We’ve come a long way with Pring. From an early vision of connecting every Pakistani with SMS to the full-blown product Pring has become today. It has been a tough journey and we have a longer way to go to make Pring a communications platform.

After a few months of testing Pring on Ufone, we are very excited to announce that we are going to go live on the 1st of September 2010. What does this mean?

1. Change of shortcode from 414 to 2323: Currently, if you are a Ufone user, you can send and receive updates from the 414 shortcode. After the 1st, all SMS will be sent from 2323 and we will route all traffic from 414 to 2323. Shifting all codes to 2323 simplifies the process of signing up and telling your friends which number to SMS to.
2. Rs 0.5+tax will be charged on every SMS sent to 2323. This charge is a small amount and allows us to increase our ability to provide better service quality. Previously, the 414 shortcode was free.
3. Comment-by-reply functionality: Currently, to reply to an update you have to write the update @ID followed by the comment. This is slow, hard and unintuitive. Starting from the 1st of September, to comment on any update, all you have to do is to reply to any update and it will become a comment. We already have this functionality on Zong. This allows for better conversations and reduces noisiness. Going forward, shortcode extensions (as these are called) will allow us to greatly simplify your experience for most commands.
4. Higher limits on sending updates: On Ufone, depending upon various factors; we limit the updates you can do per hour and per day. We will be relaxing this limit after we place the Rs 0.5+tax charge. Please note that this limit is placed only on updates and not to private messages, comments or any other command.

On the whole, we think that these changes are going to make your Ufone experience much better and will allow us to expand with additional functionality. We hope you enjoy these changes!

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As of this morning, 10,257 people all over Pakistan are actively using yellO.pk to stay connected with their friends and the people around them. Need I not mention that the traffic on yellO is already of 40,000 people of those 10,000 are registered Yellers.

This is an important milestone for all of you who have helped spread yellO and helped it reach where it is today. Now a lot more people have the opportunity to stay connected with the people they care about, what they are saying and find out what’s going on around them.

yellO reached 10 thousand users 2 weeks ago and since then almost 300 more people have joined it. If yellO keeps growing exponentially then it wouldn’t be a surprise if it reaches 20,000 by the start of next year Inshallah.

Since its inception in March 2009, yellO has grown, both as a social network/community and as a team. We started with just two people in the yellO team and now it has more than 10 people working to make it better. We have covered all of Karachi in terms of entering businesses in the yellO database and have moved on to Lahore to add more business listings for you to review.

For all iphone users, our mobile apps developers made an awesome iyellO app which makes exploring your city  all the more fun and easy while you’re on the move. There’s good news for all Android and Blackberry users too, your cool apps are on their way as well. Furthermore, the yellO Magazine is on its last stages of legal formalities, once those are sorted out, we’ll be all set to get yellO in print too.

Anyway, all those who’ve been with yellO since the beginning, believed in its concept and wanted its success and those who have joined it recently and are enthusiastic about it, I want to thank you all once again for being part of making yellO.pk what it is today. Hope to see most of you at the yellO Meet-up on 8th Aug.

With our team’s increasing enthusiasm to create innovative applications, Web Sketchers has evolved as a developer of social and casual games, and interactive applications for the internet. After this little strategy shift, we decided to update our website. While doing so, we thought about our loading screen and decided to make it a little fun. Waiting for a website to load is usually boring and it drives people away.

So we thought of what we usually do to pass a few boring minutes in our daily routines (and what we used to do in school during history lectures ). We already had a pencil attached to the mouse on the loading screen. So thinking on these lines, we came up with a very simple idea, Tic Tac Toe! It’s one of those games that take seconds to play, is popular all over the world, and to add to that, it can be played with a pencil. Yayy!

User engagement is one of the most important factors for any web product. We’ve seen that majority of people who abandon an application on first use, do it because it’s either difficult to use, or they don’t want to wait for it to load.

On our site, upon arriving, more than 80% of the visitors play the game. And out of those who win, 35% share the game on a social network.

This is how a simple, yet interactive application, put together with social media, can add value to what you’re putting out there for your customers. Tic Tac Toe on our loading screen, now gives our visitors a glimpse of who we are, and what we do, even before the website is loaded.

Some people who visited our website wondered why a pencil is moving around with the mouse. Now you know why it had been there all along!

The summer months are already upon us and it’s hard to believe June is almost over. Some of you have already left for your tours but I’m sure many of you are still making plans to go up-north.

It does not matter whether you are exploring a new city in Pakistan or going back to your hometown where you haven’t been in quite a while, one of the most essential item that you shouldn’t forget to pack is yellO.pk. If its a developed city like Lahore, Islamabad or Karachi that you are going to, internet will not be a problem but if you have an iphone with the iyello app, you are in for some great fun.

Heading off to Margalla hills from Karachi and having a stopover in Lahore and Islamabad for a couple of days? yellO.pk will help you navigate hotel/motels and restaurants to make your stay as comfortable as possible. Through yellO you can look for shopping areas, amusement arcades, beauty salon and even chemists (hopefully not) etc so that these cities are not just stopovers for you but part of your vacation.

And let’s not forget the importance of food during holiday. Part of summer vacations is to try out different cuisines and delicacies. yellO.pk gives you ideas for restaurants that are nearby as well as what people think about them.

However, if you are planning a staycation, that is staying where you are and not planning to go anywhere, then you definitely need to find out what’s happening here so that your kids don’t drive you crazy. yellO.pk has all the updated events: Melas, festivals, theatre plays, concerts and summer camps too. But if you are planning a vacation and aren’t able to decide where to go, check out some options for travel agents and they’ll work something out for you.

Happy holidays with yellO.pk guys!

PS: Don’t forget to share on our Facebook fan-page how else you can use yellO during your vacation.

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Real Bird Hunting Challenge is the newest titles developed by TkXel for Sunstorm Interactive for the iPhone platform. The title is already listed in the following categories:

Top Paid – Simulation (#46 and rising)

Top Paid – Sports (#44 and climbing)

New and Noteworthy

What’s Hot

Real Bird Hunting Challenge tests the skills of hunters to bag fast flying birds with their favorite weapon. Hunters must make every single shot count to win enough points to open up new hunting stands across the United States. Real Bird Hunting Challenge is a real hunting game which test hunters’ skills and patience in hunting a wide variety of birds.

The game features:

Ø     Variety of weapons: 12 gauge automatic shotgun, 20 gauge camouflage pump, 16 gauge double-barrel shotgun or 12 gauge semi-auto shotgun

Ø     Hunt birds such as the Mallard Duck, Canvasback Duck, Canadian Goose, Ringneck Pheasants, the Bobwhite Quail and the Eastern Turkey

Ø     24 different hunt stands from across the United States

Ø     Options to share you prize bird with friends over email

Check out some in-game screen-shots of Real Bird Hunting  Challenge:

The addictive and fast-paced gameplay is further enhanced by the custom control system allowing hunters to keep up with the quick gameplay. The meticulous research in the design and animation of the birds along with the hunting stands has impressed many hunters.

Real Bird Hunting is a great game to keep you entertained for hours with its fantastic graphics, realistic animal behaviors and challenging gameplay. It’s a must-have iPhone app for any hunter who enjoys the thrill of hunting birds underneath the big blue sky.

Check out Real Bird Hunting Challenge at the App Store (link: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/real-bird-hunting-challenge/id373035880?mt=8)

Enjoy the game! Stay tuned for more game releases from TkXel.