There were over 50 news stories posted about the Star Trek PADD app (see the list below) and tremendous buzz on Facebook and Twitter. In the first day alone, tweets about the app were sent to over 1 million people and the app was mentioned on “The Big Bang Theory” TV show’s Facebook page, which has 15 million fans, and was “liked” by over 6000 people.

#1 Top Selling iPad App

The exciting news is that the app rocketed up the charts and within 24 hours of being available it was the #1 top selling iPad app (even ahead of Fruit Ninja, Pages & Keynote, and 3 different versions of Angry Birds). After being out for almost a week, it remains in the top 10 grossing iPad apps, and continues to be the #1 top selling iPad app in the Entertainment category in the United States and across 11 other countries worldwide.

Not a bad week!

News & Reviews Of The Star Trek PADD App

• The Los Angeles Times: ‘Star Trek’ app: Does your iPad need an Enterprising spirit?
• San Francisco Chronicle: Transforms Your iPad into a PADD
• Collider: Awesome STAR TREK App Turns iPad into PADD
• StarTrek.com: Star Trek PADD App Available Today
• IGN Wireless: CBS Interactive Launches the Official “Star Trek Padd App” For iPad
• TrekMovie.com: CBS Releases Official Star Trek PADD for iPad
• The Next Web: Want to turn your iPad into a PADD from Star Trek? I thought so.
• Cult of Mac: Engage! Official Star Trek PADD app for iPad Released
• Wired: Make It So: Hands-On With Official Star Trek iPad App
• Electronista: iPad meets Star Trek dreams with official PADD app
• iLounge: CBS releases official Star Trek PADD app
• The iPad Guide: Star Trek App Beams Onto the iPad
• TrekNews: CBS Mobile Releases Official LCARs iPad App
• LoopInsight: Turn your iPad into a Star Trek PADD
• Older Macs: iOS App of the Day: Star Trek PADD
• Ain’t it Cool: Check Out This Nifty iPad App That Turns Your iPad Into A STAR TREK PADD
• Business Insider: Hey Trekkies! You’ll Want This iPad App
• Worldscreen: Star Trek App Launches Today
• Xydo: Hey Trekkies! You’ll Want This iPad App
• Subspace Communique: CBS Interactive Launches Official Star Trek LCARS iPad App
• Nothing but tables: CBS launches official Star Trek PADD app for iPad, a Trekkie’s wet dream
• CNET: The 404 podcast
• Guardian.co.uk: Apps rush: Star Trek
• Engadget: Star Trek PADD App is a LCARS-sporting Trekkie’s reference bible for the iPad
• Mobile Marketer: CBS interacts with Star Trek fans via iPad app
• Trek Today: Official Star Trek PADD App for iPad
• 148Apps: Get A Star Trek Style Experience With Star Trek PADD
• The Flickcast: The Future Is Here With New ‘Star Trek’ iPad App
• CNET: Let your Trekkie flag fly with Star Trek PADD for iPad
• InteractiveTV Today: Interactive TV News Round-Up (II): CBS Interactive, “Star Trek”
• tuaw.com: Star Trek PADD official app creates iPad fact from science fiction
• Tapscape: Top 5: This Week’s Best iPad Apps
• Geeky Gadgets: Star Trek Official PADD iPad App
• 148Apps: App Detail » Star Trek PADD
• Stun Media Blog: Star Trek PADD App … The Final iPad Frontier
• License! Global: CBS Launches ‘Star Trek’ App
• Cynopsis  Digital:Daily Round Up
• Cynopsis Kids: Daily Round Up
• Licensing.biz: Official Star Trek app hits iPad
• Dallas News: Star Trek’ app turns iPad into a Starfleet PADD
• Art of the iPhone: Star Trekkies Finally Get Their Official iPad PADD App
• Gadgets and Gizmos: CBS Interactive launches the Star Trek PADD app for the iPad
• Gadget Helpline: Star Trek PADD app for iPad sees sci-fi tech come full circle
• Redmond Pie: Official Star Trek iPad App Turns iPad Into PADD (video)
• Pocket Lint: Forget iOS – Star Trek PADD puts LCARS on your iPad
• Joseph Dickerson Blog: Video Review of the Star Trek PADD app for the iPad (video)
• Home Technology Montreal: The 24th Century is now..Official Star Trek PADD app launched
• GeekSugar.com Download of the Day: Star Trek PADD
• Sync: Star Trek gets its first official app
• Total Licensing Report: CBS Interactive Launches the Official Star Trek PADD App for iPad
• International Business Times – CBS Launches Star Trek PADD
• Chip Chick – Engage The Ultimate Trekkie App
• Padvance – App of the Week
• NewsOK – On Board The Enterprise
• SeenIt – Star Trek PADD for iPad
• Mobile Marketer – CBS Interacts With Star Trek Fans
• TrekMovie.com – Video Demo & Review (video)

Starfleet Headquarters, San Francisco – Stardate 2011.07.11

Engineers from Starfleet and United Federation of Planets have announced the immediate availability of the Starfleet PADD app for iPad devices.  After 45 years of continuous development and enhancement, most of which took place in a future timeline, the PADD, or Personal Access Display Device, has become a standard piece of equipment for all members of Starfleet. The PADD app is now available for Apple’s iPad.

An App Where No App Has Gone Before

The resulting app gives Starfleet personnel and regular civilians direct access to a universe of Star Trek information, including aliens, ships, places, technologies, and episode guide.  The app provides a rich, immersive LCARS interface, and includes recognizable sound signals and voice prompts, making it enjoyable to anyone.  The app also includes the latest terrestrial Star Trek news from Facebook and Twitter.

The app is available today for just under five bars of gold-pressed latinum ($4.99) via subspace radio from the iTunes App Store.

Star Trek PADD App Developers

All kidding aside, we’re honored CBS chose us to develop the official Star Trek PADD app. We’re true Star Trek fans and were intensely focused on making this app both useful and fun, while maintaining authenticity and reproducing the LCARS design faithfully. ArcTouch’s app developers handled all the UI and visual design, database development, and app programming and testing.

The app includes the following features:

Read the official STAR TREK PADD app press release from CBS, view the STAR TREK PADD app promotional video, or download the app from the App Store.

A new mobile app platform called WiO is set to revolutionize the TV watching experience by allowing customers to immediately get information about the products and services they see advertised on screen, both in TV commercials and within the shows themselves.

The WiO iOS app developed by ArcTouch “listens” to the audio in a commercial and identifies the appropriate “offer” to provide to users.

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ArcTouch was invited to present in the App Exchange showcase on 4/20 and 4/21 during AdTech San Francisco 2010.

Download our AdTech presentation for an overview of the ArcTouch app development studio and our iPhone & iPad app developer services.

You can also try out the featured apps from the App Exchange that we developed for Maxim Magazine and CityMint.

Tip ‘em! – the best tip calculator for the BlackBerry Storm – is now available for the entire BlackBerry platform, including the BlackBerry Curve, the BlackBerry Bold and the BlackBerry Pearl. Tip ‘em! helps you quickly and accurately calculate the tip on a check and split the bill between multiple diners. It makes it easy to exclude items from the tip calculation, such as drinks and tax, and includes built-in tip suggestions for over 20 countries.

Tip ‘em! is available now from BlackBerry App World.

BlackBerry App Developers

Tip ‘em! raises the bar on both application development functionality and design, showing that BlackBerry apps can look just as good as any iPhone app. ArcTouch’s San Francisco BlackBerry app developers combined a custom background graphic (a retro “diner” check complete with a coffee stain) with a built-in handwriting font and seamlessly blended in the native user interface controls of the BlackBerry for the numeric  entry and lists for tip amount, rounding and split amount.

Key Features Of Tip ‘em! Tip Calculator For BlackBerry

• Easily enter the total bill using the numeric keypad
• Select a tip amount between 0% and 30%
• Split the check between 2 and 10 people (optional)
• Exclude tax and drinks from the tip calculation (optional)
• Round the tip or the total to make splitting the bill easier (optional)
• Includes recommended “Tip Suggestions” for over 20 countries
• Rich graphical interface and easy to use touch controls, or track pad, or track ball
• Designed, developed and programmed for the BlackBerry Curve, BlackBerry Bold, BlackBerry Pearl, and BlackBerry Storm

Have an app idea? ArcTouch offers complete custom mobile app development and programming services.

Contact us today to see how we can help you with your BlackBerry development needs.

The CityMint application provides the fastest and most convenient way to order food from local restaurants on your mobile phone. CityMint was developed by ArcTouch and is available now for the iPhone and iPod touch in the app store.

Fast And Convenient Way To Order Food

Whenever you’re hungry – at home or at work – CityMint makes it easy to order food:

• Search by current location, address, cuisine, or available menu items.
• Choose what you want, make special requests, and complete the order for pick-up or delivery.
• Save favorite restaurants for one-touch ordering.
• Store frequently used cards and pay for your order without digging out your wallet.

ArcTouch iPhone App Developers

CityMint selected ArcTouch as the iPhone developer for the second version of their app, after realizing that the original iPhone programmer they hired was not able to create an application that was stable or scalable enough for their growing business needs. ArcTouch’s expert iPhone programmers redesigned and rewrote the application and the web services to support it. We used our proven agile development processes and other best-practices such as test-driven development, to ensure robust error free software that CityMint can grow with.

Featured ArcTouch iPhone Development Services:

• REST web services to access restaurant data and Yelp reviews
• GPS, MapKit & location services
• Ruby On Rails
• Core Data and SQLite
• In-app analytics to measure usage patterns

Have an app idea? ArcTouch offers complete custom mobile app development and programming services.

Contact us today to see how we can help you with your iPhone development needs.

iGevalt is beautiful Chanukah dreidel game with realistic 3D graphics and sounds. You spin the dreidel with a swipe of your finger, or by using two fingers and “spinning” it.  When it lands, a popup appears that shows you what you got and what to do with the “pot” when you’re playing the dreidel game. iGevalt is available now for the iPhone and iPod touch for $.99 from the app store.

iPhone App Created In Just 6 Days

It’s a miracle! ArcTouch created iGevalt in just 6 days! And on the 7th day… we submitted it to the Apple app store!  Just in time for Chanukah.

Seriously, this app was created in exactly one week, but still has the polish and refinement you can expect from the iPhone apps that ArcTouch creates. We used a 3D modeling tool to create the stunning dreidel graphics, including the shadows and reflections, and recorded a series of audio clips from children playing an actual dreidel game for the realistic sounds during play.

The experts agree, iGevalt is the best dreidel app available for the iPhone and iPod. Here’s some proof:

It’s super fun! My dad doesn’t like me getting chocolate fingers all over the phone’s screen though.  (Jason, 5)

Oy vey. This is about as authentic as you can get without the real thing… and I should know!  Now can you use that GPS to help me find some good latkes? (Rabbi Abraham Westheim, 62)

Looking for an app of your own? Contact us for a free estimate. ArcTouch offers complete iPhone application development and programming services.

For those who were wondering, there’s a wide variety of ways to spell Chanukah and Dreidel. Here’s the most common variations: Chanukah, Hanukah, Chanukkah, Hanukkah, Dreidel, Dreydel, Draydel.

Meet Captain ArcTouch, digital defender of justice, and his super apps! Captain ArcTouch is an iPhone comic book app developed by ArcTouch.

Web Apps Delivers Full Functionality In A Browser

Captain ArcTouch is a Web App. Web apps are delivered over the Internet from a web site to an iPhone or iPod touch through Safari web browser. Unlike traditional mobile web sites, however, which are simplified web pages created for viewing over a the browser on the phone, Web Apps are very similar to the graphically rich and interactive “native apps” delivered through the iTunes App Store.

For example, Web Apps can contain complex animations and transitions through the capabilities of modern HTML5, CSS, and Javascript. Web Apps can also take advantage of unique functionality of the hardware device, such as the GPS, accelerometer, and swipe and pinch/zoom gestures. Web Apps can store data locally on the phone, and can even be launched right from the phone’s home screen into full screen (without Safari’s navigation buttons) like our very own Captain ArcTouch web app. Best of all, Web Apps can be deployed quickly and easily right from your own web site and can be updated just as easily too.

Web Apps are also more portable to other platforms, since the Android, BlackBerry and the webOS all have some support for modern HTML5 and CSS.

Apps Make You Super. We Make Super Apps.

Contact us to learn more.

CHROME from American National Property And Casualty Companies (ANPAC) is the first app designed exclusively for classic car & specialty car fans. CHROME is available now for the iPhone and iPod touch for $1.99 from the app store.

Fun And Useful Features For Car Enthusiasts

Instead of carrying a Blue Book, Black Book, or relying on limited online information, CHROME users can:

• Search a real-time price guide data for more than 40,000 models of vehicles from 1899 through the 1990s provided by Old Cars Price Guide.
• See a calendar of upcoming car show information searchable by name and location. Get directions or tell a friend about an event by email.
• Journal your road trips as you travel using GPS, notes and photos. Share your trips by email or post to Facebook.
• View and share photos by make and model for some of the best custom and original rides from shows across the country.
• Browse images of show-quality hot rods and classic cars featured in the 2009 and 2010 ANPAC Chrome calendars.

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ArcTouch iPhone App Developer Snapshot

ANPAC chose ArcTouch to create a compelling application to reinforce their brand position as the trusted source of insurance and customer care for fans of classic cars & specialty cars.

Featured Technologies ArcTouch Implemented:

• REST web services to access price guide, car shows and car photos
• GPS, MapKit & location services
• Facebook integration to share trip photos
• Core Data and SQLite
• In-app analytics to measure usage patterns

ArcTouch offers complete iPhone application development and programming services.

The iChemoDiary from Merck is a personal medical diary to record your chemotherapy schedule, treatments, medication and symptoms such as nausea and vomiting. The iChemoDiary is available now for the iPhone and iPod touch from the app store.

iChemoDiary App Empowers Patients To Manage Their Medical Care

Patients use the iChemoDiary app to track their experience during chemotherapy and communicate with their care givers, empowering them to take an active role in their medical care. With both quick-entry and expandable options, no details are lost, and multiple reporting options make it easy to share the information with your doctor or nurse.

Create a profile for yourself or another person with current chemotherapies and medications.

• Touch a day of the week to record chemotherapy, medications, and symptoms. A dot on a calendar day indicates information has been recorded.
• Quickly and easily record severity of side-effects and other symptoms.
• See charts and reports of your chemotherapy experience on a daily or weekly basis.
• Email reports to family and caregivers directly from your iPhone or iPod touch.

ArcTouch iPhone App Developer Snapshot

ArcTouch was hired to create a best-in-class application that is easy to use for patients and adheres to the quality standards of the pharmaceutical and medical industry, and the FDA.

Thanks for being great partners and for all the help and suggestions you offered. And, of course, you guys did an amazing job building the app.

Featured Technologies ArcTouch Implemented:

• Custom Calendar Control
• Custom Graphing Library For Data Visualization
• Core Data and SQLite

ArcTouch offers complete iPhone application development and programming services.