Posted: October 13th, 2009 | Author: Liza | Filed under: social beacon | Tags: Ben Dodson, jason bradbury, social beacon, the gadget show | No Comments »
WOW.. Incase you missed the Gadget Show last night, there was a feature on the social networking app I worked on with Ben Dodson and the Gadget Show Team. It was awesome to see how they put the program together.
Over the past month they have had the Apps available to download, and by Day 3 we were in the top 20 Social Networking apps!. But we were eclipsed by the Biker Blast Off app which sold over 1 Million in the US!, how crazy is that?. They absolutely smashed us out of the park!. None the less, today we are No.4 on the App store free UK downloads!, which is colossal!
Anyway have a look at the app store and download it.. its great fun and FREE!
Check out the Apps Episode HERE.
Download the app HERE!.
Posted: August 30th, 2009 | Author: Liza | Filed under: Uncategorized, cool stuff, iphone apps, photoshop | Tags: Ben Dodson, Iphone App, jason bradbury, phillip parr, sizes ppi, the gadget show | No Comments »
Last month I got a call from one of the producers from North One Television, asking weather I wanted to help out on developing an IPhone App for the Gadget Show. They found me through my mate Ben who has developed an app before with Phillip Parr, a lovely little metal detector you can check out here. I don’t even have an Iphone so the whole thing was a learning curve for me.
I developed the interface in Photoshop at the following sizes:
- 320 x 460 pixels at 72 ppi - (when you hold the Iphone up to your screen this size will seem larger), this is because the actual iphone resolution is actually 163 ppi.
- Its 480-by-320-pixels in to total but you need to minus the size of the header with the coverage and power status (-20 Pixels).
- I exported all the images as high quality PNG’s.
So 2 Iphone apps were developed, Social Beacon and Biker Blast Off!. Both equally awesome. Here’s some more info:
Social Beacon:
We worked on Social Beacon. The gadget show presenter, Jason Bradbury came up with the idea for a social networking tool which lets you create super quick status updates for leading social networks. I have played it as a demo and it’s SWEET!, the status updates are so funny and really imaginative.
Biker Blast Off
Suzi Perry came up with Biker Blast-OFF!. Its a bike jumping game where you’ll need to use every trick on your iphone to achieve a record breaking jump. Developed by Media Tonic.
Both apps use the IPhone accelerometer feature and are available at the app store FOR FREE!!.