We know there are lots and lots of Apps in the iTunes store, and there are many, many Christmas/Holiday Apps (just search for Christmas in the iTunes Store) so it's hard to get recognised or even noticed.
Well Apple have just released their lovely 12 Apps of Christmas advert and whilst MyChristmas is not directly featured it's been spotted that we at least are in the advert - even if it is an old icon. We like that. Thanks :0)
The long-awaited 2009 update to MyChristmas is complete and has been submitted to Apple for approval for submission on the App Store.
Expect it to (hopefully) appear in the next week or 10 days or so... more on the new features and changes to come soon.
It has been a very busy and hectic couple of months for utopia 365.
We've seen a couple of websites launch which include some pretty clever back-end admin, a couple of iPhone Apps which include the lovely Second Shootr, email templates for our usherto service, a few bespoke RoR jobs on behalf of some design agencies we partner with, and some bespoke development for a great client of ours.
On top of all of the above we were dedicated to a project for a few weeks, but it's one of those we're not allowed to talk about. Shame.
We're now diving head first into a 'top secret' project (Shhhh - but hopefully we'll be able to tell you about it soon) and also getting a new version of MyChristmas with some great new features over to Apple.
We can say in the last 10 weeks or so we have learnt more about running a business than we did in the 1st year we operated, and it's great on reflection.
The blog may have been quiet but we're still around and working hard. We'll try and keep it a bit more updated in the run up to Christmas.
Rated: 8/10
"Whether you are already riding a holiday high or still looking for something to get you in the spirit MyChristmas has everything you need to celebrate the season." - Allison Glennon, from App Craver.
"MyChristmas is an all in one holiday app by Talee Talee and it has everything that you need to make your holiday bright. This app is jam packed with whatever you are going to need to take you through Christmas right into the New Year.
When you open MyChristmas and go to the main menu it becomes clear that you are in for a pretty thorough holiday experience. The full list includes: a Christmas Countdown, “A Christmas Carol” eBook, Christmas Carols, Music, Games, Entertainment, New Years, and iChoose Choice".
A review of MyChristmas from Michael over at iPhone App Reviews.net:
I don’t know the people at Talee Talee, but after poking around MyChristmas for a while it’s pretty clear that they took a good look at the mess of Christmas apps hitting iTunes and they came to the conclusion that it’s all just soooooo unnecessary. And they’re right! Seasonal apps are usually very lightweight and have a pretty short shelf life so why not roll them all up into one download?
And thus was born “The Christmas Compendium” that is MyChristmas. This kitchen sink app includes all of the following:
- Two Christmas Countdowns
- “A Christmas Carol” eBook
- 18 Christmas carol lyrics
- 7 instrumental Christmas songs
- 2 pretty good Christmas games (Solitaire and Match)
- Ding-’em-yourself Christmas Bells, pretty cool
- A flickering Christmas candle
- Mistletoe with smooching sounds
- 2 Christmas sounds (Santa and Rudolph)
- New Year’s Eve Countdown
- Auld Lang Syne lyrics
- A fireworks display
Whoa! That’s a lotta holiday crap crammed into one application.
By themselves none of these apps-within-an-app will blow you away, but as a collection it’s pretty impressive. You’ve got your countdown, the eBook, the music, the lyrics… it’s Christmas overload! But it’s way more efficient than installing 10 different apps that you’ll be deleting come January.
The best parts of MyChristmas are probably the music, the Solitaire and Match games, and the Christmas Bells. The mistletoe could also come in handy if you’re “that guy”, the one who’s always ramming your tongue down a girl’s throat when she thinks she’s leaning in for an innocent holiday peck.
An interesting thing that Talee Talee built into MyChristmas is its ability to “talk” to iChoose when you can’t decide what part of the Compendium you want to play with. On any menu screen you just tap on “iChoose Choice” and the app will temporarily switch to iChoose (which you have to have installed already), make a selection for you, and then kick you back to the selected MyChristmas section.
It’s true that a lot of the apps included in MyChristmas can be had for free and some of them, like the Snow Scene, are pretty underwhelming, but you could do a lot worse for a buck. If searching the iTunes App Store for various Christmas apps sounds like a pain in the ass that you just don’t want to deal with, spend $.99 on MyChristmas and be done with it. Even despite a little lameness here and there, MyChristmas comes with plenty of value to make it worth buying.
A quick round-up of 3 top lists of iPhone Christmas apps from the interweb:
File Cluster - Top 5 iPhone apps for Christmas
"This last application is actually a compilation of Christmas games, bells, holiday music and a New Year countdown. The developers are also offering MyChristmas free until 14 December, so you better hurry and install it on your iPhone."
OnSoftware - 10 iPhone Christmas apps
"Compendium of classic yuletide games and festive fun"
Sleek iPhone - Top Free Christmas Apps for Your iPhone this Holiday
MyChristmas is available now from Talee Talee.
MyChristmas has been spotted at number 32 of the most popular free entertainment Apps.
The festivity must be getting to us because for a very limited time (until the 14th) ALL our Apps are FREE! Yes, we've made them free!
One of two things has happened. Either we have annoyed Apple to such an extent that they have removed us from the App Store, or (much more likely!) my own personal stupidity has resulted in our apps not appearing on the App Store at the moment, or indeed for most of the day.
We have rectified things (hopefully) from our end and they should start filtering through again soon. As far as we know the App Store links from the Talee Talee website work fine again now, although you may have trouble seeing us in iTunes.
Hope to be back soon!
Sorry, I won't do it again :-)
Over on iPhone Nuts (www.iPhoneNuts.com) is the nicely titled: Best Christmas Application For Your iPhone
We agree.
"Well as I sit here typing this wishing I had a caramel apple spice drink, I’ve got the perfect iPhone Christmas app to let you know about. This app really has it all under one roof. The app is called MyChristmas, and for everything this app will do for you this Christmas it still comes in at a cheap $1.99. "
"My favorite part in the entertainment section was the Bells. There are seven sleigh bells you can tap and play your own Christmas song."
- Ryan Ray, iPhoneNuts.com
You can continue reading more of Ryan Ray's post on the iPhone Nuts website.
Christmas is nearly here, so get into the spirit right now with MyChristmas.
More information about MyChristmas (including additional screenshots and videos) is available from the Talee Talee MyChristmas website:
www.taleetalee.com/MyChristmas/
Talee Talee bring you Christmas Bells, for your iPhone or iPod touch.
Christmas Bells is a free introduction into the joys of MyChristmas, available now on the iPhone App Store.
Christmas Bells has been released and should appear in iTunes later this week. Ho, ho, ho! Merry Christmas! :o)
Just a little post to mention a new review of MyChristmas.
For this weekend, MyChristmas is 50% off on the iPhone App Store. For just $0.99 (£0.59) you can get this wonderful Christmas compendium, for holiday fun this season.
Hurry though, offer ends Monday!
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