Cory Bohon

This application has now been approved and is on the iTunes Store. If you have already purchased the application, you may now download it for free as an update. If you have been checking out the application in anticipation of the 3.0 update, I appreciate it.

You can find the new version of “What’s My IP?” on the iTunes App Store at this link, and you can check out the sneak peak by clicking here.

I have submitted a new update for my application What’s My IP? on the iTunes App Store. With this update, the application has been completely revamped to include device information in addition to just the IP Address. Two completely new features let you get the IP address from a hostname online and check the reachability of a website/server by typing in the IP address or hostname.

With this post, I want to give you a sneak peak of the application so you can know what’s to come for the application. Check out the description from the App Store below and the screenshots below that. I anticipate that this application will become live on the App Store next week as I submitted it last weekend. I will post (and tweet) when the application goes live.

Info from the App Store
The iPhone/iPod touch application that was the first on the App Store to provide IP Address checking for your Apple iOS device has swiftly become the tool for network administrators, small business IT departments, and home network users with version 3.0.

Version 3.0 of What’s My IP provides users with important information about their network and accessing device. With a single tap, you can find out your IP Address, Device Name, and Device Type.

New with version 3.0 is the ability to get the IP address of a hostname on the Internet or your local network. Simply tap the Hostname tab to begin. Type in a hostname, click “Get IP Address,” and the address is presented to you quickly and easily. No fussing with other services that can often take extra time to navigate to.

Version 3.0 also comes with a server reachability checker that you can use while on your local wireless network or abroad on either EDGE or 3G. By tapping on the Reachability tab, you can check to see if the server hostname or IP address you type in is available online. If the server is online, you will see ONLINE presented; if the server cannot be reached, OFFLINE will be presented. This check happens almost instantly, keeping you from having to mess with Mobile Safari or other online services.

Now you can see why What’s My IP 3.0 is becoming the swiss army knife of network administrators. This application provides you with the network tools you need at an affordable price.

Don’t let your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad be without one of the best networking tools available for iOS devices.

Apple’s much awaited iAds became available today for iOS 4 applications that have them enabled. Currently, Nisan is running iAds on the device through many iOS 4 applications.

If you are looking to check out iAds for the iPhone, I have two applications that support iAds as a support model.

• Coin Flipper Lite (free, App Store Link) – Flip a coin to settle any bets you may have.
• StepTracker Lite (free, App Store Link) – A pedometer for your iOS 4 device that will track your steps in style.

If you find the time and inclination to check out Apple’s iAd mobile advertising platform, I would appreciate you checking out my applications.

As promised, I have posted the documentation for the Linkr link management software to my development wiki. I have also posted some documentation and known bugs in the beta version of this software.

You can download Linkr 0.10 beta here.

If you try it out and like it, be sure to let me know!

I wanted to post a quick update about the Two Weeks, Two Open Source Projects post that I wrote earlier this week.

The first of the open source projects that I set out to create is for the most part done. I actually finished earlier than I thought I would, and it didn’t take as much programming time and effort as I first thought. I will be posting more about this project a little later, when I’m able to get the code completely finalized and uploaded to my server and create a wiki for the project.

Basically, Linkr allows you to shorten a URL (or create a redirect URL) right from your own server. So, you could point to a very long URL (for example the one to this post: http://corybohon.com/2010/05/two-weeks-two-open-source-projects/) from a much shorter URL that’s easy to share (for example: corybohon.com/linkr/?id=22). Obviously, if you had the software installed in the root directory, the URL would be much, much shorter.

Since Tuesday, I’ve been able to write over 530 lines of code that will do this task. The software is very basic at it’s core, written using PHP, MySQL, and HTML. There’s a back-end admin panel that will allow an administrator to configure URL redirects and manage users. The front-end is rather basic, allowing you to briefly see the name of the website you’re being redirected to before being whisked off to that site. You can see the front-end interface here: http://corybohon.com/linkr/.

There are still some bugs that I need to work out, but I will release the code for everyone to play around with this weekend. Be sure to check back. I should have the beta up at the very latest on Sunday night.