Vectorform’s SurfaceDJ App for iPhone receives “Best” and “Hottest” Awards
Posted by Lindsay Ruthven – February 23, 2010iPhone Apps Plus, (www.iphoneappsplus.com) a website that breaks the traditional barrier of localized search results and compiles app rankings and reviews in all languages from app stores around the world has honored us with TWO awards!
According to their website, “The Best Medal is awarded to applications which are of high quality and in great demand”. This was given to SurfaceDJ. The free version, SurfaceDJ Lite received the title “Hottest”- “awarded to application which are of good quality and are major topic of discussion in a certain period of time.”
What are the deciding factors in granting the award? iPhone Apps Plus tracks the rating and reviews of all the iPhone Apps in all iTunes app stores every hour.
We’re looking forward to future awards! Check out the reviews for yourself here:
http://www.iphoneappsplus.com/music/surfacedj-lite/index.htm
http://www.iphoneappsplus.com/music/surfacedj/index.htm
WrapItApp
Posted by Lindsay Ruthven – November 18, 2009WrapItApp is a simple to use, yet intuitive application, teaching you how to gift wrap any sized box, tie a 1 loop bow and 3 loop bow. You have the option of selecting a box from a list of the most common sizes, or using your iPhone or iPod Touch device to obtain custom box measurements. If you have the perfect gift in the not-so-perfect box, WrapItApp makes measuring custom box sizes easy! Simply measure a box using your iPhone or iPod Touch device, nothing additional is required. Once a box has been selected or measured, WrapItApp estimates how much ribbon and wrapping material will be needed and shows step-by-step instructions that will get you wrapping like a pro!
WrapItApp Allows you to:
- View detailed step-by-step tutorials showing how to wrap any size box and how to tie a 1 loop and 3 loop bow.
- Intuitively and easily measure a custom size box or package. Use your iPhone or iPod Touch to obtain box dimensions. You can also select from a list of the most common box sizes. All custom sized boxes and measurements can be saved for future reference.
- Users will be provided with an estimated amount of wrapping paper and ribbon required based on the box size and selection.
Beautiful packages are just a few easy-to-follow steps away with WrapItApp. It is presented by Vectorform, innovative leaders in multi-touch solutions and Lisa’s Gift Wrappers, experts in creative packaging concepts and professional gift wrapping.
Please stay tuned for future updates.
WrapItApp is now available on the iTunes App Store.
Silverlight Media Viewer
Posted by Dan Dobbs – September 21, 2007
This sample application incorporates some of the previous examples (scrollbars, image viewers, etc) into a working Silverlight app. The Media Viewer includes a video player, an image viewer and an RSS reader pulling stories from Yahoo News.
Media Viewer – Example, Source
We’ve also developed a nice looking portal for these examples at http://www.vectorform.com/silverlight/
Silverlight Image Viewer
Posted by Dan Dobbs – September 13, 2007
This one was a little tricky because I have the images lined up horizontally. Since the images are different sizes and ratios, to place them correctly you need to know the width of the image, but Silverlight doesn’t know the width and height of the loaded image until slightly after the image fires its Loaded event. At first I was just setting a timeout of 150ms and that seemed to work, until I moved the files to an actual remote server, then it worked sometimes. So then I ended up doing a setInterval to check whether each image has a width and height>0. That did the trick. I could then position each one accordingly. Here are two versions. 1st one loads images individually, 2nd one pulls images from a zip file and has animation for both enlarging and shrinking images. Drag left and right (or throw) to scroll through the images. Click (or drag and drop) to enlarge.
Load Individual Files – Example, Source
Load From Zip – Example, Source
Also, here is a Mac type slideshow that auto plays with a Ken Burns effect (click for fullscreen). Although this seems to only run nicely on faster machines. I used images at 800×600 to reduce the choppiness but it still seems to lag on my P4 2.8Ghz PC with 2Gb Ram. But it does run nice and silky though on my MacBook Pro 2Ghz with 2Gb ram. I guess the Core 2 Duo proc helps move those big images around.
Mac type slideshow - Example, Source