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Watch live animals with Pocket Zoo for iPhone

On August 1, 2011, In App News, App Store Apps, Apps, educational apps, iPhone, iPhone Apps, News, pocket zoo, by Leanna Lofte

Pocket Zoo™ with Live Animal Cams is an iPhone app that no only teaches about zoo animals, but you can watch them live. It has recently been updated with a meerkat and two penguin video cams.

Pocket Zoo™ with Live Animal Cams is a wonderfully wild portable zoo for kids & nature lovers.

Find out what it’s like to have your very own zoo at your finger tips with brilliant animal photos, videos, sounds, fun facts and Live Animal Cams.

30+ Live Animal Cams!
*150+ Amazing wildlife videos!
40+ Original illustrations, beautiful photos, real animal sounds and fun facts!
Watch Live Animal Cams (yup, real live video streaming from zoos all over the world – straight to your iDevice) and more than 150 animal videos.
Discover a zoo at your fingertips, with 40 original animal illustrations and an earth-like zoo map
Hear them! Tap the amazing animal photographs to hear real sounds (ever wonder what sound a panda makes?)
Slide the photos up to get teacher-approved animal details & fun facts
Learn about endangered animals by viewing “survival status”
Snap it! See the animals doing something interesting? Capture an image from the cams, and share it with friends via email or Twitter – or save it to your Photo Album

Pocket Zoo is available on the iPhone for $1.99. Screenshots after the break.

[iTunes link]

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Developer Spotlight: Ryan, Abhishek, and Feng from TeleNav

On August 1, 2011, In att navigator, Developer Spotlight, ios dev spotlight, iPhone, iPhone Apps, telenav, by Rene Ritchie

TiPb’s developer spotlights are like DVD/iTunes Extras for the App Store — a weekly look behind the scenes at the programers and designers that bring you the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad apps and games you love. This week Rene talks with Ryan, Abhishek, and Feng from TeleNav…

…And with the help of Todd, they responded with the fantastic video posted above. Many thanks to everyone at TeleNav for this!

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New and updated iPhone and iPad apps for Monday, August 1

On August 1, 2011, In App News, App Store Apps, Apps, first words: growing up, Games, igobubble app, iPad, ipad apps, ipad games, iPhone, iPhone Apps, iphone games, melon truck, New and Updated Apps, News, ripley isword, smokin' brothers, by Leanna Lofte

Every day, TiPb gets flooded with announcements for new and updated iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad apps and games. So every day we pick just a few of the most interesting, the most notable, and simply the most awesome to share with you!

Melon Truck: Game Play consists of launching melons from a melon truck to baskets that vary in points. There are total of 60 Levels, 6 of which are bonus. Each level must be completed with a minimum score of 1600 in order to proceed to the next locked level. [$0.99 - iTunes link]

Smokin’ Brothers: The ultimate barbecue and grilling simulation game for iPhone and iPad. Get trained as a player with the highest BBQ Master of the Smokin’ Brotherhood, located in Sydney Australia, and travel around the World to face challenges of increasing complexity. [$0.99 - iTunes link]

Ripley iSword: It’s life or death when you play Ripley iSword! A cut-throat game that allows you to experience sword swallowing first-hand. [Free - iTunes link]

First Words: Growing Up: Your child will start off by learning the sounds of letters through synthetic phonics (two levels are available basic and advanced) and how these associate to specific words. [$1.99 - iTunes link]

igobubble app: Create or blow “living” bubbles that carry thoughts, images, sounds, videos and other fun content. [Free - iTunes link]

Any other big app or game releases or updates today?

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Create geometric trees with Geom-e-Tree for iPhone and iPad

On August 1, 2011, In App News, App Store Apps, Apps, geom-e-tree, geom-e-twee, geometry, iPad, ipad apps, iPhone, iPhone Apps, math, News, by Leanna Lofte

Geom-e-Tree is a great geometry app that creates fractals-like trees and has been updated with new themes.

Create an infinite number of fractal-like trees with a few simple gestures. Surprise yourself and friends with the variety and complexity of the patterns you discover just by changing the number, angle, and the common ratio of your tree’s branches. It’s math and it’s art – and it’s totally captivating.

Touch the screen to make your tree grow and change.
Watch your tree morph in real time.
Increase the number of branches for fuller trees.
Lengthen or shorten the branches to make the canopy change shape.
Spread the branches up to 359 degrees for kaleidoscopic patterns.
Choose from 20 serious, zany, colorful themes.
Explore the many levels of this geometric landscape on your iPod, iPhone, or iPad!

We’ve added rainbow and “psychedelic” themes, some wild black and white themes (Magpie and Op Art), as well as a few monochromatic themes (India Ink and Pop Sticks). The new Themes tab displays all the themes and allows you to choose one for the current Tree. The Arboreturm remembers the themes of newly added trees. Geom-e-Tree also includes all the themes from our new version of Geom-e-Twee!

In mathematics, a fractal is is geometric shape that is split into parts, each of which is a smaller copy of the whole. This app is great twist on that idea and it’s fun to watch your trees grow. They even snuck in some famous fractals! Even my 11 month old daughter enjoys this app – she stared at it in awe of the colorful trees growing.

Geom-e-Tree is available on the iPhone and iPad for $1.99. The junior app, Geom-e-Twee is available on the iPhone and iPad for free for a short time.

Screenshots and video after the break.

[Geom-e-Tree - iTunes link] [Geom-e-Twee - iTunes link]

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Readdle apps on sale!

On August 1, 2011, In App News, App Store Apps, Apps, Calendars, iPhone, iPhone Apps, News, pdf converter, pdf expert, printer pro, Readdle, readdledocs, scanner pro, by Leanna Lofte

In celebration of their 4th birthday, Readdle is having a two day, 30%-off sale on all of their apps! Here’s a few of their popular ones:

PDF Expert for iPad: [$6.99 - iTunes link]
Scanner Pro: [$4.99 - iTunes link]
PDF Converter: [$4.99 - iTunes link]
Calendars: [$4.99 - iTunes link]
ReaddleDocs for iPhone: [$2.99 - iTunes link]
ReaddleDocs for iPad: [$2.99 - iTunes link]
Printer Pro for iPad: [$4.99 - iTunes link]
Printer Pro for iPhone: [$2.99 - iTunes link]

Head on over to Readdle’s iTunes developer page [iTunes link] for more apps.

If you pick any of these up, let us know what you think!

[Readdle]

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App for That: How to send videos to the cloud

On July 30, 2011, In App for That, App Store Apps, Apps, dropbox, iPad, ipad apps, iPhone, iPhone Apps, Tips and How-To, by Leanna Lofte

There are hundreds of thousands of iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad apps for just about everything — so how come the one you need, the one you know just has to be there, is so hard to find? Enter TiPb’s new weekly feature where staff and readers alike sort through the App Store and help you find just the right App for That. This week, George asks:

Next Month, I’m going to a YouTube gathering in London called Summer In The City. As its a YouTube gathering there is going to be alot of video taking. However, I’m only going to take my 16GB iPhone (and clothes and stuff), so was wondering if there was an app that would let me store the videos when I ran out of room, as I can’t put it on a computer or anything.

To see what we found for George, follow along after the break!

Dropbox [Free - iTunes link] is the perfect solution for George! Dropbox is an iPhone and iPad apps that allows users to upload videos, as well as other files, that can later be accessed from a computer or other iOS device.

A free dropbox account provides 2 GB of space (with incentives to increase that). If George is concerned about space, he can subscribe to the 50 GB or 100 GB plan. They are priced at $10/mo and $20/mo, respectively, but he can cancel his subscription after returning from his trip and transferring the videos to his computer.

Anyone else have any App for That suggestions for George? Let him — and all of us — know.

Having trouble finding what you need in the app store? Send us an email to iosapps@tipb.com and let us know what you’re looking for, and we’ll do our best to find you just the right App for That!

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Track your expenses with Touch Expense

On July 30, 2011, In App News, App Store Apps, Apps, finance apps, iPhone, iPhone Apps, News, touch expense, by Leanna Lofte

Touch Expense, by MobiApps, is an iPhone application designed for tracking your expenses.

Touch Expense is an innovative and easy way to put your daily expenses.
Insert and tracking your daily expenses has never been faster and enjoyable.

Navigate between days easily through the dynamic calendar control;
Enter your expenses with an innovative slider;
Optimized for iOS 4 and Retina Display;
Categorize your expenses with icons ready for use;
See your monthly expenses based on categories through a pie chart;
Multi language.

I’m not sure how I feel about the UI for entering in expenses. You must slide your fingers up (and down) the big circular sliders to enter the amounts – the left one is for dollars and the right one is for cents. Having a keypad pop up would be faster, in my opinion. The look of the UI, however, is really neat and makes me want to get used to the entry method. In fact, the look reminds me of my favorite weight tracking app, Weightbot.

Touch Expense is available on the iPhone for $1.99. Screenshots after the break.

[iTunes link]

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TweetFire for iPhone now available

On July 29, 2011, In App News, App Store Apps, Apps, iPhone, iPhone Apps, News, tweetfire, twitter, twitter apps, by Leanna Lofte

TweetFire – a Twitter client with Speed and Push Notifications – is now available for iPhone.

TweetFire was built with speed and performance in mind. Are you tired of other clients that take forever to load and try to download all of your data at once? TweetFire is perfect for you! Fast loading and smart refreshing means that you can navigate Twitter at lightning speed.

A unique interface giving you shortcuts to all your favorite views in Twitter.
Shortcuts for Home Timeline, Mentions, DMs, Favorites, New Search, and User Profile view
Add more shortcuts for User Timelines, Searches, and Lists
NATIVE PUSH NOTIFICATIONS for mentions and other Tweeps you want to follow in real-time.
Multi-account support
A comprehensive URL scheme so other apps can interact with TweetFire
Flickr integration for posting pictures and tweeting them
A bunch of other photo sharing providers
Instapaper for saving links to tweets and urls
Kik Messenger for sharing tweets and urls with other Kik users
Deep Favstar.fm integration for viewing Favstar pages and awarding “Tweet of the Day”
Other sharing options for Facebook, Pinboard, Read It Later, Email, SMS, etc.
Save Tweet and DM as Draft, with images
Instagram integration
One tap search
One tap user profile view
Quickly add users to lists
Add other people’s public lists to your home screen

I haven’t had the chance to try out TweetFire, yet, but I’ve seen many great things said about it on Twitter – particularly that it’s blazing fast. With a name like TweetFire, it better be!

TweetFire is available on the iPhone for free. Screenshots after the break.

[iTunes link]

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Never miss an appointment with Calendar with Alarm for iPhone

On July 29, 2011, In App News, App Store Apps, Apps, Calendar, calendar apps, calendar with alarm, Games, iPhone, iPhone Apps, News, by Leanna Lofte

Calendar with Alarm is an iPhone calendar app that, well, lets you set alarms.

Never miss an appointment again! CalAlarm is an elegantly designed user friendly calendar that adds an alarm to your appointments, so that you are no longer committed to the two short standard calendar beeps.

Easy and quick navigation through days and weeks and years.
Quickly add/edit multiple alerts.
Copy events.
Set defaults for new events.
Custom week numbers.
Distinguishes calendars with the same name but of different type.
Lists upcoming and overdue alarms.
Repeats continuously till acknowledged.
Snoozes with variable intervals.
Customize Quick Alert values, Snooze screen and birthdays alarms.
Choice of 25 alarm sounds.
Customizes sounds for different calendars.
All CalAlarm alarms on/off switch.
Sets local notifications.
Works with all calendars that use the iPhone calendar database (iCal, MobileMe, Exchange, CalDAV, Google calendar, etc.).
Syncs with these calendars.

It drives me crazy that the iPhone’s native calendar only allows two alerts for an event. For entries that require more alerts, I normally add them to MobileMe in iCal on my Mac. Calendar with Alarm seems like a much better solution.

Calendar with Alarm is available on the iPhone for $1.99. Screenshots after the break.

[iTunes link]

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Tweetcaster Pro updates with iPad support

On July 29, 2011, In App News, App Store Apps, Apps, iPad, ipad apps, iPhone, iPhone Apps, News, tweetcaster pro, twitter, twitter apps, by Leanna Lofte

Tweetcaster Pro has been updated as a universal application for iPhone and iPad.

Multiple Account Support
Facebook Integration
“Zip It” (Hide unwanted tweets)
Peekaboo Links – Link Preview
In-App Notifications
Tweet Power Swipe
Timeline Search
iTunes Music Sharing and purchasing integration
Geolocation/Nearby functionality
Advanced Profile Editing
Multiple Themes
Custom Backgrounds
Follower Management
Long tweet Support
Draft Manager
Lists
Twitter Trends
Instapaper/Read It Later Integration
Threaded Conversations
Standard features such as Search, URL shortening, Photo/Video Uploading, Retweets (with or without comment)

I really like Tweetcaster’s UI. It has a very nice design and makes good use of popups without overusing them. I’ll likely be using Tweetcaster as my primary Twitter app on the iPad.

Tweetcaster Pro is available for $4.99. Screenshots after the break.

[iTunes link]

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