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iPad & iPhone Apps You'll Love!

iPhone & iPad Apps You'll Love

Juliette & the Shiny Red Ballon

Juliette and the Shiny Red Ballon

Delight your child with a fun & interactive storybook!

App proceeds benefit the Tyler Foundation

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Coming Soon to the App Store

Animal Phone

Animal Phone

Talk to your very own animal friends!

Animal Phone gives kids a phone app of their very own, and a launch pad for imaginative play!

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Available In App Store

Chinese Flash

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Chinese Flash

The fastest way to improve your Mandarin tones & vocabulary.

"The audio is awesome, and I like the selection of flashcards. Plus the ability to wildcard search with the dictionary is great!"

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Available In App Store

Japanese Flash

Japanese Flash

The fastest way to improve your Japanese vocab.

"Perfect - Irreverent, fun, and incredibly useful. Buy this now."

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Available In App Store

Rikai Browser

Rikai Browser on iPads

Rikai Browser

Reading Japanese on your iPad and iPhone just got easier!

"Perfect. - The perfect browser for reading Japanese online."

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Available In App Store

Make Your Own iOS Apps

Technical & Strategic iOS Short Courses

Learn how to make native iPhone and iPad software directly from commercial app developers.

Developing for iOS (technical), and
From Idea to App Store (strategic).

In partnership with Swinburne University of Technology this November. Level up and stay ahead of the curve.

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Products

Should we add this to Japanese & Chinese Flash?


We consider Japanese Flash and Chinese Flash to be pretty mature products: most of the code has been developed over 3 years (that’s lifetimes in the app [...]

Posted In Products
January 19th, 2012

Weekendology

Presentation Video: From Idea to App Store


This video was taken during our inaugural lecture series at Swinburne University in 2010. Long Weekender Mark Makdad talks about making apps, the App Store and developing [...]

Posted In Weekendology
October 14th, 2011

Technobabble

20MB Limit: Finding the Real Size of an App Binary


In our language learning products Japanese Flash & Chinese Flash, we have quite large sql files. This puts us over the 20MB limit for downloading our app [...]

Posted In Technobabble
December 21st, 2011

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Stop SOPA!