Supernifty - nifty stuff

If you watched the last Biggest Loser series, Biggest Loser Second Chances, you might be interested to know that you can now see each contestant’s before and after BMI position on the Celebrity BMI iPhone App.

Once you’ve fired up the app, simply click on “Download”, choose “Biggest Loser 2009″ and voila, you have the Biggest Loser dataset available on Celebrity BMI. One thing that is immediately obvious is the spectacular amount of weight all contestants managed to lose, and how spectacularly unhealthy they were at the start of the show.

Whether you use this for your own inspiration, to compare to your own efforts or to marvel at what a motivated person is capable of, hopefully you’ll find this dataset useful. If there is sufficient interest, other Biggest Loser results will be added to the application.

Supernifty is very pleased to announce the release of the Word Nerd Crossword Solver on the iTunes App Store.

Word Nerd is an essential tool for any keen puzzle solver, especially crosswords. It also makes a great dictionary, containing famous people, events, cities, landmarks and traditional “words”.

Features:

• Fully searchable offline dictionary containing over 140,000 words and 200,000 definitions
• Search for specific words using wild cards e.g. h.rse
• Search for anagrams, even using wild cards!
• Search definitions to find related terms and synonyms.

All available wherever you are, as long as you have your iPhone.

To learn more, see screenshots, and to obtain Word Nerd, go to iTunes

Or read more on the Supernifty Wiki.

As always, Supernifty welcomes feedback and ideas - contact us with your thoughts.

Now go be a Word Nerd!

Supernifty is very pleased to announce that Speed Scrabble is now available on the iTunes App Store.

Speed Scrabble (aka Take Two!) is a fast, fun and challenging word game, enjoyable either as single or multiplayer, now playable on your iPhone.

Features:

• It’s soooo much fun
• Single player mode - race the clock, beat your high score, get longer words
• Multiplayer mode - compete online against other Speed Scrabblers

If you’re not familiar with the game, try Speed Scrabble Online, join the Speed Scrabble Facebook Group or learn more.

To see more screenshots, details and to get Speed Scrabble, go to iTunes

Or read more on the Supernifty Wiki.

As always, Supernifty welcomes feedback and ideas - contact us with your thoughts.

Now go get Speed Scrabble!

It’s true. Celebrity BMI is now available on the iPhone.

Determine your BMI by sliding the chart around on screen, and see which weight category you fall into.

Save your BMI so you can compare yourself to your friends, or keep track of your BMI.

Then download one of the BMI packs to see how you compare to:

• Average BMI for adults in different age groups.
• Average BMI for children (boys and girls) aged 0-20.
• Your favourite celebrity! Download one of the celebrity packs and compare yourself to Britney Spears, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and many more.

It’s useful, interesting and fun. And only $0.99. Bargain!

Check it out online, or open iTunes for further details.

Keep your musical instrument in tune with your iPhone.

Unlike other tuners on the market, Supernifty’s tuner provides the following goodness:

• Full spectrum analysis - get as much detail as you need on your audio environment
• Pitch pipe tone generation - confirm that you’ve tuned up correctly with a reference note
• Tunings for many different musical instruments - new ones frequently added.

Download, screenshots and further details are


If you’d rather not open iTunes, read more online.

If you require further information, or wish to review this product, please contact Supernifty.

There have been a number of updates, improvements and even a new version of Audio Tuner over the last fortnight.

If you haven’t already, consider upgrading. Here are the main changes:

PC Version
A pitch analysis component has been added to simplify the tuning process. This quickly indicates if the note is to too high or too low.

The performance of the software has also been improved.

Android Tuner
An Instrument Tuner for Android has been released.

This version of the software can only play the required note, rather than doing the full spectrum analysis. Although not as cool, it is surprisingly easy to use.

Hopefully in future Android versions it will possible to implement the spectrum analysis as well.

Windows Mobile, Pocket PC Tuner
The tone generator functionality has been added to the Windows Mobile Tuner, providing an alternate tuning method - verify the string is tuned correctly by hearing the correct note.

Warning: If you are in a meeting (tuning your guitar!), check your mobile volume before you hit “Hear Note”.

Java based tuner - Nokia, Sony, etc
A tone generator has been added to the Mobile Java Audio Tuner - hear the correct note on your mobile for verification, as well as getting the spectrum analysis.

If your handset doesn’t support the spectrum analysis, you may now be able to use the tone generator to keep your musical instrument in tune! Yeah!

A lot of work has been put in to getting the software to work properly on more mobile handsets, with a number of performance improvements, so that the spectrum analysis is more usable on less capable mobiles. If you’ve had problems in the past, this version might be just the ticket.

Where to get your version

• PC Tuner
• Mobile Java Tuner
• Windows Mobile, Pocket PC Tuner
• Blackberry Tuner
• Android Tuner

As always, any feedback is appreciated.

BlackBerry owners rejoice! Supernifty is pleased to announce the release of Audio Tuner for the BlackBerry.

This release brings Supernifty’s super accurate tuning technology to the BlackBerry for the first time.

Why buy a tuner, when your BlackBerry can tune your guitar to pitch perfect accuracy?

And it’s not just a guitar tuner. You can also tune your autoharp, banjo, bass guitar, cello, mandolin, piano, ukulele and violin.

As this is our first release of the software, there may be glitches. If you try out the software, any feedback (good or bad) is appreciated.

Further details are available at the main BlackBerry page.

Get Audio Tuner for your BlackBerry.

I’m pleased to announce the release of version 0.6 of Audio Tuner for Java enabled mobiles.

If you have a Java enabled mobile, e.g. Nokia or Sony, or most other recent mobiles, this means you. Now you can tune your guitar wherever you are.

And not just guitars. You can also tune your autoharp, banjo, bass guitar, cello, mandolin, piano, ukulele and violin.

This version fixes a few annoying issues, such as the exit button not working. And we’ve added an audio signal strength indicator. If you try it out, please provide feedback.

Unfortunately, the issue with older Sony mobiles is still present - many of them only provide audio data in the AMR format, which the Supernifty software currently doesn’t support. Anyone with expertise with the AMR audio format, it’s your turn in the sun. Get in touch if you think you can help.

We are paying people to test the software on certain cellphone models. If you have one of the models listed, please try it out, and earn some cash in the process.

Get Audio Tuner Mobile.

I’m pleased to announce the release of Audio Tuner for Java enabled mobiles, version 0.3. If you have a Java enabled mobile, e.g. Nokia or Sony, or most other recent mobiles, this means you. Now you can tune your musical instrument wherever you are.

OK, so this is an alpha release. And unfortunately, Supernifty doesn’t have a Java enabled phone to test against. If you try it out, please provide feedback.

Alternatively, if anyone has a mobile they’d like to donate or sell to Supernifty for testing purposes, please get in touch. There are apparently zillions of unused mobiles lying useless in drawers, awaiting such an opportunity.

If you like the idea of testing for money, check out Test Army. It’s a new Supernifty project, and it’s nearing beta. There’ll be tests available, and money to be earnt, in the near future.

But, in the meantime, try out the new audio tuner, and let Supernifty know if it works.

I’m pleased to announce the release of Audio Tuner Mobile 0.8.

Audio Tuner Mobile is a musical instrument tuner that runs on most Windows Mobile devices, including Pocket PCs and Smartphones.

The software actively tunes your instrument by providing feedback as you play the notes, and many instruments are covered: guitar, ukulele, violin, piano, bass guitar, banjo, mandolin, cello and autoharp.

This release fixes a number of important issues related to landscape mobile phones, and adds a number of new tunings for the ukulele.

A summary of the main changes:

• Instrument and note boxes now stretch across the entire screen.
• The application no longer exits unexpectedly, in particular when the full instrument list or note list is opened.

The new ukulele tunings:

• D tuning: A D F# B
• D tuning with low A
• G tuning: D G B E

Feedback is welcomed.

For further details, including downloads, phone compatibility and tutorials, visit the Audio Tuner Mobile Homepage