Coming Soon: Strip Sync
We’ve been getting a ton of mail lately about Strip, mostly along the lines of, “when will the desktop client be ready?” We’ve made a ton of progress over the last few weeks, and we really appreciate the various letters of encouragement and everyone’s enthusiasm.
Strip Sync
We are calling the initial desktop client Strip Sync. It provides some really critical functionality for the Strip platform going forward, and it will be offered for free here on our website. It runs on Mac OS X 10.5 and later, and most modern versions of Windows (although “modern” feels like a weird term, given the leap into the future that seems to be taking place at the moment). It’s really two separate, native applications that provide the same excellent and much-needed features:
- Import from CSV – with files from Palm Strip Exporter or any other resource.
- Synchronization with the iPhone – you’ll be able to bring over your old Palm data.
- Independent back-up – for many people, the iTunes backup just isn’t enough.
At some point soon Strip Sync will also provide handy export and printing capabilities, but we’re really eager to get these much-asked-for features out there already, so export and print may not be introduced in the initial version. We’ll see soon.
We’re about ready to start looking for beta testers, we’ll post a notice here on the blog soon and send out a message to the mailing list. If you’d like to be added to our mailing list, send us an email, or just fill out the form over on the Strip product page.
Once Strip Sync is out the door we’re going to use it as the basis of the full-featured desktop version of Strip, which will allow you to enter and edit your data from the desktop, as opposed to having to slowly tap away with your thumbs on the iPhone.
What About Android?
We’ve been getting a lot of queries asking for a version of Strip for Android, but this one really jumps out:
Hi,
Years ago, around the turn of the century, I used to work as an
engineer at Palm Digital Media (eBook division of Palm); all of the
devs and admins in our group worshipped your Strip app.
I have recently acquired an Android device (Nexus One). Please release
a version for Android.
Thanks for making one of the most useful applications ever,
We’d really love to do this, I mean, really, love. Right now our hands are a bit full with those two aforementioned native desktop applications! Once we have the desktop component firmly in place, we can begin to explore other platforms like Android, but for now it’s going to have to wait. We do expect to see an explosion of Android devices over the next year or so, and it would be a fantastic addition to the Strip platform.
If you’ve just got to have Strip on your platform of choice, please let us know, we’re listening.
Thursday, February 04, 2010
Peter T says:
If you do Android, (which I believe to be Linux based, as is Mac OSX), then it should be easy to port it to the N900 and Linux generally. That would widen the market.
I store my current password d/b on a drive I can access from home & work. Support for that in Strip would be a big selling point…
Thursday, February 04, 2010
Billy Gray says:
Hi Peter,
It’s interesting you mentioned that. We do have some wxWidgets code laying around for crypting things onto a thumb-drive as a kind of a “drop crypt”, and we’ve often thought about spiffing it up and releasing it — perhaps it’s time to consider it again.
As far as Android goes – building a great UI (or even a “good” one that is perceived to “not suck”) is the tough and time-consuming part. On Android, you do this using their UI SDK and Java — code that wouldn’t be useful to a JME app or on general Linux.
Anyway, thanks for chiming in, we will keep your comments in mind!
Sunday, February 07, 2010
Yuri says:
I’m looking forward to see desktop version of Strip. Please, make it possible to sync with many computers.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Gary Fawcett says:
Any news on the Sync Strip, just got an ipod and keen to move my Palm Strip DB over to the new unit.
Thanks
Gary