iPhone, iPod and iPad product news – August 9, 2010

iPhone, iPod and iPad product updates and announcements for August 9, 2010:

• Apps
• Accessories

Apps

• SPMobile.net has announced iDleFrame 1.4, an update to its bestselling picture frame with clock and calendar for iPad. iDleFrame aims to position itself as a feature rich replacement for the iPad’s built-in slideshow. Based on the device’s orientation, iDleFrame allows users to select the area of their photos to be displayed. iDleFrame now includes a scheduled “black screen” to simulate sleep mode and the option to turn On/Off the zooming animation on picture transitions.
• GoDesign has released GoDesign 1.0.1 for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad users. GoDesign was created by designers for designers, offering an organizational tool and mobile business solution for easier, more cost effective design project management. The application handles and stores incredible amounts of detailed information, freeing up time and creativity for interior design professionals and amateurs, alike.
• Valley Development GmbH has announced B.iCycle 2.0.2 for all iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad users. Made for the cyclist, this cutting-edge technology blends the function of a cyclometer together with GPS technology in this all-in-one app. B.iCycle is a handlebar-mounted tour guide that will get the rider to where they’re going with the route of their choice, while recording vital data like current, average and maximum speed, distance traveled and more.
• Embraceware Software has released Awaken 1.7 for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Awaken is a full screen clock, music alarm clock, sleep timer and flashlight in a single universal package for all iOS devices. Works great as a night table or desk clock. Supports both portrait and landscape modes. Version 1.7 featurees full high resolution support for the iPhone 4 Retina display and iOS 4 features such as local notifications for alarms.
• BazibaLab has released JetCow 1.0 for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad users. The game requires players to feed their cow enough grass to fill five bottles of milk then make it fly or jump to higher platforms, collecting points and rewards as they go. Players can challenge their friends to games, as well as share their scores and rewards online. BazibaLab developers plan on keeping the fast paced, challenging game fresh and exciting by adding new elements every three to four weeks.
• Codewave Software has announced MyTunesRSS 1.0.2 iPhone client. This allows first-class placeshifting on the iPhone and iPad. You can listen to songs and watch videos from your iTunes library on the iPhone without copying them to the device. Virtually carry all your media with you all the time. No matter how big your iTunes library is and how much memory space you have left on your iPhone or iPad. No need to sync your library when you add new items.
• Clinically Relevant Technologies has released CORE – Clinical Orthopaedic Exam 2.0 for iPhone and iPod touch users who perform clinical examinations to diagnosis musculosketal problems. The application contains thorough, evidence-based content that is presented in text and video form to illustrate step-by-step test maneuvers. CORE also provides result indications and peer medical reviews, along with a PUBMed reference link.
• Personal Applets Corporation has released Space Battle 1.1.0, their block puzzle, speed and strategy game for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad users. This release of Space Battle is the latest offering in the Space Battle app family, preceded by the Lite and HD versions of this block puzzle game. Space Battle can be played alone without any special equipment, or with two players, using Apple’s Bluetooth game kit.
• App Beast Inc. has released 100+ in 1: App Bot Pro 3.0 for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad users. App Bot Pro offers a host of applications in one. There is definitely something for everyone, whether a user wants to know their Basal Metabolic Rate, translate languages or find drink recipes. Developers have rewritten the app from the ground up, incorporating more than one hundred new features and changes.
• Zikera has released Groove 1.3 for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad users. Groove is an exceptional, feature-rich app that plays music automatically, based on a user’s listening habits. The 1.3 version is a major update, offering the in-app purchase of an enhancement package at a very affordable price. The package features tags for automatically organizing a user’s ipod library. Mixes can then be created based on those tags, for a unique listening experience on an iDevice.
• Hunter Research and Technology has announced Theodolite 2.0 on the iTunes App Store. This novel multi-function augmented reality app serves as a compass, GPS, map, zoom camera, rangefinder, and two-axis inclinometer. Version 2.0 adds multitasking support and background task completion for iOS 4, a new optical-mechanical calibration, use of the iPhone 4 gyro for improved inclinometer measurements, and high resolution artwork for the iPhone 4 Retina display.
• Go Forth Apps has announced I Am Vampire 1.0 for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. I Am Vampire allows users to transform themselves into a Vampire using the iPhone camera or photos from their albums. First, the app adjusts eye color of people in the photo to topaz, crimson or black. Then fangs are added and an impressive “vampire glow” effect is applied. Finally, users can add sparkle to their skin.
• Azkend HD—the critically acclaimed and popupar action puzzle game for iPad—is now only $1.99 or 1.59€, which is 60% off. The sale starts August 9th, 2010, and lasts only a limited time.
• HandyGames has released their latest action game: Shark or Die (without doubt one of the bloodthirstiest apps for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad). The game follows the FREEMIUM model and consists of a free base version that can be expanded by purchasing additional content packs: the Meat Pack, the Blood Pack and the Shark Pack.
• Ascii Studios has introduced Talking Headz 1.0 for iOS, their social networking app which allows the user to create, email, and post original character animation movies containing their own morphed voice. Choosing one of five included characters the user records their voice message. On playback, the character’s mouth moves to pronounce each word. In addition, vocal pitch, tempo, and resonance can be altered to create humorous effects. iPhone and iPad have internal mics, iPod does not.
• dtp entertainment is celebrating its 15th anniversary this year by inviting players to save on games such as Crazy Machines, LinKing and Crazy Golf. For one week, starting today, dtp entertainment offers several iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch gaming highlights for an unbelievable low price.
• In a world without public transportation, one man is running. That man is Barry Steakfries. From Halfbrick comes the next exciting mobile adventure. Monster Dash is an action game starring the lovable hero Barry Steakfries as he runs and shoots monsters with nothing to lose! Travel through portals to visit exotic world locations, battling demons, mummies, vampires and more! No monster is safe when Steakfries is on the case!
• PocketMe is a new soundboard recorder App for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. With unlimited uses, PocketMe allows users to record nine of their favourite sounds, ready to be played back at the tap of a button. Soundboards can then be shared with friends just by bumping two iPhones together. Initially presented with nine blank buttons, users can set any photo of their choice as the background, change the titles that appear under each button.
• Independent software developer Reggie Ashworth has announced AppDelete 3.1.3, an update to his popular application deletion utility for Mac OS X. With a simple Drag & Drop, AppDelete will uninstall anything along with all of the associated items. Mac users will no longer have to hunt through their system to find and delete these items manually. AppDelete is a must-have utility for beta testers and the perfect companion to any Mac fanatic’s toolbox.
• Sun Sign Shades, Inc. has released Sun Sign Shades 6.0 for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad users. Sun Sign Shades is a fun and unique application that offers a daily horoscope complete with lucky color makeup recommendations based on zodiac signs. The colors associations, which are ancient in origin, are meant to bring out and enhance a user’s personality. After viewing the makeup on a model, users are able to easily purchase the products at prices that are often drastically reduced.
• Rolocule Games has announced Super Badminton 2010 HD for the iPad. Experience the most realistic simulation of the fastest racquet sport in the world at your fingertips. Super Badminton 2010 HD provides a realistic experience with optimized shuttlecock physics, HD quality graphics and real badminton shots animations. New animations have been added in the HD version, enhancing the behavioral responses of the badminton characters in the game.
• Nine Pound Studios has announced an update to their critically acclaimed open world RPG, Xenome: Episode 1. The game now supports 2nd generation iPhone and iPod touch devices, has refined in-game textures, and includes full compatibility with iOS4 multitasking features. In order to encourage everyone with a compatible device to purchase the game, Xenome will be on sale for $4.99 until August 16th. Xenome will have players fighting for survival as they unravel the mystery of their own identity within the 5 square miles of seamless post-apocalyptic wasteland.
• PhatWare Corporation has announced WritePad 4.1, an update to their advanced handwriting recognition software for iPhone and iPod touch. WritePad lets users take notes in their own handwriting with an iPhone stylus pen, or a finger. The state-of-the-art handwriting recognition software will adapt and learn while it is being used, improving the recognition quality over time. Version 4.1 now includes a Twitter client, which allows users to compose Twitter updates in their own handwriting.
• Livio Radio has announced its Livio Car Internet Radio app for iPhone is available now in the iTunes Store as a free download. The new app offers hundreds Internet-based radio programming options streamed through 3G / Edge or Wi-Fi connection. Designed from the ground up by Detroit-based automotive electronics veterans, the Livio Car Internet Radio includes a number of distinctive features. The app was named a Top 20 finalist at the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show’s Mobile Apps Showdown.
• Spacetime Studios has released Pocket Legends: Adventures (PL:A) a free update for its 3D mobile MMO Pocket Legends. Pocket Legends: Adventures updates the original game with features often seen in PC/console MMOs: story-driven quests, deep character development, open-ended zones and much more.
• Gameprom has release Pinball HD 4 iPhone. Pinball HD 4 iPhone combines Gameprom’s iPhone games: Wild West Pinball, The Deep, and Jungle Style Pinball into one app at a lower price than buying each of the three games individually. It also adds some new and amazing features. If running on an iPhone 4, Pinball HD 4 iPhone takes full advantage of the Retina Display to bring the already state of the art graphics to dazzling new levels.
• Logic Consulting has announced Gyro Air Drums 1.0, a virtual drum set simulator for the iPhone 4. Gyro Air Drums uses the iPhone 4 gyroscope sensor to put the player in the center of a virtual air drum set. The iPhone is the drumstick and the drums exist in a 300 degree setup around the user. By leveraging the MEMS gyroscope in addition to existing accelerometer, Gyro Air Drums transforms all the sensor data into an enhanced, fun drumming experience for the user.
• CDE Humble Gaming Limited has announced Arena 9-HD 1.0, the iPad version of their popular iPhone game. The user begins as an Apprentice with 5 free cards. The object is to have multiple duels with other users through which Experience and Arena Points are accumulated. Accumulation of Experience Points allows the user to upgrade from Apprentice to Journeyman then Adept and finally Expert.
• 148Apps has announced that The Portable Gamer will be joining the 148Apps Network of mobile application blogs. The Portable Gamer brings their two years of experience in the mobile gaming world to the 148Apps Network. The combination will give 148Apps a greater presence in the mobile gaming world and The Portable Gamer greater exposure in the iOS arena. Rob LeFebvre, editor of The Portable Gamer will be joining 148Apps as editor.
• Automotive Data Systems has announced Car Tell Auction Prices 1.0 for the Apple iPhone. Car Tell Auction Prices is designed to empower and protect consumers during their vehicle purchase negotiations with used car dealerships. Car Tell Auction Prices provides users with highly valuable confidential pricing information showing what used car dealers actually pay for cars in their inventory. Browse through 60k records from the last 30 days covering all makes.

Accessories

• With a combination of innovation, functionality, and stylishness, The Clutch for iPad and The Wallet for iPad from Happy Owl Studio protect your Apple iPad and help you stay organized while on the go. The perfect holiday gift for iPad owners, these iPad cases offer a range of cool and unique features that will impress even the most tech savvy and fashion forward person on your list.
• The new wireless headphones from Sennheiser deliver high-resolution, movie-theater-quality audio via uncompressed wireless transmission from Kleer. Equipped with dynamic transducers, the RS 160, RS 170 and RS 180 are the ultimate wireless must-haves for any home theater set-up.