Tip of the Week – Converters helps you split the bill

Converters converts units and currency, calculates tips, and gets clothing size conversions for shopping overseas!

As well as calculating the tip for a meal bill, you can also specify the number of people that you want to share the bill with.

Converters can be purchased as an app in its own right for just $0.99

http://itunes.apple.com/app/converters-calculate-units/id295534691?mt=8

Or you can purchase SplashTravel for $2.99 which includes the Converters app.

SplashTravel combines four travel apps – Flight Tracker, Expense, Timing, and Converters.

* Flight Tracker allows you to view airline schedules worldwide, select and save departing or arriving flights, and then check status updates, weather delays, gate location, and more with a few button taps.
* Expense creates expense reports with hardly any effort, then let's you email them.
* Timing is the powerful and easy to use clock application for world travelers or anyone who deals with multiple time zones.

SplashTravel is currently on sale for only $2.99 from the App Store.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/splashtravel-all-in-one-trip/id317478207?mt=8

SplashID in the conversation for best password manager

SplashID got a great mention on Lifehacker as one of the best password managers available.

http://lifehacker.com/ask-lifehacker/

Tip of the Week: Good PINs and Bad PINs

A recent article on NBCNews.com discussed findings about the most commonly used PINs. You may recall we published a similar article last year on the most common passwords. Not surprisingly, the most common PIN is the same as the most common password - 1234. Don't use that one. It's used by 11% of users, which means it's the first one an attacker will guess.

What's the least common? 8068 according to the report with only 0.0000007% of users choosing it. Now that it's out, an attacker might try it, but it will probably remain relatively uncommon.

The most common ones after 1234 usually involve a significant year, so that means anything that starts with 19--. So avoid that. Your birthday might be easily discovered, or your wife's, or your children's, so consider avoiding those. They are popular because they are easy to remember, but perhaps a variation on that theme will do the trick. Like your son's birthday backwards... I'm not telling you mine!

http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/technolog/whats-safest-4-digit-pin-not-8068-anymore-1B5966082

iPhone 5 Compatibility

We have done a preliminary check of our applications on the iPhone 5 simulator and it looks like everything works fine on our applications, including SplashID, SplashMoney and SplashShopper.

Like other legacy applications, our user interfaces currently run in a frame the size of the iPhone 4S - 640 x 960 pixels - centered on the screen. This looks fine, but we are already working to enhance our interfaces to take full advantage of the new screen size.

Once the updates are available, you'll be able to have a little more room to work with lists in our applications which will be a welcome change we're sure.

Tip of the Week: Vote for your favorite Tip of the Week!

We thought we'd take a look back this week at all the tips and see which are the most useful or popular. View them all at the page below and vote for your favorite in the comments.

Tips of the Week (on SplashData forum)