Meters2Inches Updated

On of Fafadia Tech's first app was Meters2Inches converter. To our expectations it got more actives and installs than we ever imagined. Above table from Android market place gives evidence that simple but useful apps are always going to be in demand.

So in spirit, we are releasing updated version of app today. Although instead of just updating app with existing key(which we lost) we are uploading a newer app. One feature that I though missing was to convert back from Inches to Meters. Give it a try and let us know what you feel.

5 more Widgets released by Fafadia Tech

Fafadia Tech has release 5 widget apps on Android Market place today. Thanks to great effort on Prasanjit Dey and Gaurav Mehta's side. The whole execution was done in less than 10 days. Part of the release following are some of the applications that are available to download

1. Linux Commands
2. PHP Cheat Sheet
3. Religious Quotes
4. Funny Quotes
5. Science Facts

Download it and let us know what you think.

I am Fafadia Tech Part 1 - Yogesh Neman

Starting today we are starting series called "I am Fafadia Tech". Intent of starting these blog series is to recognize excellence in Fafadia Tech's team members. Yogesh is out Employee #1, he has been with us since beginning of the company. His daily job is to keep Fafadia Tech happy. Right from cleaning, helping with supplies and making Fafadia Tech beautiful.

What everyone was surprised was the amount of talent this man inside of him. He hasn't completed his education, he can't write/read English fluently but when it comes to arts he will give you run for the money.

Thanks Yogesh for making this journey beautiful.

SME Case Study 4: Akshara Plastics - Inventory & Machine Output reports

It takes me a great pleasure in reporting another of our success stories. Akshara Plastics Industries are SME based in Vasai, Thane - India. They manufacture different plastic products from plain plastic sheet. Akshara Plastics requested us to help them automate their inventory control system and generate reports on output from different machines in commission. Fafadia Tech delivered this project from scratch to implementation in 3 months time.

Special thanks to Prasanjit, Jomin and Sand. Go Fafadia Tech!

SME Case Study 3: International Automatic's Billing & Invoicing Software

International Automatic is Goregaon, Mumbai based spring and nuts manufactures. Their existing process for records maintaining was legacy pen and paper. The company chose Fafadia Tech to build and deploy billing solution which would help them keep track records of bills and invoices. Another SME that Fafadia Tech helping to be efficient, reliable and competitive by use of technology.

SME Case Study 2: Excise Invoicing Software for Chemicals Company

Fafadia Tech is committed to helping SMEs. So in chain with out previous post, we are announcing yet another product to our InCtrl portfolio. Excise Taxing applies to lot of trading/manufacturing domain. Srivathsa Labs, based in Hyderabad required keeping tack of their invoices and standardize their process of excise invoicing. Special thanks to Sanad, Jomin and Rahul.

Android XMPP integration with Google Talk

Often mobile phone need integration to Instant Messaging services. Most of the modern IMs support XMPP. XMPP is pretty need considering big companies like Google and Facebook support it. For this android application we used Smack APIs. Would be cool to create a crowd sourcing application like advark for movie/restaurant recommendation .

Super Sales - Sales Performance Management on Android

Lot of times we had issues of missed follow-up, lost in track record of clients communication. And we didn't have any sort of CRM implemented. So we decided to hack up and app that will allow us to manage leads and our sales team. Right now its under testing, we plan to use Google Docs as backend as its free and require no special server provisioning this helps SME like ourselves. Cool feature with this app will be location integration, so visually you get an idea of what areas are covered. Where chances of sales are pretty high etc.

We don't plan to have comprehensive analytics, just the basic to get it right first and then iterate over it.

Introducing Hackage

Fafadia Tech is now on github, starting today we will be pushing more code on github. I would like to take this opportunity to officially announce Hackage. Hackage is collection of scripts that we would want to share with our fellow developers. With our first release of sms.rb, you can now send SMS right from command line.

If you are penny pincher, like most of us you know about 160by2.com its a site that allows you to group SMS your friends. With sms.rb you can send messages by simply

$jruby sms.rb mobile message

It has dependency on jruby and celerity (headless browser that has ruby interfaces). Have any suggestions/bug to report contact Colin Thomas (or CT as we call him) one of our Software Engineers.

Hack on, Fafadia Tech.

SME Case Study: InCtrl -- Construction materials trading software

Bhoomi Trading Corporation is company that deals with constructions material. Current state of company didn't use any sort of computerized record keeping system. Fafadia Tech's InCtrl product line we build a custom solution for them. The screenshot given above is showing report of Purchases Tax by product. This is one of the many reports we have provided, the key use cases which this product was built around is

• Automated billing and inventory software
• One-click retrieval of different dispatch relavant documents
• Reports and summary of accounts

It was a great learning experience for us, once again I would like to thank our team members Rahul Singh, Shailendra Yadav and Prateek Nair. It once again shows our commitment to Small and Medium Enterprises.

Fafadia Tech Vision: Help Small and Medium Enterprise become more efficient, reliable and competitive by use of Technology.

Football and iPad - Mock NFL App

There is a lot of excitement around use of technology in football. Here is one such example. Fafadia Tech always looks at opportunities that enable us in improving our own skill. Jobin Kurian, our iOS Developer is working on a mock NFL app. This app basically allows to draft players and share it amongst teams. Integration with GameKit for sharing is in works. So people drafting on the field can share it.

SMEs in India

With intention to use data to guide our decision making, the question we had on our minds was "What is distribution of SME in India?" To answer this question I compiled a simple excel sheet that shows number of listed results from India Trade Pages.

Now I know there could be a lot of debate over authenticity of data, I am not claiming its perfect -- nevertheless a good beginning.

Also checkout the graph where I show distribution amongst Top 15 cities and ranked in decreasing order.

Workout & Diet Now on Android Market

There are tons of Gym rats around us, chances are you know a few. One such health fanatic happens to work at Fafadia Tech. Rohan Bomle our Software Engineer has created a gyming application for his buddies. Workout and Diet is now on live on Anroid Market.

Its Fafadia Tech's first Android Health App. On the side note he has also submited this app to India Developer Android Content so go ahead and vote for us.

First App on Apple App Store

Our ICC Cricket App is live on Apple Appstore now. So get ready for upcoming cricket mania. Don't ever miss your match use this app.


I would like to thank Fafadia Tech Team for their efforts, specifically to Shwet, Collin and Mitesh.

Two new apps in Android Market

We are pleased to announce two more apps in Market place this week.

1. ICC World Cup 2011
2. Mumbai SOS

Out team has been working hard to release this apps. Special thanks to our cool graphics designer Mitesh Shetty, Rohan Bomle developer of ICC World Cup 2011. And last but not least our handy man Yogesh Neman for collecting data.