Daily App Digest – 11/05/09

Codium Labs, LLC has released Babelshot 1.0 for iPhone and iPod touch. Babelshot allows automatic real-time translation of printed text using the iPhone’s camera. Busy professionals and foreign travelers can use Babelshot to instantly translate items like restaurant menus, hotel booklets, product manuals, or snippets from books and newspapers. Babelshot incorporates innovative image processing algorithms coupled with state-of-the-art Tesseract Optical Character Recognition engine.

All you have to do is select source and target languages, take a photo of the item, and select text portion of it that you want to translate. The translated text is then displayed next to the original photo of the item and can be saved for future reference. No typing on iPhone keyboard is needed.

Supported Interface Languages:
* English

Device Requirements:
* iPhone 3GS or previous generation iPhone with Clarifi case is required for fully automatic translation.
* First generation iPhone and iPhone 3G users without Clarifi case are limited to translation of large text items only, like headlines, signs, or advertisements.

Pricing and Availability: $1.99

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IGG Software has announced iBank Mobile 1.1 for iPhone and iPod touch. iBank Mobile harnesses the power of the desktop version of iBank for Mac to check account balances, enter transactions and categorize expenses, even in foreign currencies. Designed to sync seamlessly with the full edition of iBank, iBank Mobile also works as a separate, stand-alone app for handheld finance management. Version 1.1 adds running balances to transactions, as well as several other enhancements and fixes.

“We deliberately kept iBank Mobile simple,” says IGG Chief Architect James Gillespie, “so it would do a few things and do them extremely well. That’s the platform we’ll be building on, and these are just the first of some changes that people have been asking to see.”

Originally available in July 2009, iBank Mobile was a number one-selling finance app on iTunes within a day of its release. A fully native application, iBank Mobile can be installed for stand-alone use to provide benefits such as checking account balances and updating finances on the fly. It also offers the ability to see recent totals across multiple accounts and to enter and categorize transactions in seconds, with intelligent autofill speeding entry even further.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 2.2.1 or later

Pricing and Availability: $4.99 (USD)

iBank Mobile

Stone Design has released Twittelator Pro 3.3.1, a free upgrade to its top-selling Twitter client for iPhone and iPod touch. Twittelator Pro packs the most features into a Twitter client, mobile or desktop. Version 3.3.1 includes many new features as well as embraces new Twitter features in October. Twittelator Pro was recently featured at the top of the Summer’s Hottest iPhone Apps in an Apple/AT&T full page ad in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and USA Today.

“As the Twitter API evolves, so does Twittelator” said Stone Design CEO Andrew Stone, @twittelator. “Users can geocode their tweets at will, report spammers, tap and hold any map to find tweets from nearby that location, anywhere in the world. What’s exciting is that Twitter’s new Auto Retweet system is built into this version ready to go when Twitter throws the switch.”

The key new features recently added to Twittelator Pro v3.3.1 include:

* Nearby Tweets of any location
* Option to geocode your tweets with your location
* Change your avatar picture
* Report as Spammer – blocks and reports the tweeter
* Entire TwitLonger is shown in place by tapping link icon
* Localized to Japanese

(Note: these will start working when Twitter turns them on end of October)
* Automatic ReTweeting uses new Twitter RT architecture
* See all your RT’s, RT’s of your tweets, and RT’s by your friends

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 3.0 or later

Pricing and Availability: $4.99 (USD)

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Matrix Knowledge Management Pty Ltd today announced the launch of V Phone, a new application that lets iPhone users make VoIP calls and send SMS messages over IP. Rather than locking iPhone users into working with a single VoIP provider, it lets users choose between multiple providers of their choice for voice calling. With an intuitive, attractive user interface and simple installation, the V Phone makes it easy for anyone to save money and start getting more out of their mobile or cell phones.

Rather than locking iPhone users into working with a single VoIP provider, it lets users choose between multiple providers of their choice for voice calling. The V Phone nullifies the single provider protocol and lets users choose the most cost-effective provider for each task, a capability that is unique among such programs. In addition, the V Phone app is the first ‘open and configurable’ app to also offer SMS messaging over IP.

The V Phone’s SMS features offers two standard VoIP provider networks, as well as an option for entering the user’s own provider of choice. The app’s VoIP calling and text messaging options works with WiFi, allowing for convenient coverage without the need for a SIM card. Additionally, iPhone users can now make 3G/GPRS/HSDPA VoIP calls. With an intuitive, attractive graphical user interface and simple installation steps, the V Phone makes it easy for anyone to save money and start getting more out of their mobile or cell phones.

Matrix has submitted the app to Apple for approval and believes it should be available in the App Store within 2 to 3 weeks.

V Phone

syncRage today released Sorty 1.1, morphing two concepts to create new gaming excitement for iPhone and iPod Touch users. Although it has a basic concept that involves rapid relocation or chaining of colored balls, the speed and split second strategizing involved seems to be very pleasing to syncRage customers. Bejeweled and Tetris may have been the inspiration for Sorty but there’s nothing old school about the app.

syncRage owner, Enrico Falk, attributes the success of Sorty to a couple of different aspects of the application, “People like the idea of playing games that they know. In this case, they’ve been amped up and changed a little but that adds to a player’s excitement level. Sorty also has built-in global scoring, buddy challenging and Facebook Connect, which our customers seem to really appreciate”. With social media so much in demand, Falk’s decision to incorporate it into Sorty was likely a wise one.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 2.2.1 or later

Pricing and Availability: $0.99

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TapFactory has released Stick It 2.1 for iPhone and iPod touch. Stick It is an iTunes Top 100 Utility App that allows you to quickly and easily take notes, customize their look, and create beautiful wallpapers for your lockscreen to function as quick reminders. Create fully customized notes with over 20 note styles, over 30 backgrounds, and plenty of fonts to choose from. Stick It will automatically save your notes so you can pick up where you left off. Email your notes directly from the app.

“Stick It” is a utility that allows you to quickly and easily take notes, customize their look, and create beautiful wallpapers for your lockscreen to function as quick reminders (a feature many have lamented should have been built into the device OS itself).

“In addition to lockscreen reminders being an iPhone/iPod Touch feature sorely missed by many users,” says TapFactory, developers of “Stick It”, “we’ve developed Stick It to provide users with a way to view notes and reminders without having to unlock their device. This results in safer driving, higher productivity, and another fun way to increase the iPhone/iPod Touch’s usefulness in their daily lives.”

Feature Highlights:
* Create fully customized notes with over 20 note styles, over 30 backgrounds, and plenty of fonts to choose from
* Preview feature which allows you to preview your lockscreen with your current Stick It layout to give you an idea of how it will look without having to leave the app
* Stick It will automatically save your notes so you can pick up where you left off
* Email your notes directly from the app

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 3.0 or later

Pricing and Availability: $0.99

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UK-based Quapps Interactive today released MagiCam – Augmented Reality – Photographs with props for iPhone devices. MagiCam allows users to take live photographs with added props such as ghosts, UFO’s, Beards and the big fish that got away. Using MagiCam, users are able to scale, rotate, move and blend several props over their camera and take ultra realistic photographs. Version 1.0 has 18 props with 1.1 offering camera roll editing as well as live, many more props and a camera timer mode.

MagiCam features 18 realistic props that are added to your photograph in realtime. Want to tell your friends that you have just seen a UFO over their house and have taken a photograph to prove it? Want to take some ultra realistic halloween photographs such as Pumpkin head, Aparitions, Zombies or Witches? What about the fish that got away? Every fisherman has one of those! Not any more!

Coming in version 1.1. We said we would listen and listen we have. An update will be submitted in the next few days with many additions. Please keep your suggestions coming and thank you for the ones submitted so far. If you have any ideas for the future of MagiCam please feel free to submit them to our developers. We will be updating the props and functionality of this application very often so if you would like to see a particular prop or function please do let us know.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone 3.1 or later

Pricing and Availability: $0.99

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Auckland-based Rosebrae Technology today releases Clocks – Multi Time Zone Alarm Clock 1.0 for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Clocks is a distinctive fusion between a world clock and a bedside clock which combines all the functionality expected of both types of application in one place. Perfect for business people and other frequent travellers, Clocks allows users to keep track of the time in many places at once, whilst doubling as a gorgeous LCD display for bedside clock use.

Clocks was initially developed because I now have family in three different time zones and keeping track was becoming difficult.” said Andy Griffiths, lead developer and Director of Rosebrae Technology. “Although there were already world clocks available on the App Store, I wanted one application which would help me keep track of multiple time zones and simultaneously function as a bedside clock. Clocks is that application”.

Device Requirements:
iPhone or iPod Touch 3.0 or later

Pricing and availability: $0.99

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