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Announcing iHerp.mobi!!!!!

Posted by Aaron Florian at 12/20/2009 10:08:04 PM

Yes, for the new year, you now have no excuse NOT to do your tracking. And neither do I. So lets all resolve to stay up with our tracking. I've made it easy. So easy, even I can do it.

As with version 1.0 software, use at your discretion, but it seems to be working really really well. And if you have any problems, submit a support ticket.

This SHOULD work with any web based phone, but is optimized toward the iPhone screen. If your phone doesn't work with it, let me know.

So a couple of cool features here: Obviously, all of this works with your existing iHerp account and animals, and will update your animals here accordingly. There are a couple of ways to add tracking items here, each with its own benefits.

ANIMALS BY GROUP
This will track PER animal. And now would be a great time to make some groups in case you haven't already. Groups will help you work through your collection quickly and efficiently.

Each animal has its own page in the group, with tracking for comments, feed, def, shed, all the good stuff. When you go in you'll notice that the animal record to track is prepopulated with the last quantity and food type, as well as the date (presuming you are feeding TODAY). The FED checkbox is checked, so if you're not feeding this one, unclick that box. You can put in whatever else you want and click Save Tracking. This will save this animal, and move onto the next.

Below are options you can select. If you are on a horrible phone connection with poor bandwidth, you can turn off the most recent tracking, you can turn off the images, and this will make your tracking go a little faster. On my connection, I have these on, as performance is still fairly snappy with them on.

Advanced mode is for when you want (or need) to put in different food items, date, whatever. This will switch to more controls for you to put in your tracking. If you keep up with your tracking, the simple mode should work for 99% of what you do.

BATCH GROUP
Okay, okay. I'm not gonna lie: I wrote this feature because I'm a lazy, lazy man. So lazy.

I have my groups set up pretty much by clutches, as well as similar sized animals. When I feed one, I feed em all. So for me, ripping through 15 animals in a clutch individually made me groan. Hence, Batch Group.

Assuming all of your little jerks eat, you simply pick the group, it prepopulates with the last meal (which you can change), and hit go. Ditto with the cleaning, since I spot clean AND clean en mass on the weekends. All of your animals. One click. Tracked. Done.

So, that's the start of the mobile app.

Now go do some tracking. :)

Cheers!

Check it out at iHerp.mobi

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the jersef.,	Posted At: 12/20/2009 10:52:53 PM
	very grand idea! now, get a developer to create an app for the android phones, the iphones, and things that like!

Robbie ,	Posted At: 12/20/2009 10:55:04 PM
	lookin good aaron!

Katie Baker,	Posted At: 12/20/2009 11:04:48 PM
	Awesome! Does this mean that refuse is now on the batch group thing on the PC too??? Please?!?!

Pope of iHerp and Bread,	Posted At: 12/20/2009 11:06:35 PM
	Aaron, you hate your iphone. Why do you even bother?

wintersreptiles,	Posted At: 12/20/2009 11:22:51 PM
	I need a phone that does more than just a phone call, no next, pictures, or web. It's nextel so making phone call is sometimes too much to ask!

The Shammernator ,	Posted At: 12/20/2009 11:52:45 PM
	sweet! i have an iphone...

gfx,	Posted At: 12/21/2009 12:12:50 AM
	But I'd have to turn off Ramp Champ. Forget it.

Dawn Switzer,	Posted At: 12/21/2009 1:15:43 AM
	awsome:) will try it with my crack barry in the morning:)

Aaron Florian,	Posted At: 12/21/2009 1:28:57 AM
	i hate my phone as a phone. as a computer, it's awesome. lemme know how the crackberry goes... interested to know how it behaves on other devices.

Kristal M,	Posted At: 12/21/2009 2:13:49 AM
	Finally!!!! I been waitin for this. Its a bit laggy tryin to go iherp on the phone. Wooo!!! Excited.

Steve Meyer,	Posted At: 12/21/2009 3:27:21 AM
	Pretty cool as soon as I figure out what tracking is I can start to use this feature hopefully.

Katie Baker,	Posted At: 12/21/2009 5:00:51 AM
	my crackberry won't load it....

Aaron Florian,	Posted At: 12/21/2009 8:42:21 AM
	open up a ticket, i'll need more to go on than that :)

Terri ,	Posted At: 12/21/2009 8:43:42 AM
	AWESOME!! Great idea!!

Francis L. Pringle,	Posted At: 12/21/2009 8:44:24 AM
	I have the peice of crap Q from sprint which is outta here after the new year, so my next phone will have to support iherp.

Justyne Lobello (Jurassic Reptiles),	Posted At: 12/21/2009 8:54:03 AM
	This is AWESOME. I wish this could also be an app for the PC so it would pop up automatically, just like a IM program. :) hint hint

Lauren ,	Posted At: 12/21/2009 9:39:26 AM
	My phone has web capabilities but I don't have net use on my plan. meh. Maybe when I actually pay for my own plan I'll get it.

Katie Baker,	Posted At: 12/21/2009 2:44:44 PM
	nevermind, it works - just had to delete the whole "www" bit in front that blackberry automatically adds :) I can at least open it - will have to try it out next feeding!

Dawn Switzer,	Posted At: 12/21/2009 2:47:13 PM
	i can open it on my crackbarry just havn't tried to update will do that tomorrow its feeding day and then i can try and add a couple of my guys who i don't have on there :) katie let me know if it works for you :)

Deb A,	Posted At: 12/21/2009 3:20:56 PM
	If you're having a problem with a Blackberry, make sure you have "Use Javascript" turned on in your settings. If you don't, the pages won't open...

Aaron Florian,	Posted At: 12/21/2009 4:13:46 PM
	it works on both www.iherp.mobi and iherp.mobi ... shouldn't matter

Katie Baker,	Posted At: 12/21/2009 6:10:33 PM
	my phone didn't like it with the www? i dunno... but it DOES work without it,...

Dawn Switzer,	Posted At: 12/21/2009 9:19:15 PM
	well my crackbarry was able to load it played with it for a few i was able to add an animal then after that it took for ever to load and gave an error message that said this site is too big for device or something like that ... now that could be just my crackbarry so it cool though i have my laptop now :)

Dawn Switzer,	Posted At: 12/21/2009 9:20:33 PM
	i just veiwed my page it loaded it so it work some what lol :) i

Aaron Florian,	Posted At: 12/21/2009 9:22:25 PM
	the only thing i envy on the BB is the indicator light :P

Jeff ,	Posted At: 12/22/2009 1:07:38 AM
	works with my Nokia N95 8g but this phone doesnt stay charged for long after I ran it over with my car and it landed in a snow bank

Aaron Florian,	Posted At: 12/22/2009 1:41:30 AM
	YAY!!!!!

Will E,	Posted At: 12/22/2009 6:07:59 AM
	i dont have a phone capable of running that.

kirk and elizabeth ,	Posted At: 12/22/2009 11:06:44 AM
	aaron make it an app for all i pod touches so that you do not need a actual phone to run it. it shouldnt be to hard to set up with itunes just make a like 99c charge fee:P

John Rougeux,	Posted At: 12/22/2009 11:32:33 AM
	Getting an error message with my iPhone 3Gs now

Kamal Burton,	Posted At: 12/22/2009 12:19:41 PM
	OH MY BEGEEGEES!!!

Aaron Florian,	Posted At: 12/22/2009 10:27:00 PM
	Unfortunately, apple only allows you to develop on a mac (which blows). Then you have to pay them $100 to get your app into the store. So if $100 people download it, I break even, minus the weeks of development time of course. Maybe a summer project, but there are much bigger things to tackle :) Plus this works, works well, and hits more platforms.

Rebecca ,	Posted At: 12/22/2009 10:48:51 PM
	...Pro? ;)

Aaron Florian,	Posted At: 12/22/2009 11:48:20 PM
	Circle gets the square

Pope of iHerp and Bread,	Posted At: 12/23/2009 12:18:11 PM
	'Bout damn time!

Will E,	Posted At: 12/23/2009 10:24:13 PM
	F**k my damn pay as you go phone. i have a plan but just use these cheap walmart phones because i am literally the most clumsy person on the planet. i dont even have a camera much less a tracking app. super swell idea though!

Aaron Florian,	Posted At: 12/23/2009 11:24:16 PM
	>> super swell idea thats so going in the marketing campaign.

Emily ,	Posted At: 12/24/2009 12:43:19 AM
	Hey, this is great! I just got an iPhone today and was really hoping iHerp would have a mobile feature. Awesome!

TheaN526,	Posted At: 12/24/2009 5:05:40 AM
	Won't work on my piece of poop phone. LOL. It CAN go on the internet...but sometimes it says it is too big to load the page. I have a crap phone.. Samsung u700 or something.

Aaron Florian,	Posted At: 12/24/2009 2:39:15 PM
	If you want to try to get it to work, open a support ticket... you'll have to be my eyes and ears and let me know what pages it crashes, authentication problems, etc

kirk and elizabeth ,	Posted At: 12/24/2009 4:29:03 PM
	aaron i would seriously pay you the 100 dollars to get this going as an app i hate writing everything down i hate even more having to remember when everything happened so if i could just click tap my i pod that would make my life 100000000 times better lol i bet many other would buy this app as well i know alot of people who have i pod touches and i phones that would love a fully downloadalbe non internet using app like this one.

,	Posted At: 12/25/2009 9:26:14 PM
	Suuure, make me want an iPhone even more now! :p In all seriousness, very cool!

John Rougeux,	Posted At: 12/29/2009 1:36:34 PM
	I would buy that app!

dangles,	Posted At: 12/30/2009 2:02:39 PM
	as would i :-) yet another situation i would LOVE to learn how to create iPhone apps... i would likely pay more than .99 for it, too... maybe upward of 9.99? yeah... i'd pay that...

TheaN526,	Posted At: 12/31/2009 1:28:47 AM
	Oh it works.. I tried it the other day. Neat. Now I wish I could blog from my phone. LOL.

Donna Boswell,	Posted At: 1/7/2010 1:11:01 AM
	I just tried it on my Samsung Solstice. It worked beautifully! Thanks Aaron!

Michael Feuerhak,	Posted At: 1/20/2010 6:53:43 PM
	Works GREAT on my q9c from Verizon! Excellent Job!

Ric Garfias Elizondo Viatruso,	Posted At: 2/11/2010 2:14:27 AM
	Omg, this is now like the coolest app on my iPhone! I love it!!! Thanks for making it! :D

Tim Cochran,	Posted At: 3/5/2010 8:27:23 AM
	Working great on the droid so i'm guessing that it is "android friendly". Aaaaaaaaaaaron Good Job!

Tim Cochran,	Posted At: 3/5/2010 8:31:47 AM
	"Unfortunately, apple only allows you to develop on a mac (which blows). Then you have to pay them $100 to get your app into the store. So if $100 people download it, I break even, minus the weeks of development time of course." Just make an app for the android market! Silly wabbit, mac is for kids!!! ;)

Donna Boswell,	Posted At: 5/14/2010 6:07:35 PM
	Hey Aaron. I'm not sure if you're aware or not, but your iherp.mobi page is down. Just a heads up :)

dangles,	Posted At: 7/7/2010 5:38:16 PM
	so uh... i haven't been buggin you about this NEARLY as much as i should have been lately, but.... when's the iphone app coming out? :-)

Shawn Caswell,	Posted At: 8/17/2010 11:53:14 PM
	So whens the Android App coming???

John Belcher,	Posted At: 10/8/2010 9:05:33 PM
	This is perhaps, now, the most useful mobile site in my mobile bookmarks - thanks!

Dragonberry Geckos / Ben ,	Posted At: 11/28/2010 3:10:56 PM
	Works very well on my Droid so far. Thanks for coming up with this! The IHerp website was SO SLOW on my phone. The mobile site is very quick and easy.

Brandon ,	Posted At: 2/20/2011 1:33:19 PM
	This is flipping brilliant! Already working on an iphone app!! will send details in for review soon :):):)

Crazy Gecko Gal,	Posted At: 4/18/2011 7:17:42 AM
	I agree with the app for an android phone. In the mean time, I'm gonna use the web-based version for ease of access. Great idea!

Shawn ,	Posted At: 5/31/2011 5:15:25 PM
	Worked great on my Android.

Lindsey Baldwin,	Posted At: 11/4/2015 11:55:16 AM
	So are we going to see an actual app of iHerp anytime soon?? :-)

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