Category: I-phone

Are you a Final Cut Studio user? Have you looked at Avid Media Composer and wished you could afford it? Regardless of whether you feel Media Composer is better or worse than Final Cut Pro, it’s still a popular editing platform that brings not only prestige but also the potential to pick up more work from clients that want or need their editors to be using Avid.

If you’re in that camp, now might be the perfect time to add Media Composer to your toolbox. Until June 17, Avid is offering a staggering crossgrade deal to Final Cut Pro users: US$995 for the boxed version. While that may still seem expensive, it’s a huge discount from the regular $2,495 price for the boxed edition (or $2,295 for download only).

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Apple’s iOS 4.3.2 for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch will drop within the next week or so. iOS 4.3.2 will fix the issues with some Verizon iPad 2 3G models, along with FaceTime issues on iOS 4.3.1 and other security loopholes, According to BGR.

Apple is also expected to patch the exploit used in the recent untethered iOS 4.3.1 jailbreak.

We’ll update you as we know more about iOS 4.3.2 firmware. Stay Tuned!

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KissMyAds Ltd. announced today the launch of its first Software Developer Kit (SDK) to help app developers easily integrate KissMyAds tracking – including for in-app purchases – into their programs, allowing them to utilize the full range of KissMyAds advertiser solutions. “It’s really important for us to make integration as smooth as possible, so that developers can concentrate on what they do best – building great apps – and we can concentrate on helping them grow,” said Florian Lehwald, CEO and founder of London-based KissMyAds.

The company is a forerunner in bringing the affiliate marketing concept from the Internet to the mobile Web and apps, offering a host of benefits for publishers and advertisers alike. With the announcement of its SDK coming just before the ad:tech conference in San Francisco in April, KissMyAds is sure to draw attention from a developer community eager to find ways of benefitting financially from the users of their smartphone apps. “We understand that tracking is a key factor and that developers don’t want to manually adjust all of their code, so we provide a simple, trustworthy solution to enable marketing with refined analytics,” says Lehwald.

The KissMyAds team will be in San Francisco for the duration of ad:tech (April 11th to 13th) and will be available for individual meetings. The company will also be hosting an informal meet-and-greet on Monday night, April 11th. Members of the media, publishers, advertisers, affiliates or developers interested in meeting KissMyAds are advised to ask for an appointment at [email protected].

KissMyAds Ltd. is based in London, United Kingdom, and led by founder and CEO Florian Lehwald, an online marketing pioneer and entrepreneur. The company was established with the help of an investment from Cologne, Germany-based Venista Ventures.

Matt Tubergen heads Recharge Studios, a wholly owned subsidiary of W3i that invests in the development and marketing/distribution of freemium mobile games.  W3i is a market leader in distributing and monetizing apps with over 500 million apps distributed for W3i clients. Recharge Studios is actively seeking new investment opportunities, if you have a great idea for a game contact us.

In recent weeks we’ve been publishing posts on tips and tricks to enhance the mechanics for your freemium game. After having conversations with mobile developers it dawned on is that perhaps we should briefly back up. Before even thinking about the mechanics of your game there is something far more important you need to know, understand and have your finger on the pulse of.

The only freemium game metric

One million downloads, 5 million downloads, 10 million sessions, thousands and thousands in virtual goods. Whoopee. All the metrics that draw headlines don’t do much to your bottom-line if you’re missing the foundation. When you start thinking freemium gaming, you must think in terms of lifetime value for each acquired user.

What is lifetime value?

Simply put, lifetime value is what you reasonably can expect to earn for each acquired user during their tenure with your game. Calculating it gets a little complicated but focuses on two key metrics:

• Revenue per Daily Active User (RPDAU)
• Retention

RPDAU is a calculation of the revenues generated, on average, per daily user.  Retention usually looks at an average of users maintained after one week and 30 days.

Once you have these two metrics you can start closing in on lifetime value for a particular game.

Why it matters

Lifetime value is a key metric at all stages of a freemium game business: in the beginning if you seek funding, in the middle as you’re growing your business and when you’re ready to take your model through transforming growth. Knowing what you can reasonably expect going into a freemium game business, where you’re at once you’re there and where you can go when you’re ready to go big are all key to success. We’ll explore further how to calculate Lifetime value next week.

Do you have a question about freemium gaming or a topic you’d like us to explore? Let us know in the comments or catch us on twitter @rechargestudios or @w3i.

Freemium Game Blogs are published in partnership with the series on W3i’s corporate blog.

In this Quick Look, we’re highlighting 42tasks (iPhone app). The developer describes 42tasks (iPhone app) as cutting edge task management app, which allows to manage tasks, collaborate in a group, assign tasks to others, put deadlines, time, alarms and much more.

Read on for more information and screenshots!

Screenshots

42tasks

About the App

Here are the top five features you can expect to see in the latest version:

• Cloud sync with Web app (Desktop and Adnroid apps coming soon)
• Collaboration and work in groups
• Put time, reminders, alarms to tasks
• Make notes to tasks
• Free app

Requirements: iPhone 3 or 4
Price: Free
Developer: Pixiel

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One of the greatest things about the iPhone is that developers have turned it into something that can really change people’s lives in ways that no one saw coming. One specific niche that fits this description is the plethora of utilities that you can use to watch what you eat, stay active and lose weight. Who would’ve thought twenty years ago that a cell phone could ever help you lose weight!?

Today we’re going to take a brief look at ten awesome applications geared specifically towards calorie counting. Many of these tools will not only track what you eat, but the way you live with the ultimate goal of being healthier overall. Whether you’re looking to lose weight, get more exercise or even just drink more water, there’s something here for you.

Lose It!

“Succeed at weight loss with Lose It! Set goals and establish a daily calorie budget that enables you to meet them. Stay on track each day by recording your food and exercise and staying within your budget. The average active Lose It! user has lost more than 12lbs and more than 85% of our active users have lost weight.”

There’s a reason that Lose It! is at the top of this list. It’s simply a fantastic app that you’ll have a hard time beating in this category. The benefits go on and on: It’s free, tracks daily consumption of all kinds of nutritional values, has a huge library of generic food items like apples and pizza as well as name brand items like Cheerios and McDonald’s french fries, works offline and will subtract calories when you exercise. I’ve personally used this app quite a bit and definitely recommend that you download it and try it out.

Price: Free
Download: iTunes Link

Lose It!

Restaurant Nutrition

“The Restaurant Nutrition user can turn on diets to track calorie, carb, protein, and fat to help track and quantify their dieting progress. Each time a restaurant name appears in the program the map button near it can be touched to open the Maps application showing all of that restaurant’s nearby locations.”

Whether you have food allergies, are watching your weight or just want to be aware of what you’re taking in, eating out at restaurants always provides an interesting challenge. With this app you can see and track the nutritional content of the menu items that you consume from popular chains.

Price: Free
Download: iTunes Link

Restaurant Nutrition

Calorie Counter by MyNetDiary

“MyNetDiary is the fastest, easiest, and smartest iPhone calorie counter. The list of features is large – over 30 screens. Most importantly – MyNetDiary is very easy to use. MyNetDiary for iPad is the #1 Healthcare and Fitness app. This app is powered by the same great 225,000 foods database, with the same magically fast food entry, searching as you type. Includes free web site access. You’ve got nothing to lose, but that extra weight.

Like Lose It, this app is free and has tons of awesome features for helping you stay active and healthy. Users rave about the extensive food library and the barcode scanner really makes it quick to enter whatever it is you happen to be enjoying at the moment.

Price: Free
Download: iTunes Link

Calorie Counter by MyNetDiary

Calorie Counter & Diet Tracker by MyFitnessPal

“Lose weight with MyFitnessPal, the fastest and easiest to use calorie counter for iPhone or iPod Touch. With the largest food database of any iPhone calorie counter (over 750,000 foods), and amazingly fast food and exercise entry, we’ll help you take those extra pounds off!”

Plenty of experts agree that one of the best ways to stick to a healthy lifestyle is to find people that will hold you accountable. With this app you can connect to friends and check in on each other’s progress. There’s nothing like a little peer pressure to help you put down that fork after the first serving!

Price: Free
Download: iTunes Link

Calorie Counter & Diet Tracker by MyFitnessPal

DailyBurn – Calorie, Workout, and Fitness Companion

“This is the one app you need to manage your diet, fitness, and exercise. Finally a free app that combines world-class training plans with best-in-class food and calorie tracking. Fully backed by DailyBurn: the top fitness community on the web. Manage your fitness and health goals on your iPhone and your data is automatically synced to our top-ranked website for more analysis, tracking at your computer, and more.”

Daily Burn is a thriving online community that helps you balance a healthy diet with an active lifestyle. This app is just one feature of a greater system aimed at teaching you how to achieve your health goals. If you’re looking for a total solution, check out the Daily Burn website for more information.

Price: Free
Download: iTunes Link

DailyBurn – Calorie, Workout, and Fitness Companion

Calorie Counter by FatSecret

“Calorie Counter is the essential app to simply find nutritional info for the food you eat and easily keep track of your meals, exercise and weight. Calorie Counter is simple to use and has all the cool tools to help you succeed.”

This app has a lot of the features we’ve already seen, nutrition and exercise tracking, barcode scanning, a weight tracker, etc. The long-term reporting seems to be the strength here though as you have several helpful diaries and journals for managing your progress.

Price: Free
Download: iTunes Link

Calorie Counter by FatSecret

Meal Snap – Calorie Counting Magic

“Meal Snap lets you take pictures of the meals you eat, and then magically tells you what food was in your meal. Oh yeah, we tell you how many calories you ate too. Food tracking has never been easier.”

The good people at Daily Burn have decided to insert a little technological voodoo into calorie tracking with this interesting app. Supposedly, by merely snapping a photo of your meal, the app will inform you of your food’s nutritional contents. Obviously, what you get is a “best guess” estimate so this one might be more for novelty than serious calorie counters.

Price: $2.99
Download: iTunes Link

Meal Snap – Calorie Counting Magic

Calories PRO

“Quickka CaloriesPRO is the foodscanner version of our brilliant Calories app. Same app – just more features. For the version without the barcode reader, please check out QuickkaCalories!”

Same story here: weight tracking, calorie counting, barcode scanning and exercise monitoring. The interface is a bit nicer than some of the other apps in this genre and there’s a strong emphasis on weight loss features that will appeal to anyone with that specific goal.

Price: $0.99
Download: iTunes Link

Calories PRO

Tracknburn Calorie, Diet, and Exercise Tracker

“If you are trying to lose weight, it doesn’t matter if you are counting calories, carbs, fat, or protein… just that you count or track something! Experts agree that setting a goal and keeping a journal of food and exercise helps to make weight loss changes permanent.”

This one looks a little cartoony for my taste but it has some really cool features that you don’t find in the others such as a water bottle tracker and some technical considerations such as Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) and Resting Energy Expenditure (REE).

Price: $2.99
Download: iTunes Link

Tracknburn Calorie, Diet, and Exercise Tracker

My Diet Diary – Calorie Counter

“My Diet Diary calorie counter is the ideal weight loss app to help you shed those unwanted pounds for good! Track your food, exercise, weight, water consumption and more to see at any given time whether you are on track to lose weight, gain weight or stay the same, so that you can make the right choices to reach your goal.”

As with Daily Burn above, this app connects and syncs to an online health community called HealthMed. The app is super attractive and the service as a whole has a lot of impressive and helpful features that go far beyond daily nutrition.

Price: Free
Download: iTunes Link

My Diet Diary – Calorie Counter

How Does Your iPhone Keep You Healthy?

Then ten apps above should be more than enough to eliminate any excuses you have for not leading a healthier lifestyle. The convenience, educational value and usefulness of these apps above make them powerful tools in your battle against obesity, old age, high cholesterol, diabetes and anything else you’re struggling with.

Leave a comment below and let us know how you use your iPhone to stay healthy. Which apps have you found to be the most useful?

The iOS platform has been quite successful over the past few years, and because of the extensive amount of games available in the App Store, it’s even been called a threat to other portable gaming consoles like the Sony PSP and the Nintendo DS. But while Nintendo has Mario and Sony has Grand Theft Auto, there really wasn’t any game for iOS that made traditional console gamers really excited. iOS seemed to be destined for a life of games made for the average person, not hardcore gamers.

Then came Epic Citadel, a demo made by Epic Games that took the same Unreal Technology found on consoles and put it in the hands of iPhone and iPod Touch owners everywhere. We were promised that Epic Citadel was just the start of things, and that soon, we’d have a full-on game that took place in the same environment, and we should be ready.

Well, it’s here. It’s called Infinity Blade and it’s been receiving very positive reviews since its release. But can a game with this much hype live up to its reputation? Let’s take a moment and find out.

The Plot

Out in some land that isn’t named, there’s a castle set on a hillside. Inside is a very bad man and he wields a sword called the Infinity Blade. When the blade enters its victim, it takes all of their skills and traits and puts them into the body of our baddie. In fact, that’s exactly what he does with the first protagonist you see, and as it turns out, that antagonist happens to be your dad.

Bloodline? This game must be serious.

Your mission is to enter the castle, take out various evil people along the way, then take out Mr Personality so you can take his fancy blade. Depending on your path, you can find the bad guy in under an hour, which at first seems like this game may be pretty short. Not so quick, grasshopper, because soon you find yourself on that same cliff again, starting a new bloodline with the same weapons and skills you already had, ready to avenge dear old daddy one more time.

Gameplay

A game like this would be too complicated to control if you had to navigate through the environment while sword fighting at the same time. You start off on a cliff, and you can swing your head left to right a certain amount by touching the screen, hunting for gold coins to spend and potions to heal. The areas where you can move next are highlighted by flashing blue rings, and a quick tap takes you there. This isn’t a sandbox game by any means, but don’t think that limiting your movement is going to ruin your day. There’s still more to come.

Bad guy one: troll on a bridge.

The game walks you through each move and how to do them through the first few guys you come across, introducing a new technique each time. You can dodge from left to right, block with your shield or parry with your sword. You do this with precision swipes with your finger, or by tapping one of the three buttons on the bottom of the screen. Once the bad guy is stunned, you can swipe on the screen with your finger, and the sword starts making slashes on the body, weakening the bad guy in the process.

Experience points ramp up with each level.

As you fight, two little blue circles start to fill up on the sides of the screen. On the left, is a super attack. Once it’s charged up, hit the button and you’ll stun your opponent instantly, and then you can make your attack. On the right is a magic button. Once that’s loaded up, you can use whatever magic ring that you’re wearing at the time, all of which have different skills. Hit the button and then swipe the screen in the pattern indicated in the window, and out comes the magic against your enemy.

RPG Elements

With each task dispatched, you earn experience points which you can spend on a few key traits. This leads to a cut scene (pictured below) that shows up as you progress higher in levels and shows how much you’ve earned. That little X2 sign in the corner shows how many points you have to spend, and you can space it out however you choose between the four options pictured.

Use your points to level up your character.

Then there’s the gold. There are treasure chests and bags of gold hidden throughout the game, and the more you have, the more options there are. Buy upgraded armor, swords, shields or magic rings to help aid in killing the bad guys. If you want, there’s even an in-app purchase to buy as much gold as you want, from $25k in gold for 99 cents, to a metric ton of shiny trinkets for $49.99.

The more money you have, the more cool things you can buy.

Verdict

I’ve played a lot of games on the iOS platform, and most of them are entertaining, but they all lack that console experience. Either the controls are off or it becomes frustrating to play with the touchscreen and you lose interest quick. This is not one of those games.

In fact, it’s hard to talk about Infinity Blade without using hyperbole. Is it the best game I’ve ever played on my iPhone? Definitely. Is it the best looking game I’ve ever played on an iOS device? No doubt. I stopped typing and picked the game up at least three times while writing this review, because Infinity Blade is just that much fun.

A good finishing move will net you more XP.

So what are the downsides? There was a laggy moment or two when I was playing, but a second later I either received an e-mail or got a text message. There were times when I went to dodge and nothing happened, but then I realized I had missed the button. Does it suck down the battery life? An hour’s worth of playing took me from 80% to 50%, but that’s not particularly shocking considering the high level of graphics. It’s about as perfect as you can get really, and it’s so good that it’s even made it onto my homescreen.

If you haven’t purchased Infinity Blade yet, I suggest you rectify that situation. It’s fun, it’s easy to pick up and play at a moment’s notice, and at $5.99, you really don’t have any excuse not to.

In this Quick Look, we’re highlighting Snap!. The developer describes Snap! as a camera app designed to turn the iPhone camera into a productivity tool: Snap a photo, write as many notes as you want, move them with your finger and the picture is saved with the notes overlaid on it. Sharing on Facebook, Twitter or email is just a touch away. Other apps can also do this but only Snap has a beautiful, fast and intuitive interface that makes all this easy and fun.

Read on for more information and screenshots!

Screenshots

Snap!

About the App

Here are the top five features you can expect to see in the latest version:

• Adding notes on your photos has never been easier
• Interface similar to iPhone’s built-in camera app
• Sharing to Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr or email is a Snap
• Original and annotated pictures are automatically saved in the background
• Focus and exposure can be set with screen tap

Requirements: iOS 4.0, camera
Price: $1.99
Developer: CodeCrop

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Hey iCoders,

Short post today on a little tool I made for myself that is turning out to be very useful. This is a simple UIColor category which adds a class level initializer that accepts the color strings output from the Digital Color Meter application in OS X. I regularly make iOS apps which refer to design PDF documents. Many times designers don’t provide exact details to what colors are in the design. To get them I use the Digial Color Meter application located in

Macintosh HD/Applications/Utilities/Digital Color Meter.app

Make sure the meter is set to show “RGB as percentage”. With this done, get your cursor over the color you want and hit “Command + Shift + C”. This will copy a string of the values to your clipboard. You can pass this string into the initializer and a UIColor object of that color will be returned. A simple example is provided in the sample application. You can find the project on github at:

https://github.com/elc/UIColor-DigitalColorMeter

Hope this saves some of you a few minutes when creating colors from a mock given to you by a designer. Happy coding.

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UPDATE:

Commenter koyeung pointed out a great little app called Rainbow Picker. This app does do some cool stuff in terms of pre formatting the code to make UIColor and NSColor objects. However the real advantage of using Digital Color Meter is the ability to get the color of any pixel on your screen. My main use case is taking a mock up PDF of an interface and turning that into actual code. For this task Rainbow Picker won’t do the job and I’m sticking with Digital Color Meter. Here is a screen shot of digital color meter giving me the color of the color value text it displays.

This is the “AddTwoTextField” example. I am going to show you the how to add two text field values. In this app you can add the value of two different textfields and print it in another textfield.

Step 1: Open the Xcode and create a new Xcode project using View base application template. Give the application name “AddTwoTextField”. As shown in the figure below:

Step 2: Expand classes and notice Interface Builder created the AddTwoTextFieldViewController.h and AddTwoTextFieldViewController.m class for you. Expand Resources and notice the template generated a separate nib, TwotextFieldViewController.xib.

Step 3: Open the AddTwoTextFieldViewController.h file and we have to add

For displaying the textfields mention IBAction and to perform the given action make the following changes in the file.

Step 4: Double click the AddTwoTextFieldViewController.xib file and after that make the following changes.
A) Open the view window, first drag the Round Rect Button from the library and place it to the view window and select the button.

B) Open the view window, and drag the TextField from the library and place it to the view window.

Step 5: Open the AddTwoTextFieldViewController.m file and make the following changes in the file.

Step 6: Now build and run the code and view the Output in the Simulator.

You can download source code from here AddTwoTextField

The ebook wars are heating up, and Amazon is doing everything it can to make sure it takes the top spot. Today the Internet giant announced that it will sell an ad-supported version of the Kindle for a price of US$114.00. Thankfully, Amazon is being rather tactful with the ads. They will not appear within the ebooks themselves but will be relegated to the Kindle home screen and screensavers. Still, the $114 price point seems a little silly; $99 would be a much better psychological buy-in point.

While an ad-supported iPad is unlikely, it would be interesting to see Apple offer ad-supported ebooks in the iBookstore. Apple does hold quite a few patents on advertising options related to video advertising and hardware subsidization through ads, as well as its iAd platform. It wouldn’t be much of a stretch to think that Apple could offer publishers iAds support for their books, which would allow them to sell ebooks more cheaply, yet still bring in sufficient (and recurring) revenues.

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Today the NAB exhibit hall opened and just about everyone in the video world is showing off the hot new stuff they’ve been waiting to announce to video professionals from around the world. Apple, however, is notably absent again this year, choosing instead to make an announcement tomorrow evening at the Final Cut Pro Users Group SuperMeet. As rumors of a long awaited update to Final Cut Studio started circulating we asked you how the new version needed to change.

While some commentators defended Final Cut Studio enthusiastically, most of us feel that an update is long overdue despite our affection for Apple’s professional video suite. Some users have already jumped ship because their needs are better filled by alternative editing applications while other users plan to give Apple a chance to meet all their needs with a new update before deciding to explore other options.

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With roughly a week to go before taxes are due — the federal deadline is on April 18 and many states have followed suit — plenty of Americans are scrambling to file before the clock ticks away. We’ve gone and found five apps that will help you make Tax Day, and waiting for that refund, a bit easier.

TurboTax SnapTax (Free, but has in-app purchases): This app from Intuit allows those who are eligible to file with the simple 1040-EZ to do their taxes straight from the iPhone. Snap a photo of your W-2, answer the questions and hit the button to zip your return to the IRS. While the app itself is free, actually filing a return costs $19.99.

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One thing I love about the Mac App Store is that, game-wise, it eliminates the need to insert physical media into your Mac to play games. Over the past few days I’ve been playing Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare on my MacBook Pro, and without the need for a disc the game just flies, which helps make it that much more enjoyable. It also, of course, helps that Call of Duty is a heck of a great series.

TUAW has teamed up with Aspyr to give away three Mac App Store copies of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare to some lucky readers. To enter the giveaway, mentally prepare yourself to take down some bad guys and then simply leave a comment below. As always, here are the rules:

• Open to legal US residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia and Canada (excluding Quebec) who are 18 and older.
• To enter leave a comment on this post.
• The comment must be left before Tuesday, April 12, 2011, 11:59 PM Eastern Daylight Time.
• You may enter only once.
• Three winners will be selected in a random drawing.
• Each winner will receive one Mac App Store promo code for a copy of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Value: US$49.99).
• Click Here for complete Official Rules.

TUAW Giveaway: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare for Mac originally appeared on TUAW on Mon, 11 Apr 2011 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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With the success of all handheld iOS devices — iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad — it’s not surprising that manufacturers want to turn them into universal remote controls. Some manufacturers are going the more expensive route, like Peel with their $99 remote that features a pear-shaped transmitter that sits between your iOS box and your A/V equipment.

On the other end of the spectrum is a company called Apptwee, which has come out with the Ri, a tiny remote control unit that plugs into the headphone port of your device (see image at right). The US$19.99 Ri is a bit smaller than the Square card reader, and when coupled with the free Ri app, it transforms your device into an infrared universal remote.

Ri is short for Remote Interactive, and it currently supports over 72 different device types and over 845 devices. It’s not a learning remote, meaning that it can’t be “taught” commands by your IR-controlled devices, but the company is adding new devices on a regular basis.

We’re hoping to get a Ri for a review in the near future. In the meantime, you can order one of the devices directly from the Apptwee website, or watch their short getting acquainted video on the next page.

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