the Widgetblog

Shuffle Run Preview from Widget Revolt on Vimeo.

GET IT FREE: itunes.apple.com/us/app/shuffle-run-crazy-addictive/id866390215?mt=8

DoubleBarrel from Widget Revolt on Vimeo.

Cute Birds getting you down? Go ahead and shoot ‘em up in Double Barrel. FREE with ad support, Double Barrel is the ultra 80s arcade shooter for iOS. You can play it anywhere and it is the perfect game to play wherever you find yourself. The first in our series of Eight Bit Follies, Double Barrel is the most idle of mini games. So straightfoward, you might just be able to play it with your cat!

Timewinder - Getting Started from Widget Revolt on Vimeo.

Getting Started video for Timewinder, the Ultimate Interval Timer.

Get It Now for FREE on the App Store: taps.io/J9bg Get It Now for FREE on Google Play: taps.io/J9Yg

We're posting free workouts and other useful things every Friday to our Timewinder community site, Timeshare. This Friday we're uploading the 2nd course of Iyengar's classic Beginner's yoga sequences. We'd already posted the 1st course at the beginning of the year and will continue to add to this program throughout the year.

It's like I've said before...why buy a running app, a training app, a meditation app, a productivity timer and a yoga app when you can have an app that does all of those things in once place. De-clutter and get rewarded for it with Free Stuff Fridays when you download Timewinder. 

Get it FREE on iOS: http://taps.io/KFWg

Timewinder Teaser - 50 sec from Widget Revolt on Vimeo.

Get It Now for FREE on the App Store: taps.io/J9bg Get It Now for FREE on Google Play: taps.io/J9Yg

Get It Now for FREE on the App Store: itunes.apple.com/us/app/id384321301?mt=8 Get It Now for FREE on Google Play: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.widgetrevolt.timewinder

Everybody reads about the dangers of sitting at your desk all day. Even if you've got it well set up from an ergonomic perspective, sitting all day is just bad for you. Even standing all day is bad for you. What you want to do is get up and move occasionally. 

Lucky for you, if you download Timewinder for FREE, it comes pre-packaged with the lovely Stretch at Work timer. Stretch at work reminds you to get up from your desk every 20 minutes or so and move around and while this might seem excessive, this is what doctors recommend. Alternatively you could also use the included Pomodoro timer that while more geared toward focusing on tasks, also works well for taking those well needed breaks from your desk and increasingly, the computer screen. 

So today we just did a mini launch of Timewinder for Android. 6 Weeks into our humble new digs in San Mateo and we've released 4 new updates for Timewinder on iOS and now this initial release on Android. Feeling good about that.

We've also been putting out some work for one of our clients and have a few things cooking in the background. We always seem to have a lot going on. We were generously provided some full conference passes to APPNATION  yesterday. So, we're very excited to be going to that soon too and feeling very grateful someone's quietly giving us some help (Thanks!). 

So back when we wrote Timewinder, we were a fledgeling little start-up. We hadn't gotten buried under a mountain of consulting projects. We just wanted to write our first app for iOS. Brian wanted an alarm clock for his iPad, which we've since dropped from the product. I, on the other hand, wanted something to help me practice yoga at home when I couldn't make it down to the studio.

I basically wanted an app that would allow me to focus on whatever I was doing. I'd tried to practice yoga at home before but I was always worried I was spending too much time in one posture or another and I also had this nagging concern about the overall clock - not something you want to worry about with yoga. I'd gotten past the point of videos. I was experienced enough to want to accomplish specific objectives at various times of the year (fwiw - I change my yoga routine to support me as the seasons change...complicated topic).  While studios are great and essential to helping you form a strong practice, the drawback of studios is that you have to get there every morning and if you're anything like me, you're way too busy to take the extra time to drive there, pack and what not every single day. A strong practice requires daily attention. How do you keep your commitment to what you want to do while recognizing there aren't enough hours in the day to always make it to a yoga studio? In came Timewinder to answer that question for me.

You'd think since I have this app and I wrote it for myself, that I'd use it every day and the answer is I don't, because like anybody, I don't push myself to do what I mean to do every day. But this morning, I decided I was going to start running again and meditate every day. I'm doing that with Timewinder and I decided to write about my experiences. Once I get back into yoga, I'm going to start using Timewinder for that too. When I'm at work, I do use the Pomodoro timer that someone sent to us a few years ago. In a nutshell, that's what I like about Timewinder - you can do all of these things with it. Any day you can pick up a new timer template and start exactly where you are and do something new.

There are so many apps that will charge you 2.99 here and 3.99 there to do just one of the things you can do with Timewinder and to a certain extent, it's our own problem that people don't know what Timewinder is. We just got busy with other things. But the fact is, I can use Timewinder in many contexts and in each context it serves me well. Like, did you know there's an 8 week beginner's running program that just comes with Timewinder for free? There's a beginning running app on the app store that charges 4.99 for the exact same thing. Where's the value in that? If there was ever an Evernote of time management applications, it's definitely Timewinder.

We posted a major update to our well-loved interval timer app, Timewinder, yesterday for iOS 7.0. Although not purely an iOS 7.0 design, we wanted to transition Timewinder into the direction we want to move it in, both in terms of look and feel and functionality. It's been ages since we've made an update and frankly, consulting was really bogging us down.

If you check out some of the projects we've been working on, you might see why. Coming up with entirely new product lines for other companies can be a little time consuming and even occasionally rewarding, but we weren't doing enough for our own titles. We're trying to change that. 

We recently moved into a new office in San Mateo and with it we thought we'd give some of our apps some more attention. We've always had some dedicated customers for Timewinder who use the app every single day. Without an update in quite a while, we thought that was fairly outstanding.  We get feature requests quite a bit too. With all that love, we felt like we were missing an opportunity to connect people with this app and help build it into the product we'd always wanted it to be. And so, that's what we've done.

Since Twitter decided to kill all the glory that was Posterous... we moved the blog over to Tumblr...and so goes a new chapter of the Widgetblog.

So what have we been up to???? Consulting...consulting...and more consulting.....We're just winding down some of our larger contracts now to prep for finally finishing up our gaming title we started over a year ago. Shannon's also working on a revamped, lite version of Timewinder and on a community planning site which might be called rootsfaction.com...still puttering around with names.