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Following is a list of the third-party software products in which Axelrod Consulting has played a key software development role:

  • Moblyng Slide Shows for iPhone and iPod Touch, Fliptrack, Inc.

    Co-designed and implemented the Moblyng Slide Shows application for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Moblyng Slide Shows lets you create and share photo slide shows right from your phone or iPod. Slide shows can include images from the camera and Photo Albums, and can be enhanced with themes and skins. Slide shows can be shared to mobile phones, email addresses or several social web sites including MySpace, Facebook and Friendster. Moblyng Slide Shows is available for download (its free!) from Apple's App Store.

  • BiM Active Mobile and Online, Bones in Motion, Inc.

    Co-designed and implemented BiM Active Mobile for BREW and Java enabled phone handsets, as well as the BiM Active Online web site component of the BiM Active product offering. BiM Active Mobile is a lifestyle application for fitness enthusiasts, allowing them to track their personal fitness performance from GPS enabled phone handsets. BiM Active Mobile is distributed on several major carriers, including Verizon Wireless and Sprint. BiM Active Online is the companion web site to BiM Active Mobile, and provides an online journal of users' activities. Users can view and analyze activity history and statistics, search for routes, create routes, blog activities, share experiences in the forums, etc. BiM Active Online is based on the LAMP technology framework. Visit BiM Active to find out more about BiM Active.

  • Rocket Mobile Forms for BREW, Rocket Mobile, Inc.

    Co-developed Rocket Mobile Forms for the BREW environment. Rocket Mobile forms is a phone based client application that allows users to download forms from a backend server, fill them out on the phone and then upload the completed forms to the server for automatic e-mail distribution. This work was funded by Alltel, who intends to distribute Mobile Forms to its small business phone customers in 2004.

  • MPEG-1 Encoder for Mac OS X, palmOne, Inc.

    Developed a software library to support transcoding QuickTime movie files to the MPEG-1 file format. This library was included as part of the system software package released by palmOne.

  • AgendaVU for select palmOne handhelds, CushySoft

    Co-developed the AgendaVU palm software for the palmOne Tungsten T3 and E devices, as well as the AgendaVU Theme Builder application for Windows. AgendaVU is a shareware software add-on that displays photographic images as "wallpaper" behind the Agenda view in the handheld's Calendar application. AgendaVU Theme Builder lets users create custom themes from their own photos on the desktop. Once installed on the handheld, these custom themes are automatically displayed by AgendaVU.

  • Prototyped handheld application user interface concepts, onedoto, Inc.

    Worked with Steve Capps of onedoto, Inc. to protoype proprietary user interface concepts/paradigm for handheld based applications. These concepts may appear in future handheld products.

  • Enhanced Calendar application for palmOne Handhelds, palmOne, Inc.

    Co-developed a new user interface paradigm for the Calendar applications's Agenda view display in palmOne handhelds. This new interface presents a graphically more pleasing view of the user's upcoming appointments, tasks and e-mail correspondence. This enhanced interface was included in the Tungsten T3 and E handhelds, which shipped in fall, 2003.

  • Compatibility checker application for palmOne Handhelds, palmOne, Inc.

    As part of palmOne's transition to supporting devices based on the ARM processor, co-developed a Palm application to determine the ARM compatibility status of Palm applications installed on user's devices. The purpose of the application was to examine all applications installed on a user's handheld and report back the ARM compatibility status of each application. This application let users identify those applications which needed to be upgraded in order to run on the newer ARM based handhelds. This application was released on palmOne's web site in fall, 2002.

  • Voice Memo desktop support for Tungsten T handheld, palmOne, Inc.

    Co-developed the Mac and Windows software conduits used to sync Voice Memo application voice recordings between a handheld and a desktop computer. This software was included as a component of the Palm Desktop software that shipped with the Tungsten T handheld in the fall, 2002.

  • Palm HotSync Software for Mac OS X, Palm, Inc.

    Assisted Palm's HotSync team with the development of the Palm HotSync software for Mac OS X. Much of this effort involved re-architecting and re-implementing the existing HotSync software to work within the new I/O framework of Mac OS X. This new HotSync software was released in the spring of 2002.

  • PicturePrep software for MacOS, NuWave Technologies, Inc.

    Co-developed the PicturePrep application for MacOS. PicturePrep was an easy to use photo editing software package, which made it simple for users to edit their digital photos. The application included functions to scale, crop and rotate images, as well as to apply various graphic effects to the images (e.g. sepia, posterization, diffuse, etc.). The application also supported NuWave proprietary graphic effects and it could process entire QuickTime movies, applying various effects to each frame of the movie. This software was shipped by NuWave in the fall of 2000.

  • Palm m100 PDA, Palm, Inc.

    Developed Mac and Windows software conduits to support the Palm Note Pad application, which was introduced on the Palm m100 device in August, 2000. The Note Pad software allows users to jot "Post-It" like notes on their Palm device. The software conduits enabled users to synchronize data between their Palm m100 PDA and their Mac or Windows desktop computer.

  • Palm OS Software Updater, Palm, Inc.

    Developed the Windows version of Palm's OS Software Updater application. This application is used within Palm, Inc. and by Palm customers to upgrade versions of the Palm OS on their Palm devices. It coordinates the backup and restoration of a user's data during the upgrade process, and it handles "flashing" a new version of the Palm OS ROM onto the user's device. Various Palm OS upgrades are available on the Palm Web site, and the updater application has been used to update thousands and thousands of end-user devices.

  • CitySync, Lonely Planet

    CitySync is a Palm OS application that presents guides to the world's great cities on any Palm compatible device. These guides include travel information, as well as maps of the cities. CitySync was conceived from a joint venture between Concept Kitchen and Lonely Planet, authors of the premiere travel guides. For this application, Axelrod Consulting developed the database access portions of the CitySync Palm OS application, and in addition, developed Mac OS applications to preprocess the travel and city map data in order to prepare it for use on the Palm device (see CitySync for details). Following the initial release of CitySync, Axelrod Consulting developed Mac and Windows based installers for installing the CitySync software from a desktop computer. Axelrod Consulting also worked on follow on versions of CitySync, including the version that ships on Palm's Travel Pak cards.

  • Spyglass Mobile Forms, Spyglass Inc.

    Developed the Spyglass Mobile Forms database application for the Windows CE platform. This application is similar to a scaled down version of Claris' FileMaker Pro, and allows users to create and manage custom databases on Windows CE devices. This application is bundled on the Philips Velo series of CE devices and is sold direct by Spyglass. Spyglass Mobile Forms is also a top ten seller on MobileSoft's list of Windows CE applications for H/PC devices.

  • Surf Express, Connectix Corporation

    Co-designed and implemented Surf Express, an application which improves the performance of "off the shelf" Web browsers such as Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer by optimizing the retrieval of Web pages, and by providing a higher performance replacement for the browser's cache. This work involved contributing to the development of both Windows and Macintosh versions of Surf Express (see Connectix for details).

  • QuickTime VR Authoring Studio, Apple Computer Inc.

    Designed and implemented the Object Editor portion of Apple's award winning QuickTime VR Authoring Studio application. This application provides end users a toolkit for creating QuickTime VR movies, scenes, panoramas and objects. These QuickTime components can be integrated into Web pages and any other multimedia content sources (see Apple for details).

  • Copernicus Screen Saver, Copernicus Software, L.L.C.

    Designed and implemented the Copernicus Screen saver product for the Macintosh. This product provides a screen saver and "wallpaper" for displaying Copernicus' award winning images of national parks and wildlife areas. The software allows users to create custom screen savers from Copernicus's images or images of their own. The software also supports various display transition effects and provides users complete control over the image display process (see Copernicus for details). In 2001, playback of mp3 sounds was added to the screen saver. A Disney licensed version of the screen saver software was also developed by Axelrod Consulting.

In addition to these more visible third-party products, Axelrod Consulting has completed the following custom software development projects:

  • Embedded Web Server for Windows CE, Spyglass Inc. (formerly AllPen Software)

    Designed and implemented AllPen Software's Embedded Web Server for the Windows CE platform. This application implemented a Web server on a Windows CE device which can be accessed via the Internet using standard Web browsers. This server includes an application programming interface similar to CGI, which allows third parties to develop custom modules that provide some level of embedded application functionality (e.g. interface to a hardware device). This Web Server was used to demonstrate and promote Spyglass's expertise at developing embedded solutions for the Windows CE platform.

  • Remote Monitoring System, International Broadcasting Bureau - United State Information Agency

    Co-designed and implemented a series of Macintosh applications which comprise the International Broadcasting Bureau's (IBB) Remote Monitoring System (RMS). This system allows the IBB to remotely monitor scheduled radio broadcasts around the world, and provides software components to analyze the data collected in order to better manage the radio broadcasts. The broadcasters include Voice of America (VOA), Radio Free Europe (RFE), Radio Free Asia (RFA) and others. The monitoring data, which is collected at remote locations around the world, is routed over the Internet to regional servers which automatically publish the data on the Web, thereby providing access to the data via off the shelf Web browsers. To access the data collected by the RMS system, access RMS and follow the links for the RMS system. Work on this system is ongoing as the IBB continues to expand the system's functionality and scope.

  • AllPen Connection Application, AllPen Software Inc.

    Developed Macintosh and Windows versions of the AllPen Connection application. This application allowed users to easily upload and download tab delimited text file data between a desktop computer and a Newton application that supports the AllPen Connection communication protocol. Developed a Newton component to make it easy for a Newton application to exchange data with the AllPen Connection application. This application was sold direct by AllPen Software.

  • NetHopper v1.0, AllPen Software Inc.

    NetHopper v1.0 was a combination of Newton and Macintosh software which allowed Newton PDA users to access the Web via a Macintosh server machine. This development effort involved developing C++ buffer management classes to support the communication between the Newton and Mac, and developing an Internet gateway application on the Mac which provided remote Newton clients support for TCP communications to Internet WEB sites. These remote clients connected to the Mac via serial, modem and AppleTalk ADSP connections.

  • Remote Messaging Application for Newton, Mitre Corporation

    Developed a Newton based application to prototype Mitre's concept of a remote message alert system. The application correlated messages received from a base station via a PCMCIA pager card and global positioning information received from a GPS hardware device, to alert the Newton user of "significant events" occurring in the user's geographical area. The intended use of this system was for military field operations.

  • PrintGear Application, InfoWave Corporation

    Developed AppleTalk based communication software for use in the PrintGear printer utility application, whose purpose was to configure and control a new style of PostScript based printers.

Prior to embarking on an independent consultant role, Mr. Axelrod (see About Us) worked on a number of projects as a full time employee. His employers included Pharos Technologies, Gizmo Technologies, Apple Computer, and Burroughs Corporation. For information about these other projects, please contact Axelrod Consulting (see About Us).