Help Me

Last weekend (April 18-19), Celine and I joined Accenture Technology Talks & Hackathon 2015. The theme for the hackathon is public safety.

After fifteen hours of hacking, we were able to finish our app, Help Me. It is an emergency button application that allows you to send an SMS to your specified contact person with a click of a button. The message contains your last known GPS coordinates, as well as the nearest known place. The app will also continuously send SMS until you tap the "I am Safe" button.

Help Me Android App

Help Me also has an Android Wear app. You can use the wearable panic button application to send emergency SMS from your Android Wear Device. We were able to test this on Moto 360 and LG G Watch.

Help Me Android Wear App

You can download Help Me on Google Play Store. Let us know if you have comments and suggestions to the app.

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Originally published at Jomar Tigcal's Blog

Sweldong Pinoy for Minimum Wage Earners and Other Updates

Sweldong Pinoy for Minimum Wage Earners

One of the requested features for Sweldong Pinoy is to update the app for employees earning minimum wage. Pursuant to Republic Act No. 9504, minimum wage earners are exempted to tax. Now, our apps will not deduct withholding taxes for employees earning minimum wage if you select "Minimum Wage Employee" in the Employee Type before computing your salary.

Other Updates

Aside from Sweldong Pinoy for Minimum Wage Earners, we also have some other updates for Sweldong Pinoy:

• For employees with daily pays, you can now provide the actual number of days and the app will compute your salary based on this instead of the previous default of 20. This is because not everyone works for 20 days in a given month.
  
• We have also improved the computation for the hourly and daily rates which are being used in salary computation, like the night differential and overtime pays.
• The apps now compute night differential based on number of hours instead of the days
  
• Minor changes like moving compute button to right and clear button to the left

These updates are available in http://sweldongpinoy.com, in version 2.5 of the Android app (rolling out now), and in all our apps. If you have any feedback or feature requests, please send us a message.

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Originally published at the Sweldong Pinoy Blog