Daily App Digest

Game developer syncRage today released Taxi Drive 1.1 an update to their popular taxi crasher for iPhone and iPod touch. Taxi Drive is one of those games that is brilliantly simple and fun. Make money as a taxi driver on the asphalt of New York or London. You must confront yourself with increasing traffic density and can earn additional lives and unlock licenses for new neighborhoods. Celebrity passengers pay high tips, but like don’t waiting long.

You can play Taxi Drive against other fast fingered buddies and those aspiring to that. Using your social network (e.g. Facebook) or email contacts you are able to contact friends and invite them to challenge you in playing TaxiDrive. This is handled by the integrated scoreloop module. Scoreloop also saves your best scores into a global highscore list where you can compare your skills with other players all over the world! The enhanced "Taxi-Crasher" is now available soon in the AppStore and includes new challenges and features, which are mostly the result of feedback from the community.

System Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 2.2.1 or later

Pricing and Availability: $0.99

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California based Finger Arts today is proud to announced Guess the News 1.5.1, an update to their word based game for iPhone and iPod touch. Guess the News is a unique news-based word game where players guess the latest news from major news sources. Choose a news section, read the brief article description, and then guess the article’s title by matching the letters to their right slots.

A wonderful alternative to other word games, such as Crosswords, Scrabble, and Wheel of Fortune, Guess the News is fun, highly addictive and perfect for leisure or work breaks. Players simply choose a news section (e.g. Top Stories), read the brief article description, and then guess the article’s title by matching the letters to their right slots. The highlighted letters match the highlighted title word. When the player correctly match enough letters, they pass on to the next article, gain more points, and eventually win trophies.

System Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod touch 2.2.1 or later
* Internet Connection

Pricing and Availability: $0.99 USD ($2.99 Reg). A free, Lite version of the game is also available. Review copies are available upon request.

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Los Angeles based 24×7digital today announces Aw Craps! 1.5, an update to their popular casino game for iPhone and iPod Touch. With its realistic table layout, game play, stick calls and dice rolling, Aw Craps! takes you onto the casino floor and into the action, allowing seasoned shooters to hone their skills, as well as allowing beginners to learn enough to hit the casino tables. Version 1.5 offers many enhancements, including roll and bet history for the last 500 rolls.

Aw Craps! tracks roll statistics and displays the frequency of different rolls in a graph. This allows the user to track their rolls over the course of a session to see how the dice are behaving versus standard probability. There is also a roll tester to simulate hundreds and thousands of rolls to see that over the long term, Aw Craps! dice rolling approaches the average probability of real dice rolls.

System Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 3.0 or later

Pricing and Availability: $1.99 (USD)
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Readdle has announced Scanner Pro 1.0, an iPhone application that transforms the device into portable scanner. It lets iPhone owners scan multi page documents into PDF files, send them by email, access over Wi-Fi and even upload to MobileMe iDisk or any other WebDAV enabled server. Scanner Pro is designed to scan multi page documents and transform them into industry standard PDF files. It allows people to set password on PDF document to protect data with 40-bit RC4 level encryption.

To overcome weaknesses of the iPhone camera, Scanner Pro uses special algorithms to enhance image quality. Aditionally, users can manually adjust brightness and contrast to make text look even better. Also, since major documents are text based, Scanner Pro can automatically convert all documents into grayscale thus greatly reducing size of the resulting document.

Pricing and Availability: $6.99 (USD) in the Business category.

The application is compatible with iPhones running iPhone OS 2.2.1 and later.

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Toy Kite Software has announced iSamurai 2.0: Critical Strike, the new tactical version of their "sword fight anywhere" game for the iPhone and iPod Touch. In celebration of this release, Toy Kite is announcing the iSamurai video competition with 10 prizes including a new iPod Touch. iSamurai is a two-player sword fighting game where players swing their iPhones or iPod Touches like swords.

iSamurai is a two-player sword fighting game where players swing their iPhones or iPod Touches like swords. Now with iSamurai 2.0: Critical Strike, Toy Kite Software has created a truly tactical sword fighting game. Players must watch their opponent carefully, because if multiple attacks are blocked, CRITICAL STRIKE is activated and the opponent’s next attack is devastating.

System Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 2.2.1, iPhone or iPod Touch 3.0 for Bluetooth

Pricing and Availability: $2.99 (USD) For a limited time, iSamurai will be on sale for $.99 (USD).
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a3team has released Sam the Fish 1.2 for iPhone and iPod touch. Sam is a small fish but an ambitious one, help him to become bigger and survive according to the law of nature: eat or be eaten. This game is very challenging but it isn’t hard. Almost everyone can find part of this game which is best. Controls are intuitive and use built-in accelerometer or conventional on-screen Pad.

Controls
* Tilt your device to move Sam around
* Game is auto-calibrated when you start it
* Recalibrate in game by hitting the pause button
* You can use pad to control Sam
* To choose pad check out settings
* Eat smaller fishes
* Avoid those that are larger then Sam

System Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 3.1 or later

Pricing and Availability: $0.99 (USD)
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Sinecure Industries today announces How Am I Feeling? 1.0, their new Mood Analyzer for iPhone and iPod touch. How Am I Feeling? uses an algorithm to determine the users’ current conscious/subconscious emotional state. With the ability to choose from a database of over 400 unique emotions, it has been described as eerily accurate. With How Am I Feeling?, Sinecure Industries takes a revolutionary leap forward for emotion tests and analyzers.

No matter what mood you’re currently in, How Am I Feeling will bring to the surface your true mood and emotional state. With over 400 individual emotions, it is able to pinpoint even the subtlest of emotions and feelings that you may be experiencing. Your true feelings will be revealed!

System Requirements
iPhone or iPod touch running iPhone OS 3.0 or later

Pricing and Availability $0.99 (USD)

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Toughturtle LLC today released FirePlace 3.0, an update to their hit entertainment app iPhone and iPod Touch. FirePlace is the go-to App for an instant romantic setting on that special date, to relax on a cold fall/winter night, or whenever. FirePlace is a virtual fire for your iPhone or iPod touch, but with a whole host of new features to give users a more customized and relaxing experience.

"This version of FirePlace is a complete re-write of the previous versions of the App.", said Todd Barnes, Lead Developer, Toughturtle LLC. "I wanted to give the 24,000 users a more customizable and friendly experience to what the previous versions offered. I understand that FirePlace is known as a ‘Gimmick App’. But from what users have told me over the past year, the FirePlace App experience, or App life span, lasts much longer than the traditional ‘Gimmick App’. Some users are using FirePlace to fall asleep at night and in their cubicles during work hours for the relaxing ambiance."

System Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 3.0 or later

Pricing and Availability: $0.99 (USD)

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