Android – Iphone – Applications

Dang, it’s August already. Time for Back To School Specials and the slow waning of summertime, at least in the northern hemisphere. Here’s another weekly dose of new releases onto the App store from the past week. Enjoy!

Osmos – Apple’s App of the week. Our first look here.
The #1 hit iPad game, now available for the iPhone, with full Retina display support! Enter the ambient world that GameAndPlayer called “a work of genius,” and IGN called “a beautiful, absorbing experience.” Osmos features elegant, physics-based gameplay, dreamlike visuals, and a beautiful electronic soundtrack. Your objective is to grow by absorbing other motes; propel yourself by ejecting matter behind you; but be wise: ejecting matter also shrinks you. Progress from serenely ambient levels into varied and challenging worlds.

$2.99

Osmos

iPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Released: 2010-08-05 :: Category: Games / Arcade

Yertle The Turtle and The Big Brag – If you’re like me, you’ve grown up on Dr. Seuss books. They’re a cultural touchstone for many of us, reaching deep into our consciousness, ethics, and worldview. Now that I have kids of my own, it’s become important to me to pass along these treasures. I can do so, now, right on my iPad or iPhone. These apps will read to your child, either with a tap on each page to advance the story, or auto advancing through the whole book. They’ll also allow a more traditional book experience, with the “Read It Myself” option, for those big boys and girls in your life that are reading on their own.

$3.99

Yertle the Turtle – Dr. Seuss

+ Universal App – Designed for iPhone and iPad
Released: 2010-08-02 :: Category: Books

$1.99

The Big Brag – Dr. Seuss

+ Universal App – Designed for iPhone and iPad
Released: 2010-08-02 :: Category: Books

Feeddler RSS Reader Pro for iPhone – Big Google Reader user? RSS fan? Feedler has quickly become the cream of the crop with their Universal App for the iPhone and iPad. They’ve just released an iPhone-only version, which comes in at 2.8 Mb, as compared to the 5.0 Mb of the Universal App. They’re also selling it for $.99 as a launch special, so if you want just an iPhone version to help your device save a bit of space, this is the one to grab. The devs continue to add great features to the app, like unread list filters, mark as read synchronization and the like.

$0.99

Feeddler RSS Reader Pro for iPhone

iPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Released: 2010-08-03 :: Category: News

Loopseque for iPad – As a musician, I’m always having fun with music in some way. This new app looks to be a cross between a music beat creator and a rhythm game. The developers have tried to make it as simple and intuitive as possible, which could lend itself to some great experiences for kids as well as adults. Two modes provide the interface for pattern creation, Big Wheel mode (for easy pattern creation) and Wheel Matrix mode for switching quickly between patterns. There’s even two team play modes, Tap and Sync. Save your patterns and load them for further editing or just listening.

$4.99

Loopseque

iPad Only App – Designed for the iPad
Released: 2010-08-03 :: Category: Music

LIFE Wonders of the World Photography Book – Retailing for $22 in the dead tree edition, this truly breathtaking photography coffee table book from the amazing photojournalists at LIFE magazine is priced for launch at a much lower $4.99. It’s for your iPad, and wow won’t you love paging through this. Wait, I mean wow won’t you love showing your iPad off with a total of 100 images of 50 wonders of the world. While it doesn’t look like you can set it up as a slideshow (yet), there is a clickable Table of Contents and a filmstrip tool for easier navigation.

$4.99

LIFE Wonders of the World Photography Book

iPad Only App – Designed for the iPad
Released: 2010-08-05 :: Category: Books

[ Five For Friday: Aug 6. 2010 is a post from 148Apps ]

written by gunturbabu \\ tags: books, designed, dr seuss, Games, google-reader, Iphone, loopseque, wonders, yertle the turtle

One of the App Store’s (dwindling) flaws: there are no trials for apps. Developers have no way to create time-locked apps for 14-day or 30-day trials, for example. The result? Most games have “lite,” or “free,” versions, which are limited in functionality and are designed to advertise the real app.

This week, however, Apple has opened up a new showcase section titled “Free on the App Store.” This little section has three categories: New & Noteworthy and Our Favorites, both of which feature regular free apps…and then a third category, Try Before You Buy. The Try Before You Buy section includes familiar apps like Angry Birds Lite, Zen Bound Lite, and so on. What’s interesting is why Apple has decided to showcase lite apps in this manner, especially when lite apps are familiar to most of us.

“Jailbreaking”—modifying your phone’s software—was recently sanctioned as legal in the US. While jailbreaking has many purposes, one of the most popular ones is to enable app piracy. Pirates sometimes claim that they pirate to “try” apps, because there are no trials on the App Store. While Apple is probably fuming over the US decision, they’re still doing their best to disuade users from jailbreaking. Perhaps this recent showcase is meant to demonstrate that, actually, you can try before you buy. Legally.

The only problem is that lite versions are still an imperfect solution—for developers, they break up the all-important sales statistics that determine chart positions; for customers, there’s the hassle of starting over with that new, paid version after playing a few free levels. It’s heartening that Apple is featuring lite versions, but I’d like to see a more comprehensive solution eventually.

Regardless of exactly why Apple is running this “Free on the App Store” feature, however, it’s worth checking out, especially if you’re new to the App Store. The “Our Favorites” section contains a lot of classics, like Facebook, Yelp, textPlus, and Pandora. And besides, who doesn’t like free?

[Source: 9to5mac.com]

[ “Try Before You Buy”: New App Store Section Highlights “Lite” Apps is a post from 148Apps ]

written by popol842 \\ tags: Apple, chart-positions, Games, phone, probably-fuming, sometimes-claim, store, store-section, store-while, third-category

The Army recently announced the winners for a contest to create an App for the military. Just so you know, there are apps that are only available for the military like One Force Tracker.

Over 141 soldiers and Army civilians participated in this Apps for the Army (A4A), and participants designed a total of 53 applications for iPhones and Androids. There are 25 app were “cleared for deployment”, and the first prize winners took home $3,000.

I suppose that this could be the way new apps could clear the military.

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written by husain \\ tags: Apple, army apps, calling, contest, innovators, military apps, nokia, permanent-link, photo, price, unique-apps, winners, winners-announced

This is Date Mate, a way to create a database for your dates.

As you can see from the video, you can enter details about your partners vital info like birthdays, contact information, and any important things like “allergic to shellfish”. Believe it or not, you can also create graphs about “frequency, quality, and progress”.

It costs about three dollars and is available now. You might want to use this in combination with the Date Check App.

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written by nhiepphong \\ tags: Apple, checking-out, datemate, datemate app, enter-details, Iphone, japanese, partners-vital, permanent-link, these-latest

We’ve been reporting about how entire countries like the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia have canceled BlackBerry.

I just have word from my Source that Saudi Arabia has BlackBerry again. I’m not certain what the deal is. Why in the world make such a commotion about yanking BlackBerry service if only to put it up again on the same day you were saying you were pulling it?

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written by simonivan \\ tags: emirates, globally, permanent-link, phone, saudi, saudi-arabia, uae, united, united-arab