Archive for January, 2009
Blue Attack! Blue Attack! Blue Attack!
Blue Attack places you on the front lines of the intergalactic war between the Red and Blue forces. Use the scraps picked up from your enemies’ wrecked hulls to turn your squadron into an unstoppable army!
Protect your carrier, upgrade your wingmen, and cut a path clean through to your target: the Red home planet!
Features:
- Fully customizable ships, from speed to weapon capabilities
- Clean, oldschool graphical style
- Global high scores
- Music and sound effects
- Save state ensures that you can quit and come back to your game at any time
Controls:
- Both touch and tilt controls are available for ship movement and aiming
- Touch the “action icons” at the side of the screen to launch/dock wingmen, change your squad formation, set off bombs, and much more
- Touch the “gears” icon in the bottom right to pause the game and access the options menu
Tilt Controls (default):
- Hold the device flat to the ground
- Tilt forwards, backwards, left and right to fly around freely
- Tilt less to go slowly
Touch Controls (available through the options menu):
- Touch the screen in the direction you want to go
- Touch near the centre of the screen to go slowly
Reviews:
“Does Blue Attack deliver on the promise of the earlier game and notch it up a bit? The short answer, Yes. The longer answer, Hell Yes.”
-appVersity.com
“…a surprisingly fun and deep game… for only $1.99 [US] Blue Attack! comes highly recommend.”
-Touch Arcade
“…a graphically unique, intense, and engaging shooter. It features some wonderfully varied gameplay, great power-up system, and great options. Even the tutorial is good. I can’t say enough good things about this game.”
-148apps: 5/5 stars
“Blue Attack! The graphics, music, a very high level of space-shooter game is the iPhone.”
-AppBank (Japanese!)
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Ever heard of Fantastic Contraption? You should…
Fantastic Contraption, while similar to Crayon Physics, offers the gamer more resources to propel the target to the goal.
In Fantastic Contraption you build a machine from simple parts to move objects to a goal. There’s physics involved but don’t worry, just press “Start” and watch what happens! The simple controls and step-by-step tutorial will have you building fantastic contraptions in no time!
The iPhone version includes a build-in editor that allows you to both upload your levels and download new levels from around the world.
Give the web version a try and decide if this would be a worthwhile purchase later on from the Apple App Store.
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‘Financer’ redefines cool. And then some.
Financer
Financer is a multi-functional application allowing you to track your spending and manage your bank accounts. As quick and intuitive as a checkbook register, Financer allows you to record all of your deposits and withdrawals. You can also easily track your expenses and follow your monthly budgets; helping you stay on top of your monthly expenses.

Financer allows you to manage an unlimited number of accounts in one convenient place. Whether you are a busy professional, business owner, or a college student who wants to avoid those nasty overdraft charges, Financer can help you.

Your finances are secure with Financer’s optional password protection. This feature keeps your accounts safe and secure from unauthorized users. Financer will empower you and set you on track to achieving your financial goals.

What’s new
- Font Selection
- Improved UI
Trouble with your cashflow? Manage it with style for just $3.99! [App Store]

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Let Accountr manage your finances. Not your wife.

Accountr for the iPhone and iPod Touch allows you to keep track of on-the-go expenses and earnings. One of the few apps that lets you track your account transactions and also keep a budget.

CURRENT FEATURES
- Account Transfer
- Reconciliation
- Password Protection
- Create budgets (showing budget, total spent and remainder for each main category – see screen shot)
- Export

*Google Spreadsheet
*CSV (Import to Excel, Numbers)
*QIF (Import to MS Money, etc)
- Highlights Red/Green
- Multiple Accounts
- Unlimited categories and subcategories can be created to organize transactions
- Subcategories are optional
- Application remembers last amount entered and payee value for fast reoccurring entry
- Ability to modify create date when adding transactions, as well as record a payee and add a note
- Look forward to active development on this product which always includes free updates.
Visit the website for tutorials and other information about the product.

What’s new
- Added totals next to Earn categories.
- Added totals next to subcategories.
- bug fixes
*These totals are calculated from the budget reset date
Accountr is available for just $1.99. [App Store]

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Get a grip on your finances with Checkbook

Checkbook replaces your paper checkbook with a quicker, more convenient way to manage your daily finances. Reconcile transactions, save recurring transactions, schedule transactions, and much more! Plus, new features to come in future releases like reports, charts, budgets, and more.

LATEST FEATURES
✓ Export to CSV & QIF
Export your transactions by email to be imported into the desktop application of your choice (for example, Excel, Numbers, Quicken, Money, etc).
MORE FEATURES
✓ Grouped Checkbooks
Group checkbooks to organize your checkbooks exactly how you want. Balance totals for each group are displayed. Reorder your groups and checkbooks just the way you want.
✓ Transfer
Transfer funds from one checkbook to another in one operation.
✓ Check # Field
You can now store check numbers with a transaction. To make life easier, Checkbook will automatically suggest the number for you (by determining the next number in sequence).
✓ Recurring Transactions
Save a transaction to be used over and over again, without retyping all the details.
✓ Schedule a Recurring Transaction
Each recurring transaction can be scheduled weekly, biweekly, or monthly, and on the days you choose within the selected time frame.
✓ Multiple Accounts
Track as many accounts as you want.
✓ Reconcile!
Reconcile your transactions to see where you stand.
✓ No performance degradation
Unlike other transaction management apps in App Store, you can add as many transactions as you need, without the fear of performance loss.
✓ Instant Update to Balances
Any changes made to transactions will automatically update balance and reconciled balance for that account.
✓ Edit Lock
Transactions are locked to prevent accidental changes. Use Edit mode to make changes to existing transactions.
✓ Pin Number Security
Checkbook can be secured by a pin number of your choice. And if you forget your password, don’t worry! Checkbook will ask you a question that only you know the answer to, and will reset your pin.
✓ Description, Category, and Memo
All the fields you need to keep track of your transactions.
✓ Smart Descriptions & Categories
Checkbook will remember your descriptions and categories previously entered. As you type, a list will show you your previous entries to make your new transaction easier to create.
✓ Transaction Filtering
Only display what you want to see!
✓ Transaction Detail Popup
Want to see more information about a transaction? Simply press and hold on any transaction, and a popup will display all of its details.
✓ Currencies
Supports all iPhone-compatible currencies.
Note: Be sure to sync your iPhone or iPod with iTunes regularly, as iTunes automatically backs up data from your apps.

What’s new
Export is here!!!
You can now export your transactions as CSV, for use in Excel or Numbers, or QIF, which is supported by most financial applications such as Quicken and MS Money.
This update also fixes some minor bugs that were introduced in the release of 2.2. Full release details below:

Bugs fixed
✓ If there is only one checkbook, it can be deleted without crashing.
✓ There was an issue with the running balance.
✓ You can no longer delete a checkbook if transactions are scheduled to it.
Enhancements
✓ Transaction description and category text fields capitalize by words.
✓ Create a transfer from a recurring transaction
✓ Recurring transactions are sorted by name

Download Checkbook & and keep it all in check for a mere $1.99 [App Store]
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How to enable Copy & Paste on your iPhone 3G

I know some of you lament the lack of a Copy & Paste feature on the iPhone 3G. Truth be told, rumor has it that it would be incorporated in OS 2.2 (back in the days of OS 2.1). Obviously, that rumor has gone the way of the dodo because it is simply … not true!
Now, someone by the name of Ryan Petrich has just released “Clippy”, a plugin for the default iPhone, iPhone 3G & iPod Touch keyboard which would integrate copy & paste functionality system wide on the device.

These are instructions on how to enable copy and paste on the iPhone and iPod touch using Clippy.
Special thanks to iClarified for churning out all these great & insightful tutorials!
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Illusion Labs to release ‘Sway’ in Feb 2009
From Illusion Labs, the maker of the award winning TouchGrind, comes Sway!
The world of Sway exploded and you must help Lizzy the Lizard find her friends by swinging her through the world. When you find Ninja, Pappman or one of the others you can play them as well! Lizzy the lizard and her friends can grab and swing in beautiful bouncy physics simulation with a little help from your fingers.
It takes a bit of practice to get used to the controls but once you get the hang of it, you never wanna stop swaying.
Coming soon to the App Store early next month!
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Experience a different way to fly with Paper Pilot
Take off in Clever Coding’s newest game for iPhone and iPod Touch, “Paper Pilot!” Race against time to complete 8 challenging courses featuring some of the very best graphics on iPhone.
You will be flying with ease in seconds using Paper Pilot’s intuitive controls, and racing your way to victory.
Starting with only 2 courses unlocked, fly qualifying times to receive your Test Pilot, Fighter Pilot and Captain’s rankings, while unlocking the next levels. Your flying skills will be squarely challenged as you unlock longer courses and qualify for more and more ranks.
Enjoy the unsurpassed graphics of Paper Pilot, with details and a richness not to be found in any other game for iPhone or iPod Touch. Paper Pilot levels are beautifully built, textured and lit.
You will navigate these gorgeous 3D levels using intuitive controls based on device movement. As you tilt left and right, your paper airplane swoops left and right. As you tilt back and forward, your plane climbs and dives. Having trouble completing a challenging course? Swipe your finger down the screen to take it slow, then accelerate to break-neck speed to get your best finishing time.
Starting from nothing, earn 2 Test Pilot ranks in the first level to open the next 2 courses. Next, achieve 4 Fighter Pilot ranks to open courses 5 and 6. Open the Secret Level by achieving all Captain’s ratings and find out if you have what it takes to beat the game.
Paper Pilot was developed using the Unity iPhone game engine. Most of the level designs that you see were used from the asset library provided as part of the Unity license. To learn more about Unity go to www.unity3d.com
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You’ve heard of yellowsn0w. But, what is redsn0w?

Users of soft unlock codenamed ‘yellowsn0w’ for iPhone 3G (US Spec Sets) would have heard of yellowsn0w.com by now.
Today, a new color just hit the web: redsn0w.com. Yellowsn0w was set up by the iPhone Dev Team and redirects you to their 3G unlock, but we can’t give you much detail as to what redsn0w is.
If you visit the site, all you’re presented with is a picture that has been constantly changing. It’s gone from the typical pwnage pineapple, to a dog, and even to a picture of the Teletubbies. One thing that we can confirm is that it is running on the same servers as yellowsn0w.com, so it belongs to the iPhone Dev Team.
It could have something to do with a 2G iPod touch jailbreak, but at this point it’s highly unlikely. But if the iPhone Dev Team has been hiding something up their sleeves this whole time, today would be their day to tell us.
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