Geekwire: Father, daughter team make best-selling calculator app. One day after school, Isabel Hughes was looking over math homework with her dad.
The 12-year-old wanted to use a calculator that made fractions easier, but there were no traditional calculators to do this, nor any apps that did the trick. So she and her dad decided to make one called Fraction Calculator. Now, the father-daughter super-team are the proud developers of best-selling calculator apps sold across several platforms. Aidan Hughes and his daughter, both from Redmond, developed Fraction Calculator as well as Calculator Plus, apps that are essentially stock calculators on steroids. Washington - Oregon - Idaho.
One day after school, Isabel Hughes was looking over math homework with her dad.
The 12-year-old wanted to use a calculator that made fractions easier, but there were no traditional calculators to do this, nor any apps that did the trick. So she and her dad decided to make one called Fraction Calculator. Father And Daughters Calculator App Flies To The Top Of Amazon Android Charts. Streamica. Selby s-a încălzit pentru Masters cu o victorie la Munchen Open - Onlinesport.ro. Sista chansen att ta PTC-poäng för att nå finalen - Snooker - Eurosport. Senaste uppdateringen - Publicerad Den 03/01/2013 klockan 16:10 Av Eurosport - Den 03/01/2013 kl 16:53.
Snooker: Galway hosts top stars in St Patrick’s weekend tournament - Other Sports, Sport. Updated 04 December 2012 01:27 PM The Betfair Players Tour Championship finals – snooker’s version of the Champions League – will be held in the Bailey Allen Hall at NUI Galway, from Wednesday to Sunday.
Stars such as World number one Mark Selby, World Champion John Higgins, UK champion Judd Trump, Masters champion Neil Robertson, Ronnie O’Sullivan and Ireland’s Fergal O’Brien are among those appearing. After 12 tournaments around Europe, the top 24 in the PTC Order of Merit have qualified for Galway. Fergal O’Brien is desperate to ensure that he lifts at least one more major trophy before putting away his cue for good.
“I believe I can still win another one,” said the Dubliner, who recently turned 40. “I take inspiration from Steve Davis who is 54 and Phil Taylor in darts who is 51 but the best player by a mile. O’Brien played superbly in the Players Tour Championship events this season, finishing 19th on the Order of Merit to comfortably qualify for the final event in Galway. Nui Galway. # nui-galway - Yesterday’s News # nui-galway - Wednesday 2 April, 2014 Students told to check that they’re vaccinated after measles outbreak.
Big break: NUI Galway secures snooker’s Grand Finals for 2013. World number one Mark Selby will compete in Galway next year.
Image: Sean Dempsey/PA Wire IRELAND HAS SECURED the staging of snooker’s Players Tour Championship Grand Finals in 2013. The event, which carries a winner’s cheque of €123,000, will take place in the Bailey Allen Hall at NUI Galway from March 12-17 next year. The tournament, televised by Eurosport and viewed this year by 40m, is the culmination of a series of 13 events on the Players Tour Championship this season, staged around the UK, Europe and Asia. Snooker - Eurosport ofrecerá la gran final del PTC. El torneo tendrá lugar en el Bailey Allen Hall de la Universidad Nacional de Irlanda del 12 al 17 de marzo de 2013 y tendrá una amplia cobertura televisiva por parte de Eurosport y Eurosport2.
La Gran Final del PTC es la culminación de la serie de 13 torneos del Players Tour Championship de esta temporada que se han disputado en el Reino Unido, Europa y Asia. Los 25 mejores jugadores de la Orden de mérito más 7 de la Orden de Mérito de Asia pelearán en Galway por un título del ránking mundial. El premio para el ganador de esta Gran Final del PTC será de 100.000 libras y 3.000 puntos de ránking.
Es un suculento botín que los grandes jugadores no dejarán escapar. PTC Grand Finals to return to Galway. Snooker’s Players Tour Championship Grand Finals will return to the city of Galway in Ireland in March, with a number of the sport’s big names all set to be in action.
The tournament was played at Bailey Allen Hall, at the National University of Ireland for the first time last year and it heads back there from March 12-17. The Grand Finals is the culmination 13 events on the Players Tour Championship this season, held all over the world, including Europe and Asia. The battle for this title will see the top 25 Order of Merit players in action, as well as the top seven from the Asia Order of Merit. The prize is £100,000 – so it is one a lot of people want to be qualifying for. The last of these events comes from Germany the early part of January.
Mark Selby, Judd Trump, John Higgins, Neil Robertson and Ireland’s own former world champion Ken Doherty are all set to be involved in the Grand Finals, which means the crowd are sure to come out in their thousands to watch this one. The Gathering - The Gathering Ireland 2013 - World Snooker PTC Grand Finals. Over 40m TV viewers will tune in when Ireland hosts the world’s top snooker stars in Galway over St Patrick’s weekend.
The Players Tour Championship finals – snooker’s version of the Champions League – will be held in the Bailey Allen Hall at NUI Galway, from March 12-17. Stars such as World number one Mark Selby, World Champion John Higgins, UK champion Judd Trump, Masters champion Neil Robertson, Rare among those appearing. After 14 tournaments around Europe, the top 24 in the PTC Order of Merit have qualified for Galway. Ireland fought off stiff competition from cities in Thailand, the UK and Malta to host the finals. The event, which is co-promoted by T.H.E Agency Ireland, will be televised by channels around the world including Eurosport, Shanghai TV, Beijing TV, Guangzhou TV and Now TV.
"It's a tremendous line up of leading players, with a great mixture of legends of the sport and rising stars,” said World Snooker chairman Barry Hearn. PTC Grand Finals Return to Galway. We had known it was likely for quite some time but it was finally confirmed yesterday that the Players Tour Championship Grand Finals will be returning to Ireland for a third straight year next March.
Big break: NUI Galway secures snooker’s Grand Finals for 2013. (3) Snooker’s Players... Top players to contest PTC series finals in Galway. Mark Selby... set for Galway finals. Snooker’s Players Tour Championship Grand Finals will return to the city of Galway in Ireland in March, with many of the sport’s most famous names to compete for the £100,000 top prize. The tournament was staged at the Bailey Allen Hall, at the National University of Ireland, for the first time last year and it returns to the same venue from March 12-17. It will be televised extensively by Eurosport. The Grand Finals is the culmination of a series of 13 events on the Players Tour Championship this season, staged around the UK, Europe and Asia. The top 25 players from the Order of Merit plus seven from the Asian Order of Merit will go through to Galway to battle for the world ranking title.
The last of these events will be held in Munich, Germany, from January 4-6, and after that the full line-up of players will be announced. A spokesman for World Snooker said: “We are thrilled to be heading back to Galway for this prestigious tournament. Galway to host PTC Grand Finals - RTÉ Sport. Galway will host the Players Tour Championship Grand Finals in 2013, after seeing stiff competition to host the event from a number of countries including Thailand and Qatar. The tournament is the culmination of a series of 13 events on the Players Tour Championship this season, staged around the UK, Europe and Asia. The top 25 players from the Order of Merit plus seven from the Asian Order of Merit will go through to Bailey Allen Hall at NUI Galway to battle for the world ranking title.
The last of these events will be held in Munich from 4-6 January, and after that the full line-up of players will be announced. Already sure to be among those 32 players are top stars including Ken Doherty, world number one and UK Champion Mark Selby, ? World number two and potting sensation Judd Trump and four-time world champion John Higgins. Ireland pulls off a snooker coup - MediaHQ - Mediacontact.ie - Connecting you with the Media. Ireland pulls off a snooker coup - issued on behalf of World Snooker Ireland has secured the staging of snooker’s Players Tour Championship Grand Finals in 2013, despite stiff competition from a number of countries including Thailand and Qatar.
Briefs - The Irish Times - Fri, Dec 21. Untitled. A father and daughter from Ireland have been celebrating after an app they developed for a calculator to be used on Kindle devices reached the one million download mark. The app developed by Aidan Hughes and daughter Isabel, 13, is now the most popular app of its kind for the Kindle in both the UK and America, according to the Irish Sun. Their idea came about after Aidan helped Isabel with her maths fractions homework – but he said it was his daughter who had worked out how the app would work. "Belle has an ability to look at things and see what will work," he told the newspaper.
He added: “Now she can look at this and say, ‘I had an idea and a million people liked it and downloaded it’. It shows what she’s capable of achieving.” The pair, who now live in America, have since developed their idea to produce an app which remembers all the calculations a user carries out, so they can later be recalled. Hate fractions? 12-year-old girl just solved the problem. REDMOND, Wash. -- 12-year-old Isabel Hughes didn't like working with fractions on a calculator. "There's nothing on this calculator that has fractions," she said. It's slow to convert the fractions into decimals to use the calculator, then convert the result back to a fraction to double check the answer. Seattle Business News. Seattle Father and Daughter Duo Top Amazon Kindle Fire Charts. SEATTLE, Jan. 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- A father and daughter duo from Seattle have worked together to develop a calculator app which has hit the top of the Amazon Kindle Fire charts.
Calculator Plus, invented by Aidan and Isabel Hughes (12), is now the number one calculator app for the Kindle Fire tablet in the US and UK and is the second-highest rated app in all categories out of a total of 66,280 apps on Amazon's Android App Store. They had a special reason to celebrate the New Year when they reached one million copies downloaded on Dec 29. USA Today recently named Calculator Plus as one of their 25 essential Kindle Fire apps and Amazon have pre-installed it on their shop demo models across the US. Their new Windows 8 app, Calculator Free, is already the most downloaded calculator on that platform after just a month. Irish "memory" app calculator tops the Amazon Kindle charts. Welcome to our premium content purchasing section. There are several ways to purchase access to Sunday's newspaper articles. You can buy a single edition or a subscription which includes archives access.
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RTÉ News: Morning Ireland. Irish father and daughter develop calculator app. Seattle man, daughter's app tops Amazon Kindle Fire list. Search Results. The app, which has recently been named by as one of its essential Kindle Fire apps, is now being pre-installed by Amazon on all of its shop demo models across the US. LateLunch150113. All about Aidan Hughes. Irish father-daughter duo top Amazon App charts with simple Kindle calculator. Adrian and Isabel Hughes worked together to develop Calculator Plus Photo by: Handout. DAD & DAUGHTER APP IS ADDING UP; Calculator tops Kindle chart with 1m downloads. <a href=" & DAUGHTER APP IS ADDING UP; Calculator tops Kindle chart with 1m downloads. </a> Byline: PAT FLANAGAN John Patrick "Pat" Flanagan (born 1891 in Preston, Lancashire) was an English footballer.
An inside forward, Flanagan played youth football for Stourbridge before joining Norwich City in 1908, before moving to Fulham in 1909. pat.flanagan@irishmirror.ie AN Irish father and daughter team have developed an app which rocketed to the top of the Amazon Kindle A portable e-book device from Amazon.com that provides wireless connectivity to Amazon for e-book downloads as well as Wikipedia and search engines. Using Sprint's EV-DO cellphone network, dubbed WhisperNet, wireless access is free. Calculator Plus, invented by Aidan and Isabel Hughes, has now clocked up a staggering one million downloads.
Android and GPhone App Store. Aidan and Isabel's Windows 8 version, Calculator Free, is already the most downloaded calculator on that platform after just a month. Seattle man, daughter's app tops Amazon Kindle Fire list - Seattle - eWallstreeter. DAD & DAUGHTER APP IS ADDING UP ; Calculator tops Kindle chart with 1m downloads [Eire Region] [Mirror (UK)] Breaking News. Japanese health care workers visit Moorehall Lodge - News - Drogheda-Independent.ie. Updated 22 January 2013 08:42 AM The visit was organised by CIE Tours International who approached Moorehall Lodge to see if they could facilitate the group. "We were delighted to welcome the Japanese visitors, who were touring health facilities in Dublin, and were especially pleased that we were the only nursing home on their itinerary," said Sean McCoy, Director, Moorehall Lodge Drogheda.
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