Firstly, I'd like to apologise to anyone who was having problems with getting sounds to work in my Kitchen Timer and Interval Timer apps, also to those using my Pause On Disconnect app. There was a bug in all of these where if they were installed to any drive other than the C drive then they did not function fully.
I have now fixed all these apps so that they will work on any drive but the fixed versions need to go through Ovi Store QA first, fortunately that seems to have sped up somewhat and the fixed version of Kitchen Timer Pro is already available, and I will post on this blog when the fixed versions of the other applications are on Ovi Store.
In other news, Video Poker Free has been released for S^3 devices such as the N8.
Showing posts with label kitchen timer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kitchen timer. Show all posts
Friday, 11 February 2011
Monday, 17 January 2011
More Releases
I'm pleased to annouce that, Kitchen Timer Free, Multi SMS Pro and Interval Timer Free are all now available for S^3 devices such as the N8.
Also, for S60 5th edition devices such as the 5800, a trial of the Pause On Disconnect application is now available for people to try out and make sure the app works how they want it to before they then buy the full version. Links to the newly released content are below:
Kitchen Timer Free: http://store.ovi.com/content/88327
Multi SMS Pro: http://store.ovi.com/content/65047
Interval Timer Free: http://store.ovi.com/content/64809
Pause On Disconnect Trial: http://store.ovi.com/content/79484
Also, for S60 5th edition devices such as the 5800, a trial of the Pause On Disconnect application is now available for people to try out and make sure the app works how they want it to before they then buy the full version. Links to the newly released content are below:
Kitchen Timer Free: http://store.ovi.com/content/88327
Multi SMS Pro: http://store.ovi.com/content/65047
Interval Timer Free: http://store.ovi.com/content/64809
Pause On Disconnect Trial: http://store.ovi.com/content/79484
Friday, 17 December 2010
Weekly download statistics
Firstly I will cover Kitchen Timer Free. In the past week it has had 120 more downloads compared to the previous weeks 419. This downturn in downloads is to be expected as it is now less likely to be found by someone clicking through all the "New" items. Unfortunately I cannot get a breakdown yet of which app is responsible for how much of the advertising revenue but the total for the past week was $1.69 compared to $1.47 from the previous week. Kitchen Timer Free has also recieved it's first review unfortunately this was a 1 star review in Turkish which seems to translate to something like "Tested in again. Oh, already cooked". I guess that one of the side effects of having such wide distribution with the Ovi Store is that sometimes you're going to have no idea why someone doesn't like your product.
Interval Time Free has been much more successful, in it's first week it managed to get 1579 downloads! Interval Timer Free also received a review from a Turkish person, this time, a 5 star review calling it "great". It was awesome to get some actualy feedback on my app and know that someone at least is enjoying it. I think this had a positive impact on sales, especially from Turkey as for Kitchen Timer Free, before it received it's review, Turkey was 5th place in terms of most downloaded from countries with about half of the downloads of the top country, whereas in Interval Timer Free, Turkey is the joint top country. Having seen how much a positive review can help sales/downloads it is quite frustrating when my apps have no reviews but I guess it's up to me to make my apps so good that people feel inclined to leave reviews.
Finally, a quick comment on MultiSMSPro which has now also been in the store for a week. Whilst the stats for free downloads update every 24 hours, Ovi Store was reporting that there has been no downloads of it for ages and then one night said there has been some and on looking at the detailed report, those sales had happened over a period of a few days, so i'm not sure how often the stats for paid downloads are updated and unfortunately, sales are at a low level so that I cannot tell whether a day with 0 sales is really a 0 or just a day that hasn't been updated but by next week I should have a reliable count for this weeks sales.
Interval Time Free has been much more successful, in it's first week it managed to get 1579 downloads! Interval Timer Free also received a review from a Turkish person, this time, a 5 star review calling it "great". It was awesome to get some actualy feedback on my app and know that someone at least is enjoying it. I think this had a positive impact on sales, especially from Turkey as for Kitchen Timer Free, before it received it's review, Turkey was 5th place in terms of most downloaded from countries with about half of the downloads of the top country, whereas in Interval Timer Free, Turkey is the joint top country. Having seen how much a positive review can help sales/downloads it is quite frustrating when my apps have no reviews but I guess it's up to me to make my apps so good that people feel inclined to leave reviews.
Finally, a quick comment on MultiSMSPro which has now also been in the store for a week. Whilst the stats for free downloads update every 24 hours, Ovi Store was reporting that there has been no downloads of it for ages and then one night said there has been some and on looking at the detailed report, those sales had happened over a period of a few days, so i'm not sure how often the stats for paid downloads are updated and unfortunately, sales are at a low level so that I cannot tell whether a day with 0 sales is really a 0 or just a day that hasn't been updated but by next week I should have a reliable count for this weeks sales.
Friday, 10 December 2010
Kitchen Timer Free download statistics
In the spirit of openness and hopefully as helpful information for anyone else considering publishing things to the Ovi Store, I thought I'd share the statistics about the number of downloads my apps are getting.
Kitchen Timer Free has been out for about 7 days now and has totalled 419 downloads. Please bear in mind that this figure is rough as the Ovi Store statistics seem to update a little oddly. The application has only been available for the 5800, 5230, 5530, X6, N97 mini and C6-00. It should hopefully soon be available for more phones. It has been downloaded in 67 countries.
In it's week of being available, it has earned my a whopping $1.47 in advertising revenue, which is roughly equivalent to 1.1 Euro so I am now actually in profit as that has covered my 1 Euro registration fee!
Obviously these figures aren't very exciting yet I am not that disheartened as Kitchen Timer is quite a niche app. Also I was hoping that some of the value of Kitchen Timer Free would come from convincing people to buy Kitchen Timer Pro which has just been released to the Ovi Store, though currently there is not a direct link in the app to do this upsale.
It will be interesting to see how the trend of the number of downloads continues, obviously some of the downloads at the start are going to be because people are seeing the app on the "New" page of the store and also some people will download it just because it is free, after a while I imagine that the download rate will level out as people will only find it through searching, through this blog or from word of mouth and I expect this rate to be more contant.
It is nice to see that the adverts in my app are getting many "impressions" if not actually the clicks that mean I make money, as there are lots of impressions, I can tell that people are using the app and it is nice to know that people are gaining use from something I've made.
I will continue to post updates about the sales and downloads of my apps and I should have more to talk about next week as today, Kitchen Timer Pro, Interval Timer Free and Multi SMS Pro have all reached the Ovi Store.
Kitchen Timer Free has been out for about 7 days now and has totalled 419 downloads. Please bear in mind that this figure is rough as the Ovi Store statistics seem to update a little oddly. The application has only been available for the 5800, 5230, 5530, X6, N97 mini and C6-00. It should hopefully soon be available for more phones. It has been downloaded in 67 countries.
In it's week of being available, it has earned my a whopping $1.47 in advertising revenue, which is roughly equivalent to 1.1 Euro so I am now actually in profit as that has covered my 1 Euro registration fee!
Obviously these figures aren't very exciting yet I am not that disheartened as Kitchen Timer is quite a niche app. Also I was hoping that some of the value of Kitchen Timer Free would come from convincing people to buy Kitchen Timer Pro which has just been released to the Ovi Store, though currently there is not a direct link in the app to do this upsale.
It will be interesting to see how the trend of the number of downloads continues, obviously some of the downloads at the start are going to be because people are seeing the app on the "New" page of the store and also some people will download it just because it is free, after a while I imagine that the download rate will level out as people will only find it through searching, through this blog or from word of mouth and I expect this rate to be more contant.
It is nice to see that the adverts in my app are getting many "impressions" if not actually the clicks that mean I make money, as there are lots of impressions, I can tell that people are using the app and it is nice to know that people are gaining use from something I've made.
I will continue to post updates about the sales and downloads of my apps and I should have more to talk about next week as today, Kitchen Timer Pro, Interval Timer Free and Multi SMS Pro have all reached the Ovi Store.
Kitchen Timer Pro now on Ovi Store
PrI am pleased to annouce that Kitchen Timer Pro is now available on Ovi Store for S60 5th edition.
Kitcen Timer is an application that helps you keep track of time in the kitchen. Rather than keep having to check a watch for when to do different parts of the cooking, Kithen Timer rings an alarm when it is time to do something so you can relax whilst you are waiting, knowing that you won't miss anything.
Kitchen Timer includes a flexible alarm system that lets you set alarms relative to each other, for example if you needed to cook a chicken in the oven for 90 minutes but need to have the heat on high for the first 20 minutes of the 90 then in Kitchen Timer you would create one alarm for 90 minutes from the end of cooking called "Chicken" then create a second alarm to go off 20 minutes after the chicken alarm and Kitchen Timer makes this very easy to do.
Kitchen Timer also lets you save alarms to use again the next time you cook the same recipe.
Kitchen Timer Pro, http://store.ovi.com/content/62535?clickSource=blog does not have any adverts and also let you record you own voice as the sound of the alarm so you do not even need to look at your phone to know what the next step in your cooking is when the alarm goes off. Kitchen Timer Pro costs 1 Euro or equivalent.
Kitchen Timer Free is also available here: http://store.ovi.com/content/63471?clickSource=blog which contains adverts and does not have the ability to record you own voice to use as an alarm
Kitcen Timer is an application that helps you keep track of time in the kitchen. Rather than keep having to check a watch for when to do different parts of the cooking, Kithen Timer rings an alarm when it is time to do something so you can relax whilst you are waiting, knowing that you won't miss anything.
Kitchen Timer includes a flexible alarm system that lets you set alarms relative to each other, for example if you needed to cook a chicken in the oven for 90 minutes but need to have the heat on high for the first 20 minutes of the 90 then in Kitchen Timer you would create one alarm for 90 minutes from the end of cooking called "Chicken" then create a second alarm to go off 20 minutes after the chicken alarm and Kitchen Timer makes this very easy to do.
Kitchen Timer also lets you save alarms to use again the next time you cook the same recipe.
Kitchen Timer Pro, http://store.ovi.com/content/62535?clickSource=blog does not have any adverts and also let you record you own voice as the sound of the alarm so you do not even need to look at your phone to know what the next step in your cooking is when the alarm goes off. Kitchen Timer Pro costs 1 Euro or equivalent.
Kitchen Timer Free is also available here: http://store.ovi.com/content/63471?clickSource=blog which contains adverts and does not have the ability to record you own voice to use as an alarm
Tuesday, 7 December 2010
Kitchen Timer
Hi and welcome to this tutorial on Kitchen Timer.
In the following guide, the meal we're going to set up alarms for is cooking a roast chicken for 90 minutes where it will be on a high temperature for 20 of those minutes and we're also going to cook some potatoes that need roasting for 45 minutes after being boiled for 10.
This is the screen we're first greeted with when we start Kitchen Timer.
So first of all we're going to add an alarm and we do this by pressing "Options" and then "Alarms" and selecting the "Add alarm" option as shown below.
We are then prompted for a name for the alarm and I have chosen Chicken in as the name for the first alarm by typing it in the box in the normal text entry way.
You then get to the alarm setting screen below which contains 3 important sections which will be explained below.
Firsty we want to set the time for this alarm, so we press the "Change" button from the image above and then use the appropriate + and - buttons shown to set the time. In this instance we have set a time of 1 hour and 30 minutes as that is how long we want to cook the chicken for.
After then pressing "Done", we have two more setting to set: firstly we have to say whether we want this alarm to be before or after the alarm we choose in the next step, in this instance we obviously want the chicken alarm to happen "Before" the Finished alarm; secondly we selected which alarm we want this alarm to be relative to, in this case the "Finished" alarm. (A quick note on the "Finished" alarm: This alarm is always last and signifies the end of cooking, you cannot set an alarm to be "After" the "Finished" alarm.
After then pressing the "Done" button we get back to the overview screen and can see that our new alarm has been added.
Using the same process, we then add an alarm called "Roast Potatoes" and set it to occur 45 minutes before "Finished".
As mentioned at the start, we need to boil the potatoes for 10 minutes before roasting them so we can easily set that by creating a new "Boil Potatoes" alarm and setting it up as shown below.
We can now add an alarm for for turning the oven on as we need to wait for it to warm up before we put the chicken in so we can easily add that alarm for 10 minutes before the "Chicken In" alarm to give it plenty of time to get to the right temperature as shown below.
So now we have our final overview page showing all the alarms and how they are related to each other.
After doing that we are presented with the following screen which contains the countdowns for all the alarms, if we then press the "Start" button...
We are immediately given out first alarm, which is telling us to turn the oven on, so we do that. This screen will automatically dissapear after a few seconds.
Then all the alarms start counting down and we can tell at a glance how long it is until we need to do each of the steps of the cooking process.
I hope you have found this useful, if you have any queries, leave a comment or email me at kitchenTimer_at_grovr.co.uk
In the following guide, the meal we're going to set up alarms for is cooking a roast chicken for 90 minutes where it will be on a high temperature for 20 of those minutes and we're also going to cook some potatoes that need roasting for 45 minutes after being boiled for 10.
This is the screen we're first greeted with when we start Kitchen Timer.
So first of all we're going to add an alarm and we do this by pressing "Options" and then "Alarms" and selecting the "Add alarm" option as shown below.
We are then prompted for a name for the alarm and I have chosen Chicken in as the name for the first alarm by typing it in the box in the normal text entry way.
You then get to the alarm setting screen below which contains 3 important sections which will be explained below.
Firsty we want to set the time for this alarm, so we press the "Change" button from the image above and then use the appropriate + and - buttons shown to set the time. In this instance we have set a time of 1 hour and 30 minutes as that is how long we want to cook the chicken for.
After then pressing "Done", we have two more setting to set: firstly we have to say whether we want this alarm to be before or after the alarm we choose in the next step, in this instance we obviously want the chicken alarm to happen "Before" the Finished alarm; secondly we selected which alarm we want this alarm to be relative to, in this case the "Finished" alarm. (A quick note on the "Finished" alarm: This alarm is always last and signifies the end of cooking, you cannot set an alarm to be "After" the "Finished" alarm.
After then pressing the "Done" button we get back to the overview screen and can see that our new alarm has been added.
We then add another alarm, calling this one "Turn Heat Down" as as shown below, we set this alarm to go off 20 minutes "After" the "Chicken In" alarm because 20 minutes after putting the chicken in, we want to put the heat in the oven down.
Using the same process, we then add an alarm called "Roast Potatoes" and set it to occur 45 minutes before "Finished".
As mentioned at the start, we need to boil the potatoes for 10 minutes before roasting them so we can easily set that by creating a new "Boil Potatoes" alarm and setting it up as shown below.
We can now add an alarm for for turning the oven on as we need to wait for it to warm up before we put the chicken in so we can easily add that alarm for 10 minutes before the "Chicken In" alarm to give it plenty of time to get to the right temperature as shown below.
So now we have our final overview page showing all the alarms and how they are related to each other.
Once we have set all alarms, we go to "Option", "Finished Setup".
After doing that we are presented with the following screen which contains the countdowns for all the alarms, if we then press the "Start" button...
We are immediately given out first alarm, which is telling us to turn the oven on, so we do that. This screen will automatically dissapear after a few seconds.
Then all the alarms start counting down and we can tell at a glance how long it is until we need to do each of the steps of the cooking process.
I hope you have found this useful, if you have any queries, leave a comment or email me at kitchenTimer_at_grovr.co.uk
Kitchen Timer Free now on Ovi Store
I am pleased to annouce that Kitchen Timer Free is now available on Ovi Store for S60 5th edition.
Kitchen Timer is an application that helps you keep track of time in the kitchen. Rather than keep having to check a watch for when to do different parts of the cooking, Kithen Timer rings an alarm when it is time to do something so you can relax whilst you are waiting, knowing that you won't miss anything.
Kitchen Timer includes a flexible alarm system that lets you set alarms relative to each other, for example if you needed to cook a chicken in the oven for 90 minutes but need to have the heat on high for the first 20 minutes of the 90 then in Kitchen Timer you would create one alarm for 90 minutes from the end of cooking called "Chicken" then create a second alarm to go off 20 minutes after the chicken alarm and Kitchen Timer makes this very easy to do.
Kitchen Timer also lets you save alarms to use again the next time you cook the same recipe.
Currently, only the free version of Kitchen Timer is available on Ovi Store here:
http://store.ovi.com/content/63471.
Soon, Kitchen Timer Pro which has the ability to record you own voice for the alarm sound will be on Ovi Store and also Kitchen Timer Free will soon be released for S^3 phones such as the N8.
A user guide for Kitchen Timer will soon be posted.
Kitchen Timer is an application that helps you keep track of time in the kitchen. Rather than keep having to check a watch for when to do different parts of the cooking, Kithen Timer rings an alarm when it is time to do something so you can relax whilst you are waiting, knowing that you won't miss anything.
Kitchen Timer includes a flexible alarm system that lets you set alarms relative to each other, for example if you needed to cook a chicken in the oven for 90 minutes but need to have the heat on high for the first 20 minutes of the 90 then in Kitchen Timer you would create one alarm for 90 minutes from the end of cooking called "Chicken" then create a second alarm to go off 20 minutes after the chicken alarm and Kitchen Timer makes this very easy to do.
Kitchen Timer also lets you save alarms to use again the next time you cook the same recipe.
Currently, only the free version of Kitchen Timer is available on Ovi Store here:
http://store.ovi.com/content/63471.
Soon, Kitchen Timer Pro which has the ability to record you own voice for the alarm sound will be on Ovi Store and also Kitchen Timer Free will soon be released for S^3 phones such as the N8.
A user guide for Kitchen Timer will soon be posted.
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