I guess I’m lucky to have a good memory and almost always remember the electricity cut-off schedule in my area of Beirut, but I know a lot of people who keep on forgetting it and can definitely make use of this new iPhone application by Mustafa Baalbaki.
Only those living in Beirut would appreciate “Beirut Electricity” because they daily suffer forgetting when electricity is off.
You need to know that electricity in Beirut city (capital of Lebanon) is off everyday for three hours, and each day these three hours are withdrawn backwards. For example, if the power today is off from 3:00 PM till 6:00 PM, so tomorrow it will be off from 12:00 PM till 3:00 PM and so forth until reaching 06:00 AM to 09:00 AM, and then it switches back to be off from 03:00 PM to 06:00 PM. It’s weird and this App is here to solve the calculation problem for you.
When you first launch the App, you need to configure it by specifying the day and time cut range, and based on your input you can find when the electricity will be off at your location any time and on any day.
The application works on iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad but requires iOS 4.0 or later, and you can of course get it via the iTunes store.
I don’t have an idea about the schedule of areas outside Beirut, but if they also follow a certain system then we’ll probably see some similar releases soon, or maybe an upgrade of the current application.
Via Bilal Houri.
I personally think it’s useless 😛 I mean I know the schedule by heart, and I’ve known it for years, plus I live outside beirut, so ours is 10-2, 2-6, 6-12 (and they rotate daily), weekends and holidays are different, and of course summer is just chaotic (they help the private generators collect more money from us)
Funky idea for those who can’t keep track. I do mostly but not after a few days of bank holidays when it doesn’t necessarily cut. My solution is Google Calendar.
I need this! I always forget the schedule and get pissed off whenever I get home with arms full of groceries and have to climb 6 flights of stairs! Thanks for sharing!
what if we live in baabda how would we know? the cut-offs are not the same timing.
The idea and front end presentation are great!
I wish it would take a first setting of 2013!
I have to extrapolate