Features at a glance:
* Create a virtually unlimited amount of shift types
* Enter shifts on the calendar months in advance in seconds
* Generate shift rotations to fill in future dates automatically
* View the calendar in timeline format to see their shift flow at a glance
* Create colored personalized notes for any date on the calendar
* Include week of year or week 1/2 alternating pattern on the calendar
* Jump to any month by using the “Goto” button
* Save a month’s worth of shifts to the iPhone’s background
* Share shifts with others via email, MMS, Twitter or Facebook

Features in detail:
In addition to standard shifts, rotations can also be applied to the calendar. Users select the length of their rotation, then add shifts and apply that rotation to the calendar. This process allows a year’s worth of shifts to be filled in very quickly.

Notes can also be added to any date on the calendar in the same way as adding shifts. Different colors can be used to represent different types of notes for easier visual reference.

Users who start their work week on a day other than Sunday or Monday can select any day of the week. It is also possible to show the week of year or alternating weeks for each line of the calendar. An option to show shifts as icons or by the time in the day that they occur is available to help those who work overnight shifts.

A month’s worth of shifts can be saved to the home screen background so they can be referenced without needing to open up the app. These shifts can also be shared with friends and family via email, MMS, Twitter and Facebook.

Minimum Requirements:
* iPhone 3G and above or iPod touch Second generation and above
* iOS 3.0 or later (iOS 4.0 Tested)
* 2.6 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Shift Worker 1.4.2 is $1.99 USD (or equivalent in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Productivity category.

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Our recent application for celebrity Chris Tarrant was a challenge for the team. Chris is an avid angler and wanted to share his knowledge through the iPhone application. The app also includes interactive waterways maps, tips ans tricks and weather forecasts too.

Other applications include a location based app called Pub Explorer. The application allows users to find their nearest pub and also find out what facilities are available. The app contains hundreds of pubs across the UK and also an interactive map to allow users to crawl to their next public house

Westfield Health needed an application to allow it’s customers to login and check their private medical details, advising what policies they are entitled to and also their remaining account balance.

3Squared has many other applications in the pipeline. If you’re looking to have an iPhone app developed, get in touch with 3Squared today.

UK software development company 3Squared, has moved into the luxury lifestyle market and launched a revolutionary new ‘super-yacht’ application for use on iPads and iPhones.

 Developed on behalf of YCO, a leading Monte Carlo-based yacht company, the app is a searchable, interactive catalogue of super-yachts.

 Designed to help yacht buyers, brokers, and charterers search quickly and easily for available yachts, the app enables instant comparison of specifications, décor and accessories with other yachts on the market.

 James Fox, Director of 3Squared said:  “When YCO approached us, we were excited by the prospect of developing an app in a market that was new to us. We have lots of experience in developing apps for a diverse set of clients, but this is the first one aimed at the ‘super-rich’. We’re very pleased with the outcome. ”

 The application was demonstrated at the exclusive Monaco Yacht Show which took place from 22 –25 September, on the YCO stand.

 Gary Wright, Managing Partner of YCO, said:

 “When the iPad was launched we immediately saw the potential to create portable sales and charter catalogues. It’s greener than printing off reams of paper and less cumbersome; it’s interactive and easy to keep fully up-to-date.”

 The iPad application is will be available to download from the Apple app store in December, while the iPhone application is due to be released in the New Year.

Anecdotal evidence from developer David Smith of Cross Forward Consulting (via Silicon Alley Insider) suggests, however, that the program may not be cost-effective for developers, as a test ad campaign resulted in low click-through and conversion rates for an app priced at only $0.99.
From August 19 through August 25 I ran a campaign on the newly released iAd for Developers platform for our Audiobooks Premium app. The results were, to say the least, disappointing. For all the promise of selling your apps directly within an advertisement, it appears that so far this is not a viable way to drive traffic and create an economically sustainable promotion. For $1,251.75, my campaign generated a total of 84 downloads, thus a Cost Per Acquisition (CPA) of ~$15. For a $0.99 app, those economics just can’t work out.

The remainder of the post details the process of signing up for an monitoring the iAd for Developers, and while Smith was pleased with the professionalism of Apple’s iAd staff and the ease with which he could monitor his campaign, the return on investment was simply nowhere near what would be required to be viable. While an application carrying a higher price tag or significant in-app purchasing content might stand a better chance of seeing a profitable ad campaign, conversion rates would likely be even lower for a more expensive application.
Given that the cost for the campaign is entirely based on clicks, we designed our banner to try and provide the audience with all the basic information they need to understand what Audiobooks is and whether they might be interested in purchasing it. This lead to a more textual treatment than a graphical one. Since we don’t pay for impressions we only wanted truly interested people clicking on the advertisement.
Apple’s iAd program utilizes a “targeting system” that helps identify which users might be most likely to respond to and purchase a given application, and for that reason, Apple’s staff encouraged Smith to continue the campaign beyond the first few unsuccessful days in hopes of refining that targeting and boosting yields. Improvement was non-existent, however, and the campaign was canceled after six days and only 84 downloads on over 2 million impressions.
Smith also performed a comparison campaign using the same banner ad on AdMob’s network, finding a click-through rate over five times higher than that for iAd, and with AdMob’s cheaper cost structure, Smith’s cost-per-click was over six times cheaper on AdMob than on iAd. The reason for the significant difference in click-through rates between the platforms is unclear, especially considering the widely-held belief that the iAd program would offer a “premium” branding that would be more enticing to users than traditional banner ads.

If you missed our first installment of “119 iPad apps for admins, coders, and geeks”, you might want to take a quick peek at its intro, and read our caveats on testing, ratings, and expectations.

The same rules apply to this week’s episode, in which we delve into inexpensive apps for programmer training, code editing, user-interface development, programming-language reference, and two iPad-based clocks designed to tickle your inner geek.

Training
We all have to start somewhere, and the journey of a thousand lines of code starts with the first keystroke — so here are a few training tools available in the App Store, some to get you started, some to ease you along your way, and some to test or hone your smarts.

Said testing and honing is what C++ Cheat Sheet ($1.99, four and a half stars) is designed to do. According to its developer, this code sample–laden app is good for test preparation or for “reviewing for an interview.” We would, however, have appreciated a keyword search.
If you want to step back to basics, Learn C ($1.99, three stars) can give you help in the ur-language of ANSI C. If you spend your days wrestling with C++ or Objective C, Learn C can offer a pleasant stroll down memory lane.

An arguably more practical education can be had with JAVA Technologies ($9.99). According to this app’s developer, in it you’ll find info on both basic and advanced Java, basic and advanced swings, servlets and applets, security, and J2EE.

The same developer who put together JAVA Technologies, Impressol, offers SQL & PL/SQL ($9.99) and UNIX Programming ($5.99). We’ll leave it up to you to determine what those two tutorials cover. Shouldn’t be hard.

If you’re not ready for quite as deep a dive as is offered by SQL & PL/SQL, iSQL Lite (99¢, two and a half stars) is, well, lite.

As might be assumed, the App Store has a few apps that focus on coding for the iPad/Phone/Pod. SDK Tutorials HD ($1.99, four stars) got high marks from App Store users for its tutorials and code snippets, although we found its UI — especially its black-on-blue text — more fussy than friendly.
Both App Workshop ($4.99, three and a half stars) and CodingPad ($5.99, two and a half stars) are also iPad/Phone/Pod-centric, and both receive mixed reviews. But at least their textual info is easy to read.

Today we launch our first installment of a Reg roundup of iPad apps that provide more utility than do fart-sharing, bubble-popping, and “Yo Mama!” joke-telling apps. We’ll focus on items that can ease your sysadmin chores — and in coming weeks another installment will provide help for coders, and a third will share an assortment of tools for engineers, web monkeys, and other assorted geeks.

A few ground rules: first, we weren’t able to test all the apps, so caveat, Mr and Ms emptor. Check out our overviews and recommendations, read each app’s description in its App Store blurb, peruse users’ comments, then make your choices.

Second, we’ve included user ratings when an app has received enough of them to sufficiently satisfy the App Store police to allow a rating’s inclusion — but don’t take those evaluations too seriously, since it appears that reviewers of utilitarian apps are an uncommonly cranky lot.

And finally, be realistic in your expectations. Most of these apps are one-trick ponies that are either free or cost just a few bucks. You’re not going to find the equivalent of, say, VMware vCenter in the App Store for a buck ninety-nine.

Tools
One tedious chore with which admin staffers are often tasked is to keep track of what machines a company or department has, how they’re configured, and so on. We tracked down three apps that can help.

The developers of Computer Inventory ($1.99, four stars) didn’t waste any effort on fancy graphics, but their app can manage a relatively small company’s computing stock in reasonable detail, and can export its data in XML format via email.
Computer List (free, two stars) is more rudimentary than Computer Inventory, but the price is right. Our third keeping-track-of-everything app, my Geek Things Pro ($1.99), can be password protected, includes fields for passwords, software licenses, and more, outputs CSV and PDF summaries, and links up with the developer’s desktop/laptop version for Macs and Windows PCs.

A different problem is attacked by intraWebPub ($4.99), which claims to turn a normally single-user iPad into a device suitable for multiple users. For reasons we confess not to fathom, this app has a “17+” age rating, a designation normally reserved for apps that involve sex, drugs, violence, and other fun stuff. Possibly Apple’s worried that one user could hack into another user’s photo collection to see – well – you know.

If your office has a stock of iPads that move from one user to another after, uh, “rightsizing”, ShredIt HD ($9.99) will overwrite free space in storage memory so that purportedly deleted files can’t be recovered.

Although zipThat ($1.99, two stars) isn’t strictly an admin tool, it can help if you’ve been emailed or downloaded a ZIP file, and don’t have a laptop or desktop conveniently available to unZIP said ZIP.

Note, however, that zipThat is currently at version 1.0, and the developer admits: “Some issues have been reported to us, and we’re working to correct them now.” You might want to wait until version 1.0.1.

Password utilities
For a single user, password creation and management is enough of a hassle. If you’re setting up a 50-PC office, that chore expands to become a total pain in the arse. As of today, the App Store had at least four password helpers.

The top-rated — and most expensive by far — is 1Password Pro ($14.99, four and a half stars), the iPadification of what its developer refers to as “the award-winning 1Password application with more than one million users worldwide” — meaning the app’s desktop/laptop incarnation. Not just a password creator, 1Password securely stores and organizes password collections.

At the other end of the price curve — and feature list — is Blasphemous Password (free, three and a half stars), which merely creates randomly generated passwords after you select a few simple parameters.

OmniFocus offers a way to create to-do lists on steroids. You can brainstorm out ideas, then start organizing and classifying them into separate projects, tasks, and “contexts”; contexts allow you to make tasks relevant to where and when you are working on things. Items related to working at home will not intrude into your “Office” context, for example.

As you organize your to-do elements, your data can used locally, be synced to your local desktop, over the air to Mobile Me, and so forth. So if you’re progressing with your work on multiple devices, your task completion and ideas can move with you. That means if you’re used to working with OmniFocus on your personal computer or iPhone, that data can now integrate with your iPad using a native app that takes advantage of the iPad’s extended geometry and native features.

As with the previous Omni products I’ve looked at, OmniFocus has really thought about the new user. Like Omni’s other iPad apps, OmniFocus immediately draws you into the application and teaches you how to use it from the ground up. Their “Welcome to OmniFocus for iPad” series of Inbox items describes how to use their product and get help along the way. You’ll quickly start adding new inbox items, assigning due dates, and attaching items to projects.

The GUI has been very well built. This really feels like a proper iPad application with an expansive workspace that doesn’t need to cramp or fold itself to fit onto an iPhone screen. I had a few very minor quibbles with the design (for example, why does the “create new item” button look like it’s a toggle that’s paired with the Inbox, when it’s not?) but for the most part everything seemed solidly laid out and, if you excuse the pun, focused on getting the job done.

OmniFocus is not going to be a tool for everyone, especially with its high price tag. It’s clearly aimed at serious business users who need a fully-realized task management tool that allow you to build, manage, and visualize projects. Although I have not spent a lot of time using this application yet, my initial reaction is positive. Features like the calendar-driven Forecast screen where you can explore your due dates and the beautiful collapse and show grouping elements in the Projects and Contexts tables highlight how much work and thought has gone into this app. So, in a nutshell: expensive? Yes. Worth it? Very possibly, especially if you are Omni’s core business user demographic.

You can now purchase iAd advertising to promote your app to millions of users across the iAd Network. With iAd for Developers, users can download apps from the App Store without leaving the app they’re in. It’s easy to get started, contact us today and learn how you can drive more downloads of your app with iAd for Developers.

Apple’s iAd program launched at the beginning of this month with ad campaigns from major brands such as Nissan and Dove, with the company reportedly charging as much as $1 million for placements in the program. But now the door appears to opening for smaller developers, as the company broadens its offerings to include app developers wishing to promote their applications, something we’ve seen for quite some time on existing ad networks

In the first three days since it went on sale in five countries, including the UK, more than 1.7 million of the smartphones were sold.

But many technology fans were left dissapointed as the hugely anticipated iPhone 4 sold out in the flagship Apple store in London’s Regent Street and many shops in the US.

And some people who have managed to get their hands on the phone have complained about poor reception if they hold it a certain way.

Apple has blamed supply problems on 600,000 phones being pre-ordered although it was reported just 16,000 units were sent to Britain for the launch. Chief executive Steve Jobs hailed iPhone’s success but added ‘Even so, we apologise to those customers who were turned away because we did not have enough supply’.

The firm said in a statement: ‘If you ever experience this [signal issue] on your iPhone4, avoid gripping it in thr lower left corner in a way that covers both sides of the black strip in the metal band.’

Source: metro

Apple have now said the launch of the iPad will be delayed until May 2010 due to the recent demand in the US, which is a blow to the UK Apple fans who are looking forward to getting their hands on the tablet device.

We’re still working hard on client applications for both the commercial and education markets ready for the launch. As the iPad is so versatile there are many cool applications which we can develop and simply connect to existing customer databases to save money on re-writing schemas.

If you’re looking to expand your products or services on to the iPad platform we can certainly quote on integrating your systems, or if you’re looking for an iPad game or software application, get in touch and we can quote!

Call Squareware today 0800 917 3517 or email info@3squared.co.uk – We are UK based iPad developers, all development work is done in-house to make sure our quality applications stay that way.

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