W.E.L.D.E.R. Word Game for Mac

Highline Games hired Art & Logic to port their popular iOS word game, W.E.L.D.E.R., to Mac OS X. The Mac version was an Editors' Choice and climbed to #1 in the Games category. See it in the App Store

TAGS:  Mobile  iOS  Mac OS X  GameCenter  Entertainment  Lifestyle  Social Networking  Games  Recreation

Social Network for Interior Designers

Interior designers in the US and UK can join their own specialized social networking community at Modenus. The system provides thousands of product choices to help create beautiful designs for kitchens, bathrooms, furniture, accessories, and more. The entirety of the design community can collaborate, review and consult - offering up comments and connections on design elements, manufacturers, sources, resources and products. Trade professionals can manage entire projects with simple online tools whether they work alone or as members of larger design teams. more...

Interior designers in the US and UK can join their own specialized social networking community at Modenus. The system provides thousands of product choices to help create beautiful designs for kitchens, bathrooms, furniture, accessories, and more. The entirety of the design community can collaborate, review and consult - offering up comments and connections on design elements, manufacturers, sources, resources and products. Trade professionals can manage entire projects with simple online tools whether they work alone or as members of larger design teams.

TAGS:  Web  MySQL  jQuery  Python  TurboGears  Image Processing  Lifestyle  Lighting  Interior Design  Design  Architecture

Dave Mustaine: Guitar Prodigy

The Way of H hired Art & Logic to develop new features for their flagship app Rock Prodigy and their new release Dave Mustaine: Guitar Prodigy. The project was to make these iOS apps more useful and easier to use with specific attention to new and important functions which allow the user to adjust the tempo of playback and loop certain sections of a song for focused practice. The response to the new version of the app has been extremely positive. See the Wired review.

TAGS:  Mobile  iOS  iPhone  Audio  iPod touch  iPad  Core Audio  Music  iPod  Entertainment  Music  Lifestyle  Games  Audio

Bring DPS Acoustics to your PC

Bongiovi Acoustics hired Art & Logic to port their software-based active signal processing technology from Mac to Windows. Digital Power Station for Windows is a system-wide utility that enriches the audio quality of any music or movie being played on your computer. The software won the CES 2012 Innovations Honorees award in the Software and Mobile Apps category.

TAGS:  Windows  Desktop  Plug-in  Entertainment  Music  Lifestyle  Audio

Mobile Shopping Tool

ShowUhow, Inc.'s web portal is a consumer shopping aid that streams Video Product Guides (VPGs) and provides access to warranty and support info for a wide range of retail products. ShowUhow needed an Android/iOS developer to bring that experience to smartphones. Art & Logic's expertise helped to make ShowUhow Mobile a solid, polished app experience. The app supports easy product lookup by scanning a bar code via the phone's camera, and automatically displays a rich collection of product-specific videos and other consumer information.

TAGS:  Mobile  iOS  iPhone  Smartphone  Android  Video  RedLaser  Lifestyle  Retail  Consumer Products

Software Team Augmentation

FitOrbit hired Art & Logic to integrate directly with their staff. They needed help to transition to a new design revision of their personal trainer website, FitOrbit 2.0. Art & Logic worked with FitOrbit's product managers, designers, and lead developers to add user oriented features such as meal and exercise planning. Art & Logic focused on two critical features of the site: the client dashboard and the "My Plan" page which hosts a few different views of the client's workout and meal plans by day or by week. more...

FitOrbit hired Art & Logic to integrate directly with their staff. They needed help to transition to a new design revision of their personal trainer website, FitOrbit 2.0. Art & Logic worked with FitOrbit's product managers, designers, and lead developers to add user oriented features such as meal and exercise planning. Art & Logic focused on two critical features of the site: the client dashboard and the "My Plan" page which hosts a few different views of the client's workout and meal plans by day or by week. Utilizing cutting edge web technologies like backbone.js, jQuery tmpl and CSS PIE, Art & Logic helped create an extremely user-friendly and fast way for customers to connect to trainers virtually in order to meet their fitness goals. Art & Logic worked primarily in HTML 5, JavaScript/jQuery, CSS, and Ruby on Rails.

TAGS:  Web  JavaScript  jQuery  AJAX  HTML5  Ruby on Rails  Ruby  Lifestyle  Education  Medical  Health  Food  Training  Recreation  Fitness  Employment  Workflows

Find 600-Calorie Dishes Nearby

ThinDish hired Art & Logic to develop a web application which allows users to search nearby restaurants for dishes that meet specific dietary criteria. A vendor portal application integrates with ESHA's nutrition calculator API, allowing restaurant owners to upload information about dishes that meet various ThinDish criteria. Vendors release coupons through the site which users buy online. Users can search for restaurants, dishes, purchase coupons, rate dishes, favorite dishes, etc. more...

ThinDish hired Art & Logic to develop a web application which allows users to search nearby restaurants for dishes that meet specific dietary criteria. A vendor portal application integrates with ESHA's nutrition calculator API, allowing restaurant owners to upload information about dishes that meet various ThinDish criteria. Vendors release coupons through the site which users buy online. Users can search for restaurants, dishes, purchase coupons, rate dishes, favorite dishes, etc. The site was developed with HTML5 and PHP/Yii.

TAGS:  Web  MySQL  PHP  Web services  LAMP  HTML5  Google Maps  Yii  Lifestyle  Social Networking  Health  Food  Coupons

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

iPhone Application to Deliver eBook Content

Pockettales offers authors the ability to convert published works into apps for the iPhone and iPod touch. The company hired Art & Logic to build the deployment technology for converting PDF documents to conform with the special requirement of the iPhone.

TAGS:  Mobile  iOS  iPhone  Objective-C  Smartphone  iPod touch  XML  Entertainment  Lifestyle  Publishing

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

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

Mobile Movie Showtimes

Terry Hines & Associates hired us to create applications for viewing local movie showtimes. We began by designing an SMS based search tool, to be used as a part of our client's motion picture marketing campaigns. After the initial phase we developed a website and a mobile WAP site, which serve as entertainment resource gateways. We also developed an SMS subscriber list management tool, and a number of web services and Flash/HTML widgets that can be embedded in other sites. more...

Terry Hines & Associates hired us to create applications for viewing local movie showtimes. We began by designing an SMS based search tool, to be used as a part of our client's motion picture marketing campaigns. After the initial phase we developed a website and a mobile WAP site, which serve as entertainment resource gateways. We also developed an SMS subscriber list management tool, and a number of web services and Flash/HTML widgets that can be embedded in other sites. More recently, we created an iPhone version of the WAP site, where users can look up movie showtimes, view entertainment news and gossip, or information about the films themselves. We have also added a feature where SMS or Flash requests can triggered a return voice message, and added an online community to the WAP site.

TAGS:  Web  Mobile  iOS  iPhone  Smartphone  JavaScript  iPod touch  MySQL  HTML  XML  PHP  Linux  HTTP  Facebook  WAP  SMS  Geocoding  Entertainment  Lifestyle  Marketing  Film  Public Relations

3-D Wedding Cake Design Software

Topplestone, LLC hired Art & Logic to create Wedding Cake Design Pro®, a Windows desktop application that allows users to create custom wedding cake designs. Brides-to-be can choose from hundreds of design elements to create realistic three dimensional designs, print the results, and give the design to their local bake shop for a truly unique and personalized wedding cake.

TAGS:  Windows  Python  3D  wxWidgets  Ogre  Lifestyle  Retail

Personalized Trainer Workouts for MP3 Players

iTrain is a website that sells downloadable music for workouts. Art & Logic was responsible for all aspects of the project, including user interface design, layout, and construction; administrative tools, setting up e-commerce, testing, and project management. Most of the user interface is done in Flash. The server-side code is PHP/MySQL. There are multiple servers, with load balancing. You'll need to register to get a password to log into the site. Registering is quick, simple, and free.

TAGS:  Web  Audio  MySQL  PHP  Flash  Music  Lifestyle  Health  Fitness

Playing With Positive Words

p i c t u r e l e s s Books is a children's e-book series by co-authors Teffanie T. White and Adrea L. Peters. Art & Logic was hired to bring the simple, card-based word books to the iOS platform. The app inspires vocabularies that uplift, surprise, and teach using positive words. Users can play with spelling, anagrams, and acronyms. They can send cards to others, post words to friends' facebook pages, or shuffle and shake the alphabet deck for random, delightful letter/word combinations.

TAGS:  Mobile  iOS  iPhone  Smartphone  iPod touch  iPad  Tablet  Entertainment  Lifestyle  Education  Publishing  Children

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

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

Browser Plugin for Universal Music Group

Art & Logic worked with Universal Music Group (a division of Vivendi Universal) to develop a Javascript-based browser plugin, to help UMG prototype a new music service.

TAGS:  Plug-in  Music  Browser  Entertainment  Music  Lifestyle  Media  Social Networking  Pro Audio  Audio  User generated content