http://www.transeffect.com/blog Standards based web design. Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:05:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A quick note for anyone who upgraded to iPhone OS 3.1 recently. Upon upgrading and syncing, iTunes told me that my computer was no longer authorized to use the iPhone apps I downloaded, and if I did not authorize the computer immediately, all of my apps would be deleted. What ... http://www.transeffect.com/blog/2009/09/apple-iphone-os-3-1-update-itunes-authorization/ Why should our blog posts be limited to product launches and company goings-on? I was thinking about a cool feature that Apple could (and I think should) implement for the iPhone. Below is what I sent to Apple. I was playing with my new iPhone 3Gs the other day, when a ... http://www.transeffect.com/blog/2009/07/kevins-iphone-feature-request/ We're proud to announce syntronics.net is now live. This is a project we designed and developed a couple of months ago for Syntronics LLC, a company located in Fredericksburg, Virginia that provides products and services for defense and homeland security. The site uses the MODx content management system and sports an ... http://www.transeffect.com/blog/2009/07/syntronics-llc/ We've just released our second application for the Apple iPhone. I proudly present Quick Connect, a visual speed dial application which uses contact photos as icons. Speed dial is usually boring - you either click a number that you've assigned to a phone number or you click on a person's name ... http://www.transeffect.com/blog/2009/04/quick-connect/ We've released Color Drop version 1.1 (Color Drop on  iTunes). This small update includes: Small interface updates Stability fixes Updated default colors Pinch Analytics from Pinch Media The biggest confusion in the Color Drop user experience was whether or not photos taken through the application itself were saved. In fact, all photos taken within the ... http://www.transeffect.com/blog/2009/03/color-drop-11-released/ AppVee.com has posted a review of Color Drop (4.6 out of 5 stars, not too shabby). One thing to note while watching the video is the reviewer mentions that images can't be saved through the app itself. This isn't true. Every image that is taken with the camera is saved to ... http://www.transeffect.com/blog/2009/01/color-drop-review-on-appveecom/ Happy new year! We've just released our first application for the Apple iPhone called Color Drop (Color Drop page on iTunes). Color Drop is aimed at designers (web, graphic, interior, or anyone who deals with colors regularly) and utilizes the iPhone's camera (or photo gallery) as a color eyedropper. If ... http://www.transeffect.com/blog/2009/01/color-drop/ If you live in the Washington DC area, you've probably heard of (if not had) the delicious desserts from CakeLove. The new and improved CakeLove store is at last live! So if you like pound cakes, cupcakes, layered cakes, brownies, or cookies (just to name a few) then head over ... http://www.transeffect.com/blog/2008/12/cakelove-online-store/ We've given our portfolio page a small facelift and added a few projects to it as well. Stay tuned as we have a few more projects to be added once the official sites go live. http://www.transeffect.com/blog/2008/08/portfolio-refresh/ We've been working on an assortment of web sites recently. The latest completed site to launch is Craze Law, a virtual law office base out of Richmond, Virginia. We worked closely with VLO Technology LLC to integrate our look and feel with their unique software to make for a good ... http://www.transeffect.com/blog/2008/06/craze-cake-casino/ So much for keeping on top of the blog posts! We've been really busy lately here in Fairfax, yet we still haven't made the decision to hire full-time staff. I think we're getting there, but there's a lot of logistics issues to work through. We do have some additions coming ... http://www.transeffect.com/blog/2008/03/busy-busy/ TransEffect, LLC has moved to 3022 Javier Road, Suite 218 Fairfax, Virginia. Not much will change for our clients, as we are still supporting and accepting new customers from the Winchester area. We can be contacted on our original phone number (540-754-1599) but we also have a new phone number ... http://www.transeffect.com/blog/2007/11/big-move/ Last week Kevin and I were invited by Carey Cole to come speak at James Madison University for a second time. Mr. Cole was a professor of mine at JMU when I attended and we were honored to be invited back to speak again. We presented to four classes all ... http://www.transeffect.com/blog/2007/11/thanks-jmu/ We have just released a new MODx module for emailing and maintaining a mailing list. More information is available on the MODx TE Mailer resource page. MODx is an open source content management system (CMS) that we use on a number of projects. For more information on MODx please visit ... http://www.transeffect.com/blog/2007/10/te-mailer/ These last few months have been some of the busiest times since we opened our doors in January 2005. We've been working hard for a number of clients building both web sites for businesses and web-based applications for the U.S government. We're even moving again on November 1st to the ... http://www.transeffect.com/blog/2007/10/busy-busy-busy/ As of April 12th, TransEffect officially became TransEffect LLC. What's going to change? Nothing really, it just means we're fancy now with letters after our name. We are working on some new logos for our web site, letterhead, business cards, etc. so you should see those items changing soon. If ... http://www.transeffect.com/blog/2007/04/transeffect-llc/ Kevin and I decided we needed a change of location. We have relocated to Old Town Winchester just off the Loudoun Street walking mall at 10 W Boscawen #26 Street Winchester, VA 22601. The new office is located in "The 1930s Building" above the original Daily Grind Coffee House at ... http://www.transeffect.com/blog/2007/04/we-moved/ As I mentioned in the last blog post, we were nearing completion of the Winchester Discount Audio design. Well, the site is now live and ready for the world to peruse at www.winchesterdiscountaudio.com. This was a complete redesign from top to bottom including a new layout, color scheme, ... http://www.transeffect.com/blog/2007/01/winchester-discount-audio/ What's happening in TransEffect world? The new year is here and we actually saw some snow outside earlier this week. No longer do we have to daydream about the white wintry goodness while staring at our current winter-themed logo. We are working on a number of ... http://www.transeffect.com/blog/2007/01/transeffect-world/ My name is Kevin Frey, and I'm co-owner of TransEffect, along with my business partner Brandon Jones. We're almost into the new year, and we've been preparing for it by making some major changes here at TransEffect, not least of which begins with the new look of our web site. We ... http://www.transeffect.com/blog/2006/12/2007s-comin-fast/