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It was pretty expensive a few days ago: $1.99 :-)

I'm not sure the guy understood the app because you can actually install the app after taking the picture.

Of course if he didn't get it it's only my fault because the description is not clear enough (I'm not a native speaker) or the UI is not easy and intuitive as it should.

Any help would be highly appreciated!

Two use cases where it may be useful:

1- you snap an app from your friend's iPhone screen and tap on the Install button (i.e. app sharing)

2- snap an app from your computer screen (a review site for example) then Install/Bookmark

If that works there must be other "cool" commands the coder added after implementing this one...

Sure, I'd be more then happy to give codes to HNs!

My email is in my profile for who's interested.

Check out also the FOX board that's actually built of a core module (cpu, flash and ram) plus a daughter board that brings out all common interfaces for prototyping (ethernet, usb, rtc, gpio, etc.).

When you've finished prototyping and have your own board you can drop their daughter board and buy just the core for 69 euros.

Pretty sweet (and they are good guys also).

http://www.acmesystems.it/

Thanks for your feedback!

I agree that the process (open app -> enter code -> send message -> paste) is a bit cumbersome but still I can't cope with the onscreen keyboard for message longer then a few chars. I still think that somebody out there feels the same pain, sale stats will tell us the truth :)

The next release will have a "persistant pairing" flag that will allow users to skip the "enter code" phase to make the process a bit faster.

Unfortunately opening the app with the message already written is not possible with the current SDK :(

It would be useful to know where he advertised for the job.

The kernel code comes from xnu and freebsd, the UI stuff and the development tools comes stright from the NeXT that's about 20 years old.

Of course those are just the starting points, from that a lot has been reworked/improved and a lot has been added.

very good analysis, thanks for sharing that

the boyer-moore algorithm should have been used. it would probably outperform any other given implementation for this kind of problems.

Moving your technology to a brand-new european company (no software patents yet) and licensing to your US company could avoid being sued by patent trolls? I don't know anything about such topics, just asking.

Disclosure: I'm one of KLone developers.

Use KLone http://koanlogic.com/klone/ .

It lets you write web pages with embedded C/C++ code (php-style escaping).

It's VERY fast and provides all common functions/features you need to parse incoming HTTP variables, sessions, file uploads, etc.

If you need more features you can link it against any C/C++ library and call library functions from within web pages.