Posts tagged with "iPhone"

Doodle Jump “Christmas Special” Now Available

The trend in the App Store these days is to release “Christmas Editions” of apps. While I wouldn’t know about  “Twitterrific: Santa’s Tweets” and “Instapaper: Christmas Reading” special versions, it seems like the strategy is quite working for games. Otherwise, why would Rovio bother releasing a “Season” version of Angry Birds?

Lima Sky is the latest development team to follow the trend and release Doodle Jump Christmas Special at $0.99 in the App Store. The game is simply a remix of the original Doodle Jump with just a new background and a few Christmas-themed enemies, but boy it looks cute. It’s got Retina Display-ready graphics and all the Game Center features seen in the standard edition.

Doodle Jump Christmas Special is available now at $0.99 in the App Store.

Prizmo for iPhone Now Lets You Scan To Evernote and MobileMe

Prizmo for iPhone is an excellent port of the popular Mac app by Creaceed  which lets you scan just about any kind of document and apply smart OCR to it. The iPhone app – we reviewed it here – also lets you upload your scans to Dropbox and CloudApp. At least it used to.

The latest 1.1 update, released today, adds support for two much requested online services: Evernote and MobileMe. Evernote just happens to have a brand new 2.0 version available for Mac users today. Together with bug fixes, better in-app documentation and additional languages, Prizmo now lets you easily upload any document to these two new services.

Prizmo for iPhone is available at $9.99 in the App Store.

Star Walk Updated: AirPrint, Christmas Edition

Star Walk, the award-winning app by Vito Technology, was updated yesterday to include lots of new features…and a Christmas edition. That’s right folks, you have to find the hidden Santa in the night sky. I’m not kidding:

As you would assume, he is somewhere in the sky. Find out exactly where Santa is right now.

I’m sure he is somewhere, but I thought he was somewhere on Earth. Still, the 5.1 version (both for iPhone and iPad) also comes with AirPrint support to let you print stars and constellations wirelessly. That’s pretty cool, better than Santa support on my opinion. Or maybe I’m wrong and I’ll spend 3 hours tonight trying to find the man in red. New stars have been added to the app’s catalog – we’re talking about exoplanets and big stars with more info about spectral class and distance from Earth. Last, additional satellites info and tons of big fixes.

Star Walk for iPad is available at $4.99 in the App Store. The iPhone version is available at $1.99 here.

Co-op Multiplayer Coming To Minigore [Video]

Minigore is one of my favorite action games for the iPhone. It’s got nice graphics and an addictive gameplay that involves going around levels with this little dude shooting monsters. You can power-up your character, get additional weapons and unlock new characters.

A new episode of the game is waiting for Apple’s approval, but in the meantime the developers have released a video showcasing the co-op multiplayer feature coming soon. It looks fun, and simple as Minigore can be.

Check out the video below. [via iSpazio]

Webout Enables AirPlay Video Streaming From The Browser

We don’t know what’s the secret behind webout, a universal app for iPhone and iPad, and we don’t know if Apple is going to remove this soon from the App Store – but it works. As you may know, you can’t stream video using AirPlay to the Apple TV with Mobile Safari. Only native Apple apps have the video functionality enabled, and if you try to open Youtube.com in the browser you’ll notice that the AirPlay icon doesn’t show up. Read more

The ICONICSTAND Will Make You Reconsider Wooden Stands

Ever thought about placing your iPhone 4 in a wooden stand? You should. It’s classy, retro and adds a natural feeling to that cold glass and aluminum made in Cupertino. Or maybe you simply haven’t managed to find a decent stand made of wood until today. Well, this one’s good.

The ICONICSTAND, realized by Korean designer Kenny Cho and made with “eco-friendly birch wood”, features an ingenious shape that allows it to hold the iPhone both in portrait and landscape mode. You can adjust the position to fit your viewing angle and there’s even room for the charging cable. There are various models and shapes available on the official website.

Added to my Christmas list. [via FSM]

MacStories’ 2010 Roundup: Top 10 iPhone Camera Apps

Welcome to MacStories’ 2010 Roundup! In this new series, we collect the best apps released in 2010 for the Mac, iPhone and iPad — apps we have probably already featured here on MacStories. Only the best apps, both free and paid. Apps you shouldn’t miss.

For me, 2010 has been the year of the iPhone camera. Since I bought my French iPhone 4 in June for a whoppin’ 800 Euros (don’t even ask), I’ve been shooting photos like never before. Sure, I know the iPhone 4 is still a cellphone and true photos don’t come from a phone. I’m OK with that. But I’m no professional photographer, nor am I willing to spend money on a DSLR. Not because I disdain quality – I just wouldn’t know how to fully enjoy it. Leave the pro tools to the pros. For me, the iPhone 4’s camera is good enough to provide photos I like, that I can share with my friends.

Which leads me to apps. The iPhone’s camera is great, but apps are there to enrich its functionalities. Apps with built-in sharing features, apps with filters, apps that rely on their own social network, apps aimed at completely replacing the stock camera…the selection is huge. Photography is, indeed, one of the best selling categories in the App Store right behind Games and Productivity.

In this second MacStories’ 2010 Roundup we have collected the top 10 camera apps for the iPhone. We could have included more, but these are the ones that in our opinion really stood out this year. So head past the break, and check out the Top 10 iPhone Camera Apps of 2010. Read more

#MacStoriesDeals - Tuesday

In case you missed our announcement yesterday, we started another new feature, and it’s called #MacStoriesDeals. We’ll try our best to update the list throughout each day.

Here’s some great deals for today on iOS & Mac apps that are on sale for a limited time, so get ‘em while they’re hot!

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