iMailShot: why such an app ? / iMailShot pourquoi une telle application ?

Hi all,

I would like to present you the iPhone application iMailShot. This app is meant to ease the way you communicate with your friends, family or even customers !

With this app, you're able to reach a group of people by email or sms with pure text as content or stunning customizable flyers.

Thanks to this app, you can invite for a party, a cinema session, even send prospectus to your customers in very few steps.

Easily navigate among the available templates, create yours and keep them stored in your iPhone so that you can re-use them !

Enjoy !

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Salut tout le monde,

Je souhaite vous presenter l'application iPhone iMailShot. Cette application est faite pour faciliter votre manière de communiquer avec vos amis, votre famille et même vos clients !

Avec cette application, vous êtes capable d'atteindre un groupe de personnes par email, sms avec du simple texte en contenu ou avec de superbes flyers personnalisables.

Grâce a cette application vous pouvez envoyer des invitations pour une fête, une soirée cinéma et même envoyer des prospectus a vos clients en très peu d’étapes.

Naviguez aisément parmi les différents modèles, créez les votre et sauvegardez les sur votre iPhone afin de les réutiliser plus tard !

C'est a vous :)

Thursday, June 23, 2011

iMailshot V3.2: Ready for sale

Hi all,

I am pleased to announce that iMailShot V3.2 is Ready For Sale
What's in the box ??

Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr sharing !!

Share your flyers in very few steps on your Facebook or Twitter account !

Cheers
Seb
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Salut tout le monde,

Je suis heureux de vous annoncer la sortie de iMailShot V3.2
Quoi de neuf ?

Partagez vos flyers sur Facebook, Twitter ou Tumblr !!

A+
Seb

Thursday, May 26, 2011

iMailshot V3.1: Ready for sale

Hi all,

Your favourite application iMailShot V3.1 is now ready for sale !

- Stabilized application behaviour
- Updated help
- iOS 4 and > compatible

Do not hesitate to upgrade your app !!

What's next ?

- Facebook sharing option
- Tweeter sharing option

Keep you posted anyway :)
Cheers
Seb

Monday, May 23, 2011

iMailshot V3.1: Waiting for review

Hi all,
The next update for iMailShot and iMailShot Lite was submitted this week-end.

What's in the box ?
- Stabilized overall behaviour of the software
- Optimised loading when users have tons of contacts
- Support for iOS since V4.0 and higher

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Salut tout le monde,
La prochaine mise a jour de iMailShot a ete soumise a Apple ce week-end

Quoi de neuf ?
- Sabilisation de l'application
- Optimisation du temps de chargement lorsque l'utilisateur possede une grande quantite de contacts.
- Support de iOS 4.0 et superieur.

A bientot !
Seb

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Latency vs. Responsiveness

Hi all,

Some of iMailShot users complained that they did not see all their contacts when tapping on "All contacts".

Well, this is partly true in fact :)

To make a long story short, when users have tons of contacts, an application may hang a moment until all the contacts are loaded and sorted by name...so I decided to do the following:

- 1 When taping on the "All contacts", I first quickly load the 30 first contacts from your address book

- 2 Then I load in background the rest of the contacts

So if you wait a little bit (a little bit more if you have more than 500 contacts), you will finally see all your contacts.



Concerning the email/phone used for mass emailing of mass text messaging, you still choose which phone number or which email address to use for each contact by first taping on "Details" and then tap on the contact's phone number or email: then you select the correct email or phone number from your contact card.






Hope this helps
Cheers
Seb

Monday, March 28, 2011

iMaiShot V3.0: Ready for sale

Hi all,

Your favourite app iMailShot V3.0 is ready for sale !
Enjoy the new templates for your email flyers, a light speed responsive app that gives you the best user experience and a quick look to see which contact lacks for email address or phone number !!

This version requires iOS 4.2 or later.

Snapshots:



See you
Seb

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Templates Design: using open source materials

Hi all,
I decided to keep you informed about my current investigations and work on the iMailShot application.
I have now finalized the application framework so that I can now concentrate on the templates.

Templates have to meet several requisites:
  • Each picture has to be licence free, so I often use the Wikimedia website to find my background pics.
  • Each template has to be original and eye catching, so I heavy use Gimp to enrich the content of the templates
I am currently working on the brush feature of Gimp: I found several websites that propose free brushes for Gimp (Gimp > 2.6 accepts Photoshop brushes btw) like BrushEzzy or FreeBrushes

A brush effect alone is not that sexy to use alone, so I often use it as a basis for the mapping feature of Gimp, thus you can have very beautiful embossing effects on your bakcgrounds.

I also found very usefull informations about perspective effects : yet, Gimp has the feature built-in but the user is still responsible to define the line of horizon and the creepage. Here the french website Bases du Dessin helps (if you speak french :)

See ya
Seb

Monday, March 14, 2011

iMaiShot V3.0: Waiting for review

Hi all,

As promised, the next upgrade for your application iMailShot is about to come !
What's inside ?
New templates !
New file and thread management: no more lag, just the best user experience you never had before :)

See ya
Seb
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Salut tout le monde,
Comme promis, la prochaine mis a jour de votre application iMailShot est sur le point d'arriver !
Quoi de neuf ?
Des nouveaux modeles
Une nouvelle facon d'organiser les fichiers et les processus: plus de ralentissement de l'application, pour vous donner la meilleure experience utilisateur que vous n'avez jamais eu avant :)

A+
Seb