iPhone apps re-invent Magazines and News Papers

Paper Magazines and News Papers started to discover the iPhone as a platform to distribute their content. There is a new trend towards custom iPhone apps that complement the paper issue of magazines.

A magazine on an iPhone creates new revenue streams and is an easy door opener into a demographic of users that uses their iPhone for everything lifestyle.

It has already started
Here are two great examples of Magazine that have been converted into iPhone app. Vogue's online version style.com is available as an iPhone app.GQ has just recently released a colourful iPhone app too. Interestingly the sales of GQ will be counting towards their total sales. So paper version and iPhone app count equally. That's very important for advertisers.

An earlier review of the Top Magazine iPhone apps in May 2009 shows some other good examples including Wired, Epicurious, Elle, Spin.com, OK Magazine, Car and Driver, FHM, People Magazine.

A Packaged Solution for the Media and Publishing Industry
We realise that many media companies and publishers are looking for solutions that could rapidly produce high quality iPhone apps.



At jTribe we worked hard developing a platform for iPhone Magazines and News. Our jellymo for Media and Publishing offering makes development of custom branded iPhone apps affordable and fast. The news and magazine apps allow to present constantly fresh content in a branded iPhone app with social elements and even in-app purchase of content.

Getting your content published on the iPhone just got easier

We've seen a lot of requests for custom iPhone apps over the past 12 months. From fart apps (we passed on that one) to augmented reality (stayed tuned for that one!). However the bulk in the middle tend to revolve around publishing content onto the iPhone and adding a mobile aspect to it, either geolocation or messaging of some kind. We've been working over the past few months to put together a consistent and clear offering around these common requests.

jTribe is introducing

Choose from a selection of popular features your app might need and find the package that fits your budget. Then show us where you content lives and we'll do the rest. It won't be long before you have a live version to test on your own phone and once reviewed by Apple it will be live in the App Store!


If you're interested in getting your content onto the iPhone then drop us a line and we'll make it happen.

jTribe developed DJ iPhone app for Krafty Kuts

jTribe is proud to announce our first music related iPhone app. The app was developed for award winning DJ Martin Reeves AKA Krafty Kuts. We worked closely with Against the Grain and we had a lot of fun when playing with the app prototypes in our office.

The DJ-Tools app is simple and effective, and is targeted towards DJs who want to use an MPC-Style device for their performances.

"I wanted to produce a sampler style app which could actually be used by DJs in clubs, on radio or even at home", says Krafty Kuts.

300,000 iPhone apps by 2011

Went through some news feeds today and thought this is worthwhile noting...

[Source networkword]
iPhone developers have created more than 100,000 apps for smartphones and market research firm IDC says there will be 300,000 by 2011. Apple roared past the 2 billion app download mark in September.

jTribe presents iPhone development tools at VITTA conference

This week we went to the VITTA conference to run a workshop with IT teachers as an introduction into iPhone development tools. The session was booked out and I was excited to see how big the interest in Phone development is in the IT teacher community.

I have added the presentation to slide share...

jTribe iPhone Development Tools Overview

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The success of the iPhone and iPod touch should be carried into the classroom to enrich student's learning experience with technology they accept and know well.

Young people already use devices like the iPhone to interact socially with their peers by sharing information. Sharing learning content through the same means is an oppurtunity not to be missed.

Students can now work on projects anywhere at anytime. The iPhone combines a great data gathering tool with social media aspects. Photos, videos and audio can now be gathered by students in collaborative project assignments and combined in an engaging manner.

I am excited to see that IT teachers are keen to use the iPhone in the classroom.

jTribe is Hiring

We are looking for an Account Manager to join our team.

If you are a self-driven person who is passionate about mobile applications for iPhone, Android and the Mobile Web then we should talk.

We offer a great work environment at our Openhub coworking space in the City of Melbourne, Australia. We believe that the mobile application development space will experience rapid growth. jTribe and the whole team is going to participate in that boom.

So, why don't you send us your details to patrick at jtribe dot com dot au.

Update of Pinpoint now in AppStore

A new update of Pinpoint Lite and Pinpoint Pro are now available at the iTunes AppStore.

These two simple utility apps have started as an experiment to show how free and paid app perform in the AppStore. The apps became more popular than we expected and that's why we push out some regular feature updates. Pinpoint Lite is currently ranked 36 in TOP FREE APPS under Navigation. The free version allows sending a location via email where the pro version (currently US $0.99) allows to copy past the location into any other iPhone app like SMS or a twitter client.

The two improvements are:

1. Choose between Satellite view and Map view
2. Send email straight from within the app

The app is simple but useful. Check it out at the Apple AppStore: Pinpoint Lite and Pinpoint Pro.