My first Web application: Hypnocity

Hypnocity BannerHypnocity is my first iPhone Web application. I was goofing around with my iPhone at the office and was checking out the public website for my hometown (and current employer), Arlington County, Virginia, a community just a stone's throw across the Potomac River from Washington, DC, and was sorely disappointed by how difficult it was to find certain information that I felt, as a resident, was of great usefulness to me. I thought of putting the useful phone numbers and addresses in my iPhone Contacts application, but that seemed way too much effort for just some quick links. Well, hell, I'm a Web guy. Why don't I just create my own Web application that nicely displays the info I feel is important and then I can just access it anytime I want? So I did it and a few days later had Hypnocity.
Hypnocity is a simple and extremely useful Web application that makes it simple-as-pie for people to find all the most important phone numbers and addresses for services in Arlington County, Virginia, and to be able to immediately dial those numbers or find those numbers on a map via the magical wonderfulness of the iPhone. Got a stray dog terrorizing the block? Just tap the number for Animal Control! Need to find out the address for the library branch that has a hard-to-find book? Tap and get its address just like that! More seriously, need the local substance abuse hotline? Need to report a broken fire hydrant? Want to find out if the county has towed your car and where to pick it up? Want to report suspected child abuse? Gang activity? Or do you just want to find the location of the nearest Metro station? All this and more is available...

The Horrid Origin of Count Macula

Except for some use of an Apple IIc in high school my entire life had been one dominated by Windows, personally and professionally. I ran a help desk supporting Windows machines, I had a PC at home, and I was happy. Then, one seemingly inauspicious day I saw an iMac G5 and in that instant was transformed. My PC life quickly deteriorated. Despite how much I had invested in the Windows platform, the lure of the Mac was too much and before long I quit struggling and succumbed to its rapturous seduction. 

I was born again as a Mac person and nothing was ever the same again. Colors were brighter, applications were faster, everything I wanted to do was easier and had a magic to it that made my former existence seem pale and crude. I rid myself of all traces of my Windows life, even sloughing off Microsoft Office until I was no longer stained by any vestige of Windows or its related hardware and software.
I held off buying a new cellphone to replace my Motorola SLVR for a year on rumors of an iPhone and, when it launched, I was there in line on opening day. I have purchased three PowerBooks and a MacBook for others, effectively turning them also into the creature I had become. I have added a Time Capsule to my system as I obsessively seek to sever more and more physical cables and become truly wireless. And I have even begun to write my own iPhone applications, expanding my abilities in ways I could never have imagined prior to the start of my iLife. There is no going back, of this I am sure. My Windows life is over and I am bound for eternity to Apple and its supernaturally astonishing creations. The man I was before is gone and in his place there is only Count Macula....

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