Thanks for fixing the problem with “study all”! :)
Here is another problem:

I just tried to sync my iPod touch with the cards
on my iBook. This worked fine several weeks ago in
a different wireless network, but it doesn’t work
in the wireless network of my new university:
My iBook and my iPod touch are both connected to
the internet via the same wireless network. When
trying to export cards, the iFlash application just
keeps looking for an iPod without finding it.
Or maybe there are too many iPods in the network?

Did anyone experience similar problems?
Is this a “feature” of the wireless network?
Is there a solution that doesn’t involve changes
to the wireless network?

Thanks!

Martin

Right now I am exporting everything from iFlash to another iPhone app for studying. The app isn’t as polished as yours, but I gotta tell you it offers a lot more features than yours and it gets the job done.

Also, I have used iFlash for a long time now, so I know this iPhone app is a recent edition, but there are a lot of people who are new to iFlash, see there is a companion iPhone app (which was probably the deciding factor to buy) and then realize later that the app has almost none of the functionality of the desktop version… you don’t think thats a rather poor user experience? They set everything up on their mac then find only basic functionality exists on their iPhone, no wonder they feel cheated.

love the app! but i when can see other features like font support. sometimes i have long questions that don’t fit on the ipod touch. but otherwise it’s a great app.

The app is an add-on. It has no stand-alone functionality without the desktop, which should’ve been apparent when you first downloaded it. It clearly states in the app store description that iFlash Touch is the COMPANION app to the desktop version. Its in bold for goodness sakes! Even if that caveat was added after the fact, its not the developer’s fault if you downloaded the trial for FREE and went 2 WEEKS without figuring out that iFT doesn’t have algorithms and images.

Now, I wouldn’t mind having full functionality either, but your comment about not everyone having a mac is irrelevant. Not everyone has an iphone either, should he make a standalone palm and windows mobile version too? He’s a part-time Mac developer, and still in school. He just learned how to code specifically for the iphone at the request of desktop users. Its a side project, and he didn’t have to do it at all, let alone for free. Plus, its not like the app store description is misleading. Reading is fundamental Alex, he even offered you a refund.

Davy, great app. Please add a folder system in the next update. I’ve got 50+ decks of various unrelated subjects and its really cumbersome to sort through all of them to get to the one i want.

For me, I was browsing the app store one day looking specifically for some sort of flash card study tool to help me with my upcoming Portuguese class. I had tried 1 or 2 already but didn’t want to put much effort into building decks with them cause I wasn’t quite happy with them. I saw iFlash mentioned in some blog on the internet and decided to give it a try because it had some good reviews (likely from individuals in ivory towers). I was a little surprised and dismayed by the little disclaimer saying it needed a desktop app companion in order to work. Seemed reasonable to assume that an app like this in the app store would be stand alone… but it is what it is. Coincidentally, I just so happened to have a mac. Since I’ve been a Windows/Linux user my whole life so I emphasize “coincidentally”.

But I figured “what the hay”, the App looks pretty good, the desktop has a demo, and if I have to deal with a desk top version to get a good hand held version, well then so be it, I’ll try anything once.

So I start using the app and it turns out it is fitting my needs. Its very handy on the go, and I like the look and feel of it. A week later class starts. So I begin adding each days vocabulary to my deck and it grows to about 70. At this point I’m still pretty happy with the app so I commit and purchase the desktop version just as it expired. Each successive week of class I add about 100 vocabulary words to my deck. Whoa, now plunging through this deck is becoming a little painful, 100’s of cards in which you know %85 percent of them, plus I’m discovering little annoying bugs here and there that wear on your nerves after hours of studying. Oh lookie, lets try one of these study/learning algorithms, it’ll help hide those 100’s of cards that I clearly have memorized already… nice. Oh wait…. doesn’t seem to be working on iPhone. But I don’t understand, I clearly see the settings right here on the desktop, and sure enough, it works on the desktop. Did I miss some fine print somewhere… Ahhhhha, I find out its not supported by reading the blog on this site and notice other people asking for this very feature. The deck has grown to 700+, too painful to study through, and there is a bug (which i have emailed Dave about), that actually prevents you from studying the deck on your device. I’m never at my mac, so now I have a $15 flash card app that I can’t use. Buyer’s remorse sets in.

Minus the actual software bugs and the missing study algorithms on the hand held device, I’m a happy camper and oddly enough don’t mind buying a desktop application as a means to use a hand held one. I’m sure Dave’s a smart guy and realizes this is going to be the scenario with some users, if not a “majority” of his new users since the app first appeared in the app store. I’m not surprised that Apple gave him a hard time approving the app since he is getting a mother load of advertising for free on the app store and basically bypassing Apple’s %30 cut. With the plugs Apple has pulled on other projects I’m more surprised that iFlash got the green light. So to those of you who want to say “Its a FREE app so quit complaining”, those of use who found this in the app store and were looking for an iPhone app are going to tell you guys to “shove it, it’s not free”. On that note, I actually wouldn’t mind it being a “for charge” app and loosing this desktop dependency. Not everyone has mac computer.

Bottom line though, if the bugs I’ve experienced weren’t there, and the study algorithms existed on the hand helds, that would be enough pros for me to outweigh the cons. Its not free, so we do have perfectly good reason to speak up when things are not working right.

With that being said, I did read in some post somewhere on this site, that my concerns were going to be addressed and there was some time frame of 2 to 3 months. Unfortunately my class will be just about over by then, but then there Portuguese 201 to take next semester. So I will wait with baited breath for the next update and hopefully I can camp happily after that. I do wish however that “future update” announcements were placed in a more prominent and permanent location on the website and not as some reply to some random comment in a blog.

-alex

Thanks for the fix! It’s all working as promised.