Re: Alarm Maemo from OVI Store
 

It's not a serious app. Looking at Offscr's app catalog, most of their stuff is playful. If you don't like it, don't install it. You aren't paying anything anyway

Re: Alarm Maemo from OVI Store
 

That's the point: Offscr only create playful games and apps, and should not try making serious app, because apparently it can't.

I'm worried for the common user: I know that app is junk and not useful at all, but the common user doesn't: that app is described as a serious app, but can't provide serious security, and maybe someone will trust it and will see its phone stolen.

Hope that there will be many negative comments like mine, so that everyone can understand what that app really is, just like us.

Re: Alarm Maemo from OVI Store
 

It. Is. Not. Serious.

Offscr wasn't trying to make it serious. There's a gun app on the iPhone. I doubt people complain that no bullets come out of it. It is supposed to be fun

Re: Alarm Maemo from OVI Store
 

Yes, you know that it is not serious, because you know the mark, and because you know your phone.

Common people unfortunately don't have your experience, and will think "Wow.This.Is.So.Serious", because, if your read that app's description, you'll realize that there's no "WARNING: this is not serious" sign.

Maybe reading comments like mine they will know what you know.

Re: Alarm Maemo from OVI Store
 

If you think it is serious then you miss the joke. Do fart apps have a warning that say "THIS DOES NOT SMELL"?

Re: Alarm Maemo from OVI Store
 

Well, maybe people I know is not as smart as you are, but I have a friend that this morning thought that app was serious. Ah, this dear friend of mine can imagine that a gun app can't fire bullets, but when he reads of an alarm app and doesn't know that its mark is associated to many fart apps, he initially thinks that it's a serious app.

Call him a strange person, but I agree with him, there shouldn't be jokes about security.

BTW, if you send an email asking what Offscr thinks about this app, I think they'll answer you that it's serious. I don't think they intended it as a joke.

Re: Alarm Maemo from OVI Store
 

as someone mentioned: probably 95% of the thieves have no idea of that shortcut, so it probably serves its purpose being a free app..

Re: Alarm Maemo from OVI Store
 

torpedo48, thanks for all the positive encouragement you give to maemo developers.

Re: Alarm Maemo from OVI Store
 

I vote for nAlertMe to be ported to Maemo. It is useful and has several alarm saounds AND custom user made motion disarming techniques.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjCfGNFAiOE

Video Note: nAlertMe is after the fighting robot

I may contact the developer and ask if he can port it.

Anyway, a new app is a new app. Beggars cant be choosers and it IS better than nothing. You could always make alarm souns with your mouth once your spider sense is tingling as your n900 is being moved out of sight.....

eh....what am I rambling about...

I like Alarm Maemo, the keypad makes me feel like I am disarming my ADT home security system with an awesome touchscreen! :D

Re: Alarm Maemo from OVI Store
 

I'd prefer a useful priced app instead of a free joke. And that app could become useful with just two or three more lines of code.

@Benny: ask around, I've encouraged many valid developers here, I've tested about 70% of all apps in maemo.org repository, and I've helped a lot in improving and bug reporting.

But when a developer is not doing it right, I can't just stay quiet. If you want to encourage Offscr, you decide.

If I encouraged everyone, there would be no need of extras-testing qa queue: negative feedback are more useful than positives, sometimes.