by vinova | Jun 14, 2013 | iPhone, Technologies, Trends
At the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on June 10, 2013 in San Francisco, Apple announced its upcoming mobile operating system iOS 7 with the redesigned user interfaces and couple of improvements compared to iOS 6. With the flat and “colorful” design, the design of iOS 7 is very controversial. One of the reporter from Forbes, Ewan Spence, after taking part in WWDC 2013, had written a very interesting letter involved in this hottest news. The letter is from Android to Apple’s fans talking about iOS 7 design and its change. Here is the content of this letter: “Dear Apple Fans, I write to you as the comedic personification of Android, having sat through the WWDC keynote and the debut of iOS 7. Can I just point out a few things that your OS is doing that contrast with how we do things over here? You don’t need to worry about all the pastel colours being thrown around making everything old look new. While the new iOS 7 software is going to be available on older Apple hardware, the chances are that the new OS will debut inside yet another new physical design of the iPhone that may be announced in September. That means a huge expense for anyone upgrading their handset from an iPhone 4 or 5 to presumably the iPhone 6. Actually it means two expenses, as they’ll need to buy a new case as well as a new phone. If you’re spending that sort of money, you should really look at Android… we’ve got lots of cases to suit every budget. We’ve got a grid based...
by vinova | Jun 14, 2013 | business
Last Friday, Red Cross Singapore has launched a new website under the link www.connect.redcross.sg to call for donating blood. This website is pretty different from Red Cross’s previous website by connecting lifesavers using Facebook platform. With the fast grow of this social media community, Red Cross Singapore believes that this new website would attract more blood donors. Just by clicking on the button “like”, you will automatically connect with Red Cross Singapore network on Facebook and start to receive Red Cross alerts in your news feed. The current blood level of each blood type and the information for the nearest donation centers will also be updated regularly in this website. By sharing an alert for a low-level blood type on Facebook, you will help to reach potential donors and save lives. FAQs involved in blood donation are also available via this website. By developing connect.redcross.sg, Vinova gives a hope to help more lives. So do access the website and like Red Cross Singapore on Facebook. Donate, share with friends and become a...
by vinova | Jun 12, 2013 | Games, Team, Technologies
In a previous post titled “Awesome 2D Games Animation with Spine“, we had introduced Stefan NGUYEN, Vinova lead game developer, who had a speech in Casual Connect Asia 2013 to share the experiences of Spine in 2D game development. And here is the video of his speech: Bravo Stefan for his great attempt as well as the whole game team!!! Great! Spine helped us a lot when developing Ultimate Arrow – the ‘”Best of the Show” in Casual Connect Asia 2013. If you have any questions, feel free to contact us via email info@vinova.sg. Do follow us on Facebook and wait for the launch of Ultimate Arrow...
by vinova | Jun 10, 2013 | Ruby on Rails, Technologies
Folks! Great news! Just in time for the opening of RailsConf, the first release candidate of Rails 4.0 was managed to push out. Here are the nice guides to upgrade to Rails 4.0 http://rubysource.com/get-your-app-ready-for-rails-4/ This post is about the summary of the new features that Rails 4.0 offers, as well as the changes that may affect your current applications. Highlights in Rails 4.0: Ruby 2.0 preferred; 1.9.3+ required Strong Parameters Turbolinks Russian Doll Caching Ruby >=1.9.3 Rails 4 will only support Ruby 1.9.3+ and most compatible with Ruby 2.0. Get ready to upgrade if you have not done so to experience Rails 4. No more vendor/plugins The vendor/plugins directory has been removed in Rails 4. Instead, you should use Bundler with a path or Git dependencies. If you still have any code in vendor/plugins, you have 2 options: Move it to a gem. Most plugins should already have a gem version. If not, you can reference it from your Gemfile via the :git or :path options. Move it to lib/your_plugin and require it from an initializer on config/initializers. Threadsafe by default In new Rails applications, the threadsafe! option will be enabled by default in production mode. The way to turn it off will be by setting config.cache_classes andconfig.eager_load to false. This shouldn’t be much of a problem, unless the app (or one of its gems) is depending too much on thread safety. Strong parameters A lot of controversy was generated around the mass assignment protection. Since then, various different approaches were explored. Rails 3.2 uses attr_accessible and attr_protected on the models. Rails 4 takes a whole different point of view, making the controller responsible on what attributes are assigned to the model. An advantage of this approach...
by vinova | Jun 7, 2013 | business, Technologies
Organized by TechinAsia, Startup Asia is a 2-day conference on 4-5 April 2013 organized for entrepreneurs, investors, media, and people across the Asian tech community. To be honored, Vinova had a booth at this event to introduce the company and the newest game: Ultimate Arrow With nearly 1000 participants from 15 Asia countries, Startup Asia 2013 is a big opportunity for different Asian IT startups to meet up and share experience in running a business in technology industry. Besides the talks from representative entrepreneurs, the event had a showcase for newly launched and product-ready tech startups. Vinova took a chance in this event to increase the networking as well as bring Ultimate Arrow to the public. Founded in 2010 by Alex Nguyen and Mike Nguyen, Vinova Pte. Ltd primarily offered a full spectrum of Mobile, Web Design and Development services tailored to the needs of our clients in Singapore. As a leading web/mobile technology company in Singapore, Vinova web and mobile solutions are widely accepted and trusted by more than 15 SMEs and schools. The solutions developed by Vinova are affordable, user-friendly and completely customizable. Since late 2012, Vinova ventured into mobile game industry and has achieved some first successes in this competitive sector. One of the most considerable triumphs is the winning of the most favourite indie prize for game in Casual Connect Asia 2013 with the game “Ultimate Arrow”. UA is a castle defends game has given a new life for an old Vietnamese legend from Au Lac dynasty. At Startup Asia 2013, this is the first time that Vinova introduced Ultimate Arrow to the public but...
by vinova | Jun 6, 2013 | Android, Games, iPhone, Technologies
The above title is also the topic of the speech by Stefan Nguyen, Vinova Lead Game Developer, in Casual Connect Asia 2013. As a part of Casual Connect Asia 2013, besides the Indie Showcase, representatives from hundreds of companies had come and delivered speeches which focused on different cutting edge topics in casual game space. To be honored, Stefan had a 20-minutes presentation to introduce and shares his experiences with Spine – an awesome 2D Games Animation tool which Vinova used during the development of Ultimate Arrow. Thanks to the presentation of Stefan, Vinova had a chance to invite the audiences to our booth in the Indie showcase for further discussion about Ultimate Arrow. As mentioned before in our previous post, at Casual Connect Asia 2013, we had won the “Best of Show” award with the game Ultimate Arrow. Ultimate Arrow is the 3rd 2D mobile game that Vinova developed. From Gasboy (our first 2D game) which only has 1 character with 1 animation in 15 frames and 90KB size on disk to our 2nd 2D game: God’s Rage which has 1 character with 17 animations in 402 frames and 1.3MB size on disk, our team could handle the character’s animation with frame-based animation using Anime Studio 9. However, after transition to Ultimate Arrow with multiple characters which are all detailed designed with much more complicated motions compared to the first 2 aforementioned games, we then encountered a serious problem. For example, the first boss’ design occupied nearly 50MB RAM and 20MB size on disk. This situation gave problem even to the high-end mobile devices. Fortunately, our team found Spine...
by vinova | Jun 5, 2013 | Android, Games, iPhone, Team
May 23rd 2013 was an amazing day for Vinova which marks the most successful step since the day Vinova ventured into mobile game industry. We won the “Best of Show” award with the castle defense game title “Ultimate Arrow” in Casual Connect Asia 2013. The prizes come with a Blackberry Z10, US$1000 in cash and most importantly, chances to collaborate with publishers like mig33. Nearly 70 Indie game studios came to the competition of the Indie Game showcase with their greatest games. It was really tough to win the top prize. However, Vinova did it. The magical probably happened on the last day of the event when Stefan Nguyen – our Lead Game Developer had a presentation about the application of Spine in 2D game animation and invited the audiences to visit our booth for discussion. The selling point of Ultimate Arrow would probably be its unique and outstanding Asian art style. The play game is fun, easy but can be pretty challenging as the game progress. Furthermore, the legends of the ancient Vietnamese behind the game is another factor fascinated the players, especially the publishers from US and Japan. Ultimate Arrow tells a story about King An Duong Vuong from Au Lac dynasty who used a mighty crossbow to protect his country and the citizens from the ugly and fierce barbarian invaders. The players will control the crossbow, heros, soldiers and cast all kind of spells to defeat the enemies. Developed since late 2012, this is the second times Vinova introduced Ultimate Arrow to the public and received lots of great feedbacks. Vinova considers all these supports as...
by vinova | Jun 3, 2013 | iPhone, Projects, Team
The Straits Time Happenings is the fourth mobile app developed by Vinova for Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) – the biggest media organization in Singapore. The social app for iOS provides information on the latest happenings and events for the week compiled by The Straits Times. With The Straits Time Happenings app, users residing in Singapore can now easily and quickly update the latest events nearby with the current location or searching for other locations. A list of categories are also available for users to filter their interest of events. The Straits Time Happenings app is now published on Apple App Store. The newest version will be launched soon with some bug fixes, beautiful UI and promises to be the smoothest and fastest version of Happenings. Do download the Straits Time Happenings by Vinova and update the latest version....
by vinova | Jun 3, 2013 | iPhone, Projects, Team
The Business Time is a daily broadsheet newspaper based in Singapore currently owned by Singapore Press Holdings (SPH). The Business Time App – shown in Newsstand on IOS – features the Print Edition, Breaking News and PDF edition based on the Business Time Newspaper published every morning (Singapore 06:00AM GST). The updated news throughout the day will be published under “Breaking news” section. Push notifications for breaking news are also available. Besides STOMP and Razor TV, The Business Time is the third mobile app developed by Vinova for SPH. The fact that Vinova is a client of SPH – the biggest media organization in Singapore proves that our strong technique has been confirmed and trusted not only by SMEs. The newest version for the Business Time app will be published very soon on Apple App Store with some bug fixes and brand new UI. Do support us by downloading the Business Time app by Vinova. https://itunes.apple.com/sg/app/business-times-for-iphone/id531275824?mt=8 Below are some The Business Time mobile app screen shots:...
by vinova | Jun 3, 2013 | iPhone, Projects, Team
The Straits Times Razor TV is an online video news channel that webcasts from Singapore Press Holding’s Multimedia Centre web studio. Razor TV offers videos on demand for those who want to control what and when they want to watch. With a strong emphasis on hyper-local content, RazorTV is all about the latest happenings in town. This free-access web TV service is an innovative convergence of both the Internet and TV platforms, a first of its kind in Singapore. Maintaining and developing from the old versions, the revamped version developed by Vinova was launched on 1 June, 2013 on Apple App Store with a brand-new and elegant UI. Razor App has received some positive reviews just after 2 days of publishing. Do give this app a try. If you have any feedback, feel free to leave a review. https://itunes.apple.com/sg/app/the-straits-times-razor-tv/id309306676?mt=8 Here are some screen shots for the new Razor...
by vinova | Jun 3, 2013 | iPhone, Projects, Team
STOMP – or Strait Time Online Mobile Print is a mobile application developed by Vinova that connects, engages and interacts with Singaporeans in a different style and approach than conventional news websites. The app’s strong growth reflects not only its popularity but also its resonance with Singaporeans. The STOMP application empowers you, the citizen journalist on the go, and makes contributing stories, videos, photos and views an even simpler process. You can also view and comment on the hottest stories that Singaporeans are talking about. Launched since 9 February 2010, Vinova had received feedbacks from users and frequently updated STOMP. Version 2.3 of the app, the best version so far, was released on the Apple App Store on 31 May 2013. Do download the app and write a review. Your feedback is always valuable for us. https://itunes.apple.com/sg/app/the-straits-times-stomp/id354084847?mt=8 Some screen...
by vinova | Mar 19, 2013 | Technologies
Website: http://whatlightsupyourday.com...
by vinova | Mar 18, 2013 | Technologies
The Importance of Analyzing Order Fulfillment Challenges Any company with an ecommerce website knows that order fulfillment is a large issue. The biggest challenge for companies is trying to pinpoint specific reasons that customers are abandoning their online shopping chart systems. Some service providers have created software that targets each customer who has incomplete orders. The management software will most likely send an automated email that remarkets the product or makes a special pricing offer. Before employing one of these services it is advantageous to understand the process your customers go through when considering a purchase. It is also important to know why they choose not to fulfill their orders. The first step would be to understand the flow of Internet commerce. Many customers choose to shop online because they can pick they best-priced item after comparing costs on various sites. When going back and forth between sites, clients will also take into account the added cost to pack and ship the item. Others shop online because of a time consuming jobs or they like the convenience of not having to leave their house. There are two main solutions when trying to avoid web comparison-shopping. The first is to build brand loyalty; which of course is beneficial to any business. The other option is create a unique product that cannot be found on other sites, such as Amazon. The other reason orders are not fulfilled by customers may be the complexity of your processing page. Your checkout center form should be as simple as possible. The system should be written in the most direct and simple manner as possible....
by vinova | Mar 17, 2013 | Technologies
To marketers, the prospect of reaching shoppers through their smartphones is tantalizing. But mobile doesn’t always mean on the go. New data show that 68% of consumers’ smartphone use happens at home. And users’ most common activity is not shopping or socializing but engaging in what researchers at BBDO and AOL call “me time.” Ref:...
by vinova | Feb 14, 2013 | business, Trends
Trends in interactive design 2013 from Prophets...
by vinova | Oct 7, 2012 | Android, iPhone, Ruby on Rails
OraStream is a cloud-music management and publishing service that enables music producers and artists to independently manage, collaborate, publish and distribute original music to fans on smartphones, tablet computers and desktop web browsers. Unlike other music publishing service, OraStream offers network adaptive music streaming capability. This means that streaming high-fidelity CD-quality audio is feasible even on 3G networks. No other cloud music service offers this on desktop and mobile music environments today. Proudly delivered by team Vinova ....
by vinova | Sep 8, 2012 | business, Games
The infographic below exhibits the hottest mobile game developers in the business today. They are creating the most discussions, the most engagement, and the most...
by vinova | Sep 8, 2012 | business, Games, Technologies
Geekaphone has taken an in depth look at the numbers and stats behind the industry and have put together this informative infographic, all you have to do is pause your game for 1.4 minutes to take a...
