Meade LS Telescope Review

I got the chance to use for a few nights a 6 inch Meade LS telescope. So far, I can say I’m pretty impressed. Of course, this telescope is one of the most technological advanced telescope produces so far. It has GPS, compass, lights switch, a lot of media content, etc. I think it’s a…

SkyMap 2 for Windows Phone

We released version 2 of SkyMap for Windows Phone. There are a lot of changes in the new version. The application has a  completely new map rendering. It uses XNA, taking advantage of the phone’s GPU. All drawings are performed frame by frame, in real time. Another big difference is the way the application calculates…

SkyMap for Windows Phone 7.5 Gets Full Point to Sky Experience

SkyMap application for Windows Phone was recently updated to version 1.5.  What is SkyMap for Windows Phone 7? SkyMap provides interactive sky maps for any time, viewpoint and location on Earth. It shows the different names, coordinates, magnitude, astronomical rise and set times plus additional information for over 110000 stars, messier objects, planets, sun and…

AstroPix 1.0 Presentation Video

As I said in my previous blog entry, we’ve recently released 2 windows phone applications including AstroPix. It looks like AstroPix is quite succesful and we’ve decided to create a presentatio video for it. Without further ado, here’s the video. I really hope that windows phone owners will find these applications (AstroPix + SkyMap) useful:

2 free apps for windows phone: AstroPix and SkyMap Free

We’ve recently published these 2 new free apps for Windows Phone 7. I hope people will find them usefull during summer time. SkyMap Free works fine offline – so if you’re camping, away from light polution, but with no phone/data coverage, you can still use SkyMap Free. AstroPix is a NASA’s APOD viewer. It’s a…

SkyMap for Windows Phone v1.2

A new update of SkyMap (version 1.2) is available for download from marketplace (for windows phone users). Please take a look at our presentation video (below) for a preview of the new features in version 1.2: – astronomy picture of the day – map rotation mode – point to sky mode (beta) – flashlight, map orientation lock and other…

Memory Bubbles – new free game for Windows Phone 7

We’ve just published on Windows Phone 7 marketplace a new free game: Memory Bubbles Memory Bubbles is a fun game combining the bubble pop experience with a memory exercise. Enjoy popping bubbles and train your mind! Pop bubbles, remember the hidden numbers and follow the rules (pop bubbles with matching or consecutive numbers). If your…

Constantine the Great and Religious Tolerance

Constantine the Great is a well-known Roman emperor. When you ask people about why Constantine was such a great emperor, they’ll probably say that because he was the first christian Roman emperor or because he made Christianity a state religion of the Roman empire. But that’s not really correct. Constantine did not make Christianity a…

Rain City Gutters

I’ve got an old gutter replaced today. The old gutter was rusty and due for replacement. I end up hiring Rain City Gutters for this job. And it was a real pleasure doing business with Rain City Gutters. They did a great job, the price was good and I’m really happy with them. I’ll definitely recommend…

SkyMap for Windows Phone 7, HotelMapTips and other projects

SkyMap application for Windows Phone 7 is officially a success.  After all, it went up in the top of all apps on Windows Phone 7 platform and it’s now on Microsoft’s top apps page. Thank you again to all people who downloaded the free trial of our SkyMap application. And special thanks to the people who paid for the…

God’s mind behind Big Bang theory?

A few weeks ago, we all got the news that “Pope Benedict is offering his thoughts on how the universe was created.  Thursday, the Pope said God’s mind was behind the complex scientific theories such as the Big Bang, and Christians should reject the idea the universe was created by chance” These are very interesting…

SkyMap for Windows Phone 7

This was an interesting project and a lot of exprience to gain out of it. The idea was old. And I already have the code to draw sky maps from my own website skymaponline.net. But it was not as easy as I thought it will be. Because the progamming on Windows Phone 7 is… an…