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In Memoriam: Keiji Nakamura

I am deeply saddened to report the passing of talented designer and friend Keiji Nakamura. In addition to being a deeply patient and kind person, Keiji was the main designer of SlideScreen and one of the most talented designers we’ve worked with. He took a crude sketch of ours and rapidly transformed it into the [...]

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Winken, Blinken and Nod for iPad

I couldn’t be more excited to announce our latest iPad project: Winken, Blinken and Nod. It’s the first iPad children’s book to include voice recognition! You just read the story and watch the animations follow along with your voice. Read with your child and let them touch and shake the screen while the story moves [...]

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The end of SlideScreen

Last week Google released an update to the Android Gmail app that removed our access to Gmail data, see here for more details. As of right now there appears to be no workaround as this is an intentional change to restrict access to the data. In general, the early hope on Android of open access [...]

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SVG Android Library and Google I/O

We’re very excited to be in San Francisco today and tomorrow for Google I/O! We’ll be in the sandbox area to open source a big part of Androidify to help developers use vector graphics in their Android apps. Thanks to the Google Creative Lab for supporting the open sourcing of this code and for being [...]

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PhotoWall Update

We’ve just released the latest version (1.2) of PhotoWall live wallpaper and thought it would be a good time to give an update on it’s progress: Version 1.2 added support for Picasa web albums. We also rewrote the photo storage and randomization so you’ll see a larger variety of photos. Version 1.1 added photo effects [...]

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