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Create iPad apps with TapLynx

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

With the announcement today of Apple’s new device, the iPad, we were excited to find out that current iPhone apps work unmodified, out of the box. This is fantastic news, since the sort of rich content apps created using TapLynx are perfect for a display of that size (9.7 inches!).

We’re brainstorming ways to take advantage of the larger display, to improve user experience on what is sure to be a revolutionary addition to media consumption. Have a blog? Work for a media company? You need an app on the iPad ASAP. TapLynx is the way to do it!

Download the TapLynx SDK: http://taplynx.com/download/

The Apple iPad site: http://www.apple.com/ipad/

Thorough coverage today from Engadget: http://i.engadget.com/2010/01/27/live-from-the-apple-tablet-latest-creation-event/

Apple’s tablet: It’s all about developers: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10440254-16.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

Investors didn’t like the iPad… until they heard that amazing price tag! http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/27/apples-ipad-announcement-sends-stock-down-and-then-the-price-was-unveiled/

Author: Jenny Blumberg
Posted in News & Announcements | 85 Comments »

Tiny Shiny Apps compares TapLynx and AppMakr

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

Over at Tiny Shiny Apps, they’ve posted a list of features comparing TapLynx and Appmakr. There are succinct and fair observations, and they’ve done a good job of pointing out some of TapLynx’s best features, such as the fact that you as the developer have full control over your app. They also note how TapLynx performs better and places no restrictions on the developer once TapLynx is in your hands.

Read the blog post here: http://www.tinyshinyapps.co.uk/2010/01/26/taplynx-and-appmakr-comparison/

And head over to Tiny Shiny Apps to see the services they offer, which includes apps made from TapLynx: http://www.tinyshinyapps.co.uk/

Author: Jenny Blumberg
Posted in Articles | 30 Comments »

iPhone App Article Roundup

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

I’ve come across a few articles over the past couple of days that I think will be of interest to anyone in iPhone app “industry.”

First, a report from Gartner predicting that consumers will spend over $6 billion (!) in mobile applications this year.  Some other interesting predictions:

* more than 4.5 billion apps will be downloaded this year
* 8/10 of these apps will be free
* Gartner sees worldwide downloads in mobile app stores to surpass 21 billion by 2013

Second, an article that cites a separate (?) Gartner report that says that 99.4% of mobile applications downloaded in 2009 were through Apple. Also:

* 2.5 billion iPhone apps were downloaded in 2009
* Apple could hold onto as much as 2/3 of the market this year

Finally, a story in Editor & Publisher: “Money to Be Made iPhone Apps? UK’s Guardian Says Yes.”  This article cites the fact that UK paper, The Guardian, will gross more than $3 million this year out of their premium content news app. (They launched it a little over a month ago and it’s already been downloaded by 70,000 people.) Because of this, the paper said, “the impressive number of downloads proves to the industry that users are willing to pay for news applications.

Hope you found some of these stories worth the read!

Author: joshlarson
Posted in General | 1,025 Comments »

TapLynx 1.2: faster, with analytics and authenticated feeds

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

TapLynx 1.2 has been released. It is, as always, free to download and try out.

Changes in 1.2:

Performance — it’s faster and uses less memory. This is probably the last release for a while to focus heavily on performance. It’s important to get that foundation done: now we can build on it. One of the performance changes makes things faster for feeds that don’t support conditional GET. (But please please please use conditional GET.)

You can now use Flurry analytics. Documentation is here.

You can use Medialets analytics. Documentation is here.

You can set up system-authenticated feeds (but not per-used authenticated feeds, which I know some people still want). Documentation is here.

You no longer need to include Feeds.sqlite3 in your apps. TapLynx creates it automatically. (No harm if you forget and do include it: it’ll just be ignored.)

Fixed a bug where an updated feed would sometimes not show the updates until the next launch.

Fixed a couple very small memory leaks.

Fixed a crashing bug with BCResourceWebViewController (or other custom view controller) when a navbar background image was specified.

The thumbnail finder handles the weird case where a return or linefeed appears after an opening <img tag (instead of the space character you’d normally expect).

Author: brentsimmons
Posted in TapLynx SDK Updates | 8 Comments »

Stratfor App, made by TapLynx, is on the What’s Hot list in iTunes

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

We’re very excited to see the Stratfor app on the What’s Hot list in the iTunes app store. Right now it is the #12 on top free news apps, and sure to go higher.


The Stratfor app represents great strides in the TapLynx framework: it features authentication and in-app purchasing.

You can ready about it in our gallery: http://taplynx.com/studies/gallery.php

Go here to download it (link goes to iTunes store): http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/stratfor/id337309541?mt=8

Stratfor app homepage: http://www.stratfor.com/media_room/pr/iphone

Author: Jenny Blumberg
Posted in General | 18 Comments »

Check out the latest apps built From TapLynx

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

A couple more applications created using the TapLynx framework were made available in the iTunes store this week:

eduTecher

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/edutecher/id348400423?mt=8

eduTecher puts the best web tools and reviews of educational websites right in the palm of your hand. Use this app to access great content for all subject areas, watch eduTecherTV webisodes, share links with colleagues or students via Email and Twitter, and more.

VGPodcasts

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/vgpodcasts/id346488296?mt=8

Love your video games? Listen to some great podcasts created by gamers as crazy about games as you are! With the VGPodcasts App you can enjoy your favorite VGPodcasts.com podcasts everywhere and anywhere you are by WiFi or 3G streaming.

Professional Feedback

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/professional-feedback-the-magic/id348616372?mt=8

This application is a combination of a book, selection of video courses, research news and updated user stories of successful and unsuccessful feedback situations.

Most of the text in this application is from the successful award nominated book “Professional Feedback – The Magic of Conscious Encounters – The art of giving, receiving and asking for feedback”. Added to this are a series of short video courses in the Feedback area.

This application is for employees, leaders and for individuals who want to master and develop their communication skill and want to be successful. There is also an extra section for leaders that describes feedback at work and how to use it as a manger and how to implement a supporting feedback culture within the organization.

Author: Jenny Blumberg
Posted in Community | 34 Comments »

Stratfor iPhone App Launches with In-App Purchasing!

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

This morning marked the launch of an app we’re very proud of which was created with TapLynx for global intelligence analyst giant, Stratfor.  Part of our excitement is that such an important company used TapLynx; another part of our excitement as it marks the first TapLynx-created app that allows for in-app purchasing and one of the first-ever content apps available on the iTunes app store that allows for this. (You can check out the Stratfor iPhone app here.

Why is this important you ask? In-app purchasing allows for an entirely new monetization channel (as opposed to only serving up ads). In-app purchasing essentially allows for a premium subscription model. People can download the Stratfor app for 30 days from the iTunes store. Thereafter, they can upgrade to Stratfor’s full-service app that is $9.99/mo entirely from within the app. This option has only recently been allowed by Apple and it marks the first app we’ve built that includes this new monetization option.

I should also let you know that we’re going to produce a webinar with our friends over at Stratfor that should be very instructive for both content publishers and iPhone app developers. We hope to produce this webinar in fairly short order and we’ll let you know here on this blog when you can download the webinar.

Author: joshlarson
Posted in General | 26 Comments »