Piet Jonas: November 2011

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Chess Clock - New app for iPhone, iPad, Android, WP7 and BlackBerry PlayBook

A chess clock consists of two connected clocks which can't run at the same time. Use it as a game clock to measure the time used by two players for their moves e.g. in game of chess. Stopping one clock will start the other one. The purpose is to keep track of the total time each player takes for his or her own moves, and ensure that neither player overly delays the game.

Features:

choose the same time for both players or individually
count the time down or up
pause the clock for both players
runs in the background while the app is closed

chessclock.speedymarks.com

Pay Timer - New app for iPhone, iPad, Android, WP7 and BlackBerry PlayBook

Measure the time you work and calculate your earnings. The timer keeps running even when you close the application. So there is no need to keep it open all the time.

You can save a history of calculations locally on your phone and email them to yourself for backup and further processing.

paytimer.speedymarks.com

Boiling - New app for iPhone, iPad, Android, WP7 and BlackBerry PlayBook

Calculate the boiling temperature of water and the air pressure for your current elevation on earth or any other altitude.

Features:

Get your current altitude from ASTER (NASA)
Use the GeoNames database to search for the altitude of any location
Change the altitude manually
switch between metric and imperial units

boiling.speedymarks.com

Egg Race - New app for iPhone, iPad, Android, WP7 and BlackBerry PlayBook

Remember the old egg spoon races on kids birthday parties? Now you don't need an egg and spoon anymore. Just run it from your device and your kids are ready to go. Even better there won't be any dirt from dropped eggs on the floor.

You can choose between a classic and modern game. While the classic game simulates the egg on the spoon (more or less) the goal of the modern game is to stay below a certain maximum acceleration.

For the classic game you can choose whether you have to hold the device level (gravity) and/or calm (acceleration) in order to keep the egg on the 'spoon'.
For both game types the difficulty level can be chosen as well which adapts the sensitivity to the applied forces.