Yes, apps, that’s the main news – an actual app is now available instead of only a widget. The app allows you to see the calendar for any day of your choice, in the past, or in the future.
Also, direct links to online resources are provided, relevant to the displayed date. Exciting, huh? And very useful, too! If you haven’t still, check these apps out!
The Eir Fast Dialer app had a minor update today. An option to display the absolute time of last call has been added, the Polish translation was updated and some bugs were fixed.
Last week Facebook deleted my FB apps, without any warnings, thus making it impossible for the users of the “Thoughts by St Theophan” Android app to share the daily thoughts on FB.
The good news is that is now fixed, including the cause for that problem, and with the new 1.4 version, one can normally publish on FB via the app.
Another good side of this unfortunate event is that now the FB posting is slightly improved, with caption for the day, and future-proof — as it doesn’t use any methods that FB has in the meantime declared as obsolete. The widget functionality has also been optimized.
The English version of the Orthodox Calendar widget is now available on the Android Market.
Apart from being in English, it follows the new calendar, like most of the English-speaking Orthodox Christians. It may be a bit harder to notice, but it is the same with the Thoughts by St Theophan apps – the Russian version follows the old calendar, while the English version – the new.
Да, конечно, оригинал на русском, но просто мой порядок публикации вышел из строя 🙂
Святитель Феофан Затворник: «Мысли на каждый день года по церковным чтениям из Слова Божия».
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I bet you didn’t expect yet another new app 🙂
Ok, it’s only a widget. But I’d say it’s quite nice to have on your homescreen. It displays the feast or the saint of the day, according to the Julian Orthodox Calendar. The text is all in Russian, and so are the selected saints.
It may sound trivial for some, but have in mind that it doesn’t require internet connection, everything is programmed and contained in the app. So, it’ll work just fine if you are on Sinai, or Mount Athos (actually, there it will also be in concordance regarding the calendar which is used :-)) and have neither wi-fi nor GSM signal.
The app is available only on the Android Market, at least for the moment.
My apps are under my account on the Android Market, Fast Dialer, as well as the Thoughts of St Theophan. Concerning the later, I made a free version of it, which has some limitations, like not being able to share the text, nor to move the app to the SD card. But, all the texts are available. And if you want to say “thanks”, spare a buck for the full version 🙂
Check my account here: Eir3 Apps
Announcing the new version of the Thoughts for Each day of the Year app. It’s one of these updates that take a lot of time and effort, but only one line in the changelog: “Hyphenation correction”. As noted by Ilene Strizver:
The difference between “just okay” typography and professional-level typography is usually in the details – like hyphenation. Often overlooked, proper hyphenation is essential for optimum readability and getting your message across.
The automated hyphenation was not working properly – it made lots of mistakes, which resulted in not so good “gray” level of the text.
But now, a proper dictionary (mainly Merriam-Webster) has been used for the hyphenation, and the results are very obvious, at least for my eyes 🙂
Other than that, upon a suggestion by the Strannik, the app can be installed on the SD card, and free some of your device’s main memory, although the app is less than 600KB, i.e. not so demanding. Have in mind, however, that in case you move it on the SD card, you won’t be able to use the widget. And, of course, installing on SD card is possible since Android 2.2, but not in the earlier versions.
Through the “Share” option you can send the text to your friends via e-mail, text message, or by any other means available on your device.
Facebook – a different story. If you have a Facebook app on your phone, you’ll get an option to share on Facebook via the “Share” option, but most likely – that will not work. I found out that it is due to some limitations of the Facebook app and although they’ve promised to fix that, who knows if and when it would be done.
Thus, use the “Post on FB” button to directly post St Theophan’s daily contemplation to your Facebook wall!
Here’s a new app. The full name would be: Thoughts for Each Day of the Year According to the Daily Church Readings from the Word of God By St. Theophan the Recluse. Quite a long title, but it says it all.
The texts are included, so no internet connection is required.
The app is available from the Amazon Appstore.
Enjoy!
