It’s been an uphill struggle to get this out, and get it out right, but we finally managed it. Our QA manager is one hard cookie to please but eventually the dev team got the product polished to release quality and Voila! Sunday 31st May, 23:00 hours marked the launch of V2 . We believe we have a far superior software compared to its predecessor and we really hope you like it. Check it out at www.tricastmail.com
Like always please give us your feedback via comments through this blog or directly via email at info@tricastmedia.com.
Let us know what you think – we shall be releasing a developer site in the next few days where you can post questions on the forum. Or post a comment here.
TWUIK has been eagerly awaited by the mobile development community; we have not rushed this release as we wanted to get it right from the get-go.
TWUIK will be under constant development, we here at Tricast Media value any constructive comments and feedback that will help us improving what has already proven to be a valuable mobile development commodity.
BlackBerry developers - have you noticed how all BlackBerry applications have that kind of serious, business feel to them? Do BlackBerry users enjoy applications with graphically rich interfaces, providing engaging user experiences?
Yes?
Well we though so too. So we are making it a priority now to port TWUIK to BlackBerry.
Watch this space.
Ah well, guess I’ll just hire someone to walk my dog…
Do you remember when you were looking for some information you would have to go out into the rain and walk to a ‘Library’, and look at ‘Periodicals’, ‘Newspapers’ and ‘Books’ for hours, while a condescending 312 year old Bride-of-Dracula library assistant screamed “Silence!” at you every time you breathed or turned a page?
Do you remember having to ask your Mum permission to use the phone? If you actually had a phone that is…some of us didn’t you know.
I remember all these things, and I totally worship the computer age, the availability of information, and all this simple communication. Thank you ‘The internet’.
“Why?” I hear you ask, am I taking you all a stroll down Rememberry Lane?
Well it is all very simple really…It’s all about Twitter.
I will admit it took me a little time to buy into the whole Twitter thing (as it does for anything not associated with ‘real’ objects like books and telephones that weigh in at a cool 40 Kilograms (see the first paragraphs)) and when we started developing our own Twitter Mobile application I did feel that it may well just be a passing phase.
Of course the knowledge that I was wrong (again) cheered me up no end…but the fact is that Twitter is here to stay, and is anything but a simple fad, and that’s a good thing.
The fame that Twitter that has been vicariously granted through simply being used by the famous (well, we never stop hearing about them and their antics so its maybe the same thing) has created this Twitter Monster, so thank you Chris Moyles, Jonathan Ross and Stephen Fry, you are all forgiven.
Keeping this in mind we have decided, in our ineffable wisdom, that we will produce Twitter Mobile Version Two rather than upgrading Version One from Beta to General Release.
Why? Because Twitter is and is going to be HUGE! We are producing Version Two so that we can handle many, many more devices and give more of you guys out there a chance to download this wonderful, classy, and above all, free application; and with much, much more going on under the bonnet I can assure any potential Twitter Mobile Users out there that, no matter how outstanding Version One is, Version Two is going to be GREAT!
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We welcome all sorts of comments so please subscribe and let us know what you think, and include links to your blogs and websites also as I would like to read what you are up to as well.
You need not be Swiftian in your wit, nor Gatesian (if there indeed is such a thing) in your grasp of Technical know-how but please be assured that any questions or contributions that are made will be answered as soon as we (i.e. me) can answer them. With this in mind please make your comments sensible and clean (just imagine that your Granny is going to read them before you press the ’submit’ button). We shall be moderating this blog on a regular basis so your comments should appear fairly quickly.
That said I hope that we can start to develop a TWUIK based communtity and this is one of our goals - once we get TWUIK out there to you guys.
Last week saw the release of our newest mobile application in the ‘Lovely to look and lovely to use’ category. This was of course none other than the wonderful Twitter Mobile client.
See Twitter Mobile for the free (Yes! You heard me. It’s free!) download.
Now as we all know, thanks to such celebs as Robert Llewellyn (Anyone remember Red Dwarf? Its making a comeback y’know!), and Barack Obama, Twitter is the social networking tool. You can follow your friends (and the celebs) and find out what they are thinking and doing, or thinking about doing, without ever being called a stalker.
Which is nice.
But seriously, a lot of thought has went into the production of the Twitter Mobile application and it’s out there - so download it and let us know what you think.
We are also working hard on our Tricast Mail clients, of which our V1 has just been awarded Java certification (Hurrah!), which is good but is nothing on the V2 application which comes packed with all sorts of goodies and widgets.
Come visit us HERE and see what we’re all about and find out about our TWUIK SDK. More news of that in future blog entries…
We are happy to announce that Twitter Mobile Beta version is now available for all Sony Ericsson users. We are working hard to get the Nokia S60 and S40 device support released ASAP. We are aiming to support Motorola and Blackberry in the near future.
It has taken longer than expected in releasing V2 but we have been inundated with customer projects and work that internal product development had to be sidelined unfortunately.
Anyway we are back on track and hard at work putting the final touches to the release of Tricast Mail V2 and Twitter Mobile applications. We are targeting a release end of this month so remember to download your free copy when released. Play casino online.
More details on V2 and Twitter mobile to come soon but also to be announced is our ambitious roadmap of great applications to be launched this year so keep an eye on Tricatsmedia website.
We have been through a lot since the very first launch of Tricast Mail in 2006 when it was better known as Pegasus. Ticast Mail was released for a small price on our webite.
It has always been in our roadmap plan and we are pleased to announce that finally, V1 is completely FREE for download
But that’s not all, we are about to launch version 2 of Tricast Mail which is better and bolder than its predecessor and that too will be completely, totally, and Irrevocably FREEEEEEE!!
V2 is absolutely gorgeous and beats any mobile email application out in the market. Try it out for yourself in a few weeks time. Stay tuned to www.tricastmedia.com
One of the main reasons for success of traditional internet may be its openness and uniform platform for PCs. Browsers are relatively standardised and the tools to create databases and complex systems, such as Linux and SQL, are widely and freely available as open source software (OSS) through General Public Licenses (GPL). This environment has made it easy to develop for the web and has enabled the community to focus on what they do they do best - create fresh and compelling contents, rather than worry about how to deliver it.
With the mobile internet, however the market has been highly fragmented. As smart phones are getting smarter and newer platforms like Googles’s android and Apples’s iPhones, recently-continue to enter the market. This will widen the gulf between high-end devices and low cost, mass market handsets. In this environment, content developers and application developers need access to the right kind of enabling technology to reach the mass market. They need software that can overcome fragmentation issues as well as scale to support applications as they become successful across multiple markets in the longer run.
A UI platform like TWUIK can allow developers to create beautiful applications across billions of Handsets worldwide that cover Java ME, BlackBerry Java, DOJA, BREW and Open platforms like Windows Mobile and Symbian. Popular desktop application or web application/service providers can easily bring the same experience to the mobile space using technology like TWUIK. Our rich UI framework can assist developers quickly deploy mobile solutions. Examples of some of the demo applications developed using this UI are provided on our web site under the video gallery. Feedback and comments highly appreciated
Last month we were back in San Francisco. Sunny San Francisco with beautiful sea side views always makes an everlasting impression on us Glaswegians .
One thing about San Francisco is that we had to take a crash course in the formula for tipping in CA. Although a friend who lives locally advised us about the tips requirement during our early trips but we did not take a serious note of that. During the last few visits we have learnt that tipping does not mean any thing unless it meets the 15-20% formula. In one of the restaurant during our dinner on the first night we were asked about the service more than a dozen time. We had to make sure that we tip before leaving.
Leaving the tipping issue aside we enjoyed the technology show. The choice of food in down town area is great. San Francisco is definitely a good place to visit for business and leisure.
We arein Barcelona this week for the annual Mobile World Congress… lotsa meetings lined up. If you want to meet us, just drop an email to “info@tricastmedia.com”. Plenty of demos to showcase.
Here is a snippet from an article of a recent interview with Igor Jablokov CEO of YAP (TWUIK Customer)…
“Independent of those activities, we are continually upgrading the client and are happy to be partnered with Tricastmedia (they are based in the UK); they allow our crazy visions for next generation visual user interfaces to be possible on low resource devices. By the time we are finished, a child will be able to open up their parent’s mobile phone, ask “why is the sky blue?” and we will answer them a second later. This dream of bringing all human knowledge to you within a single click makes all these late nights worth it…”
We took this video to show TWUIK Transition Effects (”Transition” is one of 3 Visual Effects Library available, the other being “Transformation” and “Motion”) run on a low-end Nokia S40 handset. Tomorrow, we are going to post videos of TWUIK running on Motorola K1 (ARM 7 55MHz), and some other non-smartphone devices. Pictures speak a thousand words.
Check out our podcast with Sun Microsystems where Dr. Brian Lee and Dr. Salmon Ahmad give an in-depth insight on Tricastmedia, introducing TWUIK , Tricast Mail and covering our business model.
We are currently facing some problems with Hotmail and Gmail access for Tricast Mail. All existing Tricast Mail v1 cucstomers, please bear with us while we get this fixed. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
Latest update: 20/11/07 - The server has been patched and fixed. Let us know if you face any problem accessing these webmail accounts, email: support@tricastmedia.com.
Winning this award, is a great recognition for the good folks at Tricastmedia and also a strong vote of confidence from the people in the industry that User Interface plays a big part in your application.
And to top this good news, our friends at Yap also won accolades for their Yap9 client (UI also created with TWUIK) as the audience picked them as the winner.
It gives me great pleasure to announce that Prudential Inc (US)’s first offshore technology division - Pramerica Systems Ireland, has become a customer. They had licensed TWUIK for Blackberry and planning to use it to build rich application for RIM devices. I can’t hide my excitement, and I look forward to seeing cool stuff brewed from this partnership.
Tricast Mail v1.6.2 is launched, buy it from our online shop. This is the final version of v1. We are most excited about v2, powered by TWUIK, our in-house Graphics and Animation platform for rapid UI development on JavaME/DOJA/BREW devices.
Excuse us for the hiatus, this blog has been looking pretty sparse since September, here’s proof that we have indeed been busily toiling away to bring you more cool UI examples… check out mika’s blog.
Latest… we have been working with the fine folks at Yap, using TWUIK to create their UI. The past months of labour has bore fruits. They just won the most no. of votes at Mike Arrington’s TechCrunch40 event. Read full story here.
Yap was the only one of the five mobile companies to score a 4.0 or above on a five-criteria scale that included “idea,” “execution,” and “presentation.”
Development of v1.6.2 of Tricast Mail is nearing completion. With already 80 supported devices, we are happy to announce that with this new version, we have also coincided with the release of the 5 most requested devices!
These devices are: Nokia N95, E65, Motorola A1200, Sony Ericsson K810i & LG U400
Although V2 is just round the corner, V1.6.2 has been updated to include the following features/upgrades:
Support of Windows Live - Hotmail (classic) version.
Improved ‘webmail’ (Gmail, Yahoo) connection and functionality.
Simplification of Email Account settings, which includes the re-introduction of ‘Partial Download’ functionality
We have been nominated and chosen to present at the “Under The Radar - Mobile” (UTR) conference on 15th Nov ‘07. Matt Marshall of VentureBeat called Under the Radar the “American Idol competition for startups”… to be in the final is already an honor. We’d travelling to Mountain View, CA and would also stay there a couple of days for other business meetings. If you happen to be in the valley and want to meet up, just ping us.
UTR conferences showcase 32 of the most disruptive companies in a sector. We take a hands-on look at the true innovators fueling an explosion of emerging technology and new business opportunities. Each company demo’s their product to a panel of industry experts who are active in the sector, along with an audience of early-adopter technology insiders.
We are glad to announce that TWUIK 1.5 is ready as a BETA. Our teams are busy putting the finishing touches to the system. We expect to be ready to leap into the public beta-testing phase in the coming weeks.
