News tagged ‘AppStore’

Earth3D+ released today. Compared to Earth3D it had more planets, enhanced graphics, more information, etc. There are now all the nine planets of our solar system.

Earth3D+ costs $0.99 and avaliable via AppStore (link). The Free version of Earth3D is here.

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WhatTheFont is a popular Web-based tool to aid in identifying unknown fonts. Users can upload screenshots of text and get the list of possible used fonts.

MyFonts has now released a free iPhone version of WhatTheFont (AppStore link), allowing users to take a photo directly from the app using the iPhone's built-in camera and upload it to the WhatTheFont database for identification. It requires an Internet connection in order to analyze the image and access the font database.

via macrumors

Emoji, emoticons and pictorial characters popular in the Japanese instant messaging culture, were introduced to Japanese customers as part of the iPhone 2.2 Firmware update, but have required workarounds to be enabled for non-Japanese users. There are many solutins to turn Emiji Icons (Get Emoji Icons for free), but the easy one required jailbreaking. Recently Apple approved an application that simplifies this process. App is called EmotiFun and it is free (AppStore link).

Everything is simple: get app, run it, exit and go to Settings -> General -> Keyboard -> International Keyboards -> Japanese and enable.

Congratulations to Apple. They reached 20 000 applications in their AppStore.

The bad thing is that is is almost impossible to find among these thousands of apps something interesting and useful. Well, we will tell you Just read iPhoneRoot.com

Famous russian social network VKontakte created an iPhone application.

The VKontakte application allows you to stay сonnected and easily share information with your friends. You can use iPhone to send and receive messages, check your friends' updates, and upload mobile photos to VKontakte from anywhere at anytime. You can also find your classmates from school, college or university and copy their profile information to your contacts.

Free via AppStore (link).

Just paint with any sound. You can sing, talk, play on a musical instrument, or simply blow into the iPhone to paint a beautiful colorful pictures. The louder the sound, the bolder the stroke. You can save your creations to your iPhone photo library. To erase the screen, simply shake the iPhone.

Cost is $0.99 in AppStore (link).

You draw shapes with a crayon that come to life on your iPhone / iPod Touch. You use these shapes to interact with the wheel, causing it to move according to physical laws. When it reaches the star, the level is complete.

The application costs just $0.99 (AppStore link). There is a free version of Touch Physics with fewer levels, 6 out of 50 (AppStore link).

This game will be in AppStore soon. You can also watch HD video here.

Google has launched an optimized version of Google Books for the iPhone. This means that iPhone owners now have instant access to 1.5 million books, browsable by genre or searchable by, well, any criteria you like. And instead of serving scans of the pages as in the desktop version of the service, the mobile web app sends bandwidth-friendly plain text.

Here is a link to GooGle Books.

via wired

This is a wonderful 3d animation the Earth with the Moon and the Sun. Application is free in AppStore (link).

The new version of this app will be called Earth3D+. More planets will be added. It will appear in AppStore soon. Watch the video:

An effective hearing test that measures your threshold of hearing for sounds of different frequencies.
Find out just how far your ears can hear ranging frequencies.
Most of the people should be able to hear up to around 15kHz. From around 17kHz upwards, we get into a range that only the under 20's can hear.

• With this version, you will test your frequency threshold, using static volume tones.
• Using the iPhone headphones, you will be asked to adjust the iPhone volume, for clear and effective playback tones.
• Your left and right ear will be tested alternately with every frequency, from the above frequency ranges.
• After the test has been completed, you will get a report of your hearing frequency response.

App is $0.99 in AppStore (link).

This is one more tower defence type game. Lots of fun, good graphics.

It costs just $4.99 (AppStore link). There is also free lite version (AppStore link). Watch the video:

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This is a second application for Skype in AppStore. The first one is called Fring and it is Free. The new application is called IM+ for Skype, released couple days ago and costs $9.99 (AppStore link).

Users can chat, make calls, use SkypeOut, change status, see other's status, etc. Functionality is very close to Fring.

Here are some screenshots:

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TimeLapse ($0.99, App Store link) uses your iPhone's camera to take photos at regular intervals. You can have one photo snapped as infrequently as every 24 hours, or as often as every 10 seconds. After you've collected all of your photos, you can easily dump them into iMovie or QuickTime Pro and make a simple time lapse movie.

via tuaw

Nice game for $4.99 (AppStore link), but you can try free lite version (AppStore link).

Watch the video: