Tipr on the iPhone
My friend and colleague Aaron Gustafson of Easy Designs, LLC created a tip calculator a while back for use on mobile devices that had an interesting twist. Tipr calculates tip percentages, 10, 20, 30% etc. and then modifies the total and the tip by a few cents to create a palindrome. Huh!
In case you don’t know, a palindrome is word or number that reads the same way from front to back, e.g. Madam or $123.21. This comes in handy when reviewing your credit card statement. At a glance you can see if you have been accidentally overcharged by a restaurant or bar or anywhere you might leave a tip. If you always total to a palindrome, you should always see palindrome totals on your statement.
Anyway, to get to my point, I have been dabbling in iPhone development and find it very gratifying to build apps and then pop them right on my iPhone. Trouble is coming up with ideas? So when I can’t, I look for a good candidate that I think needs iPhonification. Tipr seemed like something I could tackle. I am a newbee to Objective-C and useful, relatively simple apps are my limit just now.
So here it is. Or @ least a movie of it. Getting stuff onto the App Store is a whole other ball game.
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