Friday, May 29, 2009

Dining out or go shopping this Friday?

It's Friday. Are you going to dine out with your friends? Or go shopping after work? Our IPhone app ShoppingPal and Tip AA+ calculator will certainly help. Here are promotion for ShoppingPal and Tip AA+ calculator:

promotion code for ShoppingPal:

9LKR3TTEHLNH
X77KFAHMWWNJ

ITunes Store link for ShoppingPal:

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=312282898&mt=8


promotion code for Tip AA+ Calculator:

PNFLYW7EFMPN
WY3TKERHMW3H

ITunes Store link for Tip AA+ Calulator:
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=315126577&mt=8

Have a wonderful Friday !

Friday, May 22, 2009

Snack Count and promotion code

The application description on Apple store:

Are you addicted to snacks and trying to control yourself but just could not? It's hard, I know. This app is here to help you.

Every time you become weak, tales a look at your IPhone, there will be a number displaying on the badges tells you how many snacks you had already had today. Loo at it, you will feel stronger to resist the temptation.

No matter how hard it is, we need to treat ourselves well, and be healthy!

Here is a promotion code for Snack Count:

WKYNMXMEF9PA

apple store link:

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=315980232&mt=8

BTW, we are promoting out Tip AA+ Calculator, it's the best tip calculator in the App Store, give it a try and you know why, here is a promotion code for Tip AA+ Calculator:

KXALWL73TJJH

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=315126577&mt=8

Enjoy and give us good rating ...

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Promotion codes for our IPhone app shoppingPal and Coke Count

Today we are giving out two more promotion codes:

for shoppingPal: JT4M3WTA3KNK
for Coke Count: TMXM9PLNMW6A

Enjoy and give us good rating ...

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Coke count

A very fun app Coke Count is just released, and we'll tell the story later, here is a promotion code: KPR4LRYNNR76, enjoy and give us good rating ...

Do you need a shopping pal for house hunting, mortgage, funiture, or fashion shopping?

The IPhone application shoppingPal can be you best shopping pal when you are shopping around. It helped us a lot when we were buying a new house, shopping for furniture, or fashion items like shoes, purses and clothes, even mortgage loan. Picasa uploading feature makes the pictures you took, notes you wrote down and Geo location you set been easily uploaded to Picasa free web album by only push a button, then you can keep records online, share the album/notes with your friends through Picasa ...

The original idea for this application was generated during our house hunting last year. We spent lots of time checking out new and old houses that time, we really need some kind of handy stuff which allow us taking pictures, record our own observation, write down cash/mortgage/loan incentives sellers don't want to put on printout or publish online, remember address/direction. We can compare those records later, show them to friends for their opinions.

For a first time house buyers like us, getting a house is a big step in life, we also wanted to keep a journal for it ...

Then we developed this wonderful application -- shoppingPal, we found it very helpful in house hunting.

It is also very nice to use at our fashion shopping, especially for those items we couldn't make decision ...

In addition, it become very useful in furniture shopping as well, for us, we took pictures and wrote down price, dimensions for the furniture at first and then figured out if they could fit into our living room/bedrooms by looking at those pictures with the room ...

Give the shoppingPal a chance to serve you, you can find it from IPhone app store by searching shoppingPal or use the following ITuens app store link ...

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=312282898&mt=8

BTW, only the regular shoppingPal version has Picasa uploading feature ... We just added this very important feature after we found out syncing pictures in IPhone with online album by an one-click was a must have feature ...



Here is a promotion code, claim it before the others do ...(-: BTW, we'll give one or two promotion code for our different applications every week in the future ..

FKJJPXEHXAEP

The best IPhone shopping application (-::



p.s. Today's mortgage rate, please check:

http://www.bankrate.com/

Personally, I think it's good time to start looking for a house ...

Thanks for reading ...

Sunday, May 17, 2009

Swine Flu



About one week ago, we thought about writing IPhone app about swine flu. It will help IPhone users get the latest swine flu information. So we developed this free IPhone app in an afternoon, Swine Flu RSS. Comparing with other swine flu apps, it is simple and handy, and it has much faster download speed ...

Then we figured out the swine flue app should be released in early this week. It's interesting that there are so many swine flu apps "jumped out" every day since this Monday, now IPhone app store will show 23 apps by searching "swine flu" ...

Saturday, May 16, 2009

Upgrade IPhone to OS 3.0 beta, resolved error 1012, 1064

We upgrade our IPhone SDK, IPhone OS to 3.0 beta today. It was easy to upgrade IPhone SDK, but for IPhone OS, it was OK for IPhone 3G, but we spent the whole afternoon for upgrading IPhone 2G, we ran into error again and again, with different error code 1012, 1064. Finally, we fingered out, the IPhone need to be put in DFU mode, please check this link:

http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=1034

Basically:

1. Open iTunes and connect the iPhone to your Mac.

2. Press and hold the Home button and the Sleep/Wake button at the same time.

3. After exactly 10 seconds release the Sleep/Wake button. Continue holding the home button until you iTunes pops up a message telling you that it has detected an iPhone in recovery mode.

4. Restore.

Hope this works for you. Good luck!

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Our Story 1 - the beginning, about our first IPhone app "fresh"


We are Apple fans. Both of us have MacBook Pro, IPhone and IPod. Every time we went to Apple stores, we feel excited ...

So at the last Christmas ski trip, we decided to get our hands dirty by developing some applications on the cool device - IPhone with the handy language - XCode.

We were two CAL/Stanford geeks, we aimed really high for the first application(-:. We don't want to see the paper ads junked people's mailbox then is threw away right after pulled out of the mailbox ... We thought it will be nice to provide a tool for people to look up the fresh grocery promotion on their IPhone, and people would eat fresh food more if they can buy them at lower price. Bases on all those great ideas, we developed "fresh"

Please click here to go to IPhone store to check out, it's free ...

However, besides all the engineering efforts, we found it was very challenging to do sales and marketing. Both content providers and user base need to be built up .. We made great efforts to aggregate promotions from around 10 grocery store chains by ourselves, and we did weekly updates(Yes, we did lots of data entry work, download, clipping image, typing, very exhausted ...).

We use the app to check what's on sale in grocery stores ourselves now, also it's a great tool to find nearby grocery stores in Bay Area ...

Currently, only one big chain stores are covered in national wide due to our limited resource. And we hope more content providers will use our tool so the contents can be scaled up.

(: Please consider to advertise with us if you need reach out customers from IPhone(you can advertise for free now).

The first application took us three months to develop. We spent all our nights and weekends on it. It has a server and web portal for content providers (http://www.adgreenllc.com) besides the IPhone application click here for customers using IPhone ...

After the first app, we developed bunch of other applications like parkingPal, parkingPal touch, shoppingPal and tip AA++ calculator, I will tell some stories about those apps next time ...

Thanks for reading ...