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Pandi – iMessage Sticker Pack 9

A premium set of sticker Panda Emoticons / Emojis for your iPhone or iPad. Download them now from iTunes.

If you love Pandas then what better way to express your emotions than to use Panda emoticons?

Do you have difficulty communicating your feelings. Pandi is here to help. There are 31 fantastic stickers.

Includes Christmas, Holiday and Valentine Day themed Pandas.

Be the master of texting with a sticker which captures exactly what you want to say. Boom!

You can overlay these over text or photos. Just tap and hold, then drag to where you want the stamp placed. You can also rotate and resize each sticker.

Another new feature of iOS 10 is the option to send messages with effects, like having the message inflate, appear in a shower of balloons, or be hidden by invisible ink. To access effects, type your message or insert a picture in the text box, then 3D Touch (or tap and hold on older models) the send button instead of just tapping it as usual.

November 15, 2016 by David Such Leave a Comment

Bananas – iMessage Sticker Pack 5

Banana Emoticons / Emojis – now ANIMATED!!!

If you love bananas then what better way to express your emotions than to use banana emoticons?

Do you have difficulty communicating your feelings. Bananas is here to help. There are 31 fantastic stickers plus 10 mesmerising ANIMATED bananas!! Check out the video to see the Bananas in action.

Includes Christmas, New Years and Valentine Day themed bananas.

If you haven’t used iMessage sticker packs then there are a couple of traps for new players. To help people overcome these issues, we have written a couple of articles which may assist:

1. I’ve installed my sticker pack but can’t find it!
2. I bought an iMessage Sticker pack on iTunes and can’t find it on my phone!!

For those interested, the banana animations were done using two methods:

1. Hand draw each frame – this takes a LONG time! It is also pretty tedious.
2. Create a puppet in Photoshop, import this into the new Adobe Character Animator and then export the puppet animation back into Photoshop for optimisation and to create the GIF. Each animated GIF sticker can only be a maximum of 500kB which really limits what you can do.

The pack of 41 stickers covers things like:

ø Saying Hi
ø Wink
ø Merry Christmas
ø OMG
ø “Wax on, wax off”
ø Thumbs up!
ø Crying
ø Happy and Unhappy
ø A bit too much alcohol…
ø I love you
ø No words!
ø Time to cowboy up!
ø Circle of trust – you aren’t in it…
ø Party time!
ø Fireworks
ø Very Nice!
ø Don’t touch this…

You can download Bananas from iTunes.

November 2, 2016 by David Such Leave a Comment

Dogi – iMessage Sticker Pack 4

Dog Emoticons / Emojis – that’s it!

If you love dogs then what better way to express your emotions than to use dog emoticons?

Do you have difficulty communicating your feelings. Dogi is here to help.

The pack of 45 stickers covers things like:

ø I love you (or possibly I love your shoes);
ø Let’s go play!
ø Feel like a swim?
ø I’m not happy Jan.
ø Dance time?
ø Let’s sneak out.
ø Drink? Too much drink?
ø Help!!!
ø I don’t feel so good…
ø Stick ’em up!
ø Bath?
ø You electrify me!
ø Happy!
ø Pouting.
ø I fart in your general direction.
ø You look at things differently.
ø I’m gonna run to you.
ø Nap time.
ø Joe Cool.
ø You’re number 1!
ø Ground Control to Major Tom…
ø Hungry?
ø Woops.
ø You embarrassed me!
ø Cold?!
ø Rudolph
ø Your turn to cook.
ø Halloween Dog
ø Whistle while you…
ø This is what I think of your idea.

October 31, 2016 by David Such 1 Comment

I’ve installed my sticker pack but can’t find it!

1. The Problem

Apple have really dropped the usability ball with their iMessage sticker packs. We have previously done a blog post to help people install their sticker pack but even if you manage to install it, finding the stickers takes some doing and there are a few tricks you need to be aware of.

2. Where are my Stickers???

If the sticker pack is showing as installed in the purchased section of the app store on your iOS device then you are half way there. See image below. If they are not showing as installed then refer to our earlier blog on how to install them.

3. How do I insert a sticker???

There are 2 scenarios, an exisiting text conversation and starting a new one. The process is pretty similar for both. The main difference for a new conversation is that you CAN NOT add a sticker until you have inserted the To: mobile number.

4. I still don’t see any stickers!!!

If you can’t see the icon that looks like an A made out of pencils (in the image above), then you need to tap on the “>” icon, next to where you type the text of your SMS. This is shown in the image below.

5. STLLL NO STICKERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok we are getting closer. If you tap on the “A” icon (I have no idea what it is supposed to represent – it looks like the Xcode icon), then if you have used stickers before you will see the ones that you have used most recently. See image below.

You can swipe left and right from here to see your various sticker packs. If you have never used stickers before, then you may have to tap on the icon in the bottom left which looks like 4 ovals, once again have a look at the image above if this isn’t clear.

Tapping on the “4 ovals” icon will bring up all the sticker packs that you have installed. You can tap on the one that you want to use. See image below. This screen also gives you access to the iMessage app store.

6. Phew I have found the stickers – how do I use them?

Well there are 2 ways.

You can tap on a sticker which will place it in the text box. From there you can delete it by tapping on the little x icon or send it by tapping the green up arrow icon.
You can also tap and drag a sticker anywhere on an exisiting conversation. This is the trick that our Response sticker pack uses to change what people have said. Note that you need to tap and hold until the lift animation occurs – then you can drag the sticker onto the conversation.

October 29, 2016 by David Such Leave a Comment

Yet another iMessage Sticker Pack!

Is your life like a comic book? Well with the iMessage Kapow! sticker pack you can talk like you are in the comics.

Cape not included. You can download your pack from iTunes.

The 30 colourful stickers contain zingers like:

October 28, 2016 by David Such Leave a Comment

Installing Test Fairy on your iOS device

1. What is Test Fairy?

Test Fairy is a cloud based beta testing service. We used to use TestFlight but then Apple bought the company and made it for iOS only. Test Fairy allows your users to have a common beta testing experience whether they are using Android or iOS. In addition to providing a deployment tool for your ad hoc builds, Test Fairy provides the developer with useful analytics that help track down issues.

2. Invitation to be a Tester

The first step in becoming a beta tester is that you will receive an email which looks like the following image. You need to open this email on the iOS device that you want to use for testing (i.e. your iPhone or iPad). Then tap on the link which says “Please click here to register your mobile device”. This will send the developer a copy of that devices UDID.

The reason that you need to open the email on your iOS device is that in order for a developer to distribute apps outside the app store, they need to include the unique device ID (UDID) of your iPhone or iPad in the build. This prevents developers from selling outside the app store as it is quite a painful process to add a UDID and each developer is only allowed to add 100 devices of each type per year. For iOS apps, we can register 100 iPad, 100 iPhone, and 100 iPod Touch devices. This is in total, it doesn’t matter how many apps you have. Each time you add a device you need to add it in iTunes Connect, update the provisioning profile, import the new provisioning profile into your build, recompile and redistribute.

A UDID looks something like this – 2b6f0cc904d137be2e1730235f5664094b831186.

3. Registering your Device

Tapping the link in your email will open the following page in a web browser on your device. Tap on the Register Device button to send your UDID to the developer.

4. Install the Test Fairy Device Management Profile

Tapping on Register Device will take you to the device management profile installation screen. Tap Install in the top right corner.

To be able to monitor and limit usage on Apple devices, a device management profile is used. This profile allows the phone to send your UDID to the Test Fairy servers.