Focus for Facebook iPhone App

Announcing our new free iPhone app: Focus for Facebook.  Focus presents Facebook® in a streamlined view on your iPhone so you can quickly scan through and stay up-to-date on the go. Focus has some neat features we designed to make it the best mobile Facebook experience we could:

Streamlined Facebook: See new posts, comments, notifications, photos and links in a single, compact, easy-to-scan list. Also you can comment, like, update your status and post photos on the go.

Don’t re-read the same stuff: Focus remembers what you’ve read, and highlights new posts and comments, so you never miss new content.

No more app spam: Focus automatically keeps those games and quizzes out of your feed.

We’ll be updating Focus as soon as we can with Facebook chat, inbox / messages, and full photo browsing. Get Focus for Facebook FREE in the app store now.

Duck You Undo! for iPhone

Our new app Duck You Undo! is in the App Store now

Does iPhone’s auto-correct sometimes change words in your emails without you noticing? Duck You Undo adds a popup toolbar so you notice ever auto-correct, and you can tap to undo or redo. Just 99c.

The Duck You Undo website is here

iPhone Calling Card and Travel Guide

I’ve updated the web site for Smart Caller with an iPhone Calling Card Guide, Guide for Travel with iPhone, news page, etc, to better support customers.

Apple’s TV Ad Causes Hit Tennis Sales Spike?

On Feb 17th I had a 5x sales spike in my iPhone game Hit Tennis. Cool – a little extra income, but what caused the spike? I looked at Google Analytics and over the next couple of days I Googled and Yahooed looking for a new review or something, but nothing. The only clue I had was from my daily download stats that I check using AppViz from IdeaSwarm. By filtering by country I could see that the spike was in the USA only, maybe meaning that my mystery promoter might not be a website, but some US only media. (People all over the world read web sites in English – and even in the UK, Australia and Canada sales are the same.) Here’s that graph of Hit Tennis sales in the US:

Then my girlfriend noticed Apple’s new iPod Touch TV ad, which I think started airing on the 16th. Towards the end it shows about 1 second of TouchSports Tennis – the tennis game with the awesome 3D graphics. No word on about sales on Handheld Games blog, but Mobclix publishes app store ranking histories, and TouchSports Tennis jumped from #197 to #69 between the 16th and 20th. (Hit Tennis’ ranking didn’t change.) So our guess is that  iPhone and iPod owners were driven crazy excited by the TV spot and rushed to the app store looking for Tennis games, and they came across Hit Tennis with it’s fun and engaging  game play of swiping of your finger across the touch screen to swing the raquet and hit the ball. So if this is the reason for my sales spike, then Thanks Apple, thanks Handheld Games, and thanks all my customers out there!

Christmas Day 4x sales boost for iPhone Games – Hit Tennis numbers

iTunes Connect just opened its doors after the Christmas break, allowing iPhone developers (me!) to log in and check our sales stats for Christmas. I’m very pleased to discover that Apple managed to get some extra pressies under the tree for me this year in the form of 4x sales increase for Christmas! Check out the graph below of sales figures for my iPhone game Hit Tennis (the tennis game where YOU hit the ball with swipe of your finger).

Over the past few weeks I’ve been working hard on my other iPhone app, Smart Caller, I’ve launched an unique pricing wizzard that finds the best deal for customers in the USA, and I’m about to release an international version for customers worldwide that includes the effortless ‘we set it up for you’ feature too, so check it out for real savings on internatinal calls on your iPhone. Hit Tennis fans hang tight, I’m planning Hit Tennis 2 which will include full match play and challenging new computer opponents.

Cheers, Mark

Hit Tennis: The adictive tennis game on iPhone where YOU hit the ball with a swipe of your finger.

Smart Caller: Great rates on iPhone international calls with effortless iPhone calling cards

Smart Caller is now live in the App Store!

It took a lot of time, but I’m thrilled to announce that Smart Caller is now live in the App Store! Click here to download it for free. Its not available in all countries yet because I need to add a feature for international exit code choice for Japan and countries in South America, but a new version ready for all countries will be ready soon.

First 24 hrs Going Well for Hit Tennis

In the first 24hrs, Hit Tennis has over 20,000 free downloads. I think its in the top 50 for free games, and I got some good press at Pocket Gamer in the UK. Today bugfixes.

Hit Tennis game for iPhone iPod touch

I just released Hit Tennis for the iPhone and iPod touch, its available now on the app store!

Smart Caller comming soon, testers apply now.

The first version of Smart Caller, the iPhone calling card software for making effortless and affordable international calls from your iPhone without needing WiFi, has been submitted to Apple. I hope it will be coming to the app store soon, and its free! Mean time I’m looking for a few additional testers before its released. If you’d like to test the app email me. To get the software before its released and become a tester, the first step is to install the free Ad Hoc Helper from the app store and use it to email me your UDID (to markj at telecommarketsolutions.com. I need this to make the certificate to allow you to install the software on your phone. Thanks, Mark

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Smart Caller for iPhone

I have a new venture: Smart Caller – save on international calls with calling card iPhone integration. This native iPhone app has built in smarts to know how to dial any country in the world, and it can do it with an integrated calling card to get great rates. Hopefully, coming soon to the Apple iPhone App Store.