October 2011
2 posts
September 2011
1 post
Apps galore
Things have been pretty busy here at Appwolf - so busy that we haven’t had to time to post about the apps that we’ve been building. Since the last blog post, we’ve built apps for kids who like dress up, adults who like jewels, drinkers of tea and lovers of whiskey.
Dress The Duchess (for Ink Robin) - a beautiful iPhone app for dressing up Duchess Kate, we built this for the...
July 2011
2 posts
B2B apps
Apple’s announcement yesterday about a system to sell custom B2B apps directly to business customers is particularly timely for us at Appwolf. Of late, we’ve got a number of projects to build apps to deployed within companies and to be frank, the existing options for internal deployment are a mess.
Hitherto, the only sanctioned method for a company to deploy apps amongst its employees...
Tiny tips
We’ve been building apps for a while now but occasionally we learn something that would have made our lives much easier if we’d known it from the outset. Here are a couple of things we only recently worked out;
JPGs are much much smaller than PNGs (in terms of filesize)
Given that most of the app’s size comes from its graphic files, we only recently discovered that we can...
June 2011
1 post
Radio silence
The problem with not writing a blog post for a while is that you get into a cycle where you have more and more stuff to report and this makes it harder and harder to sit down and write the damn post.
Which is our way is saying - sorry we haven’t blogged for months.
So what have we been doing? All sorts of things. Since we last posted, we have built an array of iOS apps;
AreaNow - a...
December 2010
1 post
Sites for app design inspiration
We’re always on the lookout for examples of lovely app design/ UI and just chanced across this great blog post from @birnimal where he has compiled a list of sites that showcase beautiful app design.
We’ve come across a few more in our interweb travels so here’s a list of our current favourites;
Beautiful Pixels
AppLaudable
TappGala
Well Placed Pixels
Appsolute.ly
...
October 2010
2 posts
An update
It’s been a few months since the last blog update so it’s a good time to let everyone know what we’ve been up to. We certainly haven’t been sitting on our hands - in fact, the last month has has super-busy. What’s happened is that Appwolf have pivoted slightly - instead of focusing entirely on the development of our own products, we are now undertaking some contract...
The Appwolf website gets an upgrade →
We’ve dawdled over this for far too long (particularly given that our previous website was just a one-pager). The new one has screenshots of our apps and links to demo videos and the app store.
July 2010
2 posts
Our latest app - SMS Contact Sender
The SMS Contact Sender is a super-simple app that lets you send a contact number to someone else via SMS. Non-iPhone users might be surprised that we’d need to build an app for something so basic but bizarrely, the iPhone only lets you share contacts via MMS or e-mail. So if you want to send a number to someone who doesn’t have MMS or e-mail access on their phone (which is still the...
Singles for Foursquare - out now
Our latest iPhone app - Singles for Foursquare - is live in the app store. It’s a dating app for Foursquare users and is super-easy to use. Here’s how it works;
You download the app (and write a short personal description)
Check in someplace
See who else is checked in at your location (and whether they’re single)
If you see someone interesting, send them a private message...
June 2010
1 post
Mashboard 1.0 in trouble
It looks like our timing sucks. After months and months of development and UI work, we finally submit Mashboard, our dashboard widget app for the iPhone, to the app store… just in time to run afoul of Apple’s new policy that dashboard/ widget/ desktop type apps are no longer allowed.
Disaster.
We’re not the only ones who’ve been affected here. My Frame, a photo frame...