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Our app has been rejected

We have bad news. Apple has rejected our “You Are Hot!” application. It will not be published on the App Store. They argue that the application “contains objectionable content”.

”You Are Hot!” is a social application where you can discover what other people think about you: What's your first impression of me? How old do I look? Do you think I'm pretty? Is my stile outdated? With “You Are Hot" you can attach pictures to your questions, make polls, and send private messages to othe

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Added by Entropycs on March 10, 2010 at 3:30am — No Comments

Work Manager

In this post I want to talk about one of our first iPhone/Android projects: Work Manager. Our idea was to make a mobile application for professionals that want to manage their working time in order to better spend it in properly having their work done. The application was intended to help professionals to identify their roles in their compan… Continue

Added by Entropycs on December 8, 2009 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Crazy Stories Announcement

Do you know what is a parlour game? Well, a parlour game is just a group game played indoors. During the Victorian era in Great Britain and in the United States, these games were extremely popular among the upper and middle classes. They were often played in a parlour, hence the name, by gentlemen and ladies to amuse themselves at small parties. Unfortunately, parlour games decreased in popularity in the first half of the 20th century as radio, movies, and later, television captured more of the… Continue

Added by Entropycs on December 3, 2009 at 7:30am — No Comments

The Digital Swiss Army Knife

I have a lot of experience working with computers, back to year 1983. Moreover, I have a university degree in computer science. So, it is supposed I'm a specialist in computers. However, there is no day I have some kind of problems using them. And I do not mean problems managing large or complex data centers. I mean, problems as an average user that only wants to read his mail and surf a little bit the web. I think the problem of the PC, the Personal Computer, is that by definition it is a wron… Continue

Added by Entropycs on November 21, 2009 at 2:58pm — No Comments

A different iPhone's Home Screen approach

Teehan+lax is a designing company focused on delivering great user experiences in the digital world. This wouldnt have nothing to do with us, but last week they released a concept screenshot about a new home screen for the iPhone. I know, i know... you can't… Continue

Added by Entropycs on September 28, 2009 at 8:00am — 1 Comment

AdMobs brings us information about iPhone OS versions

Statistics are hard to gather in a platform like the Apple's iPhone, but there are some companies powerful enough to have their own sta… Continue

Added by Entropycs on September 24, 2009 at 8:00am — 3 Comments

Why I'm not Genius Fan

In a previous post I said I was not a Genius Fan, and since then, I have got dozens of emails of angry people because I do not like the Apple recommendation system. First of all, I would like to clarify that I said "I'm not a Genius Fan". I have not said I hate Genius. Moreover, I have not said I dislike Genius. What I said is that I does not belong to Genius fan club. Well, I have to admit that Genius… Continue

Added by Entropycs on September 23, 2009 at 8:00am — 1 Comment

iPhone Developers: Useful resources to design UIs

Today we are going to write about some helpful resources for all the iPhone developers out there :) iPhone Human Interface Guidelines: this is what Ap… Continue

Added by Entropycs on September 22, 2009 at 8:00am — 1 Comment

Apple launches the App Store Resource Center

If you want to know something about iPhone development you can just google around a bit or get into the huge and helpfull iPhone Dev Center. The documents you can find there are full of detail, so some of them are just too deep and you won't probably need them, but there are some of them wich are a must (for example the… Continue

Added by Entropycs on September 21, 2009 at 8:00am — No Comments

I'm not a Genius ... Fan

Ok, here we are again, talking about the App Store and how difficult is for small application development companies to make their applications visible. Of course, large companies do not have this problem, because they have marketing departments and huge marketing budgets. In a previous post we where analyzing how the flood of new titles has created fierce competition among developers, and how m… Continue

Added by Entropycs on September 17, 2009 at 8:00am — 1 Comment

Videocam, 'first' video recording app on the iPhone 3G

Sabec is the developer which will try to release this application soon, a video camera app working on a 3G. We say 'try' because it is uncertain if this application will be validated by Apple since the iPhone 3.0 update doesn't enable video camera on the 3G. The video shows the app in action, it's not the final version so we guess the quality will be improved and sound recording added (doesn't seem to record the audio, weird). But this is a proof of what the 3G is capable of. Apple told us it c… Continue

Added by Entropycs on September 16, 2009 at 8:00am — No Comments

The Network is the Mobile Phone ... or Not?

A few weeks ago we had a blog post that claimed that the Network is the Mobile Phone. The idea behind that statement, following the Sun Microsystems motto “The Network is the Computer”, was that in th… Continue

Added by Entropycs on September 15, 2009 at 8:00am — 2 Comments

iPhone/iPod Touch anti-phising explained

The anti-phising feature for Safari in the latest iPhone OS 3.1 had some strange behaviors identifying some sites as dangerous while in other iPhone/iPods not. The reasons were unclear until Loopt contacted Apple and asked them about this problem. The answer to this strange behavior makes sense: "Safari's anti-phishing database is downloaded while the user charges their phone… Continue

Added by Entropycs on September 14, 2009 at 8:00am — No Comments

September 9th: Keynote review

That's it, that's all. The long wait is over now, Steve Jobs is kickin' back again and it's time to analyze what we watched yesterday: "It's only Rock & Roll".

iTunes 9 Almost everything that we talked about was true (… Continue

Added by Entropycs on September 10, 2009 at 8:00am — 1 Comment

Loopt and AT&T broke the game rules

A location-based service (LBS) is an information or entertainment service for mobile devices that uses the user's geographical position. There are many applications of mobile services, in a variety of contexts, such as health, work, personal life, etc. For example, thanks to LBS it is possible to discover the nearest banking cash machine, or the whereabouts of a friend. There are hundreds of apps for the iPhone that provide location-based services, most of them combining these services with soc… Continue

Added by Entropycs on September 9, 2009 at 8:00am — No Comments

More interesting AppStore statistics by AppsFire

AppsFire took a sample of 1,200 unique iPhone/iPod Touch users and gathered information about their apps through the AppsFire iPhone app. The important fact about this statistics is that they are from actually installed apps and it's not a poll in wich the user an… Continue

Added by Entropycs on September 8, 2009 at 8:00am — 1 Comment

The War is (almost) Over

Smart phones are the fastest growing segment of the mobile phone market, everybody knows. Even more, it is the most profitable one. And we have seen the last two years a war among software and device manufacturers to position themselves in this highly profitable market: Nokia, LG, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, HTC, Toshiba, Palm, Acer, RIM, ... We had new devices every quarter: touch screens, accelerometers, GPS, 3G, and many other wonderful hardware features; all of them providing these fancy touch-b… Continue

Added by Entropycs on September 7, 2009 at 8:00am — 1 Comment

iBand: an incredible impact protector

We don't usually talk about cases but this time we think it is worth to talk about this one, just because we are all afraid of our iPhone's screens :) iBand uses a non-newtonian fluid to protect your iPhone and the results (shown in the video) are pretty good in our opinion. We wouldn't recommend, anyway, to throw your iPhone or iPod like they do in the video but it's a nice case for those unfortunate-events :) Watc… Continue

Added by Entropycs on September 2, 2009 at 8:00am — No Comments

µMonitor a µTorrent monitor for iPhone: REJECTED

Another worth app right into the rejected-apps hole. This time it's an monitor for the acclaimed desktop bittorrent client:… Continue

Added by Entropycs on September 1, 2009 at 8:00am — 1 Comment

Extreme Rumors: all iPods to get camera

We have seen so many unbelievable rumors but this one is unexpectedly unbelievable: "every iPod will get a built-in camera". That even includes the getting-older-faster-than-flash iPod Classic! This rumor comes from OmniVision telling us he will be the sole supplier of the new camera modules, but include the iPod Classic in the camera upgrade is just kinda weird for Apple since the iPod Touch seems the natural evolution of the iPod Classic and it was supposed to disappear sooner or later… Continue

Added by Entropycs on August 31, 2009 at 8:00am — 1 Comment

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