Handy IPad Apps and Iphone Apps

Yesterday during Apple’s media event, the leader of the portable music player released an update to its hot-selling mid range iPod – the iPod nano.  This update includes a huge physical appearance change by removing the click wheel and adding a 1.54-inch multi-touch display instead.  The device itself is 1.48 inches tall and 1.61 inches wide and includes a clip on the back making it wearable.  One neat feature demonstrated at the event is the ability to literally twist the interface to orient it the way you want no matter where it’s clipped.  The new nano also includes a built in FM radio that includes the ability to pause and go back 15 minutes, and works with the Nike sports kit, though the sensor is not included so you’ll have to purchase the receiver as well as the transmitter in the shoe.  The new nano also includes accessibility features as well such as VoiceOver for the interface which tells you what your finger is touching, White on Black which reverses the colors on the screen, and Mono Audio to remove the stereo aspect of your music.

One feature that seems to be lacking is the ability to play movies and videos.  None of the available icons on the home screen led to believe that this feature is currently available.  Also there is no camera on this version of the nano.

There are two models in 7 colors: 8GB for $149 (USD) and 16GB for $179 (USD).

This is the biggest update to the iPod nano to date and is available now online shipping in one week.

BloodnGuns 1.03

Category: Games
Price: $.99 -> Free, Version: 1.03 (iTunes)

Description:

In collaboration with OpenFeint’s Free Game of the Day, BloodNGuns is Free for TODAY only. Download OpenFeint’s Game Spotlight App to get the Free Game of the Day every day!

“Possibly the Best Dual-Stick Shooter On the App Store” – Nodpad.com

Customer Reviews

“Automatic 5 Stars ★★★★★”

“Awesome and addicting game… Get it now.. Totally worth it..”

“Just a fun simple game that is surprisingly addicting!”

“This game gives me gratification. I shoot things. They burst open.”

Blood’NGuns is a hardcore dual thumb zombie shooter with a large arsenal of weaponry and power ups to chose from. Deal with up to 80 zombies attacking you on screen at the same time, dynamically generated arenas and 6 survival game play modes will keep you challenged indefinitely. Did we mention lots and lots of blood?

Upcoming
We are currently developing harder game modes and a bunch of other stuff!

Features
Version 1.03
- Gun lock: lets you keep your favorite gun
- Facebook/Twitter Highscore feeds
- Added Openfeint 2.4.3
- Fixed Sound Issue
- Dynamically Generated Backgrounds with thousands of variations.
- Sandbox Game Play with multiple nonlinear modes.
- Highly optimized for high frame rate game play.
- Fight up to 80 Enemy Characters on screen using standard iPhone and iPod touch.
- Pile enemy corpses in the thousands and never see anything fade out. Make a mess!
- Blast enemies into multiple bits when using powerful weapons.
- Dynamic Explosion effect creates unique blast every time.
- Realistic sound effects and weapons.
- Collision detection between Characters. Enemies are effected by bullet impact.

- 12 Weapons, G36, M249, Plasma Rifle, Neutron Blaster, Pulse Rifle, Shotgun, Dynamite….
- 4 Weapon Power-ups, Rate of Fire, Double Damage, Fast Reload, Large Magazine
- 4 Player Power-ups, Shields, Armor, Run Speed, Health
- 4 Global Power ups, 2000 points, 4000 points, 8000 points, Death Wave.

- 6 nonlinear game modes, Beginner, Survival, Rush, Shotgun N TNT, HellFire, Death Wave
- Dynamic Game difficulty increases as you progress.
- Positional 3D Audio [best experienced with headphones]

- Automatic save and resume game.
- Free In Game Downloadable Content, Backgrounds and Game mode packs.
- In game iPod Music control. Listen to your favorite tracks while playing.
- Customizable Player, ie. change shirt color.

What’s New

-Gun lock: lets you keep your favorite gun
-Facebook/Twitter Highscore feeds

BloodnGuns

WiFi Sync is a good iPad app from Cydia but this is $9.9 worth. Is there a free app for synching iPad or iPhone to iTunes wirelessly?

This week’s apps–both 99 cents–are a utility to bring your desktop browser bookmarks to your iPhone and a surprisingly fun and challenging labyrinth game sequel.

Originally posted at The Download Blog

Creamy Ice 1.5

Category: Games
Price: $.99 -> Free, Version: 1.5 (iTunes)

Description:

The FAAD GOLD App by FreeAppADay.com introduces Creamy Ice as Todays Featured App.

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Creamy Ice is an easy to play skill game for all ice cream lovers.

Your goal is to serve tasty ice cream to your customers by tapping the correct ingredients in the right order. Manage your own ice cream business – get more flavors, bigger stores and larger orders as you play the career mode. It’s all about concentration, skill, speed and fun.

Unlock two new game modes. Serve as many ice cream portions as possible on one day in the time trial mode. Or master the endurance mode and try to memorize your customer’s orders.

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Features:
- easy to handle one-finger-gameplay
- suitable for everybody from 5 to 99 years
- career-mode with many achievements to unlock
- two additional game-modes: time trial and endurance

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If you notice a bug in the game, please contact our support before posting a negative review. We will be happy to help you!
Please mail to: support@thumbfire.com

What’s New

- iOS 4 support
- refreshed screen-graphics
- added facebbook function – share your scores!
- added a new game to the more games screen: WitchBlocks! have a look!

Creamy Ice

We’d like to say a big thank you to this month’s Mac.AppStorm sponsors, and the great software they create! If you’re interested in advertising, you can order a slot through BuySellAds.

You could also consider a Quick Look submission, an easy way to showcase your app to all our readers.

MacKeeper – What can MacKeeper do for you? It’s an app that will keep your Mac clean, foolproof, secured, fast, reliable and attended!

CleanMyMac – CleanMyMac represents a sophisticated all-in-one-suite utility that helps keep your Mac clean and healthy.

Billings – Billings’ simple workflow and intuitive interface makes quoting, invoicing, and time tracking effortless.

MiniBooks – A handy iPhone app from FreshBooks that lets you track your time and invoice your clients while you’re away from your computer.

Daylite Touch – Daylite Touch is a business productivity manager for the iPhone and iPod touch, winner of a 2009 Macworld Best of Show award, designed as a companion to Daylite on the Mac.

App4Mac – Makers of several different Mac applications, including CheckUp, SecretBox, Sequence, Projector, FlexTeam, and Delegate!

iPad Max – 4Media iPad Max for Mac is a must-have tool for Apple iPad and Mac fans to help them backup and transfer movies and audios from iPad to Mac, from Mac to iPad, and from iPad to iTunes.

ImTOO Video Convertor – Looking to convert all your media files on your Mac to just about any format you fancy? Look no further than ImTOO Video Converter for Mac. This versatile Mac video converter can convert between nearly all HD/SD format videos.

Raskin App – Inspired by Jef Raskin, our zoomable user interface shows you all the stuff on your computer on a single surface. Using zoom and pan to view, arrange and open documents feels so right.

iStat Menus – iStat Menus keeps you informed with exactly what’s going on behind the scenes of your computer – CPU/memory usage, disk space, battery life – you name it, and you can keep track of it with iStat. All through a beautiful interface.

Radium – Say hello to your new internet radio player. It sits in your menu bar and stays out of your way. No browser necessary. And it just works.

Be Yellow – Get toll free phone support for your application, and make your customers lives easier!

Number of people accessing the microblogging tool through mobile apps jumps 62 percent since the middle of April.

Originally posted at News – Digital Media

Niggle 1.1

Category: Games
Price: $1.99, Version: 1.0 -> 1.1 (iTunes)

Description:

Niggle (also known as “Oh Hell”) is an easy to learn card game where you must guess how many tricks you are going to win each round. The fun comes from trying to get exactly the number of wins you guessed while stopping your opponents from achieving their target.

The AI plays a mean game so even expert players will have a hard time beating the computer players.

What’s New

Is now a universal iPhone/iPad app

Niggle

Apple has confirmed that it will not be releasing software updates for owners of the original models of the Apple TV which includes no support for streaming Netflix, as seen on the newly released version..

Originally posted at MacFixIt