Happy Diwali and Quick Jyotish for Windows Mobile
Happy Diwali 2007 to everyone. Hope you are all enjoying the holiday. As a special holiday gift for those of you with Pocket PC and Windows Mobile Classic I have created a version of Quick Jyotish for that platform. Quick Jyotish is a basic jyotish program which I've had available on Windows and Linux for a while. The Windows Mobile version was built with Pocket PC 2002 so should work on all platforms including Windows Mobile Classic 6. Note that Microsoft Windows Moible 5 began calling the PDA version "Classic." This version works with all display configurations including 240x320, 240x240, 320x240, 480x480 and 640x480 both portrait and landscape. Like the original version the display which includes chart information, chart, navamshas and dashas is scrolled so that allows it to work in various displays. It also works from 1600-2003 AD and uses the highly accurate VSOP 87 engine.
Note this version will not work with Smartphones. I am going to attempt a Smartphone version but even if I release it I can't guarantee you'll be able to install it on your Smartphone. Some companies require "signed" software for the phone and no way will I pay to have a free program signed. I also plan to download and look at Google's open source phone OS SDK and perhaps that will be a great solution for third party software developers.
You can download Quick Jyotish for the Pocket PC and Windows Mobile Classic here:
Download Quick Jyotish Pocket PC
This is a setup program that you must run on your Desktop PC with the PDA connected.
DigiBuy Goes Bye Bye
Beginning in December Digital River will be shutting down DigiBuy but don't worry they've replaced it with SWReg which is a better service all the way around. It will support PayPal for those of you who don't have credit cards (as well as other payment options) and there is better international currency support. One nice thing is that you'll be able to access your registration key anytime without paying the extra for insurance or bugging me to look it up for you.
Unfortunately for the rare few of you who can't download software for some reason or another (your workplace or Internet cafe bars downloads) there is no CD service. I have no interest it in providing it either as the time and hassle especially for foreign shipments requiring customs forms is not worth it. In fact once someone inquired how much I would charge for shipping a CD of Junior Jyotish in the USA and my quote was $25. Needless to say the party quickly discovered that they had a brother-in-law who could download it for them.
I've had folks who had downloads blocked at work found the IT manager was happy to download it for them and the same may well be true of an Internet cafe proprietor. Remember the only files for the moment that will have a temporary link are the full versions for the Palm and Pocket PC. For Jyotish Tools for Windows you are purchasing a key to let the 30 day trial run more than 30 days. Always treat your purchased software as if you bought it at a store. Make a backup and print off your key code.
Note this version will not work with Smartphones. I am going to attempt a Smartphone version but even if I release it I can't guarantee you'll be able to install it on your Smartphone. Some companies require "signed" software for the phone and no way will I pay to have a free program signed. I also plan to download and look at Google's open source phone OS SDK and perhaps that will be a great solution for third party software developers.
You can download Quick Jyotish for the Pocket PC and Windows Mobile Classic here:
Download Quick Jyotish Pocket PC
This is a setup program that you must run on your Desktop PC with the PDA connected.
DigiBuy Goes Bye Bye
Beginning in December Digital River will be shutting down DigiBuy but don't worry they've replaced it with SWReg which is a better service all the way around. It will support PayPal for those of you who don't have credit cards (as well as other payment options) and there is better international currency support. One nice thing is that you'll be able to access your registration key anytime without paying the extra for insurance or bugging me to look it up for you.
Unfortunately for the rare few of you who can't download software for some reason or another (your workplace or Internet cafe bars downloads) there is no CD service. I have no interest it in providing it either as the time and hassle especially for foreign shipments requiring customs forms is not worth it. In fact once someone inquired how much I would charge for shipping a CD of Junior Jyotish in the USA and my quote was $25. Needless to say the party quickly discovered that they had a brother-in-law who could download it for them.
I've had folks who had downloads blocked at work found the IT manager was happy to download it for them and the same may well be true of an Internet cafe proprietor. Remember the only files for the moment that will have a temporary link are the full versions for the Palm and Pocket PC. For Jyotish Tools for Windows you are purchasing a key to let the 30 day trial run more than 30 days. Always treat your purchased software as if you bought it at a store. Make a backup and print off your key code.
Brian,
Have you had a chance to work on Quick Jyotish for Windows Mobile 6? I was able to install the current version (after my PDA was lost) onto a Samsung phone/PDA using that OS, but the program sometimes crashes...
Thanks,
Jonathan
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I haven't had a chance yet. The interface needs a little redesign for phones. Even then I'm not sure you'll be able to install it (may need some kind of certification which cost $$$ and won't happen for a free product). Google's project which I downloaded but haven't looked at is targeted for phone software without the need for certification. With the stupid certification thing the only software customers will get will be mass market items that sell in the hundreds of thousands or more. You may well be able to install the Pocket PC version but it will probably crash and needs a different interface. I believe when I tried running the PPC version on the Smartphone simulator it ran but crashed and of course you couldn't scroll or anything.
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Hi Brian,
Just picked up a little ASUS mobile/handheld thing. Can I run Jyotish tools on this? ASUS m530w.
http://www.gsmarena.com/asus_m530w-2096.php
-marielle
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No, because it uses Microsoft Windows Mobile 6 Standard which is the cellphone specific OS. If it ran Microsoft Windows Mobile 6 Classic you'd be okay. Unfortunately I can't just create a program that runs with that OS as most cellular providers won't let you install it without it being "certified" which is too expensive for the small Jyotish market so only big companies with software that will sell in the thousands need only apply. In my article I mention that this is a problem obviously for a lot of niche market programs. Some, like medical applications can afford to amortize such a cost to their users because they can afford but the "counter culture" Jyotish market is not that affluent to afford a small application that might cost as much as $500. So Google's Android project and some other projects especially in Linux where I can use C and not have to learn that horrible Java language are attempting to address this issue.
It is probably confusing to some of my users as there are both Palm and Pocket PC phone units that have dual operating systems, one for the phone and one for software. My programs will run on those and I have customers using them. The other problem is that Jyotish Tools for the Pocket PC is for a 320x240 screen and would display or scroll well in your new phone which a different screen size.
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