Groovy Notes is a powerful planning app that puts a new twist on the traditional student planner. It features an interactive paper planning interface on Ultrabook™ devices and other digital mediums and allows users to input notes, lists etc. and organize them by category, tags and dates. It also features:

Search Tool

Finding a crucial note or memo becomes extremely easy using Groovy Notes. Use the calendar to find the notes by dates, pick a category, tag or just type in a keyword and search.

Voice Features

Easily record voice memos, thoughts, lectures, conversations and more with a single tap. You can continue to take written notes while recording simultaneously.  The voice notes can be easily organized like other notes with tags, category, date and text.

Accessibility

Export text notes as .pdf and .txt and voice notes as .mp3 to access them from other applications, or email them. Data can be accessed from multiple platforms including Ultrabook devices, mobile phones and more. Plus you can sync notes with Dropbox to ensure they aren’t lost and can be accessed and shared in the cloud.

Target audience:

Students:

Groovy Notes was primarily developed keeping school and college students in mind, as an easy way to simultaneously take down text notes while recording entire lectures for quick and easy reference. Not just that, students can also attach pictures, hand-drawn sketches and even edit them using a full range of drawing tools. Students can create as many customized categories as desired, color code them and manually organize them in any order.

Working Professionals:

Working Professionals and Executives can use Groovy Notes to plan and manage various aspects of their work life. They can use it to record meeting minutes, memos, ideas generated from brainstorm sessions, to-do lists and more.

Artist/Creative Individual:

Ideas and inspiration can pop up anytime, anywhere. With Groovy Notes anyone who is involved in creative endeavors can easily write down inspirations, record ideas through voice recordings and more. Then they can easily find them through the Groovy Notes search feature.

Moms on the Go:

Managing a family is not easy task. There are children’s school, athletic, and extracurricular activities. Also, there are school events, work, social events, family vacations and more. Yet with the help of Groovy Notes, Moms on the go can track all the various activities of life more easily.

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Groovy Notes is one such app that not only helps in managing multiple classes, assignments, tests, etc., but provides additional features for the savvy student. This powerful app allows users to simultaneously record lectures while taking down notes, attach multiple photos and hand-drawn sketches, edit the photos and sketches using a variety of drawing/sketching tools etc., then access this information across multiple platforms including Ultrabook™ devices, mobile phones and more.

It features the ability for students to record short voice memos, or entire lectures. Students can color-code their notes & organize them by categories, tags & date, then find the information easily with an intuitive search feature. Text notes can be saved as a .pdf and .txt and voice notes as .mp3 to access them from other applications. Plus, the data from Groovy Notes can be saved into a Dropbox account for additional access and to secure against device failure.

While there are numerous apps available for productivity, Groovy Notes delivers a powerful new way to organize, record and manage the various aspects of student life.

XLabz Technologies is an Intel® Software Partner. www.intel.com/partner 

 

Groovy Notes

Groovy Notes by XLabz Technologies is a new twist on the traditional paper planner. This powerful new planning tool utilizes the traditional format of a traditional paper planner, but with powerful modern features. It allows users to take written and verbal notes, attach photos & sketches and more, then archive, search, backup and export the data. It’s not only useful as an organizer, but can be used as a personal voice and written diary. All the information stored with Groovy Notes can be accessed across Ultrabook™ devices, mobile phones and in the cloud.

Dropbox

Dropbox is like having your own private cloud where you can store files and access them through numerous devices. It works with iPhone, Android, Ultrabook PCs, Mac and more, then can be used in conjunction with productivity apps like Groovy Notes.

XLabz Technologies is an Intel® Software Partner. www.intel.com/partner

Productivity apps, games, business, photography, weather, health; we’ve got ‘em all covered! Head on over to the BlackBerry World and take your pick from our list of BB10 apps:

1. Groovy Notes  – $4.99
2. The Logo Game – Free
3. The Logo Game – Paid Version – $5.99
4. A Day in Life- Journal – $2.99
5. Vault – $2.99
6. Uber Iris – Photo Effects & Filters – $1.99
7. Currency Converter – $1.99
8. Weather+ HD – $1.99
9. ProInsights for LinkedIn – $3.99
10. Dictionary+ – $1.99
11. Find Near Me – $0.99
12. Health Tracker PRO – $2.99
13. StockPulse – $2.99
14. Bird Calls – $4.99

We’ve received tremendous support from all our good friends throughout the BlackBerry community and would like to specially thank them for their constant encouragement.

A very special thanks to Berryfication, BlackBerryOS.com, BlackBerryed.com, BerryReview, NerdBerry and N4BB for taking the time to write about our BB10 app launch on their blogs.

P.S. Since all these BB10 apps were developed from scratch with regards to the UI, users who already have the PlayBook version of these apps will need to repurchase them for their BB10 phones, as this is the only way we can support development costs.

We’re giving away a bunch of our popular titles for iOS, Android and BlackBerry PlayBook at unbelievable prices! The sale for iOS & Android apps is till January 5^th while the sale for PlayBook apps goes on up to January 10^th, 2013. Grab them before they’re all gone!

To download these apps and for more details, check out http://xlabz.com/HolidaySale2012/.

And here’s wishing all our readers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

A Day in Life – Journal is the perfect app to store all your ideas, thoughts, events, experiences, memories, notes and more. If you love journal writing and want to make it even more personalized and meaningful, you will enjoy using this journal. And if you’ve wanted to keep a journal but never got around to doing it, A Day in Life will keep you motivated with its neat additions to journal keeping.

Here are the main features:

• Weather & Location tagging to add a personal touch to your journal entries.
• Add photos and images to your journal entries and notes. Import photos from your camera roll or just snap a photo as you create your journal entry.
• View all your journal entries and notes in 4 handy views:

                 – Visual Timeline: Browse through your journal entries in a visual timeline view.

                 – Photo View: Flip through your journal entries in collage style.

                 – Calendar View: View all journal entries and notes on a particular date.

                 – Favorites: See only your starred journal/diary entries.

Read more about A Day in Life- Journal and download it at $1.99 from the BlackBerry App World here.

• Option to change text font and size
• Organize all “Categories” of your notes manually in any order you like
• New option to compact Voice Notes to mp3 format to save disk space. Can also compact all previous recordings into mp3 with just a tap
• Updated to latest Dropbox service. Existing users might need to relogin to Dropbox to restore and backup data

Read more about Groovy Notes and download it from the BlackBerry App World here.

Latest user reviews:

“Best note planner ever! This is probably the best app for Blackberry for productivity.”

“Cant manage without it now, using for business as well as personal life. Absolutely love it!”

“Definitely the best thing I’ve purchased on my playbook. Extremely fluid, hiccup free and extremely useful. Well done !”

“Love this note book!”

Groovy Beats has a grid with several squares. Each row on the grid corresponds to a different instrument/sound while each column corresponds to a different point in time. Just tap on any of the squares to select your sounds and you’re good to go!

Main Features:

• Choose from a huge collection of sounds. Browse through Groovy Beats’ sound library and buy even more groovy sound packs!
• Options to save your favorite tracks and load them back
• Loop: Hit the Loop button to play a particular beat in a continuous loop. You can also adjust the tempo.
• Draft: Toggle between Draft and Final play modes. Draft mode allows quick playback and editing on the fly, while the Final mode is more precise, but takes a little more time to generate.

Groovy Beats Sounds:

• Bass/ Kick Drums
• Snares
• Percussions
• Synth/Bass
• Guitar
• Piano
• Loops
• And more….

Groovy Beats Sound Packs:

• Africa
• Rock/Pop
• Trance
• Dance
• Hiphop
• Arabia

Read more about Groovy beats and download it for free from the BlackBerry App World here.

Ready to mix some beats? Grab Groovy Beats now and sway to the rhythm!

 Here are the top features:

• Customizable layout: Have as few as 2 keys or as many as 15 keys at a time on Synth Pad!
• Take a pick from a huge assortment of percussion and other sounds. Experiment with a variety of cool sound packs from Synth Pad’s sound library!
• Save your best presets and load them back any time!
• Autoplay: Use the Autoplay mode to compose rhythms and play them back automatically; do this by tapping the numbers on the keys. These rhythms change depending on the sound/instrument you choose
• BPM (Beats Per Minute): Adjust the tempo to either slow down or speed up those beats, in the Autoplay mode

Synth Pad Sounds:

• Bass/ Kick Drums
• Snares
• Cymbals
• Hi- Hats
• Crash Cymbals
• Loops
• And more….

Synth Pad Sound Packs:

• Africa
• Rock/Pop
• Trance
• Dance
• Hiphop
• Arabia

Read more about Synth Pad and download it for free from the BlackBerry App World here.

Let the jamming begin!

Who Got Brains is a mind training game designed to keep your brain cells sharp and active. It tests your brain through a series of mini-games in 4 key areas: Analytical, Memory, Math and Visual.

Here are the main features:

• Challenge and stimulate your brain with a variety of brain teasers in 4 key categories: Analytical, Memory, Math & Visual.
• The scores from each category are summed up to give you an overall rating- your Brain Power!
• Login with Facebook to see your rank on the local and global Leaderboards. Compare your Brain Power with friends and see where you stand amongst them.
• Invite your Facebook friends to play and challenge them to beat your score!
• Get better at the game and score higher by playing more & more!

Who Got Brains is currently available for iPad, Kindle Fire, BlackBerry PlayBook, Android Tablets and even on Facebook!

So grab your copy now and fire up those neurons with Who Got Brains!