Currently with offices in Melbourne and New York, Two Bulls also provide a range of specialist mobile consulting services to leading global brands and businesses.  They recently relocated their melbourne office, and to celebrate, had a cake made featuring their logo – very cool.

Taking inspiration from origami in it’s design, look and feel, the website is a nice example of the power of WordPress to produce effective platforms to inform customers of your services.

After the recent release to developers of iPhone SDK 4.0, the inevitable scramble to review the new APIs has been on in earnest.  One of the first things noticed were the following new AVCaptureDevice class properties:

• AVCaptureDevice – isFlashMode Supported
• AVCaptureDevice – isTorchMode Supported
• AVCaptureDevice – position (Front or Rear)

These new properties relating to the iPhone SDK class AVCaptureDevice, a class used for audio and video capture and management, suggest that the new iPhone (to be announced at WWDC 2010??) may well include a “Flash”, a “Torch” and a front camera.

If this was to turn out to be true, then a front camera for the phone would make video calls possible, the ability to take photos while viewing the camera feed, and the flash would allow you to take photos in the dark!

All very cool new potential features.  Let’s keep our fingers crossed that this turns out to be the case!

Aimed at product designers, industrial designers, product developers, engineers, environmental managers and brand owners the tool provides three key features:

• Compliance Navigator – a compliance guidance tool, covering EU RoHS, EU Batteries and EPEAT with EuP and many other compliance requirements to be rolled out over the coming weeks and months
• Lifecycle Designer – an easy to use and powerful LCA tool backed by data from the Swiss EcoInvent database
• ecoCompare – a powerful material/process/transport/waste comparison tool

It’s clear that the tool has been developed with usability in mind, providing a unique and powerful web-based tool for the design community.

New announcements include:

New Device – iPhone 3G S – 2x faster iPhone with new hardware features including:

• 3-mega pixel camera
  • “Touch” focus technology – touch a part of the screen to auto focus
  • Auto focus
  • Auto white balance
  • Auto low light adjustment
  • Auto macro support (10cm distance)
• Built-in compass support
  • Compass app showing your bearing from true north, magnetic north
  • Maps app support – double tab location to rotate map and show relative to your currently location
• Video Recording Support
  • Video editing – easily slice up recorded video with preview of timeline
  • Video sharing – one touch sharing via MMS/YouTube/Email/MobileMe
• Voice support
  • Depress home button for 1 second from any app to activate
  • Voice dial contacts from address book
  • Voice activate songs from artists/playlists
• Nike+ Support
• Faster processsor – at least 2x faster than previous iPhone 3G
• $199 for iPhone 3G S
• $99 for iPhone 3G (US Pricing)
• On Sale June 19
  

Existing Announcements Clarified:

• iPhone 3.0 software released to general public 15th June, 2009
• WWDC Developers given access today (8th June, 2009)

As you navigate throughout the park, you receive instructions from a character called ‘Trutton’ and learn that the park is in trouble.  Your challenge is to help Trutton save the park before its too late by navigating the park, solving puzzles and interacting with characters throughout.  The game provides a beautifully illustrated map of the park, with your location being represented by an Avatar, who moves as you move around the map.

Gameplay takes about an hour to complete, making the game an ideal day out for families, and provides a perfect opportunity to get the kids off the couch and out exploring a magical world in their local park.  Currently the Hidden Park supports the following locations:

• Melbourne Botanical Gardens, Australia
• Sydney Botanical Gardens, Australia
• High Park, Toronto, Canada
• Boston Common, Boston, USA
• Central Park, New York, USA
• Kensington Gardens, London, UK
• Tokyo Ueno Park, Tokyo, Japan
• Englischer Garten, Munich, Germany
• Zoological and Botanical Gardens, Hong Kong

The Hidden Park is available on the App Store for $6.99 and comes highly recommended.

More information is available at TheHiddenPark.com.

They are also into working out how much time you save by using their device – which they use as a global tally to show how much time the world is saving by removing the need to untangle headphones.

This is a really novel idea and a cool device.  Head over to BudTrap.com now to start saving your tangle time.

Finally, WSP Online has released League 2009 – NRL.  This provides the same beautiful interface as their successful Footy 2009 app, along with live coverage of the NRL season including:

• Live Scores for all games in the 2009 NRL season
• News – with the fully article viewable inside the App, fully licensed by the ABC
• Fixture – full fixture with game time and venue
• Ladder – ladder is updated live after each game

See screen shots below:

It sells for $3.99 in the App Store and is well worth the purchase price.

Take a photo, shake your iPhone and magic fairies appear everywhere around you.  Save the photo to your camera roll, and you can print the pictures for your kids.

Great fun and only $.99 (US) on the app store.  www.fairieseverywhere.com