The No. 1 ecard app Appygraph launches
HORRIBLE new collection for you to personalize for loved ones

Appygraph captures little moments of happiness and makes it easy to build connections with your loved ones through your smartphone. The cards carry emotions much better than plain text messages and provide an instant, simple and easy-to-use alternative to traditional cards. You can also easily upgrade to collections based on a theme or season to share with friends and family. It’s never been easier to tell someone you’re thinking about them at milestones in your life, or to send seasonal messages when holidays come around.

The app provides a new way to send cards to friends when you’re on the go. Cards can be texted from phone to phone anywhere in the world, allowing your friend or loved one to immediately receive and enjoy your personalized greeting. Your beautifully customized cards can also be shared for free on Facebook, email, iMessage and other third-party services (such as WhatsApp) allowing friends and family to enjoy your own pictures and messages included in the card.

The company was founded by Swiss couple Charles and Valérie Massin after they explored together the possibilities of combining Valérie’s beautiful artwork with Charles’ coding skills. The Eureka! moment for the couple was when they received a basic text message about a friend’s baby, Ivan, who was healthily born on May 11th 2010, weighing 8 pounds. They felt that with new technology you should really be able to receive a beautiful ecard within minutes – and so the birth of baby Ivan gave birth to their new company.

Valérie Massin, co-founder and designer of Appygraph, explains: “My artwork has always been very important to me and popular in Switzerland, but Appygraph’s availability in the app store has given me a far wider audience than I could have ever have imagined! People love that they are sending on colorful, positive, hand-drawn images made expressly for our app.”

Having become the No. 1 ecard app in multiple territories, Appygraph has proven that a small developer with a passion for design can go up against the big names in greeting cards and give them a run for their money.

Charles Massin, co-founder of Appygraph, adds: “When people receive our ecards on their phone, friends and family always want to know ‘how did you do that?’ Our app really works like magic and we’ve gone from small origins to rank higher in the Apple app store than some of the biggest traditional greetings card companies like Hallmark and Disney.”

The Appygraph app comes in four languages (English, French, German and Spanish) and when you first download it you receive a free selection of cards, that we will be frequently updated for seasonal occasions. You are then able to add your own personal touch to the cards by adding in your own message and image, uploaded from your iPhone, before it is sent instantaneously to your recipient. Your message font and size is changeable and with a choice of 40 different styles, you are only limited by your own imagination.

Below are photos of Kat Von D, Tommy Lee, DeadMau5, the Oakland Raiders, and rapper Tyga having a rather frightening moment with a group of undead friends during Halloween Horror Nights.

We want to pass along some photos that we thought you may be interested in of some well-known faces that were spotted enjoying the terror of Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood this past weekend.

First up, we had the cast of AMC’s hit TV series “The Walking Dead” –including stars Lauren Cohan (“Maggie”), Norman Reedus (“Daryl”) and “ Chandler Riggs (“Carl”) and joined by The Walking Dead’s Executive Producer Greg Nicotero—having yet another close encounter with the undead walkers in Universal Studios Hollywood’s Halloween Horror Nights maze, “The Walking Dead: Dead Inside.”

Below is a video for the song, “Witch in the Woods” by The Tommy Brunett Band. Tommy’s musical approach can best be described like a big rig diesel truck powered by the roots of americana. Happy Halloween!

Introducing Ghost Hunting Party™
The New Game that Everyone is Talking About!

Ghost Hunting and Paranormal Research is the hottest new craze, thanks in part to cable TV shows and books on the subject, plus hundreds of local ghost hunting themed clubs and organizations.

This new game uses real hunting equipment in both a hilarious and spooky game experience. It is great for Halloween parties, birthday, office, and ghost hunting club parties, fund raising events, sleep-overs, and more. Makes a nice ice breaker, team building experience, or drinking game as well. Requires no special training or expertise.

In stock for this holiday season.

Perfect for 2-8 players, age 12+

Individually retail packaged in attractive hanging clam shell

To order

Universal City, CA, September 21, 2012 – Universal Studios Hollywood celebrated the highly-anticipated opening of “Halloween Horror Nights” today with the annual presentation of the Eyegore Awards, honoring horror genre’s top stars and filmmakers. “Halloween Horror Nights” runs on select nights through October 31.

This year’s Eyegore Award honorees included Oscar®-nominated Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro, renowned for the “Hellboy” films and “Pan’s Labyrinth.” Del Toro will continue his reign of horror as Executive Producer of Universal Pictures’ supernatural thriller “Mama,” opening January 18, 2013. Chad Michael Murray was recognized for his role in “House of Wax” and his upcoming horror film, “The Haunting in Georgia.” “Grimm” stars Silas Weir Mitchell and Bitsie Tulloch represented NBC’s hit series and accepted an award on behalf of the cult favorite TV show. The mother-daughter duo of Angélica María and Angélica Vale accepted the Eyegore Award for their role in the psychological thriller series “Mujeres Asesinas 2” (“Female Assassins 2”).

McKenzie Westmore, host of Syfy’s “FaceOff” helmed the event as this year’s Eyegore Awards host.

Joining in the celebration was last year’s Eyegore Award recipient, legendary shock rocker and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Alice Cooper, who also helped bring to life his namesake maze, “Alice Cooper Goes to Hell 3D,” at this year’s event. Other stars included Adelaide Clemens, star of the upcoming film, “Silent Hill: Revelation 3”; Kate del Castillo, who will guest star in “Grimm’s” Halloween episode, “La Llorona,” airing on October 26; Katie Featherston, star of the “Paranormal Activity” film series; and “Rock of Ages” star Diego Boneta. Other guests included Wilmer Valderrama, Bella Thorne, Sid Haig, Bill Mosely, Olympic Gold Medalist in Swimming, Conor Dwyer, LA Clipper’s Caron Butler and Ryan Hollins, and “Halloween Horror Nights” Creative Director, John Murdy.

This year’s “Halloween Horror Nights” event brings together the sickest minds in horror to immerse guests in the living, breathing, three-dimensional world of the most notorious and terrifying creatures. Mazes include: “The Walking Dead: Dead Inside,” based on AMC’s Golden Globe®-nominated and Emmy® Award-winning TV series; “Welcome to Silent Hill,” based on the popular video games and film franchise; an encore performance by legendary musician Alice Cooper in “Alice Cooper Goes to Hell 3D”; “La Llorona: Cazadora de Niños”(“Weeping Woman: Child Hunter”), inspired by the chilling Mexican and Latin American legend that has terrified children for centuries; “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: The Saw is the Law,” based on filmmaker Tobe Hooper’s notoriously unsettling 1974 horror film classic; and “Universal Monsters Remix,” featuring re-imagined classic horror icons fused with electronica-inspired music. An all-new “Terror Tram: Invaded by The Walking Dead,” also based on the hit AMC TV series, unleashes hordes of flesh-eating “walkers” on Universal’s world-famous backlot.

Details on “Halloween Horror Nights” are available at Halloween Horror Nights, on Facebook at: “Halloween Horror Nights – Hollywood” and on Instagram @HorrorNightsHollywood or #UniversalHHN. Updates from Creative Director John Murdy can be found on Twitter at: Twitter.com/HorrorNights, as he reveals a running chronicle of exclusive information. “Halloween Horror Nights” maze announcement videos can be seen at Universal Studios Hollywood’s YouTube Channel.

“Halloween Horror Nights” kicks off on Friday, September 21, 2012 and continues on select nights through Wednesday, October 31. Event dates are: September 21, 22, 28, 29 and October 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14, 18, 19, 20, 21, 25, 26, 27, 28 and 31.

Universal Studios Hollywood, The Entertainment Capital of L.A.SM, includes a full-day, movie-based theme park and Studio Tour; the CityWalk entertainment, shopping and dining complex, the Universal CityWalk Cinemas, the “5 Towers” state-of-the-art outdoor concert venue, and the Gibson Amphitheatre concert and special event arena. World-class rides and attractions include the critically-acclaimed mega-attraction, “Transformers™: The Ride—3D,” the intense, award-winning ride, “King Kong 360 3-D” on the famed behind-the-scenes Studio Tour, “The Simpsons RideTM,” “Revenge of the MummySM —The Ride” indoor roller coaster and “Jurassic Park® —The Ride.”