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The globally acclaimed British sketch comedy sensations, The Mighty Boosh and Tribal Games, a mobile games developer and a division of Tribal Brands, have teamed to deliver The Mighty Decider.

This new app delivers what this indecisive world has been waiting for — a life management tool that will guide the decision making process, and provide continuous hours of entertainment for any social network.  Boosh fans across the globe will revel in the fact they can turn to the quirky and surreal Boosh universe at a moment’s notice to assist in their life choices.  Just as compelling for those not yet familiar with the Boosh, The Mighty Decider is the perfect introduction to the inventive and fantastical act of nature known as The Mighty Boosh.

The Mighty Decider is now available worldwide from the App store for the iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad.  To download The Mighty Decider, go to www.mightydecider.com .

The magical, bizarre and exciting world of The Mighty Boosh was created by comedians Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding, evolving from live theatre to radio and, finally, to a groundbreaking television series originally airing on The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).  On March 29, 2009, The Mighty Boosh made its United States debut on The Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim to rave reviews.

Building on their cult following in Britain, a growing fan base in the U.S., several live stage show tours—which culminated in a 90-date tour of the U.K., selling out arenas such as 02 and Wembley with over a quarter of a million fans in attendance.  Their best selling and award-winning coffee table book, “The Mighty Book of Boosh,” expanded their horizons and now the mobile world is primed for this imaginative and psychedelic brand.

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Golfshot: Golf GPS©, the incredibly popular Golf GPS and Scorecard application for golfers, was ranked the fifth-best selling app of the year in Apple’s iTunes Rewind 2009. The ranking, which came out just before Christmas, comes on the heels of Apple featuring Golfshot in numerous TV ads in the United States, Japan and Australia.

Golfshot has been used on more than 10 million golf holes since it was released on Father’s Day in June of 2009, and its popularity among golfers has vaulted it to one of the top grossing iPhone apps among more than 100,000 apps in the Apple iTunes Store.

“We’re incredibly flattered that our members helped to make Golfshot one of Apple’s Top 10 selling apps of 2009,” said Michael Hall, President of Shotzoom Software, the creators of Golfshot.

The ranking coincides with Golfshot releasing its latest version (v1.5) that provides directions to courses, how to contact courses and other course information. Golfshot also will be offered in Korean, the 12th language available for the app. Other languages include English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Chinese (simplified and traditional), Japanese, Portuguese, Dutch and Swedish.

Additionally, Golfshot is now offering its “lite” version for free in the Apple iTunes Store. The app, which includes a scorecard for up to four golfers, statistics and handicap information on more than 26,000 courses worldwide, previously was offered for 99 cents.

The Golfshot: Golf GPS© app with all features, including GPS, can be downloaded on iTunes for a one-time fee of $29.99, with no additional monthly or annual fees.

Golfshot’s GPS features include a rangefinder that shows distances to greens, up to 40 professionally mapped targets per hole and a GPS aerial view option.

Golfshot’s scoring feature provides detailed scorecards for every course, and easy-to-use scoring that leads to in-depth stat tracking and analysis of each individual’s game, and can be viewed at www.golfshot.com.

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4 Jan 2010

Golfshot Soars to One of Apple’s Top Apps for 2009

Author: editor | Filed under: applications

As you may have heard. “Fake Steve Jobs” ie. Daniel Lyons has proposed Operation Chokehold for this coming Friday at noon pacific. The idea? To bring the AT&T network to its knees by encouraging data-intensive app use from iPhone users for one hour. The point, is to let AT&T know they don’t have the most robust network to handle the amount of traffic from the iPhone. With all due respect to Mr. Lyons, AT&T is probably in a good position to know the health of their network.

Ryan Ritchey from The Digital Lifestyle is offering an alternative: Operation Feedback. He’s encouraging every iPhone user to download AT&T’s Mark The Spot app for reporting dropped calls, dead spots, data drop, etc. and for one week, starting Friday, mark every single issue encountered.

“If you want to bring something to its knees and be productive at the same time, why not flood the problem-tallying server with legitimate service concerns?” Ritchey said.

Operation Feedback will allow users across the United States to not only vent frustration with the level of service from AT&T, but to hopefully make the network better for everyone. This plan also eliminates any interruption to emergency service/notifications that could arise from a total network outage.

http://www.thedigitallifestyle.tv

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Coupons.com Incorporated today announced the availability of its new Coupons.com application for the iPhone and iPod touch in the Apple App Store. The free application makes it easy for mobile users to save with budget-stretching coupons they can print, save to their grocery store loyalty card or redeem at point of sale by showing coupons on their mobile devices. In a separate release today, the company also announced the availability of Version 2.0 of Grocery iQ™, the wildly popular shopping list application.

“Our Coupons.com application gives mobile access to the thousands of dollars of savings available on Coupons.com and even allows mobile redemption of hyperlocal coupons offered by retailers across the country,” said Steven Boal, CEO of Coupons.com Incorporated. “Coupons.com turns a smart phone into a savings phone.”

The Coupons.com application makes it easy for mobile users to browse and select from hundreds of printable, Save to Card and Show & Save coupons.

Printable Coupons. With the “Coupons” tab, users browse available offers and select the ones they want using the “Clip” option. They can then print the coupons wirelessly to HP printers or send the coupons to an email address for printing later.
Save to Card Coupons. With the “Savings Card” tab, users can browse available offers and select the ones they want using the “Add to Card” option. They can even browse and select coupon offers while they shop. The coupons are automatically loaded to the user’s retail store loyalty card. When the loyalty card information is entered at checkout, coupons are automatically deducted from the total—all without the need for clipping or scanning printed coupons.

Save to Card currently supports shopper loyalty programs from Safeway, VONS, Dominick’s, GENUARDI’S, Randalls, Tom Thumb, PAVILLIONS and CARRS, which span over 1,700 stores in the Western, Southwestern, Rocky Mountain, Midwestern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States and in Western Canada. Loyalty programs for additional retail chain partners will be added soon.
Show & Save Local Coupons. Coupons.com offers over 12,000 hyperlocal offers from retailers and service providers across the country—from pizzerias to plumbers and dry cleaners to dog walkers. With the “Local Offers” tab, mobile users simply browse a list of available coupons and click the ones they want. They can also choose to browse coupons from nearby retailers and service providers based on their GPS location and even pull up a map leading them directly to the merchant offering the savings. Shoppers can choose to browse offers ahead of time or browse at the point of service, and simply show the coupons right on their phones for savings.

Bowers Technologies, Inc. today introduces Crime Stats 1.0, their new crime statistics inquiry application for iPhone and iPod Touch. Designed specifically to leverage the iPhone’s unique abilities, Crime Stats serves to empower people by providing them detailed crime information about more than 8,700 cities within the United States. More importantly, the crime statistics are ranked in relation to the rest of the nation. This allows users to see how see how a city compares to the national average for each of the various crime categories.

Imagine driving down the highway at night and you notice the gas gauge is very low. You are on vacation and have never been in this part of the state before. Looking at a passing sign you see that there are only two cities nearby. Your spouse pulls out the iPhone and launches Crime Stats. Within a few seconds you are able to pull up a side by side comparison of the crime statistics for the two cities. Smiling to each other, you drive past the nearest city and exit a few miles up the road to get fuel and snacks.

Feature Highlights:
* Ranks each crime category according to the national average
* Visual indicators allow you to quickly understand the rankings
* Look up a city using your current location (iPhone GPS) or by searching by name (iPod & iPhone)
* Search for cities even when no data connection is available (airplane, no cellular service, etc)
* Compare two cities side by side on the screen so you can easily see the differences between each one
* Extremely easy to use interface that only takes seconds to pull up information

“We created this app to help families and individuals make informed choices when on vacations or business trips,” said Bryan Bowers, founder and CEO of Bowers Technologies. “It has been a tremendous help to my family as we participate in various activities and outings.”

http://iproduceapps.com/crime-stats

Autodesk SketchBook Mobile is a professional-grade paint and drawing app

Autodesk SketchBook Mobile software from Autodesk, Inc., has surpassed one million downloads on the App Store since its debut on September 17. Autodesk SketchBook Mobile is a professional-grade paint and drawing app that offers a full set of sketching tools designed specifically for the iPhone and iPod touch.

Users have purchased more than 141,000 copies of SketchBook Mobile and have downloaded more than 900,000 versions of the free* Autodesk SketchBook Mobile Express on the App Store, bringing total downloads to more than one million. Autodesk’s first commercial mobile application was the number one entertainment App and number three top grossing App in the United States in its first few weeks on the market. Sales performance for SketchBook Mobile currently ranks it among the top 100 grossing Apps in the U.S. Users worldwide consistently rate SketchBook Mobile with an average of four plus out of five stars.

Autodesk SketchBook Mobile uses the same engine as Autodesk SketchBook Pro painting and drawing software, delivering much of the power and functionality as the desktop application. Content created in SketchBook Mobile can be saved in the Photo Library or emailed directly as PNG or PSD format for further refinement in SketchBook Pro. There are more than 100,000 SketchBook Pro users, representing a wide range of designers, illustrators, graphic artists, students and hobbyists.

SketchBook Mobile is available for $2.99 from the App Store for iPhone and iPod touch or at www.itunes.com/appstore. To learn more about SketchBook Mobile, visit www.autodesk.com/sketchbookmobile.

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