Bible Card Memory

Research has shown that most people can only hold about 5 to 9 items in short term memory. Memory tricks such as chunking can greatly extend this range, however.

The limit of human short-term memory is why phone numbers, credit card numbers, and other long sequences of numbers are often broken into smaller groups of 3 or 4 digits.

I like to mention the release of a simple memory game with Bible characters.

Many remember this game from old times. Turn cards over and try to match pairs in as few steps as possible. A relaxing memory exercise for all ages.

Choose between a 16 or 36 card game. (Suitable for the tablets there will also be the choice of 64 cards in the next update). The cards are shuffled with each game.

HOW TO PLAY. All the cards on the grid begin face down. Tap a card to turn it over. Try to find the second card that matches the first. If the second card does not match, both cards return to a face down position. If they do match, the cards remain as they are. Try to match all the cards on the grid in the fewest steps possible. The trick is to use your memory to remember the cards even when they are turned back over.

This card matching game helps train short-term memory. This type of memory is very important for problems solving and other tasks where you need to hold several pieces of information in mind at one time.

NWT Quizzer

The Bible Mini Quizzer is updated and is now called NWT Quizzer to emphasise it is based on the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures.


Version 1.3 includes four new challenging categories on top of the existing six categories, adding a new level to the Quizzer Challenge. Level 1 consists of questions about Bible characters. Level 2 adds to this with questions about culture and geography. Level 3 adds questions about scriptures, numbers, and the timeline of events. The new added level 4 adds to this with questions about events, animals, materials, and colours.

Adjustments have been made to the main screen to improve readability.


The Quizzer Challenge now pauses the countdown a few seconds to allow the player to read the question or listen to the question being read when the speech synthesiser is being used.

Doing Windows 2.2

I am happy to announce the availability of another feature update of the window cleaner assistant app. Besides having German localisation the following has been added:

• Breaks. We all need a week off now and then. Any individual job or complete round that is finished is automatically scheduled by their repeat cycle and it just keeps going. You can now schedule an upcoming break in your planning. All automatically scheduled jobs and rounds will be moved automatically to accommodate the week(s) you are blocking for a holiday or other major event.
  When you decide to cancel an upcoming break and delete it from your planning all jobs and rounds are moved back to the original schedule according to their repeat cycle.
  
• Jobs per customer. You can now also view, add, edit, and delete jobs defined for a customer when viewing the customer. Since you can view the customer via the To Do list you can also access the job details from there. This will make all a lot easier to make adjustments quickly. You can still access the complete list of all jobs as this now can be found via 'More'.
  
• Time duration. You can now specify the time you expect a job to take. This time will be displayed in the To Do list per job, as a total per round, and as a total per week.

This update is free of charge to all users who have bought a previous version of Doing Windows.

Doing Gardens

I am happy to announce the release of a new iOS business app, similar to the one for window cleaners, but going in a different direction.

Doing Gardens is kept as simple as possible and will benefit many gardeners who do garden maintenance for customers and want an easy way of keeping their schedule and track their customer payments.

Like with the other apps I would like to invite users to be open about their sincere suggestions for future improvements, as these help to make the app a better one with each update.

Doing Windows 2.1

Several days ago the 2.0 version was released on the App Store. It is a major update and, although it was tested extensively, a bug slipped through. It is fixed with version 2.1.

What happened? Well, when a job, which is attached to a round, has been edited its repeat cycle is unset. Then when the list of jobs is loaded the app crashes at finding an unset repeat cycle while counting the jobs of the various repeat cycles.

My sincere apologies for all the users that encountered this issue. The update with the bug fix is available and can be downloaded from the App Store.

What else is included in this version? I received a request from a professional window cleaner in Sweden who asked to have it in Swedish, so with his help Doing Windows now also works with that additional language.

And as an added bonus there is also a link with the iOS maps app for the jobs that appear in the 'To Do' list. When you tap on a job there is now an extra option 'Route Here' on the Job Info screen, and when selected feeds the job customer address to the maps app and will trigger it to show the route from your current location to the customer address. This might come in handy when you are not so much familiar with the area.

Doing Windows 2.0

Soon version 2.0 will be on its way to the App Store. I have been working on this version for several weeks and I am quite happy about the new features that it has. In alphabetical order the following three topics are added:

• Mileage: keep track of your vehicles' business miles on a daily basis. This will be helpful to see how much you can claim back later as travel costs for your tax calculations.
• Prospects: keep records of potential customers, perhaps while canvassing or other methods you are using, and because you are just awesome in your work you turn them into customers.
• Rounds: jobs with the same cycle can be grouped and scheduled together, which makes it easier to adjust your planning and also keeps your to-do-list more tidy. Now, when you want to take a break or go on a holiday because your business runs so well, you simply change the date of some rounds and you are set.

The inclusion of mileage registration is because of some users have requested it. I can fully understand the reasons for wanting such a feature added. For one, it is another reason not needing a notebook in your glove compartment. And you can see what you spend each month and export the total list to whatever app you want to use to process the details further.

I wanted to have something to keep better track of my canvassing results, as I kept a notebook but after some time it became cluttered and I needed to browse a lot to find certain streets. Now with the feature to be able to record prospect details it will all be in one place and easier to search through and update. It is very basic but helpful.

Particularly the rounds have quite an impact on the app and I want to make sure it is properly tested before the new version will be released. I am sure the many users of the app that have quite a number of customers to provide their services to on a regular basis will be happy with this feature. 

I look forward to hear your experiences on how you benefit using the new functions.