8/30/2012

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Thu Aug 30, 2012 3:30 am (PDT) . Posted by:

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Transform your Photos and Videos into Professional Pencil Drawings - Published on 08/30/12

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Las Vegas based developer Insatiable Genius LLC today introduces PencilFX 1.0, its new photo effects app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. With PencilFX, anyone can become a sketch artist. Unrivaled by current methods, PencilFX transforms your photos and videos into realistically rendered images and sequences that are comparable only to professional pencil drawings. While maintaining the clarity of the original image, PencilFX gives you ability to create a truly unique result.

Las Vegas, Nevada - Insatiable Genius LLC today is pleased to announce the release of PencilFX 1.0, its new photo effects app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Unrivaled by current methods, PencilFX transforms your photos and videos into realistically rendered images and sequences that are comparable only to professional pencil drawings. While maintaining the clarity of the original image, PencilFX gives you ability to create a truly unique result.

With PencilFX, anyone can become a sketch artist. Create high quality pencil sketch drawings from your own videos or photographs instantly with the state of the art pencil effect:

* The only app of its kind to sketch video.
* PencilFX allows you to:* Create sketches from your photographs
* Take videos with the built-in camera and create a pencil-sketched movie clip

PencilFX sketch settings include:
* Adjust for low light (gamma correction)
* Strokes, Contrast, and Hardness
* Smudging

Edge width, Black Tone and Gray ToneChoose from a variety of paper backgrounds to customize your pencil sketch drawing.PencilFX Photographs can be shared via Email, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or can be saved to your gallery.PencilFX Videos can be shared via Email and Facebook or saved to your gallery.

Here is what people are saying:

Amazing results:
by Golffan5576
I just found this on the app store. I was surprised at how well it converted my photos into sketches. This is a must have for Facebook and sending pictures to friends and family! Wow!

The new standard for digital artistry:
by hari seldon
The versatility and character of this app is astonishing. Any of my favorite photographs and videos can be recreated with a myriad of realistic pencil effects, which I can tweak until I achieve *exactly* the result I want. Brilliant. There's nothing in the app store that can touch this. Eagerly awaiting more from Insatiable Genius!

High quality app with video capability:
by Achaimenes
PenilFX brings the latest cutting edge image processing techniques to the iPhone an iPad. The video processing part is unlike that of any other app, and the level of abstraction reached is simply amazing. Overall a very high quality app well worth trying, especially for those with an artistic eye.

Supported Languages:
* US English

System Requirements:
* Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.
* Requires iOS 4.3 or later.
* 7.5 MB

Pricing and Availability:
PencilFX 1.0 is currently $1.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Photo & Video category.

Insatiable Genius: http://insatiablegenius.com/
PencilFX 1.0: http://insatiablegenius.com/products/pencilfx
Purchase and Download: http://itunes.apple.com/app/pencilfx/id543704201
YouTube Video (Demo): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mjk_-a40-oU
Screenshot: http://a5.mzstatic.com/us/r1000/111/Purple/v4/1e/a1/37/1ea13719-dedc-7ec7-0b8b-b079593986ad/mzl.kqmflsch.320x480-75.jpg
App Icon: http://a2.mzstatic.com/us/r1000/085/Purple/v4/8c/b1/e9/8cb1e9dc-b435-28af-6905-80b3d34a7651/mzl.hhhhmiuo.175x175-75.jpg

Headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada, Insatiable Genius works by the motto imagine, create, and share. The company has found great success in their creativity enhancing products. Their personal curiosity and the urge to share their discoveries with the world result in technically superior, innovatively unique and artistically creative software. Copyright (C) 2012 Insatiable Genius LLC. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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Bruce Gooch
President
United States
bruce@insatiablegenius.com

Facebook Profile: http://www.facebook.com/pages/PencilFX/250209415096181
Twitter Profile: http://mobile.twitter.com/PencilFX

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Thu Aug 30, 2012 3:31 am (PDT) . Posted by:

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Effective math practice on iPad; Splash Math saves time, money and trees - Published on 08/30/12

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Paper workbooks are costly, wasteful, boring and time-consuming to grade. With 1.5 million iPads in schools, Splash Math Worksheet apps for Grade 1 to 5 make the perfect replacement for the cumbersome paper workbooks. 900,000 users and 2,000 elementary school teachers using Splash Math apps are a testimony to Splash Math being the perfect math practice solution on iPad. As the new school session begins, it is the perfect time to begin with Splash Math apps at home and school.

Redwood City, California - As kids get back to school this fall, an estimated 1.5 million iPads will welcome them in their classrooms. Unsurprisingly, many of these kids already have access to iPads at home. The wheels are in motion; Apple is already touting iPad as - "The perfect learning companion". With iPads in classroom, curriculum based textbooks are now available as iBooks or interactive digital textbook apps. Undoubtedly, workbooks are next. They will also help save time, money and paper. Let's find out how?

Paper-based workbooks have been around for ages, but not without their inherent drawbacks. They require time to be evaluated and analysed. Teachers spend over 10 hours a week on worksheet evaluation. They are costly. For a school year, they may add up to 40 dollars. Sheer paper wastage! Kids have to tear off pages from workbooks and use them as worksheets, a wasteful way which necessitates buying new workbooks every year. Last but not the least, they are boring. Debatably, guilty of fostering hate that some kids reserve for math.

Begin the school year with Splash Math worksheets for Grade 1 to 5. With literally infinite math problems that the app can dynamically generate, Splash Math has a life time that extends beyond entire school year. Aligned to Common Core State Standards, it helps kids get ready for the national standardized tests. Automatic grading of responses and detailed email reports highlighting weak areas, save the teacher and parent precious time spent on routine activities. And for $9.99, which is roughly the cost of 2 Starbucks coffees, these apps provide a terrific bang-for-the-buck.

Go green! These adaptive worksheets on iPad can be used year after year in a classroom, saving paper and trees. Lastly, interactive problems that can be touched, tapped and dragged, combine with the built-in reward system to make practicing math, an engaging experience for the kids. Definitely a fool-proof formula to retain kids' interest year-long.

Splash Math apps have massive user acceptance. Over 900,000 users have downloaded Splash Math. Loyalty towards the app is quite high as over 20% of its paid users own multiple Splash Math titles. The apps are used extensively throughout the year. Home schooling parents use them as a full time math program for their kids, while regular parents use them for additional practice. Over 2,000 teachers use them in the classroom, either as an enrichment and intervention tool or as a regular workbook in their 1:1 iPad pilot programs.

Hence, this school year, save time, money and trees with Splash Math apps - the perfect math practice solution on iPad for the elementary school kid.

Key Features of Splash Math apps on iPad:
* 5 Apps cover entire math syllabus of Grades 1 to 5
* Aligned to Common Core State Standards for each grade
* Adaptive algorithm generates dynamic questions
* Interactive Math Problems
* Weekly Email reports
* Fun rewards for kid's engagement

Device Requirements:
* Requires iPad with iOS 4.0 or later

Pricing and Availability:
The grade-wise Splash Math Lite apps are free, while Full apps are priced at $9.99 each. "Tell Time" app which interactively teaches time is priced at $1.99. The apps are available on the Apple App store.

Studypad: http://studypadinc.com
Splash Math Apps: http://studypadinc.com/apps
Purchase and Download: http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/studypad-inc./id432105528
Reviews: http://studypadinc.com/reviews
App Icon: http://studypadinc.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/grade3.png

StudyPad is an education technology company founded in November of 2010. With their strong blend of content design and development skills, their aim is to create a scalable content creation and delivery mechanism to build an ecosystem where students, teachers and parents seamlessly interact. Copyright (C) 2011-2012 StudyPad, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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Mayank Jain
President
650-200-0629
United States
mayank@studypadinc.com

Facebook Profile: http://www.facebook.com/splashmath
LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/company/1985401
Twitter Profile: http://twitter.com/#!/splashmath

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Thu Aug 30, 2012 3:31 am (PDT) . Posted by:

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Codespot Mobile releases Draw and Roll Game on iTunes App Store - Published on 08/30/12

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CodeSpot Software Company today introduces Draw and Roll 1.0, its innovative new physic-puzzle game for iOS. Help Roly the male pig bring flowers to his newfound attraction, Desy, a round and cute sow. Drawing lines and let the Roly role is how the game is done. Users win when he touches the Desy and deliver his beautiful flowers and heart. 60 levels in 4 chapters are available, but players can have more than that with extensive levels which requires collecting 24 items throughout the game.

Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam - CodeSpot Mobile today is proud to offer Draw and Roll, an innovative physic-puzzle game, which is compatible with Apple iPhone, iPod touch and iPad and available on the Apple Store today. With Draw and Roll, gamers come to a love adventure with many thorny challenges. The story starts with a male pig, named Roly, who is attracted to a round and cute sow, named Desy. He plans to get her by his side by gifting her with flowers. However, before Roly can approach Desy, he has to go a miserably hard way to get to her.

Drawing lines and let the Roly role is how the game done. Users win when he touches the Desy and deliver his beautiful flowers and heart. Be aware of the drawing because it can lead him to another place and never meet his dream girl, or he can get stuck somewhere on the way.

60 levels in 4 chapters are available, but players can have more than that with extensive levels which requires collecting 24 items throughout the game. To unlock the next chapter, players have to collect enough stars that the chapter demands.

With a nice and cute design, the game is for all ages with lots of fun and challenges. Gamers need to use their intelligence and physic knowledge to create solutions for Roly. There are many colors and themes for them to choose from. With a notebook design, the game becomes a lively diary of a guy coming to rescue his girl!

Device Requirements:
* iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad
* Requires iOS 4.2 or later
* Universal Application
* 39.7 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Draw and Roll 1.0 is $0.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Games category.

Codespot Mobile: http://codespotmobile.com
Draw and Roll 1.0: http://codespotmobile.com/portfolio/draw-and-roll/
Purchase and Download: http://itunes.apple.com/app/draw-and-roll/id539815124
YouTube Video (Trailer): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-AH4us3-GA
Screenshot: http://a1730.phobos.apple.com/us/r30/Purple/v4/9b/91/4c/9b914c4a-992a-ab51-caa8-07c7ff2bfab0/mza_525718688244697660.jpg?downloadKey=1346861229_83ffb8814987efd318a62777430c9b25
App Icon: http://a827.phobos.apple.com/us/r30/Purple/v4/14/17/90/141790bb-ed37-54da-f4e6-ea8c611c411d/mza_2378339362385311331.170x170-75.png

Located in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, CodeSpot Software JSC was founded in 2010 with the vision of creating quality entertainment and educational applications for mobile devices. The entity keeps their door open for talented and enthusiasm persons who could bring the best technologies and the most values to clients and community. At Codespot, not only you are working, you're creative. All Material and Software (C) 2009-2012 Codespot, JSC / All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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Tuan Hoang
Marketing Manager
+84.62947.957
Viet Nam
tuan.hoang@codespotmobile.com

Facebook Profile: http://www.facebook.com/DrawAndRoll
Twitter Profile: https://twitter.com/codespotmobile

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