Apologies for the lack of recent updates, I've been rather busy! First off we have the new uCONVERT website (designed and created in Wordpress in around 4 days!) as well as the recent release of uCONVERT 2.2.0. Then we have the fact that I'm moving this site from my current custom built CMS to Wordpress (I just don't have enough time to maintain admin features). The design is almost finished (although knowing me it'll be completely changed 3 times before I finally settle on it) and the Wordpress is theme is approaching completion, the main problem is how to port to old content to the ne…

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uConvert 2.0.1 has just been released to existing VGA and WVGA customers and is available to buy now from uconvert.us. New features New look User Interface: New style button controls Less use of processor intensive gradients Larger (vertically) popup menu items Remove dialogs and replaced with separate screens Added Options screen Currencies are now sorted by unit New currencies added: AED U.A.E. dirham BHD Bahrain dinar BND Brunei dollar …

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Just thought I'd share a gripe of mine. I usually use Firefox for web-browsing (I know someone is going to suggest Google Chrome, but for now it has one too many rendering issues) but on the occasion I do fire IE8, especially if using a Microsoft site as they still don't quite seem to have got the W3C model of the web. On to the point - I needed to download a file using IE, and this is where Microsoft's clueless-ness as to browser design really shows up. The Download File box has not changed one bit since IE6 (okay it has a new animation) yet somehow they found time to implement a load of …

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A few days ago I was notified Windows had installed new updates (this is on Windows 7 Professional). Generally I ignore the message but I took a look and saw one new update, 'Games for Windows - Live', had been installed. Now I generally expect security updates to go unnoticed, I even prefer it that way, but new features and programs? I'd like to at least be told what they are and what they do before they get installed on my machine. Curious (and slightly annoyed) I cranked open the start menu and launched the App. What I saw next surprised me - the app looks almost exactly like Windows Li…

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Another update to uConvert is in the works which will increase the number of currencies and improve the user interface. User Interface Dialogs The dialogs such as the About Dialog and Sync Dialog will receive a re-vamp with larger, more finger-friendly buttons, bigger text and a simpler background; with a view to making them simpler and easier to use. Popup Menu The popup menu will be made taller to allow for more finger-friendly menu items. New Currencies The update will be the first version of uConvert to retrieve foreign exchange data from the IMF. This will bring at least 13 …

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An updated version of uConvert, the unit and currency converter for Windows Mobile, has been released. The update brings many requested features - a larger converter interface, support for more currencies and better graphics on small screens - read the full list of updates. Customers who purchased the previous version of uConvert should receive an email containing a download link to the new update. Update (22/11/2009 21:39 GMT): It appears there were some problems with the third-party download/payments system which resulted in some customers being sent emails with no download link. The…

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One of the most useful features of Flash is the ability to attach MovieClips to the stage. This allows you to create relatively complex on-screen animations without dragging and dropping lots of objects onto the stage, and instead using a little ActionScript. In the following tutorial we'll create a dynamic star-field background effect. You'll be able to customize the number of stars, speed, and angle. In a follow-up I'll show you how to use these to make a little game. Even better we'll be coding most of it using classes, so you'll be able to use it in a project with around only 3 lines o…

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Studying physics, I get to use LaTeX quite a bit producing reports and articles. In case you don't what LaTeX is, it's essentially a markup language (somewhat akin to HTML, except for the TeX typesetting system) where you place your content into semantic structures. This is then formatted by essentially the same thing as a CSS stylesheet. It allows you to just worry about getting the content right, and the formatting is done for you. Once you've added all the content, you can switch your document from a Book style layout to a report with a single command. For some reason lot's of people th…

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The uConvert competition is now over. The 5 lucky winners were @Psitech, @dscammell, @BossDC, @txalec and @El_Chingonzon (thanks to all the people that have purchased uConvert I decided to increase it from 3). If you were lucky enough to win a copy get in touch on Twitter via DM with your screen-resolution and email, and a download email will be sent whizzing your way. If you didn't win this time don't worry, there'll be more free stuff coming your way soon. Over and out.

Pocket LiTE is small torch/light application for Windows Mobile phones. Currently it supports VGA and WVGA versions, but QVGA and WQVGA versions will come soon. It also features an SOS function, which flashes SOS in Morse code. You can change the sentence that is flashed in the info/about screen, so you can send any message you want in Morse code. Best of all is the price: FREE! Get Pocket LiTE now