Clinton, Louisiana – Independent developer Buddy Bergman today released version 1.0 of a new app called The Language Buddy that provides a simple interface to enter in a word or short phrase in your native language along with a Romanized “sounds like” spelling for another language. Add that you can also assign photos and audio clips The Language Buddy provides an easy way for you to manage new words and phrases as you make your travels to far off or local lands.

If you find yourself taking a vacation to a far off land and you don’t have time to learn the their language by heart then this app does the next best thing. You can enter in words in your native language, typically English, but it can be any language, and you also enter in the foreign language Romanized “sounds like” spelling. Now you have an easy way to reference that word again in the future. Plus, you can assign pictures and audio clips to those entries!

Lets say you are in South Korea and you go to a restaurant. You want to remember the name of the food you ate so you open up the Language Buddy and take a picture of your meal and enter the name of it plus take a picture and record an audio clip of how to properly pronounce that dish. Now you have reference to that picture anytime you think back wondering what it was that you had that one time.

Features:
* Create multiple language sets like English-to-Spanish, English-to-Korean, Japanese-to-English, etc.
* Create categories to organize your entries like food, phrases, people, etc.
* Add a picture to represent an entry like foods, objects, people, etc.
* Record an audio clip for your entries so you can hear the pronunciation whenever you want
* Search all entries in each language set
* Edit the Entries/Categories/Language Sets
* Change the background color
* Set the application to always startup a particular language set so you can jump right in making new entries without jumping around from screen to screen (Primarily for iOS 3.x since the app will always run in the background when using IOS4 unless the app was explicitly exited)

Examples of Use:
* You are traveling abroad and want to remember simple everyday words like Hello, Goodbye, Good Afternoon, Thank you, etc.
* You are traveling abroad and learn a new word or phrase that you want to note for easy future reference
* You eat some new foreign food and you want to remember how to pronounce that food the next time you want it
* You meet new people and don’t want to forget their name or face, but don’t want to add them to your address book

Device Requirements:
* iPhone, iPod touch
* Requires iPhone OS 3.1.3 or later
* 0.6 MB

The Language Buddy 1.0 is free to download. It will let you create 3 Language Sets and create 10 entries per Language Set. You can do an In-App upgrade for $1.99 to unlock unlimited Language Sets and unlimited entries.

The Language Buddy 1.0
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Buddy Bergman is an independent software developer operating out of Clinton, Louisiana, USA. Copyright (C)2010 Buddy Bergman. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and other countries.

Vero Beach, Florida – Announcing that Tropic Apps, the developers of AI Vote 1.0, have launched a unique app just in time for the ninth season of American Idol. AI Vote contains all the current voting phone numbers, a live feed of percentage votes, photos, time zone adjustment, one-tap voting and even voting countdown clocks. For AI fans, this is the must have app of the year.

Diehard American Idol fans are going to be thrilled about the launch of AI Vote. Typically, they spend most of their time jotting down the voting phone numbers for each contestant and aren’t able to enjoy the show as much as they’d like to. This app changes everything for fans by supplying all the necessary information and giving them a quick and super easy voting venue.

The app contains all of the contestant names and photos, along with real time stats that let users see who’s winning the weekly contest. App user voting is very simple, requiring only a tap to the photo of the person the user wants to vote for. There is a countdown clock to alert when the polls open and close, providing lots of opportunity to vote as many times as users like within that timeframe.

AI Vote features include:
* Simple tap to vote screen with photos and names of all contestants
* Display with percentage of votes each contestant is receiving while the voting is in progress
* Countdown clock to notify you when voting is open
* Countdown clock that keeps track of when voting will be closed
* Time zone adjustment which allows you to participate in voting if you are traveling
* Photos of contestants that have been previously eliminated

Users never have to miss out on voting, just because they’re away from home. They need only make a time zone adjustment and they’ll know when to hit the polls. AI Vote is perfect for devoted American Idol fans and the timing is good. With Season 9 just around the corner, this app is going to help them enjoy the show more than they ever have in the past. So You Think You Can Dance fans don’t have to miss out on their favorite show, either. The Tropic App people have also developed SYTYCD Vote, which can found on their website and in iTunes.

About AI Vote 1.0
AI Vote is the MUST HAVE app for every American Idol fan with an iPhone or iPod Touch. Get sneak peeks of who’s winning, cast as many votes as you want from anywhere at anytime and enjoy lots of photos and information about your favorite show.

Pricing and Availability:
AI Vote 1.0 is only $0.99 (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Entertainment category.

Vantaa, Finland – Announcing that Smart Valley Software, the developers of HappyWakeUp(R), has released the latest version of their award winning app. Based on patented technology and medical research, HappyWakeUp(R) helps users to awaken at their optimal time easily, while feeling rested and refreshed. All that is required to reap these benefits is to open the app and place the iPhone in close proximity before falling asleep.

HappyWakeUp(R) is the first, genuine smart alarm clock based on medical research of the human sleep and its structure (patents pending 2007-2009). The application is the result of a Finnish study conducted in the Tampere University of Technology and the University of Helsinki. It won second place in Forum Nokia EMEA Application of the Year 2008 and placed in the Top 10 in Calling All Innovators 2008. Despite all of this, plus the fact that HappyWakeUp(R) has been mentioned in a number of magazines, it is extremely simple to use.

It is not necessary to wear any equipment for this app to work. HappyWakeUp(R) uses the phone’s built-in microphone to monitor and analyze a user’s sleep patterns and determine the best time for both the brain and the body to wake up naturally. All that a user has to do is open the application and place the iPhone on the bed or nearby. When the time is right, HappyWakeUp(R) will arouse the user from sleep with an alarm.

Users will notice that they are no longer groggy in the mornings. They have more active time after awakening and feel rested and relaxed. This benefits not only a person’s energy level but reduces stress to the mind and body, as well.

Features:
* An easy and refreshed wake up
* Inhibits sleep inertia, so no groggy feeling or confusion in the morning
* Possibility to achieve more active minutes in the morning
* Decreased stress factors by a pleasant wake up
* No side effects or dangers
* Can be used for naps
* Uses as little iPhone battery power as possible

HappyWakeUp(R) is a very safe, easy way for people to actually start feeling like they’ve had a good night’s sleep. There are no side effects. There are only wonderful, healthy benefits to this soundly researched app.

Quadion releases Rune Trails, a fresh and entertaining brain teaser for the iPhone / iPod touch.

Rune Trails is a challenging brain teaser that will just keep you coming back for more.

The goal of the game is really simple: stay alive!

Move the rune pieces around the board and create trails of five or more pieces to make them disappear. Every time you make a move, new pieces are added to the board. You’ll have to be clever and think of ways of removing the pieces faster than they appear. From time to time, special runes will help you clean a few more pieces. But don’t count too much on them! If the board fills up, you lose!

Feaures:

• Intuitive and very easy to learn
• Simple yet challenging gameplay
• Special bonus runes
• Public board to show your latest record to the word
• Game in play is automatically saved
• Extremely addictive and fun!

Rely on wits and strategy to stay alive as long as you can!

http://itunes.com/app/runetrails

http://www.runetrailsapp.com

Chirp Flow is the first real time Twitter app for the iPhone. It allows users to see ‘tweets’ on searched topics or users the moment they happen. Chirp Flow is available today on the App Store for free. excited pixel, a web company in Portland, has released the first iPhone app to utilize Twitter’s real time streaming API. This allows users to see tweets about topics as they happen.

Chirp Flow can be used to get real time updates at conferences, concerts, protests, meetings and any other event. It allows users to engage in a conversation that, when spoken, might be disruptive if articulated acoustically. Many features are planned for future versions of Chirp Flow including: the ability to tweet, view links within the application and see what is trending on Twitter. ‘excited pixel’ is committed to meeting the users’ expectations in the offered features; an email address on Chirp Flow’s website provides users with a direct line to the developers of Chirp Flow.

Garrett Moon, the owner of excited pixel, “hopes to see it being used in innovative ways. If it’s used by activists to organize, [he'll] be especially happy. [He] wanted to build something that could be used by the protestors around the world and realized in conversations with others, it had the potential for many other applications.”

http://chirpflow.com

PatternBlox is a simple game of matching colours with objects. The objects in this case are amoebas. These are of different colours and are in blocks of different colours. The aim of the game is to match the correct coloured amoeba with the matching coloured block. You can swap places of two amoebas at a time by selecting them. It is not necessary that they have to be next to each other. So get clicking, swapping and matching!

There are three interesting and fun modes for you to play.

Survival
In this mode you make the matches to complete a level in a preset time, to move to the next level.

TimePanic
In this mode you have to complete as many levels as possible in a pre defined time.

LevelPanic
As the name suggests this level is not bound by time. You can go on playing as long as you want.

Online scores of the game are maintained so that you can see how you fared against rest of the world.

http://www.dotcominfoway.com/mobile-application-development/iphone/gaming-apps/patternblox

Looking for interesting, unlimited level Puzzle game to train your brain? Make squares in such a way that the corners have the same same fruits or vegetables. The more squares you make, more the points. Surprise bonus points available too!

There are three interesting and fun modes for you to play.

Survival
In this mode you have to select your square within a specified time limit.

TimePanic
In this mode you have to select as many squares you can in a specified time.

LevelPanic
In this mode you have to complete an entire level, consisting of fixed number of squares in a specified time.

Online scores available and local scores for your reference.

Start squaring now for just $0.99

http://www.dotcominfoway.com/mobile-application-development/iphone/gaming-apps/fruitblox

Students know that time is a precious commodity that they cannot get back and that money is finite and must be used wisely. The main goals of Achievers Writing Center are to help students be more successful writing essays and papers, while helping them spend less time and money in the effort.

“Essay writing assistance for students is the perfect example of a highly fragmented market in need of a serious technology makeover. The products and services simply have not kept up with the mobile, smart-phone centered lifestyles of students,” states Michael Niles, President and CEO of Niles Technology Group.

Mr. Niles explains, “Achievers Writing Center apps deliver the mobile technology and content to let students do things that, in the past, required spending time sitting at a computer, making appointments at a school’s writing center, and traveling multiple times to the writing center. As for reliable “writer’s block” email support, well, that is virtually non-existent at writing centers. And, most importantly, if students want help in editing and reviewing the final product, they usually spend more money than they should on another entity that did not even help them write the essay in the first place. Just talking about all the steps and time involved illustrates how difficult and inconvenient it is to receive consistent, reliable professional help.”

Achievers Writing Center apps change the dynamics of essay writing in several significant ways. For a fixed, affordable price, each app comes with professional writing center services and more. There are no hidden charges or hourly credits to track.

Achievers Writing Center apps have step-by-step guidance in writing over 40 different types of essays. Specificity is key to helping a student with a specific type of writing assignment. The apps also come complete with tutorials on writing effectively, footnotes, outlines, and full explanations of the different essay genres. Achievers Writing Center is truly at the forefront because no other writing center offers comprehensive writing apps.

Each app includes unlimited “writer’s block” email support so no more being stuck without a real person to help. There is basically a “writing assistant” in every app ready to assist with any questions throughout the writing process.

The apps have actual writing pages where students can write essays directly on their iPhone or iPod touch. To achieve true mobile essay writing, Niles Technology Group takes full advantage of the computing capabilities and excellent work interfaces of the devices.

And after the essay is complete, the student emails it to Achievers Writing Center. The essay is edited and reviewed with recommendations on how to improve it. This step is the crucial difference between getting an A instead of a B.

No other product provides such complete, start to finish, writing assistance coupled with the convenience and freedom of mobile computing. There are no ongoing hourly charges; no more sitting in front of a desktop computer or carrying a bulky laptop; no more being stuck without help; and no need to hike through the rain or snow to the writing center.

Achievers Writing Center is truly comprehensive high-tech essay writing aid at a student-budget price. The standard all-inclusive app price starts at $14.99 USD. For students that want everything except the essay editing and review, there are versions that begin at $7.99. The apps can be found in the iTunes Store.

Trapster, the world’s most popular navigation and traffic related application for the iPhone and other smartphones, doesn’t just save drivers money, it helps keep roads safe.

A recent Los Angeles CBS News expose (http://cbs2.com/goldstein/Red.Light.Cameras.2.1301941.html) revealed that, in fact, red light cameras have increased traffic accidents, simply because they startle drivers. Accidents nearly tripled at some intersections. The reason: drivers slam on their brakes when they see the cameras, causing vehicles behind them to collide from the rear. Trapster alerts drivers to red light cameras via spoken warnings, a half mile before they approach, giving ample time to prepare.

Road safety is a major objective for Trapster. At the request of law enforcement, it has already added locations of and directions to police and fire stations, and school zones. A version currently in development supports Amber alerts, and allows users to report accidents, brush fires, children-at-play zones, and road hazards. Other features such as real time traffic and turn-by-turn directions are already included in Trapster.

“We have 2.5 million users who can enhance road safety by reporting things they see,” says Pete Tenereillo, Founder and CEO of Trapster.com. “That’s a powerful force. Sometimes people need to find the police, rather than avoid them.”

Trapster is completely free, and runs on iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, Windows Mobile, Palm Pre, Nokia phones, Garmin and TomTom GPS units, and more. Recent feature additions include crowdsourced traffic, points of interest, and a fun feature that plays voice alerts in an imitated celebrity or character voice.

Independent developer Brice Milliorn today announced the sale of JBMJBM, LLC. JBMJBM is a well established company whose sole purpose is creating consumer applications for the iPhone platform. JBMJBM has seen an explosive growth in just under a year, and offers a stable of high quality, well developed applications that are mixed in scope and genre.

Some of Brice’s best-selling applications are Friday Night Lights, iSpy Game, iReferee, iSexyRef, iSexyRef2, Pro Rodeo Fan, Sit Up Counter, Shake 2 Count as well as several College oriented applications for sports enthusiasts, and many more. All applications are currently listed on the App Store and are selling now.

“In an incredible short time, JBMJBM has simply grown out of my hands,” said Brice Milliorn, founder of JBMJBM LLC. “I have found that I am taking time away from my young family. Establishing JBMJBM as an LLC in July of 2009, I have sold over 30,000 applications in my short tenure as an iPhone programmer. Because of my limited time that I am able to give to this business, I am unable to properly market what I have. If an interested party has time to market them, their results should be much better.”

This single purchase lands the prospective party 87 applications, currently listed on the App Store. JBMJBM will transition all application assets into the party’s name or into their business name. Interested parties are bidding on the source code files, website files, and all collateral (in other words, the whole kit and caboodle) for all 87 apps from JBMJBM.

Best-selling applications:
* Friday Night Lights
* iSpy Game
* iReferee
* iSexyRef
* iSexyRef2
* Pro Rodeo Fan
* Sit Up Counter
* Shake 2 Count
* And many more
* Plus several College sports applications

“As my knowledge grew and the word about my apps grew, I started getting inquires on making apps for other companies,” Milliorn continued. “I tested those waters as well and was able to make $10,000 plus on building other companies iPhone apps that they were requesting. I remain convinced that with the right people balance and great marketing, JBMJBM can be very successful in its own right.”

What’s Included:
* DVD Copy of All the 87 Apps Source Code
* Technical support and backup as need to ensure a smooth transition for two months
* Website File Transition to Buyers domain.

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