Welcome to the home page of Mike Clark's Windows Phone 7 apps!
Here you find detailed information on my apps, and how to use them. I hope that you
find the information you find here to be useful in your decision making!
Please click on the Products tab to see the apps, then on each individual app's side tab
in turn. Or, click on the app splashscreen image below.
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| Fraction Calculator |
Decimal to
Fraction Converter |
Celsius, Fahrenheit
and Kelvin |
Coin Tosser |
Just Sayin' |
What's New?
Ham Radio Practice License Exam Apps on the Way!
23 March 2011 — I am currently working on three new companion apps to help Amateur Radio enthusiasts practice for
their licensing examinations! The three exams will be featured in their own apps, and will include the ability to see the
entire question pool for each license class, as well as generate randomly-selected exams. I'm hoping to have all three
submitted to the Market place by 10 April 2011. They will all be available as free trials. Let me show off the main screens
of each one...
Yes, I know, they are quite similar. Well, since they perform the exact same function for each license class, there didn't seem
much reason to make them radically different. Their only differences will be in fact in their color schemes, and of course, the
set of questions that each will field.
Version 1.1 of Fraction Calculator in the Marketplace!
22 March 2011 — In what has to be the quickest acceptance of any app I have ever put in (submitted 19 March and approved
21 March — practically overnight!), the newest version of Fraction Calculator is now in the Marketplace! The new
version has an improved calculation engine (still as accurate, but much quicker), the ability to hold its status between executions,
and is now available with Free Trial!
10,000 Apps in the Store!
The word is out on Twitter (tags #wp7 and #wp7dev, if you're interested) that the Windows Phone App Store (or Hub, whatever)
now has over 10,000 apps available! Woo hoo! Some have said that 10,000 apps in 4 months is faster than either the iPhone
or the Android Marketplace got them out, initially. Granted, there's a way to go, but there are thousands of developers
out there throwing these apps together, so the rate ought to accelerate.
I know I am about ready to accelerate! I've got a necessary update to the Fraction Calculator coming out, and despite a little
set-back having to do with coming up with a fast and powerful prime-number generator (a problem which has been solved, by the way),
that update will be heading out to certification by March 15. I promise!
Nokia + Microsoft = Profit!
There was a lot of buzz, not all of it positive, when on February 11, 2011 Nokia's Stephen Elop announced that the company
would be dropping its proprietary Symbian smartphone operating system in favor of Microsoft's Windows Phone 7. I believe
that the deal will be a positive boon to both Nokia and Microsoft. And to Windows Phone developers!
Since then, Elop has indicated that Nokia will be producing WP7 phones quickly, and will be aiming for the low-end of the market.
He said
that Nokia believes they will have their first WP7 phone out by the end of 2011. If true (and there's no reason to believe that
Nokia, one of the world's foremost mobile phone makers, cannot make good on this claim), there is every reason to cheer! WP7 will be
well on its way to becoming a real competitor to both Apple's iPhone and Google's Android.