Portfolio
Even small decisions can lead to big arguments, and we can’t bother the real JC with all our trivial questions but he does represent a great ambassador for peace, so in the interests of promoting more peace on Earth we thought, “Who better?!” This app is intended to bring a little light-hearted fun in to your daily decision making process, so you can all stop worrying about the little things, and get on with enjoying the gift of life 
- Add your own groups of people (e.g. ‘pub’, ‘work’, ‘home’)
- Add your own custom tasks (e.g. ‘make dinner’, ‘wash the dog’)
- The first item in a group/task list automatically becomes your ‘favourite’
- Decisions can be made with a single click!
- Include/Exclude people from a round without removing their name.
Portfolio to Go for Flickr has just been approved for sale by Apple and is now availabile for iPad on the App Store.
A recent winner of Apple’s ‘iPad App of the Week’ award, Portfolio To Go features an elegant and intuitive photo-wall giving users instant access to all of their Flickr photosets: scroll each gallery horizontally to browse thumbs, scroll vertically to traverse through all synced galleries.
The main purpose of Portfolio To Go is to enable photographers to present their portfolio offline to clients – perfect for use with iPad wi-fi: just sync and go. Photographers create and edit photosets on Flickr.com and Portfolio To Go acts as a presentation tool, keeping in sync with all your Flickr changes.
Portfolio To Go supports all iPad rotations so can be flipped vertically for portraits and horizontally for landscapes.
Another unique selling point of this app is the ‘Send Portfolio to a Client’ feature. The Photographer picks and chooses which of his galleries to share and can then send an auto-generated email to clients and friends containing a free download link to ‘Portfolio To Go Player’ iPad App. By clicking the emailed link clients launch the photographer’s portfolio on their own iPad(s).
Check out this great video review of Portfolio To Go on iPad. Mark Wallace from Adorama TV takes you through most of the key features of the app
Key Features
# Photo Wall:
View all your Flickr photo galleries at once – scroll each gallery horizontally to browse thumbs, scroll vertically to traverse through all synced galleries. Click on any thumbnail to jump into the main image view.
# Main image view displays gallery thumbnails to enable intuitive gallery navigation. Just click the main image to go full-screen.
# Flickr Authorization: access to all of your private, friends and family and public photos
# Multiple cached portfolios: add unlimited Flickr portfolios via your contacts or Flickr IDs to P2G and switch between them.
# Auto-cache photos: all photos get cached in the background while you browse (you can turn this feature off in settings)
# Send Portfolio to a Client: Pick and choose which galleries to include and then send your portfolio straight to clients and friends by email from the app. Clients will download the free Portfolio to Go Player app to their iPad and launch your portfolio from the emailed link.
# Share your photos and Flickr links via Facebook, Twitter or Email
# Save favourite Photos to your iPad Photo Library
After 5 months ‘ad hoc’ development and a short but anxious 6 day wait in the Apple submission queue we have finally launched our ‘Social Learning’ App for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch: Loop&Learn.
Loop&Learn is more than just ‘my best ever iPhone App’, it is my best ever app… desktop, web, mobile or otherwise. It is both technically and content-wise the coolest software I’ve been lucky enough to develop.
Whether you want to learn Chinese or are an avid bird watcher, there’s a loop for that
Here’s my business partner, Neil Gerstenberg, presenting our app on YouTube:
As Neil describes in the video, Loop&Learn is a tool to help you learn ANYTHING! Right on your iPhone you can create multimedia ‘Learning Loops’ consisting of recorded audio phrases, images and text. On iPhone and iPad the audio recording works directly from the device microphone. On iPod Touch you’ll need a compatible microphone earphones for authoring but all of the study and learning loop playback is compatible without any extra hardware.
Create
We’ve designed the authoring process to be as intuitive as possible with features such as:
- body text is auto split into loop phrases based on line/paragraph breaks – so you can easily import large learning texts into the app
- auto-record in the phrase editing screen detects silences and enables you to split up your multiple audio phrases without continuously clicking a record button
- the full current paragraph text is instantly displayed when recording each phrase
- while editing body text the app enables users to play the existing audio phrase associated with the current text cursor position
New/Edit Loop Home Screen and Body Text Editor
Phrase Record and Edit
Learn
Likewise, in study mode here are just a few handy learning features offered by our app:
- multi-gesture control: double tap to start/stop playback, swipe left and right for next/prev phrases, swipe down and up for next/prev looping groups
- single or multi-select the loop blocks at the top of the screen to split your learning into looping bite-size chunks
- 2 learning modes: ‘Repeat with me’ and ‘Listen’n'Repeat’ – the latter plays the full loop group and then repeats silently giving you the chance to repeat aloud
Share
Saving the best for last, my favourite feature of Loop&Learn is the new collaborative learning concept it introduces: ‘social learning’.
Users of our app can share the learning loops they create via our ‘Loop Library’. All that’s required is an account with Twitter. Once a user shares one or more of their learning loops they retain ownership of the loop and can change and update it at any time via the same share and update process.
Think of the amazing possibilities that social learning offers. Language learning for example: User A is French and wants to learn English, User B is English and wants to learn French. If User A and User B create and share language loops in their native tongues then they both will benefit from the shared content!
In anticipation of launch, Neil, myself and friends have created some example loops that demonstrate how versatile the app is. Take a look at the Featured Loops page on loopandlearn.com. You’ll find learning loops for:
- Chinese Phrases
- First aid/CPR
- Local Brighton History
- Learning Poems
- Cloud Formations
- US Presidents
- French for Kids
Just a few of our examples to kick off the app. As more people purchase Loop&Learn we expect the content to grow and it will always remain free to download user generated loops so the loop library should get bigger and better
Thanks to the power of Twitter when users share new learning loops Loop&Learn sends a tweet with a link to the newly created loop preview page on our site. Like this one for example: http://www.loopandlearn.com/9ddbb9
what’s really cool is that on the top right of that preview page is a download link which when clicked on by Loop&Learn users via Safari or most iPhone Twitter clients Loop&Learn will automatically:
- launch on the iPhone
- download and install the loop being previewed
The Website
www.loopandlearn.com stays up-to-date automatically with the latest learning loops uploaded by Loop&Learn users. We have also launched the site with a ‘Hot Loops’ / Featured Loops section.
Happy Looping!
Built for Property specialist digital agency World Archipelago, I was supplied with the customized design and commissioned to build a reskinnable iPhone property app that can be added to WAI’s range of online solutions for their extensive range of Real Estate Agencies.
Here’s a live version for Estate Agency Halls:
The app includes the following features:
- Auto-paginated property search
- User-location finding for local property searches
- Auto-saves recent search requests
- Saved property list between sessions
- Property location display on a map
- In app email property to a friend
- Property details image gallery
- Cached thumbnails
With additional functionality such as previous/next property buttons directly from within each property page this app is a great solution to most estate agency requirements. A robust, optimised and elegant-looking iPhone property app.
Working with the talented design team at Staak I programmed the Flash App for ffxiiixbox360.com: a branding microsite to launch the hugely popular game Final Fantasy XIII on XBox 360.
The site integrates with the Twitter api to display the latest Twitter tweets about the new Xbox game and enables Twitter users to add their own FFXIII tweets directly through the Flash site.
The latest tweets are presented as interactive tweets orbs orbiting a simple 3D space. This effect was achieved through open source AS3 library Away3D.
Working on an XBox site was a lot of fun and the build went incredibly smoothly for such a tight schedule. So smoothly that I’ve been sent a complimentary Xbox as a bonus