February 2012
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September 2011
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What Happens When You Make Your Paid App Free?
We were feeling very generous over at the tiny hearts studio and decided to make Pocket Zoo HD free for one day as apart of the Moms With Apps weekly #AppFriday promo. Moms With Apps is an awesome developer group we’re apart of that’s made up of family-friendly developers making and promoting quality apps for kids and families.
What Happens When You Make Your Paid App Free
So what...
August 2011
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Pocket Zoo for iPad on the App store and All over...
Time really does fly when you’re having fun! It’s already been a month since Pocket Zoo HD debuted on the iPad App Store. In many ways Pocket Zoo is more suited for the iPad form factor - whether it’s exploring the virtual zoo, viewing photos, videos or the live streams. This is why we decided to revisit the Pocket Zoo UI and completely rebuild it with a custom interface for...
July 2011
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April 2011
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February 2011
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Thanks A Billion!
Over 10 billion apps have been downloaded from the App Store…that’s a mindbogling number!!
We’re honoured that Pocket Zoo™ was able to get a fraction of those and are even more excited by the fact that we are able to put smiles on the faces of animal lovers, young and old. Our app has been able to bring families a little closer together and connect us all with the beautiful...
December 2010
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Happy Birds by Pingwin: Top Five Anger Management... →
Meet Pingwin the new star of Pocket Zoo!
ahappybird:
Hi-ho, my fine un-feathered friends.
Your plucky pal Pingwin is back from his bid to bring peace to the land of the egg-layers. I finally got to the soft downy underbelly of the Angry Bird issue threatening to tarnish the image of featheries everywhere.
After some intense…
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Pocket Zoo 2.0
Pocket Zoo 2.0 is now available and it’s better than ever. Pocket Zoogers are loving the new update. It’s currently sitting at a 4.5 star rating. Here’s what’s new:
Our brand new Video feature - over 150 amazingly captivating wildlife videos
New Live Cams - cheetah, elephant, manatee, leafy sea dragon, seal cams and more
Complete retina display support and new hi-res...
October 2010
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August 2010
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App Marketing Rule #1: Get Featured By Apple
Here’s a post we wrote for the Family friendly developer group blog MomswithApps. Enjoy!
When my wife and I set out to create a fun and educational live zoo app for animal lovers we naturally felt excited, a little nervous, and wondered like everyone else “how in the world are we going to shine amongst the hundreds of thousands of apps?” Our goal was simple: make an awesome app that...
June 2010
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Thank You for making us #1!
We’ve been featured by Apple in ‘New & Noteworthy’ and it feels especially great since it happend on the same day as the iPhone 4 launch! Talk about perfect timing. Thanks to the good folks at Apple for taking notice. The increased visibility has been amazing…Pocket Zoo with Live Animal Cams is now the #1 Education app in the US & Canada!!
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WatchHere’s a behind the scenes look at the making of the Pocket Zoo logo designed by Fawad M, who combined typographic treatment and bright colours to give us our visually memorable look.
The first phase of the Pocket Zoo identity was to sketch individual letters. It was important to make the letters appear fun and edgy. Experimentation included playing with weight and angles. The next and...
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WatchPocket Zoo™ with Live Animal Cams promo video.
May 2010
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WatchCNN posted this video right about the same time as our launch showing how people just love animal web cams. What perfect timing…and with Pocket Zoo™ you’ll be able to watch and experience a wonderful zoo that you can take with you where ever you go.
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Pocket Zoo™ is out in the Wild!
Our zooperb app is now on the App Store! Pocket Zoo™ was officially born on May 29th, 2010, only a couple of weeks after the birth of our lovely daughter. It’s been a crazy journey these past few months and to reach this milestone is super thrilling.
We’re doing a soft launch since it’s Memorial day long weekend in the U.S. Plus the weather is so nice out that we decided to...
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Sweet Submission and Free Pocket Zoo™ Wallpapers
We’ve submitted Pocket Zoo™ after what was an exciting and humbling few months of development! It was definitely no walk in the park - developing, assembling and working with a team of super talented creatives and your spouse, juggling a day job, expecting your first child and now parenthood. It’s safe to say submission day was super sweet!
We’re now just sitting back and...
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April 2010
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The Making of App Stars!
The 2010 Appsfire App Star Award winners were announced today at the 360 iDev conference and our wild and wonderful app, Pocket Zoo, was one of the fortunate few to be named a finalist!
Sadly, we didn’t win. We were chosen as a runner-up in the Entertainment & Fun category. The number one spot went to Mixr, an iPad DJ app by Tasty Little Apps - very tough competition.
And guess what,...
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