So I thought I’d take a few minutes out to introduce our new baby. It took months of part-time working, late nights, traveling (why oh why does Benjie have to live about 200 miles away by train), pizzas, takeaways, blagging, sleeping on floors, cats, getting flu… but it’s all been worth it. It’s the first thing Benjie and I have done together completely on our own and we are so happy with it.

So here it is finally: our new iPhone application PushupFu (part of the GymFu stable).

Those of you who’ve met me have probably seen me touting the app, if not PushupFu is kinda like “hundredpushups.com” meets “Wii Fit” meets “MMOGs” (where the G is for Gym). It’s perfect for your New Years Fitness resolutions as not only does it train you but it keeps you motivated by reporting your progress and enabling you to challenge people across the network.

After a highly unexpected release by Apple’s App Store Approval Process at 2am on New Years Day, it’s been doing well – even landing an article at Techcrunch.com. Most importantly, the users seem to be really happy with it.

Of equal importance is that Benjie and I have finally been getting some serious exercise; unfortunately I started on the leaderboard with quite a substantial lead and for some reason that means every man + dog is challenging me! Hopefully I’ll get beaten a few more times and slip down the leagues.

Of course, we’re not resting and in the past couple of days we’ve released big changes to the website… but all this is just a small taster of what we’ve got lined up for you for 2009

Ok, now that you’ve read all that here’s the links:

• Site: www.GymFu.com
• App store link: www.GymFu.com/buy/pushupfu/
• Twitter: www.twitter.com/GymFu

Enjoy!

So here’s the scene – you’re at a networking event and someone asks you “what great projects have you done?”  If you’re lucky, you might be able to blurt out something the other person will already know… but it’s more likely they’ll just draw a blank.  At this point you’ll probably start explaining your work, but we all know that it’s rare for potential clients to talk nerd and in any case a picture speaks a thousand words…. so…

… you boot up the laptop or iPhone to show them a demo, but by the time you’ve connected to the WiFi/3G they are gone.  So why not have a summary of your portfolio on your iPhone? That way you can also impress them with your iPhone fu.

It’s simple.  Really really simple.  Just take screengrabs of your work, size them to an iPhone-friendly 480×320 (or the other way round if you wish) then shove them in a folder and sync with your phone!  Best of all, if they would like a copy it’s an ideal opportunity to cement the introduction via email.

To add an arbitrarily-named folder within the iPhone’s Photos widget, Windows users need only add a sub-directory to “My Pictures” (or wherever you’ve setup the photos folder in iTunes) and then sync the phone. OSX users already know how to do it

[Edit: I thought I should make it clear to new visitors that i'm a non-designer. I'll explain this next week when I've finished documenting the extreme mental anguish that is the design process for me. The examples in the image above were projects my company(ies) has(have) coded. I designed this site and the company's site though.]

[Edit 2: TinyURL for your sharing pleasure: http://tinyurl.com/iPhonePortfolio]