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Daily wallpaper 1.1 for Nokia N9. Knows how to cut and rotate

January 18, 2012 By Artem Leave a Comment

Direct Nokia Store link - http://store.ovi.com/content/214273

I’ve released the free Daily Wallpaper for Nokia N9 a couple of months ago. Since that time it enjoyed nearly nine thousands of downloads (quite a number for this platform) and was keeping me personally entertained. Once an hour (or once a day or once a month) it is downloading the fresh cool wallpaper from flickr and every time I unlock the phone I can enjoy a new interesting photo.

Since the moment of release, the most popular request (sometimes even causing the low rating in the Nokia Store) was not to rotate the too wide images, but to cut the central part out of it. I do love the rotation, but my opinion is totally irrelevant compared to the customers. So since yesterday, version 1.1 knows how to do both rotation and cutting. Cutting is the default mode. Enjoy and, please, submit more requests or vote on the existing ones.

Filed Under: Agile Software Development, Nokia Tagged With: Agile Software Development, MeeGo

Winter holidays: 50% discount on Easy Discount Calculator for Nokia N9 and Symbian phones

December 28, 2011 By Artem Leave a Comment

For those too busy to read the whole post: from now and until the end of winter you can get Easy Discount Calculator for Symbian and Nokia N9 for 50% cheaper (1 euro in most of the countries) from Nokia Store at http://store.ovi.com/content/186742

I am a big fan of small utilities tuned for the very concrete purpose. And I don’t enjoy messing with the lots of discount calculations. You know, when one headset for my phone was 49 euro and now it it is 33% cheaper, but then there is the other one that used to be 69 euro and now it is 40% cheaper. How much do they actually cost?

Simple, elegant, slick, fast!

That was exactly the reason a group of friends (Artem Marchenko, Jarmo Parkkinen, Tuukka Lindoos and Ekaterina Kuts) decided to solve and created Easy Discount Calculator, the first ever real app that runs on Symbian devices, MeeGo Harmattan devices (Nokia N9) and Android devices from the same source code. OK, Android support was a bit of an experiment, so on some phones it works flawlessly, on others it doesn’t, so we offer it for free.

Top ranked and top rated after a couple of months in sales

From the sales start in September, this Discount Calculator was steadily climbing up the best seller list and is right now is the top rated and second top seller business app for Nokia N9 and just below the top page of Symbian business apps top seller list. So we figured if people like the clean UX and find the app useful, why don’t we give it out cheaper for after-Christmas sales and maybe we manage to climb to the very top seller position for the business apps.

Winter discounts! Get it for just one euro or even cheaper

So from now and until the end of February 2012, Easy Discount Calculator is available for the cheapest possible price for Symbian phones and Nokia N9! That is 50% reduction of what it used to cost. Exact price is determined by Nokia store, I believe for most of the European and American countries it should be around 1 euro or 1 dollar.

You can get the Symbian and N9 versions from Nokia Store at http://store.ovi.com/content/186742 and Android beta is available for free at http://bit.ly/discountcalculator

If you happen to have a minute for comments, we would also love to reply to your comments and proposals at our support web-site http://discussions.zoho.com/easydiscountcalculator

Filed Under: Agile Software Development, Android Programming Tagged With: Agile Software Development, MeeGo

The Importance Of Objective C in iPhone and IDE Applications

October 25, 2011 By Ray Leave a Comment

iPhone Application Development Apple has been able to spread its wings when it comes to sharing real time data via wireless solutions. This has opened up new doors in communications and mobile application development platforms. This marketing genius has been able to create high level web apps with the help of iPhone, Cocoa, and of [...]

Filed Under: iPhone Programming, Objective C Programming

How the iPhone can use Linux Programming to Improve its Presence

October 19, 2011 By Julie Vascos Leave a Comment

With the massive improvements in features from previous Linux versions, there are a lot of time savers, tips, tricks, and other resources that are available to its users, including new implementations for the iPhone. There has been a vast collection of tutorials, links, and how to resources accumulated in the effort to help get the most [...]

Filed Under: iPhone Programming, Linux

The Death of the Smartphone

August 30, 2011 By Barbara Hudson Leave a Comment

Smartphones and tablets might be the current hot technology, but history says it’s all just another fad. Twenty years from now, almost nobody will own either device. Seems unbelievable, but the same technology that makes them hot today will make them not tomorrow. Consider what happened to another "must-have" technology: the fax machine.

Filed Under: Mobile

HP’s Tablet Failure: Big Fun for FOSS Fanatics

August 26, 2011 By Richard Adhikari Leave a Comment

There may be life yet for the seemingly defunct HP TouchPad. The company has discontinued its development of all webOS devices, leading retailers to drastically mark down prices on the TouchPads they have in stock. Some buyers have been able to score one for as little as $100 — that’s $400 off the initial asking price when the device entered the market a couple of months ago.

Filed Under: Mobile

Will Google Build an Uber Android?

August 16, 2011 By Erika Morphy Leave a Comment

The initial response to Google’s surprise announcement on Monday that it had inked a deal to acquire Motorola Mobility for US$12.5 billion was that it was a move largely to protect itself from the increasing patent attacks against Android. That could be why all five major manufacturers of Android devices appear to be thrilled with the deal. Should they be?

Filed Under: Android Programming

The Future of Android, Part 1: The Legal Squeeze

August 2, 2011 By Richard Adhikari Leave a Comment

To say Android’s popular among consumers is like saying Godzilla’s a lizard. It’s a question of degree. More than 500,000 new Android devices were being activated daily, and the number was growing at 4.4 percent week over week, Google’s Andy Rubin tweeted in late June. comScore’s figures show that for the three-month period ending in May, Android was the leading mobile platform in the United States.

Filed Under: Android Programming

Android Apps and the Honeycomb Holdup

July 26, 2011 By Jack M. Germain Leave a Comment

Android Honeycomb tablets are now on store shelves and vendor websites. Six months from Honeycomb’s release, tablet makers have finally optimized their hardware to fit the new made-for-tablets OS version to their larger-than-smartphone screens. But where are the apps?

Filed Under: Android Programming

Android Pulls In 500,000 Pairs of Eyeballs Every Day

June 28, 2011 By Rob Spiegel Leave a Comment

Each day, more than half a million Android devices fire up. That’s the word from Andy Rubin, Google’s VP of engineering. In a Twitter post Monday, Rubin also noted the number of Android daily activations is growing 4.4 percent week over week. It was only two months ago that Google touted daily activations at 400,000.

Filed Under: Android Programming

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