Daily iOS App Updates

Daily iPhone App Digest – 08/19/10

Latest apps and updates to hit the iTunes store today…

Flight Doodle and Flight Doodle HD

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New York, NY – Mobile entertainment developer Eyedip has announced the upcoming release of their high-flying hot air balloon game, Flight Doodle and Flight Doodle HD on the App Store next week. With uniquely customizable aircrafts, lush, colorful atmospheric settings and visually brilliant graphics, it’s delightful and light-hearted gameplay for all ages.

Soaring skyward, players gather power-ups and avoid an array of falling objects and enemies as they try to reach new heights. They will be able to design their own hot-air balloons using the in-game drawing program and watch their creations take flight. Players can collect a variety of tools that help them deal with everything from changing weather patterns to falling pushpins. With the tap of a finger, they can shrink the balloon, give it a protective shield, or even arm it with explosive shells that blast obstacles!

"Flight Doodle is challenging, wonderfully simple and full of fun details. You can share your customized balloon and even doodle your own art on the menu screen," says Eyedip Co-Founder Steven Fleisher.

Eyedip will release Flight Doodle and Flight Doodle HD next week. "We wanted to give everyone the chance to play it so it was important for us to release several versions," says Eyedip Co-Founder Jeremy Adelman, "We know players will want more, so we are planning to release several mini games and modes in the first month with new features and challenges to keep their gaming spirits soaring!"

With a beautifully sketched art style and naturally fun and casual gameplay, Flight Doodle takes iPhone gaming to new heights.

Eyedip: http://www.eyedip.com

Prizmo

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Prizmo for iPhone is an All-in-One Mobile Scanning & OCR Solution. The app scans documents, and applies a specific processing.
4 choices are available at this time:
    * Business Cards – Add to the address book
    * Bills – Split the bill between several people
    * Whiteboards – Taking down notes at meetings is over
    * Regular Text – Ask Prizmo to read texts for you

 

Main Features
– Voice Command for taking pictures (so you can avoid blurry pictures which can’t be used for OCR)
– Image Processing: rotate, crop, white picker, perspective correction…
– Optical Character Recognition (OCR) in 10 languages (English, German, Dutch, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian)
– Many output options: vCards, CSV files, original images, processed images…
– Export to Dropbox and CloudApp
– Translation using Google Translate service
– Document Viewer for storing processed documents for later use
– VoiceOver support for people with impaired vision
– Text-to-Speech Technology for reading OCRed texts – 35 male and female voices available in 10 languages
– Optimized for Retina display (iPhone 4)

 

How much does it cost?
The application costs $9.99, and a speech synthesis voice is available as an In-App Purchase for $2.99 (i.e. respectively ¤7,99 and ¤2,39).

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Math Tables Karaoke 1.1

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Rega Interactive today announces Math Tables Karaoke 1.1, their new educational app for iPhone and iPod touch. Offering three levels of difficulty, Math Tables Karaoke was developed specifically to help teach multiplication tables in a fun, more interactive way. The app also features a built-in recorder to record voice that can be used for the tables. Kids will find this app more interesting and interactive to learn mathematics.

Madurai, India – Rega Interactive today is pleased to announce the launch of Math Tables Karaoke 1.1, an educational iPhone app that teaches multiplication tables in a more interactive way. The app was developed to teach multiplication tables in a bit for fun way along with three levels of difficulty. The app also adds a built-in voice recorder to record voice that can be used for the tables.

"Kids will find this app more interesting and interactive to learn mathematics and the basic idea behind this app, is to enable simplicity in learning math tables for kids. The simple user interface of the app makes kids to learn math tables with ease" said Ram, the media manager of Rega Interactive.

Math Tables Karaoke is one among the quality apps for kids across iTunes stores around the world. Rega Interactive has taken solid measures in exposing this app with added features that best suits for kids to learn and understand tables more interactively. Math Tables Karaoke is a new addition to the app store with cool new features for learning tables in a fun filled way. Math Tables Karaoke has many interesting features to provide different varieties of interactiveness.

Math Tables Karaoke app features:
* Simple user interface
* Three interactive modes – Learn, Karaoke, Quiz
* Difficulty levels on Quiz mode
* Cool and pleasant graphics

Device Requirements:
* iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad
* Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later
* 7.2 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Math Tables Karaoke 1.1 is only $0.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Games category.

Purchase and Download: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/math-tables-karaoke/id383102165?mt=8

Car Tell Auction Prices 1.0

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Kansas City, Missouri – Automotive Data Systems (ADS) today is pleased to announce the release and immediate availability of Car Tell Auction Prices 1.0 for the Apple iPhone. Car Tell Auction Prices is designed to empower and protect consumers during their vehicle purchase negotiations with used car dealerships. Car Tell Auction Prices provides users with highly-valuable confidential pricing information showing what used car dealers actually pay for cars in their inventory. This critically important information has, until now, been nearly impossible for the average consumer to access or attain.

The simple to use app allows you to browse through 60k+ records from the last 30 days covering all makes from everyday passenger cars, hybrids, trucks, SUVs’ and minivans to high end exotics like Lamborghini separated into East Coast, Midwest and West Coast regions. Sort by year, make, model and price or create custom detailed searches allowing you to filter the results down to mileage, year or price ranges for a specific make and model.

"With Car Tell Auction Prices, along with Web and WiFi technology, ADS is protecting buyers around the country from paying outrageous prices for used cars," said Laurence Gorman, Automotive Data Systems founder and CEO.

The product comes out of Gorman’s two primary interests. In 1988, he started exporting American performance and exotic cars to Japan and has owned several car dealerships in the US since. His I.T. background drove him to found a software company whose product was aimed at car dealerships. Gorman was one of the first and largest pioneers of e-commerce car sales on the Internet in the late 90’s.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad
* Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later
* 1.1 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Car Tell Auction Prices 1.0 is only $9.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Lifestyle category.

Purchase and Download: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/car-tell-auction-prices/id384589000?mt=8

Color My Wedding Lite

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San Francisco, California – Go Forth Apps today is pleased to announce the release and immediate availability of Color My Wedding Lite for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Color My Wedding lets brides see a set of wedding photos colored with any wedding color palette imaginable. Millions of colors are supported by using specially prepared photos that allow objects to be recolored instantly. Users can change colors of dresses, cakes, table settings, flowers, cupcakes, and much more with the tap of a finger. Color My Wedding Lite is a free version of Color My Wedding, enjoying its second month in the app store.

Color My Wedding is a unique app, truly the the first of its kind. Two specially prepared photos are included in this Lite free version, while the full version includes more than ten photos. Users cannot use their own photos because photos are specially prepared.

Easy to use:
* Pinch or Double Tap to Zoom – works just like your iPhone photo albums
* Show Hotspots – this highlights the objects which can be changed
* Touch and hold an object to change its color

Customizable:
* Edit any palette – add more colors
* Create new palettes – they are automatically saved
* Our favorite sample palettes have been included so you can get started right away

Save and Share:
* Save what you’ve created to your iPhone photo albums
* Email any photo sample with your color palette (e.g. send to your coordinator, florist, friends, etc.)

Device Requirements:
* Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad (in compatibility mode)
* iOS 3.0 or higher
* 3.0 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Color My Wedding Lite 1.0 is free and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Lifestyle category. The full version of Color My Wedding costs $4.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) in the App Store in the Lifestyle category as well. Both versions are localized in English, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish.

Download Lite from iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/color-my-wedding-lite/id386404924?mt=8

TraxItAll

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Chicago, Illinois – TraxItAll Software has announced TraxItAll for iOS devices, a unique Goal Setting and Daily Tracking app. As its name suggests, TraxItAll enables users to track anything on a daily basis: Sales calls, blood sugar, pill taking, their weight, stock prices, billable hours, miles run, whether they worked out or not, or anything else they would like to track. Users can also take notes, set goals, and quickly see how they’re performing in relation to those goals.

TraxItAll, which currently sells for $3.99, has already been selected as one of the "Top 10 Psychology Apps" for the iPhone on ThePsychFiles.com, based on its effectiveness as a motivational and goal-setting tool:

"A really cool goal-setting app … What I like about this program is the key to goal setting is being specific … No magic to this other than that it keeps track of what you said you were going to do and gives you feedback … A good demonstration of the effective technique of goal setting." – Michael A. Britt, Ph.D.

What TraxItAll Does

TraxItAll combines several important functions into one unique app:

* It’s a daily tracking program that enables users to track whatever matters to them. Rather than telling users what they can track, TraxItAll asks users the question, "What do you need to know?" Users can enter their data either via the tap-counter or the keypad to record whether or not they worked out, how many sales calls they made, etc.

* It’s a highly effective goal-setting tool. It makes users accountable to themselves by giving them very specific feedback on whether they’re meeting their goals or not.

* It’s a recurring, automatic, daily to-do list. TraxItAll automatically reminds users each day of the things they want to do, whether its major items such as "Work Out," or simple things such as "Eat a Carrot."

* It’s a daily note-taking tool. TraxItAll lets users add brief, daily notes to any of the items they’re tracking, to remind themselves of exactly what happened or what they did in relation to that item on that day.

How TraxItAll Works

The core of TraxItAll is its three-fold tracking method (patent-pending), i.e., for each item a user wants to track, they select one of three different tracking methods for recording their data:

* Count: How many times something happened on a given day: How many sales calls did I make? How many hours did I bill? How many miles did I run?

* Yes/No: Did something happen or not?: Did I work out? Did I Take my pills? Was I cigarette-free?

* Average: What was something’s level: What was my weight? My blood sugar? My cholesterol? The value of my 401k? The price of my stock?

This three-fold tracking method makes TraxItAll very flexible and powerful, and yet at the same time it is surprisingly simple and easy to use. In addition, TraxItAll’s unique "Goal Bar" shows users their progress in graphic format; as users get closer to reaching their goal, the bar changes color from red to blue. Users can even email their reports to family members, friends, colleagues, teachers, or whoever else needs to see how they’re doing.

Key Features:
* No internet access needed
* A simple and easy way to track anything
* Users can set goals for anything that’s important to them
* Users can create as many different tracks as they like
* Tracks can be organized by category
* Data can be entered either via the Tap Counter (for smaller numbers) or via the keypad (for larger numbers)
* Uses can add brief notes to their daily entries
* Uses can create a recurring, automatic, daily "To Do" list
* Tracks are highly customizable, including how many decimals to display and what Yes/No symbols to use
* Reports can be quickly viewed on a weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly, and overall basis, and viewed in either "Goal Bar" or statistical format
* Reports show users exactly how they’re performing in relation to the goals they set for themselves
* Users can easily share their reports via email with anyone who needs to see them

Device Requirements:
* iPhone and iPod touch
* Requires iOS 3.1 or later (iOS 4.0 Tested)
* 2.2 MB

Pricing and Availability:
TraxItAll 1.1 is $3.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Productivity category.

Purchase and Download: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/traxitall-goal-setting-motivational/id362036274?mt=8

TrueHDR 1.1

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Boston, Massachusetts – Pictional LLC today is pleased to announce the release of TrueHDR 1.1, an update to TrueHDR that brings major improvements in high dynamic range (HDR) photography to the iPhone. With the new release, users can easily create full-resolution HDR images on both the iPhone 4 and the iPhone 3GS. Users can also easily share their HDR photos via Facebook, Twitter, and email.

TrueHDR is designed to address the issue that cameras can only capture a limited range of brightness in a single photo. In other words, when people take photos of a scene that has a large range from bright to dark, they often have to choose between the bright areas and the dark areas – if a picture is appropriately exposed for the bright areas (e.g., a sunny sky with clouds), then the dark areas (e.g., a person standing in the shade under a tree) often become gray or black blobs with no details. Vice versa, if a picture is correctly exposed for the dark areas, the bright areas get washed out and look like white haze.

TrueHDR allows users to take two photos on an iPhone 4 or iPhone 3GS with the in-app camera, tapping on a bright area to adjust exposure for the first image and tapping on a dark area to adjust exposure for the second image. TrueHDR uses sophisticated computational techniques to automatically align and merge the original images, and then optimize the resulting image for display. It also allows users to select a pair of saved images previously taken under different exposure settings, and merge them into one HDR image.

TrueHDR employs state-of-the-art image merging algorithms that draw inspiration from human visual perception, producing images that show high dynamic range yet are natural-looking. As a result, TrueHDR results are often much closer to what users’ eyes originally saw, and rarely suffer from banding (a.k.a. "halo") artifacts that have come to be associated with HDR pictures.

In the new release of TrueHDR, new memory management techniques now allow for beautiful HDR results at the full (native) resolutions of the iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS cameras. The algorithm for aligning images has also been improved to better handle hand movement during the course of a user taking multiple photos, leading to even higher quality results and greater ease of use.

The new release of TrueHDR also includes an improved user interface, an option for auto-saving original pre-HDR photos, support for quick app switching which allows user to pick up right from where they left off when returning to TrueHDR, and support for creating HDR images with the iPhone 4’s front camera.

Feature highlights:
* Now supports full resolution, including iPhone 4 camera (front and back)
* Improved user interface, including support for iPhone 4 retina display
* New sharing features (Facebook, Twitter, email)
* Better image alignment, and more natural-looking results
* Auto-saving option for original pre-HDR photos
* Supports quick app switching – pick up from where you left off when you return

Supported Languages:
* US English and Chinese

Device Requirements:
* iPhone and iPod touch
* Requires iOS 4.0 or later
* 12.0 MB

Pricing and Availability:
TrueHDR 1.1 is $1.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Photography category.

Purchase and Download

Blues & Rags 1.2.2

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New York, NY – We are announcing that LP Productions Ltd., the developer of Blues & Rags, has released the latest update for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad users. With autoscrolling tablature and fun to play practice pieces, Blues & Rags 1.2.2 shows guitar students what it takes to play their axe like the legends. Developed by a successful guitar player and instructor, for serious students, this app delivers 10 basic picking patterns and 16 practice pieces to get students learning quickly.

Blues & Rags 1.2.2 was not designed to be a toy. It is based on Peter Legrady’s successful fingerstyle techniques booklet and his years of teaching experience. If a user already knows some basic chords and wants to start learning to use their picking hand, this app teaches the same fingerstyle methods used by such guitar legends as Tommy Emmanuel, Doc Watson, Merle Travis and many others.

Blues & Rags features include:
* Scrolling speed adjustment in silent mode to match student’s skill level
* Easy-to-read tablature system
* Audio track for each tab
* Hands-free autoscroll system
* Scrolling speed adjustment in silent mode
* 16 original, fun to play Rags and Blues pieces
* 10 picking patterns to help you start fingerpicking
* Special electronic tablature book with useful interactive features
* Easy to read tablature system
* TabView screen supports portrait and landscape views

To start learning quickly, all the student needs is this app, their guitar, and a quiet place to practice. As soon as they open the app, users can choose from 10 fingerstyle patterns to learn and one of the 16 practice pieces that were written specifically for students to learn the art of fingerpicking. The easy to use controls provide quick access to onscreen instructions in the event that the user needs a little help.

The TabView screen allows users to listen to their chosen practice piece as many times an necessary to get comfortable with the patterns. When they’re ready to start practicing, all they have to do is watch the scrolling tablature and pick along with the tune. For students that can’t quite keep up with the app, switching to "Silent" mode also activates a sliding speed control that allows the user to adjust the scrolling speed to suit their skill level.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone, iPod touch and iPad
* Requires iOS 3.0 or later
* 16.4 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Blues & Rags 1.2.2 is only $1.99 (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Music category.

Purchase and Download: http://itunes.apple.com/app/id358286971

rrripple 1.3

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RippleSend, Inc. has released rrripple 1.3 for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. The application is perfect for all seasons. Users can share their photos, videos, directions, links and documents for family summer vacations and reunions, as well as use the app as a safe and secure place for kids to work in the fall, once school restarts. rrripple is working with schools, providing a kid-friendly environment where teachers will collaborate with colleagues, students and parents for sharing media.

rrripple is perfect for year round socializing and communicating, as the app can be put to practical use, as well as just being enjoyed for the fun app that it is. Sharing vacation photos, videos, driving directions, links and documents is perfect for summer and helps groups of people organize plans for get-togethers, cottage visits and reunions. Users have full control over what and who they share with. They can join or create groups or keep everything private for sharing only with trusted friends and family.

Once the school year is back in swing, rrripple will be a teacher’s aid, providing a safe and secure group environment where teachers, students and parents can congregate, view media, communicate and pick up homework assignments. RippleSend developers are collaborating with teachers on the venture, which begins with the opening of classes. Learn more about how much fun rrripple is or how it can help a child with their school year by visiting the rrripple.com website.

rrripple features:
* Activitystream keeps users up-to-date with all of the different groups
* Easily create or join a group
* Share photos, videos, notes, files, and links with groups
* Check what family and friends are posting
* Users can view their lifestream on a timeline
* View 100% relevant content of all your groups and their timelines
* Directly capture and share photos
* Users can keep each group private or safely share their digital life
* New timeline view on the iPad while in landscape orientation
* rrripple can be used with the rrripple.com website
* iOS4 compatibility

Device Requirements:
* iPhone and iPod touch, iPad
* Requires iPhone iOS 3.2 or later (iOS 4.0 Tested)
* 4.3 MB

Pricing and Availability
rrripple 1.3 is Free and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Social Networking category.
Download From iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/rrripple/id336047920?mt=8

MathTappers: Find Sums 1.5

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HeavyLifters Network Ltd. has released MathTappers: Find Sums 1.5 for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. MathTappers: Find Sums is a unique, free app designed to help kids master basic addition and subtraction facts. It combines a simple game with helpful models that support children as they make sense of the math that they are learning. MathTappers: Find Sums uses tools that teachers often use in the classroom to help children visualize relationships between numbers and master their fact families.

MathTappers: Find Sums is a unique app that combines a simple game with helpful models that support children as they make sense of the math that they are learning. "Find Sums isn’t a flashy, whiz-bang game, nor is it a dull series of flashcards, rather it is a pleasant low-stress game that encourages students to continually challenge themselves until they become proficient." says Tim Pelton.

The designers have used tools that teachers often use in the classroom to help children visualize relationships between numbers (e.g., ten-frames & hundred-frames) and master their fact families (practicing groups of facts together). "Addition and subtraction are fundamentally linked – but unless you use models like these to support children in seeing the connections directly, they may struggle to learn their basic facts or to develop effective mental math skills", says Leslee Francis Pelton.

Teachers might use MathTappers: Find Sums to support class discussions on important concepts and effective strategies and then to provide opportunities for individualized learning and remediation activities. "Even a single shared iPod touch can be enough to make this type of tool useful in the classroom."

"This App is not magic – it is a simple tool that can be used in the classroom, at home or even standing in line for a movie. We encourage parents to download and explore MathTappers: Find Sums with their children. Take a minute or two each day to ask them to explain their thinking and then challenge them to look for new strategies as they play the game. This kind of interaction will help children make sense of the math they are learning and set them up for success!" Says Tim Pelton.

Doug Pelton, CEO at HeavyLifters said, "We have sponsored the development of these MathTapper apps because we want to support education and help kids to succeed in math. We encourage parents and teachers to download each of our MathTapper apps and give them a try."

Device Requirements:
* iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad
* Requires iPhone OS 3.1.3 or later
* 1.8 MB

Pricing and Availability:
MathTappers: Find Sums 1.5 is free and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Education category.

Download from iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id353582286?mt=8

Gods In You

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Los Angeles, California – Announcing that Tenon lepopaikka oy, the developer of Gods in You, has released the latest update for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad users. With personality tests, explanations of personality types and the effects of childhood associations, this app delves deep into the Jungian philosophy of archetypal ideas and behavior. Gods in You 1.0 is a great stand alone app for those seeking answers to questions about human behavior, but is even more enlightening when paired with the book- "Find Your True Self Through Your Fantasies" by Olavi Moilanen, Ph.D.

Through this app, users gain true insight into what makes people do the things they do. C.G. Jung first explained the concept of archetypal behavior, or the thought patterns and behavior brought from childhood into adulthood; and Gods in You 1.0 helps users better grasp the ways in which childhood associations and family relationships dictate their actions in adulthood.

Some of the insightful features of Gods in You 1.0 include:
* Questionnaire for archetypal personality test
* Find out what your personal basic archetypes are
* Which kind of personality you are – what the best and worst qualities are
* Which kind of conscious and unconscious powers, Gods or Goddesses are guiding your life?
* Which kinds of relationship models from your childhood family are still strong inside you?
* By comparing your results with the results of your companion, you can find the potential problems in your love relationship

This app, especially when paired with Dr. Moilanen’s book, helps users discover which archetypes influence their behavior the most. These revelations lead to a better understanding of their relationships with others and can be a catalyst for positive change.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone, iPod touch and iPad
* Requires iPhone OS 2.2.1 or later
* 1.7 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Gods in You 1.0 is free of charge and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Lifestyle category.
Download From iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gods-in-you/id368766068

e-Nag

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Fairfax Cty, Virginia – Announcing SubaTuba LLC, the developer of e-Nag Reminders, has released the latest version of their product for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad users. e-Nag is not a texting service, rather it is a no-reply reminder system that consumers can use to organize their busy lives and keep on top of important tasks. The application is fast, efficient and up to 75 e-Nags can be preset to be sent anytime, up to one year in advance. Repeat reminder scheduling offers many options. Developers have included a ready made library, where users can simple choose a common reminder to send out, entirely eliminating the need to type.

The e-Nag app is a ‘set and forget’ system. Users merely choose a ready made reminder or type their own, then send it right away or tell the app when they want it sent. e-Nag takes care of the delivery and can even handle daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, or custom repeat reminders when this option is chosen.

e-Nag currently works with thirteen wireless carriers, which is how the reminders are delivered. Users need an active mobile number from any of the thirteen companies, in order to use the app. Of course, delivery is as good as the carrier.

Efficient organization is what e-Nag brings to the table with these features:
* Choose up to 15 people from a device’s contact list to send reminders to
* Organize contacts into groups, i.e. "Kids", "Co-workers"
* Quick e-Nag library provides ready made reminders or users can create new ones and add them to the library
* Optionally, users can type their own reminder message
* Schedule up to 75 message deliveries ahead of time
* Set up e-Nag to be delivered on a daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly repeat schedule
* Customize settings, including name and number to display and the time zone being sent to
* e-Nag works for people with activated mobile phone numbers to use
* There are currently 13 wireless carriers that e-Nag works with
* This app costs less than one cup of gourmet coffee

Examples of e-Nag in use:
* Set a daily reminder to take your vitamins each day at 10am.
* Set a weekly reminder for your husband to put the garbage out on Tuesday evenings.
* Set a yearly reminder to renew your auto registration.
* Set a custom weekday reminder for your children to do their homework at 6pm.
* Set a reminder to schedule an appointment at the Dentist in 6 months for a cleaning.
* Set an hourly reminder for your husband to mow the lawn, until he finally finishes the chore.

The e-Nag app has been a big hit, winning the number ten spot for Creative and Practical and placing forty-eighth overall in Babble’s Top 50 Apps for Moms.

Device Requirements:
* 3G, 3GS iPhone, iPod touch or iPad with cell phone number
* Requires iPhone iOS 3.0 or later
* 1.1 MB

Pricing and Availability:
e-Nag Reminders 1.0.5 is only $2.99 (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Utilities category.
Purchase and Download: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/e-nag-reminders/id376050664?mt=8

Swivel-ittle

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Los Angeles, California – Announcing Ordeal Games, the developer of Swivel-ittle, has launched a fun new game for iPhone and iPod touch users. The application is a block puzzle game that requires strategy to solve. Players must match color coded blocks with the correct circles to win. The game’s concept is reminiscent of the Rubik’s Cube and users are able to save their place in the game, returning to finish a level later on. The App’s use of accelerometer action and increasingly difficult levels makes Swivel-ittle an addictive challenge that provides many hours of fun.

Ordeal Games has proudly launched a strategy based, new block puzzle game App. Swivel-ittle gameplay will remind users of the wildly popular Rubik’s Cube of the ’80s, as they use the App’s accelerometer to scramble sixteen to twenty-four blocks then strategically try to match them up to the correctly colored, swiveling circles to win a level. Players interested in an especially tough challenge can work with two circles swiveling simultaneously.

There are fifteen levels of play in Swivel-ittle, each more challenging than the last, yet every level has the possibility of being solved when the right strategy is used. The game is suitable for beginners and advanced players alike, although it will likely take longer for those new to the game’s concept to get through all of the levels.

These are some of the fun features found in Swivel-ittle:
* Fun, challenging and HIGHLY addictive block puzzle game
* 15 levels of increasing difficulty
* Suitable for everyone, from beginner to advanced players
* Just shake device to scramble blocks
* Touchscreen controls
* Saves the last game so players can pick up where they left off
* All levels are possible to solve with the right strategy

If players are unable to solve a level in one sitting, they are able to save their place and return to pick up right where they left off when they return to playing. This is a special feature that players appreciate, as it eliminates them having to start a level all over again. Thanks to the number of levels and length of strategizing time involved in successfully completing each of them, users will be able to enjoy Swivel-ittle for a long time, marking the App as a high value product.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone and iPod touch
* Requires iPhone iOS 3.1.2 or later
* 0.3 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Swivel-ittle 2.0 is only $0.99 (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Games category.

Purchase and Download: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/swivel-ittle/id350292070?mt=8

Foodictionary: International Food & Beverage Translator

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Athens, Greece – Announcing Magenta Ltd., the developer of Foodictionary: International Food & Beverage Translator, has released their latest update for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad users. The application is a translation software program for travelers, offering more than 87,500 food and beverage terms in seven languages, without requiring an internet connection. Foodictionary is perfect for those going abroad for business or vacation.

Foodictionary started, as all things do, from a growing need. "First restaurants, bars and hotels wanted to translate their menus without having to hire a professional translator. Then, it was the need of individuals to order properly when traveling abroad, based on their language or on a language they trust more," says Magenta’s CEO, Panagiotis Sidiropoulos. That’s where Foodictionary comes in and fills the need.

Covering translations in seven languages, Foodictionary contains a total of over 87,500 food and beverage terms. That’s more than 12,500 for each of the languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian and Greek.

Magenta developers have created Foodictionary as an easy to use, standalone application that does not require an internet connection, once it is downloaded. Users merely type in a word to do a search, tap a selection from the database results and get the translation in the language they’re looking for.

These are some of the features offered in Foodictionary: International Food & Beverage Translator:
* Easy-to-use interface
* Translates more than 87,500 food and beverage terms for 7 languages
* Contains more than 12,500 terms per language
* Terms are grouped into categories
* Easy search function, just type a word and the app displays all entries including that text, just select the one you want
* Search one specific category or all categories simultaneously
* Save translations and terms to favorites for easy retrieval

Foodictionary is a perfect travel tool for anyone traveling abroad for business or pleasure. It can even answer that oft asked question: "What am I eating?"

Device Requirements:
* iPhone and iPod touch, iPad
* Requires iPhone OS 3.1 or later
* 5.6 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Foodictionary: International Food & Beverage Translator 1.1 is only $4.99 (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Travel category.
Purchase and Download: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/foodictionary-international/id361717588?mt=8

iWorry 1.0

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Pringgle Media has released iWorry 1.0, their worry journal app for iPhone and iPod touch. iWorry serves to help users handle their worries and problems better than a normal notepad. Based on four main ideas, users jot down their worries in a list the moment they occur in order to get them out of their head quickly. In addition to the core functions described above, iWorry also has a list of web resources that educate users on how to handle their worries more effectively.

In iWorry, users jot down their worries in a worry list the moment they occur in order to get them out of their head quickly. While doing so, they can assign a tag to a worry for easier retrieval and filtering later on. Users also need to schedule a worry time. Only at the appointed time that they can view their worry list. "This serves to discipline users to worry only at a specific time." said Waihon Yew, founder of Pringgle Media.

When the worry time is reached, users go to a chosen worry place where they can be with themselves and think through their worries. For each worry, they can either delete it from their list if it is no longer relevant or note down their decision such as a solution or action for follow-up. A decision tag that summarizes the decision made can be chosen. "There are some time-saving features that users will find handy such as viewing only those worries associated with a specific tag and deleting multiple worries at one go." said Yew.

Those worries updated with a decision are captured in a logbook, which is separated from the main worry list. The logbook is grouped by decision tags. Within a group of worries, users can further filter the list by a worry tag. Those worries no longer relevant can be deleted from the logbook. "Users can also password protect iWorry to prevent undesired access to their private information." said Yew.

iWorry has the following advantages over a normal notepad:
* Scheduling of worry time
* Choosing of worry place
* Quick entry of worry and tag
* Worry list can be viewed only after scheduled time is reached
* Worry list can be filtered by a tag
* Deletion of multiple worries at one go
* Entry of decision and tag when thinking through a worry
* Logbook that keeps all reviewed worries for future reference
* Unlimited number of worries can be stored
* Password protection
* Web resources related to worrying

In addition to the core functions described above, iWorry also has a list of web resources that educate users on how to handle their worries more effectively. "We plan to add more resources in the future releases of iWorry." said Yew.

Device Requirements:
* Compatibale with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad
* Requires iOS 3.0 or later (iOS 4.0 tested)
* 0.7 MB

Pricing and Availability:
iWorry 1.0 is now available for $2.99 (USD) in the U.S. and is priced accordingly in other regions. iWorry is available world-wide from iTunes App Store for iPhone and iPod touch.
Purchase and Download: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/iworry/id383888678?mt=8

Pixelate! 1.1

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Chicago, Illinois – Sprout!, a Chicago based company, today is pleased to announce the release of Pixelate! 1.1, for anyone looking to pick the perfect color(s) for their house or just to have fun with their pics on the iPhone.

With its unique ability to paint selectively over a specific color, Pixelate! users can visualize how any color would look on their wall without lifting a paint brush. Just take a picture of the room you want to paint. Then use the included color matrix to pick a color for your wall. Next, select the paint-over color by selecting the wall you want to paint and paint the wall using your finger. No hassle, no paint brush. To pick the perfect color, you can also select the color of your choice from any image on your phone or by pointing your phone’s camera to the desired color.

Those looking to have fun with their pics or create their own wallpapers, will enjoy the different effects provided in the app. Combine them with the Magic Eraser and you can get really creative.

Full feature list:
* Pick an image from the PhotoLibrary or take an image with Camera
* Pick a paint color from the color matrix
* Pick a paint color from an existing image in the Photo Library
* Pick a paint color using your Camera
* Paint over a specific color in the image
* Enable Paint mode and use your finger to paint on the image
* Apply Effects on your image
* Use Magic Eraser to restore any part of the image back to the original image
* Color Splash (Greyscale effect + Magic Eraser)
* Tutorials
* Automatically adjusts to landscape/portrait view for best user experience

Device Requirements:
* iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad
* Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later
* 0.6 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Pixelate! 1.1 is $1.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Photography category. For further inquiries regarding Sprout! or Pixelate!, contact them online.

Purchase and Download: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pixelate/id380610256?mt=8#

HiFutureMe 1.1

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Portland, Oregon – dBelement, LLC today is excited to announce HiFutureMe 1.1 for the iPhone and iPod touch. HiFutureMe is an amazingly simple app that allows you to send messages to your future self. The app is quick, easy, and incredibly useful.

You forgot, again … how could you forget? Dammit, you just can’t create a calendar event for laundry. Timers are great if you have one thing to do. But that’s not life, you have 20 things to keep in mind at all times. This problem has been around for ages and no one has thought to solve it properly. There are so many calendar and to-do note apps with alerts, but they are all clunky and ineffective for the one thing you really need, quick instant reminders.

HiFutureMe launches instantly, and gets right to the point. Write your message, select a time and hit "Send". That’s all, there is no fluff. The only bells and whistles are ones you’ll hear when you are awarded the "greatest punctuality" and "remembers things best in the world" award (look it up).

Feel the confidence, of remembering everything. Let people talk about how you are never late to anything anymore. HiFutureMe will change your life, you’ll find yourself sending alerts for pretty much everything. Life is easy when you have a personal assistant, especially when that assistant is as awesome as your past self.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone and iPod touch
* Requires iOS 4.0 or later
* 0.2 MB

Pricing and Availability:
HiFutureMe 1.1 is free and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Lifestyle category. You don’t have this app yet. It can’t remind you to get it later. So how about you give it a try right now. Click the App Store link to download the app.

Download from iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hifutureme/id384927725?mt=8

Livermore Valley App

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Sacramento, California – 1776 Productions is proud to announce the release of the Livermore Valley App for the iPhone. Released on Friday, August 13th, the Livermore Valley app is a guide to the more than 50 wineries in the valley – from Wente Vineyards, established in 1883, to recent urban wineries, like Lavish Laines Winery and Nottingham Cellars.

Launched in combination with a four-page Livermore Valley insert in the Sacramento and San Francisco Book Reviews, the Livermore Valley iPhone app goes beyond just the wineries and also includes local arts events, restaurants, shopping, and activity guides. Special exclusive iPhone offers from local wineries and businesses can save users money while exploring the Livermore Valley.

“I grew up in the Livermore Valley,” says Heidi Komlofske, “and it was a lot of fun wandering around the area seeing all the changes since I was last there, meeting the people involved in the wine and entertainment industry, and hearing about all the exciting things they have going on in Livermore and the surrounding areas.”

Developed by 1776 Productions:
The Livermore Valley App for the iPhone combines a local business directory with Google maps, directions, and location-based social media. Each user can sign into their Facebook and Twitter accounts to interact with local businesses and their friends, and control their privacy settings through the app.

“The Livermore Valley App allows the user to post about their experiences in the Livermore area to their Twitter and Facebook feeds, directly from the app, sharing what they are doing, while they do it” says Ross Rojek of 1776 Productions. “Additionally, some business owners are using the app to directly reach new and prospective customers who have questions or need help.”

About Livermore Valley App:
Developed by Heidi Komlofske and Ross Rojek of 1776 Productions of Sacramento, California, Livermore Valley App is a quick and useful guide to the Livermore Valley wineries and businesses. Businesses can get more information for including their locations in the Livermore Valley App at the 1776productions web site.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad
* Requires iPhone OS 3.1 or later
* 1.6 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Livermore Valley App (v1.0) is free, simple to use and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Lifestyle category.

Download From iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/livermore/id385752587

Doodle Sky

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UWinGame has re-released its iPhone game Doodle Sky together with the iPad version. Doodle Sky is a flight control like air combat game. Adopting the cartoon graffiti style, the player must shoot down enemy airplanes to complete each stage, by drawing lines on the screen with fingers. The game lets players compete with other users on OpenFeint social platform. The game also adds new stages and new game modes.

Doodle Sky is a flight control like air combat game. Adopting the cartoon graffiti style, the player must shoot down enemy airplanes to complete each stage, by drawing lines on the screen with fingers. The game lets players compete with other users on OpenFeint social platform.

The iPad, introduced this year by Apple, houses a number of pixels larger than the ones of iPhone in its 9.7-inch screen. The iPad verison of Doodle Sky which is specifically written for this hardware can take full advantage of the extra screen resolution. "Players who buy the iPad version can enjoy the full map view," says Raymond, technical director of UWinGame."This means that players don’t need to drag the screen to see the whole map by making use of the iPad’s big screen."

The game also adds new stages and new game modes. "We’ve really rearranged the game stages in this version, which results in the 40 new stages, and they have more fun now," said UWinGame, "Another point is that the game has been added new mission objectives, such as destroying a certain amount of enemies and holding on for some time. Also, the addition of air defense artilleries raises challenges for players. In the meantime, the game has also preserved its original features, including its simple and easy control, various airplanes and excellent graphic."

Game Features:
* Crystal clear, fun, cartoony and beautiful doodle-style game screen
* Smooth and sensitive control
* Featured missions objectives
* Over 40 unique stages
* Over 8 aircrafts with different appearances and attributes
* Glory system where the player could have more targets to challenge
* Background music and sound effect that fits the game well
* OpenFeint achievements and worldwide leaderboard

Pricing and Availability:
Doodle Sky is available now on the App Store for $0.99 (iPhone version) and $2.99 (iPad version) in the Games category.

Download for iPhone: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/doodle-sky-pro/id384059963?mt=8

Pimpy

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Berlin, Germany – Underplot Apps is delighted to announce its application Pimpy is now featured in the Apple App Store in category Photography! One week after their first release, Pimpy and its free version Pimpy Lite, have over 10,000 downloads and are highlighted as "New & Noteworthy" in all major iPhone markets as USA, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Australia and Japan by the iTunes team.

Pimpy is an application for fun photo decoration. Released in the photography category, it is also a social networking gadget. It is fully integrated with Facebook and users can take and share photos from their own and their friends’ profiles. Pimpy offers more than 500 cool stamps which make photo decoration an instant fun.

To celebrate being featured in the App Store, the recognition from the iTunes staff and to make the application affordable to more photo decoration fans Underplot Apps is announcing a 5 day long promotion starting Monday the 16th of August and ending Friday the 20th of August, 2010 for the duration of which the Pimpy application will be available at half price – $0.99. After the end of the promotion the application will cost its full price – $1.99.

Features in the latest version 1.4 (updated 14th of August)
* No watermark on the saved photos in the paid version of Pimpy
* Connect to Facebook, browse friends’ albums and use their photos
* A library with 270+ stamps, expandable to 500 (frames, word balloons, hairstyles, noses, beards & moustaches, eyes, ears, hats, glasses, masks, accessories, tattoos, zodiac and others)
* Rotate, resize, flip and re-order stamps
* Save to the iPhone/iPod touch photo library
* Share on Facebook and with the Pimpy community
* Content updates – there’s a great lineup of updates for Halloween, Christmas, New Year and the rest of the holidays in the calendar, when you create a lot of photo memories

Device Requirements:
* iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad
* Requires iPhone OS 3.1 or later
* 19.7 MB

Pricing and Availability:
16th to 20th of August Pimpy 1.4 is 0.99 USD (normally $1.99 USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Photography category.

Purchase and Download: http://itunes.apple.com/app/pimpy/id373809022?mt=8

Review 1.0

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London, United Kingdom – Kevin Kalle and Bohemian Coding introduce Review 1.0 for iPhone and iPod touch devices. Review is the quickest way for iOS interface designers to judge their mockups on an actual device. Viewing mockups on your device couldn’t be easier.

The process is simple; Review your mockups by simply dragging them to the menubar icon on your Mac and they will sync with your iPhone over WiFi. Review is fully aware of the amazing Retina display on iPhone 4 and will scale mockups accordingly. Now you will able to see with 100% accuracy how your mockup will look; your images are not compressed in any way.

Review even has a few additional tricks:
* When displaying an icon-sized image it will render it exactly as it would appear on the home screen, with rounded corners and optionally the typical glow.

* As most designers will design their UI in Photoshop, by simple use of a hotkey, Review will grab the current Photoshop document you are working on, convert it to PNG and push it to the device for immediate viewing. It couldn’t be easier.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone and iPod touch
* Requires iOS 4.0 or later
* 0.7 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Review 1.0 is offered at the introductory price of $2.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Productivity category. Review for iPhone requires the free Mac companion, Review Sync, available online. This companion app requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later.

Purchase and Download: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id384477572?mt=8&uo=4

TurboType

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San Diego, California – For new iPhone and iPad users, learning to use the on-screen keyboard can be frustrating and a hindrance to productivity. To help users get up to speed and get the most out of their device, Bellasoft has announced the release of their new app, TurboType. With separate versions designed specifically for the iPhone and iPad, TurboType combines an easy to use typing tutor with an exciting racing game, teaching users to become expert typists in a format that never feels like learning. TurboType is available for both the iPhone and iPad on the iTunes App Store.

At its core, TurboType is a high speed typing race that teaches users to be better iPhone or iPad typists while they play. The faster the user types, the faster their racecar will go, while typing mistakes are penalized by slowing the player’s vehicle. By simply playing the game, users will almost instantly become more adept using the on-screen keyboards, which in turn will enhance their productivity whenever they use their iPhone or iPad.

Users can set the app to either portrait or landscape keyboards to practice in either format. Unique to TurboType, all text within the races is generated randomly, so it is impossible to advance simply through memorization. TurboType also includes 3 difficulty settings, to challenges players as their skills progress. Typing speed and accuracy are displayed after every race, so users can track their progress. Posting higher scores allow users to unlock additional vehicles and racetracks, adding to TurboType’s versatility and replayability.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad
* Requires iPhone OS 3.1.3 or later
* 2.8 MB

Pricing and Availability:
TurboType 1.0 is only $0.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Games category. For more information on TurboType, visit the iTunes App Store or the TurboType website.

Purchase and Download: http://itunes.apple.com/app/turbotype/id374229839?mt=8

Scare Factor 1.0

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Minsk, Belarus – oofsource today is pleased to announce Scare Factor 1.0 for iOS, their entertainment app designed to scare unwary friends, capture their reaction, and post it on Twitter or Facebook. On the pretext of playing an enjoyable game of finding the small differences between two nearly identical photos, a friend holds the device and stares intently at the screen. Soothing music plays as the game gives them time to think when, suddenly, they are subjected to a bone-chilling close-up of a screaming zombie. While the app runs on all iOS devices, the photo-capture feature works only on the iPhone 4.

A well known children’s game around the world, and a feature of many publications including the mass-market People Magazine, finding small differences between two side-by-side, seemingly identical photos is fun for all ages. Some incongruities may be obvious, but often the puzzle solver must look carefully to locate the number of differences required. It is this single-minded focus and expectation that Scare Factor exploits. Just as the player reaches their level of greatest concentration, a surrealistic, screaming ghoul assaults their senses and emotions.

Feature Highlights:
* Scare Factor 1.0 + HD + Frontal Camera Snapshot for iPhone 4 app now available
* Catch the expression of horror on your friend’s face
* Optimized for iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, and Retina displays
* Automatic frontal camera snapshot with iPhone 4
* Integrated Save Photo, Twitter and Facebook connectivity from within the app
* Colorful, highly detailed, color illustrations
* People love to be frightened – Scare Factor 1.0 is fun

The app is carefully designed to appear completely legitimate. Its non-descript screen icon reads only "SF", and on launch the player sees three framed, color illustrations. Beneath each is the parameter of each puzzle, as they are labeled "3 Differences," "5 Differences," and "7 Differences." The on-screen instructions advise "Select a Picture," and "Find the Differences." When the mark taps on one of the illustrations the game begins, and the picture appears next to itself, filling the screen. Thoughtful music plays in the background. If the player taps somewhere on a picture, testing a hunch, a red text message "NO" comes up underneath.

"Nothing makes people laugh like after they’ve been suddenly scared," commented company President Denis Berekchiyan. "Scare Factor 1.0 + HD + Frontal Camera Snapshot for iPhone 4 is scary, unexpected fun."

Language Support:
* US English, French, German and Russian

Device Requirements:
* iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
* iOS 3.1 or later (iOS 4 tested)
* 17.7 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Scare Factor 1.0 + HD + Frontal Camera Snapshot for iPhone 4 is $1.99 (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Entertainment category.
Purchase and Download: http://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/scare-factor-hd-frontal-camera/id374214906?mt=8

CORE – Clinical ORthopaedic Exam

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Seattle, Washington – Announcing that Clinically Relevant Technologies, the developers of CORE – Clinical ORthopaedic Exam, has released their latest update for iPhone and iPod touch users who perform clinical examinations to diagnosis musculosketal problems. The application contains thorough, evidence-based content that is presented in text and video form to illustrate step-by-step test maneuvers. CORE also provides result indications and peer medical reviews, along with a PUBMed reference link.

CORE contains almost 250 different clinical tests, covering tendinous, neuropathic, ligamentous problems for each body part. The app provides text and video instruction and referencing for performing the specific physical maneuvers required to reach a diagnosis. Every step of the way, there is evidence to back up the complete, thorough and extensive content.

"Believe it or not there isn’t even a textbook in print that has the information that is in this application, consolidated in the manner that it is. It’s a great tool to have even if you know all these procedures. What is hard to memorize is the diagnostic properties, which may just seem like a bunch of abbreviations and numbers but having those readily available for each test is phenomenal," explains Dan Rhon President of Clinically Relevant Technologies.

It took Rhon and his team more than three hundred hours of work to compile the content of CORE. Their mandate was to ensure that the app’s information was all relevant, thorough and evidence based with references to guide those healthcare workers who must perform the specific physical maneuvers that help determine musculoskeletal or orthopedic diagnosis.

The CORE application provides step-by-step illustration of each procedure and indication, using text, videos and medical reviews from peers and links to PUBMed references. Everything is covered, from the extremities to the spine.

Important CORE features:
* Powerful pocket reference with periodic updates of emerging research
* Almost 250 clinical tests to aid in diagnosis for musculoskeletal and orthopedic disorders
* Covers tendinous, neuropathic, ligamentous problems for each body part
* Descriptions on how to perform each test
* Video demonstrations
* Diagnostic properties (reliability and validity)
* Links to supporting medical references
* Reference reviews via abstracts in PUBMed
* Please note that VIDEO DEMONSTRATION OF CLINICAL TESTS AND PUBMED REFERENCE REVIEW REQUIRE AN ACTIVE NETWORK CONNECTION

Device Requirements:
* iPhone and iPod touch
* Requires iPhone iOS 3.0 or later
* 0.9 MB

Pricing and Availability
CORE – Clinical ORthopaedic Exam 2.0 is only $39.99 (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Medical category.
Purchase and Download: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/core-clinical-orthopedic-exam/id329470520?mt=8

GoDesign

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New York, NY – Announcing GoDesign, the developer of GoDesign, has released their latest update for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad users. GoDesign was created by designers for designers, offering an organizational tool and mobile business solution for easier, more cost effective design project management. The application handles and stores incredible amounts of detailed information, freeing up time and creativity for interior design professionals and amateurs, alike.

As a seasoned interior designer, GoDesign Co-founder, Kristen Thomas, was frustrated by the lack of organizational tools available for the design industry and vowed to do something about it. "Dragging around fat satchels full of paperwork, photos, tear sheets and samples is no fun. Trying to sort through and find specific pieces of information fast is frustrating and annoying for both the designer and the client," says Thomas.

To help herself and others work more efficiently, focus purchasing decisions and just make working life easier and less stressful, Thomas and her partner, John Nickles, created GoDesign. The partners have fifteen years of experience with top interior design companies, so the app was a natural fit with their passions and expertise.

The app essentially puts an office into users’ pockets. It sits ready to accept tons of the detailed data that interior designers need. "We understand attention to detail is paramount. The level of specification that this app can produce is unparalleled. In a way it’s a tribute to just how specific one can get with an item of furniture," Nickles explains.

GoDesign easily stores, sorts and organizes information and images, allows for the custom creation and personalization of tear sheets, has a customizable database, maps out logical shopping routes and more. Design professionals can also work with their client and vendor lists, right from their device. While the GoDesign app works well for a number of design related professions, students of design or even amateur decorating enthusiasts, it is a tool that interior designers shouldn’t be without.

There are a lot of features and benefits in GoDesign:
* Revolutionary new business platform puts an office in your pocket
* Easily stay on top of every project detail
* Streamlined to help you
* Generate email ready, personalized tear sheets with photos
* Generate and email GPS sorted shopping list
* Maintain folders for each client
* Organize project items by room and category* Compare and contrast Items prior to purchase* Create a vendor specific contact list
* Customizable database
* Specialized screens for artwork, antiques, window treatments and lighting allow you to easily enter detailed information* Easily organize clients, vendors and items
* Import your contacts or enter manually
* Use camera to snap quick photos
* Perfect for multiple disciplines and absolutely essential for Interior Designers

Device Requirements:
* iPhone and iPod touch 2G or later, iPad
* Requires iPhone iOS 3.1 or later
* 1.2 MB

Pricing and Availability:
GoDesign 1.0.1 is only $4.99 (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Productivity category.
Purchase and Download: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/godesign/id371170031?mt=8

I Am Vampire 1.0

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San Francisco, California – Go Forth Apps has released I Am Vampire 1.0 for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. I Am Vampire allows users to transform themselves into a Vampire using the iPhone camera or photos from their albums. First, the app adjusts eye color of people in the photo to topaz, crimson or black. Then fangs are added and an impressive "vampire glow" effect is applied. Finally, users can add sparkle to their skin.

This unique, fun app is certain to stand out among others due to its high production value, and a powerful fan base across all things vampire. Photos of groups of people, not just individuals, can be altered to create a photos of a vampire clans. The fun continues as users can share their creations by email or posting the photos to Facebook or Twitter.

Application highlights:
* Works with photos taken with your iPhone camera or from your photo library
* Add eye color (topaz, crimson or black)
* Add impressive "vampire glow" effect
* Add fangs and skin sparkle (both optional)
* Save results to photo library or share via email, Facebook or Twitter

Device requirements:
* Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad (in compatibility mode)
* iOS 3.0 or higher
* 3.0 MB

Pricing and Availability:
I Am Vampire 1.0 is only $0.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Entertainment category.

Purchase and Download: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/i-am-vampire/id385043923?mt=8

Xenome: Episode 1

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New York, New York – Nine Pound Studios has released an update to their critically acclaimed open world RPG, Xenome: Episode 1. They have built in support for 2nd generation iPhone and iPod touch devices, refined the in-game textures, as well as full compatibility for the Multitasking features of iOS4. In order to encourage everyone with a compatible device to purchase the game, Xenome will be on sale for $4.99 until August 16th. Xenome will have players fighting for survival as they unravel the mystery of their own identity within the 5 square miles of seamless post-apocalyptic wasteland.

"It’s been no small feat optimizing our truly open-world 3D environment to support older devices, but we’re dedicated to making sure everyone can enjoy Xenome" says Steve Tanner, Executive Producer of Nine Pound Studios. "We’re excited by all the tremendous feedback we’ve received and we’ve also updated the controls, improved all the in-game textures, added view distance settings and fixed a few stability issues on the 3GS. Swipe controls and new missions are coming soon!"

Set in a future where genetic manipulation is key to survival, mangled strands of "XNA" (Xeno Nucleic Acid) have given rise to the bizarrely mutated inhabitants of the Xenome world. As players progress through the feature-rich environment that’s both beautiful and deadly, they gather creatures’ genetic material to splice their XNA and take on special abilities.

In Episode 1, players are thrown into this fully immersive RPG as "The Scientist" who has just emerged from 250 years of cryostasis at the center of the Silica Flats. Reactivated during the advent of the Union-Prime war, players are able to complete more than 60 missions, choose from over 500 items, and learn powerful abilities as both factions vie for their allegiance.

Features:
* All devices now supported except for the 1st gen iPhone and original 8GB iPod touch
* Improved all textures
* Added controls to adjust view distance and background sound
* Improved Multitasking support for iOS4
* Enormous game world – over 5 square miles of territory to be explored
teeming with mutated creatures and other dangerous aberrations of nature
* Gain experience and wealth while performing missions and killing monsters
* Customizable skills, XNA abilities, stats and over 500 items that best suit your play style
* 12 hours of engaging story line
* Loaded with secrets for the adventurous and enough creatures, missions and areas to keep users playing long after the main plot has unfolded

Device Requirements:
* iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad
* Requires iPhone OS 3.1.2 or later
* 104 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Xenome Episode 1 (v.1.1.4164) is currently offered for a reduced price of $4.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Games category. On August 16th the price will go back up to $7.99.
Purchase and Download: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/xenome-episode-1/id380298587?mt=8

PocketMe

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Gloucestershire, United Kingdom – PocketMe is the new iPhone Soundboard Recorder App that everyone needs. It allows users to record nine of their favourite sounds (catchphrases, sayings, messages, anything!), ready to be played back at the tap of a button. These ‘Soundboards’ can then be shared with friends just by bumping two iPhones together.

Developed by SenSeb Productions Ltd., after Director Sebastian Hamilton was surprised to find that no such App was already available, the easy to understand look and feel of the App, and the fact that it has unlimited uses, make it set to be the next big App Store success. It is now available to download for just $0.99/£0.59.

The user is initially presented with nine blank buttons, but in less than a minute they can set any photo of their choice as the background of the Soundboard, change the titles that appear under each button and record their own sounds which can be played back at the tap of a finger. Using the hugely popular ‘Bump’ technology two iPhones can literally be bumped together to share soundboards – so you can create a whole collection of sounds from your friends! There is also a free version available, allowing users to try out the PocketMe experience.

Director of SenSeb Productions Ltd., Sebastian Hamilton, said: "Soundboards are hugely popular on the iPhone – you can download many licensed Apps allowing the playback of sounds from celebrities, television shows and films – so I was amazed to find no useful App for creating a Soundboard of my own. I set about learning the details of iPhone App programming and the App is now finally available after months of planning and preparation!"

Sebastian continued: "This is the App I’ve always wanted, and I’m sure others will enjoy it as well. There are so many uses for it, both fun and serious, that I can’t wait to hear how people are using it. We are really keen to hear feedback from users, and have set up a Twitter account, Facebook account and website to interact with fans. We have also created a stop-motion YouTube advert, gently spoofing children’s television shows, which is already proving really popular."

There are around 200,000 Apps now available for the iPhone and iPad, so being successful is not easy, and coming up with an original idea is even harder. However SenSeb Productions Ltd. feels that confident that the unique features of PocketMe will appeal to all Apple users, and they hope success will not be far behind!

Device Requirements:
* iPhone, iPod touch (2nd generation), iPod touch (3rd generation), and iPad
* Requires iPhone OS 3.1.2 or later (iOS 4.0 Tested)
* 1.1 MB

Pricing and Availability:
PocketMe 1.1.3 is only $0.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Entertainment category.

Purchase and Download: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/pocketme/id376004410?mt=8

Sun Sign Shades

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Bethesda, MD – Announcing Sun Sign Shades, Inc., the developer of Sun Shine Shades, has released the latest update for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad users. Sun Sign Shades is a fun and unique application that offers a daily horoscope complete with lucky color makeup recommendations based on zodiac signs. The colors associations, which are ancient in origin, are meant to bring out and enhance a user’s personality. After viewing the makeup on a model, users are able to easily purchase the products at prices that are often drastically reduced.

There is no other application that offers what Sun Sign Shades does. Also known as The Astrology Makeup Line, it provides users with daily horoscope ‘quickies’, along with lucky colors and recommendations of makeup products based on those daily colors. All makeup items are available for purchase, often at substantial savings.

Daily horoscopes, as well as the makeup colors and products, are supplied by the creator of all aspects of Sun Sign Shades – Gita Roshan. "We co-ordinate colors to each zodiac sign and suggest the best choice of great quality makeup for that day. The colors, which have been handed down from ancient times, help bring out the personality of the wearer," explains the twenty year veteran spiritualist.

Through the app’s eBay button, or the Sun Sign Shades website, users are able to read detailed product descriptions, view the makeup on models and purchase any of the more than two hundred and fifty product available.

These are some of the features offered in Sun Sign Shades:
* Makeup colors matched specifically to each zodiac sign
* Daily horoscope "quickies" by Gita Roshan
* Daily makeup and lucky color recommendations
* Over 250 makeup products available
* All products have detailed descriptions
* Makeup can be viewed on a model before purchase
* Daily penny auctions for the birthday sign of the month

When users purchase any of The Astrology Makeup Line products, they have the opportunity to save a lot of money by watching for special sales that offer more than 50% off the regular pricing. There are also penny auctions on eBay for the birthday sign of the month, which is a nice gift for any woman.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone and iPod touch, iPad
* Requires iPhone OS 4.0 or later
* 5.1 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Sun Shine Shades 6.0 is only $0.99 (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Entertainment, Lifestyle category.
Purchase and Download: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sun-sign-shades-the-astrology/id380862134?mt=8

MyTunesRSS

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Rastatt, Germany – Codewave Software Michael Descher has released version 1.0.2 of the MyTunesRSS iPhone client. This allows first-class placeshifting on the iPhone and iPad. You can listen to songs and watch videos from your iTunes library on the iPhone without copying them to the device. Virtually carry all your media with you all the time. No matter how big your iTunes library is and how much memory space you have left on your iPhone or iPad. No need to sync your library when you add new items.

MyTunesRSS is a Media Server that makes iTunes libraries or simple watch folders available on a local or corporate network, or even over the internet. You can browse the complete music collection in a web browser and even play music or videos right inside an embedded Flash player.

MyTunesRSS can create RSS feeds and playlists from any album, artist or search result. Depending upon their permissions, users can create regular and smart playlists, add tags to the music collection, upload new media files and use transcoders to convert music stored on the server to other formats on-the-fly. The user authentication and security management features LDAP integration, which protects the media library from unauthorized access. Encrypted URLs make it easy to restrict sharing to specific tracks or playlists and a remote API lets programmers integrate MyTunesRSS into any existing application. A search index lets you find whatever you are looking for in a matter of seconds.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad
* Requires iPhone OS 3.1 or later
* 4.4 MB

Pricing and Availability:
MyTunesRSS 1.0.2 free and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Music category. A server license for the current version 3.8.13 is 15 EUR and will be valid for the upcoming version 4.0.0 as well.

Download MyTunesRSS: http://www.codewave.de/products/mytunesrss/downloads

Space Battle

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Oxford, CT – Announcing Personal Applets Corporation, the developer of Space Battle, welcomes a new app to the family for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad users. This release of Space Battle is the latest offering in the Space Battle app family, preceded by the Lite and HD versions of this block puzzle game. Space Battle can be played alone without any special equipment, or with two players, using Apple’s Bluetooth game kit.

Space Battle 1.1.0 is the latest block puzzle, speed and strategy game from Personal Applets. This launch rounds out the Space Battle family, which already offers Space Battle HD for iPad and Space Battle Lite (free) for iPhone and iPod touch users.

Pile blocks of various shapes into columns. Manage to fill a column and all blocks move a step to the right. You win when you reach the right-side of the field. This can be tricky business when an opponent is trying to reach the left side of the playing field! In addition to blocks that are called matter, players are able to use anti-matter blocks and neutrinos to destroy other blocks that are in the way or to fill holes that are unreachable by the regular moving of blocks.

In addition to great gameplay, Space Battle offers some pretty terrific graphics and sound effects, along with good background music to complete the satisfying game experience. And if you prefer different music, you can select from your own library. Space Battle is the perfect game to pick up when you have a few minutes. But, be careful, once you play one game, you may want to improve OpenFeint’s global leaderboards or your friend’s highscores. Users merely need an iPhone or iPod touch device to play solo but they can play against friends, using Apple’s Bluetooth game kit, which allows for multi-player games.

These are some of the features offered in Space Battle:
* Fast paced and addictive block puzzle game
* 1 and 2 player capabilities
* 2 player mode requires Apple’s Bluetooth game kit
* Great graphics, sound effects and music
* OpenFeint support for capturing and comparing scores worldwide
* Built-in help section
* There are 2 other Space Battle apps, too. Also available are Space Battle HD for iPad and Space Battle Lite (free) for iPhone

Device Requirements:
* iPhone and iPod touch, iPad
* Requires iPhone iOS 3.1.2 or later
* iOS 3.2 for HD version on iPad
* 25 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Space Battle 1.1.0 is only $0.99 (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Games category.
Purchase and Download: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/spacebattle/id377927049

Car Tell Auction Prices 1.0

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Kansas City, Missouri – Automotive Data Systems (ADS) has released Car Tell Auction Prices 1.0 for the Apple iPhone. Car Tell Auction Prices is designed to empower and protect consumers during their vehicle purchase negotiations with used car dealerships. Car Tell Auction Prices provides users with highly valuable confidential pricing information showing what used car dealers actually pay for cars in their inventory.

This critically important information has, until now, been nearly impossible for the average consumer to access or attain. The simple to use app allows you to browse through 60k records from the last 30 days covering all makes from everyday passenger cars, hybrids, trucks, SUVs’ and minivans to high end exotics like Lamborghini separated into East Coast, Midwest and West Coast regions. Sort by year, make, model and price or create custom detailed searches allowing you to filter the results down to mileage, year or price ranges for a specific make and model.

"With Car Tell Auction Prices, along with Web and WiFi technology, ADS is protecting buyers around the country from paying outrageous prices for used cars," said Laurence Gorman, Automotive Data Systems founder and CEO.

The product comes out of Gorman’s two primary interests. In 1988, he started exporting American performance and exotic cars to Japan and has owned several car dealerships in the US since. His I.T. background drove him to found a software company whose product is aimed at car dealerships. Gorman was one of the first and largest pioneers of e-commerce car sales on the Internet in the late 90’s.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad
* Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later
* 1.1 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Car Tell Auction Prices 1.0 is only $9.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Lifestyle category.

Purchase and Download: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/car-tell-auction-prices/id384589000?mt=8

B.iCycle

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Berlin, Germany – Announcing that Valley Development GmbH, the developer of B.iCycle, has released the latest update for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad users. This cutting-edge technology blends the function of a cyclometer with the technology of a GPS together in this all-in-one, made for the cyclist, app. B.iCycle is a handlebar-mounted tour guide that will get the rider to where they’re going with the route of their choice, while recording vital data like current, average and maximum speed, distance traveled and more. B.iCycle is the dream child of innovator, Wolfgang Held; who is a cyclist himself.

"We love biking so we had the dream of an iPhone cyclometer with GPS trails that is easy and fun to use. First, we built it for ourselves. Now it’s a great success (at least in Europe) and we can afford to make it better and better." says Held.

Always striving to improve existing technology, Held states "Our main vision is to provide the best cycling computer app for the iPhone. We are a Germany based software development company; and have a pure focus on the iPhone OS, as we strongly believe in the software and hardware quality that Apple is delivering to its customers."

This concept has been welcomed and widely received across the globe. It was ranked fourth out of the top grossing apps in Germany, May 2010. In addition to the cyclometer and GPS, B.iCycle stands out from the crowd with its many other features as well:

* Accurate values for current speed, average speed, maximum speed, total distance, trip distance, current altitude, climbed altitude, burned calories as well as trip time. Units can be set to US or metric
* Continuous Recording of your trip with the display turned off for up to 6 hours of battery life ("sleep mode" to be activated with the sleep button on top of the iPhone)
* Support for map zoom via multi-touch events (pinch) and much better map response and loading times
* New map type OpenCycleMap with highlighted bike paths, contour lines and biker POI
* Watch your bike automatically move on the map and zoom in on your trail
* Receive your trips via email (KML und GPX) and review them at home (e.g., with Google Earth) or share them with other bikers. You can send the data after each ride or anytime later from your track history (e.g. when there is no cellular network available). For detailed analysis of your trips at home we recommend to upload your tracks to the portal GPSies at no charge
* Suspend, pause, and resume for trips allows you to receive calls or take a break
* iPod function can be used together with B.iCycle

Device Requirements:
* 3G, 3GS, 4
* iPhone, iPod touch
* Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later, iOS 4 Compatible
* 4.2 MB

Pricing and Availability:
B.iCycle 2.0.2 is only $9.99 (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Healthcare & Fitness category.
Purchase and Download: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/b-icycle-gps-cycling-computer/id307179258?mt=8

Awaken 1.7

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St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada – Embraceware Software has released Awaken 1.7 for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Awaken is a full screen clock, music alarm clock, sleep timer and flashlight in a single universal package. New is this version is full high resolution support for the iPhone 4 Retina display, and iOS 4 features such as local notifications for alarms.

Awarded "New and Noteworthy", and "Staff Favorites"

What’s New:
* Local notification support added for alarms (iOS 4)
* High-resolution graphics for the iPhone 4 Retina display
* iOS 4 fast application switching support
* Music selection editing for alarms and sleep timer
* Album artwork displayed with music selections
* Warning added when saving disabled alarms

Alarms:
* Wake up to your music or built-in sounds
* Local notification support
* Supports multiple alarms
* Easy to use snooze and stop button
* Volume and brightness fade-in
* Music shuffle support

Sleep Timer:
* Fall asleep to your music
* Volume and brightness fade-out
* Music shuffle support

Clock:
* Full screen (portrait and landscape)
* Detects proper time format (12/24H)
* Alarm set indicator
* Multiple styles: LCD (7 colors), Flip Clock, 8-bit, Photo (iPad only)

Flashlight:
* Shake to toggle flashlight on/off
* 4 flashlight visuals: Classic white, light bulb, CFL, candle

Design:
* High-resolution graphics for iPhone 4
* Dark interface designed for nighttime use
* Unique interface for both iPhone and iPad
* iOS 4 fast application switching support
* Displays album artwork when playing music
* Portrait and landscape support

Tips:
* Slide finger up/down to adjust brightness
* Double tap clock to show/hide toolbar
* Swipe left and right for previous/next song

With this app on your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad, you’ll never have another early morning rude awakening. Download Awaken now and start falling asleep and waking up to the music you love.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad
* Requires iPhone OS 3.1.3 or later
* 17.5 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Awaken 1.7 for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad as a single universal application for just $1.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Productivity category.

Purchase and Download: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=327767743&mt=8

Groove

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Montreal, Canada – Announcing Zikera, the developer of Groove, has released the latest update for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad users. Groove is an exceptional, feature-rich app that plays music automatically, based on a user’s listening habits. The 1.3 version is a major update, offering the in-app purchase of an enhancement package at a very affordable price. The package features tags for automatically organizing a user’s ipod library. Mixes can then be created based on those tags, for a unique listening experience on an iDevice.

The Groove app uses a device’s media library access to create mixes from an iPod music library. It provides a number of options, all of which are automated and based on a user’s listening habits. A quick hit of ‘Favorites’ will start an instant mix of tunes that the user likes, while the ‘Three of a Kind’ option puts together a list of songs grouped by three per artist and so on. There are several options to choose from and Groove prepares the mixes automatically. Groove is exceptionally rich in features, including an animated, large title display with swipe controls that is quick and easy to use for playing, changing the volume, etc. while in the car.

Groove’s groovy features:
* Make a mix of songs that go well together in a single tap
* Listen to sets of three songs by artist with the "Three of a Kind" option
* Use the "Surprise Me" option or shake device to get a mix based on your listening habits
* Listen to featured duos of artists who are meant to be heard together
* Get an instant mix of your favorite songs
* Use the swipe gestures to control the player and the volume while in the car
* Display a large scrolling song title so that you can keep your eyes on the road
* Play your playlists created with iTunes directly from Groove and benefit from all the gesture controls
* Continue listening to Groove mixes while using other apps
* Organize your music library by top albums/artists for quick selection
* Automatically download artist images and missing album artworks

Paid Enhancement Package:
* Automatically organize your music library by tags and create mixes based on tags
* Listen to groovy mixes based on the currently playing song
* Save any mix created by Groove for later play

While Groove 1.3 is free and offers users a wonderful music listening experience, Zikera developers have included an in-app purchase opportunity which takes Groove to a whole new level. The enhancement package varies for each country but is very affordable and sells for only $1.99 in the U.S. The Groove enhancement package contains a feature that automatically organizes a user’s music library by tags. The tags stem from the data of millions of Last.fm users. Genres do not have to be classified because Groove will auto tag a user’s music, making it easy to create new mixes.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone and iPod touch, iPad
* Requires iPhone iOS 3.0 or later
* 1.6 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Groove 1.3 is Free with in-app purchase of enhancement package available for only $1.99 (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Music category.

Download From iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/groove/id323649428?mt=8

Theodolite 2.0

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Williamsburg Virginia – Hunter Research and Technology has released Theodolite 2.0 on the iTunes App Store. This novel multi-function augmented reality app for the iPhone serves as a compass, GPS, map, zoom camera, rangefinder, and two-axis inclinometer. Theodolite became the #1 selling navigation app in the US and UK App Stores in December 2009 after being featured by Apple in the New and Noteworthy category of the iTunes App Store, and broke into the Top 40 Paid Apps ranking in the US and Top 20 in the UK.

Based on the concept of a centuries-old astronomical instrument, Theodolite overlays real-time information about position, altitude, bearing, range, and horizontal/vertical inclination on the iPhone’s live camera image, turning the iPhone into a sophisticated viewfinder. Theodolite lets users take geo-stamped camera images directly from the app with 2X and 4X digital zoom options, and contains a built-in map with standard, satellite, and hybrid views. Uses are endless, and the app is great for navigation, construction, hiking, boating, hunting, sightseeing, photography, and sports. The app is used in specialty fields by surveyors, geologists, architects, engineers, military personnel, and search and rescue workers around the world.

Theodolite comes in three versions – Free, Basic, and Pro – to cover a range of customer needs. The flagship Theodolite Pro includes features for serious users, such as a zero reference angle mode, an A-B calculator for height, distance, heading, position, triangulation, and relative angles, e-mail export with KML data, system-wide clipboard integration, percent grade display, optical rangefinders, military grid reference system (MGRS) coordinates, universal transverse Mercator (UTM) coordinates, and four latitude/longitude formats.

Version 2.0 of Theodolite adds multitasking support and background task completion for iOS 4, along with revised graphics and a new optical-mechanical calibration. The app now makes use of the iPhone 4 gyro for improved inclinometer measurements, and includes high resolution artwork for the iPhone 4 Retina display. The result is a more accurate, more responsive display with amazing visual fidelity and detail.

"The iPhone 4 is an amazing sensor device, with improved horizontal and vertical GPS accuracy, a more robust magnetometer implementation, an improved 12-bit accelerometer, and a new MEMS gyro", said Dr. Craig Hunter, Theodolite developer. "Combined with the stunning Retina display and an advanced SDK, it’s an engineer’s dream device that is ideal for augmented reality applications. I’m pleased that Theodolite is continuing its role as a technology demonstrator, showcasing the latest and greatest in iPhone hardware and software capabilities".

Pricing and Availability:
As the name suggests, the demo version "Theodolite Free" is available for free on the iTunes App Store. The mid level "Theodolite Basic" costs $1.99 (USD), and the full featured "Theodolite Pro" is $3.99. The apps run on iPhones with OS 4.0 or later. GPS functionality requires an iPhone 3G, 3GS, or 4. Compass functionality requires an iPhone 3GS or 4. More information, including screenshots, is available on the Hunter Research and Technology website. Media professionals interested in reviewing Theodolite can request a promotional code to download the apps from iTunes at no cost.

Purchase and Download: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/theodolite-pro/id339393884?mt=8

JetCow

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Rostov-na-Donu, Russia – Announcing BazibaLab, the developer of JetCow, has launched the first release of the game for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad users. The game requires players to feed their cow enough grass to fill five bottles of milk then make it fly or jump to higher platforms, collecting points and rewards as they go. BazibaLab developers plan on keeping the fast paced, challenging game fresh and exciting by adding new elements every three to four weeks.

Players become farmers in the JetCow app, using their cow to supply the farm with milk before they take it on a fun and challenging adventure through different stages of gameplay. Users can fly or jump their bovines to higher and higher platforms, collecting points to increase their score.

There are some cautionary tips for players, such as avoiding doing anything more than three times, ignoring the red line at the top of the screen and being on the look out for pirate farms. Easier said than done at times but players can see five steps ahead, which helps.

BazibaLab has incorporated three different ways to gain points in the game, along with a hidden secret to find and open that lets players know how to milk and how to safely do things more than three consecutive times. JetCow offers OpenFeint support, which means that players can challenge their friends to games, as well as share their scores and rewards online.

Fun JetCow features:
* Fast moving, fun, addictive and challenging gameplay
* 3 ways to earn points
* Fly or jump the cow to higher platforms
* Find and open a small secret to find out how to milk and how to take more than 3 consecutive flights
* Anticipate next 5 steps
* OpenFeint support
* Built-in tutorial
* Game is updated, added to and made even more exciting regularly

To keep the JetCow app fun, fresh and exciting, BazibaLab is planning on adding updates every three to four weeks. There will be new ways of earning points, additional rewards and new skins applied to the game on a steady basis. BazibaLab also plans to incorporate user feedback and suggestions in future developments.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone and iPod touch, iPad
* Requires iPhone iOS 3.1.2 or later, iOS 4
* 5.9 MB

Pricing and Availability:
JetCow 1.0 is only $0.99 (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Games category.
Purchase and Download: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/jetcow/id379303072?mt=8

100+ in 1: App Bot Pro

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Sacramento, CA – Announcing App Beast Inc., the developer of 100+ in 1: App Bot Pro, has released a huge update for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad users. The application, which is one hundred other applications in one and formerly known as APPtilites, has been completely revamped. Developers have rewritten the app from the ground up, incorporating more than one hundred new features and changes.

"We wanted to develop a tool that had many popular applications all in one convenient place but with a reasonable price for the consumer," says App Beast’s CEO, Ryan Bertrand. To that end, App Bot Pro now contains more than one hundred other applications, with more being added all the time.

This latest update was an enormous undertaking for App Beast developers. Bertrand explains, "This really is a huge update. We have re-written the App from the ground up and added thirty new apps and over one hundred new features and changes." This means more value than ever for users, who can download App Bot Pro for only 99 cents.

Formerly known as APPtilities, App Bot Pro offers a host of applications far too numerous to list here. Suffice it to say that there is definitely something for everyone in this application, whether a user wants to know their Basal Metabolic Rate, translate languages or find drink recipes. The App Beast website displays a full list for anyone interested in the wide range of offerings in this unique and amazing product.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone and iPod touch, iPad
* Requires iPhone iOS 3.1 or later
* 46.5 MB

Pricing and Availability:
100+ in 1: App Bot Pro 3.0 is only $0.99 (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Utilities category.
Purchase and Download: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/100-in-1-app-bot-pro/id364543484?mt=8

Joanne Carter, creator of the world’s most popular mobile photography and art website— TheAppWhisperer.com— TheAppWhisperer platform has been a pivotal cyberspace for mobile artists of all abilities to learn about, to explore, to celebrate and to share mobile artworks. Joanne’s compassion, inclusivity, and humility are hallmarks in all that she does, and is particularly evident in the platform she has built. In her words, “We all have the potential to remove ourselves from the centre of any circle and to expand a sphere of compassion outward; to include everyone interested in mobile art, ensuring every artist is within reach”, she has said. Promotion of mobile artists and the art form as a primary medium in today’s art world, has become her life’s focus. She has presented lectures bolstering mobile artists and their art from as far away as the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea to closer to her home in the UK at Focus on Imaging. Her experience as a jurist for mobile art competitions includes: Portugal, Canada, US, S Korea, UK and Italy. And her travels pioneering the breadth of mobile art includes key events in: Frankfurt, Naples, Amalfi Coast, Paris, Brazil, London. Pioneering the world’s first mobile art online gallery - TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com has extended her reach even further, shipping from London, UK to clients in the US, Europe and The Far East to a global group of collectors looking for exclusive art to hang in their homes and offices. The online gallery specialises in prints for discerning collectors of unique, previously unseen signed limited edition art. Her journey towards becoming The App Whisperer, includes (but is not limited to) working for a paparazzi photo agency for several years and as a deputy editor for a photo print magazine. Her own freelance photographic journalistic work is also widely acclaimed. She has been published extensively both within the UK and the US in national and international titles. These include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Popular Photography & Imaging, dpreview, NikonPro, Which? and more recently with the BBC as a Contributor, Columnist at Vogue Italia and Contributing Editor at LensCulture. Her professional photography has also been widely exhibited throughout Europe, including Italy, Portugal and the UK. She is currently writing several books, all related to mobile art and is always open to requests for new commissions for either writing or photography projects or a combination of both. Please contact her at: [email protected]

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