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I’ve just received an email from Apple that Circles – memory game is available for iPad. Many of you have downloaded a copy of Circles available for both iPhone and iPod touch, if not: Circles is a very simple, yet addictive game focused on player’s visual memory. You have to tap the new born white circle in each round while the circles from previous rounds stays stable and on higher levels it’s very difficult to figure out which is new at all . Give it a try and see how far you can go.

Game is available here http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=369264596. Please note: the application has been reviewed and it may take up to 24 hours to be live in the App Store.

Of course it’s not a simple port of iPhone application. This time your score is not counted in the levels you successfully passed. Your score is the sum of all of the bonuses you collect each round, the faster you play the higher bonus (and overall score) you achieve. I hope this will help to eliminate cheaters who play and make screenshots of each stage or use a sheet of paper .

Gallery – click to enlarge.

BTW: soon I will add online ranking (I guess Plus+ network) so you can fight and play more to achieve best results and be at the top of the list. Daily and global rankings ..

Why 2.0.2, why 2.0.1 is not working?

As I’ve received many reports that version 2.0.1 doesn’t work for some of you – as I’ve noticed in comments and in emails sent to me. But you know what? For most of you 2.0 was working great. So why have I posted 2.0.1 update? It’s simple. Anonymous is a tool, that I gave into your hands. It was made to sent funny emails, surprise your friends who you mail with, jokes, to catch cheating wives/husbands/bf/gf, but of course I did suppose that some people will use it to send death threats, phishing, spam messages, bank frauds and so many more. People call me to help in tracing the original author of the message, because of those serious reasons. Unfortunately I cannot help them, because just for my safety and your privacy I don’t log those email – they are sent and not cached anywhere (at least not by me). Remember that you (not me) sending such an email commit a crime or whatever the status of such an activity is in your country.

Ok, ok, but what was the reason of publishing 2.0.1 if 2.0 works perfectly. Well, one of the emails sent from you, was received by somebody, who has decided to take some actions to trace the original author of this message. Of course in header of this email, was clearly stated that the msg was sent from chris-software.com. As long as I couldn’t (and still can’t and won’t in the near future) provide any more information, he/she tried to check my hosting provider if they can help. In fact, the result was the suspension of the whole chris-software.com domain (with dozen of other services – including Anonymous). I had to move the Anonymous API to somewhere else in order to run my website again. And 2.0.1 is just pointing to the new servers.

If you are willing to help me paying it (it costs $250/mo), I would really appreciate it. Donations

As most of you noticed my services haven’t been working properly recently. Everything because of extremely high popularity of one of my applications – Stranger Chat – my server crashed, 99% of requests finished with 404, 503 or SQL errors. I’d like to announce that since today everything is working again. Best of  YouTube and Stranger Chat – both of them has been optimized. There is nothing to be proud of, that I fixed this problem – it’s my duty and my job, but I will do everything to not let it happen in the future.

It’s been long time since I published Anonymous 1.0. Maybe a year now. Since that time, Anonymous was one of the most controversial applications. It allows you to send fake emails, and if recipient doesn’t know how to read extended headers (99% does not – believe me), he / she thinks it was send from the email account you provided without any password.

Remember, I’m programmer, I create the tool, give it to others and it’s only up to you, what you are going to do with it. I really hope that my app isn’t used to try phishing, stealing bank accounts as much as for joke or to catch cheating wife – or husband .

Anonymous is also one of those apps I received a lot of feedback – either it generally doesn’t work, or it works sometimes, or it works no longer, or it works with one email accounts, and doesn’t with Gmail, Mobile Me and others. I also received many emails asking me about adding Reply-To field, and images.

Taking into consideration all of your ideas and feedback, when I’ve found (at last) a little bit more “free” time I upgraded it. The interface is completely different. Now you enter everything into the table, that looks like the Settings application. Whenever you are expected to provide email address, you can easily pick one from address book on your device. And yes, I added the Reply-To field. What does it mean? Let show it on the example: You receive the email, it says it’s sent from John Smith <johnsmith@example.com>. While answering the message it will be sent to somebody, whose email was provided in Reply-To, not johnsmith@example.com. The API that actually sends emails “lives” now on better – more reliable server. It’s still sends only plain, text messages, sorry no images this time!

Ohh and best of all: it works with many more email servers, GMail, Yahoo, Mobile Me and many many more.

That’s why current version of Anonymous is not 1.01, or 1.1, but  Anonymous 2.0.

And of course, Apple doesn’t like this app, nothing astonishing here, but as usual you will find this application in Cydia in BigBoss Repository.

Few weeks ago I had to move from one server to another. Since January you won’t ever see any messages like “Bandwidth limit exceeded” at the end of every single month. Today, one user reported the problem, that most old articles have missing content – cut off in the half. Fortunately I had the backup from the previous server. Since now, everything works fine again. If you notice any problem at this website, please send me an email and I will respond you as soon as possible.

Polls Online application allows you to create simple online surveys / quizzes / polls and collect answers from iPhone and iPod touch users all over the world.

Create and check regularly your multiple and single choice polls. Ask about anything you are curious about completely anonymously. Just do it in English.

Answer polls created by other users.

** More detailed:

When you start the application a random poll is loaded and displayed. Question and possible answers below. Depending on the poll’s setting it can be either single choice (you can pick one answer – previous will be automatically deselected) or multiple choice (you can pick any answer, even all). When you send your vote (OK button) the results are updated and displayed on your screen. You can always check the results even before voting by pressing the little info button in the bottom, left corner.

If you find current poll interesting you can add it to favorites (star button), to track the results, tap star again to remove it from favorite list. You can quickly check other polls by pressing the reload button in the top right.

If the poll is kinda inappropriate, press the report button (lighting mark), to mark it as inappropriate. Report button allows you to delete the poll if you are the one who created it, either by mistake, or simply you just won’t to remove it.

By swiping your finger, you navigate through different menus like:

1. My polls – displays the list of polls divided into 3 tabs: Created, Voted, and Favourite – as mentioned before.

2. Search – here you can check if the poll about certain topic (like president election, interesting world events and so on) already exists. You can search for the given keywords either in questions or in answers.

3. Stats – here you see how many polls and their votes Polls Online’s users have submitted up-to-date and quickly get the newest, popular or not popular polls.

4. And the last one – “Create a poll” – here you can quickly ask the world about anything. Enter the question first and then specify the answers. By default poll is “single-answer” with the answers Yes/No/Don’t know, but you can of course change it so it suits your expectations. Please add polls only in English so major part of the world will understand them.

Have a lot of fun.

Right now it’s available in BigBoss Repo. During few days it will be also available in iTunes Store in 2 versions free with ads/$0.99 without ads.

Most of you have noticed that during last week of 2009 application was unavailable, not only application, but the whole www.chris-software.com, and Best of YouTube, depends on this server.

The problem is simple. We all can use 50GB of data transfer monthly, whenever this limit has been reached everything stops working till 1st of next month.

I’ve already asked my provider to change those limitations, I’m waiting for their decision and I hope, we won’t have similar surprises this month. Please enjoy the application as long as the database grows and grows everyday (as long as my “data” problems ).

If you haven’t heard about Best of YouTube, please check App Store or Cydia. There is free and paid version (ads/no-ads). The application allows you to watch movies from YouTube that were recommended by other iPhone users and verified by me, to get rid of advertisements, or boring/unethical movies.

Please expect new applications in January and February.

Sorry for the delay. I promised I would try to figure it out few days before, but due to technical problems with my 3G I couldn’t and the fact that it worked on my 2G cannot be enough proof that the application is working well.

I was investigating every single case what is wrong with the application. The application should save/modify/create files under this path:

/var/mobile/Library/SMS/

it’s hard-coded as it should be, but instead it saves the files somewhere else – till now I’ve not found out where, what is strange to me. Next strange thing is that the application was only tested on iPhone 2G and I’ve received a lot of feedback, that it’s not working on 3G and 3GS – I guess iPhone 2G is not popular anymore – that’s why I’ve not received any reports about SMS Switcher on 2G. But to my surprise it was also buggy on my friend’s 2G when I installed SMS Swticher from Cydia.

My last idea was to install the application on my friend’s iPhone 2G in the same way I installed it on mine – via SSH. And to my surprise it finally worked! Manual installation also via SSH on my other friend’s 3G also worked.

So to conclude. (I guess) SMS Switcher works great. Today and yesterday as well. I guess the installation from Cydia changes some privileges or sth like this. Below you can download the built application you can send (via Fugu on Mac OS X or WinSCP on Windows) to your device to /Applications and respring. You should delete first SMS Switcher using Cydia if you have it installed.

SMS Switcher