Daily App Digest – 12/10/09

Dramatic Applications today announced Fight Lights 1.0 for iPhone and iPod touch. Fight Lights offers a unique way for avid sports fans to show support for their favorite team. Enter your favorite teams’ names, select their uniform colors from a color picker provided, then flash your team’s colors with special effects. This is not just for Pro sports and college sports, Fight Lights can be used in any sporting event at any school or league regardless of the players age.

Picture your stadium or your school’s stands filled with fans flashing the colors of your team. There are even special effect options on how you want your colors to shine. Try flash, wave or swirl and even change the speed at which the colors alternate for a fun way to show your team pride. There is also a timer that allows users to start their “Fight Lights” at the same time or at a specified time during the game. This is not just for Pro sports and college sports, Fight Lights can be used in any sporting event at any school or league regardless of the players age.

Each month a percentage of sales will be donated to a different charitable organization. This is a way for everyone who downloads Fight Lights to give back. Sports fans are enthusiastic and passionate about their teams. It is with the strength of their support that we believe that we will be able to make a difference in so many organizations that can use some help during these tough economic times.” explains Dramatic Applications co-founder Margo Sadow. The first charitable organization to receive a percentage of sales will be the Combat Soldier’s Recovery Fund. This wonderful organization gives 100% of the donations it receives to severely wounded soldiers and their immediate family. “My husband is a retired, injured Marine” says Co-founder Sarah Picot “and we have many friends who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan and we want to show our support for them as a way to launch Fight Lights this month. Fighting to help those in need as we cheer on our teams will be wonderful f
or everyone.” Fight for your team and fight for a cause when you download Fight Lights.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 3.0 or later

Pricing and Availability: $1.99 (USD)
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AppAppers today released iJog 1.0 for iPhone users. The tracker app combines a clean, simple interface with accurate GPS technology that records time and distance, even if users are listening to music while they run or jog. iJog takes care of all trip calculations, even the course traveled, average speed, trip time and the number of calories burned. Users no longer need to manually calculate their pace or progress.

Previously, it was necessary to use an online mapping service to track the distance of a route. Measuring distance and calculating speed and pace of a run or jog was time consuming and not always accurate. The iJog app takes care of all trip calculations, even the course traveled, average speed, trip time and the number of calories burned. Although anyone can use the app for measuring any kind of distance, runners and joggers will especially appreciate the health and fitness tips that are built right into the application, along with being able to view all their stats on one screen.

The simple yet accurate iJog app is touted as convenient, time-saving and fun.

About iJog:
iJog is a new tracking app for iPhone users. Its clean, simple interface combines with accurate GPS technology to provide a very user-friendly experience. Users can now let iJog do all of their speed and distance calculations, even when they’re listening to their iPod app.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone 3.0 or later

Pricing and Availability: $0.99 (USD)

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Appnoose LTD today announced Gorilla Monkey Crunch Lite 1.0 for iPhone/iPod touch. The Lite version features all the same functions as the fully paid version except that it does not have the Global high scores using Openfeint, does not save the game on exit or interruption & is ad supported. Gorilla Monkey Crunch Lite is a 2D arcade style action game for players from 6 to 96. Your goal is to knock out as many Monkeys as you can from their rafts as they pass below by dropping coconuts from above.

Gorilla Monkey Crunch Lite is a 2D arcade style action game for players from 6 to 96. Your goal is to knock out as many Monkeys as you can from their rafts as they pass below by dropping coconuts from above. If you miss, the monkeys will return to sender and hurl the coconuts which will break the bridge sections. They will also throw bananas that land on the bridge. You must jump over the bananas and bridge gaps or you will lose a life. You have bonus timers that will extend the time and toolkits that will fix the bridge.

Gorilla Monkey Crunch Lite features open-ended game play which means that as long as you get the timers and have Gorilla lives remaining you could play forever.

“With this free version there is no barrier to entry and we’re allowing gamers to check out this game with zero risk. If they like it they can have a look at the paid version which has the very exciting leaderboard feature and other enhancements”, states Owen Hunte, Appnoose Founder. “We’re also running a competition where the first person to get to 10,000 points on the Leaderboard wins an iPod Touch so that’s worth checking out the paid version for”, he continues.

Gorilla Monkey Crunch Lite will be available exclusively through the Apple Appstore from December 10th 2009 .

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or 2nd Generation iPod touch 2.2.1 or later

Pricing and Availability:
Gorilla Monkey Crunch Lite 1.0 is Free and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Arcade Games category.

Gorilla Monkey Crunch Lite 1.0

ZENTITY today announce Touch Carrom 1.1.1, the most realistic Carrom board game on the iPhone and iPod Touch. Touch Carrom is a popular, fun and exciting implementation of the Carrom board game played all over the world. Touch Carrom brings the power of touch controls to the game with the passion and skills just like the real game. Touch Carrom features beautiful graphics and natural equipment simulation, with engaging game play, intuitive touch controls and more.

Carrom is a board game played on a smooth wooden square board with pockets at each corner. The goal is to collect your color of the carrom-men (wooden coin like pieces) by pocketing them with a Striker hit. One carrom-man equals one point, queen (red carrom-man) equals three points. Queen’s three points are counted only if that player also wins the board. A match is won from best of three games. A game is won by getting twenty five points or best of eight boards, whichever comes first.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch version 2.2.1 or later (iPhone 3, 3GS and iPod 3rd Gen tested)

Pricing and Availability: $1.99 (USD)

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Deep Powder Software today released U.F.O. Sightings 1.1 for iPhone and iPod Touch users who love to read all the details of alien visitation. Interest in alien sightings and spacecrafts is almost as old as time itself. There are millions of people worldwide who actively seek information and offer first hand accounts of what they believe to be, valid U.F.O. sightings. The thousands of accounts offer enough details to keep readers happy for a long time.

Interest in alien sightings and spacecrafts is almost as old as time itself. There are millions of people worldwide who actively seek information and offer first hand accounts of what they believe to be, valid U.F.O. sightings. Deep Powder Software’s app offers an easy and convenient way to access thousands of unidentified flying object reports through a user’s iPhone or iPod Touch device.

Although the U.F.O. Sightings information is from eye witnesses, readers themselves need to determine if the accounts are true or just convincing hoaxes. Included details are valuable not only for the merely curious but also for those who like to do their own investigations or theorize, as report sources are supplied.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone OS 3.0 or later or iPod Touch

Pricing and Availability: $0.99 (USD

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Deep Powder Software has released Pro Poker Log 3.1 for iPhone and iPod Touch users. The app has been developed to allow poker players to record in-depth details of games, which may help to increase their wins. Pro Poker Log tracks and organizes playing times, location, blinds, rakes and tournament fees, as well as the amount of money won or lost. It has a simple interface which makes it easy for anyone to use.

Deep Powder Software intentionally created the application to go more in-depth for game analysis than any other app of its kind. From personal experience, owner Gordon F. Craig knew that there was a great deal to be learned from strategies used in past plays, “I came to realize that the only way to become a winning player and make any money was to keep a log of wins, loses and notes from every game. Then a player can analyze how he plays and constantly learn from his own style”.

The app tracks and organizes playing times, location, blinds, rakes and tournament fees, as well as the amount of money won or lost. It also features a graph to show progress over a specified period of time. Stats can be emailed and are automatically backed up when the iDevice is synced with iTunes.

Although Pro Poker Log records details and does calculations, it has a simple interface which makes it easy for anyone to use. If a user does happen to run into a problem, there is direct link to the tutorial page. Using Pro Poker Log as a learning tool to improve odds seems to have already caught the attention of many poker enthusiasts.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone OS 3.1 or later, iPod Touch

Pricing and Availability: $7.99 (USD)

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nFinity has announced that between now and the end of the year it is giving away 25,000 copies of its award winning QuickVoice pC desktop computer software. This is an exclusive give-away to iPhone users. The promotion is 100% free, as in no purchase necessary and no gimmicks. iPhone users need to only download one of nFinity’s two apps from Apple’s iTunes App Store.

To qualify, iPhone users need to only download one of nFinity’s two apps from Apple’s iTunes App Store. One of them is a free app! The two apps are: QuickVoice Recorder (free version) and QuickVoice2Text Email nFinity’s PRO app which sells for 99-cents app. Both are App Store “Top Ten” iPhone apps with more than 1-million unique users.

The give-away recorder, QuickVoice pC for Mac or Windows (a USD $15 value), has garnered numerous software awards including MacWorld’s “Best Software Under $40.” QuickVoice pC is a feature rich voice recorder for laptop and desktop computers with its one click recording, voice email, voice reminders, and audio stickies. Additionally, both of nFinity’s iPhone apps can sync recordings to the QuickVoice desktop app making this setup a “one stop” audio recording solution for the iPhone and personal computer.

QuickVoice iP

Indiana based Daze End Software has released Action Lists 2.2, a new version of their task manager for the iPhone and iPod touch. Action Lists is designed specifically for the popular Getting Things Done methodology. Action Lists has many GTD-specific features, and this new version adds user requested features like searching and the ability to create tasks from the contents of the iPhone’s clipboard. Data in Action Lists can be syncrhonized with the popular, and free, Toodledo web service.

“Most of the popular productivity apps for the iPhone support Getting Things Done in some manner,” said Charles Perry, owner of Daze End Sotware, “but they do it while trying to still appeal to a general audience. In the process, their GTD support becomes watered down. Action Lists doesn’t make this mistake. It’s designed specifically for GTD, and doesn’t make compromises.”

One of the more unique features of Action Lists is its ablility to “sync to the cloud.” Data in Action Lists can be syncrhonized with the popular, and free, Toodledo web service. Through Toodledo, users can access their tasks with a number of different applications and services including Apple iCal, Microsoft Outlook, Jott, and Google Calendars.

Action Lists has all the features that one would expect in a task manager such as searchable task lists, and subproject support, but Action Lists also includes GTD-specific features not seen in other task managers for the iPhone, according to Perry. “Users can set up a ‘tickler file’ in Action Lists so that future tasks remain hidden until a specified start date. Then, when the start date is reached, they appear in your inbox, ready for processing.” Action Lists also offers the ability to email tasks to others from within the app, and a unique feature that creates a list of tasks from the contents of the iPhone’s clipboard.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod touch 3.0 or later

Pricing and Availability: $9.99 USD

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To celebrate the launch of its flick-based shoot-’em-up (flick-’em-up) for the iPhone and iPod Touch, Orbital Defence, membraine studios announces a special weekend sale price for the game of $US0.99, available immediately.

Orbital Defence is an arcade shoot-’em-up inspired by greats like Galaga and Missile Command. What makes Orbital Defence unique is its flick-based control system, which makes for a highly playable and great fun shoot ‘em up.

With both a 12-level Campaign mode that rewards accuracy and a Survival mode that challlenges you to survive as long as you can, Orbital Defence offers great gameplay depth and shows that the iPhone can be a serious gaming device, not just a casual gaming experience.

The special sale price of US$0.99 will be valid until at least 11:59pm Sunday (PST), after which time the game will return to its usual $US1.99 price point.

A group of Australian iPhone developers have joined together to create the nation’s largest collective promotion for Christmas this year. Aussie App Sale www.aussieappsale.com has launched its first ever Christmas event featuring exclusively Australian-made iPhone and iPod Touch apps, many which have dropped their prices for the event.

The website features a host of apps ranging from sports simulators, indie games and tarot reading, as well as the widely featured DrinkTracker app. “I’m impressed with the quality local developers are pushing out to this global market,” said website cofounder Anthony Sweet. “It deserves to be recognised, and I hope we attract more attention to our Aussie developers.”

“And this is just the start of our Christmas promotion. We’ve got more apps coming soon that we’ll be updating to the site throughout the holiday season, including JumboSquid’s highly anticipated Zogma.”

The Aussie App Sale starts today and ends January 2nd. Developers interested in joining the campaign should contact the Aussie App Sale website.

In SEED 1: Rise of Darkness, players adventure within a thriving fantasy-RPG universe developed by CH Games. Players begin their adventure as an unskilled apprentice, who must defeat enemy monsters and complete quests to discover new weapons, skills and spells. Eventually, they will become a powerful hero who can change the fantasy world of Kalikoop forever.

Game Features

• Explore a thriving fantasy universe: Every step of this exciting journey will be rewarding and enjoyable! Visit over 20 unique towns, and conquer monstrous enemies on hundreds of battlefields around the world.

• Grow and customize your character: Collect special items and manipulate them to your preference through socketing, compounding and refining your collection. Use skill and intelligence to make powerful combinations of untold power!

• Use reflexes and skill in combat: Battle armies of fearsome monsters using weapons and magical forces. Upgrade skills and learn new abilities via elemental combat powers, weapon specializations and stunning magical spells.

• Ever-changing appearance: Become attached to your character as they grow. See your character’s appearance change every time you equip powerful new armor and impressive weaponry!

• Real-time changes to the game universe: Witness day turning to night in-game, just as it does in the world around you. Some quests can only be done at night, while your battles also change as the sun fades and the moon rises!

• Easy transport and discovery: Want to save time? Just take a trip on the Ship or the Air Balloon to make your travel easier.

“All of the characters and quests in SEED 1 took a long time to create,” said Jinsik Kim of CH Games. “The end result was worth the effort, as this game is incredibly deep and offers unprecedented variety to iPhone and iPod touch adventure gamers.”

Price: $2.99
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Alawar Entertainment today continued their expansion into the iTunes app store with Hotel Mogul – their 13th game by the global developer. Hotel Mogul is a fast paced business and economic simulation game based off of their PC game of the same name. This solidifies a major expansion for the highly successful developer of PC games, who plans on bringing more than twenty new gaming titles to the iTunes app store in the next year.

In Hotel Mogul, the player takes the role of the business savvy Lynette, who sets out to reclaim her families hotel empire after her ex- husband underhandedly snatches it out from under her. With only a few plots of land to her name and a small amount of cash in her pocket, Lynette must buy, sell and trade her way through the high stakes world of real estate management and fast paced economics. To win back her fortune she will need to amass a vast global empire of hotels, restaurants and amusement parks. Experience comes gradually as the player masters the basics of management. Later levels build on these essential skills with challenging missions involving the raising and repairing of structures and the buying and selling of real estate. The player has a limited amount of time to complete each task, so it’s important for him or her to learn to multitask and react quickly to a constantly changing environment.

A lite version of the game is also being released to give players new to the Alawar gaming portfolio a chance to experience the game before purchase. This lite version will include ten of the games levels in two of the global regions, and a limited number of building types.

Price: $1.99
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Elite Systems, the long established UK based developer and electronic publisher of games for portable, mobile and other devices is proud to announce that it’s bringing Paperboy™” – Warner’s classic 80’s arcade game – to iPhone & iPod Touch.

It’s hoped that the English-language versions of Paperboy™ will go live on App Stores on Friday 18th December 2009, or soon thereafter and non-English-language versions soon after that.