Daily App Digest – August 25, 2011
Latest apps and updates to hit the iTunes store today…
laCarte
Combining a beautiful design with an easy to use interface, laCarte is a solution intended for hotels, bars and restaurants uses an innovative tool to present meals, beverages and wines.
It just takes a few touches to add or remove products, change prices, descriptions or photos. Unlike the traditional paper solution, you can change any details of your digital menu, such as the availability of meals, at anytime without reprinting costs. Furthermore, there is no limit for the number of categories, products or photos you can add to your digital menu.
Regardless if your establishment is a traditional bistro or a big restaurant chain, laCarte is the solution to quickly introduce the iPad to your customers and create a unique experience by offering a sophisticated and innovative way to present your products.
Ramses II
Ramses II takes you back to ancient Egypt with beautiful HD animation, where the rich – but very confused – pharaoh has concealed his treasures from around the world in the pyramids to hide them from thieves. He now needs you to help him remember where they are! Compete versus your friends or the built-in computer AI as you race to uncover the most treasure.
Uncover superpowers throughout your journey to aid in the search and engage in merciless duels with rival treasure hunters to compete for the prize! Be wary of scorpions and sandstorms though as they may cause you to ‘tomb’-le and fall along the way, leaving you lost in the depths of history!
In-game help features and multiple AI difficulty levels make Ramses II fun and accessible for young and old alike, but watch out or this mind-wrenching memory game might just send you crying for your mummy!
Cupcake Lake
The popular children’s book about friendship comes to life with 5 different games and the original narrated story.
Love catching fireflies? Help Claude catch them and put them in the mason jar. That mean guy is at it again, throwing rocks at the fish. Can you catch the colored rocks and help the fish? What’s this? Those pesky flies are at it again and there’s a party at Claude’s house. Help Claude catch those pesky party flies, but watch out for the bumblebees! Think you know your numbers and alphabet? Help Claude catch the flies with the correct number or letter.
If five different games aren’t enough, there’s the original story: The Lizard of Cupcake Lake – narrated and animated.
VivaFoto
Upon launch, the VivaFoto interface looks identical to a traditional camera until one taps the icon to access the app’s built in collection of vibrant real time effects: artistic cross-hatch, color tints, gelatin silver, sepia and more! 24 effects in all. With VivaFoto, users immediately view all effects in the camera’s large display screen to see how they’ll look right away. This helps in experimenting with a range of different looks before snapping the pictures. No post processing needed. VivaFoto works with the iPhone’s front and rear facing cameras, and also includes an artistic border option.
AnimalChat
Kids will find this app very useful because lot of animal facts are discussed. The animal sounds of different animals are included. This app ia a imaginary situation where different animals meet in different places like library, apartments, campground, beach, bakery, bookstore, bus station, train station, city, boutique, castle, construction site, downtown, flower shop, forest, fashion show, grocery and gym.
Animal sounds are included for ant, cat, chicken, cow, dog, gorilla, hippo, lamb, lion, panda, shark and tiger. The animals present in conversation are ant, ant eater, beaver, bat, cat, camel, chicken, hedgehog, cow, dolphin, dog, deer, fish, donkey, gorilla, hamster, lamb, kangaroo, lion, meercat, monkey, mule, ox, hippo, panda, ostrich, panther, quail, rat, shark, skunk, squirrel, tiger, turkey, walrus, warthog, whale and woodpecker.
InstaBouquet
We are glad to announce the INSTABOUQUET app which can be used to send flower bouquet by email instantly based on different occasions like birthday, anniversary and so on. You can select flowers and drag them to form a bouquet. You can refer flower and meanings.
Users can select each flower one by one and all of them are added in sequence to vase. There are different flower combinations for each occasion. You can attach flower vase developed by email to anyone.
This app can be used for sending bouquet by email. It can be handy when the occasion is near and there is no time to buy real flower bouquet. Sometimes it takes a while for flower delivery. Everybody likes flowers and when received from their family/friend, it really makes them happy.
Ninja Tap
School got you down? Boss has you pushing too many pencils? Feel like your awesome ninja skills are wasting away behind a desk? Pitiful! Break free from the boredom of your miserable non-ninja reality with Ninja Tap, now available on the iTunes App Store for only 99 cents.
The premise is simple, ninjas are invading your village. You need to wipe out as many as possible within the time limit. Collect coins for bonus points, hit the ninja archers to extend your game time, and make sure to avoid hitting the townsfolk! Perfect in short bursts, this game will have you coming back for just one more go.
Ninja Tap is the first game from indie developer Asobu Games, who are also currently hard at work on another exciting title named One Giant Leap, a 2D platform game set in a number of exciting locations across the galaxy. For more info and regular updates, you can follow this up-and-coming developer on Facebook or Twitter.
Flick Golf HD
Full Fat has announced a sizzling summer sale for Flick Golf HD and its follow up Flick Golf Extreme! HD. Now only 99c each on iPad for a limited time. Discover Flick Golf HD or take it to the extreme with Flick Golf Extreme HD for less than a dollar in our sizzling summer sale.
No clubs, no rules in Flick Golf HD and Flick Golf Extreme! HD, just jry out your flicking skills, master the wind and sink the ultimate hole-in-one on the most beautiful and extreme sceneries.
Flick Golf HD and Flick Golf Extreme! HD amazing features include challenging modes, gorgeous 3D environments, in-air spin control and Game Center and OpenFeint support.
Best Baby Monitor
Independent app developer, Martin Man, today announced an update for Best Baby Monitor, the easy to use Video Baby Monitor for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This update makes the app multilingual and brings in support for ten new languages – German, French, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic, Japanese, and Chinese.
Best Baby Monitor turns any two iOS devices into an easy to use Video Baby Monitor ideal for travel and home use.
Key Features:
* Smooth video and crystal clear audio
* Ships with three famous lullabies: Twinkle Twinkle, Brahms Lullaby, and Sweet Dreams
* Talk Back feature to soothe the baby easily
* Activity Log records all baby’s activities and makes it easy to share them via email
* Alert Call feature for parents owning just one iPhone
WonderForeplay
Don’t Just So has announced the release of WonderForeplay 2.1, the company’s unique entertainment app for iPhone iPad and iPod touch. Have you ever been educated how to foreplay by experts? This application will help you get well-educated. "WonderForeplay" is a sexual app for adult that provides 130 foreplay skills and 20 courses. All information in it was created and edited by 8 experts who are composed of sex magazine editors.
The app is considered one of the most successful applications in Asia, ranked #1 top overall paid for several weeks in Japan and Korea app store. And now it has been translated to 2 additional languages, English and French. Its English name is "WonderForeplay" and French name is "Regles d’or du calin".
iVigilo
Naboo today is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the free iVigilo(R) Smartcam app for Apple’s camera equipped iOS devices: iPhone(R), iPodtouch(R) and iPad(R). The iVigilo Smartcam app turns any camera equipped iOS device into a high-quality wireless IP camera, whose video stream can be accessed by all modern browsers on any computing or mobile platform.
iVigilo Smartcam supports different video quality resolutions, can use the front and back camera and allows the flash light on iOS devices to be turned on or off. In addition iVigilo Smartcam features an autosense function, which will rotate the signal of the video camera automatically, so that the video stream is always displayed in the correct orientation.
All functions can be easily accessed from the iVigilo Smartcam app or remotely from the administrator section of the devices website. iVigilo Smartcam features a built-in webserver which is used to broadcast the iOS device’s camera signal to the Internet. By typing in the address of the iVigilo Smartcam device, any browser will be able to display the live video stream anywhere in the world.
OfficeTime
OfficeTime is today unveiling the iPhone and iPad versions of its highly successful time and expense tracking app which has developed a loyal following among PC and Mac users. To celebrate the launch, the company is giving away a free iPad 2.
OfficeTime has been designed to balance features and ease-of-use, allowing users to easily track exactly what they do each day and how much they spend. Ideal for anyone who bills by the hour, OfficeTime makes recording and tracking time and expenses simple with a clean, elegant interface.
The new versions for iPhone and iPad focus on ease-of-use, recognizing that if time tracking is simple to do, users will be more likely to take the time to do it. OfficeTime takes great care to minimize how many finger taps it takes to do something. For example, it can preselect the most common task for a project, allow one tap entry of common notes, and let users edit anything they can see, even in a report, with a tap.
"The greatest advantage of OfficeTime is that by being simple to use, people catch more billable hours and it pays for itself in the first day of use," said Stephen Dodd, president of OfficeTime. "We’re so confident in OfficeTime’s value to our customers that we’re willing to extend to them a full money back guarantee, even for the iPhone/iPad version, if they don’t experience increased productivity through accurate time tracking."
Toaster Oracle
Toaster Oracle is a fun little app that allows you to make a slice of toast and based on how it came out, will give you an oracular reading on how your day will go. Realistic animations using photos of an actual toaster and bread allow you to set the temperature of the toaster using a slider then pressing the handle down to make your toast. The toaster will "tic, tic, tic, ding!" then your toast pops up and is served on a plate along with your oracular reading. If the toast is burnt you will find out it might not be your day to cook the gourmet meal, if your toast is perfect you might find your day will be exception. You can then share it by tweeting it, posting it to your FaceBook timeline, or sending an eMail.
Simplex Spelling HD
Success is guaranteed for every spelling word as each word can be pieced together from its smallest or simplex sounds. Spelling hints and rules are provided to students in context and only as they are needed. Simplex Spelling’s letter by letter feedback system gives students immediate feedback as each letter in the spelling word is color coded to show if it is correct, correct but in the wrong place, or incorrect.
Simplex Spelling HD uses a multi-sensory approach to spelling. It is fun and easy to use and appeals to audio, visual, and tactile learners. Even students who have previously disliked spelling begin to enjoy it as they piece each word together like it is a puzzle.
Clay Ten
PixelMat Software today is pleased to announce the release of Clay Ten for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. Clay Ten is an engaging and fun approach to introduce children to the numbers 1 through 10. Clay Ten is an app whose colorful interactivity can put a smile on the faces of kids of all ages. It is ideally a joint activity for a parent and a child, although children can use the app on their own. This app extends beyond the device when you and your child make these animals out of clay! The salient features of Clay Ten are:
* Each of the 10 numbers features a cute animal crafted out of clay
* A narrated rhyme for each number provides a hint to unlock the interactivity in the page
* Child friendly narration set to a warm and soothing background music
* Makes children curious about clay art
* Pictorial clay art instructions included for octopus
* Devised by parents and tested happily by children
Flapcraft
The Pixelmator Team, developers of Pixelmator – a popular, award-winning Mac image editor – today released Flapcraft, a game for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. An arcade-style game, Flapcraft lets users play as a handsome Viking doing tricks in the air by flying on a wooden log. To perform these tricks more easily and effectively, and to fly faster and further, the wooden log can be upgraded with wings, rockets, engines and more.
"Flapcraft is an adventurous, one-time project of the Pixelmator Team that was developed during beta testing of Pixelmator 2.0," said Saulius Dailide of the Pixelmator Team. "We couldn’t keep ourselves from releasing it when we realized that its incredible graphics, addictive gameplay and exclusive iOS technology support meant that Flapcraft has every chance of becoming one of the most fun games out there for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch."
Orb Code Deluxe
Kigra Software today is pleased to announce the release of its latest mobile game for iOS and Android based devices. Orb Code is a casual puzzle game based on the traditional pen and paper game, bulls and cows. In Orb Code, your challenge is to solve the hidden code. The code will have between three and eight slots and each slot can be one of three to eight different colors. You can take as many guesses as you need, but time is limited …
Orb Code Deluxe is available in the App Store beginning August 25, 2011. The free Orb Code and both Android versions will be available the following week. Orb Code was developed using Corona SDK, a popular mobile development platform by Ansca Mobile, that lets developers easily create games for the most popular mobile OS’s – iOS and Android.
Gift: real rose
Heart2app today is pleased to introduce Gift: real rose 1.01 for iOS, his new entertainment app that allows the user to view a close-up photo of a magnificent red rose from 360 degrees. The recipient can drag to rotate the view, enjoying all the beauty of this fresh, red rose as professionally photographed against a blue velvet background. The app also allows the user to modify any photo by adding roses and other images from the in-app library of romantic images. The rose photo contains ten hidden, romantic messages.
Choosing the right gift for a wife or girlfriend is rarely easy. But it is possible to choose the perfect virtual gift that can be given at any time. Gift: real rose can be given to anyone with an iOS device by pressing the Gift This App button in the iTunes Store. The recipient installs the app on her mobile device and can enjoy the romance, passion, mystery, and natural beauty of a Virtual Reality rose whenever she likes.
Elk Hunter’s Strategy App
Elk Hunter’s Strategy App – Bowhunter’s Edition – is the best friend of any bowhunter who goes after elk. The application is a compilation of literally hundreds of different scenarios that elk hunters might find themselves in. All a hunter has to do is consult the appropriate situation to instantly discover which strategies and calls to use.
Not your average hunting app, this app is the brainchild of Chris Roe, owner of Roe Hunting Resources in Berthoud, Colorado. Roe is a Certified Wildlife Biologist, elk behavior expert, and accomplished elk hunter, so he has a lot of helpful information and tips to share. Says Roe, "I created the app to help hunters, from beginners to the experienced, add to their arsenal of hunting tactics, and ultimately to be more successful on their hunts."
Since Elk Hunter’s Strategy App can be used in the heat of a hunting moment, as well as reviewed in advance, it has to work fast. It only takes on average, 35 to 45 seconds for a hunter to locate the advice he or she needs to locate, set up on, call, and well… hunt an elk. There is also information that helps hunters understand the behavior of elk, which is also helpful on subsequent hunts. Says Roe, "This is an absolute game changer! Never has an elk hunting resource been so comprehensive, so powerful, and so convenient! This app puts a wealth of knowledge right at the elk hunter’s fingertips!"
What’s Next?? – Pattern Game
Announcing that Weily Apps, the developers of What’s Next?? – Pattern Game, has released their latest educational application for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad users. This is a new product launch recommended for kids from 4 – 7 years of age. Youngsters are treated to fun sounds and colorful pictures as they learn to form sequential patterns. As a bonus, children are able to use their creativity to make a picture collage. Built specifically for visual and multi-sensory learners, What’s Next?? is an application that kids love to use and return to for reinforced learning.
WeilyApps, has launched a fun new educational application for children, ages 4 to 7.
What’s Next?? – Pattern Game is specifically geared to visual and multi-sensory learners. It incorporates funny sounds and colorful pictures that grab and hold a child’s attention, helping them to learn. There’s a cowboy hat that emits a giggle-inducing "Yee-haw!" some ukulele strumming, a cheeping chick and so on, as the child completes a startedsequence of images to form a pattern.
MultiClip
Sea’s Garden has announced Multi Clip 1.0.1, an application for downloading and cache files on the Internet very easily. When you find some favorite files (photo, video, pdf) on the webpage (e.g. youtube), you can download and cache selected files at once. When you push "dl button", Multi Clip will search downloadable files from the webpage and will present them in a list. You can choose (tap the contents) which files to download and cache, and push Download to start. You can view the cached files even if your mobile phone is not have any reception. You can save packet fee even if you view favorite file several times.
Download from Android Marketplace/Free
Download from iTunes/Free
Orders for iPhone – Sell With Comfort
SKOROAPPS has introduced Orders for iPhone – Sell With Comfort 1.0, for iOS devices. Orders for iPhone is a great and intuitive manager for your application orders. With this app on your device, you can easily keep up with your sales in one place and organize and manage them. You also can manage your products for future use in a specific order and add customer, price and due date to each order.
You can easy manage your sales orders, you can add, delete, rename and sort them as you want. You can add your products to the app, includes product name, price, logo and overview. Sort and manage them as you want. To each order you can add set of products, for each of them you can enter its count, and app automatically calculate total order price.
BubblePacking
Sea’s Garden today introduces Bubble Packing 1.0, a very simple yet highly addicting game for the iOS and android. The aim of Bubble Packing is to pop all of bubbles on bubble wrap packaging. Pop the bubbles with your whole heart. It’s great for relieving stress. After you have popped all the bubble wrap, you will view image that are hidden behind. Lovely pictures will switch to a different picture every 10 stages. In addition, sound of pop has rarely changes to cutie voices. Thumbing your records will submit to the world rankings. Enjoy popping the bubble wrap and enjoy with popping bubble wrap players in the world.
Hippie Hippo
ComboApp, an innovative mobile application publishing and marketing group, has announced the release of Hippie Hippo for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Hippie Hippo is an addicting arcade adventure that blends together vibrantly rendered cartoon imagery with fast paced action, and strategically minded gameplay into one entertaining package.
Players are thrown into the role of Hippie the Hippo as he charges through the arctic pushing every Cow Ballerina off of the ice into the frigid ocean around them! The app includes forty unique, vastly challenging levels that bat an eye lash or two to popular culture while engaging players with diverse challenges. Hippie Hippo is currently available for download on the Apple App Store for $0.99 in the Games category.
This mobile adventure is a complete experience in terms of narrative as well as being an outright gaming rush. The story goes as follows: Once upon a time a happy Hippie Hippo had been sitting on a grass and playing guitar. The life was good and there was nothing to suggest any drastic change any time soon. Suddenly the mob of cows came along and began eating the grass bluntly – the weather became dismal and so the hippo…The cows have eaten all grass, every single piece! It became snowing, the lake got covered with ice and the cows began to skate…Sure enough – the hippo is in fury!
PDF Printer
feiPhone, a unique new mobile application developer, has announced the launch of PDF Printer for iPads running on iOS 4.2 or later. PDF Printer gives users the power to transform any file into PDF format and share the right from their iPad. With this uniquely flexible utility users are free to print almost any type of document on the go anywhere and anytime. PDF Printer is currently available for download on the Apple App Store for $5.99 in the Productivity category.
A perfect companion for busy iPad users, this application allows anyone to transform everything from word documents to photos and more into a PDF format in order to easily export them, share them with others, or for any other reason they can come up with. Copying documents to PDF Printer via USB connection is as easy as utilizing iTunes’ File Sharing system or can be done digitally once the app is installed. All types of documents can be imported in real-time as well.
Beam Voyo
Beam Speech Solutions has announced the release of Beam Voyo for iPhone application. The all-in-one voice recognition solution for social networking and communications. With Beam Voyo you are able to make posts on Facebook and twitter, send text messages and emails without even typing a word. Just speak and our application will do the rest.
We even recognize common commands such as twitter, facebook, text message, email and map. Start your speech with those words and application will automatically recognize those commands and initiate the appropriate action.
Communicating to your friends has been never that easy as with Beam Voyo. No matter where you are you are always connected to your friends and family. At the moment we only support English and Russian languages with more languages to come with the next updates.
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]