Comments on: Quickies: Stowaway, Tip Assistant, HandStory
LandWare is now offering the Money Magazine Tip Assistant for free. The user enters the check subtotal and this app calculates the tax, tip, and divides a bill evenly among a group of people. -PR
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RE: Tip calculators
Hey, you DO need a tip calculator!
RE: Tip calculators
Trust me, there are TONS of people out there that can't perform simple calculations. I've seen cashiers struggle with change from $10 for a $9.75 purchase. I've seen people struggle with how to split a $30 bill three ways.
It's very scary.
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RE: Tip calculators
Sheesh.
RE: Tip calculators
99.9% of restaurant bills provide a tax inclusive subtotal. So by just entering the subtotal the application calculates the tip, total *and* automatically verifies the restaurant's tax calculation and addition.
You have also got the flexibility to alter the tax amount and percentage, tip amount and percentage and guest totals to quickly provide the answers to a range of different problems.
However if you would really prefer to be able to enter the Base Amount as well email landware and they will look at it for the next revision.
Hope this helps
-- LandWare support
RE: Tip calculators
3 guys attending a convention walk into a motel asking to share a room for the night. The clerk tells them it's $30 so they each pay $10. Later, the clerk realizes that they should receive a $5 discount on the room for the convention attendees. He calls the bellhop and gives him five $1 bills to divide among the guests. On the way up, the bellhop is trying to calculate how much to give each guy. Not having his PDA, he decides to make it simple and pockets $2. He gives each guest a $1 bill for the overpayment.
Now, how much did each guest pay for the room? $9
In total, how much did they pay? $27
How much did the bellhop keep? $2
What happened to the other $1? ????
RE: Tip calculators
Since you updated it to mention a PDA, you could have changed it from three guys to two girls and a guy :)
RE: Tip calculators
MS seems to get their fingers into everything these days
RE: Tip calculators
RE: Tip calculators
If you are paying the whole bill, take the tax and double it. Adjust for service.
If you are splitting a bill, add up what you ordered and add 25% - this covers tax and tip.
If you are at a buffet - $1 per person, plus a little if they cleared plates, filled drinks, etc. in a timely manner.
Tipping in Australia:
Whats a tip? Minimum wage MEANS minimum wage, and serving staff make better than that. You round up the bill if the service was real good.
RE: Tip calculators
RE: Tip calculators
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RE: Tip calculators
Thats $8.33 total.
Then they got a $1 refund. $9.33 x 3 = $28.
$2 for the tip = 30.
Bodgy maths will not set you free.
RE: Tip calculators
I don't feel the need to tip every bellboy and service station attendant.
Gotta love America, built in charity for those people with stupid jobs :)
RE: Tip calculators
RE: Tip calculators
Hooray!
Now if we can only get Margi to release a Memory Stick-based Presenter-to-Go, I'm set.
RE: Hooray!
RE: Hooray!
RE: Hooray!
Slightly OT Rant ...
We were amazed that they had a full sized keyboard for the cell phone, and the sales associate started the sales pitch of how easy they are to collapse, and how good the keyboard is in conjuction with browsing the web (WAP maybe?) and text messaging.
I think she totally missed the point that the screen was the size of a postage stamp, and by attaching a keyboard (and needing to carry a keyboard around) defeated the purpose of the device being small.
FFS, get a wireless PDA.
Back closer to being on topic - why don't Thinkoutside make their Stowaways with swapout adapters? I'd love to be able to upgrade to a new PalmOS 5.0 UberDevice and take my Stowaway with it, and have my wife be able to use the keyboard with a Clie.
RE: Willing to Wait
Tried the PocketTop, and didn't like it at all -- cramped typing. The G700 is definitely nicer, and a real competitor for Stowaway; but it still had smaller keys (I got big hands).
RE: Hooray!
>Thinkoutside make their Stowaways with swapout
>adapters? I'd love to be able to upgrade to a new
>PalmOS 5.0 UberDevice and take my Stowaway with it, >and have my wife be able to use the keyboard with a
>Clie.
They don't want to destroy their market, maybe?
RE: Hooray!
File size pretty big for a tip calculator.
RE: File size pretty big for a tip calculator.
Tip Assistant is useful if you need international tipping guidelines, if you split bills, and for its ability to round the tip up or down to a whole dollar amount.
Tipper! from www.dentonsoftware.com is also free and has a much more extensive and much more easily accessible discussion of who to tip and how much to tip.
I find the latter much more useful.
RE: File size pretty big for a tip calculator.
RE: File size pretty big for a tip calculator.
RE: File size pretty big for a tip calculator.
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Any HandStory user(s) wish to comment
RE: Any HandStory user(s) wish to comment
Handstory
Handstory is very, very cool.
RE: Any HandStory user(s) wish to comment
BUT - now that it can do webclipping...it is indispensable. I have completely dumped AvantGo and use HandStory exclusively. It performs flawlessly and very quickly at grabbing webclippings. I love it.
YMMV of course.
Dwayne
RE: Any HandStory user(s) wish to comment
As I posted then, overall I think it's a great program that does everything it promises. One of my few nitpicks that has now apparently been fixed with ver2.2 is the ability to close a document by pressing the back button.
RE: Any HandStory user(s) wish to comment
1. The "Save to Palm" feature does not work properly if you use Pocket Mirror to sync to Outlook. This because when you "Save to Palm" it creates a memo or contact entry in the Palm Desktop application, but if you sync to Outlook, you are not using Palm Desktop, therefore the memo/contact never gets transferred to the Palm.
2. It does not use a custom conduit for moving information to the Palm. It uses a combination of installing DBs and modifying the memo pad and address book directly If it did, Issue #1 could be solved.
Does anybody have a work-around for #1? Does anybody know if Handstory plans on addressing #2?
Like I said, it's a great program - but not entirely "there" yet.
RE: Any HandStory user(s) wish to comment
http://www.handstory.com/support/index.html#5
With this workaround in hand, I believe I will download the demo and try the program out, but I won't register until something is done about this lack. I would strongly encourage the developer to consider adding more direct support for his potential customers who use a desktop application other than the Palm Desktop.
RE: Any HandStory user(s) wish to comment
Looks like I'll be a customer of HandStory's!
Upgrade Pocket Quicken, not Tip Calculators
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RE: Upgrade Pocket Quicken, not Tip Calculators
Remember the Tip Assistant represents a free subset of a much more extensive application: Money Magazine Financial Assistant. A full visual tour can be seen at www.landware.com/money/tour
We thought that spinning off the Tip worksheet from the Money Magazine Financial Assistant and providing it as a free gift to the Palm community would be appreciated by people.
Let us know if you would be interested in the Tip Assistant being able to post transactions to Pocket Quicken.
- clinton logan
RE: Upgrade Pocket Quicken, not Tip Calculators
FREE is always good!
RE: Upgrade Pocket Quicken, not Tip Calculators
Any sneak-peaks of possible new PQ features that you could share with us?
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Universal Keyboard
I have been using the Sony Clie Peg S300 for over a year now and will be upgrading to a new clie soon, however i will also have to buy a new keyboard since the new clie's use a different port than the old ones....
I would be willing to pay a lil more for a keyboard if it could be fitted w/ adapters to fit any PDA.
RE: Universal Keyboard
Stowaway makes more money by issuing a "new" keyboard for each and every PDA than selling one keyboard and a set of adapters.
Frankly, I'm on my last one. I bought two in the Past for each new PDA, but found I rarely use them. The Stowaways are neat, cool gadgets, but I'm sick-and-tired of paying $99 every time I change PDAs.
If Stowaway wants to keep me as a customer, it's time to come out with a universal keyboard and adapters. But alas that's asking too much. We can only hope that a competitor will do this. Free markets are good. If Stowaway is unwilling, let's bring on the competition. I'm ready to SWITCH.
RE: Universal Keyboard
They're getting no more than one keyboard's worth of cash out of me. I'd be happy to buy an adapter from them, but they'd rather try to sell me what is basically the same hardware all over again!
RE: Universal Keyboard
I'm not sure if all the PalmOS PDAs have to conform to certain specs when making their expansion ports, but I'm sure that PPC PDAs don't have to adhere to the same specs.
Also, what kind of an adapter are you recommending they make? A connector only adapter? What about the cradle that the PDA sits on? What if it's too small? What if the PDA is too top heavy? What if the PDA is too thick to align properly with the connector?
What if the connector costs more to develop than the keyboard? Are you willing to pay $50 for a "mere" connector? Will you post on here talking about how outrageous it is to pay $50 for a tiny piece of plastic?
What if Sony's next PDA has a true USB connector? Will its communication speed be too fast for the keyboard, regardless of the connector?
Will you answer all the angry e-mails from people demanding a "simple" adapter for this PDA?
Releasing a "Universal Keyboard" would be a nightmare for any company. It's not the plastic,glass and metal you are paying for. If you're so upset about paying $99 for a "simple" keyboard, why not get upset about paying $399+ for a "simple" PDA? I'm sure that the plastic, metal, and glass are hardly worth more than $10.
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RE: Universal Keyboard
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RE: Universal Keyboard
I agree with the two first gentlemen to respond, I really would not want to buy more than one of these devices for each pda I acquire. I hope that eventually the company will be forced to create a universal pda keyboard as the novelty of the device wears off and people get tired of their ever expanding collection of out of date, useless equipment.
I am absolutely certain that there is a way to make a universal keyboard. However I am not at all familar with the circuitry of the keyboard and the pdas so could not elaborate on the details. The superb engineers that designed the stowaway should be able to figure it out.
RE: Universal Keyboard
Anyway it's possible to have a Universal keyboard only if everyone uses the same connector, maybe we should petition or mini USB on all palm device replacing the old serial port.
Can't believe there is another tip calculator
or that the kind of people buying PDAs, are smart enough to figure out 15%. How complicated can it be?!
Do software developers ever poll the users - to find out what are the wish for apps?!
RE: Can't believe there is another tip calculator
We also developed it for our own internal use as we were not 100% happy with the functionality of the existing batch of Tip calculators. We simply thought that other Palm owners might find it useful as well.
-- clinton
RE: Can't believe there is another tip calculator
I'm so sick of the "but they get paid less than minimum wage and tips are part of their salary..." argument. I waited tables. Wanna know why I don't do it now? I sucked at it. I got paid very little because I was horrible, and I wisely got a DIFFERENT JOB! If their performance doesn't induce you to pay them a tip, they should find a new line of work.
Foo
Join the campaign to end restaurant pressure!
Eliminate the alternate minimum wage for waitstaff, and end the pressure put on customers to make up the salary differences for the restaurant employers.
Not Obligatory To Insure Prompt Service
http://www.NOTIPS.com/
RE: Can't believe there is another tip calculator
RE: Can't believe there is another tip calculator
The Tip Assistant has actually saved me money as I normally end up over tipping when tipsy.
The Money Magazine Financial Assistant looks interesting
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RE: The Money Magazine Financial Assistant looks interesting
Presently we are working on the documentation, performing quality assurance etc. and hope to have the Financial Assistant available in about 4 weeks time. If you sign up at http://www.landware.com/money/notify we will email you as soon as it is available. Pricing has yet to be set.
-- clinton
RE: The Money Magazine Financial Assistant looks interesting
RE: The Money Magazine Financial Assistant looks interesting
I would be interested in hearing about what other levels of synergy you would like to see between the products
-- clinton
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Tip calculators
Just in case you are stranded at a restaurant, needing to come up with a tip with no calculator or PDA, here's what you can do in this emergency situation: 1) Take the last digit off of the total bill. That's 10%. Add 1/2 of that number. That's 15%. If you want to tip twenty percent, simply double the 10% number. Voilla! You're a walking PDA tip calculator.