July 29, 2008
iPhone Zmanim Now Accurate & Complete
Update: To be notified when the iPhone Siddur is available, please go here and fill out your email address in the box at the top right of the page.
The siddur texts are still being cleaned up and that is going well. But while we do that, we are also working on improving the iPhone Siddur, what we have done so far.
Now the Zmanim (Jewish times) are complete and accurate, up to +/- a minute based on sea-level elevation.
Here is how it works.
(1) Click on Zmanim at the bottom and you will see the program use the GPS or Cell towers or Wireless routers to detect your location and give you a longitude and latitude:
When those are obtained, the Zmanim come up. If they are not found (i.e. your in a bomb shelter or airplane mode on), you will be able to manually add your zip code and specify the date.
(2) Here are the correct times for my area, here is the top of the page:
Bottom of the page:
(3) Clicking on any of those times will give you more detail. For example, here is the explanation for Alos:
yes, we will fix that typo
(4) On the bottom, we added an "About These Times" button, when clicked, it will give you the date for these times and it currently gives you the longitude and latitude, plus the required disclaimer:
List of To Dos:
(1) Continue cleaning up texts for the siddur
(2) Enable the edit button to change your date and location
(3) Add a settings feature for the siddur, so it remembers if you are Ashkenazic or Sephardi
After this is all complete, then we can work on some really cool features.
