WildObs Observer Settings
Apple’s design preferences are to keep application settings in a separate settings application. Chances are you are familiar with this, but if not then press the home button and look for the settings icon:
Once there, look for the Observer icon amongst the likely many:
Observer Settings
These are your personal settings and affect how the application work for you. Version 1.0 (the current version) supports the following.
Encounter Defaults
- Default Tags — you can set tags (keywords) for all new encounters. For example one might set a tag of “Cornwall2009″ if one was on a vacation for a week or so.
- Public — this defaults all new encounters to be public, i.e. visible by everyone. This is the preferred default, but you can set it to ‘private’ to keep encounters just for you.
- Syndicate — this defaults all new encounters to be ’syndicatable’ (i.e. in your RSS/news feeds and/or delivered to Twitter.)
You can modify any of these setting on a per encounter basis by going to the “extras” view on a record.
General Settings
- Play Sounds — turn this off to suppress noises upon saving an encounter, uploading to wildobs, deleting and others.
- Shake for Random — turn this off to suppress shake causing the random three encounters on the front page to be re-randomized.
User Settings
Semi-self-explanatory, the URL is for beta testing new versions. Don’t touch these (they probably ought not be here) unless you really want to. Better to uninstall to change a user.
Miscellaneous Settings
- Show Lists — is a dynamic setting, when you show or hide lists your last choice is recorded for future runs of the application.
- Default List — is a dynamic setting, as above, and is the last list you chose.
- Show Tips — allows a simple “tip” to show at start-up. [Needs work.]
- Verbose Mode — mainly for debugging network connections. Show text during CONNECT.
- Work in Progress — this is a fun one, any “work-in-progress” features are only enabled with this on. The current such feature is taking a photo (iPhone only) which attaches to the encounter and is uploaded upon next CONNECT. Try it out, let me know how it works:
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