Daily App Digest – 11/06/09

Macsoftex today announces iAlcohol 1.1, an update to their blood alcohol content app for iPhone and iPod touch. Intuitively easy to use, iAlcohol determines the level of alcohol in a person’s blood and calculates the required break in driving. The formula calculates the influence of factors on the duration of the phases of alcohol intoxication, providing 90% accuracy. The application will help you choose a suitable drink and the amount you are allowed to consume within this interval of time.

The calculation formula for the application takes into account the maximum number of factors that affect the result, thus providing 90% accuracy. The formula calculates the influence of factors on the duration of the phases of alcohol intoxication: phase Absorption and phase Elimination of alcohol.

The app is intuitively easy to use. You may plan to drink alcohol and know the exact time when you plan to start driving. The application will help you choose a suitable drink and the amount you are allowed to consume within this interval of time. It is also possible to calculate alcohol concentration in situations when different types of drinks are consumed simultaneously. A timer will inform you about the time when you can start driving. It will still count time if you exit the app. The application allows registering several user profiles, remembering each user’s name, weight, gender and history of measurements for each user separately.

Feature Highlights:
* Display of current BAC in real-time
* Counting down timer
* History of measurements
* Influence of food on alcohol concentration
* Influence of height, weight, gender, kind of activity on alcohol concentration
* Over 230 drinks and cocktails
* Mixing drinks
* Forecasting of the break in the driving
* Add drinks after the timer is on
* Change a kind of activity after the timer is on
* Multiple user profiles
* Parallel calculation for multiple users

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 3.0 or later

Pricing and Availability: $1.99

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Independent game developer Glenn Corpes today announces Ground Effect 1.0, developed exclusively for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Ground Effect is a unique 3D, classic arcade-style racer inspired by ekranoplan technology wherein craft fly on a cushion of air at breakneck speeds. Utilizing the platform’s trademark accelerometer as well as touch controls, Ground Effect boasts amazing graphics and incredibly smooth frame-rates as well as a host of gameplay features.

The object of the game is to navigate through the check points, avoiding the many natural obstacles, in the fastest possible time. Each of the 14 levels in Ground Effect is topographically distinct to present players with fresh challenges and keep them on their toes. Updates are already in the works for those skilful enough to survive! For the less competitive, the game’s free-roaming capability and beautiful landscapes mean that it can equally be enjoyed whilst straying off-course.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 2.2.1 or later

Pricing and Availability: $3.99

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Gas Log – MPG Fuel Tracker 1.5 for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Gas Log – MPG Fuel Tracker keeps track of gas and mileage for multiple vehicles, all in one convenient spot. You always have your mileage and expenses at hand, which you can view by trip or year, break downs per vehicle or as totals. Via an easy to use interface, individuals enter their data into their iPhone or iPod Touch, rather than stuffing receipts into pockets or something similar.

Keim was guilty of ‘receipt stuffing’ himself, "I used to keep track of my fuel usage on a piece of paper in my glove box. It was not very useful because I rarely remembered to enter it into a spread sheet." The frustration of trying to find all his bits of paper and then trying to sort them out, led him to write the program for a new app that would handle everything for him, including calculations for fuel consumption and distance.

Although Gas Log – MPG Fuel Tracker works for everyone, people who travel to conduct business suffer the most from unorganized gas and mileage records. When it comes time to turn in an expense report or when tax time rolls around, missing receipts means fewer dollars returned. Simply using this app will eliminate that headache.

Device Requirements:
* iPod Touch or iPhone 2.2.1 or later

Pricing and Availability: $0.99

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OutOfTheBit today announced Checkers! 1.2.4, their versatile and highly customizable game app for iPhone and iPod Touch. OutOfTheBit, turns an age old favorite into a versatile, modern gaming experience. Checkers! four different playing rules, drag and drop playing, choice of three languages and varying graphic features makes Checkers! a unique application for gamers everywhere.

The modern Checkers! gives players the option of using four different set of rules: International/French, Spanish, English, Italian. It’s highly customizable interface allows drag and drop moving of the pieces, offers different graphic themes and is fully localized in French, English and Italian.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch OS 2.2 or later

Pricing and Availability: $1.99 (USD)

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Dokimi has released Blutalk 1.0, an easy to use all-in-one bluetooth chat client for iPhone and iPod Touch. With Blutalk you can chat over both text chat and voice chat with users nearby, and with Bluetooth connectivity no internet connection is ever required. Wherever you are, you can chat with people nearby without the need of a wifi network or Internet. Blutalk has an easy to use interface, with no set up required.

Blutalk has an easy to use interface, with no set up required. Unfortunately, it only works on iPhone 3G/3GS and iPod Touch 2G/3G. This has nothing to do with Blutalk, Apple makes the products and has not given Bluetooth connectivity to the iPhone 2G and iPod Touch 1G. If you ever need to start a chat over Bluetooth with your friends, Blutalk is the way to go!

Features:
* Text Chat: (send text, smileys, animated smileys and photos in portrait or landscape mode)
* Voice Chat: (voice chat with another Blutalk user)

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 3.0 or later

Pricing and Availability: $0.99

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Chillingo and Tetraedge Games are proud to announce the availability of its new game: Jules Verne’s Secrets of The Mysterious Island for iPhone and iPod touch.

“Secrets of the Mysterious Island” is the sequel of “Return to Mysterious Island” launched this year. This even more exciting second part has an extremely rich story line and content. It is also a part of the MICROIDS catalog, the world leader in adventure games.

For approximately 700 Mb, the player will find out the end of the adventure of Mina, a sailor who finds herself stranded on the shores of a wild and apparently uninhabited island somewhere in the South Pacific.

Jules Verne’s “Secrets of The Mysterious Island ” contains stunning 3D graphics, many ambient sounds, music designed to enhance the mysterious atmosphere and feel. It is perfect for experienced adventure gamers as well as for Jules Verne’s novels reader or even very casual players.

A special 3.0 feature allows you to navigate in the game both with the fingers touching the screen but also using the compass and the accelerometer to explore and turn in the 360° view. A very intuitive in-game tutorial will guide your first steps of the adventure. A full 3D environment with numerous tricky mini-games and intriguing puzzles, will keep you entertained for over 15 hours of exciting gameplay.

Jules Verne’s “Secrets of The Mysterious Island ” is available for $ 6.99 from Apple App Store on iPhone and iPod touch.

Off-by-One Mobile have released AutoTrafego 1.1.1, a free special Halloween Edition of their isometric traffic management game for iPhone and iPod touch. This Halloween Edition takes place in a specially crafted scary graveyard while still offering the same quality of professional artwork and polished effects as the original game. An original spooky soundtrack ensures that the immersion is complete.

AutoTrafego – Halloween Edition is a casual, but challenging, traffic management game in isometric view. The player manages the flow of witches and ghosts wandering in the graveyard by changing traffic lights at pathways intersections. If creatures have to wait too long, they will curse the player. Two modes are available, a classic one, in which a game takes places in a set amount of time, and a survival mode in which the flow of creatures increases gradually until the player has been cursed too many times.

System Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 2.2.1 or later

Pricing and Availability: Halloween Edition is available on the App Store for free.

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It’s Bonfire Night in the UK, and the thoughts of the nation turn toward really big explosions. Thanks to London-based development studio Origin8, iPhone/iPod Touch gamers worldwide can share in the joy of blowing things up today, as their breakout sci fi strategy game "Sentinel: Mars Defense" will be FREE for a week from 6pm GMT.

Released in February 2009, "Sentinel: Mars Defense" received both popular and critical acclaim. It was selected as one of Apple’s App Store first Anniversary Top 30 games in the UK/AU/EU territories, and spawned the much-lauded sequel "Sentinel 2: Earth Defense". Now the next generation of iPhone owners can grab a free taste of classic alien-busting Tower Defense.

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TechPad Productions, a premier mobile applications and online publication publisher, today announced that an expansion pack based on the video game Overlord II is now available for iMEvil for iPhone™ and iPod® Touch on the Apple iTunes App Store. TechPad Productions worked closely with the team at Codemasters, publisher of Overlord II, to create the expansion pack, which is exclusive to iPhone. The pack is an optional free update for those who already have the iMEvil application on their devices.

With the update, users will be able to summon the Minions’ cackles and deliciously evil lines at the click of a button. Presented with a shiny new dock icon branded with Overlord II graphics when iMEvil is launched, users will have access to 36 new evil sound files from the game’s original recordings. Some of these include: blood-curdling screams, “For You,” “Be Evil Today,” “For the Overlord,” “Flying Mutton,” “Poor Me” and many more. Two full songs – “Ring around the Rosie” and “Soldiers” – also can be summoned to play using the app’s beautiful buttons created from original art assets. Gnarl will even make a few appearances to worship users!

"iMEvil’s Overlord II pack is truly Evil Perfected,” said Ben Fisher, co-founder, TechPad Productions. “Working with Codemasters was a rewarding experience as we were able to create a free expansion pack that will be gobbled up by both Overlord and iMEvil fans alike. As the Minion’s would say, ‘we’re here!’"

Also as part of this update, iMEvil now takes full advantage of the iPhone’s 3.0 OS with the addition of in-application email. Users can now send feedback about the app without leaving the app itself.

Pricing: $1.99
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Sydney-based Corduroy Enterprises has announced Portfolio – Local and International Stocks 1.0, their new iPhone app that greatly simplifies the task of tracking a portfolio of stocks. Portfolio takes the clutter and complexity out of stock tracking, and focuses on the information you really need – the total and change in your portfolio’s value. For everyone from professionals to mum & dad investors, Portfolio is an easy to use, uncluttered tool to track their share portfolio and watchlist.

For investors with foreign stocks, Portfolio is unique. It is the only iPhone tool that always tracks the value of a stock portfolio in the user’s local currency, no matter where in the world the stocks trade. This is important for holders of foreign stocks because currency fluctuations can frequently outweigh share price movements. For everyone from professionals to mum & dad investors, Portfolio is an easy to use, uncluttered tool to track their share portfolio and watchlist.

Summary of Features:
* Create a portfolio of stocks with value and change given in your own currency, no matter where the stocks trade
* See your portfolio total at a glance, always in your own currency
* All relevant currency conversion rates available at a glance
* Chart the distribution of your portfolio by currency, and by stock
* Create a watchlist of stocks, with prices displayed in your own currency

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod touch 3.0 or later

Pricing and Availability: $2.99 (USD)

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JBMJBM today released Friday Night Lights 1.01 for iPhone and iPod touch. The app keeps High School Football Fans up-to-date on all the scores, news, schedules, rankings, rivalries, playoffs, and record books plus a blog to talk about it all. Whether at the game or in the airport, keep up to date while you are away from the big game this Friday or Saturday night. As the playoffs start to evolve over the next couple of weeks, this is the essential app for High School Football sports fans.

Are you a BIG Friday Night Lights Football fan and love to keep up with High School Football? Well then this is the app for you. If you’re at the game or even just in the airport, you can keep up to date while you are away from the big game this Friday or Saturday night. As the playoffs start to evolve over the next couple of weeks, this is THE essential iPhone app for High School Football sports fans to have in their pocket.

This app features football scores, news, schedules, rankings, rivalries, playoffs, and records for high schools across the nation.

Friday Night Lights is the first of its kind to focus on High School Football and with all this information at hand, this iPhone app is posed to become the premier iPhone app for High School Football.

System Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 3.0 or later

Pricing and Availability: $0.99

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Denver-based Riptide Games today announced Gravity Sling 1.0 for iPhone and iPod Touch. Gravity Sling is an inertia based puzzle game where the player must use the gravity of nearby planets to sling the astronaut through space and safely back to the space shuttle. Gravity Sling incorporates the popular OpenFeint platform enabling integrated leaderboards and achievements throughout the game.

"We are extremely excited to be one of the first to take advantage of In App Purchase from free applications," said Brian Robbins, Founder of Riptide Games. "We believe this gives players a much better and more seamless game experience, while allowing us to provide the best game we can to the player."

Gravity Sling also incorporates the popular OpenFeint platform enabling integrated leaderboards and achievements throughout the game. Gravity Sling was originally developed as part of the iPhone Game Game held at 360iDev in September. It is the result of a collaboration between Riptide Games, PyroMonkey Productions, Spatial Reasoning, Crucial Games and NoiseBuffet. All Denver-based iPhone developers

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 3.0 or later

Pricing and Availability:
Gravity Sling 1.0 is free and available exclusively through the App Store in the Games category. Instead of launching as a full version with separate free-lite version, Gravity Sling is only available as a free download. Players that enjoy the game may purchase an additional level pack of 30 more levels for $0.99 .

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Apimac today announced English-Italian, English-German and English-Spanish dictionaries, their new translation dictionary tools for iPhone and iPod Touch. Find words and phrases with a touch. Designed specifically to take advantage of the iPhone’s unique capabilities and interface, the translation dictionaries serves as an excellent translation solution for anyone on the go. The programs do not require an Internet connection. All the dictionaries are loaded into the device at time of purchase.

Find words and phrases with a touch. Designed specifically to take advantage of the iPhone’s unique capabilities and interface, the translation dictionaries serves as an excellent translation solution for anyone on the go. The dictionaries features all the necessary stuff for students learning a foreign language: a comprehensive and up-to-date dictionary with grammatical notes; a huge phrase book containing thousands of English phrases with their translation; an exhaustive business dictionary for helping users to compose commercial letters, send emails and make phone calls in good foreign language. All the main features of the programs does not require any Internet connection, all the dictionaries are loaded into the device at time of purchase.

Device Requirements:
iPhone or iPod Touch 2.2.1 or later

Pricing and Availability: $1.99

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Invest in your future and your intelligence! The ingeniously accessible game infeCCt™ will enthral you with its more than 300 puzzle challenges! Improve your mental capabilities in a fun way and use the online highscore list to see how you measure up against players from all over the world. Enter the mysterious temple ruins and solve the ancient puzzles by connecting all tiles – a challenge made harder by impassable blocks, intersections and tunnels. If you are to solve all the tricky challenges, you will not only have to think ahead but you will also have to train your brain to apply the things you’ve learned to new situations. Want to train your brain? Get infeCCted!

Addictive puzzle gameplay
- Train your intelligence and creativity
- Optimize your mental processes
- 300 challenging brainteasers
- Online highscore lis
infeCCt™, the revolution of brain training, is available now for iPhone and iPod touch®.

Price: $9.99
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10tons Ltd. announced today that Rope Raider is now available for iPhone™ and iPod touch®. Rope Raider is a rope swinging challenge set in an atmospheric cityscape.

"We loved to play these rope swinging games and that’s why we wanted to create Rope Raider," commented Tero Alatalo, the CEO of 10tons Ltd. "I think it’s one of the best rope swinging games for iPhone and iPod touch. Our goal was to create a tiny immersive world with great gameplay and some fun physics simulation. This is a game that practically anyone can pick up and enjoy."

In Rope Raider the basic game play consists of shooting a rope and then swinging forwards from building to building. The environment is an atmospheric dusky cityscape with ambient sounds and interesting visual effects. In total there are three game modes: Free Swingin’, Coin Rush, and Speed Frenzy. In Free Swingin’ the goal is to travel as far as possible while picking up any coin bonuses on the way. In Coin Rush the player has to collect as many coins as possible within a limited time. In the Speed Frenzy mode the player has to travel as far as possible within a limited time. All the modes come in three different difficulty levels. The difficulty level affects the placement and height of the buildings and also the time limits. The game has online leaderboards and the scores also float in the cityscape where the player can fly past them.

The game will be available for $0.99 until 15th of November 2009 and $1.99 thereafter.