American Civil War Daily on the iPhone

December 10, 2009, 12:04 am

American Civil War Daily answers two fundamental questions:

  • What happened today during the American Civil War?
  • Where did it happen? Show me a map!

A lite version version is available free, which only supports today's date and shows 5 daily cards.

Flip through daily cards showing important events leading up to and during the deadliest conflict in American history.

Each card shows the date, a succinct description and a zoomable map for the event. You can flip the card over to read the Wikipedia article describing the event.

You can sort your deck of events using two mechanisms:

  • Sort by day and month for a this day in history view.
  • Select a start date and then sort by day, month and year for a true chronological sequence of events from that date onwards.

The data for American Civil War Daily comes from the American Civil War Timeline Project. This is a community contributed project to collect time and place data for the war. You can come to the site to browse the timeline or even log in and contribute new data.

The Timeline Project currently indexes over 400 hundred data points with new entries being added daily. If a significant event isn't in the database yet, it soon will be.

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Patrick O'Brian Quotes

November 26, 2009, 10:51 pm

Available for Free!

Patrick O'Brian's twenty Napoleonic 'Age of Sail' novels chronicle the voyages of Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin.

This application presents a random selection of quotes from those novels.

Each quote is accompanied by a map showing it's approximated location. A more detailed explanation of the quote (and it's context in the novels) is available via the wheel icon.

A search function is available to find a particular quote.

Data for 'Patrick O'Brian Quotes' is indexed by the Patrick O'Brian Mapping Project at Cannonade.net.

Quotes from the Patrick O'Brian novels � 1999-2009 W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. and � HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. We do not, and will not ever, charge for this application or access to the data it indexes.

If you would like to support the Patrick O'Brian Mapping Project and Cannonade.Net, please visit us or check out our other applications on the store.

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WW2 Daily on the iPhone and Android

October 6, 2009, 12:41 pm

WW2 Daily answers two fundamental questions:

  • What happened today in World War Two?
  • Where did it happen? Show me a map!

New in 1.5 - iOS 4.0 & new artwork.

A lite version version is available free, which only supports today's date and shows 5 daily cards.

Flip through daily cards showing important events leading up to and during the most deadly and perhaps most significant conflict in human history.

Each card shows the date, a succinct description and a zoomable map for the event. You can flip the card over to read the Wikipedia article describing the event.

You can sort your deck of events using two mechanisms:

  • Sort by day and month for a this day in history view.
  • Select a start date and then sort by day, month and year for a true chronological sequence of events from that date onwards.

The data for WW2 Daily comes from the World War Two Timeline Project. This is a community contributed project to collect time and place data for the war. You can come to the site to browse the timeline or even log in and contribute new data.

The Timeline Project currently indexes almost 800 hundred data points with new entries being added daily. If a significant event isn't in the database yet, it soon will be.

Iconoclast : Ted Jotikasthira!

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Tap Index

September 23, 2009, 5:00 pm

Tap Index is a fast, cross referenced glossary of Tap Terms. It is free on the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch.

  • Index information is stored on your phone. Fast access and no network connectivity required.
  • Each page has been cross referenced for fast browsing of glossary terms.
  • Random flashcard functionality allows you to test your knowledge of Tap terms.

Tap Index uses some of the information available on the Wikipedia Tap page. This data has been modified, optimized and cross referenced for the iPhone and is available under the CCA - ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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Karate Index

August 21, 2009, 12:00 am

Karate Index is a fast, cross referenced glossary of Karate Terms:

A lite version is available free, with a loading delay to access glossary definitions.

  • Index information is stored on your phone. Fast access and no network connectivity required.
  • Each page has been cross referenced for fast browsing of glossary terms.
  • Random flashcard functionality allows you to test your knowledge of Karate terms.

Karate Index uses some of the information available on the Wikipedia Karate page. This data has been modified, optimized and cross referenced for the iPhone and is available under the CCA - ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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