iPhone/iPod apps for Dec. 9

Posted by Dennis Sellers Dec 9, 2009 at 6:00pm

Here are the latest iPhone/iPod touch/iPod apps announced. You can find ‘em at the Apple App Store.

UnitedHealthcare has introduced DocGPS, a new, free app for the iPhone and iPod touch. It enables users to tailor their search to their specific health plan and locate nearby doctors, clinics and hospitals within the UnitedHealthcare network using the GPS functionality of iPhone 3G and 3GS. The app can make searches on 23 types of health care facilities and 58 types of physician specialties.

Online real estate brokerage ZipRealty has released a new, free iPhone application that enables house hunters in 4,897 cities and neighborhoods across the U.S. to search for available homes and view photos, prices and estimated values. Through the new application, home buyers now have mobile access to their free ZipRealty accounts, allowing them to search for homes on the go and view full information on Multiple Listing Service (MLS)- listed homes directly from their iPhones.

LivingSocial has launched its LivingSocial Deals application for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Now, LivingSocial’s 80 million-wide community, and iPhone users everywhere, will receive one deal each day for 50%-90% off at local restaurants, bars, salons, spas, theaters, comedy clubs, sporting events and more.

Bowers Technologies, Inc. today introduces Crime Stats 1.0, a $1.99 crime statistics inquiry application for the iPhone and iPod touch. Designed specifically to leverage the iPhone’s unique abilities, Crime Stats serves to empower people by providing them detailed crime information about more than 8,700 cities within the United States. The crime statistics are ranked in relation to the rest of the nation so it allows you to compare cities to the national average.

Avallon Alliance is offering what it says is the first meta-quest at the Apple App Store. Developers have just launched the last free promo game from “Kellie Stanford: Turn of Fate” collection for iPhone/iPod Touch users and says that special rewards will be given to everyone who collects all eight free mini games.

HereMe is a new $2.99 app for the iPhone. Utilizing the iPhone’s GPS feature, hereMe! becomes a tool to connect users to various locations. Wherever they are, users can post photos, audio, and blog entries about these locations and discover what others who have been there left behind. All entries are attached to the place like a virtual guest book. Bypassers can discover whatever they want by defining their sphere of interest.

Apps Mobilis has introduced The Night Before Christmas, a $1.99 yuletide poem/animated book for children. It’s based on the classic children’s poem by Clement C. Moore and features illustrated, narrated stories.

Satosoft has launched MP Expenses 1.0, their third application exclusively for iPhone and iPod touch users. The $5.99 app features “the information that UK MP’s have tried to cover up for years by giving you the ability to view each MP’s expenses.” You can also send them an email to their own email address. Additionally, you can ring their Parliamentary office or Constituency office or even view their web sites.

Plinkk Photography has shipped Second Shootr 1.0 for the iPhone and iPod touch. The $6.99 app is adigital photography assistant for professional wedding photographers. Second Shootr helps photographers with planning and administration.

Clickgamer has launched, Angry Birds, a $0.99 action-puzzle game for the iPhone and iPod touch. The game puts players in control of a flock of avian assassins. These angry birds are desperate to reclaim their eggs from some pesky thieving pigs.

QuinnScape has launched aQ’s Pro Slider Puzzle 2.0 for the iPhone and iPod touch. The aQ’s Pro Slider Puzzle family of apps include six theme-focused apps, plus one all-inclusive 6-in-1 Combo app. This 6-in-1 slider puzzle includes “Full Screen, Full Fun,” “Puzzle Your Pic,” “Shake to Shuffle,” “Numbered or Not,” “Wallpaper This!” and “Save for a Rainy Day.”

The “aQ’s Pro Slider Puzzle” family of apps include six theme-focused apps (Nature, Birds, Travel, the Maya, Egypt & Space), plus one, all-inclusive, 6-in-1 Combo app. Each themed app sells for $0.99, while the combo app sells for $2.99 USD (six themes for the price of only three). Every puzzle is solvable, and each game has four skill levels.

TatTap is a new $0.99 app for the iPhone designed especially for lovers of tattoos and body art and ink.

Living Fireplace is a new $0.99 app that “transforms iPhones and iPod touches into 12 unique and vibrant fireplace scenes, creating a warm and welcoming hearth anywhere you might travel.” You can listen to the soothing sounds of natural fireplace crackling and popping as each scene continuously loops.

Skewsoft has announced Sums 1.1, an update to their $2.99 ledger and tally sheet utility for iPhone and iPod touch users. It provides a paper-like interface that lets users enter, edit, rearrange, and delete figures. You can use it to write a budget, track expenses, balance the checkbook, tally game points, log mileage, or manage any other list of numbers.

Joby has launched the Gorillacam, a free, camera app for the iPhone. Designed to extend the iPhone’s native camera functionality, the Gorillacam adds features that are unavailable in the basic camera application, including a self-timer, time-lapse, and continuous rapid-fire shooting.

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