Daily App Digest – 12/09/09

UK based Plinkk Photography today are proud to release Second Shootr 1.0 for iPhone and iPod Touch app store. Second Shootr is a revolutionary digital photography assistant for professional wedding photographers. Second Shootr helps photographers with the less exciting planning and administration, enabling them to have their mind on the task of capturing those once-in-a-lifetime moments. Second Shootr is customisable to your wedding photography business.

Features of Second Shootr:
1) Make sure you know everything you need to know about your clients and their wedding day by using Second Shootr. The app enables you to store detailed information about your clients, ranging from their names, addresses and phone numbers to their wedding’s theme or the name of the band at their reception. You can contact your clients from within the app by phone or email. All your wedding clients are stored in one place, really easy to access just when you need them. If you need reminding the exact location of the ceremony, use Second Shootr’s in-built map.

2) Know everything you need to know about the wedding guests and officials by using Second Shootr. Use the app to log down the names of key people taking part in the big day – Second Shootr could prompt you with the name of the Best Man, or store the Vicar’s contact details for later reference.

3) Plan the day’s shots by using Second Shootr. Whether you just want to make sure you’ve captured all the right group shots, to maybe trying something a bit arty and new, Second Shootr will help you to remember the must-have shots you’ll need to take on the day. Once you’ve taken the picture, you can mark it as complete, leaving Second Shootr to tell you exactly how many shots you have yet to take. You can even load sample images into Second Shootr to prompt you in the heat of the moment.

4) Know the day’s upcoming events by using Second Shootr. The application is there to give you a gentle reminder to let you know where you need to be on the day, and at what time.

5) Ensure you have all your kit with you by using Second Shootr. The application helps add that extra layer of protection by helping you remember every piece of kit, every time. Just cross off the items as you pack them into your bags in the morning, and check them back in again when you’re packing up from the wedding ready to go home.

6) Keep on top of your day-to-day wedding photography tasks by using Second Shootr. Before and after the wedding, Second Shootr is the app that just keeps on helping. The application will help you to remember to do pretty much anything relating to the wedding…from remembering to file the signed contracts, to reminding you to post the prints to the client, Second Shootr has got your back!

Second Shootr is customisable to your wedding photography business – you can add your own default questions, photographs, kit, events and to-do items.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 3.0 or later

Pricing and Availability: £3.99 (US $6.99, CA $6.99, EUR 5.49, AU $8.99, NZ $9.99).

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SimpleLeap Software today announces the release of Cram 1.6, a flashcard and multiple-choice study app for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Cram is perfect for students, teachers, or anyone else looking to study or learn any subject matter on their iPhone with flashcards and practice multiple-choice tests. The application’s pairing with the Mac, multiple study modes, and the ability to share with friends makes Cram for iPhone the essential study tool.

Cram’s new features and enhancements were combined with a few minor interface changes for a better user experience and better syncing with the Mac version of Cram. For current customers, Cram iPhone 1.6 is a free update. Users of Cram Lite may also upgrade to the full version of Cram for $4.99.

Key Cram Updates in Cram iPhone 1.6:
* Import tests from Cram Mac to Cram iPhone
* Saved username and password within Cram test portal
* Ability to add images to questions
* Quizlet Test Channel added giving access to thousands of test sets
* Small interface enhancements

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 3.0 or later

Pricing and Availability: $4.99 (USD)

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the distinctive new action-puzzle game, Angry Birds, for iPhone and iPod touch. Developed by the award-winning Rovio Mobile, Angry Birds puts players in control of a flock of avian assassins. These angry birds are desperate to reclaim their eggs from some pesky thieving pigs.

At the beginning of each Angry Birds game scenario, players receive a number of birds to use as projectile weapons. The birds are fired from a catapult to smash into the pigs and blast through their fiendishly created hideouts. The smooth graphics engine with high-quality cartoon visuals and audio create a novel, addictive game for all.

“We think that iPhone and iPod touch users have needed an outlet to vent their frustration for some time,” said Mikael Hed, CEO of Rovio. “Fortunately for them, these birds are not easily appeased. With Angry Birds you can look forward to hours of glorious bird mayhem!”

“Angry Birds uses intuitive touch controls to navigate around the playing field and aim the birds,” said Johnny Coghlan, Head of Publishing for Clickgamer. “The casual nature of the game is perfect for iPhone and iPod touch users seeking a quick hit of fun and action.”

A high amount of detail has been paid to the design of in-game characters and environments. Every avian attacker and porcine enemy is displayed as a cartoon caricature, while the scenery is accurately physically modelled to create an unlimited variety of explosive demolitions. Easy-to-learn controls combined with a steady difficulty progression rewards gamers possessing accuracy, skill and patience.

Angry Birds will release for iPhone and iPod touch on Apple’s iTunes App Store soon.

Avallon Alliance Ltd., developer and publisher of games exclusively for iPhone and iPod touch devices, offers users to put their spy skills to a test in the first meta-quest at App Store. Developers have just launched the last free promo game from "Kellie Stanford: Turn of Fate" collection for iPhone/iPod Touch and ensures that special rewards will be given to everyone who collects all 8 free mini games. The quest starts right now.

"Kellie Stanford: Turn of Fate" collection is a promo kit of 8 mini games, created specifically for iPhone and iPod Touch by Avallon Alliance in collaboration with URSE games, after the new co-named detective PC game. To complete the quest, users have to browse App Store, find, download and play at least once all 8 puzzles. The counter in the corner of the screen in each game shows how many games a user has already found. In order to check that he or she has downloaded the full collection, each game must be started at least once with Internet connection active.

All the puzzles have been released worldwide since the end of November and are available for free through the Games section of App Store. Designed in colorful and attractive cartoon-look graphics, brought to life with pleasing sounds, all these simple mini games are able to bring to players a lot of positive emotions. Every proper game counts toward the eight that participant must get to earn the prize.

Finally, “Fallen Ep-1”, the first title for iPhone / iPod Touch by the Italian indie 7th Sense, has been released on App Store. The team’s debut on iTunes is the prologue of a dark adventure/ action game, similar to old “Silent Hill” and “Resident Evil”. Its content is so scary that Apple required the 17+ rating: “Fallen Ep-1” is definitely not a game for kids.

The story takes place in a prison where criminal gangs rule, facing each other, led by obscure spiritual guides gathering acolytes from the worst prisoners. Roman Mendez, a street criminal, suddenly wakes up in the gloomy isolation cell in which he is shut since a few days. The prisoner understands at once that something has gone wrong: strange noises break the usual jail silence. Peeping through the cell slit will make him face a desert corridor: no warders, no others cries, just blood smell. But the door lock releases and he won’t think twice getting out of the small isolation cell. Some steps will be enough for Roman to understand that his breakout plans will not be easily carried out…

Players will be involved by “Fallen EP-1” plot since the very first scene, thanks to the full motion videos, a featured virtual touch pad for in-game navigation, an ad-hoc fight system and special interactions exploiting unique iPhone features to progress through the game. The main character will step into a horror setting, enhanced by the original soundtrack. Moreover, environmental lighting and sound effects will help immersing in this scary world while players try to find a way out of the prison.

The title has been developed using LAIN®, the middleware and graphic engine 7th Sense designed on 2008 for Nintendo DS titles and recently adapted to Apple devices features with great results.

“Fallen EP-1” will be sold on iTunes store at US$ 4,99 including just the first chapter of a long series, while the second one is already under development.

The development studio Mutant Games has released its first iPhone and iPod Touch game! Cell & Love: The Fun of Fusion is a puzzle game with a new gameplay based on merging cells. It is already available on the App Store at only $1.99!

Have you ever asked yourself how cells join between them? Cell & Love is a good way to answer this question by using colors, sizes and a monstrous friend! Indeed, in Cell & Love, gamers have to help a little monster to raise his ultimate evolution stage solving 100 levels of puzzle, by joining cells with the fingers. The game objective is to clear the screen following four cells fusion rules. With more than eight hours of thinking entertainment and creative graphics, Cell & Love is a new kind of puzzle for the cool gamers!

Daniel Fernandez, Game Designer, comments on Cell & Love release. “This is our first game and we are really satisfied of the result. We’ve try to create something fresh, we hope people will love the game as much as we have appreciated to work on it!”

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Gamerholix and Organiq Music are proud to announce a brand new toe-tapping, funky music game for all the family – Doo Wop – available now on iPhone for just 59p (99c). Doo Wop allows you to create your own ‘Doo Wop’ band with cool vocals and groovy backing tracks by touching the cute characters as they dance to the beat.

Scratch the surface of ‘Doo Wop’ and you’ll find a game that is inspired by the music of the backstreets, with a gang of colourful trashy characters who hang on street corners and in alleyways singing harmoniously in a ‘Doo Wop’ style. Each ‘Doo Wop’ character has its own unique vocal harmony which can be combined to create your very own songs.

Controls are straight forward; just touch on the characters to make them sing. Doo Wop has four hip backing tracks to jam over the top of. You can also record your own looping chorus of characters creating your very own ‘Doo Wop’ classic. Watch the characters get into the groove dancing to the beat, as they sing your tune.

Doo Wop is the result of a unique collaboration between two very different companies – Gamerholix (world-class game development) and Organiq Music (chart-smashing music and studio talent) – who met at a Game Republic network event in early 2009 organised through regional screen agency Screen Yorkshire. Doo Wop was most recently successfully showcased at the Eurogamer Expo in Leeds on October 27th/28th.

London, December 10th, 2009 – Leading online and mobile gaming company Zattikka is preparing to bring some festive cheer to iPhone and iPod touch owners everywhere this Christmas with the release of three exciting new gaming titles, including Finger Frenzy World, the latest iteration of its world-renowned browser classic, Finger Frenzy.

Having already racked up over 20 million plays online at Zattikka’s online games portal Gimme5games.com, Finger Frenzy World takes the compulsive speed-typing gameplay of this online phenomenon and transfers it to the iPhone and iPod touch. In addition, Finger Frenzy World lets you compare your alphabet-typing speed runs with friends around the world courtesy of full Facebook and Twitter support built in.

Also released to the App Store on the same day is Phantom Mansion – Red, a nerve-jangling adventure puzzle game that tests your wits to the max in a creepy haunted mansion full of tricks, traps and shuffling zombies, and Blocks With Letters On, a refreshingly original combination of logic and word game that won JayIsGames.com’s Best of 2008.

“Zattikka is hitting the App Store with a triple whammy attack this Christmas” said Tim Chaney, Founder & CEO Zattikka Ltd. “With hundreds of thousands of people receiving iPhones this Christmas, and millions more already owners, these are three must-play downloads that are guaranteed to keep your fingers entertained when they’re not busy wrapping presents, peeling sprouts and pulling crackers!”

All three titles will be available on the Apple App Store on December 14th.

iD EAST company has released Atlantis: Magic Smileys 1.0, a game for iPhone and iPod Touch. "Atlantis: Magic Smileys" is an amazing casual game with unique gameplay based on the multitouch technology. It provides revolutionary rich multitouch features such as inertia and momentum. This is a fantastic casual game offering splendid gaming experience for both casual and hardcore gamers.

The storyline is about adventures of the Magic Smileys on islands of ancient Atlantis. They are very live and emotional! Smileys react to your actions and may become happy sad angry >:-| or amazed )

Smileys move in a circle around each island of ancient Atlantis and provide warm welcome to their newcoming siblings. Rotate smileys’ circle and place the newcomers to their neighbors of the same color so they could generate the magic energy protecting Atlantis. The gameplay is very simple, but provides many alternatives in choosing strategy. If you are good at playing, you can get many fun bonuses that would help you to win the game! Have an amazing gaming experience and help smileys to save the islands of Atlantis!

Key Features:
* Innovative gameplay based on rotation of smileys’ circle
* Live emotional characters
* Various bonuses and special features
* 50 exciting levels
* 3 difficulties
* Global high-scores

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 2.2.1 or later

Pricing and Availability: $1.99 (USD)

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Rostami Magic has released iForce 1.0 for iPhone and iPod Touch users. Disguised as a regular doodle app, iForce is a performance tool and mentalist’s companion that works in the background, unseen and unnoticed. The only organic and customizable app of its kind in existence, iForce is fully examinable and undetectable, with a seemingly endless number of ways to perform magic using an iDevice.

iForce is a performance tool and mentalist’s companion. Disguised as an ordinary doodle app, it plays the supportive role in an illusion. The user predicts an answer or outcome, entering it into the app. This information is used to reveal an answer to the person for whom the trick is being performed. At all times, the user is the magician. No one can guess that it is actually iForce doing the predicting.

The prediction accuracy of iForce is amazing and its secrets cannot be discovered by others. Even when examined, people are unable to detect any sign of iForce working its uncanny magic inside the iPhone. This lends even more credibility to the magician. With its flexibility and allowance for customization, iForce offers illusionists almost unlimited magical ability. A user can instantly create unique performances to keep the material ever fresh.

Professional magicians from all over the world have purchased iForce for use in their own shows. The secret way in which the app works, plus the fact that the illusions are unlimited, makes it a perfect purchase for anyone involved or interested in magic and mentalism.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 3.0 or later

Pricing and Availability: $2.99 (USD)

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c0deart LLC has released Traffic Info Map USA 1.2 for iPhone and iPod touch users. Traffic Info Map USA was designed to quickly deliver text-based traffic information. The app is a portable traffic and weather report with near real time data for any zip code in the country. This helps users to avoid road closures, accidents, detours and other traffic related snafus on their travel route. With this newest version, the app does even more.

Traffic Info Map USA was designed to quickly deliver text-based traffic information. The app uses Yahoo! Traffic RSS feed API to retrieve traffic data for most metropolitan areas in the United States.

While most cities get near real-time coverage, others are less frequently updated, depending on their location. C0deart has resolved this by supplying a convenient zip code checker on their website that details what coverage is available for the zip code a traveller is going to. Coverage is then known before hitting the road.

Regardless of traffic coverage, Traffic Info Map USA delivers real time reporting of a user’s speed, direction, altitude and co-ordinates.

Traffic Info Map USA uses an easy color coded system for instant information relay.

About Traffic Map Info USA
Traffic Info Map USA is a near real-time portable traffic and weather report you carry with you everywhere you go. With Traffic Info Map USA on your iPhone or iPod Touch, you can know what others don’t and avoid that traffic tie-up, know the weather at your destination and receive real time data about your speed, direction, altitude and co-ordinates.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 3.0 or later

Pricing and Availability: $0.99 (USD)

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JL Software has released Your High-Risk Pregnancy 1.0, a resource for pregnant women who encounter unexpected complications or worrisome findings during pregnancy. This searchable, cross-referenced resource contains detailed yet concise information on all pregnancy complications in easy-to-understand language. With its 220 pages of text and images and over 4100 keywords, the book is an instant portable information bank when office visits or symptoms raise concerns about pregnancy.

Prenatal care today involves many screening tests for genetic disorders, tests of fetal anatomy and growth, and tests of fetal well-being. With so many standard tests, questions inevitably arise when results are ambiguous or hard to understand.

This is where Your High-Risk Pregnancy provides a complete description of the findings, a perspective on their significance, and reassurance in the majority of cases. Busy obstetricians often do not have time to fully explain the reasons for investigation of suspected pregnancy issues, or the results of those investigations. As a result, couples often face needless worry.

The Search page uses more than 4,100 keywords, enabling the user to quickly find all pages relevant to her search. Users can also easily bookmark any page for future quick reference. There is no limit on the number of bookmarks, double-bookmarking is automatically prevented, and bookmarks can be added or removed at any time. To retrieve a bookmarked page, the user simply chooses the Bookmarks icon and taps the desired page from the presented list. This is a handy way to save a list of topics to be discussed with the physician.

Pricing and Availability: $14.99 (USD)

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UK based VerySoftware has announced Christmas Gift Finder 1.0, their free Christmas app for the iPhone and iPod touch. Christmas Gift Finder helps find the perfect gifts for your family, friends and colleagues this Christmas and New Year. You can save up to 1/3 on gifts when using our app. Bookmark gifts you like. If you cannot decide which gift to buy from our vast choice, you can add it to bookmarks. Once you are ready to purchase, it’s always there.

Get up to 33% discount. Enjoy your Christmas shopping without robbing a bank. You can save up to 1/3 on gifts when using our app. Bookmark gifts you like. If you cannot decide which gift to buy from our vast choice, you can add it to bookmarks. Once you are ready to purchase, it’s always there.

Get away from running about the crowded shops during this Christmas period. Save your time and money with Christmas Gift Finder. You will be pleasantly surprised what a wide range of Christmas presents our app provides you: from Health Club Day Pass for your Mom to Pocket Crossword and Anagram Solver for your grandpa. There’s a gift for everyone! Find cool gifts and get up to 33% discount on your purchase!

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod touch 3.1.2 or later

Pricing and Availability:
Christmas Gift Finder 1.0 is free and available exclusively through the App Store in the Lifestyle category.

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Renowned digital artist David Scott Leibowitz and iPhone developer Stone Design have announced their app, iCreated included in ART News Magazine’s Art Talk section discussion of iPhone art in the December ‘09 issue. iCreated lets you instantly view 48 unique works of art created on the iPhone, as well as connect you to its internet site of iPhone art. You can participate by uploading your iPhone art for possible inclusion.

It now contains over 150 works of art, and it’s creators are ecstatic that a mainstream art Publication like ART News has taken notice. Stating that the app "acts as an online gallery for iPhone art", the article quotes Leibowitz talking about art submissions to the iCreated gallery, "You see photographers, painters, image manipulators from all over the world".

Since the App Store opened in 2008, new tools for creating graphics and altering photos began to appear and artists everywhere quickly began to utilize what is essentially a new computing platform. Currently, there are close to 50 iPhone artist’s work showcased in iCreated.

The iCreated Gallery button reveals a constantly evolving on-line gallery of iPhone Art, uploaded from around the world, and selected for their beauty, and uniqueness. The Gallery provides a space for this evolving art medium to flourish, as established and aspiring Artist’s use this app as a powerful promotional tool. Currently included in the Gallery are artworks by equally gifted international iPhone artists, Alexander Acevedo, (Florida, USA), Mauro Ballabeni, (Bologna, Italy),Corliss Blakely, (Vermount, USA), Willie Cole, (Connecticut, USA), Matt Connors, (New Jersey, USA), Robert Dawson, (California, USA), Christine Finkelson, (NYC, USA),Rita Flores, (New Jersey, USA), Helene Goldberg, (California, USA), Jens Herrmann, (Herborn, Germany), Fernando Lopez del Hierro, (Madrid, Spain), Simone Kirschning, (Germany), Kara Jansson Kovacev , (New York), Rino Larsen, (Norway), Yan Min Lee, (Taichung, Taiwan), Joey Livingston, (Florida, USA), Deborah McMillion, (Arizona, USA), S
usan Murtaugh, (Wisconsin, USA), Stephane Noselli, (Nice, France), Amy Nelp, (Colorado, USA), Benjamin Rabe, (Hamburg, Germany), Mia Robinson, (Washington, DC, USA), Matthew Watkins, (Canada and Italy), and miguelb2000 (Dallas, USA)

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod touch 3.0 or later

Pricing and Availability: $0.99 (USD)
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Austin based KApps has announced Secret Swap 1.01, their free secret swapping app for iPhone and iPod touch. Secret Swap provides a entertaining, hilarious, and sometimes downright frightening look into people’s deepest, darkest secrets. There are currently over 2,000 secrets in the database that have been posted by other Secret Swap users. These secrets range from hilarious childhood mishaps to sometimes over-the-top, disgusting, and downright disturbing admissions.

Austin, Texas – KApps has announced Secret Swap 1.01 is now available for the iPhone and iPod Touch as a free download from iTunes and the App Store. There are currently over 2,000 secrets in the database that have been posted by other Secret Swap users. These secrets range from hilarious childhood mishaps to sometimes over-the-top, disgusting, and downright disturbing admissions. The rating system ensures that only the best secrets stay in the database. Something been bothering you or causing you to stay up at night? Get it off your chest now and add your secret today!

Features
* Read through the 2000+ secrets and growing that have already been posted by other Secret Swap users
* Rate each secret and see how other users have rated it
* Anonymously post your own secrets

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 2.2.1 or later

Pricing and Availability:
Secret Swap 1.01 is free and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Entertainment category.

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Boston based Pictional has released TrueHDR 1.0.1, an iPhone photography app for creating high dynamic range images. TrueHDR combines two photos taken at different exposures and presents a higher dynamic range than a single photo can capture. Users can take two photos on an iPhone 3GS with the in-app autofocus camera, or select saved images, and merge them into an HDR image. The output image has vivid colors and details in both bright and dark areas.

TrueHDR is designed to address the issue that cameras can only capture limited dynamic range in a single photo. In other words, when people take photos of a scene that has a large range from bright to dark, they often have to choose between the bright areas and the dark areas – if a picture is appropriately exposed for the bright areas (e.g., a sunny sky with clouds), then the dark areas (e.g., a person standing in the shade under a tree) often become gray or black blobs with no details. Vice versa, if a picture is correctly exposed for the dark areas, the bright areas get washed out and look like white haze.

TrueHDR allows users to take two photos on an iPhone 3GS with the in-app autofocus camera, tapping on a bright area to adjust exposure for the first image and tapping on a dark area to adjust exposure for the second image. TrueHDR then uses sophisticated computational techniques to automatically align, merge, and optimize the resulting image for display. It also allows users to select a pair of saved images, taken with the iPhone 3GS or another camera with variable exposure settings, and merge them into one HDR image.

System Requirements:
Camera functionality requires minimum iPhone OS 3.1 and iPhone 3GS. Merging functionality with saved images may be used on iPhone or iPod Touch.

Pricing and Availability: $1.99 (USD)
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Illinois based Inspiretis has announced ListMonger 1.5, an update to their list making app for iPhone and iPod touch. ListMonger’s new backup and restore features utilize a standard web browser and a Wi-Fi connection to facilitate communication between an iPhone or iPod touch, and a computer. This easy-to-use solution allows ListMonger’s application database to be freely moved, copied, and restored between a computer and iPhone OS devices.

ListMonger’s new backup and restore features utilize a standard web browser and a Wi-Fi connection to facilitate communication between an iPhone or iPod touch, and a computer. This easy-to-use solution allows ListMonger’s application database to be freely moved, copied, and restored between a computer and iPhone OS devices, providing the freedom, flexibility, and security of individual app backup.

Furthermore, unlike alternative solutions, ListMonger backup does not require the additional purchase of a separate desktop application, there is no online subscription service required, no Java or freeware applications to install and fidget with, and no sending all of one’s private data off to a server in some unknown developer’s basement.

System Requirements:
iPhone or iPod touch running iPhone OS 3.0 or later. Backup and restore features require a Mac or PC computer. The computer and iPhone OS device must be connected to the same local network (iPhone OS device via Wi-Fi) with no firewall or other settings blocking communication between them. Recommended to use a current version of Safari, Firefox, or Internet Explorer.

Pricing and Availability: $2.99 (USD)

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UK based George Burgess has released GeoRev 1.0, a Geography GCSE revision application for the iPhone and iPod Touch. GeoRev, is designed to help students revise for their Geography GCSE exam and consists of 600 multiple-choice questions. These questions are separated into 15 topic areas with both foundation and higher tier options. The topic areas aim to incorporate the majority of material required by major exam boards.

The app, GeoRev, is designed to help students revise for their Geography GCSE exam and consists of 600 multiple-choice questions. These questions are separated into 15 topic areas with both foundation and higher tier options. The topic areas aim to incorporate the majority of material required by major exam boards.

The app can also be used by users who want to test their general Geographical knowledge, or those taking exams in other countries. GeoRev is the first of many revision apps Burgess will produce as part of his business EducationApps. The business aims to produce high quality education applications for the iPhone and iPod touch which help pupils to learn and revise for exams.

Burgess outsourced the development of the application. The 600 questions were written by Will Williams, Head of Geography at St Paul’s, and Burgess himself.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 3.0 or later

Pricing and Availability: £0.59 until 1st January 2010.

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Stone Design has released new versions of its top-selling iPhone Twitter client Twittelator Pro and re-released Twittelator Free. Featuring twitter lists, geotagging of tweets, and official autoretweeting. In-app purchase lets you unlock all the Pro features in the free version, but you get to try the real deal with hundreds of features. Twittelator Pro runs on all models of the iPhone and iPod Touch.

"Potential Twittelators asked for a free version, and we listened." said Stone Design CEO Andrew Stone, @twittelator. "The free version gives you the Twittelator Pro experience, and you can opt to make a one-time in-app purchase to unlock the complete Twittelator Pro feature set."

The key new features added to Twittelator & Twittelator Pro v3.4 include:

Complete Twitter Lists support:
* Quickly create and edit lists
* View your lists, your subscribed lists and lists that include you
* And do the same for any other user
* Quickly add a person to any of your lists
* Tlists.com full list search to find great lists and tweeters
* Find recommended lists by topic with TList’s search engine
* Option to geotag your tweets with your location
* Automatic ReTweeting uses new official Twitter RT architecture
* Old School editable ReTweeting available too!
* See all your RT’s, RT’s of your tweets, and RT’s by your friends
* Reply All with one tap

With so many other power features including multiple accounts, lists, record audio, shoot video, unlimited drafts, offline tweeting, Twittelator and Twittelator Pro v3.4 pack the most features into a Twitter client, mobile or desktop.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 3.0 or later

Pricing and Availability: $4.99 (USD)

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CrimsonJet has announced Drum Kit 3.0.1, an update to their premier drum app for iPhone and iPod Touch. Drum Kit now lets your play along to songs in your iPod music library from within the app. It also introduces a new Electronic/Industrial Theme Pack which compliments the classic acoustic drum theme. Users have the option of playing with a variety of sounds, including, rock, hip-hop, techno and jazz on both the acoustic and electronic sets.

Skilled drummers and amateurs alike can become rock stars with Drum Kit, whether playing the drums along with music from the iPod or rolling out a solo. Drummers will also appreciate the ability to record and save all of their masterpieces. Additional features of Drum Kit include a built-in metronome with count-in before recording, ability to play rolls by sliding fingers across the set and a left-handed mode for all of the lefties out there.

CrimsonJet is offering theme packs in a unique form by allowing users the option to "unlock" them via in-app purchase for $0.99. You can tell your friends of your purchase via Twitter or Facebook. Drum Kit continues to be one of the top music apps in the App Store.

System Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 3.0 or greater

Pricing and Availability: $1.99 (USD)

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LAJ Design has announced CostToMeet 1.0.2, a meeting timer app for the iPhone and iPod touch. Every meeting costs money and the length of the meeting multiplies the cost for the meeting. Effective meetings need to stay on track, be justified, and be timely. You can configure the number of participants and the cost of each person. Meetings will continue running if you switch programs. You can also pause the meeting. Keep your meetings on track with CostToMeet.

We have all sat in meetings that were much longer than needed and thought that you wish Joe (the meeting coordinator) realized how much this costs. Or have you walked out after a meeting thinking the meeting was not needed. Sometimes peers and employees need to be reminded about the cost of a meeting when planning meetings. Of course use care when discussing this with your boss.

Walk into a meeting, set the number of participants, start the timer and watch the costs add up. It will show how long you have been in the meeting or a running cost for the meeting. You can configure the number of participants and the cost of each person. Meetings will continue running if you switch programs. You can also pause the meeting. Keep your meetings on track with CostToMeet.

Language Support:
* US English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Chinese, and Japanese

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod touch 3.1 or later

Pricing and Availability: $0.99 USD

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Juicy Bits has released Spy Pix 1.0 for iPhone, a new app that makes it easy to hide and send secret messages in plain view. Spy Pix uses steganography to hide one image inside of another decoy image. To casual viewers, only the decoy image is seen. However for seasoned spies, the image can be decoded with Spy Pix to reveal a hidden message. On receipt of an encoded image, an on-screen slider is used to decode the image and reveal a secret message.

Spy Pix makes it easy to select an image to hide by taking a photo with the built-in iPhone camera or by choosing an image from the photo album. The same options are also used to select a decoy image. By dragging an on-screen slider, the two images are then blended together until the hidden image is no longer visible and only the decoy image remains. The encoded image can then be attached to an e-mail and sent to fellow spies.

On receipt of an encoded image, an on-screen slider is used to decode the image and reveal a secret message. Spy Pix can also guess the appropriate slider setting by touching a "Guess" button or by shaking the iPhone. The decoded image can then be saved to the photo album.

A badge feature enables users to include a 60 x 60 pixel icon in the lower-right corner of the encoded image. Spy Pix includes a built-in default badge, the option to choose a custom badge image from the photo album, or the badge can be eliminated completely for truly covert operation.

Spy Pix images are encoded as common Portable Network Graphics (PNG) files that can be stored and hosted anywhere that supports the PNG file format (web sites, blogs, Twitter, Photobucket, yFrog, etc.).

Device Requirements:
* iPhone 3.1 or later

Pricing and Availability: $0.99 (USD)

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QuinnScape today announced aQ’s Pro Slider Puzzle 2.0 for iPhone and iPod touch. The aQ’s Pro Slider Puzzle family of apps include six theme-focused apps, plus one all-inclusive 6-in-1 Combo app. This 6-in-1 slider puzzle includes "Full Screen, Full Fun," "Puzzle Your Pic," "Shake to Shuffle," "Numbered or Not," "Wallpaper This!" and "Save for a Rainy Day."

The "aQ’s Pro Slider Puzzle" family of apps include six theme-focused apps (Nature, Birds, Travel, the Maya, Egypt & Space), plus one, all-inclusive, 6-in-1 Combo app. Each themed app sells for only $0.99 USD, while the combo app sells for only $2.99 USD (six themes for the price of only three). Every puzzle is solvable, and each game has four skill levels (Easy, Medium, Hard & Impossible) – unlock advanced levels by successfully completing easier ones.

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impaXor is now available in the App Store. The latest from rayBLAST allows the player to intuitively control lasers while destroying an onslaught of UFOs, asteroids, and space junk in fast-tapping, classic, arcade action. impaXor is AGON Online enabled giving the player access to online leaderboards that support posting scores to Facebook and Twitter. Thirteen original pieces of otherworldly music fulfills the gameʼs soundtrack.

impaXor was developed with the ten-minute casual gamer in mind. Simple controls were implemented to facilitate the gamerʼs quick in-and-out experience. impaXor requires a minimum of iPhone OS version 3.0. Additional information can be found on the official impaXor webpage at http://www.rayblast.com/impaxor/. You can follow rayBLAST game development updates on Twitter at @_rayBLAST_ .

About rayBLAST – independent game developer owned and operated by Marshal Hernandez. rayBLAST was established in 2007 and is an authorized iPhone, Nintendo DSi, and Wii developer. Currently, the studio has several projects underway.

About Marshal D. Hernandez – an artist turned game developer with over 15 years experience in multimedia and professional graphics. During his career, he has filled key roles in game and multimedia projects ranging from concept artist to art director. Marshal has worked on game art and marketing collateral for titles such as Konductra, Deca Sports, Alien Crush Returns, Marble Saga Kororinpa, and Bomberman Ultra.

Price: $1.99
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Tatem Games is proud to announce its newest title for iPhone and iPod Touch, Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter. Based on Action Forms’s franchise Carnivores initially hits on PC in 1997 and becomes very successful. The game brings you to the dangerous world filled with prehistoric creatures from a time long past.

Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter is a 3D console-quality hunting game which lets players explore huge locations, get realistic action and enjoy true hunting. With the most top AI on the platform, dangerous creatures are able to see, hear and feel the hunter. Running will not help you this time, the hunter has become the hunted.

Game features:
• realistic huge 3D locations
• authentic 3D dinosaurs, from the Herbivorous (plant eating) for novice hunters to the Carnivorous (meat-eating) for experts
• 6 different types of weapons
• two game modes – Arcade and Hunt
• online leaderboards and social networking
• interactive Dino Trophy Room

Game video teaser

Carnivores Dinosaur Hunter will be available on App Store in January 2010.

PopCap Games, the leading developer and publisher of broadly appealing video games, today announced the launch of its match-3 puzzle game hit Chuzzle™ for the iPhone™ and iPod® touch. Developed in concert with John Raptis, the designer and developer of the original PC version, Chuzzle is available immediately from Apple’s App Store on iPhone and iPod touch.

“Chuzzle is another great addition to PopCap’s growing library of titles for the iPhone and iPod touch,” said Andrew Stein, director of mobile platforms at PopCap Games. “The touch screen of the Apple devices is the ideal interface for the ‘sliding’ mechanic at the core of the game. This is a fantastic adaptation that delivers on PopCap’s outstanding track record for bringing out some of the most acclaimed games available in the App Store. Young or old, male or female, everybody loves playing Chuzzle.”

In Chuzzle, players shift rows of cute furballs called “chuzzles” to create vertically or horizontally matching sets of three or more chuzzles of the same color, causing the chuzzles to explode with happiness while more chuzzles drop from above to take their places. Four different game modes offer a nearly infinite range of challenges across seemingly limitless levels, and giant chuzzles, rainbow chuzzles, super chuzzles, and other bonuses help overcome various obstacles.

Price: $4.99

Geospace and developer RogueSheep announced today that the WORD SPIN® Lite game for iPhone and iPod touch is now available for FREE from the App Store. The WORD SPIN App combines the elements of popular word games, crossword puzzles and word searches into a portable game for iPhone and iPod touch. The app is a great way to sharpen language skills by identifying words and anagrams from two to eight letters in length.

The WORD SPIN Lite App allows players to use all of the game features when they accept challenges from other players that have the full WORD SPIN App. Also, Lite Practice is perfect for players who wish to experiment with building tougher seven and eight letter words. The Lite App Practice game identifies one easy to overlook word in a round. However, the Full App Practice identifies up to 10 missed words on every line after each round.

WORD SPIN Lite players also have an option to purchase the full WORD SPIN App by touching the “Upgrade” link directly from the game on the iPhone or iPod touch. The full WORD SPIN App includes three different games: Solitaire, Challenge and Practice where players can set personal high scores that can be recorded on both local and global leader boards, challenge other players, better determine missed words, and practice building and identifying more words. In addition, registered owners of the full WORD SPIN App are entitled to VIP CLUB benefits which include a hot link to buy other toys and items offered by GEOSPACE® at a VIP Discount of up to 35%.

Controlling the WORD SPIN game is easy with the innovative Multi Touch user interface of iPhone and iPod touch. While in the SPIN phase, flick any wheel up or down with one finger to spin it to the desired letter. To move a wheel, simply tap and hold a wheel with one finger and drag it left or right to the desired position. All wheels can be rotated up or down simultaneously by flicking with two fingers. After the player has lined up their desired word/words, they can begin the SCORE phase. To tally a word, the player must tap letters from left to right to select a word and then tap the last letter again to instantly transfer words to the score sheet. Misspelled words result in a deduction from the score sheet.

The WORD SPIN Lite App is FREE from the App Store on iPhone and iPod touch. The full WORD SPIN App is currently available for $1.99 which is 30% off of the MSRP price of $2.99.

MiniSquadron is a frantic shooter for the iPhone/iPod Touch, involving lots of little planes all vying for supremacy of the skies! Perform loop-the-loops, Immelmann turns and other daring feats of aerial shenanigans with a super fluid control system – experience the joy of freedom in the air!

FEATURES:

- Intuitive touch controls.
- Stunning graphics and art.
- Over 50 planes to unlock and collect.
- 8 Levels of intense combat.
- 7 different types of weapon to use including BIG Laser!
- Ducks, Seagulls, UFOs, Devil Planes, Squids!
- Fluid gameplay systems based on physics
- More than 8 different pick-ups.
- Addictive Multiplier System for advanced players.
- 1 VERSUS 1 Local WiFi Multiplayer.
- Rock out to the genius of Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaichovsky and other dead composers.

UPCOMING UPDATE:
- Ability to play your own music
- Survival Mode

Price: 99 cents

Create the most awesome virtual puppy and share it with your friends & the world!

Start by adopting your very own touchable, loveable, lively puppy from seven popular breeds!
Pamper your pup with the coolest clothes, accessories, toys and grooming gear. Or train your
puppy to perform amazing tricks and prepare for exciting careers. Itʼs your puppy — express
your creativity in every level of gameplay.

Your Touch Petsʼ virtual lives, needs and relationships keep going whether youʼre playing or not,
but a little hands-on care, training and creative flair can turn any touch pet into your ultimate
pooch!

Discover the virtual world of Touch Pets Dogs, only for iPhone and iPod touch.

Price: Free for a limited time and up to 10 Food – price goes up to $29.99 for 400 Food

UK based Apps Mobilis today is proud to introduce The Night Before Christmas, a timeless yuletide poem for children and their new animated audiobook for iPhone and iPod Touch. Designed specifically to leverage the iPhone’s unique abilities and peerless interface, The Night Before Christmas is a Moving Audio book based on the classic children’s poem by Clement C. Moore. It features beautifully illustrated, narrated stories, and offers a compelling way to keep young children engaged.

This classic and magical Christmas poem was first published in 1823 and is also known as "A visit from Saint Nicholas", and even today it has had a huge impact on how we perceive Christmas with the image of Saint Nicholas (also known as Father Christmas or Santa Claus) on a sleigh, being pulled by eight reindeer who visits children in the night while they are fast asleep and leaving them presents.

Whether keeping the little ones occupied on journeys, or helping them learn to read, The Night Before Christmas features a compelling narrated story, with beautifully illustrated images. Illustrations actually move around and zoom in and out of the screen while they listen to the narration, and offers a unique way to keep young children engaged. Additionally, the application contains the full book, so once it is downloaded there is no need for an internet connection.

The story scrolls across the bottom of the screen with the current word highlighted as it is read, and the story can be paused and resumed at any time. The "Read to me" lets a child enjoy this wonderful Yuletide poem. The "I’ll read" mode lets a child read at their own pace. As they read the story for themselves, they just touch the word as they read it; the illustrations will change with each chapter but they will not be fully animated so that there is no visual distraction while they read.

System Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 2.2.1 or later
* 6.9 Mb

Pricing and Availability: $1.99 (USD)

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Satosoft Releases MP Expenses 1.0 for iPhone and iPod Touch – Published on 12/09/09

Indie software producer Satosoft today announced MP Expenses 1.0, their third application exclusively for iPhone and iPod Touch. MP Expenses features the information that UK MP’s have tried to cover up for years by giving you the ability to view each MP’s expenses. You can also send them an email to their own email address. Additionally, you can ring their Parliamentary office or Constituency office or even view their website.

Ewcastle Upon Tyne, England – Satosoft, indie iPhone software producer, today announced their third application, MP Expenses, is now available exclusively for the iPhone and iPod Touch. MP Expenses, from Satosoft, gives you the information that UK MP’s have tried to cover up for years. It gives you the ability to view each MP’s expenses. You can also send them an email to their own email address. Additionally, you can ring their Parliamentary office or Constituency office or even view their website.

"This repository of MP contact data had hundreds of hours of research invested in its collection! No other iPhone/iPod Touch App gives you so much power to contact any or all 645 UK MP’s!" said Graham French, founder of Satosoft.

"I’m extremely pleased with the MP Expenses application; I know that people will find it both informative and entertaining," said French. "We built it to show the general public that MP’s are more available then most believe. You don’t have to write a letter or meet them face-to-face. You can contact them right now! The favourite feature though, is the ability to email the MP’s direct and phone their offices. It allows everyone to see what the MP’s have been up to. We are putting authority into the hands of ordinary folk, built in!" "Future updates will contain more information and will allow user customisation of the various screens" Added French.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod touch 3.1.2 or later

Pricing and Availability: $5.99 in the US, £3.49 in the UK and is priced accordingly in other regions.

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Cambridge based Skewsoft today announces Sums 1.1, an update to their popular ledger and tally sheet utility for iPhone and iPod touch. Designed specifically to leverage the iPhone’s unique capabilities, Sums provides an intuitive, paper-like interface that lets users enter, edit, rearrange, and delete figures quickly and easily. Write a budget, track expenses, balance the checkbook, tally game points, log mileage, or manage any other list of numbers.

Featuring an intuitive, paper-like interface, Sum makes it easy to write a budget, track expenses, balance the checkbook, tally game points, log mileage, or manage any other list of numbers. With just a few quick taps, record, edit, and keep a running total of the amounts, tallies, scores, and figures that matter. The total is calculated automatically and always stays up-to-date.

Sums places emphasis on usability through the use of notebook-like sheets. It offers a numeric keypad with large buttons for entering, editing, rearranging, and deleting figures quickly and easily. Users may create an unlimited number of sheets, or simply swipe to delete sheets and entries. Tapping the Total Bar instantly scrolls to the end of a sheet for easy viewing, and negative numbers are displayed in red for better visibility.

One of Sums’ most unique features is its ability to duplicate sheets, allowing an existing sheet to be used as the template for a new one. Sums also remembers the user’s last position in each sheet and faithfully restores it when they return. Additionally, users can export sheets via email. Data is sent as tab-delimited text, which can be viewed directly or imported into Excel, Numbers, or other applications.

Version 1.1 is a significant update, and includes many user-requested features as well as minor bug fixes. Sums now offers sharper entry text and introduces a new keypad with larger buttons to make it easier to enter and edit numbers. The scroll position is saved and restored for all sheets, and tapping the Total Bar automatically scrolls to the end of a sheet. Users can now duplicate sheets, as well as copy a sheet’s total for pasting into other sheets, or other apps.

Device Requirements:
* Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch
* Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later

Pricing and Availability: $4.99 (USD)

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The Strobox app is a lighting diagram creator for all types of photographers. Whether you want to repeat the same photoshoot or share with others how you made that cool photo, Strobox app will give you the right tools to do so. It generates PNG files that you can share with anyone as easy as by sending it by email within this app.

This app gives you over 25+ lighting equipments to choose from (with plans to add more):
-Backdrops
-Strobes
-Softboxes
-Umbrellas
-Hairlights
-Diffussion panel

Best of all it’s free!