Christmas Lists
There’s a tradition in our family (well, my wife’s family but it’s now “our” family) that people write a list of items they’d like to receive as Christmas / birthday presents. Then other people pick from the list. Going “off-list” is generally frowned upon (strongly by some). As a convenience mechanism, it’s great. As an “eliminate the magic” mechanism, it’s also great. I’m not a huge fan.
However, we are where we are and I saw Marc blog about a Mando Group app today that fits the model just about perfectly – a Christmas Present Planner. That link also has a great write-up from Gary about his experience of building and publishing the application.
Honestly, I could be convinced to spend £0.79 on it – and for me that’s a major purchasing decision that would usually require days of cogitation and multiple cost-benefit analyses.
If you have the Zune client installed, you can go straight to the app in the Marketplace.
Of course there’s a huge demand for festive applications like this – I can see a few on the Marketplace but surely there’s scope for some others:
- Where is Santa? (uses location and data connection)
- Santa’s Little Helper
- 101 Festive Folk Tunes (uses data connection and media library)
- My Stocking (makes use of private data)
- Secret Santa (unable to disclose the features this uses)
- Christmas Day TV Planner (makes use of old rope)
- Christmas Recipes (more old rope)
- Jamie’s Perfect Christmas Dinner (I dare not comment for fear of litigation)
- You’re Roasted
- Pull my Cracker
Go on – what are you waiting for?
Comments
Anonymous
December 02, 2010
There's a free web site that has the same kind of functionality but it is more collaborative than this app: http://gift.lyAnonymous
December 28, 2010
Merry Christmas to you all from me.