Comments on: CheckWord Reviews

By: Mick West

Mick West — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:17:49 +0000

I’m using the Tournament Word List, and not the OSPD. The TWL has the offensive words left in, as well as the new words like ZA.

I might do OSPD in the next update, not a huge demand though.

By: Stan R.

Stan R. — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:07:14 +0000

Mike,

Great interface, BUT it seems that you have some kind of hybrid OSPD that still has words removed in current (Fourth) edition such as jew and cunt, but have added the new words such as za and qi. As any real Scrabble player, I need the real Forth Edition. Any chance of a fix please?

Thanks,

stan

By: Kelly

Kelly — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 23:34:54 +0000

That’s pretty cool app. I gotta get a iphone now…we love to play scrabble, and just got the pocket edition. It’s just such a hassle to carry a dictionary around.

Congrats on launching an app for apple!

Kelly

By: Lee

Lee — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:05:24 +0000

Ah, thanks. That works fine for minimum and I don’t really need maximum.

I’ll RTFM next time :)

By: Mick West

Mick West — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:05:16 +0000

Lee, you can do that to SOME extent with the patterns. Enter a number of dots to specify a word length, and add an @ to make it a minumum:

.... = Four letter words only
....@ = Minimum four letter words

(enter the above in addition to your letters)

No maximum yet though. Maybe 1.2. I did want to keep the interface clean, but maybe I can figure out something. The pattern method might confuse some people, even though it’s fairly powerful.

By: Lee

Lee — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:54:38 +0000

… any other suggestions people might have.

Minimum and maximum length for Makeword.

Sometimes I don’t want to know EVERY word I can make out of a set of letters – just some of a certain length.

By: Mick West

Mick West — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 06:00:06 +0000

Chris, thank for the praise, I’m glad you like it.

I’ve got a few more pots on the stove, but I’ll probably do a 1.2 at some point. At the moment the only features I’m think of are:

1) Landscape mode – with the bigger keyboard, so more accessible for the older crowd.

2) Speed improvements – complex patterns or patterns that return a lot of results can take a long time. I’d like to at least get a progress bar up there, or fix it so the delay is minimized.

I’d be happy to hear of any other suggestions people might have.

By: Mick West

Mick West — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:54:59 +0000

Thanks Lee! Contributions are earmarked for “future” developments, nothing to do with this version :)

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:31:52 +0000

Wow, I’ve been checking every day for Checkword 1.1 and it finally showed up on App Store and…

I am LOVING IT! Seriously, when the iPhone SDK came out, this was the one app I was sooo hoping someone would create… and version 1.1 is EXACTLY what I have been waiting for. THANK YOU, thank you, thank you!

This is by far my fave app since the launch. You rock!

Are you continuing development on this and creating v1.2? Though, at this point, the only changes I can suggest are cosmetic and UI related… the functionality is pretty much flawless in v1.1

Congrats on an amazing app :)

By: Lee

Lee — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 04:01:44 +0000

Done :)

I hope this doesn’t get you in trouble with Apple though. They want get 30% of the gross from iPhone application sales, and we just did an end-run around them.

So if anyone asks, the $ was for something else… um, … web site maintenance fund, maybe?