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A whole new Android App to calculate fares

jai.chandra — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 14:11:02 +0000

Well! You may call this an update to my earlier post “Android application to calculate Auto Fare“, but this is truly a lot more and its not just for Autorickshaws.

With FareMeter, you no more have to worry about the fleecing Autorickshaw drivers or tampered meters. You can also compare fares for different service provides, be it [...]

Android application to calculate Auto Fare

jai.chandra — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 13:58:26 +0000

Updated to version 1.2.3

New Features:

Set your own settings: Allows anybody to use the application anywhere by configuring the fare rates. Option to calculate distance in Miles and Kilometers Option to calculate fare in Rupees (Rs) and Dollars ($)

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This is an update over my last post Android application to calculate Auto fare in Bangalore. I have added support for [...]

Android application to calculate Auto fare in Bangalore

jai.chandra — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 17:59:29 +0000

AutoFareMeter is an android application that calculates auto fare in real-time while travelling. The application requires GPS enabled mobile for calculating the distance and fare. This application presently will only work for Bangalore fares. I will later extend it to include other cities as well. But for now, lets see if this is any way helpful [...]

My first post from nexus one

jai.chandra — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:11:22 +0000

I stumbled upon this app for WordPress while looking for something else. This is very nicely designed and very user [...]

Pixel Converter

jai.chandra — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:54:22 +0000

This is an update to my earlier post Pixel to EM converter which focused on the online utility to convert ‘pixels’ to ‘ems’. I have updated the utility to support more units and it now can convert between any of the following units:

Pixel EM Point Percent

You can also convert a CSS file contain any of all of the above [...]

HTTP REFERER header not set when location.href is used for page navigation | Microsoft Connect

jai.chandra — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 06:41:31 +0000

Its pretty frustrating to see that IE doesn’t set the ‘referer’ header when navigating pages using ‘location.href’. The header is set properly if you are using anchor tags (<A>) to navigate through pages.

Normally this is much of an issue for navigation unless you validate using the referer header. One such case is when you are using [...]

Pixel to EM converter

jai.chandra — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 01:30:37 +0000

Its been 6 months since I am working on this project and just when I thought I am done with it, I realize that I have been using Pixels in my stylesheets all the while and this doesn’t support the browser based “text size” settings (Internet Explorer). So, when the user changes the ‘text size’ settings, [...]

Auto update for Adobe Air executable (exe)

jai.chandra — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 19:49:31 +0000

If you are used to using the ApplicationUpdaterUI class for providing the auto update feature for your AIR application, and have recently started to work on the new Native Process API in Adobe Air 2 beta for compiling into a Native app, you would realize that the auto update functionality just doesn’t work. This is because [...]

jQuery Desktop

jai.chandra — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:33:29 +0000

Found an interesting POC of jQuery Desktop using HTML5, CSS and jQuery at SonSpring.com. Though the implementation is basic, its certainly going to trigger more ideas and could be a good way of designing management tools. jQuery is a great library for javascript and when mixed with HTML 5 and CSS can [...]

SmartDos – Adobe Air based DOS Console

Jai — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:58:03 +0000

Adobe Air based DOS console that uses the standard IO to read and write data. It support all DOS commands and also allows shortcuts to different console based applications as well as saving the console data to a file. [...]