TimeDroid for FreshBooks Time Tracking Now Available in the Android Market!

TimeDroid is a simple time tracking application for logging your time to your FreshBooks account. iPhone users have had an app like this for awhile now, but since some of us here at Appoxy are digging our Android phones better than the iPhone, we thought the world (and us) needed this app.

Grab it while it's hot!  Get TimeDroid Pro on the Android Market or TimeDroid Free.

Here is a screenshot:

Give it a try, let us know what you think and if you like, be sure to rate it 5 stars. ;)

TimeDroid Support Forum.

Client Update: Accurate Solar Power is Demoing the System we Built at Solar Power International

Accurate Solar Power is demoing a new system we built for them at the Solar Power International conference in Anaheim, California today through Thursday (Oct. 27 - 29, 2009).  If you're in the area, please go check it out!  Accurate Solar Power is offering the latest in solar power monitoring and management enabling customers to track, monitor and manage their solar power installations via the web.

Dashboard view of entire solar installation:

Live updating panel array view showing output of every panel in real time:

Details of a single panel and ability to send commands to the panels from the Internet:

This is an early alpha release, but we are very happy with the results so far and so is our client, Accurate Solar Power.

SimpleBackr for SimpleDB Now has Simple Restores

SimpleBackr now has restores! After you're backup is done and you receive your backup is complete email, you'll see a link on your backup report to "Restore from this backup".

Just click that, enter your destination SimpleDB credentials and start the restore process. That's it!

And like the backup process, restores are also free... as in free lunch.

All Our Gems Are Belong to Gemcutter

So after github left us all hanging out to dry, Gemcutter is quickly becoming it's replacement and apparently the future of gem hosting. After working with gemcutter a bit, I'm actually becoming quite fond of it. It's easy to use and you get instant gem publishing.

To start using gemcutter as a source, it only takes a couple seconds:

1. gem install gemcutter
2. gem tumble (this adds gemcutter to the top of your gem sources list)

Then you'll want to uninstall and reinstall old gems as it appears that gem update will still grab from rubyforge if they existed there and you'll want to remove all your github sourced gems.

Here are the new homes for our main Appoxy gems:

• Amazon Web Services Gem - gem install aws
• SimpleRecord Gem - gem install simple_record
• MiniFB Facebook API Gem - gem install mini_fb
• CloudCache Gem - gem install cloud_cache 
• LocalCache Gem - gem install local_cache

Alright, now hopefully Gemcutter sticks around for a while so we don't have to do this again.