Daily App Digest – 12/11/09

Deep Powder Software today released Ghost Stories! 1.0 for iPhone and iPod Touch users. The app provides all the chills and thrills of those memorable ghostly tales heard around childhood campfires, on a daily basis. Classic favorites, newer stories and true accounts of ghost sightings are delivered directly to users’ iPhone. This app has been developed for those that still hunger for a delightfully bloodcurdling tale.

Ghost Stories! is a calendar based application that delivers spooky stories to users on a daily basis. Some are classic tales of horror guaranteed to bring back memories, while others are newer or true accounts of ghostly sightings. Users have access to so many, that there is no concern about running out or getting bored.

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

Pricing and Availability: $1.99 (USD)

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Iowa based KB Productions today announces GameTrac 1.0, a new sports statistics recording and analysis app for the iPhone. GameTrac is focused on tracking particular stats for individuals striving to improve performance. Originally designed for parents interested in providing their kids a tool for improvement, GameTrac 1.0 is uniquely customizable and capable of tracking any statistic, in any game, for any player.

In competitive games, there is often someone ‘keeping the book.’ Such stats are generally focused on helping teams understand strengths and weaknesses. GameTrac is focused on tracking particular stats for individuals striving to improve performance. Less performance conscious users have come to enjoy GameTrac’s ability to record game results and overall seasonal records while completely ignoring its more sophisticated capabilities. GameTrac can be as simple or complex as desired by each individual user.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 3.0 or later

Pricing and Availability: $3.99 (USD), on sale from its regular $5.99 price

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SnakeHead Software today announced Texas Tea 1.2, an update to their puzzle game iPhone and iPod touch. Texas Tea is a unique game that mixes elements of strategy and gambling. Match dice combination’s by building poker hands in a row to turn the tiles behind the matched dice to black. Easy for players to pick up and play whenever they have a spare moment, yet enough of a challenge to keep the most seasoned puzzlers and gamblers engaged.

Texas Tea 1.2 for the iPhone and iPod Touch includes these new features:
* Quick and simple play using Multi-Touch
* Texas Tea features a full list of unique Achievements
* Save / Continue Games
* Global Leader-board support allows you to prove your the best to the world
* Texas Tea is OpenFeint Enabled

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 3.0 or later

Pricing and Availability:
Texas Tea is available now for $1.99 USD.

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UK based Quapps Interactive today announced Magicam 2.0 for iPhone and iPod Touch. Magicam allows you to take live photographs with an additional prop such as U.FO, Silly Haircuts and fantastic masks to create the most entertaining and realistic photographs you have ever seen. Version 2.0 brings with it a host of new features including edit current photos, multiple props, 50+ props, iPod Touch support and a new prop selection interface.

Version 2.0 brings with it a host of new features including:
* Edit current photos
* Multiple props
* 50 props
* iPod Touch support
* New prop selection interface.

Complete Magicam 2.0 Feature List:

* Augmented Reality LIVE Photograph Mode
* Edit photos direct from Saved Photos
* Now features 52 props
* New blending filters Hue, Saturation and Lightness
* Flip Prop
* Multiple Props
* Categorised Props
* Easier Prop Selection
* iPod Support (Edit Mode)

Minimum Requirements:
* iPod Touch or iPhone 3G, 3GS running 2.2.1 firmware or later

Pricing and Availability: $1.99 (USD)

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Saforian, Inc. today released iSantaFarted 1.0 for iPhone and iPod Touch users. The fun little app combines the best of the holiday, incorporating seasonal music, dancing, optional snow and a flatulent Santa. The iSantaFarted app is user-driven. Tapping on Santa gets him dancing and posing in time to the Christmas background music. Tapping on Old Saint Nick a second time has him playing an embarrassing little tune of his own. iSantaFarted is amusing for users of all ages.

Users can turn their iPhone or iPod Touch into a mini snow globe when they have the iSantaFarted app open. Shaking the iDevice makes the snow fall gently from the sky, while the music continues to play and Santa keeps dancing while passing gas. Santa himself is quite cute. He’s designed using colorful and original, classic cartoon style graphics. iSantaFarted is a charming, inexpensive app that is sure to add festive fun to any user’s holiday.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 3.0 or later

Pricing and Availability: $0.99 (USD)

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Indie software developer Simon Watson today introduces Chromixa, his new color-blending puzzle game for iPhone and iPod touch. Developed specifically to leverage the iPhone’s unique capabilities and touch interface, Chromixa is based on the colors in white light. The goal is to overlap shapes of red, green and blue light to complete beautiful puzzles. Like all good puzzle games, Chromixa offers a simple concept which creates a progressively harder challenge.

Feature Highlights:
* 48 classic puzzles
* 3 arcade-style mini games to unlock and play
* Animated introduction tutorial
* Simple one finger controls
* Easy to pick up
* Original music soundtrack by Stian Stark
* Solve puzzles in any order, with no time limit
* Quick puzzle reset
* Gamers can play their own music

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

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod touch 2.2.1 or later

Pricing and Availability: $1.99 (USD)

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Game developer Gallen Technologies, LLC today announced Sphere Raider, its long awaited game for iPhone/iPod touch. Sphere Raider brings exhilarating game play for all ages, anytime, anyplace, anywhere. It feature ten skill levels with new and exciting graphics at each level. The graphics are colorful and crisp, and reflect the time and effort that went into production of the game. Sphere Raider is designed to challenge the skill of every player from the novice to the most sophisticated gamers.

SPHERE RAIDER’S beauty is that the game is at your finger tips on your iPhone. It travels where you go and is available on demand. So much of urban life is spent waiting between meetings, on trains, in taxis, on planes and just waiting for the next event to happen. SPHERE RAIDER (TM) is designed to fill those empty moments when there is nothing to do, no one to talk to and you find yourself alone. It’s like having a little pal on your phone. It does not take up space and once you own it, it’s there for you. Game players praise it for its playability, extraordinary graphics, and brilliant colors.

Sphere Raider

Imagam, Inc. today released iFiles 1.0 for iPhone and iPod Touch users. The application has a practical, intuitive interface that is rich in features yet easy to use. iFiles is a total, portable file management system that allows for document viewing, recording audio and video, text editing, photo taking and file sharing, right from an iPhone. Users can customize themes, icons and labels for a personalized experienced within a secure environment.

The app lets you create, store, share, view and manage files on your iPhone or iPod Touch. Imagam’s CEO, Tom Biel, felt inspired to develop iFiles because, “None of the existing applications provided user experience, ease of use and the features I would have liked in a good file manager/viewer.” Biel solved the problem by developing iFiles and building into it everything he knew users like himself needed.

Users can connect to the application from a Mac or PC to drag and drop files from the Finder or Windows Explorer. They can move files from their computers to iFiles for portability, as well as share files with others via WiFi or Bluetooth. It works just like any email, sending documents as attachments.

Imagam made sure that there is plenty of security in the app. User files can be accessed remotely with a password or locally with a passcode to prevent others from viewing the contents of a user’s iFiles application. Is Imagam happy with how iFiles turned out? Ask them and you will see a big smile on their faces as they give you a resounding, “Yes!”

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

Pricing and Availability: $1.99 (USD)

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QuinnScape today announced its first anniversary sale for Packing and Packing Pro iPhone travel apps. Packing sports a huge, built-in Master Catalog with hundreds of items and to-do tasks. This catalog, along with all of the user-created packing lists, is 100% customizable. Add, delete, rename or reorder any of their items however you wish. Built-in and user-derived templates can also be used to quickly create brand new packing lists.

Besides being arguably the most essential travel app, for any kind of travel, another reason to consider Quinn’s Packing apps now is that he has decided to continue his special holiday sale in celebration of the first-year anniversary of the official launch of his top-ranking “Packing” iPhone travel app on Apple’s iTunes App Store. The original Packing app is now available for only US$ 0.99, 50% off its full price, while “Packing Pro,” the professional version, is only US$ 2.99, 25% off its regular price for the rest of the holiday season.

Feature-wise, Packing sports a huge, built-in Master Catalog with hundreds of items and to-do tasks. This catalog, along with all of the user-created packing lists, is 100% customizable, meaning that you can add, delete, rename or reorder any of their items however you wish. The catalog and all lists are also sub-divided into categories and types, which greatly improves the organization and manageability of their content. Built-in and user-derived templates can also be used to quickly create brand new packing lists.

So, for a limited time only, go to any Apple iTunes App Store worldwide to grab a copy of possibly the most essential travel app out there – Quinn’s Packing, at 50% off for only $0.99 USD, or Packing Pro, at 25% off for only $2.99 USD. Just in time for the holidays. Don’t forget to pack!

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SnakeHead Software, LLC today announces Air Assault 1.0, a game for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Air Assault plays on today’s social-political roles and puts you in the middle of the action in Afghanistan. Shoot down helicopters, paratroopers, jets and bombers with an anti-air gun as well as use mortar fire to destroy enemy tanks and soldiers. Have fun with polished game play, fantastic graphics and sound as well as a realistic story line.

Air Assault delivers the excitement you expect from iPhone and iPod touch games. Have fun with polished game play, fantastic graphics and sound as well as a realistic storyline, starting with the September 11 attack on America. Shoot down helicopters, paratroopers, jets and bombers with an anti-air gun as well as use mortar fire to destroy enemy tanks and soldiers.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 3.0 or later

Pricing and Availability: $2.99 USD

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FallenFeather Software today is proud to announce Impulse Soccer 1.1 for iPhone and iPod touch. Impulse Soccer is a turn based soccer game. You can play the computer or you can play a friend on the single iPod TouchiPhone device. Perfect for kids on roadplane trips! The game features 6 Unique Levels, with 5 Levels to unlock by beating the computer.

You have three characters to move. You simply touch a character and move the direction arrow in the desired direction. The strength of your move is controlled by moving the arrow in and out. Be careful not to move or be pushed into the goal area! Once you are happy with your move, press ‘Go’ and hope you’ve outsmarted your opponent! A local multiplayer option that works on the single iPhone/iPod touch device is also available.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 2.2.1 or later

Pricing and Availability: $0.99 (USD)

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Colorado based Maddysoft today announces Palettes 2.0, an update to their popular color matching tool for iPhone and iPod touch. Developed specifically to take advantage of the iPhone’s unique capabilities and touch interface, Palettes is a powerful productivity tool for creating and maintaining color palettes. Grab colors from a photograph, a website, or add colors using any one of 5 color models. Quickly find matching colors with support for many different color schemes.

Perfect for web site design, marketing campaigns, home decorating, wardrobe, color coordinating or anywhere colors are needed, the uses for Palettes are limited only by the users imagination. Grab colors from a photograph, a website, camera, color scheme or add colors using any one of 5 color models. Quickly find matching colors with support for many different color schemes. Users may create and store any number of palettes.

The Pro version of Palettes extends its capabilities even further by allowing users to effortlessly import and/or export palettes from/to Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Fireworks, GIMP, Paintshop Pro, and the OS X Color Chooser. Designers can easily backup and restore their Palettes data directly to/from their own computer (Basic, Pro). Among only one of Palettes Pro’s most prolific features is its ability to email color sets to friends and colleagues. This makes the application incredibly useful for team development.

Pick Colors from:
* RGB, HSV (HSB), HSL, CMYK, or Gray scale sliders
* Standard colors lists (SVG, Web Safe, HTML, Java, Apple) or other palettes
* COLOURlovers support – Browse, search (Basic, Pro), and select colors
* A website URL (webpage, image, CSS file, 3rd party palette file (Pro))
* An image or camera
* Any valid CSS3 color representation

Create Colors via:
* Color blending (Pro adds using 1 of 4 color models)
* Color schemes (monochromatic (Pro), analogous, triadic (Pro), complementary, split complementary (Pro))

Review color information:
* Details (integer, hex, percent, decimal, CSS)
* As both a foreground and background color

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod touch running OS 3.0 or later
* Some features require a network connection (Edge, 3G, or WiFi)

Pricing and Availability: Palettes runs at one of three levels: Lite, Basic, and Pro. The initial free version runs at the Pro level for a limited time allowing users to fully test the application. It will then revert back to the Lite level. Palettes features in-application purchasing to upgrade to either the Basic or Pro level at any time. Users may upgrade to the Basic version for $6.00 (USD), $10.00 to upgrade to the Pro version and only $4.00 to upgrade from Basic to Pro.

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Denver-based Riptide Games today announced a deluxe version of the hit iPhone game Gravity Sling has just been released on the app store at a discounted price for the first 10,000 players. Gravity Sling is an inertia based puzzle game where the player needs to use the gravity of nearby planets to sling the astronaut through space trying to safely get back to the space shuttle. Gravity Sling Deluxe adds support for OS 2.2.1 devices and includes all game content fully unlocked.

Gravity Sling is an inertia based puzzle game where the player needs to use the gravity of nearby planets to sling the astronaut through space trying to safely get back to the space shuttle.

Gravity Sling Deluxe will normally sell for $2.99, or the equivalent amount in local currency, but it is available to the first 5,000 players for just $.99, then it will go up to $1.99 for the next 5,000 players.

Initially released in November as one of the first free app coupled with In App Purchase for additional level packs. Today Gravity Sling Deluxe is available in the more traditional model of a fully featured paid app. Players purchasing Gravity Sling Deluxe will have full access to every level and feature in Gravity Sling as well as all future updates with no additional charge. As a result players who have not updated to OS 3.0 or those unable or unwilling to purchase In App content can now enjoy the full Gravity Sling experience.

Gravity Sling also incorporates the popular OpenFeint platform enabling global leaderboards for every level, and 25 achievements to be earned. Originally developed as part of the iPhone Game Game held at 360iDev in September. Gravity Sling is the result of a collaboration between Riptide Games, PyroMonkey Productions, Spatial Reasoning, Crucial Games and NoiseBuffet. All Denver-based iPhone developers.

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Dot Com Infoway has announced FruitBlox 1.1, an upgrade to its much successful FruitBlox 1.0 for iPhone and iPod touch. FruitBlox is an attractive squaring puzzle game in which players can enjoy making squares of fruits or vegetables, in such a way that the corners have the same fruits or vegetables. Version 1.1 is visually enhanced and set to attract more iphone gamers.

The new version, FruitBlox 1.1 gives players an ultimate experience of puzzle gaming. In this version, the company has changed, almost the entire visual design and the app is more colorful, now. Now the players can create squares of more colorful fruits or vegetables, keeping the corners of the square with the same fruits or vegetables.

As same as its older version, FruitBlox 1.1 will have three challenging modes to play with. A player can select either the survival mode or time panic mode or if he is a deadly gamer, he can set the game to the Level panic mode and can make as much as squares to complete a level within specified time. With this FruitBlox 1.1, Players can check both local scores, and online scores for the game.

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

Pricing and Availability:
FruitBlox 1.1 is only $0.99 (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Games category.
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CodeFlakes has released PaperTouch API. The new API takes full potential of the touch screen and introduces a more intuitive way to browse your documents. With PaperTouch browse your digital documents like flexible sheets of paper. This is a great API for photo viewer and eBook applications, or any app that need original and impressive UI. Just push a document to PaperTouch and it instantly becomes flexible like a sheet of paper. Grab a corner and flip the page like with a real world paper book.

Sure digital pictures have taken over the world of photography and, more often than not, we read on screen instead of paper. Yet we all miss the paper touch feel of old school photo albums and newspapers. Thus the success of recent digital ink screen technology. With PaperTouch, digital efficiency and real world experience never got so close. Just push a document to PaperTouch and it instantly becomes flexible like a sheet of paper. Grab a corner and flip the page like with a real world paper book. Drop it and the page smoothly gets back to its original position. It can’t be more intuitive, it’s the thousand’s year old UI of the book applied to the iPhone.

Any developer can easily add PaperTouch to their app with only a few lines of code. PaperTouch integrates in any classic UI as a standard view component. PaperTouch is available starting today.

Price: $1.99
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Montreal based Edovia today announces Warships 1.0, a new twist to a classic game. Warships is battleships-style game, where you are in command of a WWII naval fleet, facing enemies of different levels. Your fleet contains 5 ships: a Carrier, a Destroyer, a Battleship, a Cruiser and a Submarine. Position your fleet on a 10×10 grid and prepare for battle. Get into battle with your friends by connecting directly through Bluetooth.

Play against your device and choose your opponent level of difficulty:
* Normal: like a regular human being
* Hard: It knows things you don’t…
* God Mode: you only have 34 shots to defeat your enemy

Play against your friends through Bluetooth:
Just like the good old days when everyone had those blue boxes laying around. Get into battle with your friends by connecting directly through Bluetooth. No need for a wireless network, just connect and meet your opponent! No more expedition to find those missing pins or ships before being able to play a game!

Share your score with others:
Brag to your friends about that score you just got! Send your score automatically to your Twitter account and register your score to be displayed on Warships’ website!

Device Requirements:
Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch. Two player mode requires a Bluetooth-enabled device (iPhone 3G and up or iPod touch 2nd generation or up).

Pricing and Availability: $0.99 (USD)

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Czech based Mad Finger Games today announced BloodyXmas 1.0, their new 3D survival hack and slash game for iPhone and iPod Touch. Get ready for the funniest, funnest, and most spectacular Christmas ever. BloodyXmas combines gorgeous cell-shaded 3D graphics with an enhanced survival game experience and an intuitive control scheme, to protect Christmas presents against hordes of zombies, skeletons, witches and other monsters.

BloodyXmas is all about protecting Christmas presents in Santa’s workshop. You play as Santa with a simple control scheme designed specifically for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Just tap to move or tap an enemy to attack. Use any of the weapons available in Santa’s workshop: cleaver, saber, sledgehammer, chainsaw, and one massive secret super weapon.

Game Features:
* Five powerful weapons
* Unique enemies
* 24 Stages, one for each day leading up to December 25th
* Original Mad Finger TouchPlay
* Intense hack and slash gameplay
* Beautiful, stylized cell-shaded graphics
* Online Leaderboards
* Amazing Soundtrack (perfect for Christmas dinner)

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 3.0 or later

Pricing and Availability: $0.99 (USD)

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Florida based Applife Inc today announces Star Singer 1.0 for iPhone and iPod touch. Star Singer is specially designed to improve the level of performance of any singer regardless of their experience. In Star Singer you will find scales and arpeggios exercises in 2 different speeds and 4 different vocal ranges for Tenor, Bass, Soprano and Contralto. There are performing exercises in many different musical styles.

With Star Singer you can:
* Warm up your voice before any performance
* Practice pitch and intonation.
* Improve your vocal performance
* Record your practice and performance
* Share recordings of exercises and performances by email.
* Download additional performance exercise.

In Star Singer you will find Scales and Arpeggios exercises in 2 different speeds and 4 different vocal ranges: Tenor, Bass, Soprano and Contralto. Performing exercises in many different musical styles like: Blues, Rock, Soft Rock, Beyond Pop, Vocal Hip Hop, R&B, Latin Rock, Soul Beat, Reggae, Rock & Roll, Slow Rock, Pop Beat, Electro Beat, Vocal Trance, Country, Slow Electro Pop, Samba, Bossa Nova, Salsa, Folk , etc for every vocal range. Stunning user interface with visual feedback of your experience! Star Singer is ideal for practice on the road. You can create your own lyrics over the performance exercises or improvise over too. It’s time! To become a STAR SINGER!

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

Pricing and Availability: $2.99 (USD)
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Atlanta based Obecnie today introduces oBemo 1.0, an iPhone note taking app that utilizes the built in camera and GPS to store photos, text and location information inside your notes. Addresses and maps are automatically generated for saved locations. Customizable categories keep notes organized. Features include slide sorting of notes and categories, portrait and landscape views, cut and paste, and ‘quick add’ buttons on the start up screen to add notes with minimum navigation.

Features include slide sorting of notes and categories, portrait and landscape views, cut and paste, and ‘quick add’ buttons on the start up screen to add notes with minimum navigation. It’s perfect for comparison shopping. Take pictures of price tags and specs. Remember a found coffee shop or keep memories of your vacation. Photos are automatically saved to the iPhone photo album so you can upload and share them.

“oBemo is the note taking app that I couldn’t find”, says Ken Icklan, founder of Obecnie. “I would use my iPhone to take pictures of price tags and product specs for comparison shopping and then forget where I took the picture. I wanted to be able to quickly take pictures, write notes and save locations without layers of navigation.”

Device Requirements:
* iPhone 3.1 or later

Pricing and Availability: $2.99 (USD)

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Regular Rate and Rhythm Software today announced Rowmote Pro 2.3, a major update to its complete remote control solution for Mac OS X and Apple TV. Rowmote Pro emulates the Apple hardware remote control, providing application-specific controls through a consistent interface, while also featuring a multitouch trackpad and keyboard. Version 2.3 adds direct control over Sonic Studio’s Amarra and Firefox, fixes several bugs in previous versions, and adds French and German translations.

Rowmote Pro 2.3 also adds finer control over application-level volume, perfect for home media centers with external audio devices such as Apple’s Airport Express or external DACs.

Unlike other iPhone and iPod Touch remote control apps, Rowmote Pro emulates Apple’s hardware remote control so holding down buttons on the remote perform the correct, application-specific function. This is especially vital in the popular multimedia management application Plex, in which Rowmote can access needed contextual menus other apps can’t.

Device Requirements:
iPhone or iPod Touch 2.2 or later. The free Rowmote Helper software (downloadable from rowmote online) must be running on the Mac or Apple TV.

Pricing and Availability: $4.99 (USD)

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Opetopic today announces IsoWords 1.0, its first word search game for iPhone and iPod Touch. Whether you are new to word games, or an expert in Boggle, Scrabble, Bookworm, and their variants, you will have no problem jumping into IsoWords and striving to find the longest possible words. Drag your finger along the cube, or tap each letter individually, to form words. Connect letters on the faces of the cube to form words. But watch out – the third time a letter is used, its cube is removed.

Whether you are new to word games, or an expert in Boggle, Scrabble, Bookworm, and their variants, you will have no problem jumping into IsoWords and striving to find the longest possible words. Drag your finger along the cube, or tap each letter individually, to form words. The score of a word is determined by both the length of the word and the rarity of its letters in the English language (think Scrabble-like scoring). You can choose to play against the clock for one to five minutes, or you can kick back and take your time in “free play” mode, and just play until all cubes are removed.

Not content with you being the only one aware of your prowess in the English language? Take your skills public and challenge friends to beat your scores on Facebook, Twitter or email. A simple link will be posted to your account, allowing any of your friends or followers to open IsoWords directly to your puzzle and play. Word lists and scores will be compared at the end.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 3.0 or later

Pricing and Availability: $1.99 (USD)

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New York based MOGRAFI today announces Night Light NYC 1.0, available for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Night Light NYC puts the world’s biggest and most famous night light at your fingertips. Take in the beauty that is the Empire State Building and its array of meaningful colors. Whether you’re a tourist or a native New Yorker, Night Light NYC gives you insight into the Big Apple’s most recognizable landmark.

Beauty and brains?! Learn more about the changing colors and events that illuminate this icon, with detailed information just a touch away. You can also hide the interface and simply enjoy the elegance of this architectural marvel.

See it all! Night Light NYC gives you 360 degree views of this historic Manhattan skyscraper. This is awesome when New York celebrates its diverse heritage. During the winter holidays, the North and South sides glow red and green with Christmas cheer, while the East and West sides burn bright with the blue and white of Chanukah. …While the pop-up compass points you in the right direction.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 3.0 or later

Pricing and Availability: $0.99 (USD)

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SintraWorks today released Metron 1.3, an update to their professional digital metronome for iPhone and iPod Touch. Featuring an intuitive front panel, Metron offers a high-precision playback engine and a bar based sequencer to provide detailed control over tempo settings & time signatures, including mixed meters, accelerandos and ritardandos. Metron incorporates an instrument tuner. Version 1.3 adds quick navigation of multi-bar sequences, new beat sounds, sequence backup & sharing, and more.

In addition to the usual single and multiple beat ticks of digital metronomes, Metron offers complex time signatures with beat grouping and dynamic accellerando and ritardando through a high-precision playback engine. A bar based sequencer offers detailed control over tempo changes. Additionally, Metron incorporates a tuner that can be calibrated to cent level.

New in version 1.3:
* Multi-bar sequences can be navigated (forward, rewind and rewind to start)
* An ample collection of percussive beat sounds has been added. (Snare, high-hats, bongo’s, etc.)
* Silence as a pulse sound option was also added
* Beat sounds are played back when selecting them in the preference settings
* It is now possible to specify a note duration upon which to base a bar’s tempo (Example: you can set a dotted quarter as the base for the tempo of a 6/8 bar)
* Sequences, bars and time signatures can now be created without needing to enter edit mode
* Sequences can now be backed up and shared with other Metron users, through a web-browser interface
* Some cosmetic changes to the front panel, to account for the new functionality
* Various bug fixes

Pricing and Availability: $1.99 (USD)

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MyWeather LLC today announced the release of MyWeather Mobile 2.0. Version 2.0 now provides iPhone and iPod Touch users with push notifications for severe weather alerts. MyWeather Mobile delivers weather alerts from the National Weather Service utilizing Apple’s push notification service. Over 50 watches, warnings and advisories are available for any U.S. city. MyWeather Mobile was named one of Apple’s top 100 paid apps of 2008.

MyWeather Mobile delivers weather alerts from the National Weather Service utilizing Apple’s push notification service. Over 50 watches, warnings and advisories are available for any U.S. city. MyWeather is the first developer to utilize push notification for NWS alerts, and has deployed the new feature successfully to thousands of users.

As part of MyWeather’s severe weather notification package, the app also features an alert map that visually displays all NWS alerts throughout the U.S. Stunning, high-quality animated radar with Microsoft(R) Bing(TM) maps gives users a real-time view of weather conditions anywhere in the U.S. and Canada. Turning the phone horizontally allows users to pinch, flick, zoom, and double tap the map down to the street level.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 3.1 or later

Pricing and Availability: $4.99 (USD)

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Altralogica s.r.l. today announced that The Poet, a puzzle game featuring famous quotes, is planned for release on the App Store this Holiday season. You start with a set of cards with one or more words written on each of them, the goal is to compose the original sentence in the shortest time by placing the cards in the correct order.

You only have a limited amount of tries and every time you place a card in the wrong order you lose a life. As you progress in the game, the amount of cards will increase. If you compose a correct sentence, you earn points and bonuses and advance to the next level. The quicker you are at composing the sentence, the more points you earn.

If you are in trouble, use one of the bonuses earned previously. Bonuses include suggestions (first card, next card, first half of the sentence) and a special “skip to the next sentence”.

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In anticipation of the next release from the “Sentinel” team, Origin8’s breakout iPhone/iPod Touch hit “Sentinel: Mars Defense” will be free for the next two weeks in the run up to Christmas. Released in February 2009, this acclaimed sci fi Tower Defense game was selected as one of Apple’s App Store first Anniversary Top 30 games in the UK/AU/EU territories, and spawned the much-lauded sequel “Sentinel 2: Earth Defense”.

With a third space strategy from the designers of the “Sentinel” games on the way, now’s an ideal time for iPhone owners to pick up this classic for free!

From the “Sentinel: Mars Defense” app description:

It’s war. Earth’s first off-world colony is fighting for survival against a savage alien onslaught. Mars is under siege and thousands of lives are on the line. Humanity’s only hope is you, the commander of the dropship Sentinel. Welcome to the future of Tower Defense.

Deploy sophisticated turret technology across the Martian landscape to halt the alien advance. Protect walls and barriers that block the enemy’s path to your base. Upgrade your weaponry, or release robotic drones to repair buildings and harvest resources. Watch the battle for the planet unfold in beautifully rendered, atmospheric graphics.

Get “Sentinel: Mars Defense” from the App Store here

Most farmers round up their flock with a well-trained sheepdog or two, sometimes even quad bikes, however in more extreme cases, such as that of Woolly the Jumper: A Sheep on the Edge, more drastic measures must be taken; for Farmer Brown, only a jetpack will suffice.

Using the iPhone’s touch screen, players must calculate the angle and power of Woolly’s jumps in order to bound across cliffs, avoid dangerous falls and deadly obstacles in this vibrant 2D platformer. You must help Woolly travel through the seasons quickly enough to avoid Farmer Brown closing in on his jetpack, and robbing Woolly of his fluffy coat.

Woolly the Jumper: A Sheep on the Edge will be available for iPhone and iPod Touch this Christmas for $0.99/59p for a limited time only!

The festive flash favourite Ho Ho Ho Yellow Snow has been re-imagined as an iPhone app! The original version of Ho Ho Ho Yellow Snow was unleashed on the world in December 2007, topped the viral charts and won the DADI award for Best In-House Website or Campaign. Since then it’s racked up millions and millions of plays as people all over the world turn the snow yellow.

Developed in association with Netlog, Europe’s largest online community, Ho Ho Ho Yellow Snow Deluxe takes all the quirky fun of the web original and adds stunning new graphics, more in-depth gameplay with tons of new levels and new styles of play, like the gripping ‘Survivor’ mode and the tranquil ‘Zen’ mode.

Players must use Santa’s overly full bladder to join the dots and reveal an assortment of seasonal images, as well as fending off the occasional horde of zombie snowmen. They’ll need to be a whiz with the, well, whiz, if they want to make it all the way through to the end. With intuitive controls that make great use of the iPhone’s touch screen and accelerometer, anyone can pick up Ho Ho Ho Yellow Snow and enjoy the most twisted take on Christmas you’re likely to see on the iPhone.

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Fans will soon be able to experience the exhilaration of FORMULA ONE™ on their iPhone and iPod Touch as Codemasters has today announced the forthcoming release of F1 2009 to the mobile platform. Players will be able to step into the racing boots of their heroes such as 2009 FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPION™ Jenson Button, Fernando Alonso, Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel.

Set for release on the App Store next week, F1 2009 features all 10 teams, 20 drivers and 17 circuits from the thrilling 2009 FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP™. F1 2009 offers stunning visuals and a totally authentic FORMULA ONE experience on the iPhone and iPod. Players will be able to tackle the stunning Eau Rouge at Spa Francorchamps, master the unique challenge set by Becketts at Silverstone and experience the claustrophobic streets of Monaco where one mistake can put you into the wall. F1 2009 also features the iconic Singapore night race and the beautiful Yas Marina circuit in the United Arab Emirates.

F1 2009 on the iPhone and iPod pits the player against the clock, supports two different game modes: Time Trial and Endurance. Time Trial is all about setting the ultimate flying lap at a circuit of your choice, playing as your favourite driver while Endurance is a challenge of both speed and consistency as you tackle either 6, 9 or 12 laps looking to set the best average lap time you can. Your flying lap or average lap times can then be uploaded to the global AGON Online Social Platform Leaderboard to see where you rank amongst the world’s best.

GAMEVIL®, a leading mobile game publisher and developer, today announced that its first casual game for iPhone and iPod touch, Boom It Up! is now available on the App Store.

Boom It Up! is a simple and addictive timing game where your objective is to boom up your bomb as high as possible by elevating them using baskets. During the game, users will face various obstacles challenging their advancement. Users will also be able to share their high scores by posting it to their Facebook accounts too.

“GAMEVIL may be well-known for its complex role-playing games, but we actually received global recognition through the introduction of simple one button concept for mobile phones with Game Of the Year titles such as Skipping Stone.” said Charley Shim, CTO. “Of course, we thought it would be interesting to try out these types of extremely simple and addictive casual timing games on the most advanced mobile device in the market too.”

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Price: $0.99

Complex Games Inc. is proud to announce their first self-published game for the iPhone, Skipping Stones, is currently in production and will be soon be available for sale on the iTunes store.

“Skipping Stones is going to make a splash on the iPhone”, said Noah Decter-Jackson Co-founder and Project Director at Complex Games, “the game combines relaxing gameplay mechanics that simulate actually skipping stones across the water in several beautiful settings. Skipping Stones will instantly appeal because of its lush environments and enjoyable music. Players can just relax or challenge themselves and their friends to make the longest skip!”

Walk down to the beach and toss your cares away with the simple motion controls, or compete against other players online to make the most skips.

Some of Skipping Stones features include:
· Several Beautiful Landscapes
· 3 Different Challenge Modes
· Compete with other Players Online via Open Feint

Skipping Stones is slated for release by the middle of December 2009.

Price: TBA