Daily App Digest – June 11, 2012

Tekton Technologies today is pleased to announce the new release and immediate availability of Trip Photos – Tag, Search N Share 1.4, their one stop app to experience your photos and videos. Now with the most awaited features:

* Ability to Import photos from your photo library, tag these and search them any time.
* Video Playback improvements.
* Performance improvements for iPhone 4S.

It comes with great features like tagging, sharing and powerful search so that you never miss your old photos and nice memories. It comes with a weather widget, so that you can check your weather on your trip, view photos by calendar and map.

Experience photos and videos in a way that you’ve never imagined! Trip Photos is your one-stop app for capturing, tagging and sharing photos. Search for old photos, videos and trips instantly using Trip Photos’ powerful search tool. Now you can be certain that you will never misplace or lose your favorite memories! Most importantly you can lock trips that you want to be kept private!

Experience just how simple it is to organize your photos with Trip Photos! Trips are stored in a vertical fashion from the main menu allowing you to view and navigate groups of photos and videos with the swipe of a finger.

Trip Photos analyzes each of your pictures and records when and where each picture was taken. You can even locate your pictures and videos in map mode which shows you the exact location where your photo or video was taken! You can also store notes to each picture.
$0.99/£0.69/download

Tekton Technologies today is pleased to announce the enhanced version and immediate availability of their flagship app on the App store, "Easy Spending Expense Tracker 2.6", their comprehensive and easy-to-use money tracker for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices. It comes with a beautiful and clutter free user interface.

Based on tremendous positive reviews, with Many Five Star ratings and Feedback from our users of 1 million  and counting, we have added these great new features and still more awesome features on the way:

1. More features on Pie-Chart.
* Double tap Pie chart to show, absolute values or percentage
* Long press on value to show it zoomed
2. Index search for categories, so that category can be quickly entered.
3. Added Recurring Account Transfers.
4. Biweekly option in recurring transactions
5. Top Income, Top expense reports in monthly, weekly and daily shown.
6. Inclusion of Venezuelan,Bolivian currencies.

You can easily switch between multiple accounts with the single touch. Export your data with different filters to Google Docs account. And if you like this app tell your friends through Facebook. Overall a user friendly app, Yet priced very low compared to similar apps.

$0.99/£0.69/download

Mobile smart phones are changing the way we live, socialize and do our businesses. Our phones have replaced many other once-common tools, from GPS devices to handheld gaming consoles, notebooks, calendars, point-and-shoot cameras, newspapers and portable audio players.

At a local technology event in San Jose, Nexscience, a California based startup, announced the release of a new mobile application called ‘Document Manager’ for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices. The app is the latest in a series of innovative ideas introduced to the Apple users by the developer community.

The new application allows the users to Download, View, Store and Share files on their iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices. It supports Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point, PDF, Text and wide variety of sound and image file formats. Users can download files from virtually anywhere : from the internet, from a computer in their wifi network, through a USB cable or from an external file management system like Dropbox or Google Docs.

"Mobile Smart Phones are now capable of doing what we used to do with our desktop computers" said Faisal Faruqi, CTO for Nexscience and an Industry veteran. "With more and more computing power and rich hardware capability in smart phones, the innovation in applications is taking the benefits of mobile technology directly to common users"

$2.99/£1.99/download

iPhoneXCoder has announced a new release of Real Drums HD 3.1 for iPad and iPad2 devices. Real Drums HD turns any iPad into Professional Drums. Do you wish to surprise your friends and enjoy with them by playing drums and also other percussive instruments (as bongo)? "Real Drums HD" is the application for you! With Real Drums HD, you can play:

* Different kinds of drums (more coming soon)
* Bongo
* Special Kitchen Drums (made with real kitchen instruments – Try it and enjoy)

Sounds are taken from original instruments and they are real and nice! You can easily set instruments and sound kit from application menu. Real Drums HD is developed to give you the best sound performance and no latency, for the best experience. Download and Enjoy!

New features in this version:
* Added Pressure Tap Strength Detection. Now, Real Drums HD is able to recognize pressure strength of your fingers, for best music experience!!
* Added new sound sets
* Enhanced User Interface
* Improved animations
* Best responsivity, for best music entertainment

$0.99/£0.69/download

Harvard Common Press partners with CulinartMedia to launch an app version of the bestselling cookbook, "Not Your Mother’s Slow Cooker Cookbook." Over 100 delicious recipes, each selected by authors Beth Hensperger and Julie Kaufmann to bring the exciting flavors of today’s kitchen to consumers who want a cooking experience that delivers both great results and the functions, convenience and fun of a culinary app.

The authors take a completely fresh look at cooking with this popular appliance and bring slow cooking and its unbeatable convenience and practicality to today’s busy families. When there’s just no time for prep, try Orange and Honey Chicken Drumsticks or Country Ribs with Onions, Apples and Sauerkraut. For (slightly!) less hectic days, we’ve included Tangy Tomato Brisket or Lentil and Red Pepper Soup.

Stay out of the kitchen when guests arrive with Duck Breasts in Port Wine Sauce or wake up to breakfast with Hot Apple Granola Oatmeal. Hensperger and Kaufmann offer dishes for every occasion, without compromising taste, quality or variety. And, "Not Your Mother’s Slow Cooker Recipes" showcase the best of home cooking while taking advantage of a global melting pot of flavors – so cooks can serve Chicken and Shrimp Jambalaya one day and Japanese Beef Curry Rice another. All the classic slow cooker recipes are also featured, plus adventuresome and innovative dishes too.
$4.99/£2.99/download

Poppin Games today is proud to announce the release and immediate availability of Peter Rabbit’s Garden 1.1, its new type social game title for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices. The company is also announcing a very limited sale with FreeAppADay. Peter Rabbit’s Garden features beautiful hand-painted graphics, reproducing the world of Peter Rabbit on your iPhone. If you are Peter Rabbit fan, you will definitely find yourself immersed in this game. Even if you are new to the tale of Peter Rabbit, you can still also enjoy the rich new story and gorgeous graphics. The app becomes Free from June 7th to 13th with FreeAppADay, the app is normally $4.99.

Features:
* 29 characters from the original story
* 40  new stories
* Gorgeous hand-painted graphics
* A variety of mini games
* Picture books – you can read the three of the original stories

Free/download

Apps4Cams today is proud to announce the release and immediate availability of CaMeasure! Pro 1.0 to iPhone and iPod touch users. CaMeasure! Pro is an innovative app for automatically measuring and dimensioning objects from small furniture to high-rise buildings using the iPhone camera. Architects, real estate agents or interior decorators can easily augment their photos with professional-looking dimensioning arrows and descriptive text boxes. For immediate feedback from customers, colleagues or friends, users can share measurement projects via email, iTunes or Facebook in seconds.

"CaMeasure! Pro distinguishes itself from similar apps by its capability to obtain measures automatically", said Andreas Haja, founder of Apps4Cams. "Imagine looking for a new home and not being sure if both your cars will fit side by side into the narrow-looking garage. With a copy of CaMeasure! Pro in your pocket, simply take a picture with the built-in camera tool, perform a quick measurement and be glad you double-checked before signing the contract. And while you’re at it: Do the same with all the rooms to make sure your furniture will fit as well."

CaMeasure! Pro is ideally suited for architects, interior decorators, designers, real estate agents, carpenters, construction workers, hobbyists and everyone shopping for furniture or looking for a new home.

$2.99/£1.99/download

Independent developer, Craig Smart today is pleased to announce the release and immediate availability of Big Fat Movie Quiz 1.1, his brand new update to his movie quiz app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. The update inclueds 50 now sound play question. Making big fat movie quiz 1.1 the biggest free movie quiz app out there.

Think you know your films? Think again! Big Fat Movie Quiz (BFMQ) comes in 5 parts, to stop you getting bored of the same kind of questions. Amazing question drawings and sound play are just some of the kind of question you will be asked. And if you need help, there is also a link to IMDb to help every time you get a question wrong. With the update there is now a brand new quiz with 50 sound play questions. Plus the old quiz is still on there. So have hours of fun with your friends and try and beat Big fat movie quiz 1.1.

If you, somehow, manage to conquer the quiz, you will receive a winners code which will allow you to send us your very own question for Big Fat Movie Quiz Pro (The biggest iPhone movie quiz ever) that we are developing in time for christmas. We only want true movie experts to write the questions for Big Fat Movie Quiz Pro. So, come on, lets play.

Free/download

Light Pillar today is proud to announce the immediate availability of The Clock Collection for iPad, a collection of 40 mesmerizing and beautiful clock faces that can be customized to match any personal taste or decor.

The app is available as a free download from the iTunes App Store, and includes 5 free clock faces, with 35 more available for In-App Purchase. Customers can enjoy a ‘live’ full screen preview of each clock face before deciding to make a purchase. More clocks will be added in future updates.

Each clock face in The Clock Collection is beautifully animated and can be customised by selecting from professionally designed preset color schemes or by creating custom color schemes manually. Customers with a camera equipped iPad can capture colors from their decor for perfect home integration.

Free/download

The iBook Beyond Ellis D (Alexander/Swift; June, 2012) takes on colorful pitching sensation Dock Ellis in the futuristic frontier of multi-platform tablet reading. Ellis moved from Major League Baseball stardom to drug counseling to – following his death in 2008 – viral video fame, and writer Donnell Alexander’s analysis of this athlete that the system could not contain hits with a wallop that’s beyond even LSD.

Beyond Ellis D seeks to illuminate the often overlooked aspects of Dock’s life that – for better or for worse – is most remembered for the no-hitter he pitched while under the influence of acid. Alexander’s 2008 interview (with Neille Ilel) helped separate from myth from fact in this astonishing performance. Last week National Public Radio’s Unfictional aired a half-hour special called The Ballad of Dock Ellis", featuring Alexander’s voice and research and opening the doors of public perception that can’t help but lead followers of this unpreditable story to Beyond Ellis D. Far more than – to quote Alexander – "the John Henry of Hallucinogens" , the Los Angeles native is revealed to have been an activist in jock’s clothing. His exploits and influence extended past accidental drug accomplishments;  Ellis used his celebrity to challenge and educate society on many levels.

$9.99/£6.99/download

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the main cause of mortality and morbidity in the young population worldwide. Knowing this reality, it is vital that every health professional (especially medical students, general practitioners, neurologists, neurosurgeons, and intensive care physicians) dominates the subject.

The TBI application aims to aid in learning on this complex subject. The content was developed by a team of neurosurgeons that actuate in Santa Casa de Belo Horizonte – MG (Brazil) and are members of NEUROSURGERY BLOG. It is composed by physicians: Dr. Mauro Cruz Machado Borgo, Dr. Lucas Alverne Freitas de Albuquerque, Dr. Julio Leonardo Barbosa Pereira, Dr. Jose Lopes Filho, Dr. Marcello Penholatte Faria, and Prof. Dr. Gervasio Teles Cardoso de Carvalho.

The application has more than 10 schematic figures, and more than 20 pictures of real cases, main neurological scales, and updated surgical indications to facilitate learning. The contents are laid out in an practical and easy-to-read way with a native interface for iPhone/iPod touch and iPad.

$4.99/£2.99/download

Brush of Truth 1.1, a recommended book app for reluctant readers 8-12, is cutting its price to 99 cents on June 15 to promote summer reading. The 50 percent discount will be available in the iTunes store for the iPad, iPod touch and iPhone. Brush of Truth was released by Story Bayou.

The app has been named a "Recommended iPad Book App for Older and Reluctant Readers Ages 8-12" by Digital Storytime, and one of "6 Interactive Book Apps to Get Kids Excited About Reading" by Tecca. The iGameMom calls Brush of Truth "an effective tool in engaging reluctant readers." Brush of Truth, geared to third- through sixth-graders, is the first book app created by Story Bayou, a mom’s vision to get tweens to read.

"Reading during the summer helps prevent the problem of summer academic loss, also known as ‘summer slide,’" said Julie Landry Laviolette, author of Brush of Truth. "A book app is a great way for kids to read on-the-go, because they can access their reading material on a smartphone or other touchscreen. With a book app, kids and moms can always have reading material with them."

Written in second person, "your" voice, Brush of Truth lets the user choose how the action unfolds at critical points in the plot. Brush of Truth has 125 pages of story and colorful illustrations, with 65 decision points and 20 possible endings.

The app is regularly $1.99 and available on the iPad, iPod touch, iPhone, Kindle Fire, as well as Android and Windows 7 smartphones and tablets.

Laviolette, a parenting journalist and mom of a 10- and 11-year-old, wrote Brush of Truth and created its parent company, Story Bayou.

Brush of Truth tells the story of two tweens who find an enchanted paintbrush. They begin to discover its powers as they go in adventures under the ocean, inside a sand castle, and while rescuing a sea creature.

$1.99/£1.49/download