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Aquaria FW

A Freshwater Aquarium Maintenance iPhone/iPod Touch Application

Aquaria FW is a reference to help you maintain proper water quality with your freshwater aquarium (please check the app Aquaria for saltwater aquarium enthusiasts).

Keep a record of your water parameters including:

  1. Temperature
  2. pH
  3. Ammonia
  4. Hardness
  5. Nitrite
  6. Nitrate
  7. CO2
  8. Chlorine
  9. Iron
  10. Alkalinity

One touch guide to determine fish compatibility of species including:

  1. Angelfish
  2. Barbs
  3. Bettas
  4. brackish fish
  5. Malawian Cichlids
  6. Misc. African Cichlids
  7. New World Cichlids
  8. Tanganyikan Cichlids
  9. Cory Cats
  10. Danios/Minnows
  11. Discus
  12. Fancy Goldfish
  13. Freshwater Plants
  14. Gouramis
  15. Guppies
  16. Hatchets
  17. Invertebrates
  18. Killifish
  19. catfish
  20. Loaches
  21. Mollies
  22. Platies
  23. Plecos
  24. Pond Fish
  25. Rainbowfish
  26. Rasboras
  27. Sharks
  28. Suckermouth Catfish
  29. Swordtails
  30. Tetras

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SkyVoyager – FREE for one day!

SkyVoyager is a powerful planetarium program for the iPhone and iPod Touch. It is designed for both beginners and advanced users. It contains a database of 300,000 stars to 10th magnitude, and 30,000 deep sky objects, including the entire NGC and IC catalogs. It renders the planets and moons in detail, using NASA mission imagery, and includes a database of several hundred asteroids, comets, and artificial satellites.

Get it: http://www.itunes.com/app/skyvoyager/

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Method to Launch Mail Application

Here is a simple method to send an email via the iPhone’s Mail application:

-(void) sendEmail {
NSURL* mailURL = [NSURL URLWithString: @"mailto:email@address.com?cc=another@email.com&subject=My%20Subject%20Line&body=Hello%20Email!"];
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL: mailURL];

}

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iPhone Development Resources

Here are some links that I have found useful in the past for learning more about the iPhone SDK. Enjoy!

Stencil kit for you pencil and paper people:
http://www.designcommission.com/shop/iphone-stencil-kit/

Photoshop template for designing your next app:
http://320480.com/

A great source for video tutorials:
http://www.iphonedevcentral.org/home.php

Great tutorial on getting started with Cocos2d – a framework for building games and such for the iPhone/iPod Touch:
http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=2138 [not to mention I have been a huge fan of Keith Peters's work over the years with his Flash work]

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Aquaria

A Saltwater Aquarium Maintenance iPhone/iPod Touch Application

Aquaria is a reference to help you maintain proper water quality and a peaceful environment in your saltwater aquarium.

  • Keep a record of your water parameters including Temperature, Nitrite, Nitrate, Ph, Ammonia, etc.
  • One touch guide to determine fish compatibility and diet

Screen Views

The opening screen will list all of the fish species:

Fish List View

Fish List View

Once clicked you will get a more detail view of the compatibility with other species:

Fish Detail View

Fish Detail View

A second screen will allow you to select two species to view their compatibility:

Fish Compatibility

Fish Compatibility

You have the ability to store your water parameters:

Water Parameters List

Water Parameters List

As well as view the details of your water parameters:

Water Parameters Detail

Water Parameters Detail

When you have more than two tests stored, you can view the averages of all your water parameters:

Water Parameters Summary

Water Parameters Summary

Features of Aquaria

Two separate displays of fish compatability for your saltwater aquarium. Choose one species of fish and the software will display other fish that are compatible or can be added to your aquarium but with caution – fish not displayed are deemed incompatible. An alternative check for compatibility allows you to pick two species and with the click of a button you will know if the species are compatible, incompatible, or can co exist with caution.

Water test results can be logged within the software. Simply insert and save your data for history tracking of your water parameters. The following water parameters can be stored:

  1. Test Name – unique name for your test
  2. Date/Time – this is not an editable field, it is populated with the current date/time when you save the test
  3. Salinity
  4. Temperature
  5. Alkalinity
  6. Ammonia
  7. Nitrite
  8. Nitrate
  9. Nitrogen
  10. pH
  11. Phosphate
  12. Calcium
  13. Magnesium
  14. Iodine
  15. Strontium

Posted in iPhone / iPod Touch Applications.