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It would be worth it just to see your cigar collection!! Helluva commute though :ss

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Often requested. Time to get this feature added, I suppose. Let me try to figure out a way to make it work correctly, with minimal screens/clicks. Any specific suggestions would be welcome :tu

First request for this one. I'll see what I can do :D

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Haven't had an issue doing this from my iPhone; should work. Thanks for the thought at any rate :tu

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I know this more correctly belongs in the WTS area, but since it's so much related to this thread, I thought I'd post it here first (mods, feel free to let me know if this is unacceptable):

My lovely bride and I both received brand new iPod Touch 8GB models today in a golf outing. Since we both have iPhones and iPods already, I'm looking to sell these models. They retail for $229 ($215 on amazon). I'll let them go for $180 each (shipped) If any BOTL wants one, and I'll throw in a free copy of Mobile Stogie as well, via a code to be redeemed on the App Store.

MO or PP is fine (but please bump the amount for the PP fees). PM if interested...

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The simplest way would be to add a fourth button for smoked/traded. Then clicking that button takes you into the humidor and you can click a selection to decrease its number maybe?

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Is there any chance you would be able to develop a Blackberry version?

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Ok, over the past few days I've come accross a few things I'd like to toss out there.

Ability to rename your humidor!

Easier way to move cigars. When you click on the cigar, edit, change the humi name, it leaves you in the humi you moved it to, rather than where you were previously, so you have to go all the way back out and over to the humi you were in. This was painful for the 25 cigars i moved.. i can only imagine it being more painful for people with larger collections! Think there would be a way such as with the email programs you can do an edit, select multiple, then tell it where to go? just a suggestion =)

(i think i saw this one in another post) have it where you can view information about the cigar in your collection. such as if you are looking at your Hemingway Short Story and you are trying to remember... "what is the filler on this thing" you can just click a button to see the info rather than having to go back through reference and look it up.

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Short answer is "nope". Combination of my skills, blackberry capabilities, and (most importantly) available time for me to tackle another development platform. You are about the 10th person who's asked though :)

BTW, thanks for the rep bump, even with this answer ;)

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Great, I always appreciate the feedback and suggestions!

Actually, you can do this pretty easily:
1. Create a new humidor with the new name that you want
2. Delete your existing humidor. If you have cigars in the existing humidor, you will be prompted to either delete them, or move them to another humidor
Simple as that :-)
This is one that I'm working on now. Should be in the next update :tu

By the way, in case you didn't know it, when you are several layers deep in a section (for example, "My Cigars"), tapping again on the "My Cigars" tab on the bottom of the screen immediately takes you to the main page of that section. It can be a real timesaver when you want to move up several screens at once.

Actually, I have been working on that capability this week. I'm just about done with it; just have to make it easy to flip back and forth so it's not confusing. Again, should make it into the next release.

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One more update: Version 1.6.1 was approved today, so should begin showing up shortly. The only change is a bug fix for the "Rating" and "Notes" fields in the My Cigars section. They got messed up when I added "Price Paid" in the 1.6.0 release.

Also, quite a few new and updated cigars have been added in the past few weeks, so be sure to click on the update icon on the main Reference page to download the latest reference info.

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Fair enough... I understand that. I still give you a lot of credit for creating something this impressive even if it's not on my platform. :tu

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Cool!! I use this program daily... worth every cent! Glad one of my BoTL took the time to make this awesome program.... I have emailed you some thoughts i had on the program before, and you have done a great job continuing to improve the program.
If enough people are interested, could you add a smoked on date?
I like to keep up with that, I also enter all my cigars singly to be able to track that... I made a smoked humidor and also a traded off humidor to keep up with that also.
I keep thinking of ways to use it...

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I appreciate that. It has become a fun hobby, that has managed to provide a bit of cigar money as a bonus. As of today, 1,400 copies sold in 31 countries. Pretty cool :tu

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Congrats on the success! This is a great app. Have recommended it to several of my stogie-loving friends.

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Great app! Thanks! Any chance of adding images of the cigars in the database?

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Just bought it - looking forward to entering (then depleting) my selection!

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Just thought I'd stop in and give props for the great app I use it constantly

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I love the new app! Thanks for your efforts!

One suggestion -- would it be possible to allow us add notes to cigars, so we can note what we liked, or did not like about a particular cigar?

Thanks again!

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Did Apple finally send you a check?

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Looks great -- but my humidor isn't big enough to bother with this sort of app. But here's an idea (apologies if it's already been suggested) -- how about a "light" version that just includes the cigar reference for when I'm looking to pick up a few sticks at the local B&M?

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Ken - can you program the app to automatically add my purchases from online retailers? That way I can just order my cigars and have them show up in MobileStogie as well as my mailbox.

I'd probably need a button to indicate if it's a box split as well and account for the sticks I send out.

Thanks.

:D

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Not sure how much "lighter" it needs to be than $3.99. That's less than a cigar (usually) :ss

Nobody says you need to populate the humidor section. The reference section is pretty useful even if you don't use the other parts. Then, when you fall hard down the dark side, people start insisting that you keep your humi's full, well, then you'll be ready!! :D

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Absolutely, in fact I can do better than that!!!

From now on, you just have your purchases shipped to me, I'll inventory them properly, email you the update to your Mobile Stogie database, and then store your (our?) cigars in a properly humidified vino.

Yes sir, that is a service I am willing to provide. Yes sir! :D :D

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I have an idea, would it be possible to make it so you can view or share other ppls reviews?

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There is a notes section in the app. When you add a cigar to your humidor, there is a notes field at the very bottom. Tapping it will expand it to a large text field where notes can be made. You can also get to this field by selecting a cigar you've already added to your humidor, where you can edit it to add likes/dislikes after you've smoked one.

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don't get me wrong - $3.99 is more than fair! I was just suggesting a reference only version. But yes, I guess you're right - the reference alone is worth it even without using the database

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Ok, another update has been submitted to Apple. It is version 1.7.0, and has some changes that have been requested by quite a few users:

• From the My Cigar detail screen, added a button to 'flip' the screen to the reference information for that chosen cigar.
• Also from the My Cigar detail screen, added a button called "Smoke One!", which will automatically deduct 1 cigar from the quantity, while (optionally) opening up the 'notes' field to type in notes about the cigar.
• Fixed a couple of small bugs that happened in rare situations.

So again, we go into the Apple review cycle, typically around 7 to 10 days.

In the meantime, don't forget to periodically tap the update icon on the main reference screen, to download new cigars and updated information for existing cigars.

Ok, back to work now :)

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thanks brother! this app rocks!!

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Great idea! I'm looking forward to this update (and using it!). :ss

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When you "Smoke one" does it leave it in the humidor, or where does it go? I like to keep a record of what i've smoked and when, so i just wanna make sure that I'm able to pull up the information. Right now i've been using a seperate humidor in the program to move the cigars to. I would "guess" that it adds a section called smoked and moves them there? but i could be wrong.

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Nothing too clever (yet). All it does now is reduce the quantity by one cigar, for the particular 'My Cigar' record that you are viewing. It's just a quick convenience to avoid having to go into edit mode, tap on quantity, edit the number, and save the change.

I still have plans to do a proper "smoking notes" section, but that's a big development effort (relatively speaking) to make it really easy to use. Been trying to knock off some of the smaller enhancements that people have been requesting first.

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Thanks for the updates!


You know, I think we get spoiled by all the $0.99 apps that $4 seems like a lot.
At first, I thought, $4, really?
But I don't regret the purchase at all. It's definately worth it!!

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Good Deal.. and much understood. I know how tedious programming can be.

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new updates are always fun

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What a "Nice Guy"!:rolleyes::r

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While I'm waiting for Apple to approve the latest update, I'm wondering what NC brands you guys feel are most important to add to Mobile Stogie. Most consistent 'complaint' in the reviews is that there aren't enough NC brands represented, so I figure I can work to add some more over the next week or two.

Thoughts?

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How bout some Kristoff's.

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alec bradley
Hoyo de Monterrey Cask Aged

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Ken,

I was one of the first buyers of Mobile Stogie. But I wasn't using it because I smoke too much and it was too much of a hassle to adjust inventory. YOu pretty much turned me into a user now with this newest update and the "Smoke One" button and now next weekend I will give up a few hours to get everything properly inventoried. Thanks I think.......

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Off hand:
Arganese
Augusto Reyes
Carlos toraño
Diamond Crown
Don Lino
Famous
Maxx By AB
Pinar Del Rio
San Cristobal
Sancho Panza
Taboo

all of these are either nonexistent in the current list or missing depth

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Alec Bradley is in a recent update. Be sure to tap the "refresh" icon on the main page of the Reference section. There should be 61 Alec Bradley cigars in the reference. Maybe some older ones are missing?

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21 Arganese cigars added. Those had been sent by a frequent contributor, but I had forgotten to add them :)

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I've had some bad iPhone karma recently and have needed to restore from back ups several times. Each time I do, I end up with a virgin copy of Mobile Stogie. Not a big deal until tonite when I spent the last hour plus cataloging one of the vinos. Am I doing anything wrong? I KNOW I back up my iPhone correctly, but on the restore the app is there but not the data.
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Wow, that is bad iPhone karma, but I don't see any reason that the backup shouldn't restore properly. Nobody else has ever raised this issue, and I have done restores many times without problems. I even changed phones twice in the past couple of months, and each time restored correctly.

I will ask on one of the iPhone dev forums to see if anybody else has seen this. Sorry for the inconvenience Vin. I'm getting ready to release another update that will include the ability to email the inventory data as an excel file. That wouldn't completely solve the issue, but would make it much easier to reload the info if you had it sitting in one place like that.

Lastly, there are several free applications that allow you to extract data from your iPhone backups (I use "iPhone Backup Extractor" on my Mac). You might want to find one of those and verify that you have a good backup of Mobile Stogie. If you go down that path, PM me and I'll help you understand what to look for).

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Thanks, Ken. To this point it really hasn't been an imposition because I haven't been adding any significant data. Now though, I'm really starting to get serious about cataloging my inventory, so I look forward to the email functionality you're adding. The hour or so I spent with the app last night was actually kinda' fun. It's very functional, and not at all gimmicky. Me likey!

I did have another question though -- I came across a stick not in your database; an 09 ERDM French RE. I added it as a new cigar. Should you ultimately update the database with this cigar, what happens to the info I entered? (Let's assume the info I entered matches your update 100%.) Will my be overwritten? Or will I just end up with two possible selections for the same stick?

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You'll end up with two possible selections. Each reference cigar gets a unique 'key' in the database. There is a reserved range of keys for user entered cigars, to ensure that I never overwrite any of your data, so your 09 ERDM will get its key, then when I add it to the main database, it will get a different key. It was the best way I could come up with to be sure I don't overwrite anything. I've been thinking about using a different color, font, italics, etc. to distinguish the user-entered records. Suggestions are welcome :tu

Another thing you could do is to email me the info that you would want to put in, and I could add to the master database. You'd then get that info when you tap the update icon. I have an excel template that a number of folks have been using to help fill in the reference data. Of course, that doesn't give the immediate result of just adding it to your own copy.

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I'm full of questions ...

Let's say I edit info on one of the cigars on the MobileStogie server. Do my edits stick (for me) or will they be overwritten when the app is receives updates?
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If you edit one of the reference cigars that is already in my database, and I subsequently edit the same cigar, it will overwrite your edits :(. Not sure of the best way to avoid that, other than to ask you to let me know what I have wrong in the reference data, so I can fix it for everybody ;)

I could change the code so that it flags the cigars that you edit, and then you would not get edits from the main database for that same cigar. It would create bit of complexity in the code, but it's certainly doable. Unfortunately, I would have to submit a new update to Apple in order to make that change. I can see both sides of it; what do you think?

I imagine you've noticed a LOT of updates recently. Those are mainly significant cleanup that I've been doing to Origin, Binder, Filler and Wrapper data, fixing a lot of inconsistencies, spelling errors, and a bunch of data that was truncated in the iPhone database (had the wrong field length in my online database for a while).

Everyday there's more coding to do... :ss

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And you're doing fab, Ken
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:tu:)