#iPhoneDev

One of my apps [Remix DJ: AudioBox] recently had the honor of being reviewed in iCreate Magazine. They gave it 4 stars out of 5! This issue is almost 3 months old, i’m lucky to have picked it up at the local Barnes & Noble yesterday otherwise I might have missed it.

(Issue #71, page 98)

The text of the article is below:

RemixDJ: Spice up your set with these free samples

” The iPhone is so much more than a phone that you can now even integrate it into live electronic music. This simple app aims to provide DJ’s with a bevy of samples to use while playing a set. The audio quality is excellent and the simple trigger button means there is no lag between button pressing and the sound being played, so you be sure you don’t mis-time your triggers. All of the samples are royalty-free, so you can use them in all of your endeavors – even if you’re already a superstar DJ and playing in front of thousands of people. There’s nearly 200 sounds available, so there’s plenty of choice and variation. This app is very honest; it doesn’t pretend to be anything other than what it is. If you want to get a boat-load of samples for free and use them for fun or even public performance, then it’s perfect.”

Verdict 4 stars Best for: DJs

Wow, just wow! My apps have now been downloaded more than 2 Million Times by people in over 50 countries.  Back in April I broke the 1 Million Mark which I thought was completely amazing. Now I have more than doubled that accomplishment. THANK YOU to all who have downloaded and enjoyed my apps! This definitely encourages me to continue creating fun & useful apps.

The stats are courtesy of Pinch Media Analytics. The service is free and provides a ton of useful information. Pinch provides stats such as: Total unique users, Total sessions, Total jailbroken users, Total cracked users, Total Time Spent Using the App, Device Type, OS version and More. If you are a developer and you are not using any type of analytics package then you are just foolish.

Below are the three main apps which helped me to break 2 Million Unique Downloads:

iCandyPix, iCandyPix 2 and the 3.0 Version of Peanut Butter Jelly Time (which was the first version of PBJTime to have analytics embedded) were all released after I broke the 1 Million Mark. Unfortunately for me all three of these apps were FREE soooo I am NOT a millionaire. Don’t feel too bad for me though, most of my free apps are ad supported and have earned a good amount of revenue.

Just for fun here are a few more stats on these three apps:

Peanut Butter Jelly Time has been used 2,224,168 times, out of those 17,961 were run on a jailbroken device. The total time users spent playing with PBJTime comes out to roughly 16 years 149 days 13 hours 18 minutes 52 seconds.

iCandyPix has been used 2,548,390 times, out of those 97,650 were run on a jailbroken device. The total time users have spent using iCandyPix comes out to roughly 10 years 358 days 11 hours 23 minutes 33 seconds.

iCandyPix 2 has been used 442,829 times, out of those 15,723 were run on a jailbroken device. The total time users have spent using iCandyPix 2 comes out to roughly 1 year 338 days 16 hours 21 minutes 15 seconds.

(Please NOTE: The Peanut Butter Jelly Time App is No Longer available due to a disagreement between myself and the supposed originator of PBJ Time.)

Keyvisuals has teamed up with ill Will PReSS to bring the Neurotically Yours Series to the iPhone & iPod Touch. Neurotically Yours is a hugely popular flash cartoon series animated by Jonathan Ian Mathers.

Writers Block, the first official Neurotically Yours App is a mini-comic that was never released. It chronicles the very early days of the relationship between the goth poet Germaine and her pet squirrel Foamy.

Neurotically Yours : Writers Block is available now for FREE!

OK, ok. So I wasn’t actually attacked by pirates but it makes for an exciting headline! I did how ever find a few of my apps listed on Appulous. If you don’t know Appulous is a website where you can download free cracked copies of pay iPhone Apps.  Accroding to Appulous the site “is merely a collection of user-submitted links, and Appulous takes no responsibility for what users submit to this site or use this site for.” Well, whatever helps them sleep at night.

Here’s another gem from their website . . . “Apple has chosen to allow a multitude of ridiculous, worthless, poorly-represented applications through its “strict” screening process, nearly all written by mediocre programmers with a dream of getting rich quick.”

So what does Appulous do with these ridiculous, worthless, poorly-represented applications? They distribute them to anyone who wants them for free. Wait, what?

I guess piracy is the greatest form of flattery ?!?!

I also found a torrent for this same app ( damn, it must be popular!) . . .

All Your Base!
Version: 1.5
Date Submitted: 25 January 2009

All Your Base Are Belong To Us!

If you are a fan of All Your Base than you want to have the ALL YOUR BASE! app on your iPhone or iPod Touch.

This is the original All Your Base! app. The first to bring you all the Authentic AYBABTU sounds & graphics. 100% true to the original.

The “All Your Base” craze has been featured in Time Magazine, USA Today, Fox News, The Los Angeles Times, Tech TV, Wired, and many others.

All your base comes from the opening scene to the European Sega Mega Drive version of Zero Wing. It was translated poorly in English in a rush attempt to get the game out to an American audience.

** Features **

- Play ALL your favorite catch phrases from AYB!

- Watch the original AYB movie*!

(movie is embedded so No internet connection is required for viewing!)

- Game Transcript.

- Japanese Translation of the Transcript.

- Slick interface.

*BONUS*

- You can listen to the entire version of “Invasion of the Gabber Robots!*

Just select your sound from the picker and then click on the radiation triangle to trigger your sound.

Click on “Play Video” to watch the original AYBABTU movie.

The game transcript in English & Japanese is located on the info screen.

If you know someone who has never heard of AYB, do them a favor an show it to them. They will love you for it!

** Credits **

Original AYBABTU Flash Animation
by: Bad_CRC

“Invasion of the Gabber Robots”
by: The Laziest Men On Mars

Zero Wing for Sega MegaDrive
Music by: Tatsuya Uemura

. . . All Your Phone Are Belong To Us!

* Side note: In order to adhere to Apple’s strict content guidelines a few shots in the movie had to be blurred out. All the rest of the content is original.

I kinda liked my previous iPhone formatted version of Keyvisuals but everything was just static html so I decided to give this format a try. I think it’ll make things easier in the longrun. Plus it looks pretty slick in regular browsers AND mobile (iphone/ipod touch/android)  browsers!