"Imagination Simulator" Inspires Creative Ideas

BPM Boutique hired Art & Logic to develop INSPIRO, an "imagination simulator" that inspires ideas in artists, teachers, and writers. Working with the co-creators, Art & Logic developed iPad/iPhone/iPod touch apps with a lively feel and stunning visual texture. INSPIRO promotes creative and innovative thought through its large custom vocabulary and complex syntax rules. The iPad version was selected as a "Staff Favorite" by Apple.

TAGS:  iOS  Mobile  iPhone  Smartphone  Objective-C  Cocoa  iPod touch  iPad  Tablet  Entertainment

Providing Powerful Field Data Collection and Presentation

TRALE, a provider of screening systems used by large healthcare and insurance providers, hired Art & Logic to take their current Win32 application and port it to the iPad, leveraging the iPad's lightweight tablet format and touch interface to improve data collection, display and user experience. Screeners input blood diagnostics, demographic and biographic information to produce a custom health "report card".

TAGS:  iOS  Objective-C  Cocoa  iPad  Tablet  Medical  Health  SAAS  B2B

iPhone Game for Children

3Pm Studios hired Art & Logic to develop Henry & Hailey's Preschool Pals, a children's mix-n-match game that became a runaway hit after its debut on the iTunes App Store. Players select a "pal" and listen to them talk about what they like to do. After learning about the character, the child matches the head with the corresponding body and feet. more...

3Pm Studios hired Art & Logic to develop Henry & Hailey's Preschool Pals, a children's mix-n-match game that became a runaway hit after its debut on the iTunes App Store. Players select a "pal" and listen to them talk about what they like to do. After learning about the character, the child matches the head with the corresponding body and feet. A special surprise appears after matching all ten pals. We developed this iPhone application using Apple's iPhone 2.0 SDK and xCode 3.1. Another variation of the game was released as ABC Alphabet Game for kids with Henry & Hailey. Henry & Hailey's Preschool Pals was nominated for the 2008 Best App Ever Awards.

TAGS:  iOS  Mobile  iPhone  Smartphone  Objective-C  Cocoa  iPod touch  Core Audio  CoreGraphics  Games  Children

iPhone Event Tracking

Eventful for iPhone is a native, web-enabled iPhone application that allows new and existing Eventful users to track events, search for events, performers and venues in their area, make demands for performers to come to their area, stay in touch with their friends' interests and events, and much, much more. It uses Eventful's JSON-based (JavaScript Object Notation) web APIs - the application formulates requests based on user interaction and parses the JSON-style responses for display. The open source json-framework, a JSON parser for Objective C, was integrated and used for parsing the JSON data. more...

Eventful for iPhone is a native, web-enabled iPhone application that allows new and existing Eventful users to track events, search for events, performers and venues in their area, make demands for performers to come to their area, stay in touch with their friends' interests and events, and much, much more. It uses Eventful's JSON-based (JavaScript Object Notation) web APIs - the application formulates requests based on user interaction and parses the JSON-style responses for display. The open source json-framework, a JSON parser for Objective C, was integrated and used for parsing the JSON data. The application uses many of the iPhone SDK's native controls in the UI, including web views, table views, the search field, and others. Apple's Core Location technology is used to track the user's location for searches based on the iPhone's current location. It was developed with Apple's iPhone 2.0 SDK using xCode 3.1. See eventful.com/iphone for more information.

TAGS:  iOS  Mobile  iPhone  Smartphone  Objective-C  Cocoa  iPod touch  Google Maps  JSON  Entertainment  Social Networking

Adjustable Bed Control from Your iPhone

Leggett & Platt® contracted us to create an iPhone and iPod touch interface to their Prodigy™ line of adjustable beds. The app communicates with the bed over an ad hoc WiFi network and is used to control the different parts of the bed such as the head & foot position, presets, and massagers.

TAGS:  iOS  Mobile  iPhone  Smartphone  Objective-C  Cocoa  iPod touch  Xcode  Hardware  Manufacturing  Furniture

Boccia Titanium iPad App for Universal Watch Company

Universal Watch Company hired Art & Logic to develop a virtual jewelry catalog for their line of Boccia watches and jewelry. This free application allows them to reach a new market in a contemporary and effective manner, and even supports direct product purchase from within the app.

TAGS:  iOS  Mobile  Objective-C  Cocoa  Xcode  iPad  Tablet  Retail  Fashion

HappyHour: It's Five O'Clock Somewhere!

Sterling Publishing Co. is one of the world's leading publishers of nonfiction titles with more than 5000 books in print. Sterling hired Art & Logic to develop HappyHour, an iPhone application featuring thousands of drink recipes from 10,000 Drinks, a book by Paul Knorr. Users manipulate spinner wheels and use the iPhone's motion sensors to search by liquors, mixers, and beverage types.

TAGS:  iOS  Mobile  iPhone  Smartphone  Objective-C  Cocoa  JavaScript  iPod touch  Xcode  HTML  SQLite  Django  Entertainment  Lifestyle  Publishing

iPad Application for ACCA Duct Sizing Calculator

Art & Logic was hired by the Air Conditioning Contractors of America (ACCA) to create an iPad version of their Duct Sizing Calculator device. The application consists of high-resolution scanned images of both sides of the calculator device which are implemented as stacked images that can rotate over the top of one another so that the user can interact with the calculator via iPad gestures in exactly the same way as they would use the analog version of the device.

TAGS:  iOS  Mobile  Objective-C  Cocoa  iPad  Tabet  HVAC

The Beat Thang for iPhone, iPod or iPod touch

Beat Kangz Electronics, LLC partnered with Art & Logic to create PlayaThang and PlayaThang Free. PlayaThang offers simple playback of 20 high quality professional beats (3 in the FREE version). Mute, solo and change volume for each of the 8 stereo tracks that make up each beat to create your own remixes on the fly.

TAGS:  iOS  Mobile  iPhone  Smartphone  Cocoa  iPod touch  Core Audio  Entertainment  Music

iTunes Plugin for SRS Labs

SRS Labs hired us to develop an iTunes plug-in so they could bring their WowHd audio processing technology to Mac users. The plug-in (including a free trial version) is available here.

TAGS:  Objective-C  Cocoa  Mac OS X  Core Audio  iTunes  Installer  C  OpenGL  AppleScript  Internationalization  Entertainment  Music

Finding The Mobile Apps You Love

Appolicious® hired Art & Logic to develop components for its integrated iPhone app management and recommendation system. A&L built the Appolicious® iPhone app and a Java interface that allows users of the Appolicous® web site easily upload their catalog of apps. Art & Logic also built an iPad version for Appolicous®.

TAGS:  iOS  Web  Mobile  iPhone  Smartphone  Cocoa  Java  iPad  Tablet  Applet  Facebook  Lifestyle  Social Networking

Web-Based CRM for your iPhone

Big Contacts hired Art & Logic to create a native iPhone front-end to their web-based contact management system. Big Contacts is a web-based CRM and Salesforce Automation system. The system is designed for small businesses that have outgrown basic solutions such as Excel or Outlook but can not afford the cost and do not want the complexity of a high-end CRM solution such as Salesforce.com. The Big Contacts iPhone application gives you "real-time" access to key contact information that resides in your Big Contacts account. more...

Big Contacts hired Art & Logic to create a native iPhone front-end to their web-based contact management system. Big Contacts is a web-based CRM and Salesforce Automation system. The system is designed for small businesses that have outgrown basic solutions such as Excel or Outlook but can not afford the cost and do not want the complexity of a high-end CRM solution such as Salesforce.com. The Big Contacts iPhone application gives you "real-time" access to key contact information that resides in your Big Contacts account. No synchronization is required. The app is available here on the iTunes Store.

TAGS:  iOS  Mobile  iPhone  Smartphone  Objective-C  Cocoa  Web services  JSON  Business  SAAS  SFA  ERP  CRM

App for Finding People and Places

LikeMe is a native iPhone app that provides an easy-to-use front end to Village Voice Media's LikeMe web site. The app lets users locate their current place or a favorite place nearby, and make a recommendation to gain City Guide points. Users may log into LikeMe.Net anytime to find people like them, learn about suggested places, and follow recommendations from people like them.

TAGS:  iOS  Mobile  iPhone  Smartphone  Objective-C  Cocoa  JSON  GPS  Publishing  Social Networking

Adjustable Furniture Control from Your iPhone

Leggett & Platt® contracted Art & Logic to create an iPhone and iPod touch interface to their Omega Power Motion™ line of adjustable furniture. The app communicates over an ad hoc WiFi network and is used to control power recliners, rockers, gliders, and other motion furniture. Users can define a variety of preset positions from closed to full recline.

TAGS:  iOS  Mobile  iPhone  Smartphone  Objective-C  Cocoa  Mac OS X  iPod touch  Xcode  C  WiFi  Sockets  Manufacturing  Furniture

PhotoJabbr Brings iPhone Pictures to Life!

Bring your pictures to life with PhotoJabbr! Take a photo with your camera or choose an image from your photo library. Then add fun accessories like glasses, hats, eyes and lips. Record your voice, press play, and watch the eyes look around as the mouth moves in perfect synchronization with your voice! And, when you're done animating your PhotoJabbr, you can send it as an e-greeting through SMS or email to your friends and family!

TAGS:  iOS  Mobile  iPhone  Smartphone  Objective-C  Cocoa  iPod touch  Xcode  XML  PHP  HTTP  QuickTime  PHP5  OpenGL  MMS  Entertainment  Lifestyle

Order Sticky Photo Prints from Your iPhone

Your Photo On Canvas hired Art & Logic to build an iPhone-based ecommerce portal to allow users send photos over a wireless connection for printing onto special light tack adhesive-backed paper. Sticky photo prints can be applied to almost any clean, dry surface.

TAGS:  iOS  Mobile  iPhone  Smartphone  Objective-C  Cocoa  Web services  Retail  Photography  Printing

Targus for Mac® Wireless Devices User Controls and Driver

Targus Group International selected Art & Logic to design and build driver software and user controls for their Targus for Mac® IR and Bluetooth wireless mice and the unique Targus Bluetooth® Presenter™. The software provides easy access to favorite applications, common functions like cut/paste and play/stop, and is extensible using AppleScript™.

TAGS:  Objective-C  Cocoa  Mac OS X  Driver  Computer Hardware

CEQA Guidelines on your iPhone

Christopher A. Joseph Associates hired Art & Logic to develop a native iPhone application that displays information on the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). The data is derived from the client's web site. The CEQA app is used by CEQA practitioners, lawyers, students, and others interested in environmental and land use law.

TAGS:  iOS  Mobile  iPhone  Smartphone  Cocoa  Xcode  Environment  Legal

E-MU Audio Sampler and Xboard

E-MU Systems hired Art & Logic to implement two dialogs for their new software sampler. The dialogs went beyond simply picking files and allowed users to manually or automatically create regions, lay out the samples or regions on the keyboard, and preview their work. This project had Art & Logic tightly integrating into E-MU's development environment using a VPN for direct access to their CVS archives while working directly with E-MU engineers on common code. E-MU Systems later hired Art & Logic to write the E-MU Xboard control software, a Mac OS X desktop application that provides total control of the E-MU Xboard USB/MIDI Controller. more...

E-MU Systems hired Art & Logic to implement two dialogs for their new software sampler. The dialogs went beyond simply picking files and allowed users to manually or automatically create regions, lay out the samples or regions on the keyboard, and preview their work. This project had Art & Logic tightly integrating into E-MU's development environment using a VPN for direct access to their CVS archives while working directly with E-MU engineers on common code. E-MU Systems later hired Art & Logic to write the E-MU Xboard control software, a Mac OS X desktop application that provides total control of the E-MU Xboard USB/MIDI Controller. Written using Apple's Cocoa technology, the application allows an Xboard user to edit and store MIDI banks and patches on the Xboard device, as well as save and load banks/patches on disk. Among the challenges in the development of this application, Art & Logic was required to support a complex cross-platform graphical user interface, for which custom controls were developed. All device communication was accomplished using Apple's CoreMIDI technology, providing an efficient, quality experience for the user.

TAGS:  Objective-C  Cocoa  Mac OS X  Windows  Audio  Xcode  USB  MIDI  Music

Music in Education™ for Yamaha

"The philosophy of the Music In Education program is singular in purpose: to create a classroom music program that provides a contemporary focus to the musical and curricular traditions of the general music classroom." Art & Logic was hired by Yamaha to port the Windows version of Music in Education™ to a native Cocoa application for Mac OS X. The MIE system includes 16 MIE keyboards linked with MIDI to the MIE software running on a G4 Macintosh computer. The software provides a hands-on learning experience for students while freeing the instructor to move among the students while accessing accompaniments and music samples via a wireless remote control system.

TAGS:  Objective-C  Cocoa  Mac OS X  Audio  Xcode  MIDI  Music  Education

Audio Recording and Editing Application

Poddio is an audio recording and editing application for iPhone and iPod touch from Vericorder Technology, Inc. The app is a fully integrated professional quality recording studio used by journalists and others in the broadcasting industry. Art & Logic's expertise in iPhone development and in Core Audio were key to the success of this project.

TAGS:  iOS  Mobile  iPhone  Smartphone  Objective-C  Cocoa  Audio  iPod touch  Core Audio  Broadcasting

iTunes library monitoring

Art & Logic worked with ParkVu to complete the Mac version of their iTunes Library monitoring code. This code is a critical component of a system that wirelessly synchronizes a user's media collection with their smartphone.

TAGS:  Cocoa  Mac OS X  Xcode  BlackBerry  iTunes  Amazon SQS  Software

Pickup Lines on Your iPhone

Wingman is an iPhone app that generates pickup lines based on user input for several categories (Face/Body/Intelligence, etc). The application selects a pickup line based on the point value of each of the user selections. The Lite version randomizes the selections, not allowing user choice. In the full version, the user can take a photo or choose an image from their photo library to replace the "girl" image on the pickup line screen.

TAGS:  iOS  Mobile  iPhone  Smartphone  Objective-C  Cocoa  iPod touch  Xcode  Entertainment  Lifestyle  Games

Audio Watermarking Application for Verance

Art & Logic was hired by Verance to port the original Mac OS version of the ConfirMedia application to Windows, and later to a native Cocoa application for Mac OS X, by creating a multi-platform unified code base. Verance also hired Art & Logic to develop a Windows Mobile version of ConfirMedia. ConfirMedia is an innovative audio watermarking solution designed to protect, manage, and monitor audio content, including broadcast monitoring and verification, copy protection, and content management.

TAGS:  Objective-C  Cocoa  Mac OS X  Windows  Audio  Xcode  C++  Desktop  Visual C++  PACE  InstallShield  doxygen  Installer VISE X  Broadcasting

Listen to the Top 100 of Your Favorite Songs

Melodio Inc. hired Art & Logic to help build a iPhone framework that is the basis for dozens of "Top 100" music radio apps available on the iTunes store under the name "nuTsie™". A&L also built a Flex-based sidebar for iTunes Windows users which provides recommendations based on current songs and playlists, streams music from their servers, and synchronizes music library with nuTsie servers. more...

Melodio Inc. hired Art & Logic to help build a iPhone framework that is the basis for dozens of "Top 100" music radio apps available on the iTunes store under the name "nuTsie™". A&L also built a Flex-based sidebar for iTunes Windows users which provides recommendations based on current songs and playlists, streams music from their servers, and synchronizes music library with nuTsie servers.

TAGS:  iOS  Mobile  iPhone  Smartphone  Objective-C  Cocoa  Audio  Flex  Entertainment  Music

Helping People on Dialysis

DaVita hired Art & Logic to build an iPhone version of their online Flash-based GFR Calculator. DaVita provides dialysis services for people diagnosed with chronic kidney failure. They also provide a number of online tools to assist people on dialysis. One of those tools is a Glomerular Filtration Rate calculator, otherwise known as the GFR Calculator. From their website, "Glomerular filtration rate (GFR) is considered by medical professionals to be the best measure of kidney function. more...

DaVita hired Art & Logic to build an iPhone version of their online Flash-based GFR Calculator. DaVita provides dialysis services for people diagnosed with chronic kidney failure. They also provide a number of online tools to assist people on dialysis. One of those tools is a Glomerular Filtration Rate calculator, otherwise known as the GFR Calculator. From their website, "Glomerular filtration rate (GFR) is considered by medical professionals to be the best measure of kidney function. Knowing someone's GFR lets them figure out their stage of kidney disease. Doctors will use this information to plan their patient's treatment."

TAGS:  iOS  Mobile  iPhone  Smartphone  Objective-C  Cocoa  iPod touch  Medical

Designated Driver iPhone App

NeoWave Institute hired Art & Logic to develop one of the first socially responsible iPhone apps to allow a user to reach out to family, friends or a cab to request a ride when a designated driver becomes necessary. A user can configure Designated Driver to send messages to up to 5 recipients. Each message includes a call back number and a Google Map link to the user's location. Alternatively, the user can click a button to contact a national taxi service to request a taxi if friends are not available or not willing to come get them.

TAGS:  iOS  Mobile  iPhone  Smartphone  Objective-C  Cocoa  iPod touch  Xcode  XML  Google Maps  SMS  Entertainment  Lifestyle  Beverages

Keep Track of the Miles You Walk

Virgin HealthMiles hired Art & Logic to port their existing Windows-based GoZone iSync software to Macintosh. Virgin's GoZone pedometers connect via USB to a user's computer. The software retrieves data from the pedometer and uploads it to the Virgin Health Miles website. The number of steps you take each day is rewarded at certain daily level of activity.

TAGS:  Objective-C  Cocoa  Mac OS X  Xcode  XML  USB  PowerPC  Intel  Porting  Iceberg  I/O Kit  Lifestyle  Health

iPhone Application for Golfers

PasturePool.com enables golfers to track their golf scores, handicap, greens in regulation, putts, up/down percentage, and more. The PasturePool native iPhone application allows PasturePool subscribers to record their golf rounds while offline, and then upload them to the PasturePool.com website where they are available for reporting and analysis. The application features course search, course database update, and both summary and detailed golf round entry. more...

PasturePool.com enables golfers to track their golf scores, handicap, greens in regulation, putts, up/down percentage, and more. The PasturePool native iPhone application allows PasturePool subscribers to record their golf rounds while offline, and then upload them to the PasturePool.com website where they are available for reporting and analysis. The application features course search, course database update, and both summary and detailed golf round entry. The detail entry mode features an 18-hole scorecard that lets the golfer enter hole-by-hole scores, statistics and notes. Users can call a selected golf course and load a Google map of the course in an embedded browser. An iPhone-optimized version of the online web application is also available in an embedded browser in case the golfer wants to enter his/her round data directly to the PasturePool.com website.

TAGS:  iOS  Mobile  iPhone  Smartphone  Objective-C  Cocoa  iPod touch  Xcode  XML  SQLite  Safari  WebKit  Entertainment  Lifestyle  Sports

Content Protection for Professional Studio Environments

Cinea Inc., a subsidiary of Dolby Laboratories, hired Art & Logic to port their SView™ video forensic watermarking technology from Windows to Mac OS X. The Mac implementation of driver and user-level software targeted PowerPC and Intel-based Macs.

TAGS:  Cocoa  Mac OS X  Driver  PowerPC  Intel  Entertainment  Broadcasting  Film

Create and Manage Mobile Apps with iEveryware

Content owners of all kinds can use iEveryware to create and publish apps to the wireless world. iEveryware gives users the ability to create apps by selecting among a number of content sections, adding them to an app and then entering, uploading or linking content into them. Users can create apps by any combination of composing content at iEveryware, uploading content to iEveryware or linking to content anywhere else it resides on the Web. Popular sources of content include YouTube, Twitter, WordPress, Blogger and personal websites.

TAGS:  iOS  iPhone  Objective-C  Cocoa  MySQL  Python  TurboGears  Software