Thanks A (Half) Million! RE.minder PRO and PRO+ Special

RE.minder PRO  & RE.minder PRO+ Special

RE:minder Lite has been downloaded over 1/2 a million times and we're pretty pumped about it. That's like the height of 128 Empire State Buildings (measured in iPhones of course) or the amount of muddy, music lovin' hippies that attended Woodstock in 1969 and almost 10 Yankee Stadiums filled to max capacity. Not too shabby!

Because we want to say thanks for helping us get here, we're dropping the price of RE.minder PRO and RE.minder PRO + for our "More Than Half OFF, Thanks A (Half) Million Special." So if you've been waiting to upgrade now is the time!

Get the discount from March 1st - March 7:

RE.minder PRO $0.99 (regular $2.99) Upgrade to RE.minder PRO with a simple in app purchase.

RE.minder PRO+ $2.99 (regular $7.99) RE.minder PRO+  (with all the bells and whistles) is available in the App Store or upgrade from RE.minder Lite. 

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A must have for the any gamer - from occasional to hardcore! Keep track of upcoming game release dates so you don't forget to play!

GAME.minder is available on the web and for iPhone & Android. 

GAME.minder is always FREE!

STYLE.minderlets you track your hair do's so you never have a hair don't!

With STYLE.minder, you build a personal history of ALL your styles over time! Take photos, tag, file and share all of your hair styles, cuts and colors. Recreate your look at a later date or show your stylist your favorite style right on your phone!


NEW Release! STYLE.minder

The newest member of the .minder family

STYLE.minder is here to track your hair do's so you never have a hair don't!

With STYLE.minder you build a personal history of ALL your styles over time! Take photos, tag and file all of your hair styles, cuts and colors. Recreate your look at a later date or show your stylist your favorite style right on your phone!

STYLE.minder in a nutshell:

  • Snap photos of your latest style to remember what it looks like 
  • Tag your your photos with style specifics so you can easily find it in the future
  • Add notes to help you or your stylist recreate the same color and look at a later date
  • Keep a to do archive of styles in your Style File
  • Share your style files with friends or your Stylist prior to your next appointment

Whether it’s a style of yours, or someone else’s, STYLE.minder gives you one place to keep any style you like. The next time you’re in the stylist’s chair, you can just open up STYLE.minder and tell them - Make me look like this! 

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A new look and a new price!

Get the full package for RE.minder PRO+ with all the bells and whistles (and songs and quacks too) - was $8.99 NOW $7.99! Want to try before you buy? Get the basic RE.minder for FREE and upgrade when you discover that you love it!

*NEW feature* The latest update of RE.minder PRO+ allows you to easily search your history for important past RE.minders. Now you'll never be doomed to repeat history!

A must have for the any gamer - from occasional to hardcore! Keep track of upcoming game release dates so you don't forget to play!
GAME.minder is available on the web and for iPhone & Android. 

GAME.minder is always FREE!

The GAME.minder update is upon us!

My fellow gamers, the day has finally arrived! At around 11:59pm, December 4th 2012, GAME.minder as you know it will go offline. At this point, we will begin the process of bringing the new system online. Assuming it doesn't become self-aware and nuke us all into oblivion, the new system should become available during the day on December 5th. Depending on where you live, it may take some time for GAMEminder.com to point to the new system.

For updates during the changeover, visit: http://gameminderreport.com/update

Thanks, and we'll see you on the other side!

Prepare for GAME.minder 2.6

The next major version of GAME.minder has been approved by Apple and we expect to release it sometime this week. We figured this was a good time to share with you what we’ve been working on for the last 6 months or so and what it means for GAME.minder moving forward.

Back that end up

We’ve fielded tons of really great requests in the 2 years that GAME.minder has existed. Chief among them has been the ability to track dates in different regions around the world. The majority of big titles are released worldwide on the same day (or close to it) but smaller games and region-specific games weren’t very well supported on the original GAME.minder. This was an architectural limitation, baked into the lowest levels of the backend system.

For a “next-generation” GAME.minder, we felt that we needed to go back to the beginning and rethink how we were going to track video game releases. Video games, and their release cycles, are very different from other media like movies or books. How do we classify a game release? What are its defining characteristics? What makes something a “platform” or “console” vs a “store” or “distribution channel”?

The culmination of our answers to these questions and more is the brand spanking new backend that is going to power GAME.minder in the years to come. We realized we could rebuild it, we had the technology! The new system is powerful, smart, robust and expandable. But our most important goal was to keep GAME.minder’s core feature as simple to use as ever. You want to track when games are coming out, first and foremost, and that isn’t going anywhere.

So what can the new backend do that the old one can’t? It starts with how games are stored. The most important item in GAME.minder until now has been “the release”. Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 on Xbox 360 was a different thing than Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 on PS3 and both were one and only one thing. This meant each one could have its own release date (good!) but only one release date (bad!). To remedy this in the best way possible, we’ve made the most important thing “The Game”.

The GAME is the thing

Let’s look at a theoretical example, and let’s call it “Ringworld”. Ringworld is coming out for Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii as well as PC. It will be released in the US and EU but the EU release is delayed by 2 weeks. It will be available on disc for the consoles but boxed or via steam on the PC.

Under the old system, you would have to find “The Release” that you are looking for. Each possible combination above would be its own release for a total of 10 (4 boxed US, 4 boxed EU versions plus 2 digital versions). That may not seem all that bad but imagine something like FIFA. The FIFA series is yearly, released on just about everything with a screen (10 different platforms tracked in GAME.minder), and in just about every region. Scrolling through 40-60 releases would be pretty annoying.

As you may have gathered from the examples, once GAME.minder 2.6 for iOS, GAME.minder for Android and GAMEminder.com are released to the public, you will no longer be tracking releases, but games. Just find the game you want and set a RE.minder - no need to search for the right release. 

“BUT WAIT!” You may be thinking. “I’m only ever going to play PS3 games in North America, why on earth would I want to set a reminder for all those other platforms, and regions?" In the immortal words of Douglas Adams - DON’T PANIC. If you’re the kind of gamer that is very specific, you can set your preferences to only show you what you want, just like the current system. But what is NOT like the current system (and this is the bit we’re really proud of), you can override these prefs on a per game basis.

Maybe you typically play PS3 and Xbox games in Europe but for some reason, you want to see what’s going on with the Wii U version of one specific game. Just tap “Edit RE.minder” and turn Wii U back on. Are you moving from London to Ohio? Just change your region. Have you shifted all your buying from discs to Steam? We can now track those separately as different distribution methods. It’s pretty slick.

This is only the beginning 

Is it starting to become clear why it took us more than 6 months to put this together? It’s not a small thing. And yet, you might have noticed that despite all my yammering about the backend, the app is only called 2.6. “But Jeremy” you say, “Surely this qualifies as version 3?”

Not even close.

We’re planning to take GAME.minder to some pretty cool places over the next year, but before we could even start on that, we needed a good foundation. The new Apps represent almost literally the bare minimum we needed to change on the front end to work with the major changes in how things are working behind the scenes. But I’m only scratching the surface of what is going to be possible now. You might have noticed I used the word “expandable” up the page a bit (more than a bit I guess). Well I’m not going to spill the beans just yet, but know that when we do get to 3.0, we think you’re gonna love it as much as we do.

GAME.minder is dead. Long live GAME.minder! 

Watch GAMEminderReport.com and the GAME.minder Twitter and Facebook pages over the next two weeks to see when the switchover is gonna happen. Unfortunately, given this massive change, it’s gonna be an abrupt changeover (we tried to avoid it, but the changes are just too extensive).

When we’re ready to launch, we’ll let everyone know. We will then take the old system down, bring the new system up and you’ll need to get the updated client for iOS or Android. If you are already using the most up to date client (more than 90% of you are!), and you have created your GAMEminder.com account, you should be right as rain. The next morning, you will wake up in the glorious future of GAME.minder.

Thank you for using GAME.minder and for all your feedback. Our growth in 2012 has been truly amazing and we just know that 2013 is going to be even better! Have a happy Thanksgiving (if you are in the US) and as always -

DON'T FORGET TO PLAY

Election Time!

Uncle Slam Election Pack: The Moment of Truth (and Prediction)

Well my friends, it's almost time to hang up the election gloves!

The campaign trail has proved to be a long road, with many bumps, bruises and knockouts along the way. Each candidate has had their fair share of licks and I, Uncle Slam, played the role of witness, umpire and judge throughout this epic battle in the ring.

So which candidate will prove to be strongest of spirit, but more importantly, strongest of fist? I, Uncle Slam, with my non partisan political powers (and some insight from the Uncle Slam Rankings) predict that Mitt Romney will become the new leader of leaders and win the majority vote by 2%!

You may challenge my prediction or not, but hear me now - put down the gloves for a moment and go make your vote count!

Heed my words because I am, Uncle Slam!

Get it FREE before the real votes are cast tonight! Because once the ballots are counted the Uncle Slam Election Pack will disappear!

The Uncle Slam Election Pack is available for FREE on iPad, iPhone and iPod touch.

Uncle Slam is a satirical, president vs. president boxing game. Pick your leader (past or present) and battle it out in the ring. Play through a campaign or battle head to head. The harder you fight and the more you win, the more votes your president receives so you can unlock gloves, stages, fun facts and more. There are three presidential expansion packs to choose from or if you have a favorite, you can choose to download individual presidents.  

Romney and Obama Fight for Ohio!

Swing your fists for the vote in Ohio!

Only 7 more sleeps until it's here! Election day is upon us and if you haven't pre-voted your big day still awaits - too bad Ohioans still hold the swing vote. Guess it's time to pay a visit to the Buckeye state and have your candidate win them over with some jabs and uppercuts. 

In election mode, "Jump in" and box a couple rounds increase your candidates score. After sparring your way to victory, hit the menu button and take your candidate to Ohio - ROAD TRIP!  You'll even avoid the nasty storm, until you get into the boxing ring… Finish your opponent off with a flurry of moves on the grounds of the Taft Museum, in Cincinnati, to stake your candidates claim in swing vote territory.

Uncle Slam’s Tip: Visit the Hall of Presidents from the menu scroll to learn more about your candidate.

Bonus Tip: Fight as any past president to earn votes. Spend your votes in the Hall of Presidents to unlock state gloves, stages and more.

Get it FREE before November 6, 2012 because once the election is over the Uncle Slam Election Pack will disappear!

The Uncle Slam Election Pack is available for FREE on iPad, iPhone and iPod touch.

Uncle Slam is a satirical, president vs. president boxing game. Pick your leader (past or present) and battle it out in the ring. Play through a campaign or battle head to head. The harder you fight and the more you win, the more votes your president receives so you can unlock gloves, stages, fun facts and more. There are three presidential expansion packs to choose from or if you have a favorite, you can choose to download individual presidents.