Finger Friendly ®

FingerFriendlySoft is a small company located in beautiful Bodø in the north of Norway. We develop software for the iPhone and iPod touch with a special focus on usability.

We emphasize high quality in every step of the development cycle: professional design, professional coding, extensive testing and active support.

Our applications are continuously revised and we appreciate any kind of feedback that can help us improve them. If you have a suggestion, please don't hesitate to contact us. Depending on the time of day, we normally respond to email in 1-8 hours.

We follow Apples guidelines with respect to usability. In addition, we specialize in creating finger friendly interfaces that minimize the amount and accuracy of finger usage. Our goal is to make applications that can be used by everyone. You'll never feel the need for a stylus with our products.

Beyond that, we try to make our applications:

• Purposeful in a broad sense: useful, educative, relaxing etc.
• Aesthetically pleasing - in terms of visual presentation and user interaction.
• Well crafted. We follow common standards and best practices. All applications are native to the Apple Cocoa platform.
• Self sufficient. Our applications will never depend on internet connectivity, except when this is part of the core functionality.

Master Chess. Exercise your mind with the ultimate chess game for the iPhone and iPod touch.

Master Chess is based on a custom made, world class chess engine, tailored to the limited processing capacity of the iPhone and iPod touch. Unlike most other engines, it is not targeted at heavy duty computers, but is designed to perform well with scarce resources. Is hard to beat given just 3-5 seconds per move. Give it a few seconds more and it becomes really mean.

It has all the features you expect from a modern Chess game: unlimited undo, auto move, position flip, and multiple skill levels.

In addition it has the following features:

• A finger friendly interface, allowing you to focus on the game rather than your finger. You can push the pieces like you're used to, or you can just tap from/to positions. In many cases a single tap will be sufficient to make a move.
• 36 pre-loaded endgame challenges corresponding to the Norwegian Chess association's Knight Challenges.
• A position editor allowing you to input your own chess problems.
• 2D and 3D skins.

Pocket Balls is a Snooker-like game tailored to the small screens of iPhone and iPod touch. The board is seen from above just as on TV. You get to shoot the balls with high a degree of precision in an unprecedented realistic physics simulation.

Pocket Balls is much easier to learn than more comprehensive games, such as Billiards, Pool etc. If you just want to play balls without the complexities of these games, this is the one for you.

The rules are simple:

1. Your objective to pocket all the balls with as few breaks as possible. (A break is a sequence of shots where you manage to pocket at least one ball each time.)
2. Whenever the cue ball goes in the pocket, a red ball is returned to the table.

This game has the following features:

• A finger friendly, customizable interface. The unique two step striking process minimizes the need for accurate finger movements: First you specify the path, then you make the shot, either by pushing the cueball directly or by by dragging your finger alongside the path to apply force.
• A settings panel in which you can customize the most important aspects of the user interface.
• A selection of twelve themes to suit your personality and mood.
• Two difficulty levels with separate statistics and high score lists.

Bubble Shot. You're looking at the coolest Bubble Breaker game on the planet. Take a look at the demo video to see for yourself.

Your objective is to break as many bubbles as possible at the same time, hence you want to group bubbles together so that you can break them all in one single shot. You can read more about this in the Wikipedia article on Same Game.

Bubble shot is fully compatible with the most widespread variants of this game: Chain Shot (the original), SameGame, Jawbreaker and Bubblets. In addition it has the following features:

• A finger friendly interface with cool graphics and sound effects. This includes a portrait mode in which you get bigger bubbles that are easier to hit.
• Bubble melting. When they come to rest, adjacent bubbles visually melt into bigger bubbles, making it easier to spot large groups. This does not affect the gameplay however.
• Configurable number of rows and colors. In the traditional games this differs across platforms and versions.
• 10 static challenges for each configuration. By choosing one of these challenges you will get identical conditions each time. This takes away the luck element and makes it possible to compare scores on an even footing.
• Separate high score lists for each configuration.
• Improved shifting visualization. The bubbles waiting to be shifted in are shown at the left hand side, alongside the other bubbles, not at the bottom. This makes it easier to plan ahead and forsee exactly where they will hit the others.
• A "Folding" mode in which the bubbles fall down as usual, but will gravitate towards the center along the horizontal axis rather than to the right.
• A "Black Hole" mode in which the bubbles gravitate towards the center of the screen along both axes.

Connect Five goes under many names. In some countries it is called "Five in a Row", "Fünf in eine Reihe" etc. In other countries it has been given names suggesting simplified versions of chess, e.g. "Farmers Chess" , "Vagabond Chess" etc. The game originates in China where it is called "Gomoku".

There are two players. In western countries the game is typically played on a piece of squared paper. In Asia is usually played on a 15x15 square board. The players alternate in setting their marks/pieces on the paper/board. The first player to get five symbols in a row wins the game.

This game has a elegant, finger friendly interface. It uses a square size of 32x32 pixels which is about the minimum size that can be selected with a reasonable amount of precision. All interaction is based on well known gestures:

• Tap to make a move.
• Swipe horizontally to pan sideways.
• Swipe vertically to change theme.
• Rub one second to undo.
• Rub two seconds to reset.
• Pinch to zoom.

Colorizer brings color to your art projects, interior designs, publications, web sites and so on.

There is no such thing as an ugly color. The challenge is to find the right combination of colors - and this is where Colorizer may become an essential tool for you as an artist.

You start out with an image that conveys the emotion or atmosphere you want to create in your project. You then use Colorizer to analyze the image. It will extract up to 14 dominating colors. For each of these colors it will find suitable nuances based on classical color theory. You now have a palette that you can use to reproduce the essential qualities of the original image.

You can use images from your photo album or import pictures directly from the the camera (iPhone only).

In addition, Colorizer comes with 55 pre-installed images that can give your project a real jump-start. The set is organized into 11 themes and includes photos from renowned photographers all over the world.

As an extra bonus, each image can be exported to your photo album in a format suitable for wallpapers.

N-back Suite is a collection of n-back tasks customized to your iPhone or iPod touch.

In short, an n-back task consists of a number of stimuli (letters, images, sounds etc.) occuring at regular intervals. Your task is to remember the n'th stimulus before the current one. If the current stimulus is the same as the n'th one before, you press a button and score a few points.

Performing n-back tasks is a scientifically proven techique for improving your working memory. Everyone can benefit from n-back training, regardless of age and previous skills. Moreover, recent research indicates that it also improves fluid intelligence in general. You can read more about this in the Wikipedia articles on Working Memory and the N-Back Task.

The N-back suite may well be used for occational doses of brain stimulation. The best results, however, will be achieved through more disciplined training schedules. With 20-30 minutes of daily exercise, most people will see significant improvements in 2-3 weeks.

This appliction includes the following features:

• Supports both single and dual n-back tasks.
• Supports 1-, 2- and 3-back tasks.
• Supports colors, images, letters and sounds stimuli.
• Defines and measures a new intelligence measure - the WMQ (Working Memory Quotient).
• Uses a scoring scheme that encourages training discipline as well as task difficulty.

3D Dice is a cool and versatile dice application. Take a look at the demo video and see for yourself.

This appliction includes the following features:

• Unprecedented realistic 3D simulation.
• Intuitive, simple and usable interface. No configuration, Just push and shake the dice like you're used to.
• Two separate compartments: one for unused dice, and one for temporary preserving dice during a round - like you do in Yahtzee.
• A lid to hide the dice - for bluffing games such as Meyer or Mia.