Reading Time: 2 minutes I felt it’s easier to make money from those offers from writing iPhone, iPad and iOS apps. At least this is true for me so far. Another plus side people may not pay attention is the “no tax” benefit of the bonus miles/points. Also keep in mind if one needs to apply for home loan
Reading Time: 2 minutes I got those questions from a reader: Why there is no national 529 plan? Looking at some states plan, it’s pretty much mutual funds like 401k, the investment return is like S&P? Why bother (consider S&P return is so low)? I am not expert on this, I think why each state has a plan is
Reading Time: < 1 minute 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
Reading Time: < 1 minute (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.
Reading Time: < 1 minute 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
Reading Time: < 1 minute 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
Reading Time: < 1 minute 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
Reading Time: < 1 minute Known problem in version 1.2 (11-21-2010) I received a user bug report this morning: the calculation results is not right due to the extra comma separator in “beginning savings” and “salary”. I fixed the problem this afternoon and submitted the binary (version 1.3) to App store. Stay tuned. What’s New in Version 1.2 1) Add
Reading Time: 2 minutes (Update Dec 16, 2010) Free again for limited time (until Dec 25). What is it? collegeFund is a college savings calculator iOS app (iOS 3.1.2 or later) I released a while ago (Oct. 5 to be precise). Link to iTunes App store here. For a limited time (this annual benefits enrollment and holiday season), I
Reading Time: < 1 minute I know, I know, I am a little late making the announcement. But I was fighting a small battle. Anyway, the latest and greatest is here. It has all the goodies of version 1.0 plus the following new things: ======== Fix the problem in “email results” when income_ratio is larger than 100%, the email results
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