PSMonitor 1.2 is out! Added new tabs (active stocks tab for viewing actively traded stocks by value, gainers tab for viewing gainer stocks by gain, losers tab for viewing loser stocks by loss) and fixed error in indices data. Check it out!
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PSMonitor App-roved
About a week after submission, PSMonitor has been approved for sale at THE App Store. Yay!
PSMonitor lets you monitor the Philippine stock market activity real-time and on the go (requires a WiFi or data connection).
- Real-time updates from the stock exchange
- Simple and intuitive interface
- Flick up and down the list of stocks
- View stock symbols, prices, and price changes at a glance
- View details such as symbol, name, last price, previous close, change for the day, %change, trade volume, and trade value.
By purchasing PSMonitor you get all of the above plus:
- Refresh button for refreshing data on demand
- All Stocks tab for viewing actively traded stocks by symbol
- My Stocks tab for storing your portfolio or watch list of stocks
- Add stocks along with quantity and buy price to My Stocks
- Edit stock quantity and buy price
- Delete stock from My Stocks
- View your stocks’ position value, and profit/loss for the day at a glance
- View additional details such as your position, position value, profit/loss for the day, profit/loss to date, and buy price.
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Mobile OS Updates
Android 4 Ice Cream Sandwich is one of the best things since sliced bread Gingerbread. Unfortunately it seems not everyone is going to get it. It has been officially announced that the barely 2-year old Nexus One won’t be getting it. There was also a rumor (since quashed but only after a few long days) that the barely a year old LG Optimus 2X won’t have it. Someone even made a chart of the sad history of Android updates. It’s a dismal picture for Android.
For the iPhone data, it’s pretty accurate. The by then 3-year old original iPhone (released Jun 2007) was not supported by iOS 4 (released Jun 2010). The 3-year old iPhone 3G (released Jul 2008) is not supported by iOS 5 (released Oct 2011). Basically, iPhones have a supported life of 3 years.
Speck ToughShell
I mentioned before that putting the gorgeous iPhone 4 inside a case generally fuglifies it. So I prefer the iPhone naked or wearing a Sena Ultraslim Pouch. And for the times when I do need a measure protection I use a Speck PixelSkin.
But if the going gets tougher, the only answer, at least previously, is a heavy-duty case like the Otterbox Defender. Unfortunately, it costs a lot, P2,500 the last time I checked, and it has an ugly circular cutout to show off the Apple logo (why?!?). So I searched and found the Speck ToughShell.
iOS 5 Is Out!
iOS 5 has finally been officially released. I actually already had iOS 5 on the iPhone for a few weeks since I’m a “developer”. But I haven’t gotten around to updating the iPad. So I updated using iTunes. Couldn’t connect to the server. Looked like the servers are swamped so I waited till the evening before trying again. Still couldn’t connect to the server. Looked like they’re still swamped. Not a good indicator for iCloud and its infrastructure. I got a direct link and downloaded from there. It was pretty fast and in about an hour or two I already had the ipsw file. It seems bandwidth is not the issue. And indeed, when I tried “restoring” using the ipsw and everything went well until iTunes tried to verify the ipsw with the server and failed with an error 1654. Luckily, it went through on my second try and I was on iOS 5 on the iPad. Relatively easy compared to the experience of quite a few users. It’s good to be a techie.