03.27.09 Star Walk Competition is Starting. 9 Easter Eggs=1 iTouch! >>
March 27th, 2009. Whoever said that Easter Eggs are only for eating, was wrong! We have 9 “virtual” Easter Eggs hidden and waiting for you in the StarWalk sky. These eggs will not give you indigestion or make you put on weight, on the contrary… If you have our Star Walk application and are between the first 3 people to find all of these eggs you will be eligible to win an iPod Touch. For those of you that don’t manage to find all of them, there are plenty of other Apple prizes to win. If you don’t have Star Walk, but would like to play the “virtual” Easter Eggs challenge, please click here.
This is a little tip to get you started:
'It gets up when it’s dark'
More tips will be published regularly on our blog, website and StarWalk facebook group page to help you find them. Check them out, solve the rebuses: every correct answer to the rebus gives the right location of our Easter Eggs.
How to claim your prizes:
write us an email telling us how many, where and what you found and why you think they were put there. For all of our Easter Eggs there is a reason behind!
03.16.09 VITO Technology Releases New Version 1.8 of iWindowsMobile Communication Suite. >>
March 16th, 2009. VITO Technology Releases New Version 1.8 of iWindowsMobile Communication Suite. Communication Suite makes your Windows Mobile device look stunning with new graphics and finger-friendly interface and reveals the real potential of Windows Mobile touch screen device.
iWindowsMobile Communication Suite has in it all 5 bestsellers from VITO Technology inlcuding new Winterface 1.31, and the forever favorites SMS-Chat, FunContact, ZoomBoard and an improved free Weather app with added options and all bugs fixed.
If you haven't tried our new Winterface 1.31 yet, here is what you will find different in it. It offers you the possibility to choose between black skin with white stylish icons or bright one with colorful icons and 3d images. Furthermore what makes Winterface even more attractive is the ability to switch on or off Windowed mode. This mode allows you either to show or hide the standard top WM bar that shows the essential info like start button, time, profile, mobile operator, etc.
Together with the new Winterface 1.31 this is what Communication Suite includes:
FunContact for managing all your contacts in a fun way with clear and stylish icons.
SMS-Chat for threaded SMS on your device where all SMS written and received appear in a very user friendly way.
ZoomBoard for finger-friendly typing with options to add any language you need. Weather gives you regular updates on weather of the day and weather forecasts. The new Weather gives the option to choose how frequently updates should appear: every hour, 3 hours or 12 hours. The skin of Weather app changes together with the Winterface skin. All major bugs have also been fixed.
Communication Suite is available for $39.95 at our site. Purchasing the Suite you are saving $30! You may download 14-day free trial version to check the deal.
02.25.09 VITO Technology Releases New Version 1.3 of the Windows Mobile Bestseller - Winterface. >>
February 25th, 2009. VITO Technology Releases New Version 1.3 of the Windows Mobile Bestseller - Winterface. This is a Mobile Shell comprising the options of a launcher, a task manager, and multitude of Today plug-ins. Winterface virtually replaces default interface of touch screen Windows Mobile devices and gives the user unprecedented freedom to easily lay out interface exactly the way they like it.
Winterface is a mobile shell for Windows Mobile and its new version now looks even better with a brighter skin and more functional features.
Winterface can now be different. You may choose either the black skin with white stylish icons or the bright one with colorful icons and 3d images.
The option that makes Winterface even more attractive is the ability to switch on or off the "Full screen" mode. This mode allows you either to show or hide the standard top WM bar that shows the essential info like Start button, time, profile, mobile operator, etc.
Another great change in Winterface is that URL favorites can now be added to the main screen not only from IE browser but also from Opera Mobile.
We have also fixed all bugs connected with SMS notifications and Weather icon.
Winterface is available for $19.95 at our site.
02.24.09 Behind the new Veterans release there is a long battle that we had to fight against Apple's unclear rules. >>
HolyWars is getting serious!How to make sure Apple likes the way you deal with Adults like an adult December 16, 2008 - VITO Technology releases HolyWars for iPhone – a Social Networking tool for creating polls and sharing opinions. 2 months have gone and what is HolyWars now? 25.000 users, 32.500 questions, 3.000.000 answers and a new version just launched for the Veterans...but it hasn't been as easy as it sounds. Behind the new Veterans release there is a long battle that we had to fight against Apple's unclear rules.
HolyWars story and success starts with a simple idea – to find out what people have in mind about today’s world. The application is simple: let people insert questions about anything they want to know about or confront themselves with. Let other answer any question they find interesting and see how their answers stand across the globe.
After the creation of polls, the next step is the one of creating quizzes. People test their knowledge on different topics and play against other users and check how good they are on a global scale. Simple, right? Human curiosity is infinite and Holywars’ popularity grows exponentially gaining users who avidly keep inserting new questions and create quizzes about everything…but…of course there is a but…soon people started asking for an adult category and the 1.1 version included it because of the huge amount of requests. As soon as it appeared the 'war' began!
So here it is a little bit of history about the "adult" category that created a series of problems around this HolyWars app. Firstly, when the version 1.0 was approved by Apple there was no adult category at all and very modest moderation. Afterwards the app became quite popular (the highest position in Appstore was 21st place among top free apps in Social Networking). Lots of questions with inappropriate and sexual content appeared in all categories. We tried to put some moderations but didn't help as much as we thought it would and we decided to add the "adult" category to make sure that all questions with sexual content were kept there and only those people interested would go there without disturbing the other users.
Apple, as predictable, intervened, we can't really blame Apple for it, and asked HolyWars to remove the category. Acting according Apple’s request HolyWars deleted everything related to adult content from the application and sent an informative note to all users to communicate openly that the ‘adult’ category was banned and therefore had been taken off and furthermore that no ‘adult’ content would be further allowed on HolyWars application. A simple note to make sure that users would not repeat the same mistakes and that HolyWars was dead serious about it.
The note wanted to be an admission of our initial fault and a clarification of the standards that HolyWars had chosen to follow in order to remain in the game amending the application as told by Apple.
Apparently this was not good enough for Apple that started accusing us of putting the note for marketing purposes imposed on HolyWars users to push sales and intervenes again this time suspending the appearance of HolyWars in their store and holds back all planned improvements for the new version of which they were already aware.
So HolyWars new version remained on hold because sinned of honesty (I don’t see any other way to explain the will behind the note sent) and it is still waiting for a reasonable explanation from Apple about what was wrong with that piece of information sent to its users. Now the explanation hasn't arrived yet but there is a good ending because Apple at last approved the ‘cleaned’ and upgraded Veterans version, it probably couldn't find anything else wrong about it.
It seems to me this can easily be put among those other cases where Apple covers itself under an unclear policy and agreement with the developers, trying to find anything not dictated by it unacceptable.
What needs to be done apart from following Apple’s rules if, once applied them correctly, more critics and impediments are given?