The fruit of Dallas entrepreneur Jeanette Cajide’s labor is finally available for download in the app store. The app, Blurtt, is a “tool that allows users to express themselves” using text overlaid on photos of your own or ones found across the web.

Blurtt takes the standard photo-sharing one step further and let’s you add a little extra meaning. Here’s one I put together with a recent photo of mine. 

Blurtt has been long journey for Cajide. The company was originally building a tool to send beautiful physical postcards. Co-founder Nikhil Sethi moved on and Cajide forged ahead, eventually joining Archimedes Labs’ acceleration program.  We’re hoping to catch up with Jeanette soon to hear more of her story.

This (re)launch has garnered a bit of press including articles on TechCrunch, BetaBeat, BetaKit and IntoMobile.

While the Blurtt website says the company is based in Austin and NYC, the engineering team is based in Dallas and Cajide spends a lot of time here locally… so we’ll claim it!

Pi’ikea Street, an app development company who’s co-founder Matt Smith is from Hurst, was featured on WFAA TV. The spot comes on the tails of much success with their apps for kids that have been featured by Apple on the app store, as well in the New York Times amongst other accolades. Check out the video below!

AT&T and Apigee are bringing their mobile app hackathon to town on November 5th. The event will be help at the AT&T Foundry in Plano.

REGISTER HERE

Here are all the details!

Dev-ing. Mobile. Cloud. APIs. Good food. Awesome prizes.

Interested in building your own app? This hackathon will introduce you the the latest cutting edge tools to deploy your own app with a website backend, fully hosted in the cloud. Alternatively, you can come pitch your idea and sco…ut for developer talent, who …can help you build your app!

Mobile App Hackathon is an event produced by the AT&T Developer Programand Apigee that is designed for attendees (technical & non-technical) to learn about new technologies, build apps/mobile apps, get fed, compete for prizes across different categories and most importantly: meet new people and scout for teammates to work on new or current projects.

As far as platforms are concerned, feel free to code in the language you feel most comfortable, whether it’s Objective C, Java, Javascript, HTML, C #, Dot Net, or XNA. We will also have live developer support from Sencha, Apigee, RedFoundry, PhoneGap, AppMobi, and Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 team to help you code that much faster.

 

Action Items For You:

1. Help spread the word about AT&T Hackathons by liking our Facebook page: http://on.fb.me/p7VIBA
2. Use the Facebook event page to network and form teams:http://on.fb.me/mobileappdfw
3. Tweet about the event via #mobileappDFW

Here is a quick overview of the schedule:

• 10:00a Registration and Breakfast + Networking + Start Coding if you want!
• 11:00a Lightning Talks
• 12:00p Lunch is Served!
• 7:00p App Submission Deadline
• 7:30pApp Demos
• 8:30p Content Winners Announced & Drinks!

Speakers

Sam Ramji spent over 15 years working across enterprise software, product development and open source strategy. Currently VP of strategy at Apigee & board member at the CodePlex Foundation, Sam works deeply within the developer, open source and social app communities to create a healthier, more productive ecosystem. Prior to Apigee, Sam led open source strategy across Microsoft and was a founding member of the AquaLogic product team at BEA. In his spare time, Sam enjoys the great outdoors, spending time with the kids, and bacon.You can also find Sam on twitter via @sramjiand his website at http://samus.typepad.com/	James Pearce is a technologist, writer, developer & entrepreneur who has been working with the mobile web for over a decade. He is Senior Director of Developer Relations at Sencha. Previously he was the CTO at dotMobi and has a background in mobile startups, telecoms infrastructure and management consultancy. He speaks extensively on the topic of mobile web development, and has written books for both Wiley and Wrox.You can also find James on twitter via@jamespearce and his website at http://tripleodeon.com/

Dallas’ own Ovenbits , a Web and Mobile App developer, has released the MANsaver app for the Iphone.  The App is described as being the App that makes Dating and Marriage easy by Auto Generating and notifying all of the key relationship milestones, anniversaries and holidays.

The process is simple.

Enter Your Relationship Status + Start Date

It’s dead simple. Just enter those 2 pieces of info…and watch MANsaver do the heavy lifting for you. No need to log lots of calendar events or phone reminders. Your wife or girlfriend will soon be singing the praises of your incredible knack for being sentimental.

See Every Potential Anniversary, Holiday & Milestone

The app auto-generates every imaginable anniversary, holiday and relationship milestone. You know all of those crazy “100 days of dating” and “3 months of marriage” dates that girls seem to pull out of thin air…well MANsaver has you covered even on those.

Push Notifications + Sentimental Text Message Drafts

You’ll make Romeo look like a chump! Every relational date comes with push notification reminders 5 days before as well as the day of. In addition to that, MANsaver hooks you up with sentimental text message drafts, creative date scenarios and sweet gift ideas.

Their website quotes one of the ultimate Manly Men “Aside from my unlimited-ammo-machine-gun, Man Saver is my favorite tool.”-Rambo

And lastly for all men, The deal closer…

” MAN Saver does the heavy lifting for you. Sawing timber, domesticating lions and scaling Everest vicariously are more important things for men to be doing than trying to constantly remember their plethora of relational dates”

From a quick Twiterview with @mdavis one of Ovenbits developers an Android version of the app is “most likely” the next step with this app.

Download here.

Interactive Alphabet was recently featured in the “Best Ipad Apps” published by O’Reilly Media. Co-Founders Matt Smith and Ben Lew were both surprised with the inclusion of Interactive Alphabet in the book. Matt says “I was really surprised! Usually, we get a heads up that we’re being featured or reviewed or have won some award, but this one totally surprised me.” and Ben was equally surprised saying “It was quite surreal! I kept checking Amazon to make sure it was an actual book and not an ebook. I went straight to the store and held it in my hands and I still don’t believe it!”

The book is listed on the O’Reilly Media site under the description “With tens of thousands of apps available for your iPad, who knows what to download? You can try to sort through a gazillion customer reviews with a mix of 5- and 1-star ratings, but that’s a head-hurting time-waster. The stakes are getting higher, too: instead of freebies and 99-cent trinkets, the price of iPad apps is steadily creeping up and beyond their iPhone predecessors. Best iPad Apps guides you to the hidden treasures in the App Store’s crowded aisles. Author Peter Meyers stress-tested thousands of options to put together this irresistible, page-turner of a catalog. Inside these pages, you’ll find apps as magical as the iPad itself.”

With the inclusion of the app in “Best Ipad Apps” along with the previous award of Best Kid’s App of the year by iLounge, Pi’ikea St., the makers of Interactive Alphabet are excited about the future for the company. Matt offers some insight saying “Well, we have some top-secret projects going on which I can’t talk about yet, but I would like to mention that along with the app we currently have a fan club with an active membership (www.piikeastreet.com/club) where we periodically publish children’s crafts, and a monthly coloring contest where we award an iPod touch (www.colorforipods.com) to a lucky participant!” and Ben offers “Lots of fun stuff planned for this year. But you’ll have to wait and see.”