Shore Magazine just came out with a feature article “2009 Year in Review” written by Rick Kaempfer. The article is about how Twitter, Facebook and iPhone apps (among other things) has changed the way we communicate in a very short time.

The section on iPhone Applications has a quote or two from Randall Cross on how competitive the app market is and how to succeed. The full article can be found here: Ethervision Quoted in Shore Magazine Article

We have broken ground on creating an iPhone app for a client using RedLaser’s bar code scanning SDK.

Ethervision has purchased code in the past to enhance the functionality of one of our apps and I will say this: RedLaser is the real deal. The smart folks at Occipital completely nailed the bar code scanning functionality using a private call to Apple’s video codec.

As most groundbreaking apps are, RedLaser was approved in the app store quickly, but other bar code scanning apps were not. Since then, that has changed and now the SDK is being approved for other bar code scanning apps.

If you want to save money this holiday season, pick up RedLaser and bring it shopping with you.  These guys have nailed the functionality and the demand is there to prove it.  RedLaser App (iTunes Link)

With every update, WordPress for the iPhone gets better and better. It appears that the main goal of these early updates is stability. Layering on the bells and whistles, I assume will come later.

The Good:
* the app is stable and many of the bugs appear to be gone.
* Landscape typing mode for easier and faster typing.
* Easy picture integration. Bloggers can embed pictures from their photo library or take a picture and upload

The Please-Do-Next:
* Youtube video embedding. This would make the app so much more appealing to so many more people. Ethervision is more than happy to help with this as we have made apps that can preview YouTube videos and scrape the proper code to embed within the app.
WordPress iPhone App

Since I am posting from the iPhone, I have tol follow up with comments on how the app looks once published.

I have been on LinkedIn since the early days.  Like most of us, I keep an account and accept requests from friends and colleagues to connect.  Going a bit beyond the basic user, I have linked by blog to LinkedIn and I update my status from time to time.  Still, until recently, I was only checking LinkedIn about once every two or three weeks.

Most business contacts I had, I would generally also connect with them in Facebook and use that as a primary means for keeping in contact.  Being an iPhone developer and video producer, Facebook is a perfect way to simply share my portfolio without clogging in-boxes.

However, lately I have become more active on LinkedIn.  I am participating more in the iPhone developer and marketing groups I belong to and I am updating my status more frequently.  Beyond recruiters and entrepreneurs, I don’t think LinkedIn is being used daily by the business masses yet, but I expect that to change soon.

Supposedly Einstein wrote this riddle himself.  Apparently only 2% of the people in the world can get it right.  I think the number is higher if you like riddles and have the patience to deduct from the 15 clues.

There are five houses in a row in different colors. In each house lives a person with a different nationality. The five owners drink a different drink, smoke a different brand of cigar and keep a different pet, one of which is a Walleye Pike.

The question is– who owns the fish?

Hints:
1. The Brit lives in the red house.
2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Dane drinks tea.
4. The green house is on the left of the white house.
5. The green house owner drinks coffee.
6. The person who smokes Pall Malls keeps birds.
7. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhills.
8. The man living in the house right in the center drinks milk.
9. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
10. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the one who smokes Dunhills.
12. The owner who smokes Bluemasters drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Princes.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15. The man who smokes Blends has a neighbor who drinks water.

No tricks here.  Pure logic.  There is a definite answer.

Hint: As you get into it and start deducting, put different clues next to each other.

If you want to check your answer or just know you can Google it.

RC Heli – Indoor Racing iPhone Application is in its second week on the iTunes App Store and is still getting great reviews and going strong.  Appsmile reviewed RC Heli and gave it 4 smiles.  We couldn’t be more pleased for the good, thorough review: Read Appsmile Review Here

Stay tuned for some very big updates for existing customers including a 4 CH (Pro) Heli, faster gameplay and some new environments.  Our goal is to create the best, most realistic RC Heli gaming experience out there.

TouchArcade pre-launch and existing app forums were buzzing all launch weekend regarding the launch of RC heli – Indoor Racing iPhone / iPod Touch Application. The app got so much buzz that we were featured on the home page as well.

Touch Arcade is probably the best forum for developers to connect with new and existing gamers. The feedback received from gamers was fantastic and we are already working on implementing many of the suggested changes.

Specifically, we are working on a 4 CH Heli for the pros. Early test results below in video:

RC Heli – Indoor Racing iPhone app launched Friday and is already #6 among all racing apps in the U.S. store. It’s #1 in France, Austria, Switzerland, Hungary and Hong Kong. It is #65 in all games and 117 (out of 80,000) overall in the US putting the app in the top .1% in sales of all applications.

(iTunes Link)

The reviews are coming in strong. Stay tuned for links to reviews in next post.

Ethervision launched RC Heli – Indoor Racing iPhone Application today (iTunes Link) and it is off to a strong start.  In just 12 hours, it has made the Top 20 list for Racing Games.

Check out the video demo of the app here [wptap_insert_video].

More to come as it unfolds.

Ethervision is an iPhone Development Agency based out of Chicago Illinois.  Ethervision specializes in iPhone games, social media applications and video based applications.  Currently Ethervision is working on a flying 3-D iPhone and iPod Touch game and a free version of Skateropolis, the social Skateboarding Application with a social twist.

To learn more about Ethervision’s multi-media offerings click here.