I didn’t expect it at all since I have to admit I did neglect a bit Euro Coins Pocket Collector over the last months, the educational software I made for Euro coins fans. I actually chose to honor the priorities of my work as consultant and custom software developer.
So I was really pleased to know that even this year the judges of the Best Software Awards 2006, the competition organized by the american Smartphone and Pocket PC Magazine, confirmed the value of the software and it got among the finalists in the category Miscellaneous Utilities just as it happened last year.
I have to say that it isn’t easy at all categorizing a so specialized software such as this, but I think that instead of creating a new category like Collecting they could add one like Lifestyle for example to include all the Windows Mobile applications built to manage one’s own digital lifestyle, as they call the modern life with all the technological tools that should simplify our life. Managing one’s own collection of Euro coins with a PDA could be correctly included into this concept, couldn’t it?
Anyway it’s a pleasure that a so atypical software, made from the marriage of my work and passion, did reach the final selection of a contest which gathered only the 20% of the best software existing for the Windows Mobile platform.
The winner of the Miscellaneous Utilities this year was StyleTap, a sort of emulator useful to run applications written for the PalmOS on Windows Mobile devices.
In the meantime the work on the PC version of Ecpc is going on and I think the news will be revealed by the end of the year!