I asked iStock for another couple of API keys as I have some ideas for new phone-based projects. The first is a search/lightbox-management application that will remember frequent searches and show new images that haven’t shown up in those searches before.
Either iStock like the idea of applications that are aimed more at buyers rather [...]

Yesterday I was given an API key, so I’ll start on reworking LiveStock to make use of that.  Current balance and (unordered) recent downloads can come through the API, but details of individual downloads will still have to come from web scraping.  That should be a significant improvement, though.  Not least because the main downloads [...]

I’m not sure that what I was doing was dumb, but I did a major rework of the internals to do the page parsing in a much dirtier way and that gave a massive speedup. Thankfully! It was really pretty horrible. Now it’s very reasonable.
The poor response of the istock site is [...]

Released the first beta of LiveStock on the iStock forums a week ago.  I’ve been using it all the time since before then and I’m really pretty happy with how it’s been working out.  I’m liking Android development much more than the Sidekick development I did.
LiveStock now digs a level deeper to show details of [...]

I’ve been planning to write an istock portfolio monitor/manager app for my G1.  A couple of months ago I applied for an API key so that I’d be ready for when I got the phone.  I’ve had the phone for a couple of weeks now and rather than keep waiting I decided to wire on [...]