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[greenturtle]

Sniper

Ever wanted to send anonymous text messages? Ever been on a bus and seen a cute girl sitting in the corner and wished you had her number? Ever been in shop with annoying children playing ringtones and wish you could think of a subtle way to tell them stop it? Ever been in a classroom, office or a pub with your mates and wish you could scare, shock  or make them laugh somehow?

Well now you can! Sniper is an amazing application that is simple and very useful to use. Currently in its beta stages Sniper has a very initiative menu system that will make it easier for you to make the correct decision.

Created by Ifor Evans it will run on any Windows Mobile Device! Including Smartphone’s and Pocket PC’s! It also runs at any resolution and on any operating system!

With sniper you can:-

Choose the incoming folder that you files are delivered to!

 incoming.JPG   19.26K   31 downloads

Decide what type of BlueTooth connection you want to have!

 choice.JPG   10.6K   36 downloads

Scan Bluetooth devices and display actual names instead of waiting for the name to show up!

 name.JPG   22.62K   30 downloads

Decide whether you want to send a message!

 mes2.JPG   23.56K   24 downloads  mes1.JPG   7.08K   28 downloads

Take a look!  sending_message.wmv   1.67MB   1275 downloads

Or send a File or even multiple files!

 multi.JPG   18.78K   26 downloads

Or Rescan again

 rescan.JPG   22.49K   21 downloads

When devices send you messages you will have the option to accept it and then save in the inbox or incoming folder!!!

 accept.JPG   10.75K   27 downloads  view.JPG   10.08K   26 downloads  view2.JPG   6.54K   28 downloadshment]

Take a look!  inbox.wmv   878.47K   641 downloads

And even get status reports of sent and received files!

 status.JPG   10K   23 downloads

With many more features to come Sniper will blow all other Bluetooth applications right out of the water!
Sniper will soon have the ability to:-

• Pair with devices!
• Auto Accept!
• Have different views on the background, e.g. received files or received txts!
• Sms sending abilities! (maybe)
• Ability to send different file types to different folders!
• Percentage bars or of how longer it will take to receive, send and scan!

And much much more……


But we need you help!

In order to make this app even more amazing, we need ideas! If you have any ideas or comments then please please let us know in this thread.

It will be charged at a very reasonable price of £6.99 when submitted to the MoDaCo shop and £8.99 when submitted to Handango.

The beta testing is now full!

If you are testing please post all bugs, feedback & suggestions here!

Thanks very much

Sam and Ifor.

Attached Files

•  Sniper_Viewing_Message.wmv   1.21MB   887 downloads

[Unic0der]

Wow, thats HOT! Got PM. But I think a public Beta would be much better for the quality of the app.

Edited by leethacker, 23 May 2006 - 09:00 PM.

[greenturtle]

please remember guys please sign up even if you have an Windows Mobile device AND! a non smartphone with bluetooth!

thanks

Sam and Ifor

[Unic0der]

mini_man, on May 23 2006, 23:16, said:

please remember guys please sign up even if you have an Windows Mobile device AND! a non smartphone with bluetooth!
thanks
Sam and Ifor

Okay, in this case you can also add a Motorola V3, L7, V635, a T68i and K700i from SonyEricsson to my list. *ggg*

Edited by leethacker, 23 May 2006 - 09:32 PM.

[franztristan]

i would gladly give this app a try...[email protected]

my device o2 xphoneII
windows mobile smartphone 2003se

Edited by franztristan, 24 May 2006 - 02:17 AM.

[guidud]

Would be happy to test it with my spvc600. Does the reiciver must have your program installed and running to ?

[riyazhyder]

Hi,
I'd love to have this tested.. my details are

Riyaz Mohiyuddeen
SPV C500 Unlocked logged on to Airtel India
Windows 03 SE ROM Version 4.2.1.4

Bluetooth devises
1.Samsung D500  
2.Laptop compaq wide screen

• Mail me at [email protected] or [email protected]

[iforevans]

Hi,

No the receiver doesn't HAVE to have Sniper on it. Hence you can send messages to other types of SmartPhones like Nokias.

However, Sniper has a built in "Inbox" for txt messages received over BlueTooth so for receiving on MS mobiles it's much prettier ;-)

...Ifor

[Unic0der]

Can't wait for the Beta-test to start...

[shanedean]

I've added my name too  

Wasn't there something similar to this a while back......?  A BT messaging/bothering thing?

[greenturtle]

Ok! thanks for the applicants so far its been great to know people actually want this app.

Lets talk numbers!

In the Windows Mobile Device to Windows Mobile Device Group we are full!

In the Windows Mobile Device to Non Windows Mobile Device Group we are full!

So Stop Requesting To Be In The Test Program!!

Anyway so Im now going to name each tester and the group they are in.

In the Windows Mobile Device to Windows Mobile Device Group we have.

james

M1DUL

Sky_Lab

jameshpg

Newchurch

Conan_troutman

Jcjdoss

Tech

janp92

The Ape

In the Windows Mobile Device to Non Windows Mobile Device Group we have.

leethacker

Sporkguy

rowmiyo

lukeap69

chelttown

badboy4life

riyazhyder

shanedean

thug_playah

dexter_roos

All of you will be notified within the next 3 hours about testing and the next beta version if you have signed in late!

Thanks for your support but we still need to fill up these few remaining places!

Thanks Sam and Ifor

[Unic0der]

Hey cool. I hope I can get the first beta today because tomorrow I have a family meeting where I meets lots of persons with lots of different phones. The perfect situation for testing Sniper in a real-world situation.

Edited by leethacker, 24 May 2006 - 05:10 PM.

[greenturtle]

Ok the first beta cab has been sent out! please post if you do not recieve it.

Thanks Sam and Ifor

[Unic0der]

Haha, okay, lets start with the first bugreport:

1) There is no notification telling me that I am currently receiving a file.

2) File transfer will interrupt somewhere in the middle when I try to send huge files via bluetooth to the storage card. I assume that somehow the file is cached in the main memory and after that transferred to external storage in this beta. This is a pretty bad approach, because as it is now if I have only 512KB free on my phone I can only receive files with a maximum of 512KB, even if I have gigabytes of free room on my storage card.

Okay, that are my first impressions.

Oh, and i guess its written in .Net Compact Framework, right? (because of the long startup time), right?

[iforevans]

leethacker, on May 24 2006, 14:34, said:

Haha, okay, lets start with the first bugreport:

1) There is no notification telling me that I am currently receiving a file.

2) File transfer will interrupt somewhere in the middle when I try to send huge files via bluetooth to the storage card. I assume that somehow the file is cached in the main memory and after that transferred to external storage in this beta. This is a pretty bad approach, because as it is now if I have only 512KB free on my phone I can only receive files with a maximum of 512KB, even if I have gigabytes of free room on my storage card.

Okay, that are my first impressions.

Oh, and i guess its written in .Net Compact Framework, right? (because of the long startup time), right?

Hmm ... Sniper will not start receiving a file without you having agreed to the transfer. Are you saying you didn't get a confirmation popup? What device was this on?

The issue with large transfers I am aware of, and am working on a resolution :-)

have yyou tried the txt messaging side of things yet?

...Ifor

[Unic0der]

iforevans, on May 24 2006, 20:39, said:

Hmm ... Sniper will not start receiving a file without you having agreed to the transfer. Are you saying you didn't get a confirmation popup? What device was this on?
The issue with large transfers I am aware of, and am working on a resolution :-)
have yyou tried the txt messaging side of things yet?
...Ifor

No, havent tried text messages yet as I am pretty busy today. I will do that tomorrow. And, no, I dont get a confirmation popup on my phone. It just receives the file without asking me and asks me if it should be received when the transfer is already done. ;-) I am on a i-Mate SP5 with latest AKU2 ROM here and I send the files from my PC (with MS Bluetooth stack).

[M1DUL]

[1) On My Orange SPV M5000 PPC WM5 When I sent a Test message to it from my Orange SPV C500 WM2003Se I can not Delete the message it comes up saying Unexpected Exception occured in Delete Message Reason:-IO Exception

2) When I click onto the Hide bit I can not get the Sniper back up and running I have to restart both the Devices to get the program to come  back on.

Okay, that are my first impressions.

[greenturtle]

hey there thanks for picking up on that as well, we were seeing if it was just certain phones or many!

We are aware of this problem and are near completion on a fix for this.

A new version will be distributed shortly.

Enjoy the testing.

Sam

[Unic0der]

Okay, feature request:

Just talked with my friends about the app and some of them told me that a in-built bluejacking solution would be great. That means: You select a picture or a textmessage, press "Bluejack" and then the phone sends this picture or message to all other bluetooth enabled devices in range, and that every 30 seconds (or more or less / should be user defineable). Haha, stuff for the kiddies , but cool in some way I have to admit. I imagine walking through some crowd with this function running, and all phones around me start beeping and ringing. *lol*

And a request directly from me: Please add all the functions in the first post. That is:

• Pair with devices!
• Auto Accept!

Edited by leethacker, 24 May 2006 - 09:07 PM.

[iforevans]

leethacker, on May 24 2006, 17:02, said:

Okay, feature request:

Just talked with my friends about the app and some of them told me that a in-built bluejacking solution would be great. That means: You select a picture or a textmessage, press "Bluejack" and then the phone sends this picture or message to all other bluetooth enabled devices in range, and that every 30 seconds (or more or less / should be user defineable). Haha, stuff for the kiddies , but cool in some way I have to admit. I imagine walking through some crowd with this function running, and all phones around me start beeping and ringing. *lol*

And a request directly from me: Please add all the functions in the first post. That is:

• Pair with devices!
• Auto Accept!

OK ... AutoAccept is going to be a setting, file type to different folders ... Ok ... but there can't be a folder for EVERY filetype ... there are thousands ;-)

Auto swtich on before Send? I LIKE it! it will be incorporated ...


Set up pairing? What for? What extra does that get you? Am I missing something?


...Ifor