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The moment you were waiting for has come at last! 🙂

I’ve just opened the swapping page, through which Ecpc users can share their collection files and then swap Euro coins privately.

I hope this will be enough to convince the many undecided among you about purchasing Ecpc that I’m working really hard to provide the best service! 🙂

The current promotional price won’t last long, and Ecpc version 1.1 is already in the final testing…

Thanks to Andreas Biermann, who translated in german the press release and the product details page, Ecpc is now is available on Handango Deutschland.

I hope to find soon some good guy who’ll help me translating Ecpc in German, a language pretty difficult for me.

Also Ecpc is now listed in the Pocket PC Magazine Encyclopedia of software and accessories.

A special greeting goes to whoever is working in spite of the infernal hot of the last days! 🙂

It’s going to be a very nice toast this evening, with lots of good beer!

In the meantime I’m still working and I’ve just added a simple as much as important question to the Ecpc FAQ page.

Then I’d like to propose this mini contest today: I’ll reward whoever will send me the best e-mail with his birthday wishes with a Special Edition of Ecpc!

So, don’t be shy, but be creative! 🙂

During this week I’ve been busy with the organization of a small party for my birthday at the near Bi-du brew-pub.

Tomorrow, 8 August, I’ll be 28 years old and I thought this could be a very good chance have a toast with a dozen of friends and the great beer they make at the Bi-du to properly celebrate the beginning of my career as an independent developer. 🙂

I got the proper authorizations a bit too late maybe, but the management of the brew pub has agreed to the idea to try promoting the recently released Ecpc, so here’s the deal:

I’ll pay a beer to whoever comes to the Bi-du tomorrow evening with a regularly purchased copy of Euro coins pocket collector on his Pocket PC!

Visit their website to see how to reach the brew-pub, located in Rodero, in the province of Varese, north of italy.

Update: the official discussion about the promotion toast is available in the Italian Hardware Upgrade forum here and here!

While I’m busy testing the version of Ecpc built for devices with the Pocket PC 2000 operative system, which will also includes some minor but nice enhancements, I’ve updated the list of recommended software in the My Pocket PC page, adding the useful Freeware PHM Power Toys by Philippe Majerus and the excellent RepliGo by Cerience, the conversion and synchronization software which is rapidly becoming a standard to make documents really portable on multiple platforms.

As a side note, the emulator in the Pocket PC 2000 SDK is really ugly, but it’s much faster than the better looking one included in the Pocket PC 2002 SDK, at least on my desktop PC.

Take a look: 🙂

I can’t believe it has happened in such a short time frame and in this holiday period!

My little website has almost hit the 1,5Gb of monthly traffic limit in just about a couple of weeks since its opening!

I’m simply amazed and also very happy, since now the current italian hosting provider has a promise to keep. 😉

I wish to thank again the french visitors in particular, since their contribution has been fundamental during this week to reach that limit.

I know, I know that you want to see Ecpc translated in french as soon as possible and you won’t be disappointed!

I’d like to remember that I’m still searching for help to translate Ecpc in the other european languages, as I wrote in the Wishlist.

Finally I forgot to mention that the announcement of the release of Ecpc also appeared on Mobigeeks, the SorobanGeeks forum, XDA-Italia and Palmio.

I’ve just uploaded the FAQ page of Ecpc hoping to answer most of the questions about my recently released software.

I’m getting some nice “BRAVO!” from our cousins from the other side of the Alps after the announcement of the release of Ecpc has appeared on Pocket PC France, Pocket PC Paradise and PDA France, three great french webzines I promptly added to the Links page.

Every time such an announcement appears the traffic towards my website increases, which is good for morale.

I really hope to get the same feedback even from other european countries! 🙂

Yesterday has been a special day because thanks to a new friend and betatester, Stefano, CEO of Wise-lab, I had the pleasure to look at Ecpc on his Ipaq 3630 in full color! What’s so special about that?

Well, although I’ve been able to test the program on multiple devices before releasing it, thanks to some friends over the Net, I currently own and develop on a Ipaq 3130, which as you probably know, has a 4 bit monochrome display.

This occasion gave me the chance to finally update the My Pocket PC page.

Since Stefano’s Ipaq runs with Pocket PC 2000 operative system, I was also pleased to see the current version of Ecpc, built with the PPC 2002 SDK, running without problems on it, except when minimizing the program.

However, as I wrote in the Wishlist, a version built with the PPC 2000 SDK, hence supporting also MIPS and SH3 microprocessors, is only a few days away!

I’ve just updated the features page adding some screenshots to better highlight the features of Ecpc.

Also thanks to the translation in french of the product details page made by Pierre Lagrange, Ecpc is now available on the Handango french partner Mobile Planet.

His Special Edition of Ecpc is ready and he’ll take care of the full translation of the program in French, once he’ll be back from holidays!

Then I’ve updated the resources page with the great Lars Finster’s Münzen-Seiten, a german website which has been a very precious resource during the research for the Euro coins variants.

Many more things to come, but a bit at a time! 😉