iPhone, iPod and iPad product news – September 3, 2010

iPhone, iPod and iPad product updates and announcements for September 3, 2010:

• Apps
• Accessories

Apps

• GameHouse is putting all of its iPhone and iPad games on sale for $0.99 over the Labor Day weekend.
• RinnApps has released ArtikPix 1.0.1 for iPhone/iPod touch. ArtikPix is a fun, feature-rich and interactive articulation app with flashcard and matching activities for children with speech sound delays. It provides a user-friendly experience for children to practice sounds independently, with their parent or speech-language pathologist. Utilizing fun and modern graphics, ArtikPix comes with a free deck of “th” cards with features such as recorded audio, voice recording, and data collection.
• Chiaro Software announced today the availability of FireRocker HD, its new radio app for the iPad. FireRocker HD comes with more than 1,600 radio stations, a beautiful icon and interface made by the designer Sergio Bergocce. You can add new radio stations (and share it with other people if you want to). There’s also the possibility to record audio and update the stations database without updating the app. Another cool FireRocker feature is playlist creation, where users can list their favorite radio stations.
• Sideview is a puzzle game in which the player needs to restore the board cells’ color based on the color of the side. It contains 104 puzzles, from easy to difficult.
• Brisk Mobile Inc. has released Medieval HD 1.1.2, an update to its popular castle defense game for iPad. With stunning graphics and realistic sounds combining to create an immersive experience, Medieval HD is easy to pick up but hard to master and aims to set a new standard for castle defense games. With its multitude of game and shooting modes, users can adjust the gaming experience to their liking. Medieval HD is currently the #1 paid iPad game in the US and is top 10 in over 45 countries.
• Independent developer and publisher 3D Magic Kft. has announced Assault Commando 1.0, its second blockbuster game for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Assault Commando is a top-down 3D shooter that takes place in the south american jungle in the style of the old “Rambo” and “Commando” games. Assault Commando features stunning graphics, high quality sound and music, with fast paced action, as well as 3 difficulty levels, OpenFeint online leaderboards and much much more.
• iPhone artist deeje has introduced iSparkler 1.0, his interactive virtual sparkler creation tool for iPhone 4. The app enables the user to create, name, and save thousands of unique digital sparklers which respond to movement of the iPhone. Stop motion photos, capturing the multi-colored particles and designs emitted by the streaking virtual sparkler, can be saved and shared. Sparklers vary infinitely with random values assigned to particle color, shape, and behavior.
• Vizros Software has announced Palm Lab 1.1, an update to their personal photo processing facility for iPhone and iPod touch. With Palm Lab, users can load a photo into the developing tank, and in just a few seconds watch the film gradually develop into a masterpiece. The picture is ready and can be saved or shared with others. Palm Lab features more than twenty processing chemicals, offers process control, and much more.
• Alawar Entertainment has announced a Back to School promotion, cutting up to $2.00 from the price of their iPhone games and up to $3.00 from their iPad titles.
• MacPhun LLC has released Real-Time Distorter 1.0 for iPhone users who like to have fun. Much like fun house mirrors, Real-Time Distorter reflects images of people appearing on the iPhone screen into hilarious shapes that can then be photographed or video recorded. Users have a choice of eleven different distorted effects that can be applied to views, as well as share their funny pictures and videos with others very easily from within the App.
• Fitaide, a leading fitness application for the iPhone and iPod touch has announced its 1K A DAY Challenge which requires users to complete 50 km in 50 days. One lucky user who signs up and invites a friend to the challenge before 23rd October will win a brand new iPod touch 8GB. Fitaide was ranked Top 5 amongst US Health & Fitness apps in August 2010 and brings cutting-edge technology to help users find motivation, training and support in achieving their fitness goals.
• The Pogoplug iPad app is now available for free in the iTunes App Store. The new app offers full Pogoplug functionality on the Apple iPad. Users can now access and share their files or stream their media from their Pogoplug-attached storage, taking full advantage of the multi-touch surface, immersive high-resolution screen and the extreme ease of portability of the iPad. Pogoplug is a multi-media sharing device that web-enables up to four USB hard drives, allowing upload and making content accessible to the user both locally or via the Internet.
• TimeStream Software announces today the release of its Walt Disney World Secrets Notescast as a free download for the iPod Classic, iPod Video and iPod nano. Filled with nearly 150 fun, magical and surprising secrets of Walt Disney World Resort, the exciting Walt Disney World Secrets Notescast works as an innovative new guidebook, allowing guests to tour all of Walt Disney World Resort with their iPod Classic or nano in hand as they discover one new secret after another.

Accessories

• Word on the street is that StealthArmor by Fusion of Ideas is stylish and sleek, rugged and unobtrusive. Yet, as a company based in Orange County, Calif., home to some of the most exciting beach cities in America (Newport, Laguna, Huntington, to name a few), Fusion of Ideas decided it was about time to incorporate a bit more flavor into its product line-up. Fusion of Ideas has introduced its most brilliant line of StealthArmor yet, the COLOR Series.