{"id":729,"date":"2011-05-27T23:03:15","date_gmt":"2011-05-28T03:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glennpaulley.ca\/curling\/?p=729"},"modified":"2011-06-02T14:09:35","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T18:09:35","slug":"curling-strategy-tool-on-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glennpaulley.ca\/curling\/2011\/05\/27\/curling-strategy-tool-on-iphone\/","title":{"rendered":"Curling Strategy Tool on iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have often used a strategy board to discuss game situations with the athletes I coach. A strategy board is a really useful tool and I make sure I have one at each practice and every game.<\/p>\n<p>But one frustration that I have is being able to document situations during a game and be able to discuss them afterwards or at a subsequent practice. Switching to paper when I have more than one situation to document is rather inconvenient &#8211; though I&#8217;ve done so oodles of times. Moreover, the paper copy is harder to share amongst team members, and my handwriting is appalling (just ask my kids).<\/p>\n<p>ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<br \/>\nA solution comes with the <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/ca\/app\/curling-strategy-tool\/id362441511?mt=8\">Curling Strategy Tool<\/a> for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad that&#8217;s available from Apple&#8217;s iTunes App Store. The application, recently upgraded to version 2.4.1 (20 May 2011), was developed by Jeff Rogers and is from the same firm that also sells the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theROG.ca\">ROG stopwatch<\/a> curling application, also for iPhone and iPad.<\/p>\n<p>The Curling Strategy Tool isn&#8217;t all <em>that<\/em> sophisticated, but I like its features nonetheless. With it, you can:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>alter the colour of the stones to match the game being played;\n<li>alter the line colour to illustrate different options for both teams;\n<li>flip the house from the top of the screen to the bottom, so that it matches what&#8217;s happening on the ice;\n<li>zoom into the house and quite precisely adjust the position of the stones; and\n<li>save an image on the iPhone, and re-load it by name afterwards.\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can export the images off of the iPhone via email; this permits the coach (me) to annotate the diagram with details from the game situation -game details, sheet, end, score, hammer &#8211; along with my own notes. The images are included as PNG graphics files (320&#215;448 pixels), each about 40K in size &#8211; smaller than the size of a standard iPhone screen capture, which is 640&#215;960. 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