Our Daily App Digest – July 2, 2012

Want to unlock your creative potential? Want to bind together precious memories into a single electronic document to have forever? Then what you need is Book Creator – eBook and PDF creator. As the premier ebook creation application, Book Creator lets you transform your books into a readable, online format for your iBook library.

The potential to create a multitude of ebooks is possible with Book Creator by Life Labs. Any type of book is possible – cookbooks, art books, story books, picture books, and even manuals. The app is only limited to your own creative potential. Add images, video, and even text!

Share your creations with family, friends, and your loved ones. The books you create on Book Creator don’t have to be just for you – let your family in on your masterful publications. Sharing memories is easy with Book Creator – print them out, share them on iTunes, or send them via email. Have a beautiful book created for every special occasion – birthdays, weddings, vacations, or maybe just a thoughtful book of poems.

$3.99/£2.49/download

Rising High Apps today introduces American Wallpaper USA Themes for iOS devices. American Wallpaper USA Themes offers over 70 professionally designed, Retina HD Wallpaper and Lockscreen themes to change the look of your iPhone and iPod touch to Celebrate Independence Day. Featuring a clean and super fast interface, browsing, previewing and saving these fantastic themes are a joy and oozes quality with every swipe, suitably worthy for any Patriot.

American Wallpaper USA Themes has been created by their team of experienced and talented designers offering over professional, Retina quality USA HD Wallpapers and Lock Screen themes to transform the look of your iPhone and iPod touch with a truly unique and distinct American style.

American Wallpaper USA Themes has a simple yet elegant fresh design, the beautifully clean and super fast interface makes browsing, previewing and saving these cool American and High Quality USA iPhone themes a joy and just oozes quality with every swipe. American Wallpaper USA Themes is a must have staple App for anyone wishing to celebrate America Independence Day on their iPhone or iPod touch. From Stars and Stripes to Patriotic Flags, American Wallpaper USA Themes and has plenty of options meaning you’ll never get bored.

We all loving changing the look of our devices and it’s about time the bar has been raised in terms interface quality and an outstanding, well thought out background app.

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AppAvenger announces Truck Stops Pro 1.2, their application that provides quick and simple access to over 5,400 truck stops, 2000 Rest Areas, 900 Weigh Stations and over 8100 other potential overnight parking locations. When software developer Sean Peck heard his sister complaining about the issues her husband was having as an over the road truck driver, he did what any big brother with a propensity for software development would do, he wrote an app for that. Now that app "Truck Stops Pro" has been released for iPhone.

When asked about the app Sean said, "I wrote the App with the issues my sister had mentioned in mind, and with the mindset of being simple and useful to a drive within the context of their daily job. I wanted to make sure the app provided the information that was needed, but also do it in a way that ensure quick and simple access to that information. I looked at what was out in the marketplace, and I just wasn’t seeing anything that really met those criteria."

"Truck Stops Pro" provides quick and simple access to over 5,400 truck stops, 2000 Rest Areas, 900 Weigh Stations and over 8100 other potential overnight parking locations. The entire interface is designed around a simple user model, removing complicated drill downs and inputs.

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Appyze is happy to announce the release of "Frienzy – FB, Twitter, G+ All-in-one access", their new social networking app developed for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Achieve infinite social possibilities with Frienzy! Stay connected to all your social media networks and post, like, tweet and share with friends on the go with Frienzy. You will be able to communicate with your friends quickly on all platforms so you will not miss out on anything. Most importantly, obtain instant updates from friends anywhere, anytime.

Enjoy convenience at your fingertips with full social applications integrated into Frienzy itself. Save the trouble of checking different apps with Frienzy because you will be able to check your Facebook, Twitter, and Google+, all at the same time, same place. Social Networks that are featured in Frienzy include Facebook, Twitter, and Google, with Email, Text Messaging, Skype, and much more functionality coming soon.
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Moonpans Apps today is pleased to announce the release and immediate availability of FarmYard Piano 1.0, its new children’s educational title developed specifically for iPad devices. FarmYard Piano is a very simple to use, single screen app based in a farmyard. The child just needs to select an animal from the top menu, then play that animal‚s sound on the keyboard below. The sounds span 7 musical notes from C to B and can be set to a single animal – pigs, cows, sheep, ducks, or for a very fun result, a mixture of all 4!

Making full use of the iPad‚s, multi-touch feature, many animals can be played at the same time or played in quick succession such as running your finger up and down the keyboard. The app has been designed to give young children a strong audio and visual reaction, as whenever an animal is touched not only will you hear its sound, but it will also animate as it pushes out its oink, moo, baa or quack.

Several age groups will enjoy FarmYard Piano, from babies who will enjoy the audio and visual reactions, toddlers who like making as much noise as possible, to older piano savvy children who will be able to play simple tunes, but would prefer to Baa, Baa Black Sheep using actual sheep rather than a boring old piano!
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Ingengo is excited to announce a new version of KIDiPLAY Match for iOS that stands out from other memory games due to its unusual content: it lets kids match pictures, sounds and also pictures of objects that go together. Each game has three difficulty levels.

The new settings menu allows full control of the app features and makes the app a great teaching aid for parents and educators of special needs children with autism spectrum disorders, speech delays or visual impairment. Parents and educators can now add a voiceover for each picture and sound as the card is flipped and/or add a voiceover for pictures and sounds when they are matched. A special "freeze match" mode pauses the game when two cards are matched to allow time for discussion. Full control over which sets of pictures or sounds are active allows such discussions to center around the chosen sets, such as pictures or sounds related to transportation, animals, etc. All sounds and background music can be turned off, enabling children who are easily distracted by sounds to focus on the game. There is also an optional score at the end of each game that helps engage older kids.

With additional new content, KIDiPLAY Match now has over 80 pictures to match in the PICTURES game in six categories: food, transportation, animals, tools, musical instruments and clothing; over 50 sounds to match in the SOUNDS game in five categories: human, transportation, animals, birds and household; and over 60 pairs of objects that typically go together to match in the WHAT GOES TOGETHER game.
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Amazing Kitty, a newly launched iOS game from Shiconal, is a feline-themed, pleasing puzzler perfectly suited for the casual game enthusiast. Amazing Kitty operates on the popular and familiar premise of matching like objects – the objects, in this instance, being an irresistible array of cartoon kitty cats. Fresh design, calculated cuteness, great animation and adorable sound effects give Amazing Kitty all of the professional polish it needs to compete with the hottest puzzlers iTunes has to offer. However, the developers behind these felines offer the fans something more than predictability in a quality package.

What sets Amazing Kitty apart from its vast pool of competitors in the puzzle genre is the manner in which the game’s mechanics are handled. The goal is to tap on matches of 2 or more like kitties that touch; upon being touched, the kitties disappear and points are granted. What makes Amazing Kitty stand out is way players maneuver the kitties to meet; rather than rotating sets of cats, or manipulating cats as they fall from the top of the screen, players rotate, shake, and angle their device to move the kitties. As they do so, the kitty collection bounces freely around inside of the confines of the screen, tumbling to one side when slowly tilted, or being unpredictably scrambled when shaken.

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Hevent is an app designed for Apple products running iOS all over USA, and it keeps record of new events happening in the area. You can use this app to locate shows, concerts, parties and events of your interest. You will be able to find events and shows in an area, and you won’t have to go to your friend’s boring hangouts and garage parties. You’ll be surprised to know that Hevent can search as much as 50,000 events and more, happening around you on some days, depending upon seasons and festival months.

Besides showing events and shows near you, it also shows you its exact location on Google Maps with complete contact details. The app can search for events in different categories such as music, business, food, movie, education, family, health, sport, exhibition, sci-tech and many more. Whether you are looking for a fine place to dine with friends, music shows or concerts to hangout on Saturday nights, art exhibitions, science and technology fair, or just looking for a good place to spend some quality time and have a long discussion with friends; Hevent can search your city and find events of your interest.

Since Hevent uses Google Map that is easy to use and find ways to the venue, you can easily sort events of you interest and choose one that you are most interested in. But if you are using the app for the first time, you’ll be happy to know that the app gives a tour when it is run for the first time, and you can learn about different aspects of the app. When you choose an event, the app shows complete details about the event such as brief intro, ticket and entry details, complete address and location on Google Map, and information which matters most to you.

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Alexander Efremov, an indie developer with over 15 years of experience in the IT field, is pleased to announce the release of his debut iOS game "Crazy Teapots", a new fast-paced action game based on a unique concept featuring fascinating network gameplay.

Crazy Teapots is an entertaining 3D Deathmatch Game where players are teapots and missiles are fruit. One has never seen such a thrilling shooting game before. Play against computer-controlled players (bots) or your friends on one of the provided game maps and enjoy the fun! This fast-paced action game loads really fast and has perfectly smooth frame rate.

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DahaBaska Digital Agency today is pleased to introduce Text Here 1.0 for iOS, their new photo-editing app that allows users to place text notes on photos. Choosing from four shapes, Arrow, Circle, Thinking Balloon, and Speech Balloon, users may add text to their own photos or to photos from photo sharing networks. For business or personal use, users may take a photo, select a picture from their camera roll, Facebook, or Instagram, or access photos that have already been saved in the Text Here photo album.

Text Here provides a text box to label the photo and options for additional text boxes. Users may choose from four customizable options, that allow the user to easily move, type, and resize text boxes with simple screen swipes. The Arrow option provides a rectangular text box in which to enter a text note or label. In addition, a red arrow is provided to allow users to point to an element or elements in the photo. The Circle option also allows users to place the adjustable circle around a part of the picture to highlight it. Like the Arrow option, users are also provided with a rectangular editable text box.

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StackTracks, LLC today is proud to announce the release and immediate availability of Letter Gap version 1.1, their latest gaming title for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Two exciting new word lists containing over 700 new words are now available. Letter Gap is a brain-teasing word game that pits your spelling ability against your critical thinking skills as you try to unscramble and spell words across an array of categories. Endless fun awaits as you try to beat your score and the scores of others around the globe.

Since its release in late May, Letter Gap has become a very popular and highly-rated word game in the App Store. Leanna Lofte from iMore writes, "It’s extremely simple to understand and play, but not always so easy to solve – at least not as quickly as you’d probably like".

With beautiful graphics and fun, easy gameplay, the latest version of Letter Gap is a must-have.

$0.99/£0.69/download

Planning to watch Olympic Games this summer? Conceptis announces London Olympics, a collection of iPad logic puzzles that form whimsical pixel-composed pictures when solved, will help challenge your brains between the games. From pictures of running, swimming and gymnastics, to Olympic stadium, London skyline and the Olympic torch, this spectacular collection of colorful hand-crafted masterpieces features 20 Pic-a-Pix puzzles with Olympic-related scenes hidden in their solutions.

The puzzles are language-independent and solvable using pure logic and deduction. Taking advantage of the iPad retina screen the London Olympics collection offers a wide scope of Pic-a-Pix puzzles with grid sizes from 20×30 to 45×35 and difficulty levels from easy to medium.

The collection is priced at $5.99 and is available for in-app purchase through Conceptis Pic-a-Pix – a free app for playing Pic-a-Pix puzzles on iPad and iPhone. The app features a unique fingertip cursor which enables playing large puzzle grids with ease and precision. To purchase the puzzle collection, download Conceptis Pic-a-Pix from App Store.

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