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A New Year's App to Help Ring in 2012

Local tech company, Iconosys develops New Year's Buzzer a tracking and countdown system.

Need an easy way to countdown to New Year's?

With 2012 just a few days away, Laguna Niguel-based Iconosys, a Smartphone and tablet app technology company offers up its last app of 2011, the New Year's Buzzer.

It is essentially a countdown and tracking system for New Year's resolutions to assist in promoting positive health, according to a company news release.

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"This new app New Year's Buzzer delivers regular self-tracked affirmations encouraging users to continue adherence to their yearend commitments and growth.

"New Year's resolutions ultimately are made for improvement and self-help purposes. Whether it is quitting smoking, abandoning a habit, losing weight, getting in shape, the idea of a New Year's resolution ultimately is focused on making a better person out of oneself. New Year's Buzzer is built to encourage this concept, provide a means to track it, and provide the user a personal incentive to 'stay on the improvement program ...' "

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NEW YEAR'S BUZZER FEATURES:

  • New Year's Buzzer: uses proprietary technology to integrate and maximize the app's social reach by giving the user the ability to send simultaneous Happy New Year's wishes to anyone and everyone in their contacts list. Everyone gets to feel that they were the most important person to that New Year's Buzzer user.
  • The app user can place and track 2012 New Year's resolutions. A daily tracking prompt is presented where the user can confirm that they kept their personal commitment to bettering themselves. Celebratory congratulations are given each day where the resolution is kept. 
  • New Year's Buzzer: keeps a New Year's countdown running as a service in the background and resets for 2013 after the new year.
  • At 10 seconds to New Year's, the phone wakes, strobes, and a huge crowd counts down with you and your party until the stroke of midnight.
  • Send an e-card to your friends and loved ones, all day long on New Year's Day, right from your device.
  • New Year's Buzzer is available in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.

New Year's Buzzer is available now at no charge on the Android OS Smart phones from the Android Market and from newyearsbuzzer.com.

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