GivenTakenPro

I have around 7 apps as of now, all FREE. I have always thought about releasing a paid app. That thought bothered me sporadically over the period, when I was doing MilesCalc. But I decided to make to FREE. Then came GivenTaken. And then I pushed it more to include Live Tiles and Reminder feature. And added a $0.99 price tag to it, making it another app GivenTakenPro.  Just wanted to see how bad the additional features are needed.

So, here is GivenTakenPro, available in marketplace, only for $0.99. Please download and enjoy - http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/apps/0242c4c0-3b7f-4160-9175-0c0017592d88.

I have started using it, and it has changed my circumstances. It will to you too.

GivenTaken update

A slight change of plan. I apologise for any confusion caused to the users.

All my apps till now were free. Yes, free as in beer! :)

I thought of placing a "pro" version of GivenTaken for a mere $0.99.

We have now two versions of GivenTaken:

GivenTaken - free
GivenTakenPro - $0.99.

GivenTaken - A Lend and Borrow app

How many times you have lost track of what you have lend  to  or borrowed from your friends, relatives and co-workers?

Here is an easy to use WP7 app, which helps you keep a log of all those things so that you can free up that creative mind of yours for other creative things.

GivenTaken.
Remember what you gave. Remember what you took,

You can download the same at: http://windowsphone.com/s?appid=642c15fc-b7a9-44a7-9982-26c668a1eb9b

2000 and running...

My WP7 app Alphabets4Kids has crossed 2000 downloads. I am very excited and humbled. Thank you for all your support!

The Hindu Life

I am a Hindu. But I did not know what it exactly meant till recently. More of the awareness came from the Satsangs (spiritual group discussions) we had for a year or so. The group discussions were more geared towards practical applications of Hindu philosophy in our daily life. The scriptures are so full of knowledge and so full of life, and we take them for granted. The biggest shortcoming of Hindu scriptures, what we all agree is that the language they are put in - Sanskrit. And today's mass have no clue of this language.

TheHinduLife is an app, which gives a small dose of Hinduism. It is no way near to perfection. There will be number of updates coming for sure. But I think this is a good start.

Please download the same at http://windowsphone.com/s?appid=49223139-4aeb-41fa-87be-8a6c336c6f04.

Hanselminutes

This is one of those days I feel so lucky. And fortunate.

It has been a privilege to create Hanselminutes podcasts app for Windows Phone 7. I was already half-way through with the app when I contacted Scott Hanselman (yes, the Scott Hanselman!) for his blessings and his permission to publish the app. He is a very busy person, and was quite surprised when I got his reply after 2-3 days. Yes, I did not expect him to reply to me so soon, as I knew he is a very busy person (yeah, I said that before!) and he is always traveling and speaking around the world.

Scott was gracious enough to give me a go. I send him screenshots and we went back and forth for a week. Then we finalized on what we wanted.

As a bonus, we have also included a section where you could go and read Scott's blog entries.

The app is now published and is available in the marketplace for download.


Scott's website: http://www.hanselman.com
Hanselminutes: http://www.hanselminutes.com

Thanks Scott, for giving me this opportunity!

MilesCalc update

MilesCalc needed some accuracy in locating the position. It has been updated and is available in the marketplace with the following modifications:

Distance Calculation
Replaced the simple DistanceTo() method on the Location object, with Harvesine formula, to calculate distance.

Battery Efficiency
The first version used to poll the position every second. That was both inefficient in locating the position and also using the battery unnecessarily. Now, I have changed to poll only every 20 meters.

High Accuracy
The GeoPositionWatcher has been set to High Accuracy. This might be an effect on the battery, but it would get the location more accurately.

You could download the update here.

Number of downloads (as of 06/22/2011): 111.