Archive for category Euro Coins Pocket Collector
#GPI and Mobile Fun Awards contest deadlines hit
Posted by Albegor in Euro Coins Pocket Collector, Mobile, Software on October 16, 2003
This has been a really busy week since yesterday was the deadline of two contests.
Not only I had to complete the tutorial about Pocket PC development for the the Best Tutorial Contest hosted by #GameProg-Ita, which I already wrote about, but also I built a Special Edition of Ecpc for the Mobile Fun Awards, a contest open to all italian software developers for mobile devices, which will take place on 28 October in Milan during the Mobile Fun Forum 2003, the first event in Italy devoted to content and entertainment software providers for mobile devices.
The event is organized by Wireless, the italian magazine for the Mobile Economy, and it’s endorsed by the Mobile Entertainment Forum organization.
All of this while I’m working on the last feature of version 1.2 of Ecpc and on another thing about the website. 😉
I’ve got a bunch of e-mails who need a reply and I’m sorry I wasn’t able to give them a quick one, but deadlines are deadlines!
The “Die another day” philosophy, the title of the last James Bond’s film, is not applicable here. 🙂
Ecpc on the local newspaper La Provincia
Posted by Albegor in Como, Euro Coins Pocket Collector, Mobile, Software on October 15, 2003
I was really waiting for this day since Euro coins pocket collector has appeared in a full page article in the weekly feature the local daily newspaper La Provincia dedicates to news about Internet and new technologies.
La Provincia is an important newspaper not only for the Como province but also for the Lombardia and it’s mentioned in the press preview of some national TV channels.
They print about 45.000 copies daily for a total of 300.000 potential readers! 
At this link you can find the page in PDF format, while you can read the whole newspaper on their website.
Thanks to Simone, the Internet feature editor, who granted me this great opportunity. 😉
My Ipaq takes off with the Frecce Tricolori!
Posted by Albegor in Euro Coins Pocket Collector, Mobile, Software on October 10, 2003
So here’s the special picture I was talking about, which just appeared in exclusive on Pocket PC Thoughts!
At the recently closed SMAU 2003 I didn’t miss the opportunity to jump into the cockpit of a real Aermacchi MB-339 jet aircraft used by the world famous italian Air Force Acrobatic Team, the Frecce Tricolori, obviously bringing with me my faithful Ipaq.
Thanks to the Air Force specialists who allowed me to merge my two biggest passions ever in this unique occasion. 🙂
Who knows if the Ipaq could survive to the high acceleration acrobatic maneuvers this plane daily performs…
And of course the application running on the Ipaq was Euro coins pocket collector!
Ecpc at the 11th place of the Handango People’s Choice Awards 2003
Posted by Albegor in Euro Coins Pocket Collector, Mobile, Software on September 30, 2003
A very nice surprise came into my mailbox today as I discovered Ecpc has almost reached the Top Ten of the Handango People’s Choice Awards in the category Best Education Solution! 🙂
The Handango People’s Choice Awards are designed to honor those applications that offer customers the best quality available in the mobile software world. Handango Members have the opportunity to vote for their favorite software in numerous categories.
Need to say more? I’m amazed I’ve reached the 11th place in such a short time frame, so first of all I’d like to thank the people who cast their vote for Ecpc.
Handango has just reopened voting for next year’s People’s Choice Awards and the next group of winners will be announced in March 2004, so if you like Ecpc now you know exactly what to do: just go to the bottom of the Product details page and vote it in the Best Education Solution category.
The next time we‘ll do much better than the 11th place, won’t we? 😉
Ecpc finally on printed magazines
Posted by Albegor in Euro Coins Pocket Collector, Mobile, Software on September 26, 2003
Today Frédéric Botton, Chef de projet of the French PDA Magazine, has kindly sent me a scan of the article about Ecpc appeared in the september-october issue of the magazine. 🙂
As you can see in the picture below, I’ve sort of censored the URL address pointing to the french Special Demo of Ecpc which I build for his readers, since it’s currently on my website and at the moment I can’t afford bandwidth problems. So if you want it you have to buy a copy of PDA Magazine. 😉
A couple of notes: the price in the article refers to the first promotional version of Ecpc and the french Special Demo has already been updated to the latest version 1.1.
The standard Demo version of Ecpc should have been included also in the Cover Disk of the current issue of the british magazine PDA Essentials, but I’ve not been able to get any confirmation of that so far.
Update: Ecpc appeared on the Cover CD of issue 16 of PDA Essentials with a review in the CD pages also. Now I can’t wait to get a copy of the magazine!
Have a nice weekend!
Website external links updated and new feature added to the Ecpc Wishlist
Posted by Albegor in Euro Coins Pocket Collector, Mobile, Software on September 23, 2003
I’m not an expert web developer, so I was pleased to receive the tips by Quintin Riis, a young web designer from the USA, in particular about the weird way I used JavaScripts to open the external links in a new browser window.
Now I’ve changed all the external links, but feel free to alert me if something doesn’t work properly on your browser.
I’ve just added a new great feature in the Wishlist, the compare collections feature, which will be included in the next version of Ecpc since I’m already working on it. 😉
Finally I’ve uploaded the collection file of Mariano in the swapping page. His swap list file should be soon ready.
Incoming German translation and small bug spotted in Ecpc
Posted by Albegor in Euro Coins Pocket Collector, Mobile, Software on September 20, 2003
Most probably the german translation of Ecpc will be the first one to be released since now two people are working on it, including a kind german from Hamburg, Heiko Heubach, who not only purchased a regular copy of the program, but also offered me his help for the translation! 🙂
He also has a website in german with information about the Canary Islands, so be sure to check it out!
Another new kind italian user, Mariano, from the beautiful city of Naples, reported a small bug related to the variants description of the german 2 Euro coin, year 2002, Mint mark A.
The bug has already been fixed and the fix will be included in the next release of Ecpc, but for those of you who can’t wait, feel free to contact me and I’ll send you an updated executable. 😉
Yesterday I did some swapping with a friend and Ecpc betatester, Stefano, so now I’ve uploaded his collection and my updated swap list in the swapping page.
Ecpc on Softonic.com and on Solopalmari.com
Posted by Albegor in Euro Coins Pocket Collector, Mobile, Software on September 18, 2003
Ecpc got its first award from Softonic.com, the biggest spanish website offering shareware, freeware and commercial software for multiple platforms including Pocket PCs.
You can see the Ecpc page right here, along with the nice icon that means “Excelente! ¡MB!¡MB! : Destaca entre los que son muy buenos, dentro de su clase son esenciales.” 🙂
Also Ecpc has been listed in the italian Solopalmari.com.
Both websites have been added to the Links page along with two important new ones, Pocket.ws a german Pocket PC portal who recently published a new about Ecpc, and Pocket PC Soft, who listed the program in its Sport and Hobbies section.
So far so good, but there’s much more to come! 😉
Schumacher’s victory at Monza and Ecpc funny comments on Aximsite
Posted by Albegor in Euro Coins Pocket Collector, Mobile, Software on September 14, 2003
Today, after I’ve returned from a mountain trip to the nearby Corni di Canzo, I was extremely pleased to know about the victory of Schumacher’s Ferrari at the Monza Formula 1 Grand Prix, and I’d like to celebrate it by showing a picture I took many years ago when I had the chance to attend to the Monza Grand Prix.
I was excited as the cars passed away in front of me in full acceleration just after the Ascari variant.
I’m not too sure about who the Ferrari pilots were that year, but I’m sure their cars had the numbers 1 (in the picture) and 2.
If an expert among you knows it, please drop me a line. 😉
I also enjoyed reading the funny comments that followed the announcement of the Ecpc updated version 1.1 on Aximsite, right here.
Website update and new Ecpc SE customization feature
Posted by Albegor in Euro Coins Pocket Collector, Mobile, Software on September 10, 2003
As you can see in the top left of each page I’ve just updated the links to the translations by adding some little flags and I’ve also fixed the incorrect Google translations links in the FAQ page.
The lucky owners of the Special Edition of Ecpc will be pleased to look at a whole new customization feature that will make their Special Edition even more unique. In fact I’ve added the possibility to choose a customized background texture to use as skin for all the menus of the program.
Take a look at the new screenshots in the Special Edition section to see the results with custom skins. 🙂
Remember that the Special Edition is only for people supporting me in different ways, first of all with the translations.