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all hail THX1200 !

hey, great to see you pop in. I figured that anyone who can jump in and knock out iContact AE after a short period of time is probably developing some further great stuff. And given you're a musician and composer, I got it early on that once the core was working, and after you put out the call for helpers to develop at codeplex -- and got, I believe, no answers? -- that you'd prob need to move on just to keep up with other stuff.

Since I'm not a coder, I have no idea. But just anecdotally, I have never had a problem with speed in your pictures-in-list version of iContact ... so I think it is splitting hairs re "absolute fastest performance", but I also respect that he's got his end-goals, and is achieving them. (It wasn't exactly an admission, but when I asked him many months ago about what made him write Avatar, he says he was less driven by picture-based dialing, and simply needed to learn how to program a certain type of function, i can't recall if it was related to transparency or layers or what, and that he thought that would serve as a good project to learn what he needed to learn).

ha hah, so if we interpreted that further, I guess he's STILL not interested in photo-based pick-list on contacts!

I don't know, as I never use it, and, truth be told, don't even know what it is... other than I know T9 was the system that enabled you to spell out letters from a dialpad, using quick repeats to produce the 2nde and 3rd letter of every number key.

But maybe you are speaking of the ability to start dialing a number, OR a person's name, and, as with iContact AE, results start filtering immediately, and refine the more characters you enter.

I have to say that I still like best the implementation of the alphabet grid, and push to select the letter of the last name. And I especially like that it only includes the letters that appear in the last name or first name of the listings.

But my favorite navigation method is visually picking the person, or, rapid sliding the screen to go into that accelerated alphabetical LETTER overlay mode. My Android HERO phone doesn't do that with its default app... but thankfully someone created another app that did in Android marketplace.

I don't know what that is.

Well that sounds great. I love what's going on with music distribution and wifi radiocasts and the services like Grooveshark -- play any song anytime. It actually works. And you should look at the WM app client that someone has built here called Groovefish... It works too. Pandora is also just a godsend.

It's great to see advancement in players. when that kinomo player came out and was ad-plastered all over this site, i tried it and it LOOKED great, with complete finger friendly navigation. But it functioned terribly... No UI designer worth his or her salt would have produced such a mess. SO who knows, maybe the business owner's son gave it a shot.

Two more comments, since this is a pseudo topic-hijack to music players:

(1) I have never, and I mean never, encountered a really user friendly playlist builder. iTunes i think is very very crude, but if you shuffle, then it creates enough variation. So I look forward to what you're doing. Hopefully you have context menus when you press and hold a song title, and it can then find related music by artist, genre, etc. (2) Mode switching from player to library to lists has just been retarded in everything I have used... just too many drill-downs, and lack of intuitive navigation and functionality. When I press a song title anywhere, i expect a context menu to appear, anywhere and everywhere. :)

ttyl