We made the decision to make Petite Assistant FREE for the festive season to celebrate the house being warm, sealed and ready for us to spend the first Christmas here as a family. This now brings us to an interesting dilemma: “Do we keep it free?“ I initially decided to place it back to the launch price of £1.79 after

We’ve achieved a few milestones on the renovation of late with the roof being finished and the dog getting his passport so we can all spend our first christmas as a complete family in the house and to celebrate we wanted to share the love so we’ve made Petite Assistante FREE for the festive period. No catch, no reduced functionality

As you’re all very aware by now I like things to be clear, precise and accurate. I don’t care if it’s a quote, a set of drawings i really like my information to be clear, correct and useful. To this end i’ve taken the previous task of building a solar power logger & now we’ve gone one step further and

So i just wanted to say i know its been a bit slow ont he updates for the last month and that’s simply due to the fact tht like Europe we’ve been taking out holidays too. As France and our French contracts went on holiday things shut down and this time around i’ve learnt to enbrace it rather than get

It’s finally launch day! After being held up in the application process that is Apple we are finally REALLY happy to announce the instant availability of PETITE ASSISTANTE in the App store in iTunes and on your iPhone or iPod touch. The video above shows you some basic functionality of the app running & how to use it just to

Get the balloons, party poppers & the orange juice as we are about to have ourselves a wrap part! Introducing little Miss “Petite Assistante” your personal French renovation dictionary, translater and all round life saver. The app is a dedicated English to French to English translation dictionary however this IS NOT your normal batch of French words. You’re not going

I did mention a while back that we are trying to put an iPhone app together to help with renovation & that wasn’t very specific so it’s time to put some flesh on the bones now we’ve started the project (as if we didn’t have enough on the go). “Petit Assistant” is a nice and simple app, we’ll to be

Love it or hate it Twitter is here to stay (for the moment) and while I have some current stories of woe, here’s a positive one for you and how a “serendipitous” social media fad combined with the economic downturn and a companies foresight to embrace new social media has saved us potentially £1000′s (and they’ve been super helpful to

Episode 4 is now live, and in stark contrast with Episode 3 we are actually really positive about what we have achieved. This episode really shows the importance of stopping and look at what you have “actually” achieved and not at my frustrations about what “hasn’t” been done

With some basic testing underway I wanted to share some early data with you so you can see the expected data read out and the software we are using