Daily App Digest – April 16, 2012

Tekton Technologies today is pleased to announce the enhanced release and immediate availability of System Monitor with Battery Max 1.9, their all-in-one comprehensive and artistic, health check meter for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices. System Monitor with Battery Max is a comprehensive Free Memory and Battery app along with a System Monitor utility, that monitors CPU Load on your device. This app provides a complete health check for iPhone/iPod touch systems and provides valuable details to alert you when the system resources reach the limits.

* Just Open the app and Wait for 5 Secs to see the memory getting freed
* Double Click Home button to see and Close unwanted apps
* Now you will quickly see the memory getting Freed on the Speedometer
* Double Tap Memory speedometer view to rotate to a 3D bar chart view
* Double tap battery or open it to see the battery capacity for your favorite apps
* Double tap the CPU speedometer view, to view a 3D CPU utilization
* Shows the used and free space
* Shows the IP address acquired, and hardware address of your device

$0.99/£0.69/download

eoz games is pleased to announce Roman Backgammon 1.0, its new gaming title for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch at a two week introductory price of $2.99. Roman Backgammon is a simpler, ancient version of backgammon that is fun for adults and an excellent way to introduce children to the game. Roman Backgammon unearths the roots of the classic Backgammon game to deliver a unique experience with slightly different rules and a custom mosaic game board and dice design to take you back in time.

The game can be played in standard one or two player modes, or a player can select an opponent from anywhere in the world using Game Center. Three levels of difficulty ensure a broad range of play and iTunes integration even lets users select music from their own library. In Roman Backgammon, all stones begin off the board. Both players move on and off the board in the same direction. The board does not have the triangular points used in modern backgammon.

Roman Backgammon features a stunning ancient mosaic board with coordinated ebony and ivory dice and stones. Users can play against the computer (choose from three levels of play), ‘pass and play’ using their iPad, iPhone or iPod touch, or compete through Game Center, all while using iTunes integration to listen to their favorite music or playlist without exciting the game. Other features include a highlight option to show possible moves, two user friendly move options, automatic save and pause, an undo move function and an elegant dice roll.

Backgammon is the oldest known board game and is believed to have originated in Mesopotamia in the Persian Empire thousands of year ago. Egyptians, Sumerians, Romans and Persians may have played an ancient form of backgammon on wood or stone surfaces with dice made of bones, stones, wood or pottery. The Romans spread the game across Europe and this period was particularly important in the development of the game. Roman Backgammon is an ancient version of the game we know so well – now it can be played as the Romans did in the first century.

$2.99/£1.9/download

Lucky Fighter is a quick-to-learn, addictive, action packed casual game for iOS. The main character’s task is to face off against 100 lowlife bullies in a dramatic rock-scissors-paper duel that continually devolves to punches in the face. As an underdog against seemingly unbeatable odds, players will take on their customized character’s foes using skill and strategy. In-game special items provide a number of perks to set the player up for success, when used wisely.

Lucky Fighter is socially interactive in addition to being an upbeat action experience. Players can tweet and share their scores, and take advantage of Game Center integration to boast of their bully-beating skills. In addition, they can customize the main character with their own face in order to create a personalized hero, and take photos against different backgrounds featuring themselves as the star of the game.

Lucky Fighter relies on the traditional popularity of rock-paper-scissors to create a game that requires very little time to learn. But the game also integrates new challenges and entertaining features – like intimidating bosses and a frenzied mad-attack – to keep Lucky Fighter fresh and unique. The game’s edgy comic book-style character design and stylish animation complement its cutting edge attitude. Lucky Fighter is available now in the iTunes App Store for free which is nothing to pay to make 100 bullies face the music.

Free/download

techBASIC, from the Byte Works, Inc., brings the power of desktop computing to the iPhone and iPad with a matrix-rich implementation of the BASIC programming language for general purpose, scientific and technical programming. techBASIC 2.0 adds standard iOS controls programmers can use to create beautiful interactive GUIs.

"For the first time on the iPhone and iPad programmers, scientists, students, and hobbyists have the opportunity make full use of the unique features of the iPhone and iPad," said Mike Westerfield, president, Byte Works, Inc. "Complete access to the built-in sensors; the ability to write interactive programs; and libraries for GUIs, graphics and sensors, all using the standard BASIC programming language, are now available to anyone interested in programming on the iPhone and iPad."

Among the key features in techBASIC 2.0:

Sixteen different iOS GUI Controls, including:
* Buttons
* Pickers
* Sliders
* Images
* Maps
* Segmented Controls
* Tables
* Text Views
* Web Pages

$14.99/£9.99/download

Yeinart today is pleased to announce the release and immediate availability of ezRecorder 1.0, its brand new recording and mixing app for iOS devices. With ezRecorder, you can effortlessly record and mix your own music anytime, any place. There are many multi-track recording apps in the AppStore. However, ezRecorder is special because of its distinguishing features.

ezRecorder supports 7 multi-track recording and various effectors like reverb, compressor, distortion, etc. It also supports action recorder which enables record your behavior during recording. So you can record volume, pan controlling and real-time effector controlling. It includes 177 HQ drum loops with various tempo:

7+1 Multi-track recorder:
* ezRecorder supports 7 tracks recording + 1 loop track

Action Recorder:
* You can record your volume, pan, effectors controlling !! So, You can record fade in/out, real time effector changing, stereo panning.! Be a DJ for your music

Built-in Effectors with user-defined preset:
* Reverb, Distortion, Compressor, Limiter, High-pass filter, Low-pass filter, Equalizer. It also support user-defined presets

Import support:
* You can import songs from iPod music library

Copy & paste support:
* You can copy and paste track easily by touch and hold

Volume & Stereo panning control support:
* You can control volume and stereo panning

Mixdown support:
* You can mix down and encode AAC format (16bit, 44.1kHz)

Export and sharing support:
* You can export your music using email, web-sharing, iTunes sharing
$3.99/£2.49/download

iOS developer eMotion Tales is excited to announce the release and immediate availability of "Dragonster. The Meeting", their second interactive children’s book on separate editions for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. In this book you will meet  Cody, an ordinary boy who decides to investigate mysterious disappearance of the jam from the fridge. By surprise Cody meets Dragonster, strange, but friendly and charming creature. With Cody and Dragonster kids will make their way into dragonster’s lair and help them to solve riddles in mini-games.

"This story looks just perfect on iPad and iPhone," the developers say. "We’ve put all of our passion and knowledge in this book. Every page is full of surprises!"

Features:
* 25 colorful pages with illustrations
* Interactive animations and sound effects on every page
* Play mini-games during the reading
* Professional narration

$0.99/£0.69/download

Renniksoft, creator of the popular Movie Genius app, today is proud to announce more free features and a simplified upgrade path for their movie recommendation iPhone software. Instead of recommending movies by matching cast or crew, Movie Genius actually compares the plots and themes of films and suggests ones that match in subject and style to past favourites.

Until now the free version of the app only gave recommendations for the Comedy film genre, but the latest release also provides War, Western, Adventure, Crime, Thriller, Drama, Music, Comedy, Science Fiction and Fantasy movie genre recommendations for free. In addition, a simplified upgrade path removes advertisements and enables the Family, Animation, Horror, Action and Sport bonus genre recommendations.

Backed by a database containing tens of thousands of films and powered by unique movie matching software, Movie Genius has been described as "one of the hottest new apps on the iPhone" by Top iPhone App Reviews and as "a very cool app indeed" by The Daily App Show.

"Movie Genius has only allowed limited recommendations in the free version up until now" said Clive Skinner, founder of Renniksoft. "But we decided to provide much more of the functionality for free to allow everyone to experience the type of movie recommendations you’d normally only get from friends or family."

Movie Genius also allows sharing of recommended movies via social media sites, renting or buying of films throught iTunes and viewing of YouTube trailers and clips. Film overviews, cast lists, photos, biographies, filmographies, ratings and votes add to the extensive information provided by the app.
Free/download

Make your photos even more beautiful with Shiny HD, the photo editing app for iPad. Don’t worry: editing photos is easy with Shiny HD. With Shiny HD you have 14 professional realtime filters right at your fingertips. Do you love black and white photos? Do you want to make a photo look old? Do you want to give your photos a fancy tint color? All this and more is possible with Shiny HD. Here are some more use cases:

* Is one of your photos to dark? Shiny HD can make it brighter
* Is one of your photos a bit boring? Try to increase the contrast and play with the color monochrome filter
* Is one of your photos too cold? Increase its temperature

List of Features:
* 14 professional realtime filters right at your fingertips
* Improve the quality of an image with just one touch
* Adjust filters in realtime.
* Enable and disable specific filters and see the difference in realtime
* Share your improved photos with your friends via email
* Export your improved photos to the Photos app
* Zoom in the image by pinching and panning to see more details
$0.99/£0.69/download

Slavamax b.v.b.a. has announced the release of the enhanced edition of a read aloud book of ”Little Red-Cap”, a beautiful classical interactive version of "Little Red-Riding-Hood" with a Happy Ending. This e-book can be read aloud with words highlighted along with pleasant atmosphere of background music. This book is available for download on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with iBooks and on your computer with iTunes. Books must be read on an iOS device.

Features:
* Read along with professional narration
* Words highlighting to follow story
* Pleasant background music
* Interactivity on every page
* happy ending

Little Red Riding Hood, is a European fairy tale about a young girl and a Big Bad Wolf. The story has been changed considerably in its history and subject to numerous modern adaptations and readings.

The story revolves around a girl called Little Red Riding Hood, after the red hooded cape she wears. The girl walks through the woods to deliver food to her sick grandmother. A wolf wants to eat the girl but is afraid to do so in public. He approaches Little Red Riding Hood and she navely tells him where she is going. He suggests the girl pick some flowers, which she does. In the meantime, he goes to the grandmother’s house and gains entry by pretending to be the girl.
$2.99/£1.99/download

Studio Loupe is pleased to announce Fusion Calculator for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Fusion Calculator serves as a magical and innovative calculator. You can put aside the numbers you calculated anywhere on the screen, simply by dragging and dropping. It’s like the memory functions on calculator, but much simpler and easier to use. No more memorizing and taking notes to remember the numbers you calculated to use again later.

You can bring those numbers back again to add, subtract, multiply, or divide by another number you calculated, so it is very helpful when combining several numbers of different calculations. Conversely, you can simply erase any numbers you don’t need anymore, by dragging them to the trashcan.

Additionally, when you want to add-up all the numbers you have on the screen in one-touch, simply push the green button next to the trashcan. This function is very useful when you just want to enter all the numbers first, double-check to see that all numbers are correct, then add everything in the end. You’ll never have to worry again about mistyping numbers. If you want a simple and useful calculator, this may be the one and only calculator you’ll ever need!
$1.99/£1.49/download

Lightening idea doesn’t seem to last for a long time. There might have been a million dollar worth idea! Don’t Lose Your Thought!! DOOO helps you "Dooo" is a utterly smart tool for organizing your ideas, pictures, voices,sketches, and even maps with quick and easy user interface. "Dooo" maintains its agility and ease of access with its simple user interface.This tool has proven itself with numerous positive feed-backs from many users already.

Secret Drawing Function of DOOO:
Follow The Team In Setting Menu And Get A Gift

$0.99/£0.69/download

GameZen are happy to announce the release of the new game titled "O2Jam Hero". This MMO game was developed from GameZen and co-serviced with Momo Corp. O2Jam Hero: Pave your way to the world of music and do music battle with other players in this free MMO game for iOS.

O2Jam Hero is a massive multiplayer online game where users can play many different types of musical instruments and level-up through various missions with musical pieces.
Then form your own Crew with friends and cooperate to deal with a rival, and win in music battle with other users online.

Unlike other MMO games like mafia related war contents which are favored to specific type of gamers, O2Jam Hero appeals to general users in wider range with lovable characters and colorful designs which are used from the well-known storytelling contents of "O2Jam" brand. Aside from this basics for MMO games features, there are a number of others which make the app stand out of the crowd. For example, a Spy-Fan can be sent to the chosen players to gather rival’s information or ruin rival’s best instrument. Thus users have broader opportunities to strategize and succeed in the vicious O2Jam Hero world. Another unique feature is the Blacklist which allows users to add stronger rival band that they couldn’t win and place them into this list and pay to those who can outrun them.

Free/download

Elecont LLC is pleased to announce eWeather HD 2.5, an update to its popular weather iOS app. eWeather HD turns your iPhone or iPad into powerful weather station by enabling users to track almost all weather parameters in a visually stunning way. This new version has several new exclusive features like notifications about weather changes in the Notification Center and new additional value for iOS home screen icon. Also new version has more than 30 tweaks and new features.

eWeather HD 2.5 packs exciting new features: NWS Severe weather alerts and weather changes using iOS PUSH technology; realtime "Feels like" temperature right on your home screen; gorgeous "Weather clock" and much more.

eWeather HD is backed by a powerful multivendor engine to ensure the fastest response time and data accuracy: application access information from the two different providers and provides the largest amount of locations in the U.S. as well as around the world.  

The most interesting feature is Barometer – a diagram showing the pressure changes during the past 24 hours. Now you always know the cause of headache if it is linked with changes in the air pressure. When Barometer detects pressure changes then it signals with a red color.

The eWeather HD 2.5 also includes the following key features:
* Feature rich weather app for iPhone,iPad and iPod touch
* Multiple weather providers (US and EU) for better accuracy
* Long-term 10-day weather forecast for your iPhone and iPad (15 meteorological parameters)
* Precise 24-hourly forecasts (7 parameters)
* Temperature/"Feels like" right on your iPhone/iPad home screen (using PUSH technology)
* iOS Notification Center Support: track temperature and weather changes (using PUSH technology)
* NOAA Rain/Snow animated radar on zoomable maps (U.S. locations only)
* NWS severe weather alerts (using PUSH technology) (U.S. locations only)
* 130 000 locations worldwide
* World weather clock
* USGS and EMSC worldwide earthquakes on interactive zoomable maps  
* Supports over 30 different languages
$1.99/£1.49/download

Distal Industries, LLC today is please to announce the release of its latest iPhone application, CurfewAlert. The app is a smart alarm that lets teenagers know when to leave to make it home on time for curfew. Users enter their home address and curfew time. The app automatically determines how long it will take to drive home from wherever they are fires an alarm notifying them when its time to leave.

"I can’t tell you how many times I got in trouble for coming home late when I was young simply because I was too busy having fun. An app like this would’ve made my life a lot easier," said David Colvin, founder of Distal Industries.

One of the most powerful features of CurfewAlert is its integration with the iPhone’s location services. The app continually calculates the driving distance from the user’s current location to their home address. And when the user travels to a new location, the app automatically recalculates the drive time and adjusts the alarm.

To extend iPhone battery life, CurfewAlert runs in the background allowing users to use other applications simultaneously. "The idea was to create a curfew app that you could set and forget when you went out. That way you can be free to have fun with your friends without having to worry about when its time to leave," explained Colvin.

In addition to setting a curfew alert, the app also lets users set a reminder up to 60 minutes before its time to go. "This gives users a little extra time to say goodbye to friends, walk to their car, etc.," explained Colvin. The app also lets users save an unlimited number of favorite home locations and view driving directions.
$0.99/£0.69/download

Celebrating number #1 book position and #3 overall in Ipad applications in Finland,  Goldilocks and Three Bears Storybook HD English version is now free for a limited time until 04/15/2012. Watch the beloved story of Goldilocks and The Three Bears come alive in the beautiful, hand-drawn illustrations that demonstrate this classic tale. Displayed in vivid HD and optimized for tablets, Goldilocks & Three Bears is told in 15 fun-filled, interactive pages that can be read in a choice of two modes: ‘Read to Me’ and ‘Read it Myself’.

The book’s features include:
* Beautiful hand-drawn illustrations
* Two Reading Modes
* Small Memory Game
* Interactivity on every page!
* English actress as a voice talent.

Share ‘Goldilocks and Three Bears’ and other JH Digital Solutions interactive storybooks with your loved ones for hours of enjoyment and quality family time. English and Finnish version available already, French version waiting for review in Apple Store.

$2.99/£1.99/download