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June

29

Monday

Retro Clock Radio Released for iPhone

The combination of clock + radio has been a classic for over 50 years and now it’s available for your iPhone or iPod Touch. The new application, designed and developed by Raizlabs makes use of a retro-style LCD clock display with an internet radio dial featuring over 25,000 stations.

While many applications for the iPhone focus on features and complex interactions, Clock Radio is designed to bring back the joy of music. The application is simple and elegant in it’s design and works easily as a desktop clock or bedroom alarm. The application features free audio streams powered by Shoutcast Radio. The service is one of the largest directories of professional and community programmed online radio giving users of every taste something worth listening too.

Corporate News — support on June 29, 2009 at 5:21 pm

February

23

Monday

Tip Calculator, Top 100 iPhone Application

Tip Calculator, an application designed and developed by Boston based Raizlabs has broken through into the top 100 applications within the Apple IPhone store. The application is a simple to use tip calculator with an attractive look and feel. The software features:

* Large number pad to quickly enter a price
* Split the bill between multiple diners
* Attractive diner/restaurant themed design
* A one of a kind adjustment screen allowing you to make adjustments for each check. You won’t find this feature in tipulator or any other tip calculator.

The application has been very popular and in it’s short availability has been downloaded more then 10,000 times. The application is available from the Apple Istore for $0.99. Additional information is available here.

Corporate News — support on February 23, 2009 at 6:17 pm

January

15

Thursday

Word Popper iPhone Game Released

Word Popper is the first iPhone game developed by Raizlabs. The game is available now from the Apple AppStore. The game is a word game where the object of the game is complete words as quickly as possible.

Word Popper Game

Users get a number of letters and they can pop them to form a word. Each time a word is made they can click the check mark to complete a word. If you can’t find a letter you can shake the game to get new letters. The game can be played by one player or online with many participants. Unlike games like Boggle, Scrabble this word game focuses on speed allowing users with different vocabularies to compete and have fun.

Raizlabs is developing iPhone applications across a wide spectrum of tools. We want to show leadership in user experience and design across a wide range of tools from practical to fun. The game is available and can be downloaded here.

Corporate News — support on January 15, 2009 at 12:41 pm

January

15

Thursday

RunKeeper Wins 2008 Best Outdoor App

Runkeeper an iPhone application for runners, cyclists and athletes wins the 2008 ‘Best App Ever’ award for ‘Best Outdoor Use App
Runkeeper

The RunKeeper application was designed and developed by Raizlabs for one of our iPhone application clients. Raizlabs started developing iPhone applications during the summer of 2008 and continues to build innovative and award winning applications.

Corporate News — support on January 15, 2009 at 12:34 pm

September

17

Wednesday

Raizlabs helps launch new iPhone fitness application

Fitnesskeeper came to Raizlabs with a vision for a technology based company focused on Fitness and Health. Raizlabs helped define a product strategy and vision for an iPhone application to allow runners to track runs using the iPhone 3G.

We created an end-to-end design for the application and the RunKeeper brand and then developed the iPhone portion of the product from concept to release.

The resulting application was one of the first iPhone applications to make use of the GPS capabilities of the phone and helped launch the startup into the health and fitness space. Learn more at www.RunKeeper.com

Corporate News — support on September 17, 2008 at 1:14 pm

July

29

Tuesday

GPSTwit Released to the Itunes Store

Location Location Location.

GPS Twit is a new application that makes it easy for your friends and contacts to track your location around the world. The application is freely available from the iTunes application store for IPhone devices as well as for Windows mobile phones. Users can visit www.gpstwit.com to download the application. The software integrates with the popular twitter.com website allowing users to post their status information along with their GPS position.

Over the last three months Raizlabs has been developing several IPhone applications. “We feel that the mobile platform, and especially the IPhone will be a popular for application design and development and we wanted to get ahead of the curve.” said Gregory Raiz, founder of Raizlabs. While the GPS Twit application is simple in it’s function it provides a unique and transparent way to pass and post location data.

GPS Twit enables people to pass location data back and forth without joining a new social network. The initial rollout supports Twitter however additional networks are in the works.

Learn more at: www.gpstwit.com

Corporate News — support on July 29, 2008 at 12:29 am

February

7

Thursday

PicMe Photo Sharing Version 2 Released


Additional information and press release available here:http://picme.raizlabs.com/news/news-and-releases/picme-20-released-at-pma-2008/Â

Photo Software, Corporate News — support on February 7, 2008 at 4:22 pm

January

18

Friday

Raizlabs to release new version of PicMe at PMA 2008

Later this month Raizlabs will be in Las Vegas to release the next version of our revolutionary PicMe photo sharing product.  PicMe Photo Sharing will get a major upgrade resulting in a number of new features.  PMA2008 is the worlds largest photography conference and expo.

Our new software will continue to make it easier for people to share, view and discover 1000’s of images right from their desktop. The new version adds the ability to work with hardware devices including digital cameras and photo frames as well as improving the core functionality of sharing and viewing photos on your own computer. PicMe is the easiest and fastest way to share photos right from your desktop.
Significant improvements have been made to the plug-in system creating a one-of-a-kind photo experience working with services like Flickr and Facebook.
Come see us at PMA in Las Vegas. We’ll be in booth U246

Photo Software, Corporate News — support on January 18, 2008 at 7:36 pm

July

20

Friday

Raizlabs releases Facebook Photo Plugin

Raizlabs has just released a Facebook plug-in for the recently introduced PicMe Photo Sharing platform. The new plug-in allows users to invite, share and manage their photo content from their desktop. The PicMe application, available from http://picme.raizlabs.com was recently introduced and has been gaining popularity as a desktop based photo sharing tool.

The application now supports Facebook, Flickr and additional plug-ins are in the works. The PicMe software allows users to share hundreds of photos directly from their desktop. Basic and premium services are also available. The software is available as a free download from: http://picme.raizlabs.com

Corporate News — support on July 20, 2007 at 5:03 pm

July

6

Friday

Raizlabs Announced PicMe photo sharing software

BROOKLINE, MA, JULY 6, 2007: Raizlabs Corporation today announced the availability of PicMe Photo Sharing, their new digital photo sharing service. The free software is available now for download at http://picme.raizlabs.com.

The software is the first of its kind to integrate photo sharing with a rich and interactive 3-D desktop experience.
“We wanted to remove the barriers to sharing photos. Unlike many of the existing web sharing tools we focused on the desktop experience, because that’s where your photos live.” said Gregory Raiz founder of Raizlabs.

Over a year of development has gone into this new application which allows users to easily share thousands of photos with their friends and family, while also offering a unique 3-D perspective of all the photos in their digital collections. “Although we use a lot of innovative technology our focus has been on making the product easy enough for novice users.” said Craig Spitzkoff, VP of development.

PicMe takes the pain and need for technical expertise out of sharing photos by providing an intuitive way to interact with your photos and contacts. PicMe also integrates with other popular photo sharing services such as Flickr.

The PicMe service is free to use and allows for sharing of hundreds of photos. Premium accounts are available starting at $9.95/year allowing users to share thousands of photos.

Additional information is available at:
http://picme.raizlabs.com

About Raizlabs Corporation
Raizlabs Corporation is a software development and user interface design firm based in Brookline, MA. Raizlabs is headed by Greg Raiz, a former program manager at Microsoft.
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Corporate News — support on July 6, 2007 at 11:55 am