Keep Track of the Wines You Drink

A couple of weeks ago we had dinner at one of our favorite local restaurants and the people next to us were in the process of choosing a wine. Their conversation went something like this:

Q: Have we had this wine before?
A: I don’t know.

Q: What did we have last week?
A; I don’t remember.

Q: Have we had this one before?
A: Not sure.

Bartender: You had that one last week.

Being into wine ourselves we thought Timebox could help them keep track of the wines they drink. As much or as little info as they want to keep:

  • wine name
  • producer
  • region
  • grape varietal
  • vintage
  • photo of the label
  • where purchased
  • price
  • your rating - 5 stars -  love it, 1 star - plonk.
  • drinking partners
  • food

We couldn’t help ourselves so we told them about Timebox and they downloaded it right away. 

Making a category for wine is easy:

  1. Tap Categories
  2. Tap Customize
  3. Tap New Category
  4. Enter a Category Name like "Wine"
  5. Tap the plus sign to add the fields you want to track.
  6. Tap done.

To keep it super simple steps 1-4 will suffice.

Cheers!

Timebox 2.5 Now Available

Timebox 2.5 includes lots of new story and photo sharing features

We are happy to announce the availability of Timebox 2.5 on the App Store. If your apps automatically update, you might already have the newest version.

Timebox 2.5 is compatible with iOS 8 and includes some new features requested by you, our customers. Thanks so much for helping us make Timebox better!

We have already started working on the next version of Timebox that will integrate even more iOS 8 goodness.  Stay tuned.

Please download this latest version of Timebox and rate it in the App Store. Ratings really do help our visibility.

As always, feedback and comments welcome.


What’s new in this version:

• iOS 8 support.
• You can now swipe left and right while reading a story to go to the previous or next story.
• Improved story sharing with the standard iOS sharing user interface.
• Story sharing now includes text Message, Flickr, save to Photos app, Copy to clipboard and Printing.
• Story sharing via email is now an HTML embedded in the message up to 60 photos.
• You can now share/copy/print a single photo in a story by tap-and-holding on an individual photo (not while editing).
• Photo files with date prefixed filename (e.g., "2014-06-17-Seattle.jpg") will use that date for the photo.
• Photos tab now opens to the last source and albums, even if it's Dropbox or Facebook.
• You can now create a duplicate copy of a story in the Stories tab by tap-and-holding on the story and choosing Duplicate Story.
• On iOS 8, Viewing a photo from an iCloud Photo Streams will automatically download the full-resolution version of the photo.
• New faster internal database.
• Many other bug fixes, performance improvements and minor enhancements.

Please note: This version supports iOS 7.0, 7.1 and iOS 8 (iOS 6 is no longer supported with updates). 

Digital Amnesia

"Our memory is dissipating. Hard drives only last five years, a webpage is forever changing and there’s no machine left that reads 15-year old floppy disks. Digital data is vulnerable.

Yet entire libraries are shredded and lost to budget cuts, because we assume everything can be found online. But is that really true? For the first time in history, we have the technological means to save our entire past, yet it seems to be going up in smoke. Will we suffer from collective amnesia?"

This description is from the Dutch public broadcast organization, VPRO, of it's Digital Amnesia program. Digital Amnesia a fascinating documentary about the world-wide problems of everything "going digital". It's really worth watching if you're interested in how long bits last.

You can access the world-wide English version of the documentary on YouTube:

"This VPRO Backlight documentary tracks down the amnesiac zeitgeist starting at the Royal Tropical Institute in Amsterdam, whose world-famous 250-year old library was lost to budget cuts. The 400.000 Books were saved from the shredder by Ismail Serageldin, director of the world-famous Library of Alexandria, who is turning the legendary library of classical antiquity into a new knowledge hub for the digital world.

Images as well as texts risk being lost in this ‘Digital Dark Age’. In an old McDonald’s restaurant in Mountain View, CA, retired NASA engineer Dennis Wingo is trying to retrieve the very first images of the moon. Upstate New York, Jason Scott has founded The Archive Team, a network of young activists that saves websites that are at risk of disappearing forever. In San Francisco, we visit Brewster Kahle’s Internet Archive that’s going against the trend to destroy archives, and the Long Now Foundation, which has put the long-term back on the agenda by building a clock that only ticks once a year and should last 10,000 years, in an attempt to reconnect with generations thousands of years from now."