Description
See a video demonstration at cygen.com.
To view the timeline, tap the brown outline of a topic. This will display and info icon that you can press to reach the timeline. Version 1.4 will provide a more intuitive method of reaching the timeline.
*** Note OS 3.0 is required ***
When Did It Happen Facts, for iPhone and iPod Touch, lets you scroll through facts by date. Scroll through topics by flicking their outer edge or using the interactive timeline. Text within a topic is also scrollable. From the election of Barack Obama to the Big Bang, you'll gets lots of enjoyment as you flick through the pages of history.
Excellent for students and history enthusiast alike, as you'll always have an easy to use pocket history reference for finding out when something happened.
By tapping the outer edge of a topic, you'll reveal an info icon. Tapping the icon brings up the settings screen, containing the following features:
- Interactive Timeline
- Save your favorites
- Search by date, term or combination of both
- Email a fact
- Adjustable font size
When Did It Happen Facts contains over 1200 entries and doesn't require an Internet connection. Facts are stored locally on your device.
Topics include the following timelines:
- Ancient history
- Historical US gasoline prices
- Historical US Housing prices
- Election of all US Presidents
- Membership of all countries into European Union
- Early aviation history
- Admission of all US states
- Life of Albert Einstein
- Life of Wolfgang Mozart
- Life of Alfred Nobel (of Nobel Prize)
- Rise of Nazi Germany
- World War II
- Nobel Prizes
- Michael Jackson
- WW I
- US Civil War
- Early Colonial America
- Founding of U.S.A.
...and more!
As always, updates are free. Keep in touch with the latest product developments at cygen.com. Follow us on twitter: cygeniphoneapps.
What's New in Version 1.3
New application icon.
Customer Reviews
Disappointing
I can't say what I expected, but it certainly wasn't this. This isn't as much a timeline of history as a collection of chronologically assorted events, many more biographical than historical. No thought is given to the relative importance of the material vis a vis the preponderance of the respective data, e.g., there are no less than 76 "cards" on Michael Jackson, maybe a great pop idol, but hardly a major historical figure. And frankly, I don't care when he started putting spiders in LaToya's bed. Moreover, many of the "facts" are incorrect. Pres. Kennedy is listed as a Republican! This seems to be still another of that breed of apps generated without discretion from online material. There are no options to annotate, bookmark, or reorganize the data to one's liking. The graphics are stale. The design makes it hard to use. If thought out, this could have been a nice, useful app, rather than what it is -- grist for the bored.
First
This is a pretty fun and amusing app when you have some time on your hands. I was searching through, and I found that you forgot 1492, where Christopher Columbus discovered America.
Great app!
Ha! Thanks for adding one my suggestions. Great update!!!
--(my previous review):
This is an interesting concept. Hoping you'll add more in future updates such as composers (Mozart, Bach) and famous discoveries.
- $2.99
- Category: Reference
- Updated: Oct 16, 2009
- Current Version: 1.3
- 0.9 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: Brett Romero
- © Cygen 2009
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch. Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later.
