Airsource are delighted to announce that Optishare is now available on the App Store.

What is Optishare? It’s a simple app that allows the creation of QR codes on any iPhone or iPod Touch, which can be scanned by any QR-enabled device, such as an iPhone using Optiscan, the fastest QR code scanner on the App Store.

• Share contacts, web addresses and text with other devices.
• Save specific QR codes for quick sharing — perfect for sharing your business card.
• Keeps a history of QR codes created and shared for easy recall.
• Optishare supports encoding to UTF-8, ISO-8859, and Shift-JIS.
• Select the contact details you want to send, to ensure the right people get the right information.

Optishare runs without a network connection, and keeps your data private. Why put up with anything less?

Optishare is available right now from the App Store.

Airsource are delighted to announce their latest application, Viral Fou. Viral Fou leverages the power of crowd-sourcing, to identify potential mischief makers in their community. The initial release of Viral Fou is only available in France. It is free, but time-limited, and will expire at midnight tonight.

Airsource was very pleased to see the contents (login required) of yesterday’s announcements about the new version of the iPhone SDK. Naturally we will be updating our existing applications to take advantage of the new features.

The update to Optiscan has been approved by Apple – get it on the App Store now! The update is free for all existing customers, and includes several bug fixes, including three which could causes the application to crash.

Wow. Obviously great espresso is at least partially responsible for Apple’s success with the iPhone – their staff have graciously awarded Barista “Pick of the Week”!

Read more here, and if you want to brush up on your espresso skills – go get Barista!

The update to Optiscan has been approved by Apple – get it on the App Store now! The update is free for all existing customers, and includes several improvements such as better image processing, internationalisation, and bug fixes. Try it out!

A friend of mine over at Taptu Mobile Search pointed me to Valgrind. Valgrind is a debugging and profiling tool, and was ported to OS X by Greg Parker. It works for iPhone development too (simulator only) with a simple mod. We haven’t used it in anger yet at Airsource, but we’ll be sure to report results when we do….

I was interested to discover that at the end of 2007, nearly 90% of sampled Japanese users knew what a QR code was – pretty impressive compared to my informal survey results in Cambridge, UK where just about no one outside of the techie world has heart of them, let alone knows what they are. I knew the figure would be high – but not that high…

There is now a short video demonstrating the scanning process with Optiscan, at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9pB-i0xQKs

We are about to release the next version of Optiscan, featuring improved image processing algorithms, internationalisation (including Japanese), and bug fixes. It has been submitted to Apple, and will go on sale at the normal Optiscan price of $4.99. BUT – you can get Optiscan right now for $3.99, and benefit from the reduced price AND free updates.