Contest 3: Open


The Open category is always an interesting one. All sorts of stuff ends up here, from workout guides to tip calculators to translators. There are also interesting programs just to show off what can be done.

The winner is listed first. Other entries are listed in alphabetical order.

Translator by Blaine Leckett ***WINNER***
Multi-directional language translator with up to 8 languages. Individual Word substitution for some phrases, Ability to add your own words (and translations) Contains nine categories with over 2000 phrases per language.

Judge's Comments: This is a very well done translator. I was able to quickly find the phrases I needed. A very professional app.



Other Entries



Acreage2000 by Werner Terreblanche
This program allows you to calculate the area of a piece of land. The land can be a polygon of any shape. If your Palm is hooked up to a GPS unit, the points are automatically collected.

Judge's Comments: The GPS integration is a nice touch.
Download

Acronyms by Werner Terreblanche
Acronyms is a utility for looking up acronyms on your Palm device. Shareware. Allows the plug in of additional libraries.

Judge's Comments: A handy reference tool. Could the UI be improved?
Download

ASM by mizuno-ami
Ami's Shipping Memo is a bilingual (English/Japanese) program that lets you organise your shopping list. Sony Jog Dial enabled. You can also export your list to the Memo Pad.

Judge's Comments: Useful program: just the thing you need to get organized for the playoffs.
Download

Birder by Werner Terreblanche
Birder is a Palm program for for birders to log their bird sightings.

Judge's Comments: An effective program for tracking your sightings. It has been very popular on PalmGear.
Download

CalMeter by Patrick Petranech
This program helps you get in shape by tracking your calories in and out. It has built in caloric values both for various types of exercise and meals.

Judge's Comments: Shows great potential for a commercial app.The UI could be better.

CheckLists by Werner Terreblanche
Checklists is a database program for bird watching enthusiasts to create logs of birds that they have seen. It comes with a large number of databases of bird names from all over the world

Judge's Comments: Works nicely. While designed for Birds, it could be used for other checklist situations.
Download

CleverBet by Ahchi Ng
A tool to help you place your bets using the Dutch Betting System. If you want to make a bet on more than 1 horse, it can help to predict the return and minimize your risk.

Judge's Comments: It lets you calculate your bets when you are in race course, so that you can make your decision in the last minute.
Download

Composer by Michael Verive
Music Composer is a small app that allows you to compose and edit music directly on your Palm device, without the need for an external keyboard. Includes source.

Judge's Comments: This program does a pretty good job of putting the complex task of composing simple tunes into a 160x160 pixel screen. It also makes use of the NSBSystemLib.
Download

DailyCalc by Ken Wick
This program does some standard calculations for tips, metric conversion, ideal weight and cooking conversions.

Judge's Comments: It's an odd mix of tools to have in a single app, but it's certainly useful reference material.
Download

DOFMaster by Don Fleming
This app is a depth of field and hyperfocal distance calculator for photographic lenses.

Judge's Comments: A good tool for professional and serious amateur photographers.

FitnessTools by Craig Cecil
Tools to calculate Body Composition, Calories burned, weights and heart rate targets.

Judge's Comments: Nicely done tools. This could be that start of a good Personal Trainer package.
Download

Formula1 by Nick Morton
The latest info on the 2002 Forumula 1 season. Updates promised throughout the year.

Judge's Comments: It's a good concept, but more could be added to make this a truly useful tool.
Download

GPSCalc by Werner Terreblanche
GPScalc is a calculator to do all kinds of GPS related calculatons

Judge's Comments: This tool is handy for people who need to do calculations from GPS readings.
Download

icqforyou by Brent Vardy
The program lets you keep track of your ICQ buddies.

Judge's Comments: When wireless ICQ comes to the Palm, you'll want this!
Download

KeepScore by Joe Del Tosto
This is a generic utility designed to help track the scores of virtually any time of game up to 8 players.

Judge's Comments: A simple adding utility.
Download

Louvre by Adrian Nicolaiev
Displays classic paintings from the Louvre's collection. See how it's done.

Judge's Comments: The real purpose of this program is to show off some clever programming tricks: 16 bit color, custom fonts, saving images in Palm databases and using special resources. If you like programming in NS Basic, you'll want to know how its done!
Download

MyBills by Helen Sandoz
This program helps you keep track of your bills and payments.

Judge's Comments: Nicely done. It does the job easily and intuitively.
Download

RebateTracker by James Wu
This app is designed for tracking all your rebate mailings with a simple and user friendly interface.

Judge's Comments: Tucows gave this program 4 cows: a simple and effective tool!
Download

Roster by Werner Terreblanche
All contact information for your club, group or organization can be kept and accessed in a simple, efficient manner.

Judge's Comments: Another useful tool.
Download

Trialer by Michael Shook
This app allows the entry and sorting of trial lap times for car racing (or for any racing that uses 2 trial lap times to determine start order) and produces statistics of trial lap times

Judge's Comments: Another handy tool for your day at the races. Nicely done.

Triangulator by Werner Terreblanche
This app takes the complexity out of trigonometric mathematics. All you have to do is to enter three parameters (for example any two sides and one angle), and the program will calculate the remaining sides and angles for you.

Judge's Comments: A nicely done tool for triangle calculations.
Download