Humble Daisy unveils SonicPics 1.2 and SonicPics Lite 1.2 for the iPhone

Posted on March 11, 2010 by Top iPhone News.
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Humble Daisy today is pleased to announce the latest release of it's popular mobile recording tool, SonicPics 1.2 and its free counterpart SonicPics Lite 1.2. SonicPics is a tool for creating and narrating custom photo slide shows on the iPhone or iPod touch. The update includes a new image picker ...

Google “stand behind” Android and HTC in Apple lawsuit

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Apple specifically referred to a number of Android-based devices in their lawsuit – while several Windows Mobile handsets were also mentioned, they are only ever referred to obliquely as “DSP Devices” – but fell short of naming Google. The crux of Apple’s argument is that HTC have overstepped the ...

CAZE announces Rainbow Swarovski crystal case for iPhone 3G/3GS

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CAZE today is pleased to announce JADE Polish Rainbow Swarovski case, a crystallized version of its JADE Polish See-Thru for iPhone 3G and 3GS. JADE Polish is a See-Thru iPhone case featuring an Anti-Interference translucent coating. The crystallized version of Jade Polish adds more than 50 Swarovski crystals of different ...

Cocoto Magic Circus Now Available on iPhone and iPod touch

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Eurocenter today announced Cocoto Magic Circus 1.0 for iPhone and iPod touch. Handheld Version Of Cute, Cartoonish, And Atmospheric Nintendo Wii(TM) Shooter! With an already successful launch on market leading game console, Cocoto and his friends are ready to wreck mayhem and havoc on the Apple iPhone(TM) and Apple iPod ...

24×7digital releases Aw Craps! 1.7 - Casino Craps for iPhone/iPod touch

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24x7digital today is pleased to announce the release of Aw Craps! 1.7, an update to their popular casino game for iPhone and iPod touch. With its realistic table layout, game play, stick calls and dice rolling, Aw Craps! takes you onto the casino floor and into the action, allowing seasoned ...

Asteroid shooter 1.0 released - New iPhone Game

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Independent software developer Martin Knotek today is pleased to announce the release of Asteroid shooter 1.0 for iPhone and iPod touch devices. Asteroid shooter is classic arcade game, with cool space design, where the goal is to shoot all asteroids in the playfield. The game is simple with focus just on ...

Pawn Software Releases Triple Triad Based Game on iPhone

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Pawn Software today is pleased to announce the release of Elemental Dusk 1.2.2, a strategy card game for iPhone inpired by Triple Triad, a minigame of Final Fantasy VIII. Triple Triad is a famous game that gathered a lot of followers and spawned differend communities on the web. Elemental Dusk ...

App Genie Lite: Unlock Free Apps for iPhone and iPod touch

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Mobile market leader GP Imports today is proud to introduce App Genie Lite 1.1, their new suite of applications and utilities for iPhone and iPod touch devices. Designed specifically to take advantage of the iPhone's unique capabilities and touch interface, App Genie Lite allows its users to unlock up to ...

Case-mate Hug wireless iPhone charger ships

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The Hug uses a full enclosure case that is made from injection-molded materials rather than the soft silicone WildCharge uses. Case-mate also ships the Hug with a screen protector to provide coverage from all sides. The Hug charge base is raised and uses smart technology to sense when the iPhone battery ...

Izatt announces 66% Off Sale on MatchTunes for iPhone and iPod touch

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Izatt today is pleased to announce that MatchTunes, its 41st app for iPhone and iPod touch, is now 66% OFF for a limited time. New FREE updates will bring more levels and more fun! The iPad version will be crazy! A brand new concept in memory/matching games has come to ...

PRS Guitarbud jacks your axe, ego into iPhone / iPod touch

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Whatever happened to that dreamy Line 6 / Apple tie-up? Who knows, right? While those two sort out their future behind the scenes, Paul Reed Smith Guitars is stepping up to take advantage of an obvious market opportunity. The newly announced Guitarbud is a simplistic accessory that allows axe slingers to jack their guitar into an iPhone or second-generation iPod touch, all while providing a headphone output in order to keep the noise making to yourself. We're told that the device works with pretty much any recording-supported app (even Apple's own Voice Memos), though PRS obviously recommends that you check out its JamApp guitar amp simulator / tuner / training tool. Best of all, it's available today for £29.95 (or $29.95 here in the States), putting you just a few yard mowings away from securing your own personal aural sanctuary. Too bad the reviews from early adopters aren't so promising...

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Steve Jobs Ranked World’s 136th Richest Person

Posted on March 10, 2010 by MacRumors : Mac News and Rumors.
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In its annual list of the world's billionaires, Forbes this year ranked Apple CEO Steve Jobs in a tie with six others for 136th place with a net worth of $5.5 billion. Jobs' net worth is up from $5.1 billion in an October 2009 Forbes ranking...

iPhone OS 3.2 SDK Reveals New Gestures; References To Video Calls Removed

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Count The Beats: Inspiration… two apps for the musician on the move

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Recently I've been preparing to move home and finally did last weekend. Naturally I had to pack up all my musical gear, equipment and of course, my Mac. In the week leading up to the move, I've had my iPhone and nothing else. With no creative outlet and the pressure of looming project deadlines, I found myself scouting the app store for a fix to help me start fleshing out a few creative ideas.

This is what I found that worked well for me.

1. TonePad and TonePad Pro

The iTunes Store describes TonePad Pro as "...the easiest way to make music. Discover the inner musician in you. Create songs by simply touching." And this is exactly what I found. With a 16 x 16 matrix, and an easy-to-use user interface (literally start tapping your fingers and music is made), I found myself coming up with little melodies and tunes immediately. Although you only have the 16 x 16 matrix, to me, what initially seemed quite limiting soon became a boundary for creative focus.

You can save an unlimited number of tunes to listen back to, and upload them to a shared server where your buddies can check out what you've been musing. With the paid version, you can save your melodies into a ringtone that will sync back to your iPhone, too.

2. Flourish

Flourish is something a bit more immersive. While having a steeper learning curve, there's loads more to explore here. The user interface is really fresh and unique (especially for the iPhone), and presents a creative challenge in focusing your composition whilst giving you the space to try different approaches to what you are creating.

Basically Flourish represents musical phrases as physical loops:

-Record loops with expressive multi-touch keyboards.
-Generate percussive and melodic sequences.
-Build arrangements by ear or by eye.
-Select from a consonant collection of instruments.
-Sequence loops by connecting them in chain.

Check out the Flourish website for a few demo clips.

Let us know in the comments below what other apps for the iPhone / iPod Touch, or the Mac, that are inspiring you to make music.

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Will iPhone OS 4.0 Unify The iPhone And iPad Platforms?

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Review: Hangman RSS for iPhone

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This app taps an RSS feed to pump out the first half-dozen words of news headlines, requiring you to play an individual game of hangman on one or more of those words. It's easily one of the more clever and challenging hangman games in the App Store.

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GDC 2010: Call of Duty: World at War Zombies postmortem

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Russell Clarke of Ideaworks Game Studio hosted a post-mortem report near the end of the first day of GDC 2010 about Call of Duty: World at War Zombies for the iPhone. The game was one of the first big brand hits on the App Store -- it successfully brought a game mode from one of Activision's Call of Duty console games (originally developed by Treyarch) to Apple's handheld device. After a quick joke about how a "post-mortem" was an appropriate exercise for a game about zombies, Clarke got into the nuts and bolts of how Ideaworks went about adapting the game for the iPhone.

The most major feature of the game's development, he said, was the decision last year around this time to sit down and work on prototyping for about six weeks. Nowadays, there are a few successful first person shooters around the App Store, but last year, FPSes were still a new genre for the iPhone, so the team decided to really brainstorm how one would work on a touchscreen.

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New Hexacore Mac Pros Next Tuesday?

ZDNet reports that it has received information from tipsters claiming that Apple will release new Mac Pro models next Tuesday, adding a hexacore Core i7-based model to its lineup.

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Apple holds second place U.S. smartphone share

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ComScore's latest numbers on U.S. smartphone market share show Apple holding second place, though Android is growing strongly.

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New iPad SDK Adds Gesture Tools, Removes Video Chat Icons

Apple yesterday released the fourth beta version of the SDK for iPad developers, and observers have started to find a few differences popping up in the latest update.


9 to 5 Mac reports that Apple has added support for "3Tap" a...