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Could an iPhone App Win an Oscar?

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

2010 Boston International Film Festival Is the First Major Festival to Show An iPhone Application

BOSTON, Massachusetts (April 15, 2010)  - WALKING CINEMA: MURDER ON BEACON HILL is not a film, it’s an iPhone app, but its innovative, lush storytelling earned it a place in the 2010 Boston International Film Festival on April 18th. Based on the PBS film MURDER AT HARVARD, this location-based app is a real-life murder mystery told in short videos that layer over a map of present-day Beacon Hill.  ”We were just blown away at how watchable the story is in a theatrical setting.  It’s quick-paced, full of juicy details, and, to our knowledge, it’s the first location-based application to screen at a film festival,” said Festival Director Patrick Jerome.

WALKING CINEMA: MURDER ON BEACON HILL is a multimedia story of John Webster, a Harvard Professor accused of murdering and dismembering one of Boston’s richest men in 1849. GPS information enables users to conduct their own guided, interactive tour of significant crime scenes throughout Boston.  The director of WALKING CINEMA, Michael Epstein, calls it “a page-turner mystery powered by your feet.”

Three views of Murder on Beacon Hill on an iPhone

The application is currently the most and highest rated “walking tour” application in the iTunes App Store and can be previewed at www.parkmanmurder.com. “We’ve seen downloads of the application coming from over 30 countries and we believe that many are viewing it as an armchair mystery while locals and tourists here are walking with the story as hands-on history,” Epstein says.

Funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities and developed in partnership with Raizlabs in Brookline, MA, Epstein says that one of the goals of the project was to develop a multi-platform film that led to thoughtful engagement with history and geography.

WALKING CINEMA: MURDER ON BEACON HILL will be shown at 8:15 p.m. on Sunday April 18, 2010 at the Boston Common AMC Theater. Tickets are available through the Boston International Film Festival site http://www.bifilmfestival.com/biffschedule.html. The Boston International Film Festival runs from April 16 to April 25, 2010. The festival strives to bring together in Boston local, national and international filmmakers by promoting the world’s most artistic and creative independent and experimental films.

Use this link to find “WALKING CINEMA: MURDER ON BEACON HILL” in the iTunes Store: http://bit.ly/murder_on_beacon_hill

About Untravel Media Untravel Media, Inc., founded in 2006, is a software and media studio specializing in the production of narrative applications for mobile devices. Untravel Media works with filmmakers, museums, and civic organizations to develop transmedia stories and mobile technologies for immersive experiences of exhibits, events, and critical geographies.  For additional information please visit http://www.untravelmedia.com.

About Raizlabs Founded in 1997 by Gregory Raiz, a leader in user interface design and technology, the company is a lab for creating new and innovative designs and technology. Raizlabs provides creative solutions in design and software to companies worldwide. For additional information please visit http://www.raizlabs.com.

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Fast Development, Not Fast Food

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

Raizlabs Designs, Develops and Launches a Boston Restaurant Week App in Less Than a Week

BOSTON, Massachusetts (March 15, 2010) – Raizlabs announces that its latest iPhone app, Boston Restaurant Week 2010, is now available in the iTunes store less than a week after development began.  Boston Restaurant Week features the addresses, locations (by street address and GPS coordinates) and event menus of all 207 participating restaurants. It even places a call for reservations or offers directions at the press of a button.  The Boston Restaurant Week app sells for $0.99, the minimum price in Apple’s tiered pricing system.  Boston’s Restaurant week is March 14-19 & 20-25, 2010.

Raizlabs developed a content framework enabling developer Justin Kaufman and designer Dave Counts to begin working on the app on a Tuesday and submit the app for approval by Apple before 5PM the following Friday. “I was in New York on Monday demonstrating features of RZContent to publishers when I got an email from Justin about getting started,” said Counts. “Even with an imminent and absolute deadline, the framework let us keep business hours, not developer hours.”

Raizlabs founder Greg Raiz first suggested the project at a morning meeting on Friday, March 5. “We kicked it around,” said Raiz, “But everyone’s schedule was already full. Ultimately, we decided that’s what made it a perfect test for the framework. It’s supposed to make development fast and easy.”

“The great unknown was Apple’s approval cycle,” said Kaufman. “If Apple didn’t approve the app, and quickly, it would have been more an exercise than a product. “Fortunately, we’ve shipped enough apps to know how to avoid rejection and our reputation probably expedited things.”

Boston Restaurant Week is available in the app store on iTunes for $0.99:

http://bit.ly/RZBostonRW

The Restaurant Week official site:

http://www.bostonusa.com/visit/restaurantweek

About Raizlabs

Founded in 1997 by Gregory Raiz, a leader in user interface design and technology, the company is a lab for creating new and innovative designs and technology. Raizlabs provides creative solutions in design and software to companies worldwide.

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Retro Clock Radio Released for iPhone

Monday, July 6th, 2009

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.

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Tip Calculator, Top 100 iPhone Application

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

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.

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Word Popper iPhone Game Released

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

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.

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RunKeeper Wins 2008 Best Outdoor App

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

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.

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Raizlabs helps launch new iPhone fitness application

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

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 and download the app at www.RunKeeper.com

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GPSTwit Released to the Itunes Store

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

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 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

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