Social Resistance Training Game

Art & Logic worked with York Zimmerman to design and implement People Power, a cross-platform game that is intended to teach the principles of non-violent resistance to participants in social movements. Based on principles and a mathematical model that were derived from the Serbian overthrow of Slobodan Milosevic, as well as study of other similar historical struggles, a graphically appealing game was designed that supports the modeling of conflict and resolution. more...

Art & Logic worked with York Zimmerman to design and implement People Power, a cross-platform game that is intended to teach the principles of non-violent resistance to participants in social movements. Based on principles and a mathematical model that were derived from the Serbian overthrow of Slobodan Milosevic, as well as study of other similar historical struggles, a graphically appealing game was designed that supports the modeling of conflict and resolution. Art & Logic also built a Scenario Design tool. This component allows designers to build arbitrarily complex social models and resistance programs, for use within the game.

TAGS:  Mac OS X  Windows  Flash  Flex  ActionScript  AIR  Media  Education  Games  Film

The "Beat Thang" Groovebox Software

Beat Kangz Electronics hired Art & Logic to create the firmware for the Beat Thang, a new groovebox aimed at the hip hop market. The project also includes a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) plugin for Mac OS X and Windows called the Beat Thang Virtual. It is available at Sam Ash, Guitar Center, and online.

TAGS:  Mac OS X  Windows  Audio  Xcode  XML  Embedded  C++  Desktop  Visual C++  USB  Cross-platform  Plug-in  Core Audio  Linux  PACE  Installer  ASIO  VST  JUCE  Music

Android/iOS App for Theatre Development Fund

The Theatre Development Fund is a non-profit service organization for the performing arts. Art & Logic was hired to develop "tkts", a mobile application for Android and iPhone allowing users to search for shows and purchase discounted tickets online via TDF's web site. The app received over 12,000 downloads in the first 4 days on the iTunes App Store.

TAGS:  iOS  Mobile  iPhone  Smartphone  Android  Theater

"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

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

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

B2B Promotional Product Catalog

Google hired Art & Logic to develop a catalog of promotional products they offer to companies to assist them in gaining visibility at Google Places. The products all feature the Places Push Pin image. A dynamic HTML5 front end featuring sliding page transitions was used to deliver a catalog experience to the user. The application includes a shopping cart-like feature for selecting and submitting a request for materials.

TAGS:  JavaScript  Python  HTML5  B2B  AppEngine

Consumer Shopping Tool for Android and iOS

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

Antibiotic Guide for ER Medical Personnel

EMRA hired Art & Logic to develop iOS, Android, and BlackBerry versions of the EMRA Antibiotic Guide. The EMRA Antibiotic Guide is a simple quick reference application for ER medical personnel that presents anything and everything you need to know about a certain antibiotic - how it works, what it works on, what it is contraindicated for, dosing, etc., all cross-referenced. EMRA is the oldest and largest independent resident organization in the world.

TAGS:  iOS  Mobile  iPhone  Smartphone  iPod touch  iPad  Tablet  BlackBerry  Android  Medical

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  Python  jQuery  TurboGears  Image Processing  Lifestyle  Lighting  Interior Design  Design  Architecture

Design Your Own Baby Bedding

Babybedding.com is a web site for configuring custom baby crib bedding. Art & Logic built the component that lets users select from hundreds of fabric patterns to create personalized bedding for new family arrivals. Real-time image updates give immediate feedback about how the final product will look as the user makes choices in the software.

TAGS:  Web  Flex  Retail

Brother PDQ Design T-shirt Layout Application

Brother USA hired Art & Logic to develop a T-shirt design and layout application for use with their GT-541 digital garment printer. A key piece of the project was an extensive library of licensed images assembled by Brother. Art & Logic implemented a digital rights management system for the project to ensure the image licensors that each garment printed with a licensed image could be accounted for, and would result in payment to the licensor. more...

Brother USA hired Art & Logic to develop a T-shirt design and layout application for use with their GT-541 digital garment printer. A key piece of the project was an extensive library of licensed images assembled by Brother. Art & Logic implemented a digital rights management system for the project to ensure the image licensors that each garment printed with a licensed image could be accounted for, and would result in payment to the licensor. The application also permits the use of user-supplied images and text with a large variety of graphical effects applied.

TAGS:  Windows  C++  Visual C++  PACE  SOAP  GoAhead WebServer  GDI+  Printing  Fashion

Candy Themed Game

CandyWarehouse.com hired Art & Logic to develop Truffle Shuffle, a candy-themed "match 3" game. The game is written in JavaScript, which allows it to run on iOS and on the web.

TAGS:  JavaScript  HTML  jQuery  Retail  Games  Food

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

Mac OS X Kernel Driver and Control Application for Razer's DeathAdder Mouse

After successfully developing the OS X driver for their Pro|Click mouse, Razer hired Art & Logic to develop a driver and control application for their more advanced DeathAdder gaming mouse. Working from the Pro|Click project code as a base, the driver and daemon application were adapted to work with the DeathAdder, while a new control application with a unique user interface was developed from scratch. The control application was particularly challenging due to its UI requirements, but the end result was a near duplicate of the Windows user experience, as the client had requested.

TAGS:  Mac OS X  Driver  USB  Kernel Extension  HID  Computer Hardware

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

Web-based DMS for Motorola

Motorola's SURFboard wireless cable modem incorporates gateway, firewall, VPN, and WEP security features. Art & Logic developed an API which allowed cable service providers to customize the interface at runtime, selectively hiding and showing content and changing fields to read/write or read-only. The interface was integrated with a customized version of the GoAhead Webserver and Art & Logic's own Device Management Framework.

TAGS:  Web  XML  HTML  Embedded  Linux  HTTP  SSL  GoAhead WebServer  GoAhead  Networking  Computer Hardware  Telecom

Web Application for Creative Talent

The Workbook was established in 1977 as a sourcebook for Los Angeles creative talent. Since then it has become a prestigious industry publication, bringing together top advertising talent and creatives from around the world. We were hired to redevelop and maintain workbook.com, a Python/TurboGears-based website with 50,000 listings featuring creative buyers, reps, industry resources, and suppliers.

TAGS:  Web  Python  TurboGears  Photography  Illustration

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  Google Maps  HTML5  Yii  Lifestyle  Social Networking  Health  Food  Coupons

Digital Audio Plugin SDK and Support for ROLAND® V-STUDIOS™ Digital Recording Studio

When ROLAND® decided to add a third-party plugin architecture to their popular V-STUDIOS™ digital audio workstations, they called Art & Logic for assistance. Through a partnership between the two companies, Art & Logic consulted with ROLAND engineers developing the VS8F-3 expansion card, and created a Software Development Kit (SDK) to be used by third-party developers of audio effects plugins. Art & Logic played a critical role in all phases of this project. more...

When ROLAND® decided to add a third-party plugin architecture to their popular V-STUDIOS™ digital audio workstations, they called Art & Logic for assistance. Through a partnership between the two companies, Art & Logic consulted with ROLAND engineers developing the VS8F-3 expansion card, and created a Software Development Kit (SDK) to be used by third-party developers of audio effects plugins. Art & Logic played a critical role in all phases of this project. Early in the design process, Art & Logic advised the ROLAND engineers when selecting a DSP chip for their card. After the successful release of the SDK, Art & Logic became ROLAND's development and support partner, assisting third-party developers and acting as a liaison with ROLAND's design team in Japan.

TAGS:  Audio  Embedded  Plug-in  C  DSP  Music

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

J2EE eCommerce site for the Hino Motor Sales company

Art & Logic was hired by Phluent, Inc. to complete a J2EE eCommerce site for the Hino Motor Sales company. Art & Logic worked closely with Phluent to streamline the requirements for the site and converge on a final deliverable with sample data provided by Phluent's client dealers. After completing a testing phase, the final code was delivered to Phluent and deployed on a production site for their clients.

TAGS:  Java  J2EE  JSF  B2B  Automotive  e-commerce

Web-based Network Management System

Ensemble is a pioneer in Broadband Wireless Access. Art & Logic created the web-based interface for Ensemble's Network Management System. The interface features many dynamic elements including a view of the base station, showing the real-time positions of cards and LED's. Sophisticated JavaScript and HTML coding techniques were used to develop this dynamic user experience.

TAGS:  Web  JavaScript  Embedded  Networking

RNA Gene Sequencing Tool

ExonHit Therapeutics, Inc., a world-leading company in the field of alternative RNA splicing, hired Art & Logic to extend the capabilities of their in-house gene profiling tool. Originally developed as an Excel spreadsheet, the tool had reached the performance and data limits of the technology. Art & Logic developed a VB.NET application, using an MSDE backend, to replace and enhance the functionality of ExonHit's tool. It was ExonHit's desire to continue long term maintenance of the new tool, so Art & Logic included extensive commenting and documentation to provide ExonHit's in-house developers with the information needed to maintain and enhance the application without further assistance from Art & Logic. more...

ExonHit Therapeutics, Inc., a world-leading company in the field of alternative RNA splicing, hired Art & Logic to extend the capabilities of their in-house gene profiling tool. Originally developed as an Excel spreadsheet, the tool had reached the performance and data limits of the technology. Art & Logic developed a VB.NET application, using an MSDE backend, to replace and enhance the functionality of ExonHit's tool. It was ExonHit's desire to continue long term maintenance of the new tool, so Art & Logic included extensive commenting and documentation to provide ExonHit's in-house developers with the information needed to maintain and enhance the application without further assistance from Art & Logic. ExonHit uses the gene profiling tool to create gene splice variants that may assist in the fields of drug discovery, diagnostics and biochips.

TAGS:  Windows  .NET  Medical  Science

Real-time Editing for Digital Photography Workflow

Lightbox Network is an industry leader for professional digital photography workflow, with clients such as NBC Universal, New York Daily News, Discovery Communications, Getty Images, Hallmark Channel, Time, and Bloomingdales. Art & Logic developed the Live Media Desk application that enables real-time collaboration of photo shoots between photographers and editors. As photographers upload images, they become immediately available to editors working remotely to filter, adjust, rank, edit metadata, and forward images. more...

Lightbox Network is an industry leader for professional digital photography workflow, with clients such as NBC Universal, New York Daily News, Discovery Communications, Getty Images, Hallmark Channel, Time, and Bloomingdales. Art & Logic developed the Live Media Desk application that enables real-time collaboration of photo shoots between photographers and editors. As photographers upload images, they become immediately available to editors working remotely to filter, adjust, rank, edit metadata, and forward images. With Live Media Desk, images can go from a photographer's camera at an event to the desk of an editor then published to a public web site within minutes.

TAGS:  Web  MySQL  Java  PHP  Flash  AJAX  jQuery  Web services  LAMP  Image Processing  Flex  ActionScript  SOAP  ImageMagick  Payflow  ffmpeg  Flash Media Server  DCRaw  BlazeDS  Media  Photography

Cross-platform Application for Processing Aerial Photos into Traffic Data

Skycomp, Inc. needed to process aerial image data and extract information about traffic patterns. A large amount of image data had to be processed rapidly by hand. Their existing tool, SkyTracker 1, was outdated and difficult to use. Art & Logic designed a new user interface and implemented a more powerful cross-platform tool.

TAGS:  Java  Cross-platform  Ruby  MonkeyBars  JRuby  JPEG2000  GIS  ECW  Traffic Analysis

Sales Analysis App for Coca-Cola

Coca-Cola Enterprises Bottling Companies hired Art & Logic to build sales analysis tools for their products in Safeway stores. Their team can upload raw sales data, and run reports on the data to look for patterns. They can also export the reports to Excel.

TAGS:  Web  HTML  SQL  Windows Server  VBScript  IIS  SQL Server  Excel  ASP.NET  Beverages  Sales

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

Community Information Application

WCI Communities needed an iPad app developer to create MyWCI, an iPad app that provides customers with up-to-the-minute information regarding their retirement property purchases. The application delivers homeowner documentation, company contacts, progress reports and introductory videos.

TAGS:  iOS  Mobile  iPad  Tablet  Real Estate  Construction

Cross-Platform Mobile Prayer Application

InPrayer is a mobile application for Android and iOS. It facilitates a global prayer chain and is part of a prayer initiative by a church called "777" which encourages prayer seven days a week at 7am and 7pm. The Seventh-day Adventist church hired Art & Logic to implement a solution that incorporated a custom map view utilizing the GPS location of users using the application, Facebook and Twitter integration, and daily devotional prompts based on global prayer requests. The application helps users be aware of prayer participants both in their local community and globally.

TAGS:  iOS  Mobile  iPhone  Smartphone  JavaScript  iPad  Tablet  Android  Titanium  Social Networking  Religion

Measuring Freeway Road Traffic from the Skies

Skycomp wanted to replace the need to print out 1000's of traffic survey pictures so that "counters" could scan through the pictures and count vehicles, marking each picture with a grease pencil. A flash application was built to load the images in a viewer area with marking tools to replace the grease pencil. Different types of vehicles were marked with different symbols. Line tools were available to mark the stop and end of each count region. Comments could be assigned to each picture. more...

Skycomp wanted to replace the need to print out 1000's of traffic survey pictures so that "counters" could scan through the pictures and count vehicles, marking each picture with a grease pencil. A flash application was built to load the images in a viewer area with marking tools to replace the grease pencil. Different types of vehicles were marked with different symbols. Line tools were available to mark the stop and end of each count region. Comments could be assigned to each picture. The view area positioned images end to end to present a filmstrip style display. A thumbnail strip was available across the bottom of the screen to easily navigate to a specific image. All annotations were stored in a file that could be emailed back to Skycomp, enabling them to outsource the counting effort. The annotation file could be copied into a directory containing the same survey images, enabling a Skycomp administrator to replicate the results entered by the offsite "counter".

TAGS:  Web  Flash  ActionScript  Zinc  Traffic Analysis

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

Virtual Patchbay Application

Otari hired Art & Logic to develop a virtual patchbay application that controls how pieces of audio equipment communicate over a firewire network. Art & Logic solved a number of difficult design problems including how to quickly display and update the thousands of connection possiblities between multiple audio devices. This software is currently used in real-time production at locations such as television stations and live performance theatres.

TAGS:  Mac OS X  Audio  Desktop  FireWire  Music  Broadcasting  Pro Audio

WiMAX Tutorial Software

When a major microprocessor manufacturer needed an application to play their tutorial video to new WiMAX users, they came to Art & Logic. As the content would be flexible, covering numerous languages, markets, and product versions, they needed a system that could be skinned and configured easily by OEMs. Art & Logic co-designed and then created custom player software, along with a comprehensive configuration system, a Google gadget, Vista gadget, and internationalized installers, all of which ended up being shipped on many thousands of laptops.

TAGS:  Computer Hardware  Media  Software  Science  Wireless

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

NBCUPhotobank.com Delivers Entertainment Images to Media Companies

NBCUPhotobank.com was developed by Art & Logic for Lightbox Network to deliver selected content from NBC's digital asset management application, also developed by Art & Logic for Lightbox Network, to media outlets and publications. Media users can browse or search the site for celebrity images and shows from any NBCU network and register to gain access to high-res content. NBCU admins determine access restrictions for registered users, such as how many images per month a user may download or whether they can use a credit card to purchase licenses.

TAGS:  MySQL  PHP  AJAX  jQuery  LAMP  PHP5  ImageMagick  Photography  Broadcasting

Daily Bargains Website Built with Ruby on Rails

Art & Logic was hired to develop Sieze the Deal, a website that delivers regional targeted marketing to users in the form of a "deal of the day". Affiliated vendors offer substantial discounts on products and services in exchange for a guaranteed bulk sale. Users can select their target region and view the deal of the day for that area. They are encouraged to purchase the deal of the day and spread news about it to social networking websites in order to encourage more people to make purchases. more...

Art & Logic was hired to develop Sieze the Deal, a website that delivers regional targeted marketing to users in the form of a "deal of the day". Affiliated vendors offer substantial discounts on products and services in exchange for a guaranteed bulk sale. Users can select their target region and view the deal of the day for that area. They are encouraged to purchase the deal of the day and spread news about it to social networking websites in order to encourage more people to make purchases. A minimum number of purchases is required in order for the deal of the day to be accepted. Art & Logic also developed the administrative back-end, which allows maintaining the bargains by area, user account information, and more. The web application is built with Ruby on Rails, with a MySQL database backend.

TAGS:  MySQL  jQuery  Ruby on Rails  Retail  Marketing  Business  Advertising

User Interface Design for Speaker Control Center

JBL wanted a sleek user interface design for their LSR4300 Studio Monitor Control Center. Our design team worked together with JBL's development team to bring their original pencil sketches to life. The 3D user interface makes it easier to configure high-end speaker systems. The system has won many awards within the pro audio industry.

TAGS:  Audio  3D  Entertainment  Music  Pro Audio

Custom Wall-mount Entertainment Center Design Software

Vantage Point Media hired Art & Logic to create an interactive Flash application to allow visitors to their site configure the Evo Wall System product. The Evo Wall System consists of mounting hardware, horizontal and vertical mounting rails, decorative tiles, shelves, white boards, chalk boards, and numerous other options to be released to market. WallCustomizer is a Flash application with a sliding list of Evo System components represented as thumbnail images. more...

Vantage Point Media hired Art & Logic to create an interactive Flash application to allow visitors to their site configure the Evo Wall System product. The Evo Wall System consists of mounting hardware, horizontal and vertical mounting rails, decorative tiles, shelves, white boards, chalk boards, and numerous other options to be released to market. WallCustomizer is a Flash application with a sliding list of Evo System components represented as thumbnail images. User select a tiles which are placed on the wall by the application. Colors, wood grains, textures, etc can be selected by the user. Components may be dragged from a sliding list and placed on the grid. In addition to the Evo System components users can also select items such as flat panel TVs, DVD players, speakers, etc. and place them on the wall grid. When satisfied they can save the design and print out a shopping list of components required to construct the layout. In addition to the Flash front end, A&L also produced a web admin interface for maintaining the components in a MySQL database that were accessible to the Flash application.

TAGS:  Web  MySQL  PHP  Flash  ActionScript  Retail  Manufacturing

Academy Award for Technical Achievement

The ADE system, developed for Soundelux in Hollywood, California, combines software application and interface electronics to help film sound editors bridge the gap between traditional movieola editing and digital editing. ADE automatically generates a list of edits on the computer by reading the physical cuts on the film stock. The device improves the accuracy of the initial edits and reduces labor by many hours for a typical feature film.

TAGS:  Audio  Mac OS 9  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

Field Equipment and Materials Tracking

AssetTracker is an in-house application built for Deployed Resources LLC, a veteran-owned provider of comprehensive support systems, mobile kitchens, showers, and restrooms, and other field equipment for disaster relief, public utility projects, special events, and the US Department of Defense. The application tracks the location of equipment, its status, and use history.

TAGS:  Web  MySQL  PHP  Google Maps  Service  Emergency Response

Auto-Tune 3 DirectX

Antares Audio Technologies hired Art & Logic to bring their world standard Auto-Tune 3 professional intonation correcting plugin onto the Microsoft Windows platform. Art & Logic enhanced the original codebase by adding DirectX envelope automation, improving the user interface, and updating the architecture to exploit the audio capabilities unique to Microsoft Windows. Art & Logic worked closely with PACE to ensure that InterLok copy protection was integrated into the final product. As the development neared completion, Art & Logic created and managed a beta program to ensure that Auto-Tune 3 would be ready to ship immediately upon acceptance. more...

Antares Audio Technologies hired Art & Logic to bring their world standard Auto-Tune 3 professional intonation correcting plugin onto the Microsoft Windows platform. Art & Logic enhanced the original codebase by adding DirectX envelope automation, improving the user interface, and updating the architecture to exploit the audio capabilities unique to Microsoft Windows. Art & Logic worked closely with PACE to ensure that InterLok copy protection was integrated into the final product. As the development neared completion, Art & Logic created and managed a beta program to ensure that Auto-Tune 3 would be ready to ship immediately upon acceptance. Antares' web store enjoyed its largest volume in history following the release of Auto-Tune 3 DirectX. Auto-Tune 3 won the prestigious 2001 TEC (Technical Excellence and Creativity) Award in the category of Outstanding Technical Achievement in Signal Processing Software. Art & Logic continued to work with Antares to maintain, enhance, and package a variety of their products for years after this release.

TAGS:  Windows  Audio  PACE  Installer  DirectX  Music  Software  Pro Audio

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

County Budgeting Game

Sauk County, Wisconsin hired Art & Logic to re-brand a Flash game. The original game allowed users to create hypothetical budgets for New York City. For example, players could decide to raise taxes or cut emergency services in an attempt to balance the budget. Art & Logic made modifications to the user interface and the internal data so that the game was for the Sauk County budget instead of the New York City budget.

TAGS:  Web  Flash  Games  Government

Online Video Catalog System for Columbia Tristar

Art & Logic created the original online video catalog for Columbia Tristar Home Video. This web-enabled database allowed web surfers to browse, search for, and purchase videos online.

TAGS:  Web  Entertainment

DC100 Control Application

Leica Microscopy, in Switzerland, hired Art & Logic to port their Windows image manipulation software to the Macintosh platform. Art & Logic was responsible for the application, drivers, and TWAIN drivers. The resulting software captures 24-bit image data from a digital camera and renders it on the screen in real time. Images can be saved to a variety of file formats, including TIFF, JPEG, and PICT.

TAGS:  Mac OS 9  Driver  Image Processing  TWAIN  Photography

Printer Management Interface

HP hired Art & Logic to develop an embedded web-based management interface for their DesignJet series of large format printers. The interface allows users to manage the print queue, configure printer settings, and monitor and order supplies. The interface was designed to fit the look and feel of HP's online website, making transitions from the internal embedded interface to HP's website appear seamless to the operator.

TAGS:  Web

Mac OS Audio Drivers for Echo

Working with Echo Digital Audio Corporation, Art & Logic ported their generic driver framework from Windows NT to Mac OS, created ASIO and OMS drivers, and a console application. Echo is now able to support their entire line of high-quality audio hardware for the Macintosh, including Gina, Darla, Layla, Gina24, Darla24, Layla24, and Mona cards, using a single codebase. Most recently, we have ported this work to Mac OS X, helping Echo to remain on the leading edge of the audio interface world, and assisting them in learning the intricacies of OS X kernel development along the way, in order to allow them to maintain their products in-house.

TAGS:  Mac OS X  Mac OS 9  Driver  Core Audio  Music

Automated Data Acquisiton and Analysis Spec

Global Nuclear Fuel (GNF), a joint venture of GE, Hitachi and Toshiba, designs and manufactures fuel for commercial nuclear power plants. In an effort to maintain and improve the quality and design of its product, GNF periodically inspects fuel bundles after they have been in service. The data collected from these inspections is analyzed and used to make improvements to their manufacturing processes. Art & Logic was hired because of its extensive background developing automated industrial data collection, storage and processing systems. more...

Global Nuclear Fuel (GNF), a joint venture of GE, Hitachi and Toshiba, designs and manufactures fuel for commercial nuclear power plants. In an effort to maintain and improve the quality and design of its product, GNF periodically inspects fuel bundles after they have been in service. The data collected from these inspections is analyzed and used to make improvements to their manufacturing processes. Art & Logic was hired because of its extensive background developing automated industrial data collection, storage and processing systems. Art & Logic defined and specified a software application that would automate 90% of GNF's existing analog and digital data handling system, resulting in the ability to more thoroughly analyze greater amounts of data in a shorter period of time.

TAGS:  Windows  Win32  ODBC  NDT  Energy

Web Interace for Smart Thermostat

Trilliant Networks hired Art & Logic to develop the consumer side of their system for smart thermostats. This included an attractive Web interface for monitoring energy use remotely.

TAGS:  JavaScript  Java  XML  HTML  AJAX  Web services  Oracle  C#  SOAP  Tomcat  Google Web Toolkit  Energy

HomeNet PDA User Interface

Art & Logic redesigned and optimized HomeNet Communication's existing user interface for PDA display. Following handheld UI standard guidelines, the interface and navigation were restructured for the screen's 240 x 320 pixel dimensions, while remaining compatible with standard SVGA desktop environments. The product displayed video from security cameras installed in a home, office, school, hospital, etc.

TAGS:  JavaScript  HTML  DHTML  Video  Pocket PC  PDA  Security  Home Automation

iLearning Online Interactive for Harcourt Interactive Technology (iloli™)

Art & Logic developed a suite of web applications that provides Harcourt's Reading and Math Assessment Tests to elementary school students across the country via the internet. The applications enable school superintendents to create Teacher accounts, who in turn can create Student accounts, create classroom groups, assign tests to students either as a group or as part of their individual development plans. Students log onto the system, take tests, and view test results instantaneously. Teachers and Supervisors can view reports to gauge how students are performing against state benchmarks. more...

Art & Logic developed a suite of web applications that provides Harcourt's Reading and Math Assessment Tests to elementary school students across the country via the internet. The applications enable school superintendents to create Teacher accounts, who in turn can create Student accounts, create classroom groups, assign tests to students either as a group or as part of their individual development plans. Students log onto the system, take tests, and view test results instantaneously. Teachers and Supervisors can view reports to gauge how students are performing against state benchmarks. A separate offline application was developed for importing XML content into the backend database. iloli™ applications have delivered millions of online assessments to hundreds of thousands of primary and secondary school students in the United States. The iloli framework implements Harcourt's HSPOA and READS product lines. Following the completion of the original application for Harcourt Interactive Technology (HIT), the Harcourt Education and Measurement (HEM) group hired Art & Logic to modify the original application for use with their testing products. Unlike HSPOA and READS, which are assessment practice tools, the SDRT/SDMT product is a "high stakes" test administered to students in Kindergarten through 12th grade.

TAGS:  Web  JavaScript  Java  XML  Oracle  WebObjects  Publishing  Education

Honorable mention, Best Multimedia Software at COMDEX

Developed for Accordance Music Systems, HotzMaker is a graphical authoring system for creating multimedia MIDI experiences. The program allows the user to connect components such as images and sliders to build detailed graphical landscapes that are both beautiful and functional. These landscapes let beginning musicians play along with a CD, even if they don't know the chords of the song, while spectacular graphics are synchronized to the music.

TAGS:  Audio  Music

Web Interface to Mortgage Products

Art & Logic was hired to develop a web application allowing the user to browse through a database of mortgage products and find the best one for them. On the back end was an administrative interface for the client to upload data.

TAGS:  Web  HTML  Lasso  FileMaker Pro  Financial

The Online Photo Archive of the New York Daily News

Daily News Pix is the photo archive of New York's Daily News, showcasing 90 years of images from the tabloid. Art & Logic developed this web site for Lightbox Network. Users can browse for images by category or search for images and may purchase professional, framed prints. Media users may register and license images for publication, and the tools in Daily News Pix allow an administrative user to invoice license holders, review and update print orders, and manage royalties for contributing photographers, as well as customize the home page and other site content.

TAGS:  MySQL  PHP  AJAX  jQuery  LAMP  PHP5  ImageMagick  Payflow  Media  Publishing  Photography

Workflow Software for Photographers

Development and maintenance of the Lightbox Network web application. The application allows photographers to upload and organize photo shoots for access by editors, etc. It allows ranking and comments of each image.

TAGS:  MySQL  PHP  AJAX  Linux  Apache  Photography

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

Image Distressing Photoshop Plug-in

Font Diner had a set of scripts for Adobe Photoshop to apply image distressing affects to an image. They wanted a faster, more powerful way to do these affects while protecting their original images and maintaining cross-platform support. Art & Logic delivered the plug-in on Windows XP, Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X (PowerPC and Intel), and updates when, new at the time, Photoshop CS3 was released. The plug-in was faster and more powerful than the original scripts, had a unique interface, and kept the client's proprietary data secure.

TAGS:  Mac OS X  Windows  Mac OS 9  C++  Visual C++  Cross-platform  Plug-in  PowerPC  Intel  DSP  Adobe Photoshop  Metrowerks

Personal medical documents system on portable USB flash drive

MedID Technologies hired Art & Logic to develop a personal medical documents system that runs on a USB flash drive (kind of like a smart Medicalert bracelet). The user plugs it into a Mac or Windows computer and securely edits a variety of medical data, or shows it to their health care professional.

TAGS:  Mac OS X  Windows  Python  Desktop  Cross-platform  SQLite  SQLAlchemy  wxWindows  wxPython  GTK+  Health

Mobile Application to View IT Infrastructure Information

The Information Systems Manager hired Art & Logic to develop a web application for both the BlackBerry/iPhone platforms to allow clients to access their Perfman system. This system alerts users to potential problems within their IT infrastructure such as server response time, memory leaks and virtual machine image growth. The application reports specific events that occur, overall trends and reports any actions that have been taken to resolve the issue. more...

The Information Systems Manager hired Art & Logic to develop a web application for both the BlackBerry/iPhone platforms to allow clients to access their Perfman system. This system alerts users to potential problems within their IT infrastructure such as server response time, memory leaks and virtual machine image growth. The application reports specific events that occur, overall trends and reports any actions that have been taken to resolve the issue.

TAGS:  iOS  Mobile  iPhone  Smartphone  Mac OS X  JavaScript  Web services  BlackBerry  IIS  CSS  ASP.NET  Networking  Service

Oakley Custom CMS

Oakley hired Art & Logic to develop key portions of their website using PHP/MySQL. Developed components included administrative tools, reports, and a custom content management system. Given the enormous load on the Oakley site, the key challenges were to develop a system that could handle this much traffic while also providing the flexibility for Oakley to update the site frequently. There's quite a bit of complex business logic that's not immediately apparent from looking at the site. more...

Oakley hired Art & Logic to develop key portions of their website using PHP/MySQL. Developed components included administrative tools, reports, and a custom content management system. Given the enormous load on the Oakley site, the key challenges were to develop a system that could handle this much traffic while also providing the flexibility for Oakley to update the site frequently. There's quite a bit of complex business logic that's not immediately apparent from looking at the site. For example, specials on sunglasses in Australia occur at a different time of the year than specials here in the U.S., because of the opposite seasons in the southern hemisphere.

TAGS:  Web  JavaScript  MySQL  PHP  Retail

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

A Simple App Solves A Big Problem

Researchers who present posters at scientific or medical symposia often have to create hundreds of scaled-down, hard-to-read printouts of their poster for handing out at the session. Dark Scorpion's Poster Commander is a less expensive and "green" alternative to poster handouts, and allows a researcher to transmit, using the iPhone's Bluetooth capability, an electronic file (PDF) of the poster from his or her iPhone to the iPhones of attendees who also have this app. Through the "Statistics" screen, poster presenters can keep track of how many times each poster is downloaded and, if selected, the contact information of the person who downloaded the application.

TAGS:  iOS  Mobile  iPhone  Smartphone  iPod touch  iPad  Tablet  Peer-to-peer  GameCenter  Education  Medical  Science  Research  Content Distribution

Stanford Reading and Math Assessments

In 2008 Pearson completed the purchase of Harcourt Assessment from Reed Elsevier. As part of the purchase, Pearson acquired the SDRT/SDMT application, one of the iloli™ application that Art & Logic built for Harcourt, Inc. A&L continues to support the applications for Pearson, providing system enhancements and low-level data analysis services.

TAGS:  Web  Java  Oracle  WebObjects  Publishing  Education

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

Web Interface for VoIP Accelerator

Israel-based Kagoor Networks hired Art & Logic to create the embedded web interface for their VoiceFlow 1000 voice-over-IP accelerator. Using the GoAhead WebServer and an early version of the Art & Logic Device Manage Framework, Art & Logic was able to develop a highly interactive interface, including real-time scrolling graphs, in only 116K of memory.

TAGS:  Web  Embedded  Telecom

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

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

ATM and Branch Locator Apps for iOS

CO-OP Financial hired Art & Logic to create iPhone and iPod Touch applications that help customers find nearby Credit Union branches and ATMs.

TAGS:  iOS  Mobile  iPhone  Smartphone  Objective-C  Mac OS X  Xcode  Financial

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

RFID Scanning Solution for Manufacturer of Theatrical Lighting Equipment

Wybron, Inc. hired Art & Logic to develop an RFID scanning solution to enhance product manufacturing processes at their Colorado Springs plant. The application was written in Java and deployed on Mac OS X. Phillips RFID tags are attached to theatrical gels. The application encodes information about the sequence of colors on the strings and allows personnel to track the product through to shipment.

TAGS:  Mac OS X  Java  RFID  Entertainment  Manufacturing  Lighting  Theater

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  Fitness

Non-destructive Ultrasonic Testing Software for Krautkramer Branson

Art & Logic developed a Windows application that interfaces to Krautkramer Branson's proprietary ultrasonic test hardware. The software package provides high speed analog and digital data acquisition, automatic flaw detection and measurement, pass/fail indications, and a sophisticated real-time data display. The package can be configured for a variety of manufacturing applications including aircraft turbine blades, ERW pipe, and diesel pistons.

TAGS:  Windows  Manufacturing

Medical Transcription Web Application

Art & Logic was hired to create an online transcription service for Rapid Transcript. WaveScribe is a web-based mechanism that coordinates the transfer of data between medical professionals and online transcriptionists. Medical professionals upload voice data to the system. Transcriptionists log onto the WaveScribe application from a standard web browser and view the voice files as pending transcription jobs. Transcriptionists can accept the next available job in the system, listen to the recorded data online and transcribe the data directly into the system. more...

Art & Logic was hired to create an online transcription service for Rapid Transcript. WaveScribe is a web-based mechanism that coordinates the transfer of data between medical professionals and online transcriptionists. Medical professionals upload voice data to the system. Transcriptionists log onto the WaveScribe application from a standard web browser and view the voice files as pending transcription jobs. Transcriptionists can accept the next available job in the system, listen to the recorded data online and transcribe the data directly into the system. WaveScribe provides the necessary administrative tools to Rapid Transcript editors to approve the transcriptions, track performance of transcriptionists, and to arrange proper compensation to those providing the service. An online demonstration of WaveScribe is available upon request.

TAGS:  Web  Java  Oracle  WebObjects  Medical  Service

Franchise Opportunity Portal

America's Best Franchises is in the very competitive business of matching prospective entrepreneurs with the perfect franchise or business opportunity. In order to maintain their leading position in the market, America's Best Franchises is constantly looking for ways to improve the quality of their services to both the prospective business person and the businesses looking to promote their opportunity to eager venturers. Art & Logic was able to improve a user's ability to search and request information by implementing features such as a DHTML/AJAX based Request List widget. more...

America's Best Franchises is in the very competitive business of matching prospective entrepreneurs with the perfect franchise or business opportunity. In order to maintain their leading position in the market, America's Best Franchises is constantly looking for ways to improve the quality of their services to both the prospective business person and the businesses looking to promote their opportunity to eager venturers. Art & Logic was able to improve a user's ability to search and request information by implementing features such as a DHTML/AJAX based Request List widget. When ABF out grew their database backend, Art & Logic was able to assist them in migrating their data to SQL Server. Art & Logic and ABF have maintained an ongoing relationship, providing the necessary support to keep America's Best Franchises a leader in their industry.

TAGS:  JavaScript  AJAX  DHTML  SQL  Windows Server  VBScript  IIS  SQL Server  Classic ASP  Access  Software  Marketing  Business  B2B

Web Interface for Voice Services Platform

ThinkEngine hired Art & Logic to design the user interface for their TEN1000 multi-network voice services platform. Since hardware development lagged behind the web interface, Art & Logic's design team created photo-realistic imagery working from just drawings and schematics.

TAGS:  Telecom

Drivers and applications for Alesis Studio Electronics

Art & Logic developed sample accurate Mac OS and Windows ASIO drivers for the Alesis ADAT-PCR PCI card, as well as the Windows MME MIDI and audio driver, and Mac OS Sound Manager and OMS drivers. To support this work we designed and maintained an SDK that allows third-party developers to interface to the card. In addition, Art & Logic developed the cross-platform (Mac OS and Windows) "ADAT Connect" application that supports the sample accurate bi-directional transfer of audio data between the computer's hard disk and an ADAT. more...

Art & Logic developed sample accurate Mac OS and Windows ASIO drivers for the Alesis ADAT-PCR PCI card, as well as the Windows MME MIDI and audio driver, and Mac OS Sound Manager and OMS drivers. To support this work we designed and maintained an SDK that allows third-party developers to interface to the card. In addition, Art & Logic developed the cross-platform (Mac OS and Windows) "ADAT Connect" application that supports the sample accurate bi-directional transfer of audio data between the computer's hard disk and an ADAT. Art & Logic also maintained and helped to develop Sound Bridge, a cross-platform sample librarian for the QS and DMPro families of synthesizers, and even created a utility that is used in-house by Alesis for production testing of the ADAT-PCR card.

TAGS:  Audio  Mac OS 9  Driver  C++  Desktop  Visual C++  Cross-platform  MIDI  CodeWarrior  ASIO  Custom API  Entertainment  Music  Pro Audio

Enhanced CD Player Application for Apple Inc.

A group of companies, including Sony, Philips, and Microsoft have developed an enhanced compact disc format that joins standard music tracks with interviews, lyrics, music videos, and electronic liner notes. Apple Computer hired Art & Logic to create the cross-platform (Windows and Mac OS) player application for this new medium. Art & Logic worked directly with Apple's QuickTime Development Group to implement the delivery mechanism for the multimedia content stored on the enhanced CDs.

TAGS:  Windows  Audio  Mac OS 9  C++  Cross-platform  QuickTime  MFC  CodeWarrior  Microsoft Developer Studio  MacApp  Entertainment  Music  Computer Hardware  Media  Software

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

Web-based DSLAM Management System for PairGain

DSL technology enables high-speed data communication over existing copper wires. The DSLAM (DSL access multiplexer) is the critical component in the DSL provider's central office. Art & Logic created the user interface through which the DSL provider monitors and configures DSL circuits. Art & Logic also worked with Rapid Logic to develop a generic SNMP/HTTP adapter on the server side.

TAGS:  Web  JavaScript  HTML  Embedded  DHTML  RapidControl  SNMP  Networking  Telecom

Flash-based Guide for Online Assessments

Harcourt Assessment, then a division of Harcourt Inc., hired Art & Logic to build a "How To" guide to supplement their Stanford 10 Online product.

TAGS:  Web  Flash  Publishing  Education

Instant Messaging for Groups and Individuals

A social networking startup hired Art & Logic to develop an instant messaging desktop client application and supporting web services. The desktop client provides a "live chat" experience with rich HTML and easy video sharing. It also fosters the creation of small, themed communities or groups with social links and file sharing.

TAGS:  Windows  JavaScript  MySQL  Desktop  AJAX  .NET  Installer  C#  SSL  YouTube  XMPP  Widgets  SMTP  Jabber  Media  Social Networking

Ethernet Drivers for Kingston Technology

Art & Logic created all of the Mac OS ethernet drivers and diagnostic applications in the Kingston Technology EtheRx product line. These products cover PCI and PCMCIA bus architectures and operate at 10M and 100M network speeds. Art & Logic has kept the family of drivers updated to the latest ethernet driver frameworks released by Apple Computer and has worked closely with Kingston and Apple to ensure driver compatibility with new CPUs and Mac OS versions.

TAGS:  Mac OS 9  Driver  Hardware  Networking  Computer Hardware

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

Contact Management for the BlackBerry Platform

M Financial Group hired Art & Logic to develop a native BlackBerry application to allow clients to access contact information hosted by third-party data providers. Users can log into the application, search for contacts, and view detailed information about those contacts via web services published by the data provider. Users can easily phone or email their contacts by clicking hyperlinks that invoke the corresponding BlackBerry applications. The application also utilizes BlackBerry GPS capabilities along with Google Maps to provide directions to a contact's location from the user's current location.

TAGS:  Java  XML  BlackBerry  Google Maps  GPS  Software  SAAS

Medical Information Card

This innovative system allows access to your important medical information at any time or location. The MiCARD system includes a small rechargeable battery powered card with a color viewing screen and web-based software for loading the card with personal health information. The system works in conjunction with Google Health® and other personal health system providers.

TAGS:  Web  Objective-C  Mac OS X  Windows  JavaScript  MySQL  Xcode  Java  XML  HTML  Python  Desktop  Visual C++  USB  Flash  Web services  TurboGears  SQL  JSON  HTTP  Safari  SSL  MFC  Applet  Apache  Genshi  Verisign  JNI  Google Health  Google  Medical  Emergency Response

Internet Streaming Media Capabilities Added to Flagship "TEAM" Product

MUSICAM USA, an industry leader in audio transmission over data links, was ready to implement the internet capabilities designed into their TEAM product line. Time to market was short, so they drew on Art & Logic's internet audio and networking expertise to complement their internal resources. First there were many requirements gathering and architecture planning sessions involving MUSICAM USA and Art & Logic engineers. The project plan was then carried out by Art & Logic. This plan included updating the product's VxWorks board support package to the current Tornado version, developing a companion Windows NT service for Windows Media capabilities, and adding Ethernet audio streaming from the product's internal TDM system.

TAGS:  Windows  Audio  Embedded  C++  Windows Media  VxWorks  Music  Broadcasting  Pro Audio

Neon Sign Design and Animation Control Software for Fluid Light Technologies

Art & Logic created both Windows and Mac OS versions of "NeonCAD". Users can design arbitrarily complex neon signs using the CAD tools provided, and animate those signs using the client's proprietary neon control technology that allows light to appear to move through a neon tube. The animation patterns may be previewed on the computer. The resulting sign layouts can be printed for sign fabricators, and the animation control data can be saved to the client's neon controller hardware for deployment.

TAGS:  Windows  Mac OS 9  C++  Cross-platform  Entertainment  Manufacturing  Lighting

Desktop Exec Client Software for a Canon Group Company

The Office Exec software intercepts print requests from any application and allows the user to specify print, fax, e-mail and storage parameters for the job. The client software then sends the print job via TCP/IP to the server software running on Windows 2000 Server, where the job is routed to the appropriate output device based on the job parameters. Art & Logic used XML and XSLT technologies to create dynamic dialogs that system administrators can easily configure on the server. Art & Logic developed the Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X client software, including a custom Mac OS 9 desktop printer, a custom Mac OS X CUPS backend, and their corresponding client and status applications. more...

The Office Exec software intercepts print requests from any application and allows the user to specify print, fax, e-mail and storage parameters for the job. The client software then sends the print job via TCP/IP to the server software running on Windows 2000 Server, where the job is routed to the appropriate output device based on the job parameters. Art & Logic used XML and XSLT technologies to create dynamic dialogs that system administrators can easily configure on the server. Art & Logic developed the Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X client software, including a custom Mac OS 9 desktop printer, a custom Mac OS X CUPS backend, and their corresponding client and status applications. All of this was developed for Océ, a Canon Group company.

TAGS:  Objective-C  Mac OS X  Mac OS 9  XML  Driver  C++  XSL  Printer  AppleScript  Microsoft Visual Studio 2005  CUPS  Computer Hardware  Printing

Motion Animation for Theme Parks

Developed for Gilderfluke & Co. of Burbank, California, PCMACS is a motion animation system used in the creation of movements for motorized live-action figures. Gilderfluke's control electronics, along with Art & Logic's software, have been used to create animated shows that are viewed daily by hundreds of thousands of visitors to major theme parks including Knott's Berry Farm, the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino, Bullwinkles Family Fun Center, and Universal Studios.

TAGS:  Windows  C++  Visual C++  MFC  Hardware  Entertainment

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

Multi-product Management Software for SMS Product Line

Redback Networks had developed one of the most sophisticated networking products ever, the SMS 1000 multi-protocol virtual router/switch/bridge. Now it needed a configuration and management interface that network providers could actually use. Having heard through about the work that Art & Logic was doing for other networking product companies, Redback hired Art & Logic to create the SMS 1000 product's management interface. Since then Redback has grown from a startup into a highly respected public company, while continuing to work with Art & Logic on several new products. more...

Redback Networks had developed one of the most sophisticated networking products ever, the SMS 1000 multi-protocol virtual router/switch/bridge. Now it needed a configuration and management interface that network providers could actually use. Having heard through about the work that Art & Logic was doing for other networking product companies, Redback hired Art & Logic to create the SMS 1000 product's management interface. Since then Redback has grown from a startup into a highly respected public company, while continuing to work with Art & Logic on several new products. The original codebase, including the Art & Logic Advanced JavaScript Control Suite and some tricky searching, sorting, and filtering software, has sped development of the rest of Redback's product line. Because of the complexity of the SMS products they became a showcase of embedded internet capabilities. For example, the device interface can show which plugin cards are in which device slots and can defer committing a large set of cached configuration changes to eliminate conflicts.

TAGS:  Web  JavaScript  Embedded  Networking

Media Player Plugin for SRS Labs' WOW Thing!

Art & Logic developed a unique user interface design based on the client's sketches, including round windows, curved slider controls, and custom graphics.

TAGS:  Windows  Audio  Music

Web Interface for System 5000 Router

Before Bay Networks was acquired by Nortel in 1998 their in-house team experimented with developing a web-based management system for their System 5000. They concluded that the project was quite different from a traditional web design project. When they searched for an outside team with the right specialization Art & Logic got the call. Starting with the in-progress system, Art & Logic added the Advanced JavaScript Control Suite, giving the interface cross-browser compatibility and a palette of controls suited to device management. Nortel requested graphics and usability enhancements. more...

Before Bay Networks was acquired by Nortel in 1998 their in-house team experimented with developing a web-based management system for their System 5000. They concluded that the project was quite different from a traditional web design project. When they searched for an outside team with the right specialization Art & Logic got the call. Starting with the in-progress system, Art & Logic added the Advanced JavaScript Control Suite, giving the interface cross-browser compatibility and a palette of controls suited to device management. Nortel requested graphics and usability enhancements. Art & Logic worked closely with their team to create a unique color theme selector. The System 5000 prototype was not available during development, but its sophisticated management interface was successful because of Art & Logic's extensive prior experience with similar devices.

TAGS:  Web  JavaScript  Embedded  Networking

Web portal for mobile devices

MallTV, LLC hired Art & Logic to translate their MallTV WAP application for use on iPhones. Since Safari on the iPhone does not support Flash, the implementation uses Javascript although the resulting interface looks and behaves just like the Flash version. MallTV is a portal for cell phones and television and links users to popular third-party third-party websites. A&L created scripts to parse throught ESPN's mobile content and convert it to the MallTV matrix format, now called MallMobi. The ESPNMall pages are updated every 30 minutes and cached on the MallTV server. more...

MallTV, LLC hired Art & Logic to translate their MallTV WAP application for use on iPhones. Since Safari on the iPhone does not support Flash, the implementation uses Javascript although the resulting interface looks and behaves just like the Flash version. MallTV is a portal for cell phones and television and links users to popular third-party third-party websites. A&L created scripts to parse throught ESPN's mobile content and convert it to the MallTV matrix format, now called MallMobi. The ESPNMall pages are updated every 30 minutes and cached on the MallTV server. The Matrix is dyamically created depending on the number of links found on each ESPN page that are associated with numbered keys on the phone. In order to maintain capatibility with the Blackberry, iPhone, and Treo, text was converted to images for the interface because it was discovered that not all devices support all font sizes. Separate versions were created iPhone, and MobilePC/Blackberry/Treo.

TAGS:  iOS  Mobile  iPhone  Smartphone  Objective-C  JavaScript  HTML  BlackBerry  Safari  WAP  Entertainment  Retail  Broadcasting  Marketing  Advertising  Sales

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

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

Web-based Management System

Art & Logic created the web-based interface for Logic Innovations' TSM-1000 MPEG multiplexer, which combines multiple MPEG input streams into one output stream. For the heart of this interface, Art & Logic created a fully-featured dynamic tree control in a Java applet. The tree control was maintained with real-time data using a custom XML protocol.

TAGS:  Web  Java  Applet  Broadcasting

20th Century Fox Dailies Transfer Room

The Telecine application is the center of an automated, easy-to-use video duplication suite that provides custom daily copies for film and television productions. It controls a large variety of video devices, including tape decks, time coders, titlers, a patch bay, and a film-to-tape machine.

TAGS:  Mac OS 9  Entertainment

MedCollege Website for Victory Technology

Emergency medical professionals around the world used MedCollege to meet their strict training requirements. MedCollege provided an online interactive implementation of emergency medical training courses, quizzes, case studies, dictionary, and bookstore. Emergency Medical Technicians could use MedCollege to receive accredited continuing education credit in order to maintain or to receive certification.

TAGS:  Web  Java  Oracle  WebObjects  Education  Medical

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

Paint Mixing Application

Project Paint Research contacted Art & Logic to create a Windows CE application to look up paint mix formulas. Users can select a make, model, year, and manufacturer's paint color or code. The CE application searches Project Paint's database for the equivalent color and provides the formula to mix the color. The application works on Windows Mobile devices.

TAGS:  Mobile  Visual C++  SQLite  Windows CE  Mobile PC  FoxPro  Manufacturing  Automotive

Ground-breaking Network Device Management System Under pSOS for Flagship Product

In 1996, managing a networking device with a web browser was almost unheard of. Sonoma Systems, later acquired by Nortel, chose Art & Logic for our strong object-oriented capabilities. The embedded solution created by Art & Logic "solved the problem behind the problem," in the words of the client. The project involved close interaction with the OS vendor (ISI) because Art & Logic engineers were pushing their pSOS C++ compiler farther than anyone had before. Art & Logic created an HTML tagging language, wrote the embedded code to implement it, and coded the HTML files to use the new language. more...

In 1996, managing a networking device with a web browser was almost unheard of. Sonoma Systems, later acquired by Nortel, chose Art & Logic for our strong object-oriented capabilities. The embedded solution created by Art & Logic "solved the problem behind the problem," in the words of the client. The project involved close interaction with the OS vendor (ISI) because Art & Logic engineers were pushing their pSOS C++ compiler farther than anyone had before. Art & Logic created an HTML tagging language, wrote the embedded code to implement it, and coded the HTML files to use the new language. The custom tagging created a foundation for easy feature changes and faster new product development - a departure from previous brute-force implementations. The technique also substantially reduced code line count, which reduced defects. The resulting system was not only solid, but had substantial features, such as session management, security, and user account management.

TAGS:  Web  JavaScript  HTML  Embedded  C++  DHTML  pSOS  Networking

Mac OS X and Mac OS 9 Printer Driver and Training for Lexmark

Lexmark hired Art & Logic to teach a two-week training course on Mac OS X printer driver development to an international team of their driver developers. Art & Logic created all course materials including sample code and PowerPoint presentations. Topics included support of a variety of USB printers, such as the Z33 and others. A functional driver was created during the course.

TAGS:  Mac OS X  Mac OS 9  Driver  USB  Computer Hardware

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

Web-based Management for DesignJet 5000 Large Format Printer

Printers are among the many networked devices getting web-based management systems. Recognizing that their in-house web design team might not have the specialized experience for device management, a Hewlett Packard division based in Spain asked Art & Logic to create the management interface for the DesignJet 5000. The final product features dynamic ink level monitoring and print job status (using proprietary lightweight JavaScript code), printer configuration, design integration with the DesignJet support web site, and internationalization of the user interface for six languages.

TAGS:  Web  JavaScript  Computer Hardware

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

eMusic.com Download Manager

We implemented the Macintosh version of eMusic Download Manager based on Carbon so that it runs natively on both Mac OS X and Mac OS 9. The self-updating download manager is used to download music files from eMusic.com, parse XML metadata, and perform EMP file decryption.

TAGS:  Mac OS X  Windows  Audio  Mac OS 9  Carbon  Music

Job Site for Horse Industry

Equimax® is a leading horse industry employment service. Art & Logic was provided development training, system design, and user interface design services to rebuild the company's web presence. Equimax.com helps horse-industry employers find workers, and job seekers find work in this specialized market.

TAGS:  MySQL  PHP  Zend  SQLyog  Service  Employment

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

iTunes Plugin for e.Digital Corporation

Art & Logic was hired to develop an iTunes plugin to support a range of high-capacity digital audio players and portable digital jukebox devices on Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X. The software manages the transfer of audio content between the iTunes application and the audio player and maintains playlists used by the device to organize tracks.

TAGS:  Mac OS X  Audio  Mac OS 9  Plug-in  iTunes  Entertainment  Music  Computer Hardware  Media  Video

Your City's Business News on Your iPhone

American City Business Journals hired Art & Logic to build a news reader app for iPhone and iPod touch users. The app was designed to deliver content for Austin, Texas and a simple configuration/build process allowed American Cities to easily create versions for over forty other cities. more...

American City Business Journals hired Art & Logic to build a news reader app for iPhone and iPod touch users. The app was designed to deliver content for Austin, Texas and a simple configuration/build process allowed American Cities to easily create versions for over forty other cities.

TAGS:  iOS  Mobile  iPhone  Smartphone  Objective-C  Publishing

J2EE Web Application

Coca-Cola Enterprises Bottling Companies hired us to build sales analysis tools for their products in stores. Their team can upload raw sales data, fixing problems and inconsistencies, and then their sales personnel across the country can log into the Coke portal and run a variety of detailed reports on the data. The users can download the reports in Excel format, including graphs.

TAGS:  Web  JavaScript  Java  HTML  Oracle  SQL  VBScript  XSL  J2EE  Excel  CSS  JUnit  JSP  IE  Marketing  Beverages

Property Survey and Analysis Reporting

PSAR Systems, a real-estate appraisal company, hired Art & Logic to develop a Windows application that, using PSAR's proprietary technology, automatically provided property appraisals when supplied with just a property address. Art & Logic later converted this Windows application into a web-based application. A large SQL database was designed and implemented to replace both the client's old data store and to provide integrated accounting, generalized P2P interface definitions, internationalization support, and abstracted algorithm support. more...

PSAR Systems, a real-estate appraisal company, hired Art & Logic to develop a Windows application that, using PSAR's proprietary technology, automatically provided property appraisals when supplied with just a property address. Art & Logic later converted this Windows application into a web-based application. A large SQL database was designed and implemented to replace both the client's old data store and to provide integrated accounting, generalized P2P interface definitions, internationalization support, and abstracted algorithm support. An application layer was designed and implemented using XML to communicate with clients/vendors at both ends of the solution, and to communicate with the computation engine's COM automation interface.

TAGS:  Web  Windows  XML  COM  Real Estate

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

VFZoom Photoshop Plugins for Celartem Technology, Inc

The Vector Format for Zooming (VFZ) is a file format that provides 100% lossless compression and a powerful image scaling/zooming capability that allows one to magnify an image by percentage or size. Images may be read or written in the VFZ format or optionally JPEG, TIFF, or bitmap without any loss in quality. The PFZ format is similar but additionally offers password protection together with user- or file-based privileges. Art & Logic developed the cross-platform VFZ Export and VFZ Import plugins for Mac OS and Windows localized for English and Japanese using the Adobe Dialog Manager (ADM) and based on version 2.4 of Celartem's VFZ SDK.

TAGS:  Windows  Mac OS 9  C++  Cross-platform  Plug-in  Image Processing  Microsoft Developer Studio  InstallShield  Adobe Photoshop  Adobe Dialog Manager  Photography  Imaging

Mac OS Audio Drivers for Gadget Labs

Art & Logic developed the Mac OS ASIO driver for Gadget Labs' Wave/824 PCI audio card. Using our proprietary audio driver framework, we also created an OMS MIDI driver and a control panel application.

TAGS:  Audio  Mac OS 9  Driver  C++  MIDI  CodeWarrior  ASIO  Music

Domain Registration & Tools for iPhone

EasyDNS Technologies hired Art & Logic to create a native iPhone version of their domain registration web site. Fetch DNS settings for a domain, query for IP addresses, and perform reverse lookups. It even has an handy "What is my IP?" function for your current network access point. It also works on your iPod touch.

TAGS:  iOS  Mobile  iPhone  Smartphone  Objective-C  iPod touch  Networking

Spa Controller for Balboa Instruments

Balboa wanted to optimize their PIC-18-based spa control system for testability and improve quality while decreasing maintenance time. Art & Logic performed a review of the old code, extracted important segments and design structures that represented a large investment for Balboa, then restructured the design to meet the new goals. Art & Logic also implemented the new code for both the PIC system and a Windows-based simulator that allows testing the timing of system events at 5-times normal speed.

TAGS:  Windows  Embedded  Lifestyle  Manufacturing

Tally Parser for Kalypso Video Production Center

Tally Display hired Art & Logic to add support for the Kalypso Switcher to their Real-time Tally Display Suite of On-Air tally indicators for Under-Monitor Displays. Art & Logic's previous experience with the Kalypso Switcher allowed them to complete the tally protocol parser ahead of schedule and with no defects. Art & Logic also supported Tally Display in the field and again when support for the Zodiak switcher was added.

TAGS:  Manufacturing

Laser-based Communications Management Interface

TeraBeam uses laser technology to provide last-mile broadband solutions. Art & Logic developed the web interface using a simulated back-end while TeraBeam developed the embedded code.

TAGS:  Web  JavaScript  HTML  Embedded  DHTML  RapidControl  Networking

Theatre Directory Client Application for Terry Hines & Associates

The Theatre Directory application allows theatre owners to publish movie advertisements and schedules with Terry Hines' online theatre directory. The user can download last week's listings, add new movies, make modifications, print the listings, and save them back on the server via FTP. The data format is defined in an XML syntax and utilizes IBM's International Classes for Unicode to ensure correct handling of text in any language. The application dynamically builds or modifies the XML document from a form that is customized for fast data input.

TAGS:  XML  Entertainment

Appraisal Applications for Norwest Mortgage

Mortgage lenders have traditionally been major consumers of real estate appraisal services. Each time someone applies for a home equity loan or a lender sells their loan portfolio to another lender, appraisals are involved. With the high cost of sending a skilled appraiser out to each property, lenders have looked for ways of minimizing the need for physical appraisals. Using analysis techniques developed by a veteran real estate appraiser, Art & Logic developed a series of appraisal applications that utilize sales data available from online services. more...

Mortgage lenders have traditionally been major consumers of real estate appraisal services. Each time someone applies for a home equity loan or a lender sells their loan portfolio to another lender, appraisals are involved. With the high cost of sending a skilled appraiser out to each property, lenders have looked for ways of minimizing the need for physical appraisals. Using analysis techniques developed by a veteran real estate appraiser, Art & Logic developed a series of appraisal applications that utilize sales data available from online services. In many cases these software tools have eliminated the need for a physical appraisal, reducing costs for lenders.

TAGS:  Financial

Multi-interface Router Management System

Allegro Networks' project included several web interfaces. For the first phase of the project Allegro hired Art & Logic to prototype a user interface with an emphasis on interaction design. In the second phase of the project this was translated into a functional user interface, which finally was beautified to create a finished project.

TAGS:  Web  Embedded  Networking

CDMA Modem Driver

Art & Logic was hired by Kyocera to develop a Mac OS X kernel driver for the Amd'd Jet and Angel cell phone and Kyocera's EVDO PCMCIA card. A single driver was developed to work with both devices, providing the user with high speed wireless EVDO data access, all with the built-in network connection facilities of OS X. We also developed a configuration utility, which automatically configures OS X's Internet Connect application for quick & easy setup.

TAGS:  Mac OS X  Driver  Telecom

Web-based Management for Network Storage Product

Chaparral Network Storage hired Art & Logic to develop the web interface to their Intelligent Storage Router, which allows SCSI storage devices to connect to fiber channel networks.

TAGS:  Web  Networking  Computer Hardware

USB Driver and Device Support Plugin

Hyun Won Inc. hired Art & Logic to develop a USB driver and device support plugin to enable their line of digital audio players to be used with Apple's iTunes digital audio software. The software allows Macintosh users to transfer and manage audio files on the HWI players within the iTunes application.

TAGS:  Audio  Driver  USB  Plug-in  iTunes  Music  Lifestyle

USB MIDI Drivers

Steinberg hired Art & Logic to write their USB MIDI interface device drivers for Mac OS Classic, to support their Midex 8 and Midex 3 devices. Art & Logic implemented Steinberg's LTB time-stamping protocol to solve inherent USB timing problems. Art & Logic engineers then had to make the driver work with OMS (the standard for MIDI on Mac OS). With Steinberg in Germany, the Art & Logic Online Conferencing System kept everyone in the loop without requiring expensive transcontinental phone calls. The success of this project led to the opportunity to port these drivers to OS X.

TAGS:  Mac OS X  Audio  Mac OS 9  Driver  USB  MIDI  Music  Computer Hardware  Media  Pro Audio

Web-based Switch Management System for Broadcom Corporation

Art & Logic was hired to develop a demonstration web-based management system to ship with Broadcom Corporation's StrataSwitch™ development kit. The StrataSwitch™ development kit simplifies the development of a network Layer 2 or Layer 3 switch using Broadcom's BCM5600 Integrated Multi-Layer Switch. The web-based management system provides Broadcom's customers with a head start on the development of their own web management system.

TAGS:  Web  Embedded  Networking

Audio Watermark Detection 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:  Audio  .NET  C#  Pocket PC  PDA  Windows Mobile  Broadcasting

Solidarity Works

UFCW 8-Golden State is a union representing food and commercial workers in California. Art & Logic was hired to build an iOS app that delivers news, negotiation updates and information to UFCW membership. The app includes support for joining the union and authorizing UFCW to represent the member in collective bargaining and grievance handling.

TAGS:  iOS  Nonprofit  Collective Bargaining

Clip and Metadata Management Application

Omneon ProXplore™, a web application for clip and metadata management on Omneon systems, maximizes the benefits of file-based workflows by supporting multisystem searches, facilitating efficient content movement, and enabling content organization based on physical or user-defined metadata properties.

TAGS:  Flex  Networking  Media  Photography  Film

Web-based Network Management System for Anritsu

The Anritsu web management system features port graphics smoothly updating in real time to show current port status. The modular front panel display shows the actual population of modules determined at run-time.

TAGS:  Web  Embedded  Networking

Java-based Control Interface for Wireless Broadband Product

Aperto Networks hired Art & Logic to develop a Java-based web interface for their wireless broadband product. The interface shows wireless base stations as polyhedrons, with sectors changing color to show error conditions. The interface also allows a service provider to drill down to the other end of the network.

TAGS:  Web  JavaScript  Java  HTML  DHTML  RapidControl  Networking  Wireless

TurboGears Web application for delivering entertaining messages by phone

Art & Logic was hired to realize the client's vision of a fun web app for sending prerecorded messages by phone. This included professionally produced messages on a variety of themes, such as "you're a terrible boss", "my team beat your team", and "I'm sorry". The system allowed the administrator to customize the content, and the user to manage their orders in detail.

TAGS:  Web  MySQL  Python  AJAX  jQuery  TurboGears  LAMP  SQL  Linux  Apache  SQLAlchemy  Genshi  Entertainment

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

Portal Concept for iPad and iPhone

MallTV hired Art & Logic to develop a concept app for the iPad and iPhone. The app was intended to be a portal to the mobile versions of larger popular sites. The mobile versions are referred to as "sister sites" by MallTV. The portal is designed to mimic the iPad Home Screen.

TAGS:  iOS  Mobile  iPhone  Smartphone  iPad  Tablet

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

Windows Service for Monitoring and Arbitrating Printers

Comprehensive Control Systems makes a line of copier control touch screen products for metering, monetizing, and controlling access to copiers. Industries served include law, accounting, financial, and educational institutions. When they decided to expand their products to network printers, they hired Art & Logic to develop a Windows service to intercept and hold incoming print jobs, collect pertinent information about each job, store the gathered information in a database, and then process or cancel the job depending on business logic provided by another service.

TAGS:  Windows  Desktop  .NET  Windows Server  Printer  Computer Hardware  Business

Declarations Form Entry System

We created a service that lets parts makers complete the complex IPX1752 reporting form, that previously required hundreds of cells to be completed individually in forms declaring all the parts and materials in all forms of electronics. For example, if you are a hard drive manufacturer (one of their customers), you have to declare thousands of parts and substances in your product. Rather than do that manually, this site helps you manage that process.

TAGS:  Web  MySQL  Python  TurboGears  LAMP  Manufacturing  Consumer Products  Supply Chain  Parts  Electronics

Media manager for photography shoots

Lightbox Network, Inc. hired Art & Logic to develop a Windows version of its media manager application. Live allows photographers to do "live" shoots with a tethered camera, such that images and movies can be processed and uploaded to the Lightbox server as the shoot is happening. Editors and the like can then see virtually real-time progress of the shoot online and interact by requesting larger versions of the captured media and beginning work on the post process. Images and video can also be manually uploaded, and all uploads are managed via an upload manager.

TAGS:  Image Processing  .NET  C#  QuickTime  Media  Photography

Morris, Nichols, Arsht, & Tunnell LLP

Art & Logic successfully delivered a custom iOS application that has streamline the daily workflows for 100 attorneys and 75 staff members.

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Port a BlackBerry app to run on modern handsets

ESAB Group hired A&L to port their BlackBerry app from C# to Java enabling the software to run on modern BlackBerry devices. The product was localized to support Spanish speaking field reps in Mexico.

TAGS:  Mobile  Smartphone  Java  BlackBerry

MovieGoer - iOS App for Social Movie Going

Nettle hired Art & Logic to build their flagship app that integrates the social network with the movie going experience. MovieGoer allows users to track friends, movies and cast members, share their movie going experience through short video reviews, stay on top of movie related information through newsfeeds, and much more.

TAGS:  iOS  iPhone  Social Media  API  Entertainment  Lifestyle  Media  Marketing  Film  Advertising  Video  Recreation  Movie

Education and Communication Apps

Art & Logic wrote a collection of engaging iOS apps for use by educators, speech-language pathologists and parents. The apps are built around Dynavox/Mayer-Johnson's library of thousands of PCS (Picture Communication Symbol) images, with high fidelity audio recordings of each word and phrase. Art & Logic drew on its expertise in mobile development to build each app as an exciting, interactive game or activity to help make learning fun for young children or individuals with speech and language challenges.

TAGS:  iOS  Mobile  iPhone  Smartphone  Objective-C  Audio  iPod touch  iPad  Tablet  Gaming  Games  PDF  MP3  Graphic design  Publishing  Education

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 review at http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/12/dave-mustaine-rock-prodigy/

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

Planet Change Conservation Game for iOS

Planet Change was a Flash-based game, ported to run natively on the iPhone. Players use the phone's accelerometor to run through familiar cityscapes while cleaning up litter, fixing leaky fire hydrants, planting urban trees, and dodging cars.

TAGS:  iOS  Objective-C  iPad  Gaming  Environment  Conservation