timetables

- “City Terminal Zone” Schedules (Jamaica, Penn Station, Kew Gardens, Forest Hills, Long Island City, Hunters Point Ave)

- New methods of downloading data (makes this faster)

- New methods of saving to prevent data from being corrupt

- New Interface

- Displays dates in which the schedules are valid for

-Comes with schedules valid for May 18 to September 7, 2009 already downloaded and saved

ScreenShots:

So I have been busy working at all hours of the night on iLIRR. I decided to change up the interface a bit, and switch back to a sqlite3 database instead of certain methods of storing data that are available in iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 5. Anyway here is a snap shot of the new Downloads tab:

So I can’t get much work done in terms of check for bugs with the way iLIRR downloads the schedules for stations and now branch timetables. The reason why? OH my blazing fast internet provided from Verizon. Check out the picture below to see my exact speeds.

Man thats FAST

iPhone OS Required: 2.2.1

Some fancy features have been added the popular application Love Match. To get a sneak before apple approves the update check out the pics below:

iPhone OS Required: 3.0

So I have been working hard on getting some nice updates to iLIRR. The method in which the iPhone downloads the data has now been changed to something a little bit faster. I also started work on a cleaner UI and basically a whole new application (Don’t worry it will be a free update for all version 1.0.1 owners).

The screenshots below are just a preview of the beta application. I hope to have a full working version by the 3.0 release!

I have decided to switch to a fancier website / blog to update the site. I will be posting some pictures of current projects and news.