News and chat about and around ArrivedOK - the Personal Flight Arrival Tracker and mobile tool for travelers like you to instantly notify your friends and family when you arrive at airports worldwide
An interesting article by Susan Nielsen, The Oregonian:
Flight delays don’t bother me. Neither do cramped bathrooms, bad snacks, bag fees, even screaming babies. I’m one of those travelers so geekily enthralled with the miracle of flight that almost no inconvenience feels like a real problem.
But pilots who forget to land? OK, that’s a problem. And it may herald the future of air travel, if the industry continues to treat pilots and other essential employees as dispensable.
Two commercial pilots for Northwest Airlines — one from Salem — earned global ridicule last week for overshooting their destination by 150 miles, falling out of radio contact for 90 minutes and nearly prompting military intervention for a flight with more than 140 passengers.
The news for today is that our mobile site became fully functional – now you can sign-up with m.arrivedok.mobi, edit records, update your personal profile etc – all the things you do at our main site. Also:
If you go to the regular Arrivedok.mobi site from a mobile device, you’re redirected to the mobile version by default (there’s a link to the main website if you want it).
It became simpler, faster, more lightweight, a true mobile resource for travelers.
ArrivedOK (both the web interface, the engine and the server) undergoes a major update.
You may notice that since yesterday (1) it became remarkably faster. (2) the interface changes comprise Groups in the address book and the option to add recipients from a list; (3) less javascript applied, which means less troubles for MSIE8 users; (4) mobile site redesigned for enhanced functionality (now you can register and do all the things on the go) and compatibility with older handsets (the interface needs further refurbishing though); (5) the tracking algorithm is greatly improved to provide better service quality when detecting arrivals in certain countries and mobile networks. (6) many other things. French and Japanese localizations are temporarily shut down due to full GUI backend re-writing; they will be added back later. It’s still beta, and it’s still free, so please send us your feedback!
Watch ArrivedOK video tutorial in English updated with female character and voice-over. Learn how ArrivedOK looks like from the inside and how to use it – in only 3 minutes.
