Macintosh/iPhone software update round-up – April 1, 2009

Macintosh and iPhone/iPod updates and announcements for April 1, 2009:

Macintosh

• Eltima Software has released Flash’in’App 2.0 version, a Cocoa framework which lets load and fully manage Flash movies right within Mac applications. This framework contains a set of classes, which provide application with the ability to load, play and manage any SWF files right within this application. Application can communicate with SWF file via External API, FSCommands and Variables.

iPhone/iPod

• Mock Draft is the only application for iPhone and iPod Touch that gives the user the chance to play as general manager of any team in the upcoming NFL Draft. Users can see statistics on players available for the 2009 NFL Draft and make the picks for every team according to the official draft order. Anyone interested in the NFL Draft, or who is simply a big NFL or college football fan, will want to try Mock Draft.
• Vanilla Breeze, the maker of i-Gun and the controversial fingering cat app Maneki Neko – Too Cute to be Rude, has announced the release of the first LCD cracking application now available from Apple iTunes AppStore. There has been a numerous attempts to make the screen cracking apps from a number of different developers, but iSurprise is the first one that Apple has approved.
• Mobui Corporation has announced the private beta launch of the new AppsWeLike mobile application referral network. The referral network provides iPhone application developers and publishers the opportunity to insert recommendation lists of mobile applications that they like within the iPhone applications that they build and generate revenue based on a click-per-action model. Consumers can access the mobile application recommendation lists by simply clicking upon the AppsWeLike icon found within participating mobile iPhone applications and selecting an application on the list to learn more.
• Concrete Software has announced Nintai, an award winning puzzle game for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Originally published for BlackBerry smartphones, Nintaii proved to be wildly popular in the mobile market, and has received much recognition—including Best Game of the Year at the BlackBerry Developers Challenge.
• Amidio, Inc. has released Star Guitar—a unique iPhone/iPod Touch application that enables the user to play automatic guitar rhythms, both strumming and picking types. Playing guitar has never been so simple before. Star Guitar is based upon the patented one-screen interface “StarChords,” which allows immediate selection of 144 chords. Those chords can be strummed in a manual way (thanks to the “SmartStrumming” technology), or automatically. All sounds are generated in realtime with the new “SampleMagic” technology, which employs outstanding sound quality and realism.