Our Daily App Digest – August 10, 2011
Latest apps and updates to hit the iTunes store today…
Presentation Link
A powerful tool to create and show interactive presentations on your iPad: Import existing presentations as a pdf or images, integrate videos and set hyperlinks for a truly touch-enabled, mobile presentation experience: * Reliable, innovative, awesome * A must have for presenters * Free for a limited time.
NxtApp 4 Kids
The popular math number-sequencing game, NxtApp 4 Kids, originally released for iPhone and iPod touch is re-designed to run natively on the iPad. The iPhone and iPod touch version of NxtApp 4 kids was released two months ago, almost to the day, to much praise. Now with a single purchase, players of this popular app can experience it natively on the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. The universal update is free for those players who previously downloaded the app.
Developed universally for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, NxtApp 4 Kids has been gaining popularity since its launch in June 2011. NxtApp 4 Kids was recently featured by Apple in the first spot as "New and Noteworthy" on iTunes for Kids and Educational games categories. The Washington Post describes NxtApp as "the perfect app for mental math."
Doodle Grub
Building on the tremendous success of Doodle Grub in the App Store, Pixowl Inc. is pleased to announce a major update to the must-have free iOS game. Praised by critics and gamers alike as "simply the best iPhone snake game", Doodle Grub 2.32 will be more addictive than ever with a new main theme song plus 11 variations based on the graphic themes and support for the newest gamers social network, GameFeed!
Since its recent launch, Doodle Grub has topped the charts in more than thirty countries as a top ten arcade app and a #10 ranking in the US App Store, #5 spot in France and Germany etc. and more than 3 million downloads worldwide to date. Doodle Grub has become a phenomenon with the iOS gaming audience and is now reaching a wider market by launching a comic strip blog, updated weekly with humorous cartoons featuring the heroic snake character from the game (drawn by Laurel).
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Smarty Thank You
The mobile platform developer SmartyShortz LLC, today announced the arrival of their newest App – Smarty Thank You for the iPad – to add to their series of apps currently in the App Store including: Smarty Shortz 1st Grade released in July 2010, Smarty K released in November 2010, Smarty Student and Smarty Attendance, apps for teachers to take attendance via an iPad and students to check in and ask questions via their iPhones, both released earlier this year 2011, and Smarty Cursive and Smarty Sticks just released this month.
KissOnTheFly
KissOnTheFly is the iPhone app to delivery animated love postcards. This important update allow users to delivery their virtual kisses in real-time thanks to the usage within the free App Kik Messenger. This sky-rocket the emotion with many kisses sent among lovers! The KissOnTheFly app sends animated virtual kisses (postcards), but to actually send the message you have to blow over the iPhone.
Police Car ID
Black & Yellow Developers today are pleased to announce the launch of Police Car ID. University of Pittsburgh students Brian Yankello and Elliot Domagola are responsible for the development of the application. The whole process for Police Car ID has taken roughly one month. "My friend called me early one morning to tell me that he sold over 200 copies of his Yinzer app in one day. I remember after I hung up, I just sat in bed and knew I needed to think of a great app idea," said Brian. The next day, Brian Yankello called his friend Elliott Domagola, who has coded two iPhone apps of his own with an idea and less than one month later, the app was finished.
GeoTasker Lite
GeoTasker Lite is an app that was built to help remember tasks and errands while traveling. GeoTasker Lite reminds users of tasks that need to be completed by setting off an alert when approaching an area where the task is located.
Currently a nearby alerts feature is considered a premium feature for an app and would cost money to own. GeoTasker Lite is free so there is no risk to try! Discover what countless others have known. A unique way to look at your errands!
Free Features Include:
* Nearby Alerts: options include viewing in miles or kilometers, how close for the alert to set off and turning nearby alerts on or off.
* At each location, there is also the option to turn on or off nearby alerts specific for that single location.
* Date and Time Alerts: including an early reminder option
* Map view of active tasks: where the pins can be clicked to evaluate that location’s active tasks.
* Dashboard summary: view tasks by high priority, nearby, due today, due tomorrow and even completed tasks. Each can be clicked to view those particular tasks.
* Add notes and mark down priorities
* Search Locations: including the innovative "Quick Spot" feature.
* Offline Mode: Mark the current location with a saved location, No Internet required!
* Email Task List: useful for groceries or common errands to pass on.
Touchlanguage Apps
7HillStudios, an imaginative mobile software developer focused on mobile education apps, has today announced a price reduction on its entire Touchlanguage mobile learning line: Spanish, French, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, that will see every Touchlanguage app drop from $3.99 per to only $2.99. In addition to this general price cut, Japanese and German Touchlanguage will now be available for only $0.99!
Powered by Quizlet, the Touchlanguage mobile education series is comprised of dynamic touch-based learning systems that use mentally engaging games, enlightening quizzes, and interactive flashcards to help users learn thousands of new words in almost any language they want. All Touchlanguage apps are compatible with the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch and can be found in the App Store in the Education categories.
Rhythm Studio
California based Pulse Code today introduces Rhythm Studio 1.0, their brand new music app for iOS devices. Rhythm Studio offers a real life recording and mixing experience featuring a wide collection of virtual instruments that allows users to go beyond just listening to music and create their own music from scratch. This full-featured control surface includes a full 808 drum machine, 303 synthesizer, sample based synthesizer, XY style control pad, and mixer with FX.
Formula MAX
Formula MAX is the iPhone app with a collection of over 1150+ Physics, Chemistry and Maths formulas, more formulas to be added constantly through updates. The app is designed with a view of user convenience in searching, locating & referring a formula. An iPad version of this app is in progress and will be available in app store shortly.
Word Wizard
Independent children’s app developer L’Escapadou is honored to announce today that Word Wizard was awarded "Editor’s Choice Award for Excellence in Design" in Children Technology Review 2011 August issue. Established in 1993, Children’s Technology Review is designed to keep parents, teachers and librarians up to date on the latest children’s interactive media products. Editor’s Choice Awards are given to only the highest quality children’s products in the interactive media category.
Children’s Media expert Warren Buckleitner reviewed the app, and declared that "this is a very important app, because it leverages both the powerful speech synthesis abilities of the iPad and the touch screen; so every letter becomes a block of sound that you can touch and hear, or place next to another word to see how they affect each other". The app earned 4.8 stars -out of 5- overall rating and 5 stars in educational, design features and good value ratings.
iQuikSplash
With iQuikSplash, while users can also draw an area in a photo to be splashed, they could also highlight the exact shades of colors selected manually while the rest is turned to black and white. Users can then adjust the amount of splashing required by a slider. This feature is unique to iQuikSplash and it is also the reason why the app was featured by Apple in New & Noteworthy section in over 69 countries including United States. It was even reviewed by the famous iPhone Photography blog, iPhoneography, and many more.
In the latest version release, a new feature has been added – selective contrast and brightness. Users can now adjust brightness and contrast of the selected area and black and white area independently. This feature enables users to tweak and make the selected area pops even more. iQuikSplash PRO, the paid version of iQuikSplash is also getting the new feature and will be live in a couple of days.
goGlyph
goGlyph, Inc today is pleased to announce the release of version 1.1 of the groundbreaking goGlyph, the geo-location based messaging application for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Version 1.1 brings a number of enhancements and a brand new groundbreaking function; Discovery.
Discovery allows users to see who is active, right now, worldwide, or, at user choice, within, 100, 10 or 1 kilometers or only 100 or 10 meters of their current location. You can now tag active users worldwide and send them a direct message simply because they are currently active. Direct messages are private and can be sent to any active scribe. They don’t need to be a friend or a follower. Discovery allows you to see if there is activity at a favorite location or find a new favorite location and make a new friend!
Users can toggle their discovery status from active (username shown), to stealth (hidden username), to totally hidden. You can make new friends and exchange messages with just them, in addition to the capability to leave location based messages. Version 1.1 allows users to add shared locations from the hot featured location list. See what people are saying at these featured spots.
My Dreams: Dream interpretation
Announcing that 1Tucan, the developers of My Dreams: Dream interpretation | Dreams Dictionary, has released their latest update for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad users. The application helps users explore those mysterious night time communications that we get from our subconscious, commonly known as dreams. Although the app is already extensive in information, the latest update allows users to request specific additions, search for interpretations by full sentences, and share search results via Facebook, Twitter and email. My Dreams: Dream interpretation | Dreams Dictionary has released even more helpful features in their latest 1.5 version update.
JabberMouth
Pixel Research Labs today is pleased to announce the release of JabberMouth 1.0, a fun new video app for iOS. JabberMouth puts your mouth on any photo to record hilarious videos. Key Features: * Use any photo. Take a photo with the camera, choose a photo from your library, search the internet, paste a photo from any other app * Put your mouth anywhere on the photo. Zoom and rotate the mouth to fit any photo * Zoom, crop, and rotate the photo any way you like * Publish your video to Facebook, save to the iPhone’s library, send it in an email
Smarty Cursive
The mobile platform developer SmartyShortz LLC, today announced the arrival of their newest App; Smarty Cursive for the iPad, to add to their series of apps currently in the App Store including; Smarty Shortz 1st Grade released in July 2010, Smarty K released in November 2010, Smarty Student and Smarty Attendance, apps for teachers to take attendance via an iPad and students to check in and ask questions via their iPhones, both released earlier this year 2011, and Smarty Thank You and Smarty Sticks just released this month. The SmartyShortz concept represents the latest evolution of quality, value, and innovation of educational apps in the Smart Phone industry.
French Cookie Match
JoVe Apps has announced French Cookie Match 1.1, for all iOS devices. The gameplay – the user is in Paris. The user must help a baker to match his cookies. The user touches the cookies to get points. Mix the cookies, as you don’t have groups. There are five different cookies and a really nice high score system. The object of the game is to set the highest score. Features: * The app is made in French style * The app has amazing French music * The app has great gameplay * The app has a high score system * French styled graphics * This is a really fun puzzle game for everyone * Great puzzle for gamers * Everyone can enjoy it.
Star Chase
Craig McFarlane has introduced Star Chase 1.0, for both iPhone and iPad. Destroy countless Alien enemies as fast as you can in this dual stick retro style arcade shooter. Then collect as many stars the aliens drop when destroyed as fast as you can before they disappear. The numbers of stars you collect are added together from game-to-game so your position on the Total Stars Collected Leaderboard will always be changing. Compete with your friends to be number one on three Game Center Leaderboards – Stars collected in a single game, Total Stars collected or the Highest Score.
My Gourmet
Nilisoft has introduced My Gourmet 1.0, app for the iPhone. The app features easy ways to manage your own recipes and organize them into cookbooks and menus. Although you can search recipes from the mygourmetrecipes database and use them in your collections the main idea behind the app is to create your own recipes. "I created the app because I could not find any app with the features I wanted to manage my own recipes." said Emil Nilimaa founder of Nilisoft. "There are thousands of apps for searching recipes, but none that I could find to manage my own recipes had the features I wanted, so why not make my own?"
Relax with Dr Elaine Ryan
What makes Relax with Dr Elaine different from other relaxation iPhone/iPad Apps, is that it was developed by a Doctor of Psychology, using years of experience and expert psychological knowledge, on how the brain and body works. Elaine was aware of the benefits that the average person would experience from undertaking deep relaxation. She was also aware that, due to the normal demands of every day life, that it was common for people to want to undertake relaxation, but struggled to fit it into their already busy day. Elaine wanted to be able to provide deep relaxation in a form that would fit into people’s already busy lives. LiveHappy was founded to meet this need by Elaine (a psychologist with her own practice) and her partner Lewis (a classically trained musician), to create Personal Development Apps that they would like to use themselves.
Goop
Goop is a fun family safe game with one simple goal – to save the Eeeps from the dangerous goop. The Eeeps have lost their way home and need to get across to the other side in four unique worlds without getting hit by the goop. The problem is each Eeep has their own unique personality which can both help and hurt you in your attempt to get them across. As time progresses and you save more Eeeps, more will appear wanting to be saved making the game a bit more difficult.
Goop is simple, complete with four unique stages with ranging levels of difficulty, and is rated safe for everyone to play. Goop is an awesome game to keep you and your family busy during long road trips, in the waiting room, and during errand runs.
Measures HD
Neuwert-Media has announced the release of Measures HD 1.0.0, an iPad version their popular unit conversion utility which was previously available only on the iPhone and iPod touch. Measures is designed with a focus on usability. The range of conversions offered can suit everybody from a college student to a seasoned engineer or scientist. Travelers will then find currency and cloth sizes conversions very useful. Since the amount of included categories and units might be overwhelming for a casual user, the items which are not required can be deactivated through a settings menu.
Who Says Moo?
KneeBouncers has announced the release of Who Says Moo?, the first ebook app from the creators of the popular toddler’s web site. The dynamic interactive ebook invites toddlers to explore a variety of animals on a farm and discover the sounds they make. Colorful illustrations and clever animations engage and entertain toddlers and preschoolers. Parents and family members will love the voice recording feature making them the narrator of the story.
Who Says Moo combines the iPad’s touchscreen abilities with fun animations and sounds and fully utilizes the tablet’s technology with a voice recording feature that creates a unique experience that will delight the whole family. "We created this ebook to teach young children about all the different sounds of farm animals. Kids love the sing-song repetition of the story and the fun animations. Parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles love being the narrator for the story. The personalized narrator creates a magical experience for the child." explains author/illustrator Punch Robinson.
MediTimer
Fine Mechanics has announced the release of MediTimer 1.0, developed exclusively for Apple iPad. MediTimer is a balanced set of instruments which render your meditation more effective and useful as well as make it easier to make it your practice, if you so desire. The key aspects controlled by the program are:
* Monitoring your position: the app will remind you that you need to monitor your position
* Monitoring your breathing: you have at your disposition a metronome which can be set individually, gives tips about your breathing cycle, offers a counter of the breathing cycles, and reminds you to monitor your breathing
* Monitoring your thoughts: intermittent signals and reminders to monitor your thoughts
* Regular practicing: reminders about upcoming sessions, session log (with the option to export and import the exercise settings), as well as an alarm clock
The Landwhale
Holderness Media Inc. has announced the release of The Landwhale 1.0 for iPhone devices. The Landwhale for iPhone is a music release featuring tracks from The Landwhale’s self-titled EP, as well as three bonus tracks featured in the brand new game "Dawjuh Ball" for iOS and Mac OS X.
Additionally, users can remix and rearrange 2 songs by The Landwhale by triggering loops and samples from each song in realtime. The Landwhale app offers high-quality audio and an easy-to-use interface.
The Landwhale’s self-titled EP features introspective, atmospheric electronic music that spans genres from 80s synth-pop to contemporary dubstep. Vocal samples are twisted into deep, haunting tones that blend seamlessly with lush, moody soundscapes.
Achievers Writing Center
Achievers Writing Center, by Niles Technology Group, has brought a full-service writing center to a student’s mobile device. With everything students need to write an excellent essay, Achievers’ mobile apps are the solution to starting, developing and editing writing assignments. Complete with live writing assistants and editing services, the apps take the tediousness out of writing and deliver a mobile learning experience like no other essay writing app.
Learning to write is not an easy task, but it does not have to be difficult either. With the correct guidance, targeted technology and a dedicated company to assist in every step of the process, writing can be learned well. Achievers Writing Center is the answer for high school and college students to perfect their writing skills. Built using mobile technology, the apps are convenient to use anytime, anywhere, while keeping students focused on the writing task at hand. All students need is an iPad, iPhone or iPod.
Arthur & Charles Present Create & Play
Children and adults enjoy creating cartoon faces in the face creator part of Arthur and Charles Create and Play. There are 178 individual pieces to create the faces, and over 400 billion possible individual creations to make. These creations are then used in the games section of the app: in the memory challenging Card Match, the fast paced Match 3, observation testing Patterns game.
Arthur and Charles Create and Play comes with a gentle soundtrack, animated help for younger players, top ten leader board, and up to four people can use the game on any one device.
The game is designed and programmed by UK artist, Moopf, and is inspired by two of Moopf’s creations, Arthur and Charles, a boy and his bugapilla.
Arthur and Charles Create and Play is a lovely new game the family can share on the iPad, iPod Touch and iPhone.
Tilt And Sprout
This week Twiddly has released a significant update for their refreshing tilt-controlled action puzzler – Tilt & Sprout, a game where the goal is to guide sprouting plants from deep underground to bloom in the open air. The update adds 24 magic-themed new levels, bringing the overall total to 48, and introduces some new gameplay mechanics. In contrast to the lush green landscapes of the original levels, the new levels are themed around myths, magic and fairytales. Wolves, witches and dragons all make cameo appearances. The aim though is still to guide vulnerable plant shoots safely to the earth’s surface carefully avoiding all hazards on the way, but added into the mix are some brand new mechanics – mystical shortcuts and dangerous stone blocks that slide as the level is tilted.
MyNature Fishing Knots
MyNature has announced MyNature Fishing Knots 1.0 for iOS, their new Reference app that features computer generated, 3D animations of knots being tied, plus illustrated, step-by-step written instructions. Including the 13 knots most commonly used today in fishing, the app’s continuous, highly realistic animations can be stopped at any time, studied, and then restarted. There are four chapters, each with text, illustrations, and an animation: Tie Line to a Reel, Tie Line to a Hook, Join Two Lines, and Tie a Loop. MyNature Fishing Knots is an invaluable reference source for anyone who has ever had difficulty tying a fishing knot.
The Minis: Smartypants Test
Independent game development company, Kuyi Mobile has announced the release of The Minis: Smartypants Test, its fourth minigame installment for iPhone and iPod touch. Do you consider yourself a Smartypants? If that’s a YES, then this is just the challenge you need to prove yourself as one and brag to the whole world about! Be a certified Smartypants by acing tricky challenges, one after another, as you make your way from being a mere microorganism to becoming a full fledged Smartypants!
Entertain yourself as you ace and fail. Master the quizzes then challenge family and friends to scoring the best time. The Smartypants Test is the fourth installment of The Minis series by Kuyi Mobile. Take The Smartypants Test now and show the world how Smart you are!
Where Am I?
Apperture, LLC has announced the release of Where Am I? 1.0, their new photo-sharing game for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Where Am I? is a new, free iPhone app that allows you to quickly and easily share a photo of your location with your Facebook friends and have them try and guess where you’re at.
If you were to compare us to some popular apps out there: * Foursquare is "look where I’m at." Where Am I? is "guess where I’m at." * Instagram is "look at my photo." Where Am I? is "guess where my photo was taken."
Joanne Carter
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]