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The iPhone & iPod Touch edition of TV Forecast hit the App Store a week ago. The response has been overwhelmingly positive.
Available for download here:
phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?i...
Amazon Appstore Developer Summit, Tuesday, 4th October at CodeNode, London. Images copyright www.edtelling.com
So the other day, I showed where to find the App Store located on Macs. Well, today, I want to show how it's possible to create a self contained app, which actually shows up in your Dock using the iPhone App Store logo and everything, as you can see in the pic above.
The first thing you need to do is download Fluid:
Fluid is a cool free app that allows you to make apps out of web pages. You'll also need the iPhone App Store icon. Joshia Della at DeviantArt has one here:
joshladella005.deviantart.com/art/iPhone-icons-91004527
Okay, now that you have downloaded all the necessary components, open up Fluid and you should see the same dialog as above. First, paste in the url of Apple's download page. In this case it is:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/
Paste that in to the "URL" dialog. Next, you're going to fill in the "Name" dialog with "App Store" or "Mac App Store" or whatever name you want to give to this app.
Leave the "Location" dialog at its default of "Applications." Okay, in the "Icon" dialog, navigate to the PNG folder located inside the icon folder provided by Joshia Della and click on the "Applications" icon or whatever icon you prefer.
Now click "Create" and Fluid will ask you if you want to "Launch Now." Go ahead and click it because there's one more thing you need to do to make sure this is a self-contained app.
Go to the Preferences menu in your newly created app and go to the "Advanced" dialog. Inside, you will click on "Allow Browsing to Any Url." This option allows you to open up any link in the App itself. Otherwise, whenever you hit a link, it will automatically open up Safari or Firefox or whichever your default web browser might be.
That's all. Enjoy your new Mac App Store.
ProTip: When choosing icons for Fluid always use PNG files instead of JPEG. PNG files allow Alpha Channels, which is a big deal when part of the icon needs to be transparent. JPEGs don't allow this.
Related Links:
More Icon Sources
www.iconspedia.com/icon/app-store-blue-10013.html
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Read the review at www.iPhoneSavior.com
www.iphonesavior.com/2009/09/i-am-tpain-iphone-autotune-a...
AppStore Link: itunes.com/apps/loveground
Website: www.powzone.com/projects/loveground.iphone/
Loveground is an arcade game originally born as Valentine's day gadget in flash,
now avaiable on your iPhone.
Using Cupid, the god of love, make people fall in love using your arrows.
When two people in love come together Zeus will reward you with more arrows.
Make as more couples as possible to earn more points.
Gfx and pixel art by Paolo Jacopo Medda
Try the flash version: apps.facebook.com/mindjolt/games/loveground
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Loveground è nato come gadget per san valentino, diversi anni fa, in flash.
Ora è nuovamente disponibile per iPhone.
Utilizzando Cupido, il dio dell'amore, fai innamorare le persone che passeggiano nel parco lanciando le tue freccie.
Quando due persone innamorate si avvicinano formano una coppia e Zeus ti ricompenserà con delle frecce extra.
Cerca di formare più coppie possibile per aumentare il tuo punteggio.
Grafica e pixel art di Paolo Jacopo Medda
AppStore Link: itunes.com/apps/loveground
Versione flash: apps.facebook.com/mindjolt/games/loveground
Photo taken with iPhone. Just found a new app in appstore, called Photo fx. Just had to try it...this photo is modified and here is the result.
This is an old bathhouse in Varberg, west coast of Sweden. The bathhouse was first built in 1866 but was destroyed during a storm in 1884. It was then rebuilt 1902, but once again destroyed during another storm. In spring 1903 it was once again rebuilt and that is what we see today.
Read the app review at www.iPhoneSavior.com
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Free Download for iOS: itunes.apple.com/us/app/comeon!/id432736157?l=de&ls=1...
More info: www.comeonapp.com
Release Notes
★ Added Flickr - The Commons support (tons of great historic photos)
★ Flickpad Tour on initial start (or from Help menu)
★ Five background choices. Including updated wood background
★ Toggle between Flickr and Facebook via account toggle button
★ Tap header in grid view to scroll to top
★ Fixed login screen resize bug
★ Added crash reporter (solve bugs quicker, yippee!)
★ Revert to basic Flickr recent photos if user is not indexed correct for search (Flickr server issue)
★ Explore/Demo mode moved inline under accounts in Fast User Switching
★ Moved help gesture guide to sub page and added more help resources
★ Added splash screen transition
★ Fix memory related crashes, optimize single image scroll view
★ Option to not prefetch comments/likes/favorites to help those with slow networks
★ Updated app icon
Brian Dolan
1 Nov, 2011
mobihealthnews.com/14345/massive-healths-first-experiment...
Massive Health, a closely watched Silicon Valley-based mobile health startup, launched its first iPhone app this morning. It’s called The Eatery and it’s a free app only available for iOS device users. The app joins the more than 1,300 diet related apps available in Apple’s AppStore.
“You don’t need a logbook. You don’t need a calorie counter. You don’t need to scan another barcode. The Eatery is totally different [from] other apps. We don’t waste your time with details that don’t matter,” the app’s description reads.
Andrew Rosenthal, who is heading up business development for Massive Health while completing his MBA at Harvard Business School, told MobiHealthNews in an interview this morning that what makes Massive Health different from a lot of companies working in mobile health is its focus on user engagement. “We build things that people are going to love to use. Our approach has always been to focus on user engagement partly because no one else does. The more someone loves something, the more they use it, and the more opportunities we will have as a company to help them be healthy.”
The Eatery app’s most engaging feature is the “Fit or Fat” food rating system, which sees community members providing feedback on the photos of food other app users submit. Massive Health was partly inspired by an old Internet site, Hot or Not, which allowed users to rank the attractiveness of people who submitted photos to the site. Rosenthal said that future versions of Fit or Fat might, for example, only show pictures of food snapped by vegetarians to those following that diet, but the current version of the app tees up any random users any user’s food photos for ranking. Worth noting, the current app also identifies the person who took the photo of the app if that user authorized the app to connect through their Facebook account, Rosenthal said.
While the app aims to automatically tag photos of food with locations of restaurants, bars, or coffee shops for those users who location-enable it, MobiHealthNews found that on a few occasions the app chose wrong. In a comment on one of our food photos, Massive Health CEO Sutha Kamal wrote that the app was typically right when it guessed location.
At the Hacking Medicine event at MIT last week, Massive Health’s CEO Sutha Kamal told the 100 MIT engineering students in attendance to keep three things in mind: Develop quickly, think about feedback loops, and make sure you ask the right questions. Rosenthal said that many of the healthy eating apps available today fail to ask the right questions or create appropriate feedback loops.
Part of what makes an app engaging is speed. Rosenthal said that it only takes 2.8 seconds to snap a photo of food and have it appear in The Eatery, which is the same amount of time it takes to take a photo and have it appear in the iPhone’s native camera app, he said. “When Apple saw that we could match their native camera time, they were impressed.”
“Some of the more beautifully designed food apps available today are ones that help you scan the bar codes of foods to track what you are eating,” he said. “That’s great — if you eat foods with bar codes on them. If you want to encourage people to eat healthy, then encouraging them to eat things with bar codes on them is probably the wrong approach.” Rosenthal said that the bar code-centered apps are examples of health app developers getting carried away by the possibilities offered by today’s technology, rather than using the technology to answer the right questions.
“It’s not helpful to know that your favorite brownies have 400 or 600 calories,” Massive Health CEO Sutha Kamal stated in a press release. “What’s helpful is discovering that you’re more vulnerable to them in the late afternoon.”
Rosenthal explained that the app is not about calories or other metrics; it’s about “you”, because “most people are not engaged by calorie” counts, he said. “They lose track of calories after a couple of days and what’s more, calories alone won’t tell you whether you’re eating vegetables.”
Massive Health’s The Eatery app is (in a literal sense) a shift away from the Quantified Self movement since it shirks the numerical data in favor of what Rosenthal calls more “actionable information.” Rosenthal said that the trend to move beyond the numbers is part of a much broader discussion among nutritionists, too.
Over the summer the USDA toppled its longstanding Food Pyramid in favor of a MyPlate graphic that provides an image of a plate with a colorful, proportional breakdown of suggested foods: Vegetables, fruits, grains, proteins, and dairy. Rosenthal said that the new guidelines do not focus on specific serving numbers like the old pyramid did but rather on the plate, the colors, and the proportions.
Rosenthal was careful not to characterize the availability of The Eatery app as the startup’s first product launch. Instead he called it their “first experiment.” The components of the app were spun out of Massive’s main product, a chronic condition management app codenamed Penguine, which is meant for users with diabetes. Rosenthal said the company received an email from someone wishing to get into the beta study for Penguine who didn’t qualify for the focus group because she didn’t have diabetes. That helped the team realize that they could easily spin out a separate app focused on healthy eating.
Research shows that — collectively — people are good at rating the healthfulness of food, Rosenthal said. They are not as precisely good as nutritionists, of course, but Massive Health decided that “good” is good enough. This first experimental app could test that theory and others. What factors contribute to unhealthy eating? Where do you eat unhealthy foods? When? How might social networks play a role to help us eat better?
The Eatery aims to help us find out.
Amazon Appstore Developer Summit, Tuesday, 4th October at CodeNode, London. Images copyright www.edtelling.com
BodyShuffle, the new photography/entertainment app by Zappitize is now available in the iTunes App Store and is FREE until October 15th!
itunes.apple.com/us/app/bodyshuffle!/id555023106?ls=1&...
BodyShuffle lets you take photos of your friends, family and pets and then swap out heads, torsos and legs to create hilarious mash-ups. The possibilities are endless and ridiculous. Perfect for any age group, BodyShuffle puts guaranteed laughter and amusement at your fingertips. So download BodyShuffle today and start shuffling!
Massive Health's first experiment: The Eatery app
Brian Dolan
1 Nov, 2011
mobihealthnews.com/14345/massive-healths-first-experiment...
Massive Health, a closely watched Silicon Valley-based mobile health startup, launched its first iPhone app this morning. It’s called The Eatery and it’s a free app only available for iOS device users. The app joins the more than 1,300 diet related apps available in Apple’s AppStore.
“You don’t need a logbook. You don’t need a calorie counter. You don’t need to scan another barcode. The Eatery is totally different [from] other apps. We don’t waste your time with details that don’t matter,” the app’s description reads.
Andrew Rosenthal, who is heading up business development for Massive Health while completing his MBA at Harvard Business School, told MobiHealthNews in an interview this morning that what makes Massive Health different from a lot of companies working in mobile health is its focus on user engagement. “We build things that people are going to love to use. Our approach has always been to focus on user engagement partly because no one else does. The more someone loves something, the more they use it, and the more opportunities we will have as a company to help them be healthy.”
The Eatery app’s most engaging feature is the “Fit or Fat” food rating system, which sees community members providing feedback on the photos of food other app users submit. Massive Health was partly inspired by an old Internet site, Hot or Not, which allowed users to rank the attractiveness of people who submitted photos to the site. Rosenthal said that future versions of Fit or Fat might, for example, only show pictures of food snapped by vegetarians to those following that diet, but the current version of the app tees up any random users any user’s food photos for ranking. Worth noting, the current app also identifies the person who took the photo of the app if that user authorized the app to connect through their Facebook account, Rosenthal said.
While the app aims to automatically tag photos of food with locations of restaurants, bars, or coffee shops for those users who location-enable it, MobiHealthNews found that on a few occasions the app chose wrong. In a comment on one of our food photos, Massive Health CEO Sutha Kamal wrote that the app was typically right when it guessed location.
At the Hacking Medicine event at MIT last week, Massive Health’s CEO Sutha Kamal told the 100 MIT engineering students in attendance to keep three things in mind: Develop quickly, think about feedback loops, and make sure you ask the right questions. Rosenthal said that many of the healthy eating apps available today fail to ask the right questions or create appropriate feedback loops.
Part of what makes an app engaging is speed. Rosenthal said that it only takes 2.8 seconds to snap a photo of food and have it appear in The Eatery, which is the same amount of time it takes to take a photo and have it appear in the iPhone’s native camera app, he said. “When Apple saw that we could match their native camera time, they were impressed.”
“Some of the more beautifully designed food apps available today are ones that help you scan the bar codes of foods to track what you are eating,” he said. “That’s great — if you eat foods with bar codes on them. If you want to encourage people to eat healthy, then encouraging them to eat things with bar codes on them is probably the wrong approach.” Rosenthal said that the bar code-centered apps are examples of health app developers getting carried away by the possibilities offered by today’s technology, rather than using the technology to answer the right questions.
“It’s not helpful to know that your favorite brownies have 400 or 600 calories,” Massive Health CEO Sutha Kamal stated in a press release. “What’s helpful is discovering that you’re more vulnerable to them in the late afternoon.”
Rosenthal explained that the app is not about calories or other metrics; it’s about “you”, because “most people are not engaged by calorie” counts, he said. “They lose track of calories after a couple of days and what’s more, calories alone won’t tell you whether you’re eating vegetables.”
Massive Health’s The Eatery app is (in a literal sense) a shift away from the Quantified Self movement since it shirks the numerical data in favor of what Rosenthal calls more “actionable information.” Rosenthal said that the trend to move beyond the numbers is part of a much broader discussion among nutritionists, too.
Over the summer the USDA toppled its longstanding Food Pyramid in favor of a MyPlate graphic that provides an image of a plate with a colorful, proportional breakdown of suggested foods: Vegetables, fruits, grains, proteins, and dairy. Rosenthal said that the new guidelines do not focus on specific serving numbers like the old pyramid did but rather on the plate, the colors, and the proportions.
Rosenthal was careful not to characterize the availability of The Eatery app as the startup’s first product launch. Instead he called it their “first experiment.” The components of the app were spun out of Massive’s main product, a chronic condition management app codenamed Penguine, which is meant for users with diabetes. Rosenthal said the company received an email from someone wishing to get into the beta study for Penguine who didn’t qualify for the focus group because she didn’t have diabetes. That helped the team realize that they could easily spin out a separate app focused on healthy eating.
Research shows that — collectively — people are good at rating the healthfulness of food, Rosenthal said. They are not as precisely good as nutritionists, of course, but Massive Health decided that “good” is good enough. This first experimental app could test that theory and others. What factors contribute to unhealthy eating? Where do you eat unhealthy foods? When? How might social networks play a role to help us eat better?
The Eatery aims to help us find out.
While browsing through the iPhone App store earlier today, my girlfriend found this new application. It's simply called "I Am Rich" and does absolutely nothing. It can apparently be yours for the modest price of $999.99.
Wow.
Apple has launched a new section of its App Store called Games for Kids, with a selection of iOS games that are made with a child audience in mind
Some of the apps that are listed in the Games for Kids store include LEGO Ninjago Rebooted, Club Penguin, Thomas and Friends: Lift & Haul,...
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Amazon Appstore Summit, Code Node, London, October 2015. Unique insights into the Appstore eco-system. Images copyright of www.edtelling.com