Announcing: Calc Me Sum 2c - a Scientific Calculator

I've been working on designing and building a product line of calculators under the name Calc Me Sum.  The first calculator in the series is a basic version released under the name Calc Me Sum Free.

Today, I've released the second product in the series, it's the first scientific offering, called Calc Me Sum 2c.  It's available for download from both Amazon AppStore for Android and the Google Play Store.   Calc Me Sum 2c includes a reasonable set of scientific functions while providing a set of colorful themes.

Some of the features Calc Me Sum 2c has are:

Calc Me Sum 2c is the first scientific calculator in the Calc Me Sum series, the calculators designed to be visually appealing as well as intuitive and functional.  With 12 themes and the ability to customize them, the look of your calculator can be distinctly unique.

Calc Me Sum 2c adds many essential math functions while providing feedback based on last equation and saved memory:

Trigonometry functions in degrees and radians
- sin, cos, tan
- sinh, cosh, tanh
- asin, acos, atan
- asinh, acosh, atanh
Roots
- square root
- cube root
- nth root of y
Powers
- x raised to the nth power
- x cubed
- ten raised to the nth power
Euler's constant e raised to the nth power
- Logarithmic functions
- natural log (ln)
- log 10
Random
- A random number between zero and the value entered.

The interface has been upgraded with new goodies, too:

Calculator indicators
- memory
- degrees or radians
- hyperbolic modifier
Results
- The answer to your equation
- The last equation and the answer, below the results
- The value stored in memory
History functions that let you share your math:
- Copy the last answer to the clipboard
- Copy the last equation and answer to the clipboard
- Copy the history to the clipboard
- Share the history
    + Email
    + Google Drive
    + Any program that sends text

Calc Me Sum – the calculators that brighten up your math and with pretty accurate answers, too.

I'm in the process of adding more features, which I'll continue to add in stages and as quickly as possible.  As I've been developing and using it, I've been considering how calculators work, what they're used for, and how data is interacted with.  On top of the user  interface elements, I'm sketching out a plan to incorporate more functions, graphing, complex math equations, and a programming language.

Calc Me Sum 2c works in both portrait and landscape modes.  There are twelve pre-defined themes.  Each theme can be customized by button style (Border, No Border, Gradient), button shape (Rectangle, Round Rectangle, Oval), and font style.  Here are screenshots that highlight the themes:

Calc Me Sum 2c, Submitted for Approval

I'll put out an announcement when it goes live, but I just submitted my latest calculator, Calc Me Sum 2c, to both Amazon AppStore and Google Play.

Coming Soon: Calc Me Sum 2

I'm in the final stages of testing Calc Me Sum 2, the next calculator in the Calc Me Sum series.  The first version was a simple utility that was meant to be an everyday kind of calculator.  Calc Me Sum 2 has a much more complete set of scientific and math functions than the original, but it has the same colorful, yet stylish themes.  I may add a few more themes with the first release.

I'm planning on releasing Calc Me Sum 2 on Sunday, 2/8/16.  The first version will be ad-supported.  I'll release an ad-free/pay version that will have more themes, a stack for multiple memory registers, equation history that can be selected for re-edit (Calc Me Sum 2 has a history that can be exported/shared), scientific constants, and a more user-friendly, editable data entry field.  Some or all of the new features will be added to the ad-supported version, too.

I might make a few small changes to the interface, but for the most part, it looks like it's ready to go.  Here's a picture of how it looks right now:

Calc Me Sum 2
Version 1.0, Ad Supported
Copyright 2016 by Michael J. Ajemian

Thank you for installing Calc Me Sum 2. If you should have any feedback or notice any issues, defects, or bugs, please let me know.

Calc Me Sum 2 is the first scientific calculator in the Calc Me Sum series, the calculators designed to be visually appealing as well as intuitive and functional.

Calc Me Sum 2 adds a whole mess of new math features:

• Trigonometry functions in Degrees and Radians
• sin, cos, tan
• sinh, cosh, tanh
• asin, acos, atan
• asinh, acosh, atanh
• Roots
• Square root
• Cube root
• Nth root of y
• Powers
• x raised to the nth power
• x cubed
• ten raised to the nth power
• Euler's constant, e, raised to the nth power
• Logarithmic functions
• natural log, ln
• log 10
• Random
• random number between 0 and the value entered

The interface has been upgraded with new goodies, too.

• Calculator indicators
• memory
• degrees or radians
• hyperbolic modifier for trigonometry functions
• Results
• The answer to your equation
• The last equation and answer right below the results
• History and functions to share your math
• Copy to the clipboard
• last answer
• last equation, with the answer
• entire history of equations
• Share the history of equations
• email
• cloud
• and many more - any apps that send text

Calc Me Sum – the calculators that brighten up your math and with pretty accurate answers, too.

DangAlarm! Ouch... and Calc Me Sum 2, Coming Soon

DangAlarm!  Ouch

I just found out my alarm clock is broken.  In at least three places.  Ouch.  I tested it a lot, but I think I fixed, then unfixed, then refixed, then completely broke it while fixing a bug I found at the end that I thought I really, really, really fixed.  Have to look into it this weekend and refix it right and upload a new, totally fixed APK.

Coming Soon:  Calc Me Sum 2

I'm getting ready to release an update to my calculator, Calc Me Sum.  The next version is going to probably be called Calc Me Sum 2.  The first version was a minimalist calculator that I thought would be fun to make colorful.  So far, I think my mom installed it... just to be nice.

In the interest of more bettering it up, I've added functionality to make it more scientific.  It now has trig functions - cos, sin, tan, as well as hyperbolic trig functions: cosh, sinh, and tanh, plus acosh, asinh, and atanh.  It also works with degrees and radians.  I've also added history that can be shared & copied to the clipboard, and it shows the last equation and the result in a field below the result field.  There are more math functions, like cube root, x cubed, ten raised to a power, e raised to a power, log, natural log.  Pretty much the basics for a scientific calculator.  I'm slowly growing into the UI for calculators so I can start branching out into experimental approaches to calculations and such.

I'm thinking of making a couple more changes before I upload it, but it should be up on Amazon and Google Play within a few hours or a few days.

I might add an interim version with some more features:  unit conversions, constants, a stack for more memory, a history and recall of equations.  I might ask a dollar or two for that version, but I'll have to see.  I'm not big on ads as a revenue model, but I don't like charging a bunch for programs until they're usable, and then, I don't want to charge that much because I think charging what the market will bear, as they say in marketing, ends up hyperinflating the cost of everything.  I don't want to get rich, but I really need to eat.

What comes next?

After Calc Me Sum 2 is released, I'm going to work on at least a programmable calculator, financial calculator, and/or a graphing calculator.  Though it'll probably be the programmable, since I have a programming language engine already written that I'm interested in making use of.  When that gets further along, I'll pre-announce it and give a time-frame for release.  I might put out a limited feature version fairly quickly to gauge interest, but I'll have to see how things come together.

Announcing DangAlarm! With the cool time-setting interface.

My alarm clock is live on the Amazon AppStore for Android.  I'm waiting to hear from Google Play.

It's an alarm clock, which on the surface isn't that exciting - but wait!  Let me explain why I wrote it so you can check it out.  It has some of the nice bells and whistles that most alarm clocks have - multiple alarms, progressive, vibration, multiple days.  But that's not the secret sauce...

I didn't write it because the world needs another alarm clock.  I wrote it because the way time is set on mobile devices bothered me from the first second I set the time on my Android phone five years ago.  I had a serious head injury, or it would have been released forever ago.  The interface to set the time looks like this:

Touch the H to set the hour hand.  Touch the M to set the minute hand.  I got tired of my hand blocking my view to what I was setting, and having to touch-touch-touch-touch-touch something until it was the right number.

I tried to make the dialog to dismiss the alarm easy to see through blurry eyes, so I laid out the snooze horizontally, with a bigger Z, and made the wake button vertical.  I also made the snooze number big and visible.

I'll add some more features to it, like a countdown timer, stopwatch, and a date interface, and then do some other things with it that'll hopefully make working with mobile devices more fun and more intuitive.

Coming Soon...

The announcement of an Android product I've been building that's in the final stages of development.

1/25/16:  In the final stages of test.  Should be within hours or days.  I can't wait to announce it once it's uploaded to the Google Play Store and Amazon AppStore for Android.
1/27/16:  Testing has been going well.  A few more tests and I'll be uploading it...
1/28/16:  It seems to be working.  Working on the artwork and uploading it.

Announcing the Release of SunnysideCRE Lite

I've just posted an upgrade to a product I started working on when I was in real estate a few years ago.  It's a minor upgrade that comprises the addition of a few features.  Most of the work has gone into renovating the code base, cleaning up how the program performs and simplifying some of the interfaces.

The program is used to value commercial real estate as it focuses on net operating income.  I've added a loan amortization calculator, that shows the monthly payment, total interest, and total balances paid.  There's also a file uploader function that starts with downloading a template file from the app.  Once the fields are filled in, the file can be uploaded to the program.  It's an attempt to make the program a little easier to use.

This version sets the foundation for the next revision, which will be attached to the web so listings can be downloaded and managed in a more fluid fashion.  The next version will have more reports, financials, images, maps, and more.

This version is free.  I'm not big on ads, but because it's free, there's one ad on the main page.  The program can be downloaded from both the Google Play Store and the Amazon Appstore for Android.