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How to make your kids smart with iPhone games

Fast Hatch Apps believes their newest mobile app can help kids develop these spatial skills while having fun. Car Puzzles for Kids 1.0 features beautifully illustrated machines like cars, trucks, planes, cranes, and more. These vehicles are broken up into pieces, and it’s up to the child to put them back together. It is fun and easy to play, and has an increasing difficulty with some puzzles starting at 4 pieces, and scaling up to a dozen pieces. Continue reading



SnowXross 2 – iOS Snowmobile Racing Game – Available Now

Just in time for this holiday season, Indie game studio Heyalda today announces SnowXross 2, their fun snowmobile racing game for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Calling all snowmobile-racing enthusiasts! SnowXross 2 challenges players with insane cross-country snowmobile racing, rewards them with lots of achievements, and excites them with insane physics bashing terrain. Heyalda is also celebrating surpassing 1,000,000 games downloaded in the Apple App Store. Thank you Players! Continue reading



Snow Rally 2012 – iOS Truck Racing Game – Available Now

Indie game studio Heyalda today announces Snow Rally 2012, their fun, truck racing game for iOS devices. Feel the rush of rally racing on your iOS device. Snow Rally 2012 is packed full of exactly what Heyalda’s players have been asking for: better graphics, achievements, a level builder, real-time multi-player, a GPS map of each track, some easy beginner tracks, some more difficult advanced tracks, and some very challenging extreme tracks. Continue reading



Zoom – See your screen again

Chicago based Hubapps has today released Zoom 1.0, its innovative screen enlarging utility, in the Mac App Store. Zoom goes beyond the essential functionality for improving visibility and legibility of small text and images, providing a superior experience in the form of a unique, hypnotically beautiful zoom mechanism which, by keeping 100% of the screen visible while also zooming, must be seen to be believed. Continue reading



ShareTool is the new VPN for the rest of us

Adopted by more and more Mac users on a daily basis, ShareTool is a smart, easy, and highly secure utility that lets you connect to Bonjour services running on your home/office networks from anywhere in the world at a click of a button. This includes Screen Sharing, File Sharing, Remote Printing, Secure Browsing, FileMaker, iTunes, iPhoto, and tons more. All traffic is encrypted end to end and the speed is fast. A free 7 day demo is available. With ShareTool, you can be in 2 places at once. Continue reading



ShareTool 2 delivers a powerful Back to My Mac alternative

Yazsoft today released a major new upgrade to ShareTool, version 2. ShareTool is an award winning utility that lets you connect to all of the Bonjour services on your home or office network from anywhere in the world securely over a 100% SSH encrypted connection. This includes iTunes Music Sharing, Screen Sharing, File Sharing, printing, and much more. No server or technical skills required. Starting with version 2, you can now connect to multiple home/office networks simultaneously. Continue reading



ZooRound 1.1 for iPad – 360 degrees of Nanoschool Kids Learning

Chicago based Zidware, Inc. today announces ZooRound 1.1, designed specifically for the iPad. ZooRound is a bright, funny and tap friendly moving world of animals for preschoolers to explore, as an integrated part of the Nanoschool Kids series of personal learning apps. ZooRound takes advantage of the iPad’s complete 360 degrees of screen, allowing parents and family to join in easily. All graphics and interface elements are kid-friendly, bold and finely created for small hands or fingers. Continue reading



iCreated 2.2 released – Get it free this month

Renowned Digital Artist and iPhone Developer have announced iCreated 2.2, an update to their app for iPhone and iPod touch. iCreated turns your iPhone and iPad into an art gallery of original iPhone Art. It creates a visual link between iPhone art and apps, with its “All Art Applications” feature now expanded to include mini-reviews and links to over 230 practical art and photography apps. Version 2.2 is now FREE for the month of May. Continue reading



Speed Download 5.2.16 optimizes the download manager in Mac OS X

Yazsoft today released Speed Download 5.2.16, an important update to their popular download manager for Mac OS X. Speed Download 5 redefines the Mac OS X download manager by combining four amazing products: a turbo-charged download manager, a fully featured secure FTP client, a file sharing utility with full encryption, and complete .Mac/iDisk/WEBDAV connectivity, into one small and easy to use application. Version 5.2.16 offers optimized performance, better compatibility and more. Continue reading



Playback Media Server 1.5.2 delivers more with MKV and 64 bit support

Yazsoft today announces Playback 1.5.2, a major update to their popular zero configuration media server for Mac OS X. Playback allows anyone to share their media with any Playstation 3, Xbox 360, or other supported UPnP compatible device. Playback can also share media stored in folders or even make entire disks available to a Playstation 3 or Xbox 360. By default, Playback will share almost any content on the users system. Version 1.5.2 includes many new under-the-hood features. Continue reading



Renkara Media Group Delivers Text-to-Speech Translation to the App Store

Chicago-based Renkara Media Group announces the addition of 32 realistic text-to-speech voices to its highly popular translation application Translate Now!, available for the iPhone and iPod touch. Male and female voices are now available via In-App Purchase in 13 of the 50 languages supported in the application. This latest version also brings a greatly enhanced user interface, automatic tracking of all translations, favorite translations, and other user-requested features. Continue reading



New iPhone App Scans Food Labels In-Store: Avoid Allergens and Additives

A new iPhone App from FoodEssentials allows consumers to scan any food label in-store and immediately access a complete list of ingredient properties. For the first time ever food labels will be customizable and instantly understandable. FoodEssentials Scanner 2.0 uses a traffic light system to show the presence and value of any allergen, additive, ingredient or nutrient as set by the user. This will help people to interpret food labels and know what it is they are really eating. Continue reading



Guest List Nation Launches Application For iPhone

San Francisco based Guest List Nation announces the launch of Guest List 1.03, the first iPhone application that delivers redeemable nightlife guest list and promotional offers to a consumer’s mobile device. Guest List allows consumers to review available offers, and with a simple click, RSVP to the offer of their choosing, automatically adding their name to the nightlife venue’s guest list. It allows each user to publish their RSVP plans to Facebook and Twitter, again with a single click. Continue reading




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