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When NASA began the launch of astronauts into space, they found out that the pens wouldn't work at zero gravity as ink wouldn't flow down to the writing surface. They took one decade and $12 million to develop a pen that worked at zero gravity, upside down underwater, and in practically any surface including crystal.

And what did Russians do.. They used a PENCIL!

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The Simplest Credit Card Manager On The Planet

Submitted by Alucard on Sun, 07/03/2016 - 22:11
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Credit Card Manager

This started as a personal project because I desperately needed an app to manage all 12 of my credit cards. I tried a couple of apps on app store but they were either too sophisticated for a simple task or simply doesn't do what I want.

So I decided to take up the challenge, and created a simple app that basically helps me to keep track of payment due dates and transactions.

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The Simplest Way To Reuse Any Image/Audio As Chat Stickers In WhatsApp

Submitted by Alucard on Fri, 03/11/2016 - 08:02
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Custom Chat Stickers

The idea came when I found that I always have to browse through several hundreds of images in WhatsApp images folder to find that pic that is perfectly suited for the current chat topic. As for the case of Audio, there is currently no good way to save and reuse audio clips (those recorded on the fly) in WhatsApp chat rooms.

Therefore, as a developer sworn to build apps to solve first world problems, I decided to take the challenge. Please try it and let me know how it goes!

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The Simplest Way To Extract Text From Image (OCR) With Your iPhone

Submitted by Alucard on Sat, 08/22/2015 - 09:43
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ocr

OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition which is a technology to convert image to text. In the old days it takes a super computer to perform a complex OCR operation but thanks to the wonders of technology it is now available for everyone with a smart phone! (Both Android and iOS version are available now)

I decided to create the iOS version because the Android version was a huge success for me, and I received quite a number of requests to have it ported over. It's not just a simple port of the Android version because no code can be reused and it had to be built from scratch and specially crafted for the iOS.

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The Simplest Way To Copy Paste Any Text On Your Android Device

Submitted by Alucard on Fri, 12/06/2013 - 22:46
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Copy Paste

Ever encountered some text that you would like to copy to clipboard, but unable to?

For example:

  • Android Facebook app's status messages.
  • Some article shared by your friend in Facebook that is actually a picture.
  • Website articles that disables copy and paste.
  • Help page or any text within other Android apps that cannot be copied via normal way (long press text to copy)

I've developed an app that allows you to do copy text in all the scenarios above. Feel free to try it!

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The Simplest Way To Extract Text From Image (OCR) With Your Android Device

Submitted by Alucard on Thu, 11/14/2013 - 17:38
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ocr

My app just got reviewed by a professional website! Read the full review here: http://apps400.com/android-apps/ocr-instantly-free-convert-image-to-text-offline.html

OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition which is a technology to convert image to text. In the old days it takes a super computer to perform a complex OCR operation but thanks to the wonders of technology it is now available for everyone with a smart phone!

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The Simplest Way To Revive Touch Typing On Your Modern Touch Screen Phones (Android)

Submitted by Alucard on Mon, 03/03/2014 - 23:42
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touch typing

Do you miss the old phones with physical buttons which you were able to type without looking at your phone screen? What this app does is it revives the possibility of touch typing in modern touch screen phones.

People who may find usage in this app:
1) Everyday users who want to touch type without relying on word prediction.
2) People who needs bigger keys, for example an elder person.
3) People who are visually impaired looking for easy to learn input method.

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The Simplest Way To Find The Past Tense Of Any Word

Submitted by Alucard on Fri, 11/15/2013 - 14:05
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hourglass
[Picture source: http://twilightandliteracy.webs.com/Hourglass.jpg]

*Updated 15 November 2013*

If a past tense is entered, instead of displaying no result, system will now point to the original word.

Sometimes I tend to forget what's the past tense of certain words, and would need to google for it. I always wonder why there isn't such a site that can help me simplify this task.

Therefore, I decided to build my own :)

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The Simplest Way To Move An Off-Screen Window Back Into Sight

Submitted by Alucard on Sun, 03/17/2013 - 17:14
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off-screen window

If you used Windows long enough, you should have encountered a problem where a window was moved off-screen and you can't get it back to sight using all the methods you know.

I just faced this issue recently and found a simple way to do so with some help from Google. The method is quite simple and was there since Windows XP. (Why haven't I figured this out earlier?)

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