April 15th, 2009 — iPhone Hacks, Tips and Tricks
Every now and then an app comes along that is so utterly moronic and lame that as writers, we simply let the app do the talking for us. No clever title … no intro paragraph hook … no LOL pictures … no witty commentary or catchy conclusion. Just straight up, raw, unadulterated iPhone application. Sort of like Naked Juice (no added sugar or preservatives) …. call it Naked KRAPPS – the 100% all natural krappy application.
Congrats to the folks at BarnacleJive Software for releasing the POOP app. As with all Naked KRAPPS, we’ll let the app do the talking. First we present the POOP description …
Next we have a few POOP screenshots …
And in conclusion we simply would like to applaud Apple for approving yet another integral application which enhances and adds value to the App Store. The world is a better place and our lives are now complete knowing that at our fingertips we have several hundred variations for the word POOP. Searching for nirvana? Just download POOP and experience the ultimate euphoria Apple has to give.
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April 10th, 2009 — iPhone Hacks, Tips and Tricks
Cambridge, MA - Viximo, premier provider of world-class virtual goods and social networking applications for the iPhone(R) and iPod(R) Touch, today announces two additional applications to the Viximo App Network - Farm Piano and Lucky Touch. Both social applications represent a “first” for Viximo with Farm Piano as the company’s first app designed for kids and Lucky Touch as the first independently-created app developed by freelance designer, Peter Sziraki.
“Out of the nearly 30,000 iPhone and iPod Touch applications available to date, we noticed that only a handful of applications are dedicated to kids” said Ravi Mehta, VP of Product and Content of Viximo Studios. “Not only do applications like Farm Piano allow moms to engage their kids in fun and enticing games, but these apps are great learning tools that can help enhance children’s musical, artistic and creative skills.”
An educational and entertaining application for moms and kids alike, Farm Piano delivers musical prowess of adorable farm animals right into the user’s fingertips with a multi-touch real-time piano feature. With four lovable virtual animals - pig, cow, sheep and duck - moms and kids can finally hear the childhood tunes as they were meant to be heard: sung by adorable farm animals for less than $0.99.
To please the older crowd, Viximo also introduces Lucky Touch, a fun-loving application designed by independent developer, Peter Sziraki, who built the program in less than three weeks using VixML, a simple, XML-based format for creating interactive content for iPhone(R) apps. For those seeking good fortune, the $0.99 Lucky Touch app offers personalized good luck messages with a simple touch of the screen or a quick shake of the phone. When users tap the screen to pick up virtual leaf clovers, they are brought to smiles with upbeat messages from “May good luck be your friend in whatever you do” to “May your pockets be heavy and your heart be light!” With the Luck O’ the Irish, users can easily save the pictures of their fortunes and share with their friends through email.
“Creating the application via VixML was a wonderful learning experience. Seeing my application now available through Viximo App Network is fantastic,” says Peter Sziraki. “As a designer rather than a programmer, the VixML program was easy to learn and offered me numerous possibilities in creating simple and creative applications like Lucky Touch.”
Both Farm Piano and Lucky Touch join Viximo’s recently launched Voodoo Doll, the company’s most popular and best selling application to date. For those who are out to get back at that annoying someone, the entertaining application permits users to perform virtual voodoo by allowing them to snap pictures of the unwitting victim’s face and start their spells from there. Users can stick pins, pull apart and even set fire to their virtual voodoo doll - all for $1.99 without anyone getting hurt. For complete details, visit the Viximo’s application website.
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Viximo, Inc. pushes the digital envelope with technologies that enhance communication and open massive monetization opportunities for social networks, online gaming and dating social applications, consumer brands, and digital creators alike. The company has introduced the first virtual gifting platform for the web and the iPhone around the creation, purchase and distribution of virtual goods. Viximo has distribution partnerships with leading online gaming sites Quibblo and WorldWinner, as well as popular Facebook applications We’re Related, Always Athletes, Birthday Calendar and Family Tree. Viximo is a privately held company that was founded in 2007. Viximo hails from Cambridge, MA, and is financially backed by Sigma Partners and North Bridge Venture Partners. Copyright 2007-2009 Viximo, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.
April 10th, 2009 — iPhone Hacks, Tips and Tricks
Back in January Rene made us all aware that the Apple App Store hit the half billion mark in terms of downloads. A few months later it seems like they will be doubling that number by hitting 1 billion app downloads. This is indeed impressive and Apple wants to celebrate with giving you a chance to win some really sweet prizes.
As of today, nearly one billion apps have been downloaded around the globe. So we just want to say thanks — a billion. Download an app and you’ll automatically get the chance to win a $10,000 iTunes Gift Card, an iPod touch, a Time Capsule, and a MacBook Pro. Just go to the iTunes Store, browse the App Store, and download your best app yet.
Apple has even laid out the top 20 paid and free apps [iTunes Link] of all time with Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 3D and the Facebook app leading their respective categories. So what are you waiting for? Get your download on for your chance to win some sweet Apple goodness! (Just remember entries are limited to 25 per person per day.)
Good luck!
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Apple Says Thanks a Billion - Reaches 1 Billion iPhone App Downloads
April 10th, 2009 — iPhone Hacks, Tips and Tricks
Similar to fart apps, there are a ton of Self-Help apps for the iPhone. Everything from quit smoking - to lose weight … From stop snoring – to improve self esteem and many more. Guess developers figured out it’s fairly easy to leverage a person’s shortcomings to make a buck … but we digress. Anyways, if you have a deficiency, the iPhone is your savior and can help fix it. And really, nothing is impossible to overcome with the iPhone – as we proved by our recent report - the iPhone can help prevent balding.
So a nifty little self-help app caught our eye … myBadHabits from BeblowSquared. The purpose of myBadHabits is to visually monitor your progress at eliminating bad habits. The user enters their bad habit (or habits for the really jacked up) and every day, updates the app with their daily result. The app then displays a very nice progress chart tracking the number of days you are bad habit free. Especially motivating is the green and red status bars – if the user is “slipping”, a red status bar is displayed as a constant reminder that you are a loser.
Overall, a sound concept and we’ve seen it enough to become believers … the iPhone can help solve any problem life delivers. And it seems like the folks at BeblowSquared are believers as well … just look at these claims …
Whoa … time out … rewind … “Do you drink too much and wake up on your front lawn?” … huh? Ok – the iPhone may be able to prevent hair loss … but keeping it real … if you are in the habit of waking up on your front lawn after being completely obliterated from alcohol – well my friend, you have some serious issues that no iPhone will be able to fix. Better to save the buck ninety nine and put it towards checking yourself into the Betty Ford Clinic.
Ok, next item … “Do you borrow money from your kids to support your gambling habit” … huh? We don’t care Apple approves … there will never be an app that will help you overcome your gambling addiction if it’s to the point where you are stealing from their kids. Try this … google “gambling addiction” and click on the first result entitled “Gamblers Anonymous” … the rest is up to you.
But here’s the kicker - so obviously myBadHabits attempts to help people kick whatever destructive habit they may have. Fair enough – props to BeblowSquared for the effort. But when you touch the Information button within the app, a screen appears of other apps available for purchase from BeblowSquared. And the first option for purchase, the myParlay app - an app that assists you in sports betting. Uh - ok … BeblowSquared might want to mix in a Beer Efficiency app which helps you get drunk as quickly as possible. LOL … indeed … myParlay and Beer Efficiency, the perfect complimentary apps to myBadHabits!
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April 8th, 2009 — iPhone Hacks, Tips and Tricks
While in the old days, this would no doubt have come from Creep McShady in a trench coat around the corner of some noir-esque alley, now its online fraudsters who’ve gamed Apple’s iTunes gift certificate generation algorithms, unable to sell directly due to fear of Apple tracing the accounts, who’ve found a new target for their schemes. Says Apple Insider:
Third party iPhone App Store developers have received propositions from a scammer offering to buy large volumes of their iPhone applications and then split the resulting revenue with them, apparently using fraudulent iTunes gift certificates to make the purchases.
Of course, the developers faces every bit as much chance for retaliation from Apple, perhaps more so because this could end their careers as iPhone developers.
Yeah. Not a good idea.
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Psst! Hey, You! iPhone Developer! Wanna Scam Some Apple Bucks?
Every now and then an app comes along that is so utterly moronic and lame that as writers, we simply let the app do the talking for us. No clever title … no intro paragraph hook … no LOL pictures … no witty commentary or catchy conclusion. Just straight up, raw, unadulterated iPhone application. Sort of like Naked Juice (no added sugar or preservatives) …. call it Naked KRAPPS – the 100% all natural krappy application.
