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Art & Photo Collections – new app released!

shakhruz — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 22:57:46 +0000

Have great photos?
Convert them into a stunning gallery!

Have a passion for cars/cats/dogs/… ?
Find and save pictures fast and easy with our online image search tool!

Dream about a new house/car/boat … ?
Visualize it, create your dream collection and make it come true!

Get it for FREE on iTunes – Art & Photo Collections
Ideas for collections :

My baby/family/me photos

Works of ART I admire. My ART collection. My Kid’s ART

Cats/Dogs/Horses

Your dream collection: Luxury House/Villa/Car/Boat/Plane

Great places to visit. My travel collection

Fashion photos, new models, my fashion visual wish list

My Stamps/Coins/Guns

Great Photos by Masters to learn

Summary of features:

create unlimited number of collections (deluxe)

take a photo/import from photos to add a new item into collection. Add one item in multiple collections

search online on flickr/google for new pictures. Save original image file, save link, add title and notes

browse any websites and save images. Keep URL of the source page.

subscribe to RSS feeds and save images. MediaRSS format supported.

send pictures or share the whole collection by email, post to facebook and twitter (deluxe)

hand on wall – preview how the picture looks in the real world on a wall and take that as a photo

customize your collection with frames, walls and mats

Slideshow (deluxe)

sort and organize collections on the home page

Upgrade to Deluxe version with in-app purchase for $2.99

ART 4.4 Update Press Release

shakhruz — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 11:39:17 +0000

Official press released published on prMac – http://prmac.com/member/view-release-9119.htm

ADS Software Group releases ART 4.4 for iPhone and iPod touch

Summary:

New York based ADS Software Group Inc. today announces ART 4.4, an update to their very popular and critically acclaimed pocket art gallery, slideshow and quiz for iPhone and iPod touch. Developed specifically to take advantage of the iPhone’s unique capabilities and interface, ART is a database of over 6000 masterpieces featuring 204 famous artists with full biographies. Art students, beginners and hobbyists alike can browse online galleries of works and save images to their gallery, and more.

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Rego Park, New York – ADS Software Group Inc. today is proud to announce ART 4.4, an update to their very popular and critically acclaimed pocket art gallery, slideshow and quiz for iPhone and iPod touch. Developed specifically to take advantage of the iPhone’s unique capabilities and interface, ART is a database of over 6000 masterpieces featuring 204 famous artists with full biographies.

Art students, beginners and hobbyists alike can search by artist’s name or work title, browse online galleries of works (in portrait or landscape mode), and discover top selling paintings. Each image and artist is accompanied by a link to a Wikipedia entry. Users can effortlessly create their own list of favorite artists in ART’s built-in My Gallery, add and/or remove them, and view an animated slideshow for random pictures.

Additionally, users may save images to their photo library, use them as wallpaper, email links to friends and family, or export them to their computer. The full database of images (400MB) can be downloaded and browsed offline. And with ART’s handy parental control feature, users can easily hide all nude and horror pictures. Students will appreciate ART’s built-in Quiz game. Leveraging Openfeint integration with quiz’s, see how other people play, challenge players and post results on Facebook and Twitter.

Feature Highlights:
* 204 Artists (New artists are added with each update)
* Add/Remove Artists
* Create custom lists of Artists
* Full Biographies of artist from Wikipedia (Offline: no connection necessary)
* Open external web sites to learn more about Artists
* 6000+ pictures to view in portrait and landscape modes
* Save images from web sites to device gallery
* Offline browsing with bulk download feature (400MB)
* Parental Control setting
* Animated Slideshow for random pictures and for pictures in My Gallery (selected by user)
* Quiz game – who is the artist?
* Save To Photos – Save painting to device photos library and set it as a wallpaper
* Email Image – Create a nice looking html email with a link to the artist’s page on wikipedia
* Search by artists name or work title
* My Gallery section with favorite pictures
* Most Expensive Art section
* Integration with Openfeint for Quiz

“I’ve been always jealous of the fact that others knew about art and I did not. They immediately recognized the names of the greatest artists and could determine who created one or another famous masterpiece,” said Shakhruz Ashirov, founder and CEO of ADS Software Group Inc. “Although I had art history class at university, I completely forgot most of it. Today there are four developers and one designer in our team that work full time on new versions with new applications coming. The passion and experience we put into our products are really paid back by our customers. And I love reading emails from our customers all over the world who love our apps and support us.”

Version 4.4 is a major update, featuring an completely revised user interface, and minor bug fixes. Art fans can now add an unlimited number of paintings to their favorite artists. Just find and open the images in ART’s built-in browser and tap “Save”. And with ART’s built-in browser, it’s easy to open Wikipedia and other websites for additional information about artists. ART now offers Openfeint integration, with global and local history of quiz scores with leaderboards. Achievements allow users to track their progress in learning art. Challenges allow them play with other people, find new friends, with a nice chat room for art fans.

ART version 4.4 brings the total number of artists in the database to 204 and adds several more modern artists, including Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte, Mark Rothko, Joan Miro, Grant Wood, Georgia O’Keefe, Marc Chagall, Diego Rivera, Edward Hopper, Ernst Kirchner, Paul Klee, Roul Dufy, Henri Matisse, Wassily Kandinsky, Edouard Vuillard, Edvard Munch, Arshile Gorky, Frida Kahlo, Francis Bacon, Jackson Pollock, Andrew Wyeth, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, and Fernando Botero.

Language Support:
* US English, German, French, Spanish and Russian

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 2.2.1 or later

Pricing and Availability:
ART 4.4 is only $0.99 (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Education category. A free Lite version is also available. Review copies are available upon request. Since its launch, ART was a Top 20 Educational application in the U.S (Top 100 paid in the U.S in September ‘09) and most other countries for almost 1 year in a row, and was a staff favorite in September ‘09. ART has been critically reviewed by Macworld and several bloggers.

ADS Software Group http://ads-sg.com
ART 4.4 http://ads-sg.com/products/art
Purchase and Download http://appsto.re/art
ART Lite http://appsto.re/artlite
Media Assets http://ads-sg.com/screenshots/art

Based in Rego Park, New York, ADS Software Group Inc. is a privately held corporation founded in 2008 by Shakhruz Ashirov. Leveraging their longtime experience in both development and UI design concepts, ADS Software Group is dedicated to making excellent educational and entertainment software for mobile markets. Copyright

(C) 2008-2009 ADS Software Group Inc. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Celebrating ART 4.4 approval!

shakhruz — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 06:49:20 +0000

We have finally released and got approved ART 4.4. version. It took us 2 months to make it. We hope you will like it. There were 2 major problems in 4.3 which we addressed in 4.4:
1. Some users had regular crashes on launch
2. We removed modern artists.

In 4.4 we have isolated the feature that made it crash on start to solve the problem #1.
To solve #2, we added 35 modern artists, including: Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte, Mark Rothko, Joan Miro, Grant Wood, Georgia O’Keefe, Marc Chagall, Diego Rivera, Edward Hopper, Ernst Kirchner, Paul Klee, Roul Dufy, Henri Matisse, Wassily Kandinsky, Edouard Vuillard, Edvard Munch, Arshile Gorky, Frida Kahlo, Francis Bacon, Jackson Pollock, Andrew Wyeth, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Fernando Botero.

As we are not allowed to use images of modern paintings without licensing and paying great sum of money in advance for every single image, we have not included images in the application. Instead we added links to online galleries and created a built-in web browser that will let you not only see pictures, but also save them for your personal use at any time. Now you can create your own galleries with even higher quality images and extend your galleries indefinitely!

To celebrate the approval, we give away 5 promo codes:
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Art 4.4 is ready and submitted for review

shakhruz — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:17:56 +0000

We submitted new version of Art to Apple a week ago.

Changes in the update:

* Added modern artists: Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte, Mark Rothko, Joan Miro, Grant Wood, Georgia O’Keefe, Marc Chagall, Diego Rivera, Edward Hopper, Ernst Kirchner, Paul Klee, Roul Dufy, Henri Matisse, Wassily Kandinsky, Edouard Vuillard, Edvard Munch, Arshile Gorky, Frida Kahlo, Francis Bacon, Jackson Pollock, Andrew Wyeth, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Fernando Botero

* Total number of artists in the database – 204

* Updated user interface

* Fixed crash on start bug. It asks you if you want to resume viewing last opened picture.

* Open wikipedia and other websites with additional information about artists in a built-in browser

* Save images from external websites to your galleries – now you can add unlimited number of paintings to your favorite artists, all you need is to find and open the images in our built-in browser and tap “Save”.

* Openfeint integration: global and local history of quiz scores with leaderboards. Achievements allow you track your progress in learning art. Challenges allow you play with other people, find new friends. Chat room for art fans. Post your achievements on facebook and twitter.

* Added missing biographies for all artists

* Extended parental control – option to see adult pictures only

* minor bug fixes

A Genuine Work of Art for the iPhone

shakhruz — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:22:03 +0000

Michelle Schusterman published a review on Art application on The iPhone App Review site .

“Rarely are apps both smart and beautiful, not to mention useful. But Art, an app as simple and classy as its name, has all of these qualities and more.”

read the full article

Thank you, Michelle!

Art 4.2 update

shakhruz — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:23:58 +0000

We have made a big leap in our 4.0 version of Art by extending the image library from 400 to 5000. That was not an easy transition. Many users experienced discomfort about our new design and most of all about the need to download images or view them only when you are online.

We reacted promptly and came out with new design and ability to download all images in bulk. We also added German, French and Spanish languages and almost done with Russian. We have also greatly improved our Quiz game so that it looks more like a game with animation, timing and scores.

Unfortunately Art is consuming a lot of memory and that causes the app to crash sporadically. We are working on that issue and will make it stable with our next updates.

Planned for this week’s update (4.3): stability (crash) fix, Russian localization, minor interface fixes.
For upcoming update on the next week (4.4) we plan to add 30 more artists and slideshow feature.