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10 Sweet Mobile Apps For Valentine’s Day

Keith@Blogfreakz — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:44:56 +0000

The day that lovers await is just a few days away. If you’re one of them, have you thought about what unique gift you can give your beloved this season? Maybe these 10 mobile apps might be able to help in preparation for Valentine’s Day.

Apps For Android

Valentine’s Photo Heart / Photo Heart Locket – This app lets you display pictures of you, your friends, and/or family in a cute heart-shaped frame on your desktop. Have fun customizing your pictures in this live wallpaper simply by touching the screen to add kiss marks or dragging your fingers to draw hearts. Sounds cheesy? Well, this is the perfect time to get cheesy with your loved ones!

LuvCam – OK, so this pretty much looks like the one above but there’s nothing wrong with having more than one option for you to choose from, right?

Touchnote Postcards - Create stunning and sweet postcards using a picture of you and your loved one with this nifty app. This one’s been featured in TechCrunch and The Wall Street Journal so it’s likely to be a keeper on your phone’s list of apps.

Sincerely Ink Cards – Send beautiful greeting cards directly to your loved ones from your Android phone. Letting them know you remember them on a special day through greeting cards has never been this easy. This one’s such a hit that it got featured on Mashable, TechCrunch, and lots of other newsprints.

Love Poems – With this app, you can find and share the best love poems. Read thousands of love quotes or contribute your own! Directly send the love poems as text, tmail or tweets. You can share the best love sayings through multiple social networks, so you can spread the poetry. Also it’s easy to directly SMS for instance to a date, and this app is free!

Apps For iPhone

iWrite: Love Poems – Nothing makes a person’s heart skip a beat like a romantic poem especially for them. Create poetry from your heart and your words will soar. This poetry program offers step-by-step instructions on how to do that. And if you’re looking for something a little steamier, you might want to try out iWrite: Erotic Poems.

Sincerely Ink Cards – Send beautiful greeting cards directly to your loved ones from your iPhone or iPad. Sending valentines, birthday cards, thank you’s & thoughtful notes has never been easier.

someecards – From the acclaimed humor site, someecards.com, comes the brand new someecards iPhone app! Everything you love about the site is now at your fingertips! If you can’t spare the buck, you can always opt for the free version; someecards free.

The Questions – The Questions: is an app for insight into your relationships, your partner, or dating in general. The app contains the full set of 76 interactive cards and companion book, which will provide you with a comprehensive, elevated version of your average ‘love quiz’.

A+ Signature Lite – The Photo Annotator – This app allows you to make your mark on any photo.

Add a signature or a watermark to create a fun photocard.
Annotate pictures of friends’ reunions, family parties, weddings, classmates or meetings.
Add any autograph to your photos.

A+ Signature Lite comes with a short video tutorial. See more demonstration videos at A+ Signature Lite Support.

2012 Web Development and Tech Forecasts

Carmela@Blogfreakz — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 12:00:24 +0000

AS we usher in 2012, the web development community has been coming up with several forecasts for the industry. Although most of this surrounds an influx of greater improvements in the technological frontier, it may also spell doom for some brands. The question is, how will these changes affect the entire tech landscape for users, developers, designers, and marketers?

Let’s check out some of the latest online buzz:

IT enterprise vendors seek to reduce failures from the past year and use them as leverage for future improvements.

Mobile competition becomes steeper with rapid developments in functionality, though this may result in some popular mobile brands falling behind the race.

Dominant frameworks such as jQuery, Node.js, Socket.io, Fitvids, JavascriptMVC and SproutCore, as well as HTML5 will take the lead in the web development industry. Same goes for software as independent support for hardware.

Some tech editors predict exciting, if sometimes drastic changes in the industry, from the rise of OpenFlow to patent wars, to the resurrection of the music distribution business, all founded on a common theme: consumerization.

Awesome, isn’t it? And if you’re still hankering for more juicy info on what’s in store for us this year, check out this list of web design trends and 15 hot technologies, which are probably more than enough to last us the next 6 months.

And with that, we at Blogfreakz.Com wish you all a wonderful 2012!

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PhotoSwipe – The Web Image Gallery For Mobile Device

Mufti Ali — Fri, 27 May 2011 08:13:03 +0000

Inspired by the iOS photo viewer and Google images for mobile, PhotoSwipe is a HTML/CSS/JavaScript based image gallery specifically targeting mobile devices. PhotoSwipe provides your visitors with a familiar and intuitive interface allowing them to interact with images on your mobile website.

Features

Optimised for mobile devices running a WebKit browser.
Runs on modern desktop browsers, including Internet Explorer 8 and above.
Multiple input options including swipe gestures (both mouse and screen touches), keyboard control and an interactive on screen toolbar.
Responsive to device orientation changes.
Automatically scales images to maximise screen size and orientation.
Zoom / pan and rotate images (as of v1.0.4 – experimental iOS devices only)
Works with your markup and semantic structure. Does not enforce any specific markup.
Supports image captions.
Slideshow feature to automatically play through images in the gallery.
Uses hardware acceleration where possible for smoother transitions and effects.
Can be integrated into jQuery Mobile.
Comprehensive customisation options:
Presentation controlled via CSS
Set whether the gallery loops or not i.e. when you reach the end, is the next image the first image, or does the gallery show a bounce effect to indicate that you have reached the end.
Hide or show captions and toolbar
Change caption and toolbar positions
Set the speeds of all animations used, from sliding in to fading.

PhotoSwipe comes with an example site to help you get started. There are two distributions of the library:

The default distribution optimised for WebKit and Mozilla based browsers. This distribution uses standard DOM querying and manipulation. It also uses CSS3 transformations for animations.
The jQuery distribution that uses jQuery as it’s engine.

It is recommended for WebKit based mobile devices to use the default distribution. This distribution will run faster. It does not require jQuery (so one less library to download to your mobile device). It also uses CSS3 to achieve animation effects. This is extremely noticable when running on an iOS device as animation will use hardware acceleration and will feel more “native” to the device. The default distribution will also work on desktop WebKit browsers (such as Chrome and Safari) as well as Firefox.

The current version supports mobile handsets running WebKit based browsers, i.e. iOS, Android and Blackberry 6. PhotoSwipe also runs on the desktop and has been tested on Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Internet Explorer 8 and above.

Requirements: -
Demo: http://www.photoswipe.com/latest/examples/jquery-mobile.html
License: MIT LIcense

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Full Set of Stencils for Sketching iPhone, iPad & Android

Mufti Ali — Sun, 08 May 2011 06:14:22 +0000

Zurb is sharing article ” Full Set of Stencils for Sketching iPhone, iPad & Android ” which is round up of beautiful set of stencils and sketchsheets to make the process easier for iPad, iPhone, and even Android. In this article you can find iPhone Omnigraffle Stencils & Sketchsheets, iPad Omnigraffle Stencils & Sketchsheets, Honeycomb Omnigraffle Stencils & Sketchsheets and Android Gingerbread Omnigraffle Stencils & Sketchsheets.

All this amazing stencils and sketchsheets is created by zurb to help everyone make it easier to break the ice by sketching.

Website: http://www.zurb.com/article/608/full-set-of-stencils-for-sketching-iphone

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iPhone Tracker – Open Source Application To Mapping Your iPhone Movement

Mufti Ali — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 00:28:15 +0000

iPhone Tracker application maps the information that your iPhone is recording about your movements. It doesn’t record anything itself, it only displays files that are already hidden on your computer.

If you run it on an OS X machine that you’ve been syncing with an iPhone or an iPad with cellular plan, it will scan through the backup files that are automatically made, looking for the hidden file containing your location. If it finds this file, it will then display the location history on the map.

The database of your locations is stored on your iPhone as well as in any of the automatic backups that are made when you sync it with iTunes. One thing that will help is choosing encrypted backups, since that will prevent other users or programs on your machine from viewing the data, but there will still be a copy on your device. The visualization is implemented as a view onto a local web page using the OpenHeatMap jQuery plugin.

Website: http://petewarden.github.com/iPhoneTracker

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ChocolateChip-UI – A Mobile Web App Framework

Mufti Ali — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 04:53:17 +0000

ChocolateChip-UI is a web app development framework for building web applications for mobile devices. ChocolateChip-UI also introduces a new concept, a markup language designed especially for Web apps. It’s called WAML (Web App Markup Language). Instead of divs and spans crammed with complex multi-part classes to give semantic meaning to your Web app, ChocolateChip-UI uses WAML’s special tags and attributes to clearly define all the parts of your Web app.

ChocolateChip-UI provides fully functional widgets and controls right out of the box. In most cases these require minimal to no input from you to implement their functionality.

ChocolateChip-UI uses no images to create its widgets and controls, everything is created from WAML and CSS. Where icons are used for buttons, ChocolateChip-UI uses vector-based SVG images. This means that your Web app will always be resolution independent, always crisp and clean.

ChocolateChip is designed for mobile devices using Webkit-based browsers. Because of this, you can use any Webkit-based browser on the desktop during development. This includes Google Chrome and Apple Safari.

Requirements: WebKit Browsers
Demo: http://www.chocolatechip-ui.com
License: GPL Liense

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Mobile Boilerplate – A Base Template for Mobile Web Application

Mufti Ali — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 15:37:00 +0000

Mobile Boilerplate is a base template made custom for creating rich and performant mobile web apps. Mobile Boilerplate allow us to create cross-browser web application whic is consistency among A-grade smartphones, and fallback support for legacy Blackberry, Symbian, and IE Mobile.

Mobile Boilerplate is not a framework, but works well with projects like jQuery Mobile, Sencha Touch, Phonegap and Appcelerator. You get an offline caching setup for free, fast button clicks, a media query polyfill, and many common mobile WebKit optimizations.

Website: http://html5boilerplate.com/mobile

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Applitude – Iphone Development Language & Runtime Framework

Mufti Ali — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 17:07:38 +0000

applitude is a runtime framework and a domain-specific language for iPhone application development. It is an extended, iPhone-only version of the Applause project. Applitude comes with a domain specific language (DSL) to express commonly used elements of iPhone applications in a very dense format. This language is made-to-measure to express iPhone apps, so instead of keywords like if, then, while it has keywords like contentprovider, tableview or cell.

Written manually, you would have to care about many aspects like doing the HTTP requests, parsing the JSON data, showing activity indicators while the app is loading, feeding the data into tables when it gets available, responding to the UITableViewDataSource protocol, handling errors, caching the data, loading images in the background, navigating between the views and so on and on.

By installing the applitude IDE plug-ins, you can edit such documents in Eclipse featuring code completion and instant error checking. As soon as you save, Objective C code is generated. The generated code is small and tidied up by making use of runtime components wherever possible.

Applitude is licensed under the Eclipse Public License v1.0 ,some runtime components have different licenses.

Website: http://www.applitude.org

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Mobile Frameworks to Create Mobile Applications

Maria Nemenman — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 15:16:28 +0000

Web application frameworks make web development faster and easier. And with the growth of mobile devices like tablet PCs and smart phones, there is an increasing demand for mobile frameworks to make mobile application development easier. Here are a few mobile frameworks to make things easier for you.

Sencha Touch

Sencha Touch is a creation of SenchaInc, an HTML5 JavaScript mobile framework, which allows the developers to make web applications that look native on Android and iPhone touch screen systems. Sencha Touch is built quite like ExtJS component, so if you have worked on ExtJS, you will have no problems with this one.

jQuery Mobile

This is a very popular framework for mobile web applications. A touch optimized framework for tablets and smart phones- it is an integrated interface system across all famous mobile platforms. It is built on solid jQuery foundation. It has lightweight code that is built with iterative enhancements and a flexible design, which helps you gain more results by doing less work.

WebApp.Net

Webapp.Net is a powerful yet lightweight JavaScript based framework that uses AJAX technology. It is an open source application and gives a complete set of useful components for developing advanced mobile applications easily and quickly.

DHTMLX Touch

DHTMLX Touch is a JavaScript library based on HTML5. It is used for developing mobile web apps. It is not just any set of UI tools but an absolute framework that permits you to develop attention-grabbing cross platform applications for touch screen devices and mobile phones.

This framework is compatible with all major web browsers that work on mobile platforms. Apps developed with the help of DHTMLX run fine on iPhone, iPad, Android based phones and other devices.

jQTouch

This is not actually a framework, but more like a jQuery plugin made for mobile web development for the iPhone platform and other smart phones. This is a part of a project run by Sencha labs. The default theme is black and looks great. It is open source and supports native animations, themes and automatic navigation for mobile browsers.

iWebKit

iWebKit is a package made to help you as you develop a website or a web app for iPod Touch, iPhone, and other compatible platforms. It is extremely simple to understand and you can work on it even if you don’t have enough HTML knowledge. There are many tutorials that make things even easier.

Jo HTML5 Mobile Application Framework

Joapp is basically a widget framework that has works on DOM. It is open source and comes with cross platform webOS, an OpenBSD license, and Symbian, Android, Chrome, Safari and Dashboard widgets. It’s efficient but light JavaScript runs only at about 8K, and has no dependencies. It is compatible with PhoneGap and most JavaScript frameworks.

iUI

iUI is a mobile framework that consists of CSS, JavaScript library, and images to help you create advanced mobile web apps for compatible devices like iPhone. There are many features of iUI, like creation of iPhone like interface and navigational menus using standard HTML. Knowledge of JavaScript is not mandatory to create iPhone like interface or to develop mobile web pages.

Sproutcore

It is another HTML5 framework that is used to make responsive apps in modern web browsers without the use of plugins. Apps made by Sproutcore follow a specific design pattern and allow you to manage your app code easily.

Zepto.js

Zepto is a simple JavaScript based mobile framework for WebKit mobile browsers. It has syntax similar to jQuery. It has a 2k to 5k library which can handle the basic work of an API so you can concentrate on important stuff.

There are a lot of cool choices, and it sometimes gets confusing. But if you take my suggestion, the best ones are Sencha Touch and jQuery Mobile. They have a lot of admirers.

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XUI – Micro Library for HTML5 mobile Web Applications

Mufti Ali — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 07:29:54 +0000

XUI was born in 2008 while the popular PhoneGap framework was being developed. It was created out of necessity for a solid DOM framework that understood the latency and initialization characteristics of the mobile web. Today most frameworks are still catching up to the mobile revolution, tacking on compatibility as an afterthought and, often, only for iOS.

XUI is the smallest framework that works across all of the devices in the mobile landscape. It does not try and dictate a page structure or widget paradigm. XUI targeted builds for WebKit, IE Mobile, and BlackBerry. The file size is super tiny, only 9.4kb footprint (4.1kb gzipped).

Mobile Web development is heating up fast! If xui isn’t enough for you, then check out:

Requirements: -
Demo: http://xuijs.com

License: MITLicense