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My adventures with the Sparrow framework

Posted by: ken | Date: 31 Dec 2011 | 0 Comment | Tags: ,,,,,,,, | 
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I had been looking into 2D game development frameworks when one of my friends suggested the Sparrow framework. Having struggled with OpenGLES in the past, I was eager to find a higher-level framework that would allow me to produce some working concepts without writing mountains of code just to render a basic shape on the screen. I found Sparrow extremely easy to learn and if you have prior 2D or 3D game development experience, it should be even easier to pick up. To get started, download the latest package from: http://www.sparrow-framework.org/download/ This package comes with the Sparrow...



Frosty Camera iPhone App for this Winter Season

Posted by: kiichi | Date: 16 Nov 2011 | 0 Comment | 
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Winter is here! Let's forget about the Global Warming, and enjoy the snowy Holidays with our newly released Frosty Camera App. Frosty Camera Free lets you take frosty photos of your family, friends and even yourself. Apply our special photo effects and frosty frames in Real Time.Watch as Frosty Camera transforms the world around you into ICE AGE. Tired of taking the same old normal pictures? Transform yourself into frozen snowman. Create super frosty photos in Real Time and share them with families and friends. Choose from 9 unique icy frames to style your photos and share with your favorite...



Scary Camera – Our new iPhone App Released!

Posted by: ken | Date: 20 Oct 2011 | 1 Comment | Tags: ,,,,,,,,,, | 
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Get ready for a scary Halloween! Scary Camera FREE lets you take spooky photos of your family, friends and even yourself. Apply our special photo effects and scary frames in Real Time. Watch as Scary Camera transforms the world around you into a real life horror show. Show off your creativity with our special photo effects and make your own haunted photos. Scare all of your friends this Halloween! Tired of taking the same old normal pictures? Add something scary to it in Real Time. Make your pictures look like they came out of the grundge movie. Choose from over 20 different horror frames...



OS X Lion Review – 3 things I love / hate

Posted by: kiichi | Date: 22 Jul 2011 | 1 Comment | Tags:  | 
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Mac OS X Lion (Version 10.7) is out , and according to Apple 1 Millions Lions are downloaded in the first day. There are plenty of reviews about pros and cons of the new OS. Here are my quick review on 3 things I love / Hate about the Lion. 1. Air Drop Finally easy to share files between macs. Even though not a replacement for your Dropbox, it is definitely a good start. pros: easy to share, no set up or configuration, auto discovery cons: no support to share over network yet, no group sharing 2. New Gestures pros: easy to switch between applications, better experiences...



iSeismometer appeared on BBC

Posted by: kiichi | Date: 25 Jun 2011 | 1 Comment | Tags: ,,,,,, | 
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Our app, iSeismometer, to show slight motion on your iPhone / iPad was on BBC! They came to shoot a classroom at Long Island University because the app which I developed in the Earth Science classroom was used as one of the lab exercise. Our University distributed 6,000 iPads so far and it will be 10,000 by the next year. My team lead the development of the entire distribution system and the university app on it. Dr. Kennelly introduced about iSeismometer and one of lab exercise in a Earth Science classroom. My interview was not used but I'm happy that he mention about my app and me in his comments. That...



Halloween Apps in iTunes Ranking

Posted by: kiichi | Date: 01 Nov 2010 | 0 Comment | 
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Happly Halloween! Our apps are in App Store ranking in halloween season again! See our book shelf style sound app for iPad. iPad version got following: #1 in Music Category (JP) while our "Cat Piano" is #2 & "Fart Piano" is #8! #2 in Total Ranking (JP) #3 in Music Category (US) iHalloween has been within #15 (Category Ranking) for a few month. Get them while they are hot. Download Halloween Sound Shelf Download iHalloween (iPhone Version Free) Download Halloween Bookshelf for iPhone (Pro Version)



New iRetroPhone Sneak Peek

Posted by: kiichi | Date: 23 Aug 2010 | 1 Comment | Tags: ,, | 
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We would like to show a preview of the new version of iRetroPhone for iPhone 4. This is high-res version and it will be more sleek design. iRetroPhone was one of first 500 apps that were available at when App Store launched in July 10, 2008. It was covered by New York Times and this is still the best novelty app in our portfolio.



Cat Piano HD – #2 in Japan / 猫ピアノHDが２位になりました

Posted by: kiichi | Date: 21 Jun 2010 | 0 Comment | Tags: ,,,,,, | 
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[English] Again, our cat piano went oversea. In Japan, our app became #2 position and this is next to iBook. Download it from iTuens NOW! [Japanese] 猫ピアノがiTunesで２位になりました。iBookの次です。 今すぐダウンロード！ [Movie] 【ニコニコ動画】ノル3匹 #282「猫の鳴き声を出すiPadアプリの反応を見てみた」 【ニコニコ動画】ノル3匹 #282「猫の鳴き声を出すiPadアプリの反応を見てみた」 [Links] http://www.macotakara.jp/blog/tb.php?ID=8516 http://news.livedoor.com/article/detail/4833313/ http://www.mdn.co.jp/di/newstopics/13737/



iPad SDK 3.2 Document Support

Posted by: kiichi | Date: 14 Jun 2010 | 11 Comments | Tags: ,,,,, | 
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In this post, we'll discuss about the new File-Sharing and Document Support features in iPhone OS 3.2. The new File-Sharing feature allows user to access /Document directory through iTunes. Users are able to move files from their computers to iPads or iPads to their computers by using this feature. The new Document Support feature allows an application to register its supportive file types to the system. This feature allows an application to redirect files to be opened in other applications. For an example: an application doesn't know how to open a PDF document. This feature allows the PDF document...



Medical Apps #1 in Japan – 添付文書などiPadアプリが１位になりました

Posted by: kiichi | Date: 28 May 2010 | 0 Comment | Tags:  | 
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[English] Our iPad apps got #1 position in Japan (Category Free, Paid, and Gross)! [Japanese] iPad向け医療用アプリ「添付文書」、「薬局方」が日本のカテゴリーランキングで無料・有料・売上全て１位になりました。



Demo at Apple Store in Tokyo, Ginza 2

Posted by: kiichi | Date: 11 Apr 2010 | 2 Comments | Tags: ,,,,,,,, | 
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Here is report from our demo @ Apple Store in Tokyo: Hiro demonstrated our medical apps. A picture with Dr. Maki Sugimoto who is one of most important speaker in this event.



How to add CoverFlow Effect on your iPhone App – OpenFlow

Posted by: avinash | Date: 09 Apr 2010 | 40 Comments | Tags: ,, | 
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Hello all, The main criteria of this post is to help you add a cool effect called the "cover flow/open flow" effect to any of your iphone apps. This is cool in two ways actually. One it adds animation kind of effect to your app and the other, its very easy to build too. I got to learn about this effect when I was working on my "pianos" app where in i'll have bunch of animals to select which would be displayed as a menu using this "cover flow" effect. Once a particular animal is selected your piano view for that animal comes up. My piano app will be out soon and you can check that out. The source...



Demo at Apple Store in Tokyo, Ginza

Posted by: kiichi | Date: 09 Apr 2010 | 2 Comments | 
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Japanese Pharmacopoeia is one of most important reference for Pharmacists and Medicine Doctors who work in Japan. You are able to browse entire Pharmacopoeia document via lighting quick search engine. Each tab represent specific purpose to get necessarily information as you need. We would like to celebrate our second app, Japanese Pharmacopoeia,  with toyaku.com. While our first app, JP Medicine Description, is still in top 3 in the Medical category, this app is already ranked in the first page! Hiro who is our business partner will demonstrate those two apps and we will announce our new project...



Afro Photo – iPhone App Updated!

Posted by: kiichi | Date: 26 Feb 2010 | 1 Comment | Tags: ,,,,,, | 
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Our funkiest app was just updated with tons of new features! Turn your friends' hair to afro and send the picture to them! Resize the base image Useful toolbar to manipulate the images Twitter Facebook Email (in App) 10 Funky Photo Frames Change the Transparency ... and + 13 Afro wig variations! It's colorful now. Click here to download Afro Photo Pro NOW! This time, we have Free version without photo frames. Check this out too!



Getting Ready for iPad Apps

Posted by: kiichi | Date: 06 Feb 2010 | 3 Comments | 
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Hey Everyone, A bunch of our apps will be available for iPad! We will give you extreme puzzle experience. Watch these screenshots!



[iPhone Apps] 2 FREE Valentine Apps from ObjectGraph

Posted by: kiichi | Date: 24 Jan 2010 | 2 Comments | Tags:  | 
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Download Valentine Photo Free It's been more than 1 year to collaborate with Studio Yumi. For coming February, we launched a lovely Valentine's Day count down. When you start it, you will see falling snow flakes which are heart shape. Try to tilt your iPhone / iPod Touch, they change the direction. To cerebrate the Valentine's Day, sending a nice photo might be a nice gift. Decorate your photo with pinky hearts and balloons. My favorite photo effect is the heart shape clouds. Try to take / select a photo with blue sky in the background, and drop it. You can create a love message...



4+ Our iPhone Apps are selected for the Apple Store’s Christmas Tree

Posted by: kiichi | Date: 24 Dec 2009 | 0 Comment | 
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Today, we visit an Apple Store in Manhasset (Long Island) and we found a christmas tree and we found a bunch of our apps ! Snow Globe Christmas Bell Thank you for downloading. then we found a bunch of our apps ! Christmas Card Match Christmas Sound Free Snow Globe Christmas Bell Thank you for downloading. Merry Christmas!



[iPhone app アプリ] 奇妙な写真メーカー – Bizarre Comic Photo Free

Posted by: kiichi | Date: 12 Dec 2009 | 1 Comment | Tags: ,,,, | 
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Hello, We released an app for Japanese comic fan. I would like to write this blog entry in both English and Japanese. [English] Add Japanese style comic effects on your photo! Send your work to your friends! There are more than 120 images of effects. It's free and you can upload the picture to Twitter (Twitpic). [Japanese] 奇妙なマンガ風の効果音を合成できる「奇妙な写真メーカー」です。 「ドドドドドドドドドド」や「ドッ　ギャーン」など心行くまで作ってください。使い方は簡単。写真を選んで、効果音を上のツールバーからドラッグ＆ドロップするだけ。作った作品は友達等に送ってください。 また、万が一カエルが空から振ってきた時に備えて「メメタァ」も完備。これでいつ何時遠距離型の敵から攻撃を受けても大丈夫です。 Demo...



Yum Christmas Countdown

Posted by: kiichi | Date: 11 Dec 2009 | 0 Comment | Tags: ,, | 
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[iPhone App] iMustache

Posted by: saurabh | Date: 08 Oct 2009 | 0 Comment | 
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iMustache adds a mustache on your photos! Turn your friends' face and send the picture to them! [Usage] -1. Select a photo from camera / album icon. -2. Drag and Drop your favorite item. -To cancel, simply put the item back to the top area or double tap on the item. -Use two fingers to scale and rotate. -You can save your work and send it to your friends! Start Screen of App, showing the different Mustache available Click/Browse photos from Library and adjust the mustache Download Now!