tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39662152611461834352024-03-13T12:57:26.182-07:00Tapp an AppTapp an Apphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08791425983903594519noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3966215261146183435.post-90535501760335208612012-05-30T11:43:00.003-07:002012-05-30T11:45:59.988-07:00Android tablets bring touchscreen connectivity to Indian bus riders<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Engadget Article - Details provided by TappAnApp Team Member Kartik Bansal<br />
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<br /></div>Tapp an Apphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08791425983903594519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3966215261146183435.post-70468168507780345152011-01-20T06:43:00.001-08:002011-04-16T13:42:11.430-07:00Quick Dictionary<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
<div style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="apple-style-span">Like the name suggests, Quick Dictionary aims to provide QUICK</span><span class="apple-style-span"> results</span><span class="apple-style-span"> for word meanings.</span><span class="apple-style-span"> </span><span class="apple-style-span">The app’s main motivation is to display the</span><span class="apple-style-span"> meaning</span><span class="apple-style-span"> of a word with easy and minimum effort from the</span><span class="apple-style-span"> user.</span><span class="apple-style-span"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">While looking up the meaning of a word a user usually has to exit the current document, start an app which provides word meanings and type in the word to find the definition. Statistics show that 90% of the users, who use a dictionary app, struggle with the spelling of the word whose meaning is to be found out. Now, would it be nice if you can skip knowing the accurate spelling of a word to find its meaning? Moreover, isn’t it irritating to switch focus of screens just to know the meaning of a word?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The top grey Notification bar on your Android screen displays all important information about your Android phone that may need your attention. This bar, also called the window-shade because you can pull it down to cover your screen, is the quickest and easiest way to interact with those new and incoming events. <span class="apple-style-span">The Quick Dictionary app uses this fantastic feature to meet your requirement. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Once you have downloaded and installed the app start the app by clicking on the launcher icon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="apple-style-span">Go-to ‘Settings’ and check the ‘Quick Dictionary On’ button. Watch the ‘Quick Dictionary’ icon appear on the Notification bar a</span>long with the time, battery state, network state icons, etc. <span class="apple-style-span"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Now, while reading a document or text message, you’ll often come across a word whose meaning you do not know. Simply select the word by long pressing it and copy it on the clipboard.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Pull down the notification bar (window-shade) and tap on the Quick Dictionary icon. The meaning of the word if fetched from the internet and flashed immediately as a timed pop up which will disappear after a few seconds. Quick Dictionary also has a caching feature where the searched word and its meaning is stored in the local database. Thus to find the meaning of an old word you don’t need an internet connection.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The App also provides a traditional way of looking up a word meaning where you input the word into the text box and click on the search button for results. However, you need to know the spelling of a word accurately.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Click <a href="https://market.android.com/details?id=kkint.dictionary.com&feature=search_result">here</a> to download and install. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Below are some snapshots from the working app.</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Snapshot: Long press a word and select it </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Pull down the status bar screen from the top and click on the notification icon</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The meaning of the word is flashed</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Here's the traditional way to look up a word meaning</span><br />
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</span></div></div></div>Tapp an Apphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08791425983903594519noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3966215261146183435.post-2597985282620831322011-01-20T06:42:00.000-08:002011-02-09T21:36:52.587-08:00FLAMES Love Games<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Have you ever felt bored during a dull lecture in a classroom? Have you wondered what might make you very popular at college parties? Do you want a funny excuse to break the ice with someone new?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Imagine you had a teensy-weensy relationship calculator to carry around in your mobile phone. Any time you desired, you could use it to predict the relationship between two people. Well, you are not likely to come across a relationship genie but here’s the next best thing!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Click <a href="https://market.android.com/details?id=flames.kkint.com">here</a> to download and install.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The ‘FLAMES Love Games’ app is an amusing application for your Android mobile phone that enables you to determine the accurate type of relationship between any two people. It is a good old classic love game played in the backseats of college classrooms, canteens, parties etc. It yields interesting and often humorous results. The result falls under these categories:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">F - Friends</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">L - Love</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A - Admire</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">M - Marriage</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">E - Enemies</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">S - Sex</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Check out the proverbs and cheesy quotes by celebrities, rock stars! You might want to know what they think about love, sex or...</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">How does it work?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Given Player 1's and Player 2's name, result is calculated as follows:</span></span></div><ol style="text-align: left;"><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Strike out the common characters between the names.</span></li>
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<li>Count the remaining characters. This number is called as the strike number.</li>
<li>Now start with the initial word 'FLAMES' and start with 'F' as the initial position.</li>
<li>Strike out the character which is at the strike number distance from the initial character position. When necessary wrap around the word. For instance, when strike number is 7 the character 'F' will be stroked out.</li>
<li>Now the new word will be without the character which has been stroked out and the initial position will be the character next to the stroked out character. Continuing with previous examples, when 'F' is stroked out, the new word will be 'LAMES' and initial position will start with the character 'L'.</li>
<li>Repeat steps 4, 5 until you end up with a single character.</li>
</span></ol><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But hey! There's an element of surprise. We've tweaked the logic to spice up the results!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We hope you enjoy it. Let us know what you think. Cheers! Below are images from the working app!</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Launcher Icon</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Snapshots of the App: And the players are... Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Snapshot of the App: In action</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br />
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