Daily App Digest – 19 November 2009

Edovia today announces NumPad 2.0, the wireless numeric keypad for iPhone and iPod touch. Transform your iPhone or iPod touch into a wireless numeric keypad with NumPad. If you use a Mac with OS X 10.4 or later, NumPad does not require any additional software on your computer. It connects through Screen Sharing so setup is super easy. That USB cable gets in the way? No problem! NumPad can be used upside-down to keep things out of the way.

Transform your iPhone or iPod touch into a wireless numeric keypad with NumPad. If you use a Mac with OS X 10.4 or later, NumPad does not require any additional software on your computer. It connects through Screen Sharing so setup is super easy. Windows users will need a VNC Server software (like RealVNC).

Requirements:
* WiFi connection shared with your computer
* Screen Sharing (Leopard, Snow Leopard) or Remote Access (Tiger) enabled or any VNC Server
* For WIndows and Linux, a VNC Server is required (RealVNC and TightVNC recommended)

Pricing and Availability: $2.99

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Galarina has released a free version of GeoLogTag for iPhone and iPod Touch. GeoLogTag offers an all-in-one geotagging solution for photos taken with any digital camera. GeoLogTag Free keeps logged locations for 2 hours instead of 90 days.

GeoLogTag Free:
GeoLogTag facilitates the geotagging of digital photos. While photos are taken with a digital camera (DSLR, point & shoot) GeoLogTag continuously tracks your location just like a traditional GPS data logger. Locations can also be logged every 3, 5 or 10 minutes to prolong battery life. If the photos are stored on a Mac or on Flickr, GeoLogTag geotags the photos using the logged locations. Windows users can geotag their photos by using the GPX file generated by GeoLogTag in combination with a Windows geotagging application. The only limitation in the free version of GeoLogTag is that logged locations are kept for 2 hours instead of 90 days.

System Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 3.0 or later
* Mac OS 10.4 or higher

Pricing and Availability:

GeoLogTag Free is available worldwide in the App Store Photography category. The full version costs 4.99 (USD).

GeoLogTag Free

Galarina has also released a free version of PhotoToMac for iPhone and iPod Touch. PhotoToMac transfers photos taken with an iPhone and saved photos over WiFi to a Mac shared folder. PhotoToMac Free transfers the photos with a lower resolution than the full version.

PhotoToMac Free:
The photos are transferred in 480×320 resolution (full resolution when using the full version) and multiple photos can be transferred in batch. The three step process is very easy:

1. Select a Mac from a list of file sharing Macs on the WiFi network.
2. Select a folder from the list of shared folders.
3. Select the photos to be transferred. Camera Roll photos can be selected on an iPhone and Saved Photos can be selected on an iPod Touch. A demo video is available on the PhotoToMac website.

PhotoToMac requires no cables, no internet connection, no browser and no emails. The only requirement is that the iPhone or iPod Touch is on the same WiFi network as the Mac. Photos can be transferred to different shared folders on different Macs. An in-app assistant guides users through the one-time shared folder setup. The assistant only pops up if PhotoToMac cannot detect file sharing Macs or if no shared folders are available for the selected Mac.

System Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 3.0 or later
* Mac OS 10.4 or higher

Pricing and Availability:
PhotoToMac Free is available worldwide in the App Store Photography category. The full version costs 0.99 (USD).

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Modern Geek today released Our Secrets 1.0 for iPhone and iPod touch. Our Secrets gives you access to real people’s secrets and an opportunity to share your own anonymously with the features you want. Secrets can be read by category, rating, date shared, number of comments, number of times shared and by user favorites. Is there something that you want to get off your chest? You never know what secrets you’ll read. It might be a surprise that other people share similar secrets to you.

Our Secrets gives you access to real people’s secrets and an opportunity to share your own anonymously. Is there something that you want to get off your chest? You never know what secrets you’ll read. It might be a surprise that other people share similar secrets to you.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or 2nd Generation iPod Touch 3.0 or later
* Requires account setup but this is only so you can track and delete your own secrets

Pricing and Availability: $0.99 (USD)

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Independent game developer group Touch Foo today released Soosiz 1.1, a free version of its highly acclaimed 2D platforming game. In Soosiz, the player assumes the role of a hero, running and jumping around different surfaces and obstacles, rescuing his friends, killing monsters and collecting coins. Since its release in October, Soosiz has received glowing reviews by critics and many have already titled it as one of the best platforming games for the iPhone and iPod touch.

The game has been inspired by many classic platformers, but the traditional gameplay in Soosiz is spiced up by a changing gravity. Each platform has its own gravity, which allows the player character to run at the bottom of the platforms as well as on top of them. This allows for interesting level design and gameplay elements, which make the player to look for totally new kinds of solutions.

System Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod touch 2.2.1 or later

Pricing and Availability:
Soosiz Lite is free and available worldwide on the App Store. The Lite version retains the quality of the paid version while limiting the game to one world and five stages. Soosiz full version is $2.99 (USD) and available worldwide on the App Store.

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Smart Apps Solutions today released Black Friday Wish 1.0 for iPhone and iPod Touch users. Black Friday Wish is guaranteed to help users find where the best deals are located this holiday season. Short of having a personal shopper, Black Friday Wish is the best holiday shopping aid available, especially for those who want the best deals. When the item you want shows up in any of a store’s deals, you will receive notification of the price and location.

Two of the most popular elements of the Black Friday Wish app are the search and the wish list features. Use a keyword or do product searches to find the items that you’re looking for. If they are not already present in the published deals, you add them to your wish list. When the item you want shows up in any of a store’s deals, you will see the deals under wish list with the price and location. Information is organized by store to help people plan their best shopping routes. This is meant to cut down on trips and time spent shopping.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone OS 3.0 or later or iPod Touch 2
* WiFi or 3G/Edge connection required for downloading the deals

Pricing and Availability: $0.99 (USD)

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Plaid World Studios LLC today announces Mouse House 2, the sequel to the popular puzzle game for iPhone and iPod touch. Use your best-laid plans to puzzle your way through 40 new and colorful levels. All of your favorite traps and critters are back to challenge and entertain in the exciting follow-up to the original hit game. Mouse House features intuitive touch based controls. Touch the screen to make Mouse move a space in that direction, or hold your finger down to keep him moving.

Use your best-laid plans to puzzle your way through 40 new and colorful levels. All of your favorite traps and critters are back to challenge and entertain in the exciting follow-up to the original hit game!

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 2.2.1 or later

Pricing and Availability: $2.99

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Independent game developer Mundue LLC is pleased to announce the release of its latest game, reMovem Christmas Edition, a themed version of the wildly popular iPhone puzzle game reMovem. The Christmas Edition adds fanciful artwork and seasonal sound effects, while retaining the original game’s successful clear and simple interface. The addition of online high scores and global leader boards is sure to make this a hit for players of all ages.

This version of the game replaces the simple colored balls with playful Christmas figures, such as snowmen, stars, and Christmas trees. The optional game sounds are fun and delightful reminders of the upcoming holiday season.

Device Requirements:
* Any iPhone or iPod touch
* iPhone OS 3.0 or later

Pricing and Availability:
reMovem Christmas Edition is free and available exclusively on the Apple iTunes App Store.

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Portable Arts today released iCarol 2.0 for iPhone and iPod Touch. Just in time for the holidays, iCarol lets users send virtual Christmas Carols to other iCarol and non-iCarol users. Users can select friends from their contact lists or type in emails to send a virtual Carol. Friends with iCarol will be able to view lyrics, hear the music, and see either a slideshow of holiday images or a virtual yule log. Non-iCarol owners can still get Carols in their eMails.

In addition to sending virtual carols, users can turn off the music and use iCarol as a source for lyrics, or turn off the lyrics and simply use iCarol to play the music during the holidays. Users have a choice of over 20 high quality recordings including; Jingle Bells, We Wish You A Merry Christmas, Deck The Halls, Angels We Have Heard On High, Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairies, Silent Night, The Wassail Song, Joy To The World, Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, O Christmas Tree, The 12 Days Of Christmas, and many more.

Requirements:
* iPhone/iPod Touch
* iPhone OS 3.1 or later

Pricing and Availability: $.99

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G.M.Y.C. Applications today released Yachts 1.1 for iPhone and iPod Touch users. Yachts contains photos and statistics for 50 of the largest and most expensive pleasure yachts in the world. Each yacht has a rank that is based on size, price and amenities and all are guaranteed to be amazing examples of what happens when wealthy people try to out-do each other. Yachts is getting scooped up by yacht enthusiasts, as well as by consumers wanting to see how the other half lives.

Yachts contains photos and statistics for 50 of the largest and most expensive pleasure yachts in the world. Price tags for these beauties range from $50 million to $500 million dollars, proving that an economic downturn does not affect the super rich. Each yacht has a rank that is based on size, price and amenities and all are guaranteed to be amazing examples of what happens when wealthy people try to out-do each other.

Yachts is the only iPhone and iPod Touch app about mega yachts available in the App Store. Using photographs and statistics, the Yachts app showcases 50 of the largest, most interesting, extravagant and indulgent MEGA YACHTS of today. Along with facts and features about the magnificent vessels themselves, Yachts also gives a glimpse of each super rich owner. See the website for more information, or the App Store to purchase.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 2.2.1 or later

Pricing and Availability: $0.99 (

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New York based MultiEducator today introduces Builder Pro 1.0, their new builder’s calculation, formulation and reference tool for iPhone and iPod Touch. Builder Pro includes parts of the International Building Code, Mechanical Code, Electrical Code, and the ADA code. It combines all of the formulas of MultiEducator’s Carpentry, Electrical, Plumbing and HVAC professional programs and adds specific calculations used by builders and developers.

Builder Pro combines the formulas from our basic Builder program and adds the first Six Chapters of the International Building Code- which have been adopted by most states in the US, as well as many places worldwide. Over the coming months the program will be expanded to include the whole code. Also included is a special section of charts from the code AND the American for Disabilities Act Codes and Drawings. Further, Builder Pro includes the complete HVAC Pro, with HVAC formulas, as well as the full International Mechanical Code.

The Electrical Pro application is also included in Builder Pro, which currently contains parts of the National Electric Code (in the future the code will be completed.) The program also includes the Carpentry and Plumbing programs that in the future will include the International Plumbing and Fire Codes. When all of the codes are all completed, the price of Builder Pro will go up- and all current users will receive FREE upgrades.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 2.1 or later

Pricing and Availability: $17.99

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Derek Clark today is pleased to announce Swipe Ruler 1.2 for iPhone and iPod Touch. Swipe Ruler introduces a fast and convenient way to measure items for a close estimation of length. Perfect for window shoppers and garage sale browsers, Swipe Ruler uses the accelerometers in your phone to measure flat surfaces from a few inches up to several feet. Click the ruler, touch the screen to begin, and slide the app along the surface to measure. Then touch the screen to stop measuring.

The Swipe Ruler uses the accelerometers in your phone to measure flat surfaces from a few inches up to several feet. Whether you are looking for furniture, fabrics, decor, window treatments, or any number of items, you can get a quick, easy calculation.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 3.0 or later

Pricing and Availability: $0.99 (USD)

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daisyamerica LLC and Adelante Consulting Inc. today announce The Third Advent 1.0, an ebook application by Gregoire de Kalbermatten for iPhone and iPod touch. The Third Advent takes the reader on a journey through 6000 years of politics, economics, philosophy and religion, to bring forth a message of hope for the future that is as practical as it is profound. The author contends that we are on the threshold of a complete transformation.

Our current world turmoil is undoubtedly a reflection of the complex imbalances that afflict every level of our global society, and many fear that mankind is doomed to failure. Yet the author contends that we are on the threshold of a complete transformation: that individually, we can change the core of our being and thence the world itself. With remarkable candor, Gregoire de Kalbermatten takes us along his own event-filled path to enlightenment, a path which ended at the feet of one many know as the greatest spiritual Master of our time.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod touch running iPhone OS 2.0 or later

Pricing and Availability:
The application can be downloaded for free from here and includes the first three chapters. The rest of the chapters can be purchased for $3.99 (USD).

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Pointy Heads Software has unveiled Knocking 1.0, a new form of communication, redefining the way mobile users share moments through images and pictures. Knocking eliminates the upload, send, download process, establishing live, device-to-device connectivity regardless of proximity or other barriers. It creates an instant device-to-device connection allowing one iPhone user to securely control, browse, and save another user’s photo albums as the other watches it happen, live.

Knocking is an entirely new form of communication on the iPhone. With Knocking, someone is at the door of your mobile device. Let them in to connect in ways never before possible. Simply ‘knock’, then share moments live with friends or family.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or 2nd Generation iPod touch 3.0 or later

Pricing and Availability:
Knocking 1.0 is completely free and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Social Networking category.

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Twitter today turned on Geotagging of Tweets and automatic ReTweeting and Stone Design’s top-selling iPhone Twitter client Twittelator Pro currently shipping version 3.3.1 is the first iPhone Twitter client to take full advantage of both features.

Geotagging allows users to optionally attach a latitude and longitude to each tweet – and in Twittelator, you can tap the tweet to see a map of where it originated or use the Nearby search to find tweeters near you or any location on the planet. You can toggle the geotagging on or off at tweet time.

Twitter’s new ReTweet feature was also 100% deployed today, and Twittelator lets you create these new "official" ReTweets, as well as monitor ReTweet’s of yours that are ReTweeted, and see the ones that you ReTweet or are ReTweeted to you.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 3.0 or later

Pricing and Availability:
Twittelator Pro 3.3.1 is $4.99 (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Social Networking category. Twittelator Pro was chosen as Editor’s pick for best iPhone Twitter client by Mac|Life in May 2009 issue.

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