Daily App Digest – 11/25/09

ePapyrus Inc. has announced PDF-Pro Reader 1.3.1, a significant upgrade to its popular mobile PDF reader for iPhone and iPod Touch. Version 1.3.1 features a new Text Reflow View mode which increases the readability of PDF documents. This function allows users to extract only the text from the PDF document that they are reading. PDF-Pro is built on the powerful and proven PDF engine from ePapyrus Inc. that has been marketing its PDF products worldwide.

Since the display area on any iPhone or iPod device is significantly smaller than a PC monitor, sometimes it’s difficult to read the entire PDF document on the screen. To alleviate this problem, PDF-Pro now allows users to display only text without the images in a viewing document. Now, using this text reflow function users can read a PDF document without panning or zooming in or out of a document they are viewing. Furthermore, users can select any part of the text to copy and paste to another application.

PDF-Pro is built on the powerful and proven PDF engine from ePapyrus Inc. that has been marketing its PDF products worldwide. Not only can it handle single-byte character languages beautifully, but it can also read double-byte character languages such as Korean, Japanese and Chinese.

Device Requirements:
iPhone and iPod Touch 3.0 or later

Pricing and Availability: $4.99 (USD)

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TriX Software today announces TrailBlazer Challenge 2.0 for iPhone 3G, 3GS devices. Perfect for walkers, runners, cyclists, and hikers, TrailBlazer Challenge is the ultimate way to monitor speed, record and review paths, and share travels. Users are able to compete against a friend’s recorded track and know whether they’re trailing or leading their opponent every step of the way with visual and audio cues. Later, view the path in Google Earth, animated and color-coded for speed or altitude.

For users that are more competitive, compete against friends head-to-head in a run or bike ride to decide, once and for all, who’s the champion! Recorded tracks can be exported directly to another iPhone. Select an imported track to compete against and be continually updated on progress. Visual and audio notifications ensure users always know whether they’re trailing or leading their opponent, and by how far.

Users can even select one of their own previous recordings to compete against and attempt a personal best time. After wirelessly downloading paths to a Mac or PC using just a web browser, users can view the path travelled in Google Earth. By combining speed or altitude color-coded and animated paths, photos, and markers, TrailBlazer Challenge creates the most comprehensive Google Earth viewing experience.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone 3G, 3GS 3.0 or later
* In-App Video Recording iPhone 3GS 3.1 only

Pricing and Availability: $3.99

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NIX Solutions Limited is proud to announce uPackinglist 1.3.5, an update to their popular packing and travel organizer for iPhone and iPod touch. Designed specifically to leverage the iPhone’s unique capabilities, uPackinglist turns packing and travel preparation into a fast and convenient activity for any journey, business trip, vacation, or outing.

Whether it’s a family picnic, fishing, or going to Disney Land, uPackinglist features a friendly and appealing interface that requires minimum actions. Easily create and maintain an unlimited number of customizable lists to the control packing process. To help organize things, uPackinglist sports a carefully thought-out catalog that contains almost 300 items. Users can collapse or expand any category they need, or add new items to customize lists with just one tap.

When the list is ready, users can proceed to packing right away, and effortlessly mark items as processed with just one tap. Additionally, uPackinglist offers a nice presentation of the packing progress that is fully customizable, supporting various background themes, as well as the ability to change category icons to suit different needs. Users can email their lists to colleagues or family members too.

Language Support:
* US English, German, Italian and Russian

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 2.1 or later

Pricing and Availability: $1.99

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Independent iPhone developer Francis Dierick today announces WeddingRing for iPhone and iPod Touch. WeddingRing allows the user to keep their lover close at heart, on their iPhone. It offers a virtual wedding ring with added picture frame functionality. The application puts a wedding ring icon on the iPhone which, when tapped, shows a picture of the significant other and a short message of love.

WeddingRing can be used as a gift or function as a daily reminder to oneself of how special you partner is. WeddingRing is like having a picture of your partner in your wallet, but better, since these days people pull out their iPhone more frequently than their wallet.

You can try to sneak the app onto your partner’s phone, set a personalized message & picture and wait until your significant other discovers the WeddingRing icon on the iPhone screen. Another fun way to surprise your partner is to install WeddingRing on you own iPhone and then leave the iPhone lying around the house casually until he/she finds out.

Device Requirements:
iPhone and iPod Touch 3.0 or later

Pricing and Availability: $0.99 (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Entertainment category.

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Aztek Solutions Limited has released iGetFit for iPhone and iPod touch. iGetFit is designed for people who want to keep track of their training schedule as they try to lose weight. Whether you are using a treadmill or training bike, iGetFit allows you to record the number of calories burnt, distance covered and the time trained. Using this information iGetFit allows you to see how many calories are being burned per minute during training session.

Along with your training schedule use iGetFit to also record your weight and monitor how much weight your are losing. Also included is a Body Mass Index Calculator (BMI), a tool that helps you measure the amount of body fat you have based on your height and weight. Or you may wish to override the value with your own BMI value.

You can enter your weight either as stone, kilograms or pounds, the application will automatically convert the weights if you decide you want to see your weight in kgs rather than stone for example. You can set yourself monthly targets of how many calories you want to burn and how much weight you are planning to lose, then use iGetFit see your progress against your targets.

Device Requirements:
iPhone and iPod touch 3.0 or later

Pricing and Availability: Free

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Independent developer Marcus Roskosch today released Electronic Toolbox 1.0 for iPhone and iPod touch. Electronic Toolbox is for technicians, electronic enthusiasts, students or trainees. It comes with a huge Database of electronic devices. All functions can be used offline, without Internet connection. Rereading in books and tables or computation with the pocket calculator is unnecessary after installation of this application. Electronic Toolbox offers 12 individual programs in one.

The individual programs can be used consistently and very easy. Values can be entered for example with or without units (k, m, g, µ, p, n). The conversion takes place automatically. The result becomes, where meaningfully, equivalent in three different units indicated. Thus, it is not necessary to convert units manually or to choose the desired unit.

With circuit computations such as series, parallel, bridge connections, filter circuit or resonant circuits the corresponding diagram will be displayed. The program contains an enormous database of over 5000 transistors, ICs, diagrams and specifications. All data can be used off-line. Thus, after the installation of the program, no Internet connection is needed in order to use the program.

The determination of a resistance value or the value of a capacitor on the basis the colour rings or sequence of numbers is very simple with the mini application “Resistors” or “Capacitors”.

The transistor data base contains types like BC, BD, BF, BU, 2N, 2SA, 2SC, AC, AD, AF, AU, TIP etc. By full text search transistors and their comparison types can be found. To each transistor, the characteristic data is indicated such as NPN/PNP, silicon/germanium, Ptot, Ucbo, Icmax, frequency and the comparison types. In addition, for each transistor the shape of the housing and connections are indicated with emitter, basis and collector.

The IC database contains the most usual 74er and 40’s ICs including connection diagrams and description of the function (NAND gate, Schmit trigger etc.). The unit computer supports the categories pressure, energy, distance, surface, speed, weight, force, power, temperature, volume, time and bytes. Values can be converted into the most usual ones, however also exotic and foreign units are offered.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod touch 3.1 or later

Pricing and Availability: $1.99 (USD)

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Happymagenta has announced Spyglass 1.2, an update to their popular digital compass and HUD display for iPhone 3GS devices. Developed specifically to leverage the iPhone’s unique capabilities, Spyglass turns any 3GS iPhone into a real-time digital spyglass and heads-up display with a live compass, GPS information, as well as tilt horizon – right over the live feed from the built-in camera or a map.

Spyglass is a fun-to-use augmented reality tool. Just like in airplanes, sci-fi movies or military-styled night vision binoculars, Spyglass works in any orientation encompassing a three-dimensional space. While viewing through the iPhone’s built-in camera, tilt or rotate the device to see incredibly detailed, live information in any direction. All Spyglass features, such as digital zoom (up to 5x), color filters, HUD colors and imperial or metric units are easily configurable.

Version 1.2 adds auto-rotation maps and new overlay filters for cool, night vision styled military effects. When in compass mode, the heads-up display is shown over satellite maps that automatically rotates as the user moves along. When maps are enabled (using the Info screen), the GPS coordinates are shown in real-time. When maps are disabled no Internet access is needed. As well as a fun-to-use novelty app, Spyglass can also serve as a useful tool during hunting, fishing or other sports related activities.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone 3GS 3.1 or later
* 0.3 MB
* Internet Connection (for Maps feature)

Pricing and Availability: $0.99 (USD)

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VenticentoStudio has released iAccounts 1.1, a revolutionary password manager for iPhone and iPod touch. iAccount’s flexy-record technology allows users to customize each record on their needs. iAccount also features high-speed integration with the company’s free iBackup application providing backup and restore over wi-fi networks, for Mac and Windows. The software comes with 20 different field types and with flexy-record technology users can even add their own.

iAccounts flexy-record technology allows users to save different fields for each account. Fields entered for a website accounts (username, password) are different from the fields entered to store a credit card number or a social security number. iAccounts flexy-record allows solves this problem by allowing each accounts to have different fields. The software comes with 20 different field types and with flexy-record technology users can even add their own.

iAccounts implements 4-digits PIN protection to keep private data safe from unwanted looks. The PIN dialog has been designed for speed and clarity. By downloading the FREE iBackup application from our website, users can sync all their iPhone data via wi-fi with their computer (both Mac and PC). The backup process is secure and very simple. iBackup also provides useful features for browsing accounts data on the computer, without turning the phone on. The iBackup application comes for both Mac and PC and is free to download and use.

Device Requirements:
iPhone and iPod touch 3.1.2 or later

Pricing and Availability: $4.99 (USD)

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MotionObj today announced SimplyTweet Lite 2.5.1, an update to the free version of their full featured Twitter application for iPhone and iPod touch. SimplyTweet makes using Twitter on the iPhone and iPod touch easy. It lets you tweet easily and keep you informed via push notifications when someone messages or mentions you. The free version of SimplyTweet excludes built-in support for push notifications, themes and photo search.

It is developed by MotionObj, run by independent software developer, Hwee-Boon Yar who is based in Singapore. SimplyTweet Lite 2.5.1 has been approved by Apple and is now available on the iTunes App Store for both iPhone and iPod touch.

Some of the new features added in SimplyTweet Lite 2.5.1 include:
* Option to force refresh contact pickers
* Option to customize swipe menu buttons
* New swipe menu in account view
* New retweet option for swipe menu
* Performance improvements

Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod touch with OS 3.0 or newer

Pricing and Availability: $4.99 (USD)

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Ivan Karpan and Evgeniy Lebed have announced Christmas sale of GlobeMaster and GlobeTipping, their applications for iPhone and iPod Touch. GlobeMaster is an offline world-wide travel guide featuring 1400+ cities in more than 260 countries, including 4100+ photos, tips calculator and advisor, units converter and much more. During Christmas sale its price is $0.99 USD (was $2.99 USD). GlobeTipping features tip calculator and advisor functionality of GlobeMaster as a separate app. During Christmas sale it is free (was $0.99 USD) as well as GlobeConvert.

Perfect for vacationing, itinerary planning, business travel or simply for those who are interested in the world we live in, GlobeMaster offers reliable and important information for travelers, making any trip interesting, safe and enjoyable. The travel guide database is updated with each new version of the application. For fast and more efficient access, all country and city data are divided into convenient categories.

The application contains practical advice based on Wikitravel content, and offers a wealth of information, including such information as national holidays, festivals, carnivals, state structure, traditions and culture of nation, local rules of behavior, national food and drinks, sights, ways of getting in, out and around the country/city, recommendations on how to stay healthy and safe and more. Additionally, travelers can easily and quickly calculate tips using country-specific tipping information for reference and convert often used units of measurement, as well as currencies at up-to-date exchange rates.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 3.0 or later

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Macsoftex today announces the great discount on 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 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.

Not many people understand how many units they are actually drinking a day, week, or month. This intuitive application provides a quick way of calculating the number of units in your drink and keeping track of how much you are drinking. The information provided by iAlcohol is often surprising and can be the tool you need to lead a healthier lifestyle.

New in Version 1.1:
* Bug fixes (crash when using fl.oz in calculation)
* Added statistics of alcohol consumption
* Added graph of alcohol consumption by day, week, month
* Added description of current alcohol intoxication
* Improved user interface

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 3.0 or later

Pricing and Availability: $0.99 (USD)

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Now iPhone users can pilot the controls of the Bell 205 Helitanker, fully equipped to take on even the most blazing fires across the country. Swiftly navigate your choppers around the map to extinguish kindle before it engulfs the terrain, while avoiding harsh winds and airborne collisions.
“We’re very proud to have developed a game that is not only a lot of fun but also generates awareness to a persistent environmental issue,” said Jason Petralia, CEO of People Operating Technology. “We want to remind users that wildfires are a real problem, and by linking to the Smokey Bear mobile site, we are hoping to encourage safety and responsibility outdoors as well.”

In 2008, human-caused fires accounted for over 70,000 wildfires across the United States, burning nearly 3,500,000 acres in their wake, according to data from a report published by the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho. The severity of those figures are being mirrored in 2009, which has already seen more than 5,662,900 acres burned by wildland fires. By raising awareness of the wildfire issue, People Operating Technology aims to help extinguish those numbers and support efforts towards fire safety.

Wildfire Fighter is the only iPhone game that combines entertainment with a social message about fire prevention. The game lends a donated media placement of Smokey Bear’s message that “Only You Can Prevent Wildfires,” the first ever on the iPhone platform, and links through to Smokey’s mobile website, www.smokeybearmobile.com

Price & availability: $0.99
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Always wanted to pilot a ROFLcopter through the internet, dodging pop-up windows, collecting lolcats and feeding angry trolls cheezburgers? Well, now you must! For memes are attacking in this newly released action/arcade (cyber)space-shooter for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

Insurgent Games’ third iPhone game to date, teh internets- Attack of the Memes is now available in the App Store for $1.99. Sure to attract those who are fans of internet culture, as well as any action game enthusiast, this tongue-in-cheek app is chock full of lollerskaters, viruses, firewalls, and other denizens of the web. Players can compete for high scores on nine global leaderboards, such as most lolcats collected, total cheezburgerz eaten, and most time wasted. There are also a huge amount of hilarious achievements to unlock such as “kittens, inspired by kittens” and, “it’s peanut butter jelly time.”

Features:
• OpenFeint, a social gaming network for the iPhone and iPod Touch
• Adorable lolcats for score, and lollerskaters for extra lives
• Obnoxious pop-up windows, viruses, and firewalls
• Average, ruthless, and flaming trolls
• Catchy, electronic soundtrack
• Nine global leaderboards and 23 achievements

Konami Digital Entertainment GmbH today announced its iPES – The Fan App is now available for free on the App Store. The app has been specifically designed to appeal to PES fans with an iPhone or iPod touch.

iPES – The Fan App allows users to collect credits in different sections and features four news channels plus a host of sub-games, each of which allows users to collect fresh points each day. Accessing the PES News, PES Blog, PES League and sports news streams will reward the user with 50 credits each day. There is also a daily quiz which offers users 50 credits if the Question of the Day is answered correctly first time, or 25 if they get it on the second attempt.

The app also includes videos of some of the greatest scored goals on PES 2010. Each month, three of the best goals scored will be uploaded and users encouraged to select what they consider the best goal in return for 750 points. There is also a ‘What Happens Next?’ sub-game where users watch footage from PES 2010 and pick from one of three possible outcomes. Getting it right first time will earn them 500 points, with 250 gained if it is guessed second time round.

Point credits from the app can be used to collect special PES 2010 cards. A pack of five collectors cards costs 250 points, and contains a mixture of tips and tricks skill advice, team cards, club badges, or stadia. Purchased cards are stored within the user’s All-Star Album and they can also swap, or trade, cards with other iPES – The Fan App users over Wi-Fi.

The iPES – The Fan App is a great way to keep in touch with the PES series and it has a strong social element as it can be set to download all new elements automatically and link with friends via Facebook.

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Good news for all iPhone owners who are fans of classic console RPGs. This winter, FDG Entertainment is going to release the first true console like Japanese Action RPG on the Apple AppStore. Across Age is a co-production between mobile veteran FDG Entertainment (Parachute Panic, Bobby Carrot series) and the renowned Japanese developer Exe Create.

With over 15 hours of playtime, HD (iPhone/iPod optimized) graphics, exciting story, sweeping soundtrack/SFX and tons of diversified locations, monsters and riddles; Across Age delivers.

The player steps into the role of 2 switchable characters: swordsman Ales and magician Ceska, each with own fighting and special skills that are needed to solve tricky puzzles and successfully battle fierce monsters. This cooperative element is one of the key features of the game. Another key feature is the possibility to travel through time and revisit places, enabling exciting events and riddles.

Bright AI, the mobile content and applications company, has completed the development and usability testing of Launchball, the Science Museum’s award-winning online Flash game for the iPhone and iTouch which launches today.

Launchball challenges users to correctly manipulate their environment to successfully guide a ball into the goal. Launched in 2007, the game has since been played over 2 million times, creating a huge following and winning numerous awards along the way. There are over 40 levels of physics based gameplay as well as enabling users to create and share their own levels. Bright AI has faithfully replicated the original in a version which fully exploits the unique attributes of the iPhone, combining quality development with stringent usability testing in a game that won’t disappoint loyal fans.

Bright AI worked closely with games usability expert Dr Graham McAllister from Sussex University, to test every facet of the game before release.

Whilst this level of usability testing is unusual in an iPhone application, Bright AI understood the importance of delivering a product which not only meets the expectations of fans but also reflects the Science Museum’s brand values. Ben Jackson, brand licensing executive, Science Museum, commented: “The game works brilliantly with touch screen controls and the level editor function means it is great to share levels with friends. For the Science Museum, sales of the App will generate royalties which go straight back to the Museum and the game will also help to inspire a fascination with physics.

“The web version of Launchball has a loyal fan base so we have had to be very careful to get it right so we don’t let them down and Bright AI have done a fantastic job developing a game that we can be proud of.”

David Lane, managing director, Bright AI, added: “Working with the Science Museum to create Launchball for iPhone has been a fantastic experience which has enabled us to channel all of our expertise into a game which is both engaging and educational”

Pricing: $0.99

MF Software today is proud to introduce Top Rated Apps 1.0, a productivity title for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Top Rated Apps allows you to browse only the highest-rated apps on the iTunes App Store, and store favorites for future purchase or reference. Unlike the iTunes App Store, it also lets you browse apps offline, perfect if you have an iPod Touch or are on an airplane. The Top Rated Apps are organized by category, so you can browse them just like you would in the App Store.

MF Software’s editors have reviewed literally thousands of apps on the store, and included over 500 apps (including over 300 games) that iTunes App Store users have rated on average 4 star or higher. The Top Rated Apps are organized by category, so you can browse them just like you would in the App Store.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 3.0 or later

Pricing And Availability: $1.99 (USD)

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Vancouver based Trigital Software Inc. today is delighted to announce Goldfin 1.2, an update to their popular arcade game for iPhone and iPod touch. Developed specifically to leverage the iPhone’s unique capabilities and interface, Goldfin is an addicting fast action underwater adventure. The goal is to help Goldie escape from schools of deadly piranhas and to shock them by hitting eel tails. The player aims to achieve the highest scores in all 3 unique and compelling game modes.

Goldfin is very easy to start with but difficult to master. The goal is simple as setting the high score is your main objective. Take control of Goldie, a goldfish filled with enough courage to take on deadly piranhas. Use the custom, speed sensitive touch-pad to steer him into battle. Utilize the eel’s electric shock waves by swimming into their tales, but be careful of the eel heads, as it will stun Goldie for a brief moment. Use the boost button to give Goldie that extra sprint which allows for epic escapes.

Goldfin features three different game modes, including Endurance, Pure and Time Attack. Each mode has its own custom music, sound effects, backgrounds and also individual high-score tracking tables. The game supports an innovative speed sensitive touch-pad control system and is accompanied with classically animated characters on top of fully pre-rendered 3D backgrounds.

“At Trigital Software we are all gamers,” said Mike Castelli, marketing manager for Trigital Software Inc. “We wanted to create something that would take us back to the golden days of video games. We all remember playing in the arcades spending quarter after quarter just to reach that top 10 list and being able to put our initials on the high score table. We wanted to recreate that feeling and that is what compelled us to develop Goldfin.”

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod touch 2.2 or later

Pricing and Availability: $0.99 USD (Regular $2.99)

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In a special Thanksgiving Day celebration, a festive Muli Mobile today announced 60% off FlowerPedia, its flower gallery and encyclopedia for flower enthusiasts. FlowerPedia’s vast database of high resolution flower photos and information is sure to bring back summer memories to be thankful for. FlowerPedia is a portable flower encyclopedia, identification tool and photo gallery, featuring over 1500 high-resolution photos of flowers, organised by flower family, genus and photo rating.

* Over 100 flower families representing 100,000 species from around the world
* Over 1500 high resolution flower photos
* Browse by photo rating or flower family
* Search by flower anatomy
* Search by name
* Play slideshow
* Save any photo to your phone and share with friends, or use as backgrounds
* Rate photos according to your tastes
* No internet connection required

Minimum Requirements:
iPhone or iPod touch 2.2 or later

Pricing and Availability: $1.99 (USD) for a limited time only.

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