1/27/2013

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Sat Jan 26, 2013 6:45 am (PST) . Posted by:

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Sing a Song for Free - a free social singing game like Draw Something - Published on 01/26/13

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Do you love singing? LunacatStudios today announces Sing a Song for Free 1.2, an update to its song guessing game for iOS. Very similar to Draw Something but for singing, Sing a Song for Free is not only a fun game but also a social tool for you to connect with your friends. Select a friend or a random person to play, and pick one of the three songs given by the game. The game will show you the lyrics for you to sing along. The game features more than 3000 songs in many languages.

Ho Chi Minh, Viet Nam - Do you love singing? Do you love connecting with people? If yes, "Sing a Song for Free" released by LunacatStudios is the game for you. It is very similar to Draw Something but for singing. It is not only the game for fun but also a social tool for you to connect with your friends and everyone around the world. The game asks you to sing a top-hit song and your friends will try to guess the title of the song that you just performed.

The nicest thing got out from the game is that, while many of us love singing but we do not have enough chance or enough encouragement to sing it in front of other people, and having this game is a solution. You can choose to sing to your friends or someone who do not know you at all. One nice feature of the game is allowing you to morph your voice to make it not only fun but also for people who are too shy to share their real voices.

Sing a Song is very simple for anyone who already played the famous Draw Something before. It just follows the same turn-based fashion. You select a friend or a random people to play, and pick one of the three songs given by the game. The game then shows you the lyrics for you to sing along and a link to Youtube videos of the song, in case you forget the its tune.

"The idea of Sing a Song came across because the whole team are fans of Draw Something," said Tien Dinh, founder of LunacatStudios. "Seeing the excitement and potential of this idea, we decided to push back other major game projects to mainly focus on this game. Now Sing a Song is on the market with many solid features. We are porting it to Android while maintaining development on other new apps. Two of our new products will be on AppStore soon next month."

When you receive a record from your friend, while you are listening to the song, if you are able to guess what is the title, you can stop the audio player at anytime and start typing on the virtual keyboard the title of the song in the hangman-style. The faster you guess, the more coins you and your friend will earn for that turn. If you find it hard to guess the title, you can use the hint to help rule out some available letters to narrow the guess. There is also a built-in instant messenger for you to chat with your friends.

Another great feature of Sing a Song is that, it provides the top-hit songs from many countries and many languages including English, Latin, French, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese and Chinese. Which means, if you love to sing any of popular songs from those languages, you are all set. If not, you can still send a request to LunacatStudios, they are more than happy to add a new set of songs from a different country when there are enough requests.

Sing a Song now features more than 3000 songs covering the most popular songs from many countries in the last few years. The database is also actively updated every week with the newest great songs. In the mean time, LunacatStudios is planning to add music beat to the game while making the game available on Android phones to support Android users out there.

"I believe Sing a Song for Free has a lot of potential to grow," continued Tien. "Let's give it a try, and see if you like it. By the way, LunacatStudios is holding a Mini Contest to win an iPod Shuffle. For more information, please go to Facebook of LunacatStudios."

Language Support:
Sing a Song for Free directly supports English, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Spanish and Swedish languages.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad
* Requires iOS 4.3 or later
* 16.9 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Sing a Song for Free 1.2 is only $0.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Games category.

Sing a Song for Free 1.2: http://lunacatstudios.com/?cat=1
Download from iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/app/sing-a-song-for-free/id555615690
Screenshot (Main Game): http://a1901.phobos.apple.com/us/r1000/107/Purple/v4/8d/58/a0/8d58a019-a55a-2c58-1cb0-f3f457df17a9/mzl.fkuqzdws.320x480-75.jpg
Screenshot (Song Selection): http://a1495.phobos.apple.com/us/r1000/114/Purple/v4/61/26/49/612649ef-e97a-671a-a961-9a8fb3d10b8f/mzl.wnbhkell.320x480-75.jpg
Screenshot (Recording): http://a762.phobos.apple.com/us/r1000/090/Purple/v4/71/df/35/71df3522-cccd-ce0c-2129-362fb62ca1e1/mzl.inenxkpc.320x480-75.jpg
Screenshot (Guessing): http://a1548.phobos.apple.com/us/r1000/062/Purple/v4/4f/52/fe/4f52fe44-f8f9-5c48-7685-3dd34bc70624/mzl.rbjskohm.320x480-75.jpg

LunacatStudios is a small company based in Vietnam which has 3 developers and 1 designer. The company was founded in early of 2012, focusing in building social mobile games. Copyright (C) 2012-2013 LunacatStudios. 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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Tien Dinh
Founder
Viet Nam
lunacatstudios@gmail.com

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

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Sat Jan 26, 2013 7:00 am (PST) . Posted by:

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Handy Photo for iOS offers easy to use professional photo editing tools - Published on 01/26/13

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ADVA Soft today announced the upcoming release of Handy Photo 1.0, an innovative photo editor for iOS, packed with a complete set of easy to use tools for performing cropping, uncropping, retouching, lossless straightening, intellectual objects extraction and moving, framing, and more. Handy Photo 1.0 is expected to hit the App Store at the end of January 2013, bringing with it a whole host of professional grade editing tools, setting a new standard in mobile photo editing.

Dresden, Germany - ADVA Soft will soon be releasing its brand new product for both the beginners and professional photo editors. Handy Photo 1.0 will offer the users a wide range of possibilities to apply different corrections and improvements to their photos.
Handy Photo 1.0 main features:

* Move Me technology for intellectual objects extraction and moving
* Magic Crop tool with unique photo "un-cropping" function
* The best retouching technology for mobile platforms
* Impressive collection of professional photo filters
* Complete sets of high quality textures and frames
* 100% size image viewing
* Up to 25 MP images support
* Optimized for multi-core and GPU processors
* RAW format support
* Stylish UI

The app is of wide functionality, so the users will be able to edit their photos from different angles - from arranging objects as wanted to adding frames and textures to them.

The improved versions of innovative uncropping and horizon straightening (without losing in image size) techniques, presented in ADVA Soft's AntiCrop app earlier, are implemented in Handy Photo 1.0 either.

The Retouch and Clone Stamp tools, found in ADVA Soft's TouchRetouch app, are even more functional in Handy Photo 1.0, offering the users the possibilities to utilize the Loupe for more accurate retouching and two types of the Clone Stamp for more comfortable cloning.

The users will also be able to adjust auto levels, brightness, contrast, warmth, shadows, highlights, saturation, and sharpness in their photos with a full set of color correction tools and apply various effects to them with more than 20 filters, including Black and White, Bleach Bypass, Tilt-Shift, Duotone, Fog, Glow, and more.

The innovative Move Me tool will enable the users to freely move the objects within the photo borders or from photo to photo, additionally rotating, duplicating them, or determining their saturation and opacity before transporting them to a needed location.

With seven groups of textures (Wood, Paper, Grunge, etc.), the users will easily influence their photos atmosphere. Each group contains some certain number of textures. After selecting any of them, the user will be allowed to make some settings to it, namely to select a mode of the texture application, to perform flipping or rotating, to determine the color of the texture before overlaying it onto the image, and more.

Being simple to use, the app will allow the users of different photo editing skills to operate a huge number of the innovative tools with ease.

Pricing and Availability:
Handy Photo 1.0 will be available worldwide exclusively through the Apple App Store for a discounted price of 1.99 USD. The beta version is available for all qualified reviewers. Please specify the website or blog you represent when making your request.

Adva Soft: http://www.adva-soft.com/
Handy Photo Brochure: http://www.adva-soft.com/products/handyphoto/br_1_0.pdf
Screenshots (iPhone 5): http://s853.beta.photobucket.com/user/advasoft/library/Handy%20Photo_iphone%205
Screenshots (iPad): http://s853.beta.photobucket.com/user/advasoft/library/Handy%20Photo_iPad
App Icon: http://www.adva-soft.com/products/handyphoto/1024.png

Adva Soft is young Ukrainian software R&D company, aimed at developing the most innovative image processing applications for mobile and desktop platforms. Copyright (C) 2008-2013 Adva-Soft. All Rights Reserved. Apple,the Apple logo, iPhone, iPad and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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Kristina Kostsyuk
PR Coordinator
Germany
kristy@adva-soft.com

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Sat Jan 26, 2013 7:00 am (PST) . Posted by:

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US Veteran Plays Underdog Role w/ App for Couples - Published on 01/26/13

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There are big changes in store for iLoveNote, an app developed for iOS and Android devices. iLoveNote allows a couple to affectionately share their life together in a private social network. The idea for iLoveNote was conceived while Nathan Zacher was in the US Army in Iraq & away from his girlfriend. The developer realized that there was a great need for an app that could help enhance communication and support his & other committed relationships. This app was made for couples to stay connected.

Sioux Falls, South Dakota - There are big changes in store for iLoveNote, an iOS and Android app for the iPhone, iPad and Android devices. iLoveNote allows a couple to affectionately share their life together in a private social network. The app's features help improve communication and enrich the relationship by creating an unique and fun way to express ideas, thoughts, concerns and goals better than an email, text message, or Facebook post.

"To be quite frank, I made a few poor business decisions while choosing designers and developers during my deployment. However, we did get a product in the App Store and Google Play but we are really excited about moving towards a new phase of development. We want your ideas! We need your help! We are going to strip this app down and create the perfect app for couples, as designed by you!"

Nathan Zacher came up with the idea for iLoveNote while in Iraq in December 2011. "My girlfriend and I were having troubles remembering all the important topics to visit about in our limited time on the phone. We wanted a way to keep organized thoughts on important life events and we wanted a way to always remember our life together! As mentioned in the title, I am not some big company with unlimited capital like some of the competition, but I am always looking for investors to move this app to the next level! Contact me if you would like to visit with me about some ideas."

This app was made for couples to stay connected throughout their busy day and to strengthen their relationship. iLoveNote promotes communication, organization, and connection while maintaining a digital scrapbook of the couple's life together.

Key Features:

* Love Note - Easily post a quick private note or photo.

* Date Night - Book a date, time together and organize the daily schedule. Post and store photos or reminders about something that happened. Seamlessly organize and save the arranged dates and events in iCal.

* Hot Topix - Don't forget important topics to discuss in this simple and useful feature. Add notes, photos, or discussion points.

* Bucket List - Couples can create a list of all the things they want to do in their life together and check them off as they are accomplished. Post photos and comments to remember these important lifetime goals and experiences.

* Mends - Relationships can be tough. Improve and advance communication. Track progress by using iLoveNote's icons and graphing tools.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad
* Requires iOS 4.0 or later
* 3.2 MB

Pricing and Availability:
iLoveNote 1.0 is available for Free in the Apple App Store in the Lifestyle category. iLoveNote is also available on the Android "Google Play" store.

iLoveNote 1.0: http://www.ilovenote.com
Download From iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/app/ilovenote/id511266042
Download From Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lovenote
Screenshots: http://ilovenote.com/screenshots/
App Icon: http://a2.mzstatic.com/us/r1000/080/Purple/v4/25/eb/c3/25ebc333-fe33-ebe7-0d22-eadefb1fb063/oDW3xARRpBRXKtkPDc1xTg-temp-upload.vgsqsgxp.175x175-75.jpg

Based in Sioux Falls, SD, Nathan Zacher is a law student and entrepreneur who is always looking for an exciting challenge in life. iLoveNote was imagined in Iraq in December 2011 and Nathan gathered a team of developers and designers to create the app for iOS (iPhone/iPad) and Android. Copyright (C) 2013 Nathan Zacher. 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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Nathan Zacher
Founder
United States
ndzacher@ilovenote.com

Facebook Profile: http://www.facebook.com/ilovenote
Twitter Profile: http://twitter.com/ndzacher

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