My WP7 app Alphabets4Kids has crossed 2000 downloads. I am very excited and humbled. Thank you for all your support!
Monday, October 31, 2011
Sunday, August 7, 2011
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.
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.
Thursday, June 30, 2011
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!
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!
Monday, June 27, 2011
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.
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.
Monday, June 20, 2011
MilesCalc - An app which calculates miles
Many times, I remind myself to jot down the miles traveled on a particular day, so that I could get reimbursed. Then, as usual, I forget. Or I would be too lazy!
Then, the MilesCalc was born. (Needless to say, it is my 4th Windows Phone app).
MilesCalc - short for Miles Calculator. It does exactly what it says - calculates the miles you traveled - at the click of two buttons - START and STOP. Yes, that simple.
Download the same here. And please place your marketplace reviews - good or bad.
Here are some screenshots of MilesCalc.
Friday, June 17, 2011
Numbers4Kids
On the lines of 4Kids series, we have published another app for kids to learn numbers - Numbers4Kids. Please try it out.
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Re-designing Alphabets4Kids app
We have 2 apps in the marketplace, and the downloads are progressing. Good news.
But we think we could do a much better job in designing the layout of the apps. We took Alphabets4Kids app as a guinea pig.
To make good movies, you need to watch good (and bad) movies. To write a good book, you need to read a lot. To create (I intentionally did not use the word "develop") a beautiful app, you need to look at other apps. So, I took time to read and wander around to see other apps. And that gave me a new perspective of designing apps. Windows Phone 7 gives a wonderful ecosystem which we could leverage and put in our creative brains together to come up with top-notch apps.
I went ahead and did (and re-did) a re-design of Alphabets4Kids. It is available in the marketplace now.
Below are some screenshots:
We think we could do a much better job on this. We would be bringing new features for this app in near future.
But we think we could do a much better job in designing the layout of the apps. We took Alphabets4Kids app as a guinea pig.
To make good movies, you need to watch good (and bad) movies. To write a good book, you need to read a lot. To create (I intentionally did not use the word "develop") a beautiful app, you need to look at other apps. So, I took time to read and wander around to see other apps. And that gave me a new perspective of designing apps. Windows Phone 7 gives a wonderful ecosystem which we could leverage and put in our creative brains together to come up with top-notch apps.
I went ahead and did (and re-did) a re-design of Alphabets4Kids. It is available in the marketplace now.
Below are some screenshots:
We think we could do a much better job on this. We would be bringing new features for this app in near future.
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