Date archive for August, 2012
Download Expert – Universal App to Enrich Your iDevice with any Content
Published 8/31/12 by Jeff ScottGetting music, video and pictures on an iPhone, iPad and iPod is simple with the release of Download Expert by Synaptic Wave. Download Expert will help users get any content on your iDevice. It can handle music, video, images, documents and PDFs. Moreover, Download Expert works with .zip archives. The killer feature of Download Expert is the browser designed specially to facilitate finding and sharing rich content. Its smart interface will help users juggle multiple tabs and browsing history.
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Fiksu Indexes Show Free iPhone App Downloads Are Decreasing While Acquisition Costs Increase
Published 8/31/12 by Carter DotsonFiksu’s latest Indexes show that while downloads of the top 200 free apps are decreasing, it’s getting more expensive to acquire loyal users.
Read More »Special Needs App See.Touch.Learn. Huge Sale – Labor Day, Back to School
Published 8/31/12 by Jeff ScottBrain Parade is celebrating Back to School with a sale on its flagship iPad app, See.Touch.Learn. Now through Sept 9th, get 33 percent of the Pro edition and 67 percent of add-on libraries. This is the premiere flash card tool for teachers working with special needs students and Brain Parade is making it easier for teachers to start the new school year off with some great savings. The app offers 32 image libraries with almost 3,000 images and exercises designed by a Certified Behavior Analyst.
Read More »iPhone and iPad App to Add Unlimited Access to the New York Times
Published 8/31/12 by Jeff ScottValiant Rock announces The Daily Planet 2.7 free for iOS. Users of iPhones and iPads now have unlimited free access to the New York Times articles via The Daily Planet. The app added the New York Times to its growing number of news sources, which include the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, BBC, CNN, CNBC, Bloomberg and the Associated Press, and more. With the app, users determine not only the types of news, but their sources and how they are delivered.
Read More »Get Your Cheese on Playing Cheesar
Published 8/31/12 by Jeff ScottArchSquare Studio has announced the release of a video for Cheesar 1.5, their new entertainment app for iPhone and iPad. The Quick Start video shows the game play, scoring, and level achievements in the app. This game has the addictive factor and skill level of Bejeweled and Tetris, quick to learn, hard to master. Cheesar is a fun puzzle game of skill, strategy, and speed where players swipe and connect two or more matching cute Cheesars to clear them from the game board.
Read More »Special for Labor Day Weekend – Mooniz will be Free until September 3rd
Published 8/31/12 by Jeff ScottAdrenaline Monki announced Mooniz 1.7.1, an update to their action puzzle game for iOS. The game enlists players to save the Earth from the invasion of adorable moon monsters, called Mooniz. Players tap groups of same colored Mooniz to make them explode in a spectacular display of dazzling colors. The game features power-ups, point multipliers, first aid kits, nukes, and more. The latest update includes the ability to win friend’s Mooniz coins in multiplayer mode by beating their score.
Read More »Agility Dogs for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch Coming in September
Published 8/31/12 by Jeff ScottHouston based Saffron Byte today announces the upcoming release of Agility Dogs, their new universal iOS game, for the month of September. Players take a dog through a fun and exciting run through 4 different agility parks. Agility Dogs is an endless-runner entirely made with clay models and utilizes depth, perspective, and physics simulation to add to the fun and realism. The game will feature high scores, local and Game Center achievements, leader boards, ability customization, and more.
Read More »Nosy Crow Celebrates Labor Day with Price Drop for Rounds: Franklin Frog
Published 8/31/12 by Jeff ScottIndependent children’s app publisher Nosy Crow is celebrating Labor Day with a price drop for its first Life Science app, Rounds: Franklin Frog 1.0.1. The app, which is available on the App Store for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch, will be $1.99 USD for one day only on Monday, September 3. Children participate in every stage of Franklin’s life, from birth to parenthood, including hopping, swimming, eating, laying frogspawn and changing from a tadpole into a frog.
Read More »Just Released: Genre-Twisting Sport Game Track & Tricks, iOS and Android
Published 8/31/12 by Jeff ScottNebula Entertainment announces Track & Tricks 1.1, a brand new mobile game for iOS and Android. A track and field game, Track & Tricks incorporates elements from the arcade and rhythm genres, with an emphasis on high production values and creating an engaging, fun experience for the user. The game challenges user to drive their running avatar forward by rhythmically tap a heart hovering above its head.
Read More »Top Updated Montessori App Featured in Apple’s New and Noteworthy
Published 8/31/12 by Jeff ScottLes Trois Elles Interactive, the award winning publisher of Numberland, has released updates of their three educational apps. Based on the Montessori Method; Montessori Numberland, Montessori Letter Sounds and Montessori Letter Sounds Learn French have all been updated to Retina Display for the new iPad and featured on the Appstore. On this occasion, all three apps have been discounted.
Read More »You’ll never forget what you need to do with Speak2Do for iOS
Published 8/31/12 by Jeff ScottA.Yosher Engineering LTD, an established mobile application developer has announced the recent update of Speak2Do for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch devices running on iOS 5.0. An innovative new personal organization tool, Speak2Do is a one-touch audio recorder that combines rather simple structure along with various highly practical features. Newly improved, Speak2Do 2.0 now comes with location-based notifications, ability to attach text comments and photos, new Icons and Skins and much more.
Read More »Manga Rock 2: Version 1.3 is Out on the App Store
Published 8/31/12 by Jeff ScottNot A Basement Studio released version 1.3 of the popular Manga Rock 2 app today. Just like reading a real manga book, Manga Rock 2 is designed to deliver the most authentic manga reading experience with a collection of 10,000+ titles from MangaReader, MangaFox & MangaEden. In this version, the app is fully localized in 6 major languages and a tons of manga sources in different languages are added as well. Now readers can truly have the ultimate manga reading experience in their native language.
Read More »What Punky Brewster’s kids are playing on their iPad
Published 8/31/12 by Jeff ScottWith over a million followers, yesterday’s child’s star is now a major trendsetter and pop icon for the young moms who grew up watching her on TV. And when she speaks, she can dramatically move the needle, influencing the sales of a wide range of kid-related products. See what’s playing on her iPad, and how her four-year-old daughter’s attention drove a Spinlight app back to the top of the charts.
Read More »Children’s Book Author/Illustrator Launches iPad App with Novelist Wife
Published 8/31/12 by Jeff ScottJonathan Fenske, along with his wife, Jennifer Manske Fenske, have teamed up to create Healthy Creatures 1.0, their first iPad app for children. Healthy Creatures is a creative “digital toy” that children use to make collages using fruits and vegetables. Featuring all original artwork, Healthy Creatures offers kids a way to express themselves with garden-fresh art. Healthy Creatures was designed with kids’ safety in mind: there are no in-app banner ads, commercials or in-app purchases.
Read More »Classic puzzle action comes to iOS with Home of Jigsaw Puzzle
Published 8/31/12 by Jeff ScottGerman based KV&H Publishing House today announces the launch of Home of Jigsaw Puzzle for the iPad. House of Jigsaw Puzzle offers mobile gamers an innovative new digital twist on puzzle game entertainment. The game features four difficulty levels, dozens of unique puzzles created from original works by accomplished artists, the ability to turn personal photos into puzzles and more. Motivated players even unlock new puzzle art via in-app purchase or win it by ammassing points too!
Read More »Kodiak PHP brings real programming to the iPad
Published 8/31/12 by Jeff ScottIndie developers Adam Horacek and Kuba Brecka today introduce Kodiak PHP 1.0. Programming on the iPad is now possible. With many advanced features to make coding on the iPad easy and comfortable, Kodiak PHP is a full-featured IDE that can run PHP code directly on the device. Kodiak PHP features a great syntax highlighter and a unique keyboard extension to allow fast writing. The app offers a tabbed interface with a lot of examples, demos and so much more.
Read More »BMI Calculator and Weight Tracker
Published 8/31/12 by Jeff ScottNetwork Panda announces BMI Calculator and Weight Tracker, a free app which everyone can use to calculating and tracking their body mass index and weight every day. The body mass index, or Quetelet index, is an algorithm for body fat based on an individual’s weight and height. It is a calculation based on two variables that are your weight & height. It involves a specific formula which is not always easy to remember. This is where the BMI calculator comes handy and makes the process easy.
Read More »LightArrow Enhances LifeTopix to Launch Evernote, Pinterest and Others
Published 8/31/12 by Jeff ScottAustin based LightArrow, Inc. today announced the addition of the “My Apps” app launcher to its popular LifeTopix productivity and organizer app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. With this new feature, users can add shortcuts to their apps that support custom shortcuts, eliminating the need to search for apps on their iOS devices. Custom shortcuts are also used to quickly access common views or functions of those apps with a single tap.
Read More »There is an App for That: AP Psychology Students Track, Share, Analyze
Published 8/31/12 by Jeff ScottTrack and Share Apps, LLC. announces Track & Share 3.4.0, the app that lets individuals track what matters to them and find correlations of how things are related. With the app, users track moods, improve habits, manage health, and more. Embraced by the Wauwatosa School District, who purchased 280 copies, the app can also be used in an educational setting to teach students class material ranging from the biological basis of human behavior to research methods used in social sciences.
Read More »Avernum: Escape From the Pit HD For iPad 50% Off Sale
Published 8/31/12 by Jeff ScottThis weekend, Spiderweb Software’s hit indie role-playing game, Avernum: Escape From the Pit HD for the iPad, will be half off! From Friday to Monday, you can explore the deadly underworld nation of Avernum on the cheap. With magic and steel, you can help to forge a new nation deep underground. Explore a massive nation of tunnels and caverns, seeking out eighty towns and dungeons. Fight for safety. Or freedom. Or even, if you dare, revenge on the surface-dwellers who tried to destroy you.
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