Great Christmas Present for Dad. DIY Toolbox Available Now.

DIY Toolbox is Now Available on the App Store.

DIY Toolbox is a new time saving iPad utility to help the home handyman manage DIY projects.

New Handyman iPad Application

DIY Toolbox is a new time saving iPad utility to help the home handyman manage DIY projects.

As soon as the animated Roller Door opens, its all there in a simple to use, professionally designed application.

Covert measurements from Metric to Imperial (or vica versa).

Calculate material volumes and prices for your DIY projects.

Save a list of notes to remind and manage your jobs, or a list of Tools and Materials that need to be bought the next time you are at the hardware store.

Features:

- Animated "Roller Door" opening screen.

- Unit of measurement setting - Set your app to Metric or Imperial - Only needs to be set once.

- Convert Utility - Use this to convert measurements form Feet to Metres, Inches to Millimetres and Yards to Feet.

- Paint Calculator - Work out the quantity of paint required for your walls, and for your ceilings. Makes an allowance to deduct the number of windows and doors from the final calculation.

- Wallpaper Calculator - Calculate the number of rolls required to complete up to 4 rooms at a time. Also makes an allowance to deduct the number of windows and doors from the final calculation.

- Flooring Calculator - Work out the area of flooring required for up to 9 rooms at once.

- Gravel Calculator - Calculates the required volume in Cubic Volume and Tonnes (Tons), with an optional quantity Price area for final costings.

- Concrete (Truck) - Calculates the volume, and price for your larger concrete requirements.

- Concrete (Bags) - Calculates the required amount of pre-mixed bags of concrete, and also the overall price.

- Concrete (Hand Mix) - Calculates the required amount of Cement Bags, Sand and Gravel needed to mix your own concrete, at a mix ratio of 1:2:4.

- Things To Do Notes - Add and save your list of things that need doing around the house, or buying at the hardware store.

- Email Notes - Send your saved notes and lists to your PC, or to your suppliers for more info or a quotation.

- Professionally designed User Interface.

The app should be release within the next 2 weeks.

Click here to go to the website for more info.

Handyman iPhone App

DIY Handyman Toolbox is a new app that comes in either a Metric or Imperial versions.

DIY Handyman Toolbox - METRIC, is a handy, easy to use application to help you work out common handyman calculations like volume (cubic metres), area (square metres) and also to convert measurements from imperial to metric, or metric to imperial.


Also included is an optional area to include the unit price of the material and DIY Handyman Toolbox will calculate the overall cost for you as well as the required amount.


FEATURES:
• Volume - Cubic metres & Price Calculator
• Area - Square metres & Price Calculator
• Conversion - Convert measurements from imperial to metric or metric to imperial.
• Very easy to use.
• Clean, professional user interface design.
DIY Handyman Toolbox is useful to the Home Handyman as well as professional trades people, as a quick and simple way for working out material amounts and total prices.

HANDY FOR CALCULATING ANYTHING THAT NEEDS TO BE ORDERED IN SQUARE METRES OR CUBIC METRES.:
• Flooring - Timber & Carpet
• Walls - Paint, Wallpaper and Plasterboard (dry wall)
• Gardens - Mulch & Gravel
• Concrete

This application will save you a lot of time when working on your home improvements and renovations.

Click here for more info on the METRIC version.

Click here for more info on the IMPERIAL version.

DIY Concrete iPhone App - Imperial Version Now Available

The Imperial version of my handyman iPhone app' DIY Concrete is now available on the iTunes App Store.

This version has a redesigned user interface and handles all the calculations you need to work out and order concrete for your project in cubic yards or in 80LB pre-mixed bags.

Click here to go directly to the iTunes App Store.

Click here to go to the DIY Concrete website.

DIY Concrete Imperial - is a handy, easy to use application to help you work out the volume and cost of concrete (cement) required for your project, in cubic meters or 80LB pre-mixed Bags.

DIY Concrete Imperial - is useful to the DIY Home Handyman as well as professional trades people, as a quick and simple way for working out concrete volume and price requirements.

This application calculates the volume you require when ordering for a large amount that will be delivered by truck, as well as a 80LB Pre-mixed Bag calculator for the smaller DIY Handyman projects.

As well as calculating the volume, you can also add the cubic meter price or bag price to give you an overall cost of the concrete order.

All you need to do is enter the Length and Width in feet and the Depth in inches. The price component is optional. Then press the "Calculate" button.

Click "Reset" to start again with clean empty fields.

Also included are a couple of DIY Concrete Tips for on-site 90 degree set-out and the ratio for a standard concrete mix.

GST Calculator for the iPhone

Here is a handy new application for business/trades people to help working with GST (goods and services tax).

gst-Mate helps with either adding or reverse calculating the GST amount from a total.



From the gst-mate website:

Use gst-Mate to add GST to an amount or reverse calculate the GST from a GST included amount.

Simply choose your country and GST rate.

gst-Mate has settings for Canada 5%, Singapore 7%, Australia 10% and New Zealand 12.5%.

Enter an amount into either the GST Excluded field or GST Included field, click the Calculate button and gst-Mate will do the rest. Click reset to start again with clean empty fields.

gst-Mate is handy for businesses, shoppers and travellers.

gst-Mate is available in the App Store.

Chalk Line - Must Have Tool

Here's an article on one of those handyman techniques that I take for granted. It is as simple as stretching out a piece of string covered in chalk, and then giving the string a flick. Now you have a straight line marked out in chalk. The first time people see it they are not sure what is going on, but after that first time, it is easy to perfect.

Here is a link to the Readers Digest site that shows a step by step guide to using a chalk line.