Progress on the CalcuDoku application for the iPad

This is to report on my progress on the development of the application I announced in my previous article. Here a snapshot that gives you an idea on some of the functionality:

A CalcuDoku application for the iPad

Perhaps you have visited my DailyCalcuDoku page. There, I provide interactivity with JavaScript, but all the work is done offline by a C application that runs on my server. Every day, a few minutes after midnight AEST (Australian Eastern Standard Time), the system launches the application, which uses the current date as a pseudorandom seed, and generates an HTML file with the daily CalcuDoku.

Actually, I have just realised that if you attempt to play immediately after my midnight, the program will fail. I have to fix it. It’s not nice when a program fails with no explanation. It might not seem a serious problem, but midnight here is 10 AM in Boston and 6 PM in Moscow...

Anyhow, after developing the Daily CalcuDoku software, I thought: wouldn’t it be nice to create an application for the iPad that does a similar thing? I started on 1 September, and the following snapshot gives you a taste of it:

How to identify some email scams

Some days ago, I received the following email (with my email address removed and the links disabled):

Subject: Your package has arrived!

From: UPS Shipments

Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 21:42:50 +0900 (KST)

To:

Dear client

Your package has arrived.

The tracking # is : 16B9159622A040A2 and can be used at :

http://www.ups.com/tracking/tracking.html

The shipping invoice can be downloaded from :

http://www.ups.com/tracking/invoices/download.aspx?invoice_id=16B9159622A040A2

Thank you,

United Parcel Service

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