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What software have you purchased to use at work, that your company wouldn't purchase?

I used to work with VMS a lot, and accessing it from my PC was the pits, as the company supplied terminal emulator left a lot of keypad keys not accessible. I finally gave up asking for them to do something about it, and bought Kermit95. Problem solved for me. If you have ever been in this situation, what was the software package yo...

Python function: Find Change from purchase amount

I'm looking for the most efficient way to figure out a change amount (Quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies) from a purchase amount. The purchase amount must be less than $1, and the change is from one dollar. I need to know how many quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies someone would get back. Would it be best to set up a dictionary? ...

Please help with a purchase decision for development: Dell XPS M1330 / M1340 / M1530 / M1540 / Macbook Aluminium

Hi there! Ok, I hope this post doesn't raise any alarm bells by not being entirely programming related, but it is critical towards my programming! I have a major dilemma and I’m afraid to make the wrong (and very expensive) purchase decision for a laptop, so I am hoping anyone out there can help. Processing Needs: I am a self-employed...

Recommend a source for ASP.NET templates?

I am going to build a basic small business site for myself and would like to get a head start with a quality ASP.NET template and don't mind purchasing one. Can you recommend a reputable site I might check out for this? Many thanks. ...

Selling real-world goods from an iphone App ?

Amazon App does it and Fandango seems to as well, but did anyone tried to provide purchase of real-world goods (books, food, etc) from an iphone App ? Another post is mentioning PayPal API as technically possible although very likely to be rejected by apple. In-App purchasing clearly states against selling real goods using this mechani...

MKStore Manager

how can i call [MKStoreManager sharedStorageManager] in applicationDidFinishLaunching ...

How to ensure that the app was purchased from app store?

Is there a way to confirm (programmatically) that the application was purchased from AppStore? Or, maybe, there is a way to get a list of devices IDs from AppStore that purchased my app? The reason is the willing to determine if the application was legally purchased or not... I know that there is a way to know that the in-app purchase ...

iPhone + In App purchase + change alert message

Hello, I have implemented In App Purchase in one of the existing application, it's working fine. But the problem is that whenever I tap on any of the locked feature (where I have implemented In App code), it show me the alert message with title like "Confirm your In App Purchase" and message saying "Do you want to buy one xxx Feat...

iPhone + In App purchase testing

Hello, I have implemented In App purchase in one of the existing application. I have also created SandBox account for testing it. I have run the application and tested it, its working perfect. Since, I have tested it, by buying the feature, it means I have bought that feature. Now, there is a change in code and I want to re-test it (In...

iPhone + In App purchase + access alert message buttons

Hello, I have implemented In App purchase in my application. While testing (with SandBox environment), when I tap on any locked feature, I get alert message from iTunes that "Do you want to buy xxx feature at $xxx ?", with Cancel / Buy buttons. I want to know that can I access these Cancel / Buy buttons, because I want to implement som...

In PHP, how do I add 3 months to the purchase date retrieved from the iPhone InApp receipt?

After I have validated the receipt against the App Store from my PHP server, the App Store sends me back a JSON response with "status" : 0 "receipt" : ( .... ) One of the receipt items is "purchase_date" which contains the following string (example) "2010-02-09 19:17:04 Etc/GMT" I'm trying to establish a subscription service and wou...

Purchase ASP.NET MVC Chat

Hi everybody I am developing an application in asp.net mvc where i need to have Chat application intergrated in the web page. The chat application should be able to support group chat, private chat, simple file transfer and user should be able to create their own rooms. Can u people tell me where i can buy a simple chat application wit...

verifying unique app purchase

Hi Friends, I am looking for a way to verify if my app was downloaded by a user. I want to allow users to notify me of their purchase if they intend to donate to a cause and we would donate a percentage after verification of app purchase. I would want to see/validate a proof of purchase. It has to be unique per app download.. thanks fo...

App store testing an Application with inapp purchase feature.

I have a few questions regarding inApp Purchase as follows: i) Do we need to make a product (in App purchase) live before submission or we can make it after app approval. Suppose I have a product in inApp Purchase that is to be in sale by Next week, and if my app with inApp purchase version gets approved this week, then how do the App...

Where can I buy a control set like NOD32 uses for its UI

My boss wants our program to have fly-out menus with smooth transitions like ESET NOD Antivirus 4 has. Where can I buy a control set that has a similar look and feel to this? I have never bought a set before and I don't even know of what sites to start shopping at. ...

iPhone In App purchase subscriptions pay for renew?

I'm developing an app in which the user could subscribe for a feature to use for a specified period. The subscription period gets verified on our own server and after this time the user needs to buy a new subscription. Now I am confused about the alert from Apple: After the "Do you want to buy one ..."-alert there comes another one with...

How can I find out how much a user has paid for my app inside my app?

After a user purchases an app from the app store, and runs it, is it possible for the app to know how much the user paid for it? Does Apple have any APIs that can access this type of metadata about the actual purchase of an app? If not, I suppose I could fall back to looking up the country of the user, doing currency conversion rates, a...

Taking In-App purchases to mimic my iPhone app on Android

Hi, I have an iphone application which is a reporting application, by this i mean, a user searches for a postcode, and gets information for free on that postcode. Then for a cost (about £1-£3) they can purchase a complete report. I purchase the report data legitimatly per request, and put a markup on the price and deliver it through th...

iPhone in App purchases subscription expire problem

I implemented inApp purchases with a subscription and when the user buys it in sand box and the subscription expires after lets say 5 minutes the system says "Product already purchased. Do you want to renew it ?" when the user tries to buy it again. How can I tell the apple server that the subscription has expired ?? And that the user r...

Which technology to use for purchase ordering system?

I need to create a simple purchase ordering system that I can later expand upon. I want to leverage my knowledge of Microsoft technologies, C#, SQL Server, etc. The first deployment will be used for 1 customer in a niche industry. We will be facilitating procurement throughout Asia for the client. We will need to input products from ...