industry computer software fate acquired founded las vegas nevada july 18 2008 2008 07 18 1 founder steven l. priedel maria h. gara headquarters las vegas nevada area served worldwide website www.hottrix.com hottrix is a software development company that produces applications for mobile operating systems such as ios iphone ipod touch ipad android palm os and windows . their iphone and ipod touch software has been praised 2 by cnn newsweek time and david pogue for the new york times . their software has also been involved in intellectual property disputes . the company also sells physical gimmix to complement their magic applications . contents 1 background 2 recognition 3 intellectual property 4 list of ios applications 4.1 app store apps 4.1.1 hottrixphone 4.1.2 ibeer 4.1.3 ibug 4.1.4 imilk 4.1.5 imunchies 4.1.6 isoda 4.1.7 jarheads 4.1.8 magic wallet 4.2 premier apps 4.3 simulated apps 5 list of android os applications 6 list of palm os applications 7 see also 8 references 9 external links background edit hottrix is based in las vegas nevada . 3 many of their tricks are invented by steve sheraton whose first trick was e spresso a virtual cup of espresso for the palm pilot . 4 notable hottrix personnel include steven l. priedel managing member 1 magician maria h. gara managing member 1 magician steve sheraton contractor swiss born producer and inventor previously a certified magician and physical comedian steve charney video host radio personality author magician 5 recognition edit in december 2008 apple inc. released a series of lists that showed the top downloads of the year from the app store . 6 the lists showed the 10 most downloaded applications from different categories in no particular order . the ibeer application from hottrix appeared in both the top paid apps overall and top paid entertainment lists . ibeer was also called a must have application by cnn money . 7 hottrix was praised by cond nast portfolio for their trick software with ibeer singled out as the perfect gift . 8 intellectual property edit in october 2008 hottrix filed a us 12.5 million lawsuit against coors brewing company for developing an application called ipint for ios . 9 the suit alleged that coors violated copyright law by making a program similar to ibeer . apple removed ipint from the app store in the united states after receiving a complaint from hottrix . 10 list of ios applications edit see also ios app store apps edit these tricks are available at the app store . hottrixphone edit this trick gives the appearance of a phone call with a famous celebrity including real pre recorded voices of same . multiple celebrities are available in the application including elvis presley and barack obama and the ability for users to add others . ibeer edit ibeer is a trick that gives the illusion that the device screen fills with many varieties of beer including sound . if the device is tilted the virtual beer swishes around to give the illusion of truly being filled with beer . the beer can be drained if the device is tilted enough and a belch sounds when the beer has been completely drained . ibeer appeared in both the top paid apps overall and top paid entertainment lists published by apple in december 2008 . 11 ibug edit ibug is a trick that gives the appearance of a virtual insect appearing on the screen of the device . it responds to touch and can get fat . the bug laughs when the device is shaken . imilk edit imilk is a trick similar to ibeer but appears as different varieties of milk such as chocolate milk strawberry milk and martian milk . imilk has a pay trick and a magic button to perform various tricks with money . imunchies edit imunchies is a trick that gives the illusion that the device is filling with many varieties of snacks such as candy nuts and popcorn . a person could then pretend to pull snacks out of the device by reaching beneath it and retrieving a previously hidden snack using sleight of hand . the snacks can also be poured out of the device . isoda edit isoda is a trick similar to ibeer and imilk but with various soft drinks such as cola energy drink and fizzy water . jarheads edit jarhead bob jarhead tim and jarhead ned are tricks that have dungeon lab samples in potent juice . the heads roll their eyes when the device is tilted and the juice turns into blood when shaken . the liquid drains when the device is tilted enough similar to ibeer . magic wallet edit magic wallet is a trick similar to imunchies but with coins in many currencies instead of snacks . premier apps edit these tricks are like app store apps but are only available at hottrix s premier app shop . ihypno a card trick application mentioned in the wall street journal as an example of a legal workaround to the apple itunes store . 12 mindbeam mb euro snapshot simulated apps edit these tricks play as a video on ios s video player . ibugclassic icharger ifireplace igoldfish igoyfish irescuecall isnail ivegas iyulelog mms 3d list of android os applications edit see also android operating system ibeer imilk 13 ichocolate list of palm os applications edit see also palm os abramath abrapick e spresso nerdalert see also edit micromagic references edit a b c d hottrix llc . nevada secretary of state . retrieved 2009 09 01 . hottrix media center . hottrix.com . retrieved august 7 2009 . hottrix help desk . hottrix.com . retrieved august 8 2009 . quittner josh december 4 2008 . what makes a best selling iphone app . time . retrieved august 8 2009 . youtube clip 1 at 0 06 kumparak greg december 2 2008 . apple announces top 10 iphone app downloads of 2008 . techcrunch . retrieved august 7 2009 . kimes mina september 23 2008 . top 10 must have iphone apps . cnn money . retrieved august 7 2009 . the perfect gift for the tech observer ibeer . cond nast portfolio . july 12 2007 . retrieved august 7 2009 . chen brian x. october 13 2008 . indie iphone developer sues coors for 12.5 m . wired news . retrieved august 7 2009 . reed jim october 17 2008 . virtual beer war hits the iphone . bbc news . retrieved august 7 2009 . kumparak greg december 2 2008 . apple announces top 10 iphone app downloads of 2008 . techcrunch . retrieved september 3 2009 . charny ben august 13 2009 . developers start to look for work around to apple app store . wall street journal . archived from the original on 2009 08 16 . retrieved september 10 2009 . apps by hottrix for android retrieved on march 10 2012 external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title hottrix & oldid 739057713 categories ios softwareandroid operating system softwaremagic organizationspalm os softwaresoftware companies based in nevada navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity 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