Sunday, December 5, 2010

iPhone, iPod and iPad product news - December 2, 2010

Section: iPhone / iPod touch / iPad, iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, iDevice Apps

iPhone, iPod and iPad product updatesiPhone, iPod and iPad product updates and announcements for December 2, 2010:

Apps

  • Age of Zombies is the latest App Store release from Halfbrick, creators of the best-selling iPhone games Fruit Ninja and Monster Dash. Now you can try it today for free with Age of Zombies Lite. Lock and load through the history of time as a tough-as-nails commando named Barry Steakfries, who is looking for nothing more than to shoot some zombies and make it back in time for a hearty dinner.
  • 24x7digital LLC has announced Smiley Sight Words 1.4, an educational flash-card app for iPhone. Smiley Sight Words is a comprehensive learning tool containing over 1,500 high-frequency sight words compiled from many sources including Dolch, Fry, and UK word lists. Students may tap the sight word to hear professionally recorded American-English pronunciations, swipe flash-cards to navigate the stack of words, and shake their iPhone to shuffle the flash-cards.
  • Mindwarm Incorporated has released AddTo Athens 1.0 for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. See the cradle of civilization! AddTo Athens lets you create your own travel guide from your photos and notes. Easily create your own map with the highlights you want, photo album and travel diary. At any time you can add a note or photo to your album. If you have allowed location, then your current location will be added to that note and photo. Send your notes, photos and maps to your friends.
  • Chuck Duquette has released SpeechTimes 1.0 for iPad. SpeechTimes is a flexible and versatile presentation timer, allowing total interface customization and management of one or multiple speakers. The app makes it easy to organize group speaking events, cue speakers to wrap up their talk, and will save speech times chronologically in its database. Because SpeechTimes is a blend of timer and database, users are able to save, manage and review speech times.
  • Prodigy Co., Ltd. has released Fit for Rhythm Unlocked 1.0.2 for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad users. The application offers users eighty different stretch, balance, aerobic and muscle building exercises, along with support. Each exercise only requires a commitment of one minute daily and five exercises per day will help burn hundred of thousands calories if done regularly for a month. Peer support and four trainers are available via Twitter and Facebook Connect.
  • Partial Fraction, LLC, the creator of the iPhone App, Hip Hop Mobile, has joined celebrities in support of “Keep A Child Alive” with its own digital online sacrifice. Celebrities today started signing off of Facebook and Twitter in support of World Aids Day. Certain celebrities have taken a pledge to sign off from Twitter and Facebook until a predetermined dollar amount is met. Hip Hop Mobile has pledged to sign off from its promotional hip hop new sharing twitter account, as well as, not release any new versions of the application during the length of its digital death.
  • Independent software developer Justin Hackett has announced Learn To Write 3.0 for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Aimed at young children just learning how to write, the app sets itself apart from similar offerings by the use of an animated ball to show the proper strokes for each letter. Writing is accomplished by essentially finger-painting, following the ball as a tutor. Children can also draw freehand and even test their knowledge with an interactive guessing game.
  • Intellegentia Tecnologia Ltda has announced iPerformanceCoach 1.1 for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Specifically designed for those who are developing intellectual activities, iPerformanceCoach logs and measures how much time the user is actually working and how much time they are wasting on distractions. With iPerformanceCoach the user will know exactly what are the main problems affecting their performance, enabling them to create strategies to avoid or reduce time-consuming distractions.
  • Social Jitney has delivered another hit iPhone application: Say No to Police. The App was created for criminal law expert Ralph Behr, ESQ. Say No to Police is designed as a quick reference encyclopedia of the most useful information to help users understand the legal nuances inherent within the most common types of law enforcement encounters. In-app chapters include topics such as drug arrests, police searches, how bail works, the importance of legal discovery, legal defenses, and many others.
  • KB Productions has announced Car Care 1.40, a major update of the popular fuel economy and automotive maintenance tracking app for iPhone and iPod touch. Car Care is the easy, automatic way to track fuel economy and service maintenance for every car in the garage. The new version features a beautiful, improved user interface. Data input is more fun, more attractive, and easier. Also new: full Retina Display support, iOS 4.2.1 compatibility, separate estimated city and highway mileage.
  • Qwizzly has released Qbox 1.0, the official iPad version of its celebrated word puzzle game. This challenging and addictive puzzle invites players to solve over 1500 different quotes of wisdom spanning over 3 eras of time and offering hours of game play. With quotes from everyone from Gandhi and Einstein to Confucius and Bierce, adults and children alike will love solving quote puzzles and discovering new words of wisdom through the Old times, Middle Ages and Modern times.
  • Toolsfactory Software has announced rubiTrack 2.4, an update to its GPS enabled activity and exercise journal for the Mac. rubiTrack lets you display, analyze and organize your workouts for sports such as running, biking, walking, hiking, skiing and many more. rubiTrack reads tracks from GPS devices like the Garmin Forerunner and Edge, Nike , Suunto and Polar as well as the iPhone 4, 3GS and 3G. rubiTrack also tracks equipment usage and includes an athlete log to monitor fitness parameters.
  • Playrix Entertainment has announced The Rise of Atlantis HD 1.0.1, its second internal iPad port of their flagship puzzler. In the Rise of Atlantis HD players’ mission is to bring the legendary continent of Atlantis back to the surface and restore it to its might. The game will be available in full and lite versions with the former at a discounted price for a limited time. This extraordinary puzzle game offers spectacular new features, handy bonuses and explosive power-ups and much more.
  • Popular Science has announced Popular Science+, an update to their iPad edition with the newly released December issue, featuring the annual “Best of What’s New” awards. Popular Science+ adds a long list of iPad-only features, like video, audio, photo galleries and more. Highlights include PopSci’s 23rd annual guide to the 100 greatest technological achievements of the year across 11 categories, including Green, Automotive, Health, Aviation & Space, Home Technology and much more.
  • Smallwonders mobile games company launch their first online contest, Battle of Puppets contest with a new endless mode. Its goal is to let all iPhone, iPad and iPod users get to know the famous and funny puppets and command one of their armies to demostrate their skills in the game in order to become, finally, Master of Puppets. The winner will get a iPod nano and iTunes card worth 25$. But, before, he/she needs to demonstrate that is the best player with one of the five armies of Battle of Puppets, Valkiria, Madama Butterfly, Carmen, Aida and Salome. Moreover, players who obtain higher scores with one of the other fourth armies will also receive a $25 iTunes card, and two more cards will be drawn amongst all participants.
  • Dapper Gentlemen has released Ugly Meter Baby Edition for iPhone. Based on the controversial Ugly Meter app, this new edition is specific to determine the ugliness of babies and small children. Using the device camera, the picture is analyzed for cuteness or ugliness and give a rating from 1-10. It uses a screen guide to line up the picture perfectly for best results. Based on the camera feed, facial features are scanned to determine the rating of cuteness or ugliness.
  • Comboapp has announced Sales & Marketing Learning Studio 1.0 for the iPad. Optimized for mobile learning, Sales & Marketing Learning Studio covers the full spectrum of important marketing and sales concepts as they relate to effective business development. This learning utility offers users 9 unique course apps that together provide a framework from which to master all the fundamental aspects of sales operations, sales management, and effective business marketing.
  • Forget “using up minutes” and paying for long-distance calls. Thanks to the worldwide launch of Viber, you can now call anyone in the world for free. Viber uses the latest in VoIP technology to offer completely free calling with superior sound quality. Better yet, you can dial phone numbers directly without having to register a username or add friends to a contact list! Once you and your friends have the app installed, you can call each other for free directly from your 3G- or Wi-Fi-enabled phones.
  • Pixmap Brothers has announced Bubble Touch! 1.1, a funny action game for iPhone and iPod touch. Test your reflexes by squeezing the bubbles on the screen. Play through five different planets, and complete 45 different levels, catching bonuses and avoiding malus on screen. Game Center support enables players to share with friends high scores and to compete against each other on 6 different leaderboards. It is also provides 16 different achievements to unlock.
  • Sports Data Systems, Inc. has released myGolfstats 2.0 for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad users. This is a major update for the application, which offers the same golf scoring features that the pros use, along with the opportunity for users to claim a USGA Handicap. The version two release includes enhancements such as goal setting, club distance, a place to note pro tips, the ability to view the scores of a player’s group members and to share scores on Facebook and Twitter.
  • Launching Pad Games has announced Scarlett and the Spark of Life, the debut episode of their new game for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices. Built from the ground up for handheld iOS devices, Scarlett and the Spark of Life is an offbeat adventure starring a gutsy, crowbar-wielding princess. The first of four planned episodes, Scarlett and the Spark of Life introduces players to Scarlett’s plight while hinting at the larger adventure that awaits.
  • TeamLava has announced the release of its new social confectionery game, Bakery Story, for iOS devices. It?s an addictive casual title where players manage everything from recipes and decorations to tasty treats and colorful cooking devices. Starting with just a cookie sheet and a dream, aspiring pastry chefs will design and build their bakery and menu to suit every customer?s tastes on a path to creating the ultimate neighborhood hot-spot. With gorgeous graphics, Game Center support, community and social features plus vast design choices, Bakery Story will satisfy your craving for pastry perfection!
  • 80d Games has announced its premiere title, Clock Blocks, a new puzzle and reflex game that boasts simplistic yet sadistically challenging gameplay. The latest version of the mind-bending title is immediately available for download on the App Store at $0.99. A lite version of the game is also available for players that want to take baby steps into the insanity.
  • Obstetrician Toni Morrissey, MD is pleased to introduce Baby Birthday 1.0 for iOS devices. Baby Birthday for the iPhone predicts the baby’s delivery date based on the mother’s medical history, surgical history, logistics, and even the small effect of large changes in the barometric pressure. Instead of a due date based only on a 40-week pregnancy length, Baby Birthday provides an expected delivery date tailored to the mother’s individual circumstances.
  • Gamelion has announced today that Doodle Fit, its best-selling doodle-style puzzle game for iOS, will be available for free on three days during December 4th-6th celebrating the Saint Nicholas Day. The task in Doodle Fit is simple: fit the given sets of blocks into given shapes. Drag the blocks inside and outside in search for the layout that covers the whole shape. Doodle Fit features over 100 levels with unique shapes and sometimes more than one solution ensure lots of fun and re-playability.
  • Chillingo has announced the release of Hooga and Floe – A Little Bear Needs Your Help. Set in the times of cavemen and dinosaurs, Hooga is a fantastic side-scrolling caper with four Jurassic environments including lush grasslands, forbidding glaciers and savage jungles. In Floe – A Little Bear Needs Your Help, poor little Flo has lost her Moma, and the only way to find her is to cross the ice bergs. But the path is not clear.
  • AppMania has unveiled Demolition Master: Space Quest. Your goal in each mission is to demolish a construction with an explosive. In this version you will experience an exciting adventure in 9 locations throughout the Earth (135 levels) as well as in 3 locations on the new planet, the Moon (45 levels).
  • Algoriddim has announced djay 1.0 for iPad. With one of the most realistic dual-turntable interfaces currently available and algoriddim’s cutting-edge audio technology powering a host of new features, djay for iPad will keep even the most seasoned spinner engaged for hours. The app offers eye-popping waveforms that allow users to mix their songs visually as well as automatic detection of a song’s tempo and rhythm for easy synchronization and seamless, beat-matched transitions between songs.
  • Headcase Games has announced that their highly-rated hit action-puzzle game 180 for iPhone and iPod touch, is now temporarily available for free download today in the iTunes App Store. 180 is a manic twitch-game disguised as a casual puzzler. Secret bonuses, multiple gameplay modes, lively characters, and online OpenFeint leaderboards and achievements all add up to create an engaging gameplay experience.
  • Readdle has announced ReaddleDocs for iPad 1.7, the latest version of its popular all-in-one document reader. The latest update adds two-way sync with Dropbox, iDisk and other cloud storages, printing via AirPrint and background file transfers on iOS 4.2. Within a single tap the whole folder can be two-way synced to the Dropbox or any WebDAV storage. This new feature comes in handy for updating annotated PDF files on the cloud faster than ever before.
  • Freeverse has announced the worldwide release of We Bowl for the iPhone, now available for download free on the App Store. From the makers of Coin Push Frenzy and Flick Fishing Free, We Bowl is the ultimate in arcade action. Create your own custom avatar and hit the lanes to bowl with your friends or play solo in pursuit of the perfect game.  It’s fast paced and easy to play.  Just flick your finger to roll, and swipe to give your ball spin.  Trigger game-changing power-ups (or whammies) in head-to-head competition with friends, or hone your skills to level up and win great prizes. We Bowl is fast paced frenetic action, with amazing physics and precise control.
  • Every real pinball table needs a soundtrack; music meets gaming. One of the most successful German bands, Die Fantastischen Vier—themselves professed pinball fans—have provided original sound samples and graphics for the first music pinball on the iPad to make it a cutting-edge pinball simulation for the current age. The Fanta 4 Pinball HD app is now available in itunes stores worldwide for $ 1.99.
  • Frontier Design Group has announced the availability of The Wurlitzer Electric Piano Song Quiz. This online interactive quiz challenges your knowledge of famous pop and rock songs that feature the Wurlitzer Electric Piano. The videos used in the song quiz feature performances using the PianoStudio app from Frontier Design Group. This app, which is compatible with the iPhone and iPod touch, recently added high-resolution sounds from a Wurlitzer 200A Electric Piano.
  • Curious Marie has announced Tryst 1.1 for iOS, an app for couples to communicate their intimate desires via beautifully designed postcards. Couples can entice each other by sending photo-rich cards enclosed in a wax sealed envelope - an elegant and discreet notion of an exciting rendezvous to come. Tryst’s antique desk interface evokes the feeling one is personally composing a note for their lover. The UI is filled with luxurious photographic postcards and more.
  • The App Store has a plethora of games with content available to most audiences, but very few high-quality educational titles, especially aimed at pre-school toddlers. Wonky Woo Games is filling this void with What Am I ? Pets, in which children will learn to read and perform simple problem-solving activities by recognizing different pets and sounds. In this fun and visually pleasing puzzle game, the objective is to get the correct combination of head, body and feet for a given pet to complete its imagery by context of visual and audiovisual cues.

Accessories

  • My New iPad shows readers how to do useful and entertaining things with their iPad, like surf the Internet, send email, listen to music, take notes, read ebooks, and play with photos. This second edition has been updated with a chapter on troubleshooting and revised to cover the new features introduced in iOS 4.x, including multitasking, folders, printing, and much more. As a simple user’s guide, My New iPad doesn’t drag readers through pointless details. Instead, as with the other titles in the My New series from No Starch Press, Wang takes readers step-by-step through the iPad’s many useful features, making it easy for them to pick and choose which tasks they want to learn how to accomplish, and when.
  • mophie has announced the availability of the juice pack plus, an enhanced capacity iPhone 4 battery case that will more than double the time iPhone users have to rock, talk and surf. The plus is mophie?s second rechargeable external battery case designed for the iPhone 4, and has a 2,000 mAh battery capacity, the largest of any juice pack case produced to date.
  • For those looking for a useful, innovative, and fun product that can be put to a multitude of uses, then Gear Tie is sure to please. Gear Tie is an up-and-comer in the world of consumer goods, but is starting out strong. The Gear Tie is precisely how it sounds—a reusable rubber twist tie for cleaning up, packing up, and organizing almost everything. There are thousands of uses for it, so get creative.

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