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A short notification, moar numbers from the inside

The last time I wrote about my (still) last app "a short notification" was on the 7th of September. Back then, I was reporting on the download numbers after ASN had

  • Tim Bourguignon
    Tim Bourguignon
3 min read
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App of the day synopsis, "a short notification" on myappfree.it

After a month and a half in the store, a short notification, my first paid Windows Phone 8.1 app, earned me a grand total of... nothing. I paid the app myself twice

  • Tim Bourguignon
    Tim Bourguignon
3 min read
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Prompting a Windows Phone 8.1 user for a review

While writing MiniReader for Instapaper (the introduction blogpost I wrote), I decided I wanted to display a popup to ask the user to review the app after some time (for instance after starting

  • Tim Bourguignon
    Tim Bourguignon
2 min read
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A short notification, history and longer notifications

Right after the first push of a short notification and the first post about it, I started adding new features. The two highlights of this new version are a history mechanism and longer-shorter

  • Tim Bourguignon
    Tim Bourguignon
2 min read
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A short notification (sic) WinPhone App

Here's to another app I've been willing to write for a while: a short notification. The idea is dead simple: Type a small text and push "send" on your phone. The

  • Tim Bourguignon
    Tim Bourguignon
1 min read
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Simply.Write update for Windows 8.1

After almost a year without love for Simply.Write, I finally found the time to correct a few bugs and - more importantly - push out a Windows 8.1 version of it

  • Tim Bourguignon
    Tim Bourguignon
1 min read
Dev

Localization on WP8.1

As far as I understood - and for whatever reason MSDN is quite silent about this - in the switch between WP8 and WP8.1, the localization API of Windows RT changed. After

  • Tim Bourguignon
    Tim Bourguignon
1 min read
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WebView.InvokeScriptAsync method

Just because I banged my head against my desk trying to solve that one for a while tonight. I should have read the documentation a little bit more carefully in the first place.

  • Tim Bourguignon
    Tim Bourguignon
1 min read
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PicsSort tiny update

So young and already hopelessly colorful. I just pushed a new version of PicsSort to the Windows Phone 8 Store with absolutely... nothing new... almost. Beside the flashy colors and UI-Small revamp, I

  • Tim Bourguignon
    Tim Bourguignon
1 min read
Dev

PicsSort

The year is still very new and I already have published a new App in the Windows Phone App Store: PicsSort. After switching from the iPhone to the Windows Phone world, I was

  • Tim Bourguignon
    Tim Bourguignon
1 min read
Dev

MiniReader for Instapaper v1.1

A few weeks ago, I swapped my iPhone 5 - which was starting to go awry - for a brand new Lumia 930, a Windows Phone 8. I came to realize that being

  • Tim Bourguignon
    Tim Bourguignon
2 min read
Dev

MiniReader

MiniReader for Instapaper is the leanest Instapaper reader you can find (requires an Instapaper Premium account). Here are the different blog articles I wrote on the topic: MiniReader for Instapaper v1.1

  • Tim Bourguignon
    Tim Bourguignon
1 min read
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