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Introducing myNestEgg v 1.5 and collegeFund 1.6 »

Latest and the greatest 1) Fixed “data not being saved” bug in myNestEgg and collegeFund 2) Also, in myNestEgg v 1.5, we added “Auto Pilot” feature, similar to what has been introduced in collegeFund 1.5. The main difference is in myNestEgg I set income ratio to 70%. Why 70% for income ratio in retirement I [...]

collegeFund v 1.5 is coming »

(Update 05-13-2011) Released. Free for a limited time. Here is a link to the iTunes App store. (Original) This is to address one problem posed by a user in the iTunes app store review. Basically his (her) comment is that the iteration approach (try and error to get desired coverage ratio) takes too much work. [...]

A bit help for Japan disaster relief »

All proceeds from the sales of the myNestEgg and collegeFund (CF is free this week) apps between March 13th and March 27th will be donated to the Saving the Children for the disaster relief efforts in Japan. If you prefer to make a direct donation to the relief efforts (you can probably get more bang [...]

iOS app plans for year 2011 »

It’s that time of the year again, the time for new year’s resolution and planning. The past year has brought interesting addition to our family: our baby girl “Youyou”. On business (or iOS app) side, I joined the iPhone (iOS) developer program in July (paid the $99 annual fee), and released the first app myNestEgg [...]

myNestEgg v 1.3 released »

This is to fix a show stopper problem in v 1.2, as pointed out by one of the users. The problem happened after a user used the keyboard to input data (dismiss the keyboard by tap background), the app will add a comma to “beginning savings” and “salary”. This causes confusion and mis-calculation down the [...]