Dublin, Ireland – January 29, 2010 – Ideal Binary Limited, a privately held iPhone® software development company, is pleased to announce the launch of 3D Bookshelf, the world’s first fully 3D eBook reader application for iPhone & iPod touch®.

Unlike most other eBook reader applications, 3D Bookshelf is focused on simulating a fully 3D vintage reading experience. “Using a highly specialized 3D engine, we can recreate an ultra realistic three dimensional book and allow the user to open it to any page in full 3D. The user can also manipulate the book in a special viewing mode, as you would with a real book,” according to Kevin Doolan, co-owner of Ideal Binary.

The high performance 3D engine is designed to use as little energy as possible and shuts down almost completely when there is no movement on screen. This ensures efficient battery power usage.

The application features fifteen time-honored eBooks, such as The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. Many significant updates to the application are planned, including the addition of many more books.

To celebrate the launch of 3D Bookshelf for iPhone & iPod touch, Ideal Binary is giving away an Apple® iPad. Visit www.3DBookshelf.com for more information.

www.idealbinary.com

www.3dbookshelf.com

Founded in 2008, Ideal Binary Limited (www.idealbinary.com) is a privately held iPhone software development company specializing in the production of sophisticated high-performance applications. Its development team has a long history in both desktop and mobile application development and porting, having worked with major brands from companies like Konami, Capcom & From Software among many others. Copyright (C) 2009-2010 Ideal Binary, Ltd., All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

GrooveMaker for iPhone/iPod Touch surpasses over a half million downloads
Over 500,000 downloads for one of the most popular music creation – loop remixing apps

With a constant presence in the top 100 free music applications worldwide since its release, GrooveMaker and its range of stylebased paid apps has surpassed the 500,000 downloads, and has become one of the most downloaded loop remixing applications for the iPhone/iPod Touch platform.

Released in August 2009, the GrooveMaker range of today is now comprised of 11 style-based versions covering all types of dance music genres and more, including House, Hip-Hop, Techno, Trance, Electro, D’n’B, Rock, Reggae and Reggaeton.

GrooveMaker allows you to create professional full-length tracks and grooves for music compositions, ambient soundtracks, movie scores or to make music just for fun. It is so easy to use and learn that anybody can create their own songs and remixes in minutes.

GrooveMaker for iPhone/iPod Touch gives users a completely new way of making music with audio loops. Thanks to our patented “groove generator” technology, the hundreds of drums, basses, kicks, lines, pads, percussion and effects loops included in each app can be remixed in virtually limitless ways, all with one touch, to produce millions of possible groove combinations.

Grooves made in GrooveMaker can be manipulated in real-time (pan, volume, mute, solo, group and tempo) and be easily arranged by dragging and dropping to create full-length tracks. These tracks can then be saved, previewed and recalled on the iPhone/iPod Touch or exported as hi-quality .WAV files to any computer using a Wi-Fi network.

All of this is done in real-time, without ever having to stop the music and it’s like working with a real instrument! Single or multiple loops can be added, removed, and replaced without stopping the creative flow. GrooveMaker makes remixing a breeze and a totally new experience.

Pricing and availability
All GrooveMaker apps are available on the Apple iTunes App Store for prices ranging from $4.99/€3.99 to $9.99/€7.99. There are currently 10 available paid apps: Club, House, Hip-Hop, Techno, Trance, Electro, D’n’B, Rock, Reggae and Reggaeton. A fully functional GrooveMaker FREE version is also available, so everybody can download it and start making music right away!

For more information, video and audio demos, please visit:
www.GrooveMaker.com

Alawar Entertainment has announced Hotel Mogul 1.0 for iPhone and iPod touch, their 13th game by the global developer. Hotel Mogul is a fast paced business and economic simulation game based off of their PC game of the same name. In Hotel Mogul, the player takes the role of the business savvy Lynette, who sets out to reclaim her families hotel empire after her ex-husband underhandedly snatches it out from under her.

Alexandria, VA – Alawar Entertainment continues their expansion into the iTunes app store with Hotel Mogul – their 13th game by the global developer. Hotel Mogul is a fast paced business and economic simulation game based off of their PC game of the same name. This solidifies a major expansion for the highly successful developer of PC games, who plans on bringing more than twenty new gaming titles to the iTunes app store in the next year.

In Hotel Mogul, the player takes the role of the business savvy Lynette, who sets out to reclaim her families hotel empire after her ex- husband underhandedly snatches it out from under her. With only a few plots of land to her name and a small amount of cash in her pocket, Lynette must buy, sell and trade her way through the high stakes world of real estate management and fast paced economics. To win back her fortune she will need to amass a vast global empire of hotels, restaurants and amusement parks. Experience comes gradually as the player masters the basics of management. Later levels build on these essential skills with challenging missions involving the raising and repairing of structures and the buying and selling of real estate. The player has a limited amount of time to complete each task, so it’s important for him or her to learn to multitask and react quickly to a constantly changing environment.

The premium version of the application contains
* Over 35 different levels in five global regions
* Four mini “find-it” games to continue the story line
* More than 15 building types with upgradeable features
* 12 special awards to work towards throughout the game
* Vibrant graphics and soundtrack

A lite version of the game is also being released to give players new to the Alawar gaming portfolio a chance to experience the game before purchase. This lite version will include ten of the games levels in two of the global regions, and a limited number of building types.

Alawar’s game repertoire is vast, with over 200 high quality games played all over the world though major portals such as RealArcade, Yahoo! Games, BigFish Games, AOL and others. “We received multiple emails asking for more of our games to be ported for iPhones and the iPod Touch,” said Krill Plotnikov, Alawar’s vice president of publishing. “The iPhone is a natural extension to our gaming catalog and makes it easy for our players to take their favorite casual games with them wherever they go. The company’s iPhone catalog currently consists of such games as Farm Frenzy, The Treasures of Montezuma 1 and 2, Gourmania and more. Hotel Mogul is destined to become a stellar addition to this winning lineup!

Pricing and Availability:
Hotel Mogul is available for the iPhone or iPod touch for $1.99 (USD) and can be found listed in the iTunes app store under “Simulation Games”. The app is rated “4 ” and is compatible with OS version 2.2.1 and higher.

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Alawar Entertainment has specialized in the development, publication and distribution of casual games since 1999. The company has published more than 200 titles worldwide and is the largest provider of casual games in Eastern Europe. Today, Alawar works with five internal studios and more than 30 external developers, providing a full range of services that includes game production, distribution and marketing, distributing its releases via its broad network of Web sites. The company’s offerings can also be found on popular download portals, including RealArcade, BigFish Games, Yahoo! Games, AOL, iWIN and others. In addition to distributing games online, Alawar works with CD publishers in more than 20 countries. In 2008, the company significantly increased its presence in Eastern Europe and became the leading distributor of casual games in that region. Visit Alawar for more information. Copyright (C) 2009 Alawar Entertainment. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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Tatiana Chernova
Director, Marketing Communications and PR
Appency
+7 913 905 55 43
Russian Federation
pr@alawar.com

It is with great pleasure that African Pixel announces iScribe for  iPhone. Now available in the iTunes AppStore!

What is it?

Simply put, iScibe is a story telling/editing/publishing app.

iScribe brings old school journaling to the new age of mobility and the internet. Making it simple to capture life’s moments in a fun way and on the move. You don’t have to wait to get back home to record the experience. You can capture it as it happens – in text, voice, images and video! Get all aspects of your experience as it happens!

Write your entry; add photos to capture the moment. Record conversations or audio snippets, take video clips and add them to your ‘journal’ entry. At the end of the day share it out to friends and family by email or to the web for the world to enjoy.

Who is it for?

Basically, if you can find stories to share from your life and your life experiences, it’s for you!

How does it work?

Simply, type text, take photos or videos, press a button to record and play back audio recordings, save your stuff, press another button to share online or by email and voila! (Demo video below)

This is a nice little app, perfect for your girlfriend or wife or special someone.  You create a file online based on your special memoirs and love messages.  Then you download the app to your iphone and use it to download the file to your girlfriends iPhone.  Thats it!  All your special memories at the touch of her fingertip.  Its perfect for us guys who struggle to get a gift that has real romantic potential.  This will really impress her and it’ll say I Love You like no other gift.  Be the thoughtful one, be truly caring and loving.  She’ll never forget this.

Here are 5 free promo codes from the developer.

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Riff Raters combines the fun of playing and listening to music into one cool app. Riff Raters gives anyone the ability to express their music creatively and get feedback from others. The functionality of the app is very simple… Riff. Record. Rate.  All music lovers welcome, even if you don’t play an instrument you can listen and rate the riffs and help the best ones get to the Top 25.

There are 5 reasons why Riff Raters is a unique app:

1. It is community and participation driven.  We have thousands of users or “riffers” recording riffs into the iPhone/iPod Touch.  The riffers listen and rate each other’s riffs, making comments and interacting with one another.
2. It gives musicians a way to be heard and spread their music.  If you like a riff, you can become a fan of the riffer and link to their website, Facebook page, Twitter and MySpace accounts to listen, purchase or just get to know the riffer.
3. You get notification of new riffs and location of the riffer.  If you are a fan of a riffer, you will be notified if the riffer uploads a new riff.  You can look at a map and see the location of where the riff was created.
4. Riff Raters was on the Apple’s “What’s Hot” list for 2 weeks in December 2009.

Riff Raters is donating 5% of its proceeds to a non-profit music camp for teenagers.

You can find out more about Riff Raters at www.riffraters.com and also in the iTunes store: iTunes Store.

Riff.. Record… Share…

Joy Glenwright

415.279.1379

joy@joyentertainmentllc.com

www.joyentertainmentllc.com

www.riffraters.com

New York, NY — SocialFlyr is a new iPhone application that was recently approved by Apple and publicly released.  The application was created and developed by StartupArtist.  Privately funded, StartupArtist is a consortium of tech, internet and business professionals who are constantly looking for new ways to help make peopes lives a little easier and a little more fun.

The idea of SocialFlyr came about based on the need for a quick and useful way to send digital flyers (or ‘flyrs’) on the go.

The first application that can create, view, and distribute digital flyers on the iPhone, SocialFlyr is currently ranked #34 in the Lifestyle category of iTunes and is also being featured in the New and Noteworthy section on the iTunes homepage.

You can use your own photos, or choose from a series of templates, and customize them with an easy to use interface.

SocialFlyr is fully integrated with Facebook and Twitter and you can also easily send to friends via email (MMS and offline distribution coming soon). Some of the ways customers are already using the application include:

* Publicizing an upcoming event to your friends and colleagues;
* Sending an announcement to your followers or friends on social networks;
* Distributing coupons or specials to your customers – it’s very easy for these Flyrs to spread virally because of its simple interface;
* Adding a funny caption to any picture you take or download, and sending them to your friends.

In future updates we are looking to add the ability for users to share public SocialFlyrs with other users within the application, adding geotagging and adding other location based services for users to distribute flyrs globally, regionally or locally.

I invite you to learn more on our website (http://www.socialflyr.com) or download the application from iTunes (SocialFlyr Full Version). We have a demonstration video on YuTube, samples and more information.  We are also happy to be available for any questions you may have via email (info@socialflyr.com) or phone (646 360-0508).

Kind regards,

Preston & Logan

(The SocialFlyr guys)

Site: SocialFlyr.com
Twitter: @SocialFlyr
Facebook: SocialFlyr

Happy New Year everyone. Have you taken any resolution for this New Year, as usual? I haven’t yet as I know I wouldn’t be following it after the end of the first month of the New Year. There are people who list down resolutions and stick up to it throughout the year. And there are other people who don’t take any resolution and just go by flow. Also there is a third category of people who don’t realize that they have taken a resolution but they follow or do it very rigorously.  Just like those third category, these four guys are.

Right after the new year holiday weekend, Rasmus Hansson, Mikael Tyrsen, Ivan Isaev and Calle Morck resumed the usual work of iPhone app development but ended up with an exciting yet ambitious project, though not declaring as a new year resolution. It’s Project 72, developing an iPhone app from the scratch within 3 days (i.e. 72 hours). Although all of them are well experienced in each and every aspect of developing an iPhone app, it’s not as easy as a cakewalk to finish an app right from the conception to final working product. So they setup the blog with progress update, webcam for live feed and a timer to race against, then started it with brick by brick.

As the clock ticked and time ran out, Project 72 app was conceived, bits and pieces fell into place with coffee gulped down and even Tylenol cough syrup consumed. App is getting shaped up to achieve the hard timeline.

Almost 2 days completed, as of this writing, they succeeded in releasing the beta version of the app to the test users and still working harder to tweak it.

Here is the short version of game info from their site Dogtown Studios.

You guide your rocket through space avoiding running out of fuel and all the obstacles. When you collide with obstacles you either slow down or die. Asteroids will cause the ship to slow down. How much depends on how big the asteroid is. Black holes will pull you towards them until you run out of fuel and die. There will also be a few other enemies but we haven’t yet decided how they will affect the game play. We are also trying to add weapons so you can shoot enemies.

You can monitor the progress through the live video feed and the frequent status updates in the blog. Also, you can write a comment or feedback to encourage them. I am going to write a review of the app after testing the beta version. Watch out this space.

All the best guys! One more day to go!

Grabarchuk Puzzles completed the release of LetsTans – both Lite and paid versions of their Tangram-based iPhone/iPod touch puzzle app. LetsTans is a totally new experience of the Tangram spirit with two colorful mosaic gameplay modes – Replica and Arcade – in addition to the Classic mode. Lite version comes with a dozen of puzzles – 4 for each mode while the paid version comes with 192 puzzles at a half-reduced price for the Holiday Season.

For each of the three gameplay modes a different approach should be used. In the Replica mode your goal is to find the shape tapping seven different color tans. In the Arcade mode your goal is to capture seven color tans with a shaped mask. Finally, the Classic mode provides you with the good old Tangram to arrange the shapes.

Lite version:

• 12 puzzles
• 4 Tangram shapes

Paid version:

• 192 puzzles
• 64 Tangram shapes

Core Features for both versions:

• All puzzles are hand-crafted
• 3 play modes: Replica, Arcade and Classic
• Animated advanced hint system
• Neat graphics, sounds and animations
• Time counter with a pause option
• Guest Player option

Minimum Requirements:

• iPhone or iPod Touch
• iPhone OS 2.2 or later

Pricing and Availability:
LetsTans 1.1 is available on the iTunes App Store for $0.99 (USD) in the Puzzle/Games.

Screenshot:

Get LetsTans on the App Store:
Lite version: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/letstans-lite/id343059584?mt=8
Full version: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/letstans/id339650717?mt=8

Credits:
Invented and designed by The Grabarchuk Family www.GrabarchukPuzzles.com.
Programmed by Mehmet Murat Sevim iphone.muratsevim.com.

More:
Find more at www.LetsTans.com
Follow us on twitter.com/LetsTans
Write us to letstans@gmail.com

Facebook today released an update for it’s iPhone and iPod touch native application with push notification and sync Facebook friends with address book. These two significant features make the app even cooler with the last update’s cool new features.

Now you can receive push notification for below events. This can be configured in the iPhone’s settings.

• Messages
• Wall Posts
• Friend Requests
• Friend Confirmations
• Photo Tags
• Events
• Comments

Also, you can set it to reload the Facebook when you shake it and to vibrate while chatting.

Another beautiful feature in this update is synching Facebook friends with your address book in iPhone. When you enable this sync, your phone contacts details will be sent to Facebook and friends’ names, photos and other info from Facebook will be added to the iPhone’s contacts list. You can also set this sync to replace the photos in your contacts by the Facebook friends’ photos.

Because of this synching feature, iPhone somewhat gets the Palm Pre’s much acclaimed feature to link local contacts with social networking sites’ contacts.