Hitting the Small Screen: Connecticut Designers in the Apps and
Games Business  Some of those apps and games you fidgit with
were designed right here  By Michael Hamad  12:00 PM EST,
February 27, 2013          "It's like Instagram for video," says
managing director Bruce Seymour, who's listed on imdb.com as a
producer and actor in several independent films. "It takes
beautiful HD footage and wrinkles it up and adds dirt and dust
and grain, which makes it look like old-school footage. It's
very cool."   A History Lesson in an App        How to Get Into
App-Making     Lawson started a Hartford-area firm, 2nd Opinion
Technology, in 2007, and he runs the popular music website
LocalBandReview.com. He's been designing applications for well
over 20 years -- standard fare for insurance companies,
manufacturing, on and on -- but he says his experience with
mobile is relatively limited, with only a half-dozen apps under
his belt.  "I'm kind of a one-man shop," Lawson says. "I depend
on the companies or the people that