Marc Pampols

While I'm waiting for a Google solution to online file access and storage solution, now i'm using Dropbox, because they released today a free iPhone application witch you can use to access your account anywhere, anytime.

If you haven't heard anything about Dropbox, it's an online storage service that gives you from 2 Gb (free account)  up to 100 Gb for $19.99/mo where you can upload, download and share your files, it's like an onlike hard disk for your personal files.

One of the coolest things of this new iPhone app is that you can take pictures with your iPhone and upload them directly to your account!

Dropbox also have a Windows/Mac/Linux free application that you can setup on all your workstations and laptops to have an easy and quick access to your contents.

Take a photo and upload to Dropbox

Open your Dropbox account today!

Do you remember? it was an official Apple Keynote in 2005, believe it or not, here is the proof:

Today my co-worker SirKiwi showed me a new free iPhone application for accessing Google Analytics, but now I'm very skeptical about that because I'm not sure if these applications are transfering my username and password to Google in a secure way.

Can I be sure that my account info is only transferred to Google, and not to another server?

Of course you can setup a sniffer via your WiFi connection (or something like that) and see where the application is connecting to, I have searched on the web and have not found anything.

Is Apple monitoring the login information before approving an application? we want our passwords safe!

Yesterday we were in a bar doing our first team experiments with the iPhone SDK, we successfully manage to compile our first application, a simple slider and a label that shows the value on slider change.

Trying to get our first iPhone Application working

It's a very simple and easy application but good enought to learn how to fit all the pieces together (Xcode, classes, Interface Builder, objects, actions, etc...)

It took about 2 hours to get it work :(

For all the newbies like us, you can download here the source code from our first application test, who knows, it may be useful for someone!

TestApp3 (Yes, it worked at the third attempt)

laCaixa was one of the first spanish bank to introduce an iPhone optimized website some months ago (maybe a year or more... can't remember exactly) and it was a great version of "Linia Oberta", where you can do the most common operations and play with your money.

Right now web access still works, but today we were surprised with the launch of a native iPhone application available in the Apple AppStore!

Welcome screen

My expectations were very high until now, after testing the application, I can say that it's completely useless because using the original optimized website is fastest!

If you made a native application, you can't show a single index with nothing more than simple links to the rest of the original website (links that open a new Safari window! omg) the only native part is the office listing, with a Google Maps integration.

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The 9 5-stars reviews where the first ones, of course (surprisingly...)

Very bad move guys, you know you can do it much better, so do not disappoint us next time!