
Re: Applications for mobile phones
I agree! A little thumbnail of the cover would probably be nice as long as it's small. General information about the movie would be nice too (Release date and leading roles). Too much info or too big of a cover would make the file sizes too big for phones in most cases.
I agree! That would be the best thing in the world about a mobile app that synch's with the database on the computer, I'd be able to see if I already own a particular movie!!!
What I'm doing right now is creating a report that includes the movie title and the year, that's it. I export it into Excel and then email it to myself so that I can look at it while I'm movie shopping at a store. I have to create a new report every few months just to somewhat keep it fresh so that I don't end up buying a movie twice.
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I use the Flixster app on my Android 'app phone' if I need to find out a bunch of information about particular movies or actors. What I hate about that app is that they want you to sign in with your facebook account. That probably works great if your on facebook but not everybody is and I'm one that's not! I can still use it to find out a lot though, I just can't review movies or do things like that, big deal.
With that being said, with your guys knowledge, I'm sure you can write all the same code that they (Flixster) is using to draw the information off the web. It would take too long to explain everything their app does so let me just tell you real quick what I do with it the most (1 = Most often use for me, 5 = Less use by me)... 1st> I use it to see what movies are being released on DVD and when! (I look at the releases on or before almost every Tuesday) 2> I use it to see who was in certain movies 3> I use it to search for movies that certain actors were in (2 & 3 come in really handy when you can think of the actor but not the movie or you can think of the movie but not the actor) 4> What the big box office smash is 5> What's playing at a theater near me.
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I'll think of more great-to-me ideas later but right now, I'm gonna go to bed. Nighty Night
