[Japanese]

日本のiTunes で拡大鏡ズームが４位（カテゴリランキング１位）になりました！

小さい字を大きくしたり、遠くの物を拡大したりできます。また、とった写真に矢印や◯などの印が追加出きます。

You can download it for free on the app store

Click here to download now!

Our office is located in Manhattan and we watched St. Patrick’s day parade for a couple of times. Then, we got an idea to create an app for greetings via email / twitter / facebook with your own photo + shamrock + green beers!

Our Irish Coffee mug cup with green tea @ 5th Avenue Office

There are more than 11 images of Green Effects.

[How to use]
1. Select or take a photo
2. Drag and drop one item from the top
3. You can rotate or scale the item.
4. Save and send it to your friends!

[Features]
-Use a Photo from your album
-Take a picture
-Transparency Adjustment

You can share your “work” via
-Facebook
-Twitter
-Email
-Save to your album

[User's Comment]
“Cute… I like the images, easy to use. Thanks!!” – by Sonnysday

Click here to download now!

Yeah! it's so colorful!

• 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!

Wig is too big?? No problem. We have side bar to rotate & resize it.

Let's add a funky photo frame before drag your favorite afro wig.

This time, we have Free version without photo frames. Check this out too!

Include and Link libxml2

1. Expand Targets
2. Double Click on your project name
3. Select All Configuration
4. Search for Header Search Path
5. Add this line below with recursive option

   ${SDKROOT}/usr/include/libxml2

6. Search for Other Linker Flag
7. Add this line below

   -lxml2

See screenshots below

Download Source Codes

git clone git://github.com/topfunky/hpple.git

Then drag and drop following source codes

TFHpple.h
TFHpple.m
TFHppleElement.h
TFHppleElement.m
XPathQuery.h
XPathQuery.m

That’s it. Let’s write some codes.

 // Don't forget
 // #import "TFHpple.h"
 NSData *htmlData = [[NSString stringWithContentsOfURL:[NSURL URLWithString: @"http://www.objectgraph.com/contact.html"]] dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
 TFHpple *xpathParser = [[TFHpple alloc] initWithHTMLData:htmlData];
 NSArray *elements  = [xpathParser search:@"//h3"]; // get the page title - this is xpath notation
 TFHppleElement *element = [elements objectAtIndex:0];
 NSString *myTitle = [element content];
 NSLog(myTitle);
 [xpathParser release];
 [htmlData release];

XCode Project Download

Donwnload the complete project file is available here.

There has been a good discussion on this subject on stackoverflow.com which can be read here.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/286087/best-json-library-to-use-when-developing-an-iphone-application

I will show how to use each of these libraries to decode JSON code in this post.

Touch JSON:
Include the following in your header

#import "CJSONDeserializer.h"

NSString *twitterTrendsUrl=@"http://search.twitter.com/trends.json";
NSData *flickrData=
[NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:[NSURL URLWithString:twitterTrendsUrl]];
NSError *theError = nil;
id theObject =
 [[CJSONDeserializer deserializer] deserialize:flickrData error:&theError];
NSLog(@"Error: %@", theError);
NSLog(@"Result: %@", theObject);

SB JSON:

The thing i like about SBJSON is it adds functions directly into NSString to get NSDictionary or NSArray objects when deserializing JSON strings.

Start with including the following header

#import "JSON.h"

Then you can simply use the following code

NSString *twitterTrendsUrl=@"http://search.twitter.com/trends.json";
NSString *output=
[NSString stringWithContentsOfURL:[NSURL URLWithString:twitterTrendsUrl]];
id theObject=	[output JSONValue];
NSLog(@"%@",theObject);

Please remember stringWithContentsOfURL has been deprecated so I would not recommend using it. We also just include the entire source of the specific JSON library when building our apps.

You can set this little number appears on the icon by using UIApplication class like below

- (void)applicationDidFinishLaunching:(UIApplication *)application {
    //...
    [application setApplicationIconBadgeNumber:123];
}

Check out the app from this link:

Christmas Countdown Free

Download Valentine Photo Free:

Remember that NSDate Object in Mac OSX and iPhone are different.

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NSDate *date=[NSDate date];
int secondsNow=(int)[date timeIntervalSince1970];
NSDateFormatter *formatter=[[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[formatter setDateFormat:@"yyyy"];
int currentYear = [[formatter stringFromDate:date] intValue];
int nextYear=currentYear+1;
NSString *nextYearBegin=[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%d0101",nextYear];
[formatter setDateFormat:@"yyyyMMdd"];
NSDate *otherDate=[formatter dateFromString:nextYearBegin];
NSLog(@"%@",[otherDate description]);
int secondsTarget=(int)[otherDate timeIntervalSince1970];
int differenceSeconds=secondsTarget-secondsNow;
int days=(int)((double)differenceSeconds/(3600.0*24.00));
int diffDay=differenceSeconds-(days*3600*24);
int hours=(int)((double)diffDay/3600.00);
int diffMin=diffDay-(hours*3600);
int minutes=(int)(diffMin/60.0);
int seconds=diffMin-(minutes*60);
mDateTime.text=[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%d Days %d Hours %d Minutes %d Seconds",days,hours,minutes,seconds];

All the above code does is calculates the number of days, hours, minutes and seconds left for the upcoming new year of the current year.
Line 1 will get you the current date object with current date and time. Then i use a NSDateFormatter to extract the year dynamically and figure out what the next year is. Then i use NSDateFormatter again to get a corresponding
date object for January 1st of the next year.

Then some simple math to determine number days, hours, minutes and seconds. So using this code and a simple timer you can create a count down app to any date like Valentines day, Presidents Day or to your next vacation or birth day of your friend or spouse.

The book is called “Independent Guide To The iPhone 3Gs” by Nik Rawlinson

Link to Amazon:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Independent-Guide-iPhone-3GS-Rawlinson/dp/1906372780
Here is a screenshot of the actual page from my Friend

Here is the review text from what i could read from the image above:

“This is a novelty app but one that also helps you learn something new. The concept is simple. You just leave tour iPhone on hard surface with the app fired up then tap somewhere nearby and watch what happens.

It looks like something you’d find in a hospital, but it’s one of those things that is very captivating once you’ve looked at it once. In fact, we completely lost track of time when we played with this app as we tried out different tap-based compositions – MTV had nothing on us during this review.

You’ve got the ability to pause the ‘recording’ of movement around the iPhone, in addition to looking at colorful spectrum graph of what occurred in the three seconds prior to requesting that data.

We didn’t quite understand what the chart was showing us. But it looked pretty nonetheless and it’ll make you look über intelligent to anyone looking over your shoulder .

The app will monitor movement for 10 seconds and report back on the last three seconds of activity. You can then upload that data in snazzy graph format to the web for all to see. Old friends will probably think you’ve changed career.”

Obviously the reviewer did not understand the purpose of the app, but its fine You can download iSeismometer for Free on App Store.

We’ve been releasing more than 76 apps since day 1 of Apple’s App Store. Our latest work is from a medical collaborative project with a Japanese Pharmacist, Hiro. He  is well known as a bag packer / pharmacist / IT guy. Last month, we started a project to create an app that looks up medicine documentations via iPhone. There is a reference website from the Japanese government but accessing via iPhone’s Safari is pretty hard. Our solution is to get the medical documentation in 10 seconds. I’m sorry to say that this app is for Japanese only but if you have a chance to travel to Japan, you might need it. You can easily find it  because it’s #2 in the Medical category of iTunes Japan! Check out our websites:

(Japanese only)

http://toyaku.com/

http://kusuri.objectgraph.com/

[Japanese]

ObjectGraphとtoyaku.comのコラボレーションプロジェクト、第一弾はiPhoneで薬の添付文書が高速で検索出来る「添付文書Lite」です。シンプルで見やすい設計にしてあります。無料なので、気軽に試してみてください。薬剤師、医師、一般の薬を使われる方などから良いレビューを頂いています。パワーアップした有料版も近々リリース予定なので、リクエストがありましたら、このブログか、toyaku.comまにどうぞ。現在、ランキング２位（カテゴリー別）まで急上昇中です。

http://toyaku.com/

http://kusuri.objectgraph.com/

A bunch of our apps will be available for iPad!

We will give you extreme puzzle experience. Watch these screenshots!

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 in the sky.

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!

その他、７つも無料アプリをリリースしているので、ダウンロードしてみてください。

(English)

We have 7 more free apps in the App Store. Get them all now!

特集されたブログなど / Picked up by

http://ameblo.jp/shoukai-jp/entry-10410110228.html

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 Movie

特集された記事など
http://journal.mycom.co.jp/news/2009/…
http://www.macotakara.jp/blog/index.p…

すでにアップロードしている人発見。クッチャクッチャ。
http://www.mobypicture.com/user/c8pa/…

http://twitter.com/#search?q=http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F5CWpAo

From http://twitter.com/kyuntama

From http://twitter.com/RyThizz

From http://twitter.com/_maru

From http://twitter.com/topiphone

http://twitpic.com/ugau3

Here is a simple app that keep track how many days until Christmas. It’s not only a countdown but it also plays a nice background music with the virtual Snow Globe. Watch how snow flakes react when you tilt your iPhone.

Click here to download Christmas Countdown

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Need to make noise for the party? Take it with you.

Click here to download Christmas Sounds Free

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Once you get ready to go Christmas party, try on Santa’s costume. There are many photo effects that help you to send seasonal greetings email. You can share eye-candy Christmas Photo via Twitter or Facebook.

Click here to download Christmas Photo Free

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As for this app, I got a hint from Salvation Army folks at Penn station. Just shake your iPhone and ring a bell.

Click here to download Christmas Bell Free

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Our traditional card match game available for free now. Watch those adorable icons.

Click here to download Christmas Card Match Free

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Snow Globe came back with better animations. It’s more smooth, more snows, and free!

Click here to download Snow Globe Free

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P.S. Yesterday, I totally forgot to list this app.

I thought that it’s a good idea to make a piano with Santa’s “Ho-Ho-Ho” voice; however, to be honest with you, it came out as a creepy piano. I made my friend laugh and he said, “This is good for Halloween season”. Anyway, it’s free too!

Click here to download Santa Piano

Demo Movie

Today, I saw an article about strange lights in the sky… It’s interesting. I might add some lighting effects too. Do you have any requests to add? I’m happy to upgrade with crazy effects. Please add your requests / comment / rating in iTunes.

“Anyone for some Arctic roll? Mystery as spiral blue light display hovers above Norway” – Mail Online

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1234430/Mystery-spiral-blue-light-display-hovers-Norway.html

“After 50 years, UK ministry shuts down UFO unit”  – Reuters

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5B416X20091205