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Finnish gaming industry has got lots of publicity recently after successes by Rovio and Supercell. But this is not about the gaming - this is about other great Finnish applications which have somehow affected my life and working in digital world. My personal history of digital drawing I have drawn comics and illustrations commercially since I was fifteen. Already early in the home computer era I nomaded in to the digital drawing and I am still on that journey. During the past 20-30 years I have used the most graphical tools there are and many times desperately seeked free solutions to do the basic graphics stuff when the expensive proprieraty solutions were out of reach. Sumopaint is in the cloud Some years ago I was on the road and needed to have an graphics application for my digital illustrations. I like to keep my presentations visual and I hate to snatch and use images which are made by someone else than by me. So what to do? I did not want to use the crappy Paint in the...

This is not about the  great success of the Finnish Gaming Industry There has been lot of talk in media about Finnish ICT industry after the great success Rovio and Supercell have made with their Angry Birds and Clash of Clans games. But since there has been so much fuzz about the Finnish gaming companies, I want to focus in to other great Finnish ICT services with promising potential. These I will bring up in my new "Angry Aps" -series. Criteria to the selection of the services is that these applications or services have somehow helped me in my everyday life - in a way or another. Parkman - a parking meter on your mobile phone The first application in this series is Parkman, formerly known as Parkkinappi. I downloaded Parkman to my mobile phone around a month ago and I cannot understand I had not done that earlier. Parkman is a parking meter in your pocket. The application makes the everyday city parking so much easier. How often you have parked to the spot and re...