iPhone/iPod apps for Dec. 11
Posted by Dennis Sellers
Dec 11, 2009 at 6:00pm
Here are the latest iPhone/iPod touch/iPod apps announced. You can find ‘em at the Apple App Store.
AJA Video Systems has released AJA DataCalc. It’s a free storage requirement calculator designed for video professionals.
Deep Powder Software has released Ghost Stories! 1.0 for iPhone and iPod touch users. The US$1.99 app provides “all the chills and thrills of those memorable ghostly tales heard around childhood campfires.” Classic favorites, newer stories and true accounts of ghost sightings are delivered directly to users’ Apple device.
SnakeHead Software has released Air Assault, a $1.99 action arcade game for the iPhone and iPod touch. It plays on today’s social-political roles and puts you in the middle of the action in Afghanistan.
Obecnie has introduced oBemo 1.0, a $2.99 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.
Mad Finger Games has announced BloodyXmas 1.0, a $1.99, 3D survival hack and slash game for iPhone and iPod touch users. It combines 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.
Oceanhouse Media has released an ebook version of How the Grinch Stole Christmas for the iPhone and iPod touch. The Dr. Seuss classic is available for a special promotional price of $3.99.
KB Productions has announced GameTrac 1.0, a $3.99 sports statistics recording and analysis app for the iPhone. It’s 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 customizable and capable of tracking any statistic, in any game, for any player.
Aboveground Systems, in collaboration with ChunkyPixels, has announce Santa’s Shiny Balls Pinball 1.01 for iPhone and iPod touch. This $1.99 arcade-style pinball game has a total of four tables and three ball types to choose from.
Simon Watson has introduced Chromixa, a $1.99 color-blending puzzle game for the iPhone and iPod touch. It’s based on the colors in white light. The goal is to overlap shapes of red, green and blue light to complete puzzles.
Gallen Technologies has launched Sphere Raider, a $1.99 iPhone/iPod touch puzzle game that features 10 skill levels with new graphics at each level.
Opetopic has launched IsoWords 1.0, a $1.99 word search game for the iPhone and iPod touch. You 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.
Imagam has released iFiles 1.0 for iPhone and iPod touch users. The $1.99 app is a 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.
Applife has announced Star Singer 1.0 for iPhone and iPod touch. The $2.99 app 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 two different speeds and four different vocal ranges for tenor, bass, soprano and contralto. There are performing exercises in many different musical styles.
MOGRAFI has announced Night Light NYC 1.0, a $0.99 app for the iPhone and iPod touch. Night Light NYC “puts the world’s biggest and most famous night light at your fingertips.”
Edovia has shipped Warships 1.0, a new twist to a classic game. It’s a $0.99 Battleships-style game where you are in command of a WWII naval fleet, facing enemies of different levels. Your fleet contains five ships: a carrier, a destroyer, a battleship, a cruiser and a submarine. Position your fleet on a 10×10 grid and prepare for battle. You can get into battle with your friends by connecting directly through Bluetooth.
Scion’s very own radio station, Scion Radio 17, is now available through their newly released Scion AV Radio app. It allows users to listen to their favorite stations anytime and anywhere in the genres of electronic/dance, garage, hip-hop, metal and many more.
Maddysoft has announced Palettes 2.0, an update to their color matching tool for iPhone and iPod touch users. It’s a productivity tool for creating and maintaining color palettes. You can grab colors from a photograph, a web site, or add colors using any one of 5 color models. 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. It’s $10 to upgrade to the pro version and $4 to upgrade from Basic to Pro.
Riptide Games has announced that a deluxe version of the Gravity Sling iPhone game has just been released on the Apple Apple 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 Deluxe normally sells for $2.99, or the equivalent amount in local currency, but it is available to the first 5,000 players for $0.99, then it will go up to $1.99 for the next 5,000 players.
FallenFeather Software today is proud to announce Impulse Soccer 1.1 for the iPhone and iPod touch. It’s a $0.99, turn-based soccer game. You can play the computer or you can play a friend. The game features six unique levels with five levels to unlock by beating the computer.
Quapps Interactive has announced Magicam 2.0 for iPhone and iPod touch users. It’s an update to the $1.99 app that allows you to take live photographs with an additional prop such as U.F.O, silly haircuts and fantastic masks to create the most entertaining and realistic photographs you have ever seen. Version 2.0 brings new features including the ability to edit current photos, multiple props, 50-plus props, iPod touch support and a new prop selection interface.
MyWeather has updated MyWeather Mobile, their $4.99 iPhone/iPod touch, app to version 2.0. It 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.
SintraWorks has released Metron 1.3, an update to their $1.99 digital metronome for iPhone and iPod touch users. It offers a playback engine and a bar based sequencer to provide detailed control over tempo settings and 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 and sharing, and more.
MF Software has released Top Rated Apps 1.1, the first update to their $0.99 app for the iPhone and iPod touch. It allows you to browse only the highest-rated apps on the Apple App Store, online or offline, and store favorites for future purchase or reference. The update contains new apps to browse, as well as a variety of bug fixes.

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Dennis Sellers
Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 10,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.






