A few days ago Intellicam was featured in the Windows Phone store. It was great seeing Intellicam on the Windows Phone Store's panorama. It looks amazing!

The first update for Intellicam has just been published. We are excited to announce that Intellicam now supports the front facing camera!  

To sum up, Intellicam now brings you:

• Front facing camera support
• Configurable aspect ratio
• Running under the lock screen
• Improved voice recognition performance
• French and Turkish support

Intellicam is available now in the Windows Phone Store for free.

To download the app: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/intellicam-free/022253b7-5492-474b-bd89-4c18afb8e996

Daniel and I have just released Intellicam, the first and only windows phone camera app that uses automatic face recognition technology to focus on the people in a photo. The face tracking technology means that the phone automatically focuses on people in the view. Intellicam is the most innovative app of its kind allowing users to take control of the phone’s camera using only their voice. Intellicam integrates with the phone’s built-in camera app and allows users to take multiple shots without touching the phone. With using just your voice to activate the lens, you can include yourself in the photo and take as many shots as you like completely stress free; there is no need to try to beat any timers. What’s more, the app automatically sets focus on the people in the picture, which means no more blurry photos! Intellicam also includes Auto-Snap, a feature that periodically takes a photo if it identifies a face in the view finder.

The app can be launched from the built-in camera app or on its own. The default command phrase to take the shot is cheese, but this can be changed in the dashboard. The app’s unique face tracking technology ensures that that people in the photo are in focus. This feature can be enabled/disabled in settings. Users can also enable/disable the camera’s flash. The app also has an Auto-Snap feature which takes photos automatically when in focus. This is particularly useful for self-portrait photos. Photos can also be taken with the camera button and browsed immediately from the app.

Intellicam is available now in the Windows Phone Store for free.

To download the app: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/intellicam-free/022253b7-5492-474b-bd89-4c18afb8e996

After a long period of a beta phase Surfy gets a new face-lift and a heap of new features. Surfy is now a fully featured web browser with some pretty neat features. One which you will find very hard to find anywhere else is Surfy's new text to speech control. With this control you can have Surfy read you a page aloud using any of the phones installed languages. Surfy detects the language of the page and selects the appropriate Text to Speech voice, so if you love listening to French reading just find a French page, turn on Surfy's text to speech feature and enjoy! The control allows you to quickly seek to a location while the phone reads your page aloud. The text to speech is also great for getting your news and articles on the go. See it for yourself:

Here are some of the other great new features:

Daniel and I have created a new free WP7 app for the community. Unfortunately we have been told that it failed marketplace certifcation because we are not allowed to publish a web browser app!

Update: Thanks marketplace guys! We have been told to resubmit because of internal miscommunication.

Here is some highlights of the app. We think it's pretty neat...

• Tabbed browsing. Flick to move between tabs or jump to a tab by selecting it from a list of all tabs.
• Full-screen viewing. Maximise screen real estate by switching to full-screen view. Switch back instantly using a semi-transparent button.
• Open links in their own tabs. With Surfy you can open links either in the same tab or in a new tab.
• Autocomplete - searches as you type.
• Supports landscape and portrait orientations.
• Supports locking of page orientation.
• Assisted browsing with auto-complete. Surfy suggests links by searching the web as you type in the URL box.
• Set your default page.
• Manage Favorites.
• Share a page/link via email.
• Open in Internet Explorer.
• Comprehensive help.
• A user feedback system where you can report a bug, or suggest new features to help make Surfy better.
• It's free!

Daniel published a very cool, higly addictive game for Windows Phone 7. It is an implementation of the well known classic Sokoban game. It comes with 50 levels of varying difficulty and is very challenging and rewarding. You can check out the free trial here. The game has many challening levels but I think the best thing about it are the controls. You can resize the game grid by performing a pinch gesture on the screen, and flick or drag the screen around while playing. Moving the cubes is also much better then in other sokoban games. Just position the main character next to the cube you want to push, tap on the cube, and then tap on a cell you want to push the cube into. The great thing is that if there are no obstacles the main character will move to any cell you tap on in a shortest possible way. It also has a settings page and undo, redo buttons.

Try Push for Windows Phone 7

I am thrilled to see that people find my Photo Location app useful.

I pasted below what Photo Location users are saying:

"Does what it says it can do well, un an integrated manner with your photos."

"Does exactly what it says. Great app by @katkavaughan."

"This should of been built into the phone v.nice app. =D worth the price... Improvments (Updat) 1. Stop map reload every time you open a different image in same location. 2. Put map markers off all images in album and select them from the map."

"Good app. Would be nice to save map location picture."

"Great idea, well executed. Nice and useful app."

Weight to Price Comparison app is now available on the windows phone marketplace. Yey!

Check it out: Weight to Price comparison

My first app on the windows phone marketplace has just been published! The certification process was smooth and fast and took less than a day. The application is a must have for those who like to take lots of photos while travelling and subsequently forget where they took those photos. My app will show you the geographical location of your photo on a map. You can select your photo either from the application or you can access Photo Location while browsing through your pictures on the Pictures Hub. Of course your photo will have to include the GPS information for Photo Location to be able to place it on a map, but the good news is that your phone camera can already do that.

Check out my app on the marketplace: Photo Location