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Want a Free App to Go With Your New iPod or iPhone?

Jeff Lange — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:10:07 +0000

With Christmas Day approaching, the CKA team decided that we'd love to help millions celebrate the gift of a brand new iPod Touch or iPhone they'll be recieving over the next couple days. We're pretty sure that anyone receiving one of these toys will be extremely pleased with their gift, but what if we could help make it a bit better?

To do our part, we're going to be giving away copies of our hottest selling app through what we're calling "48 Hours of Battery Go!."

Once per hour starting at 12:00pm CST on Christmas Day, we'll be using the @BatteryGo Twitter account to give away a promo code for the app. Just check us out here or follow the account on Twitter, grab the code once we tweet it, then run over to iTunes and enter it in hopes of being the first to use the code in order to get a free copy of our successful battery management application.

We're not stopping there either! We're also going to give away one limited (as in only 12 were ever even made) CollegeKidApp.com t-shirts!

To enter to win the t-shirt, all you need to do is take a picture of yourself either using Battery Go! or somehow promoting Battery Go!. You could take a photo of yourself using the app on the train, in the car, or you could even take a marker and write Battery Go! across your arm. If you're promoting Battery Go!, we'll consider it an entry. There is also no limit to the amount of times you can enter, so send in as many entries as you would like. Once you're finished, take that photo and send it to @BatteryGo using a Twitter photo service such as Twitpic or e-mail the photo to Cameron@CollegeKidApp.com. We'll take entries up until December 31st and then the CKA team will judge the photos and award the t-shirt to the one we find to be most original.

So happy holidays and we hope you enjoy the season with Battery Go! Be sure to check out the Twitter feed starting Christmas day in hopes of getting a free copy of our application and be sure to send us your photo using the app so that we can consider you in our t-shirt contest!

New Website!

Jeff Lange — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 19:16:47 +0000

Welcome to the somewhat new CollegeKidApp.com. It's not finallized and not essentially the vision we have for what this will ultimately become, but it's a starting point none the less. We've moved over to SquareSpace because we like the options they give us, so we've played around and essentially ported our old website over. Take some time to check it out and use our new e-mail form to let us know what you think. More will be coming in the future, so we hope you come back often.

Fox Business Documentary

Jeff Lange — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 05:16:00 +0000

I decided to import some video I shot a while ago and export it to a movie. I shot this back when we went to Chicago to be on Fox Business News. Enjoy!

Battery Go! 1.1 Available Now!

Jeff Lange — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:38:00 +0000

After much delay, version 1.1 of Battery Go! is now available in the iTunes App Store. If you have the app already, log onto your device or kick up iTunes and download the update. If you don't have Battery Go!, well go spend the $0.99 on the best battery app on the market.

If you're curious, here's what we have new in this update.

New colorful icons for device features
We now support 3G Phone, 2G Phone, WiFi Web, 3G Web, 2G Web, and Standby times
New sweet lightning bolt icon for scroll bar
Scroll bar now below percentages so that its easier to see as you scroll
CUSTOMIZATION! Think that your phone lasts for 8 hours on 2G Talk? We'll let you customize the app so that time times adjust to whatever you feel is accurate for your device

It's a great update and we hope you all enjoy it! Have any comments or questions? Send them to Cameron@CollegeKidApp.com.

Click here to download Battery Go!

Ask an iPhone App Developer (Me!!)

Jeff Lange — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:23:00 +0000

Wanted to spread this link to something I'm really excited about. I've been working recently with AppAdvice.com on a weekly column called "Ask an iPhone Developer", where I'll be answering reader questions on a regular basis. It should be a great little segment and I'm hoping that I can answer a lot of questions which people may have about being an iPhone developer. If you have a question, definitely check out the link and hopefully I can answer it in one of the weekly columns.

Check Out Our Fox Business News Interview!

Jeff Lange — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:21:00 +0000

Here's the video of our interview from this morning! Hope we don't look too nervous haha. Check it out and definitely let us know what you think. If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, e-mail me at Cameron@CollegeKidApp.com.

Fox Business News Interview Update

Jeff Lange — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:14:00 +0000

So we've got some details on what's going on with our Fox Business News interview. As of right now, it looks like we'll be on at 7:45am CST to talk about CollegeKidApp and Battery Go!. It should be a lot of fun and if you're up early, definitely look to tune in.

If you're not sure where you can find Fox Business News, here is a finder that will help you locate the channel in your area.

We're What?!

Jeff Lange — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:57:00 +0000

Not sure of the exact details yet, I'll post more as I find them out, but it looks like we may be on the Fox Business News Network nationwide tomorrow morning sometime between 6am and 8am CST. Again, not 100% certain as to when exactly or for how long, but will definite post some hard facts as I find them out. That will definitely be a crazy way to start our Friday.

Making Phat Beats

Jeff Lange — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:05:00 +0000

After buying a Macbook Pro, Jeff has been inspired to write his own app. He figures a flashlight app would be simple enough and functional, so he's been working on what he is going to call "Just Light." Seeing as no app is complete without a hit song, Jeff is currently writing a phat track to accompany his app. Any guesses as to what the song is a parody of?

Video Piece on CollegeKidApp.com and Battery Go!

Jeff Lange — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 03:30:00 +0000

Had a great video piece on CKA and Battery Go! put together for UWire.com by VU student and WVUR homeboy Dave Schroeder. It's a great two minute recap of what we've done and what Battery Go! actually does. Check it out and be sure to leave a comment on YouTube.