7/29/2013

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Sun Jul 28, 2013 4:15 am (PDT) . Posted by:

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Squaregram 1.6.0 for iOS - Layouter for Instagram - Published on 07/28/13

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Audacity Software Pte. Ltd. today announces Squaregram 1.6.0 for iOS, its first photo layout tool for Instagram. This nifty little app fits your photo nicely into a square for posting to Instagram, without cropping the original photo. Squaregram features Aviary and Camera+ photo editing with filter effects, gradient background color and freestyle photo positioning with snap-to-grid. The app also offers multiple text labels with separate and customizable font, size, color, alpha and rotation.

Singapore - Audacity Software Pte. Ltd. today is pleased to announce the release of Squaregram for iOS, a photo layout tool for Instagram users. Squaregram fits your photo nicely into a square for posting to Instagram, without cropping the original photo.

The built-in Aviary photo editor allows you to enhance your photo by adjusting brightness, contrast, saturation, cropping, and sharpness. In addition, you can edit with Camera+ and conveniently apply your favorite retro filter effects. The background can be set to either a flat color chosen from the palette, or smooth color gradient with customizable direction.

Squaregram anticipates the most commonly used layouts: mailbox, padded mailbox, and aspect fill. Furthermore, you also get to drag the photo around and set the exact position you want within the square, using the snap-to-grid feature as the guide. Add multiple labels with separate and customizable font, size, color, alpha and rotation. Squaregram uses system fonts installed on your device but if you want more, additional designer fonts are also available through the Groovy Label packs. Squaregram exports directly to Instagram, and shares on Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr.

Feature Highlights:
* 3 popular photo layouts: mailbox, padded mailbox, and aspect fill
* Easily toggle between preset padding sizes for padded mailbox format
* Freestyle positioning allows photo to be placed exactly where you want
* Snap-to-grid feature guides you by suggesting visually pleasing alignments
* Optional shadow and rounded corners for photo
* Embedded Aviary provides powerful editing features that allows you to adjust brightness, contrast, lighting, and apply filters
* Edit photo with Camera , and apply your favorite filter effects
* Add unlimited labels with customizable font, color, alpha, and rotation
* Groovy Label packs contain beautifully crafted designer fonts for your labelling needs
* Select color from color palette or choose the exact color you want
* Mix different colors for the background with the color gradient editor
* Export result directly to Instagram or share on social media

Device Requirements:
* iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad
* Requires iOS 5.0 or later
* 14.7 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Squaregram 1.6.0 is Free and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Photo & Video category.

Audacity Software: http://www.audacity-software.com
Squaregram 1.6.0: https://itunes.apple.com/app/squaregram-layouter-for-instagram/id629495901
Screenshot 1: http://a1.mzstatic.com/us/r1000/006/Purple6/v4/ea/aa/32/eaaa32b9-a840-1643-77e0-acda6bdafe3d/mzl.shlzlpxk.320x480-75.jpg
Screenshot 2: http://a4.mzstatic.com/us/r1000/043/Purple/v4/15/b7/3c/15b73c25-3af2-0228-80b8-9da3bc51879b/mzl.tmuocyze.320x480-75.jpg
App Icon: http://a3.mzstatic.com/us/r1000/055/Purple/v4/9c/46/75/9c467543-9b44-5983-5999-c03265ef4703/mzl.wfewusfb.175x175-75.jpg

Audacity Software Pte. Ltd. is a software development company dedicated to creating fun and amusing apps for the iOS platform. Copyright (C) 2011 Audacity Software Pte. Ltd. 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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Michael Cheong
CEO
Singapore
michael@audacity-software.com

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Sun Jul 28, 2013 6:30 am (PDT) . Posted by:

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Games developer Kameleon Games announces Shark Attack 2 for iOS - Published on 07/28/13

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Kameleon Games today have announced the up and coming release of Shark Attack 2, their new highly addictive tower defense game iOS devices. Help Max to defend his fishes from the big shark and his ugly friends. Delve into the second part of this fun game where you have to be very fast. Promising fast gameplay with awesome 2D graphics and animations, Shark Attack 2 offers superb graphic quality and fully equipped for retina displays. Shark Attack 2 will be available worldwide on August 1st, 2013.

Madrid, Spain - Kameleon Games today have announced the up and coming release of Shark Attack 2, their new highly addictive tower defense game developed exclusively for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices. Help Max to defend his fishes from the big shark and his ugly friends. Delve into the second part of this fun game where you have to be very fast. Shark Attack 2 will be available worldwide on August 1st, 2013.

You'll have hours and hours of fun and entertainment with Shark Attack 2. Unlock all 50 levels across five very different worlds. Enjoy this great adventure and overcome the challenges of each level. You can choose from 18 fish to defend yourself and get finish the levels. You have up to five amazing special powers that you can use if you look helpless against hordes of enemies.

Main features:
* Up to 50 different levels divided in 5 wonderful undersea worlds
* Stunning 2D cartoon graphics & animation
* Game Center enabled
* Achievements
* Online leaderboards
* Multiple defenses and enemies to play with
* Highly polished hd graphics
* Universal. Play for both, iPhone and iPad
* Fantastic power ups available

Each fish is unique and perform different actions Try them all! With more than 28 different enemies fun is beyond question. Do not dawdle ever, the enemies do not lie! Get all the stars to have the highest score and challenge other users. Many surprises await you! Will you defend all the Max fishes? Enjoy the cute colorful graphics of Shark Attack 2. Promising fast gameplay with awesome 2D graphics and animations, Shark Attack 2 offers superb graphic quality and fully equipped for retina displays. Enjoy Shark Attack 2 on both iPad and iPhone / iPod touch for the same price. What more could you want?

Device Requirements:
* Universal Application
* iPhone 4/4S/5
* iPad/iPad mini
* iOS 5.1 or later

Pricing and Availability:
Shark Attack 2 will be only $1.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the games category on 1st of August 2013. It also will be available soon in Google Play. Please feel free to contact Javier Aznar if you like some promo codes or access to a pre-release. Thank you in advance for considering our story for coverage.

Kameleon Games: http://www.kameleongames.com
Shark Attack 2: http://www.kameleongames.com/sharkattack2/
YouTube Video (Trailer): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnToHbijYVs
Press Kit (zip): http://www.rockerapps.com/Shark-Attack-2-press-kit.zip

Located in Madrid, Spain, Kameleon Games was founded by Javier Aznar (CEO of The Clash Soft) and Alberto Aznar (CEO of RockerApps), iOS developers with a broad experience. Kameleon Games makes fun creative apps and video games for the iPhone, iPad and Mac platform. Now Kameleon Games is working on new updates and several projects for different platforms. All Material and Software (C) Copyright 2013 Kameleon Games. 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. Other trademarks and registered trademarks may be the property of their respective owners.

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Javier Aznar
Developer
Spain
info@kameleongames.com

Facebook Profile: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Shark-Attack-2/570136076370420
Twitter Profile: https://twitter.com/kameleongames

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Sun Jul 28, 2013 11:00 pm (PDT) . Posted by:

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uDesktop NEXT for Mac OS X - Choose from Many Free, Hi-Res Wallpapers - Published on 07/29/13

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Aperio Lux today announces uDesktop NEXT for OS X, the next generation of desktop wallpaper application that lets users choose from many hi-res images. There are 35 categories of images for any taste. Wallpapers available in 16 resolution for everything from iPhone and iPad to the MacBook Pro with Retina display. Beautiful unique calendars available for every month. With 'My Folder', uDesktop NEXT being the best wallpapers manager for Mac.

Kiev, Ukraine - Aperio Lux today is pleased to announce uDesktop NEXT for OS X, the next generation of their powerful desktop wallpaper application that lets users choose from many Hi-Res images. Users may download as many wallpapers as they wish. Image categories include: 3D, Abstract, Animals, Architectures, Aviation, Birds, Black & White, Calendars, Cars, Cartoon, Cats, Colors, Fantasy, Fire, Flowers, Food, Glass, Holidays, Insects, Interiors, Love, Misc, Monuments, Mountains, Music, Nature, Ships, Space, Sports, Technical, Textures, Underwater World, Water, Weapons.

Wallpapers are available in different resolution for everything from iPhone and iPad to the MacBook Pro with Retina display:
1280x800, 1280x1024, 1366x768, 1440x900, 1600x1200, 1680x1050, 1920x1080, 1920x1200, 2560x1440, 2560x1600 (Mac Book Pro 13.3" with Retina Display), 2880x1800 (Mac Book Pro 15.4" with Retina Display) and Surfboard
iPad: 1024x768, 2048x1536
iPhone: 960x640, 1136x640

Feature Highlights:
* Unlimited downloads of high resolution pictures
* Categorized Wallpapers - The wallpapers are presented in 35 different categories that are constantly being updated
* Resolutions for everything from iPhone and iPad to the MacBook Pro with Retina display
* Surfboard - incredible panoramic Hi-Res desktop pictures
* Sort the wallpapers by New, Popular or choose Random
* The "Calendars" category is updated monthly so you'll always have a fresh beautiful calendar
* Settings for set image as desktop picture
* Adding much more thousand new images weekly
* Full Retina display ready
* 24/7 Support

uDesktop NEXT change user's judgement of how user can search wallpapers. There is nothing Mac users view more often on their computers than the desktop. The desktop greets users each time they log in, and they instantly recognize it as their own. There are countless apps and websites offering images to personalize the desktop, but none so powerful, user friendly and economical as uDesktop NEXT.

First, unlike other similar applications in uDesktop NEXT there is no hidden or additional costs. A choice of thousands incredible, beautiful, high-resolution images is provided free. Users may download as many as they wish.

Second, the quality and variety of the wallpapers are unsurpassed. There are 35 categories of images, each containing dramatic, artistic photographs for any taste.

Third, wallpapers are available in 16 different resolution for everything from iPhone and iPad to the MacBook Pro with Retina display.

Fourth, Surfboard - incredible panoramic pictures for Mac desktop. All pictures are in fantastic resolutions which user never seen before.

Fifth, lets user add their own images in the catalog for displaying on the desktop. This would allow uDesktop NEXT to become a unified center for managing user's wallpapers. Mix personal photos with the best of professional photography.

Sixth, Calendar category update every month. In this category available many beautiful fresh unique calendar for every month. Calendars available on 5 language: English (European and US style), French, Germany, Italian, Russian.

System Requirements:
* OS X Lion 10.7.4 or later
* OS X 10.8 compatible
* Intel 64-bit processor
* 13.2 MB

Pricing/Availability:
uDesktop NEXT 2.0 is only $2.99 (USD) till July, 31 and $4.99 (USD) after July, 31. Available worldwide through the Mac App Store in the Lifestyle category. Promo codes for review available on request.

Aperio Lux: http://aperio-lux.com/
uDesktop NEXT 2.0: http://aperio-lux.com/Applications/uDesktop-NEXT/uDesktop-NEXT.php
Purchase and Download: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/udesktop-next-wallpaper-manager/id671040216?mt=12
App Icon: http://aperio-lux.com/images/AppIcon/ForiOS/uDesktop%20NEXT.png

Aperio Lux is a small private group of developers, who have a contract Mac OS X developer located Kiev, Ukraine. The Aperio Lux team develops ergonomic and user-friendly software that increases user productivity and user relax on Mac OS X. Copyright (C) 2011-2013 Alexey Nikitin and Alexandr Bondar. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, MacBook, OS X, Retina, iPhone, iPad, and Mac are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. Mac App Store is a service mark of Apple Inc.

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Alexey Nikitin
Owner
+380 67 4068321
Ukraine
lumus@lumus.com.ua

Facebook Profile: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Aperio-Lux/321218434609200
Twitter Profile: http://twitter.com/aperio_lux

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