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Title: Looking for feed back from staff
Post by: kemnet on June 01, 2012, 08:40:32 AM
Hello Staff,
Actually im not a chemistry student...im actually a computer developer. But ive always had a bit of an interest in chemistry so much so that i  was wondering. Is there a program or app, that any one of you would like to see developed that could help you in chemistry...one way or the other. I also have a few ideas that i want to send out to the community and would like you'll opinion on it whether or not it will be helpful to the Chemistry world...thanks!
Title: Re: Looking for feed back from staff
Post by: Mitch on June 01, 2012, 12:34:19 PM
What are some ideas, we'll tell you if it would actually be useful.
Title: Re: Looking for feed back from staff
Post by: Schrödinger on June 07, 2012, 01:52:39 AM
@Mitch : Can we have an android app that allows on-the-go replying to posts that one finds important/urgent? Also, I would be really glad to see notifications drop in via a text message (sms). Can we have something for that as well?
Title: Re: Looking for feed back from staff
Post by: Borek on June 07, 2012, 04:03:17 AM
Perhaps Tapatalk?

http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=2504

I know people using just "normal" browsers for browsing and answering forums on their smartphones. It happens I am still in the pre-smartphone era so details on what is convenient and what is not are blurry for me.

AFAIK SMS thing is out of the question - free SMS sending services put limits on the number of SMSes that can be sent, and I doubt Mitch would be happy with paying for hundreds of SMSes sent every day. Perhaps RSS feed could do the trick?
Title: Re: Looking for feed back from staff
Post by: Schrödinger on June 07, 2012, 05:42:58 AM
Yeah, free sms would be a problem :( RSS feeds seem fine. But the problem with RSS is, you probably cannot selectively get feeds for your posts and replies to your posts alone. Or say, newly opened topics.