Roe Mobile Development’s (RMD) updated version of Smart Recorder features added functionality designed to meet business and personal users’ voice recording needs. Smart Recorder can be used for recording business meetings, lectures, audio “To-Do Lists”, podcasts, or emails with personalized audio attachments.

“Unlike other recorder application offerings, Smart Recorder permits saving the recording in a variety of audio compression formats, enabling the user to choose the appropriate quality and file size for the intended use of the recording,”  remarks Ken Roe, CEO of  RMD. “An hour long recording can result in a file size of up to 30 MB, prohibitive for fast email transfers. With Smart Recorder, the file size can be reduced to as little as 6 MB. When audio quality is the primary concern, saving the file at a lower compression rate allows for high quality recordings, making Smart Recorder an ideal application for business and media.”

The Smart Recorder robust feature set includes:

• Time-based tags allow direct access to important portions of a recording.  Tapping the “Add Tag” button during recording to sets a tag at that time position.  Tapping the tag during playback jumps to the position of the tag.
• Direct access to the iPhone camera allows taking photographs while recording to associate visuals with the recording.  The photographs are time-stamped to their position in the recording.
• Auto Pause suspends recording when there is no sound.  Recording starts again when talking resumes, eliminating long pauses – perfect for conference room meetings.
• Multi-speed playback allows quick skimming or careful listening to critical portions of a recording.
• Forward and Back buttons skip or repeat a user selectable number of seconds in the recording.
• Slider allows you to quickly navigate to any part of a long recording.
• Direct access to a recording time position starts playback at that point in the recording.
• Export permits setting a suitable file format and compression rate for saving and distribution.

Smart Recorder provides several methods to transfer sessions back to your computer or share with others:

• WiFi sync.  Your iPhone becomes an HTTP server and you simply point your web browser to the address given by your phone and save the recordings (and page with your tags) using the browser.
• SyncDocs.  Downloading and installing SyncDocs enables the ability to save files related to your session.
• Box.net.   Upload recordings for remote storage and sharing.  The free Box.net account allows uploads of up to 25 MB per file and a total of 1 GB of online storage.  For new Box.net users, Smart Recorder sets up a new account seamlessly.
• Email directly using the built-in iPhone MAIL application without leaving Smart Recorder.

Smart Recorder features a rich set of user-definable settings to suit every individual:

• Set the number of seconds the Forward and Back buttons move within the recording.
• Select a sampling (compression) rate anywhere between 8000-44,100Hz.   A lower rate saves disk space while a higher rate gives better audio quality.
• Adjust the noise (or quietness) threshold at which auto pause activates.
• Enable one channel (mono) or two channel (stereo, with a suitable microphone) recording for basic or richer recordings.

Smart Recorder 2.0 is available from the iTunes App Store: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/smart-recorder-lite/id349259683?mt=8 . It is offered in a free LITE version with a limit of 3 minutes per recording or as the complete version for $2.99.  Additional information is available at Roe Mobile Development (http://roemobiledevelopment.com) and on the Smart Recorder Facebook group.

About Roe Mobile Development: Roe Mobile Development is an entrepreneurial company dedicated to creating applications for the iPhone platform. The development team at RMD brings over 20 years of experience in programming and application development for business. Other iPhone applications from RMD include Travel Diary which integrates photographs and location maps for documenting and sharing.

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DECISION is a fun and practical app, which helps you and your friends making decisions.

Based on a preferential voting system, which voters rank a list of possibilities in order of preference, this app points the possibility that makes everybody happy.

Have you ever been caught on a situation where you and your friends can’t decide what to do?

Where to go out?
Which restaurant to go?
Where to go on vacations?
This app can solve all of your doubts.

Type the question (e.g. which restaurant to go?) and the options (e.g. Sushi, Pizza, Chinese, Burgers) and we’re ready to go. Rank the options simply sliding them, and submit your vote. Ask your friends to do the same thing. Press finish and you’ll get the option which best satisfies everybody.

Honey Do! is a simple application to send reminders to your loved ones. It’s from Rob Thomas and available for $0.99 in App Store. You can get things done by your ‘Honey’ by sending a funny picture with a gentle message in an email. Without nagging, it would be a pretty nice way to get some important things done when your beloved one is on the way home without forgetting.

You can send reminders to HER or HIM with a soothing, hazy picture with a message. Just open the app, select ‘For Him’ or ‘For Her’, type in the message to remind and then click ‘Send’ to email the picture with the gentle reminder. Enjoy the way your tasks are done by your dears. You can also save the reminder picture into your iPhone’s camera roll, just for fun.

Though this app can be used for a very simple and fun task, $0.99 price is worth for the in-built mailing functionality from the app. It would be even better, if the future updates can include more funny and nice pictures and if we can use any picture from the camera roll.

Here are two free promo codes for this app.

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Price: $0.99
Compatible With: iPhone and iPod touch (2^nd generation)
Required OS Version: iPhone OS 3.1.2 or later
Download Link: iTunes
Developer Website: Pimpville Apps

Well, holiday season is ahead. It’s time for shopping, yeah gifts for your family and friends. If you have difficulty in keeping track of the gifts to buy for everyone in your list, there is an app for that. It just got released in App Store; The Christmas List app from Limbua.com is available for $0.99.

The app usage is very simple and very intuitive. You can add a person whom you want to purchase gift for and organize him or her into groups like Family, Friends and so on. When you add a person, you can also assign a picture for him or her either by taking a new picture from your iPhone’s camera or existing picture from the album. Unlike many apps that picks up the photo and adds just as it is, this app uses multi touch feature of the iPhone and iPod touch and let you pinch, zoom and pan the picture to have a perfect image for the person. It just let you play with that. That’s good. Also you can create your own group as you wish and add a person into that group.

Next, you can add gifts for each person that you added just by clicking the gift icon at the left-bottom of the app. For all the gifts, you need to mention Name, Need, Store, Price and Notes for your reference. The very good part in this detail is, the gift can be prioritized based on the Need. There are three Need types you can choose from: May Be, Definitely Wants and Must Have. If you are a last minute shopper, it might help you to search for the must-have gift for a person. If you know where to buy the gift and price, it can be added to the gift information. If you want the best deals for the gift, you want to check these Black Friday apps. For your reference, you can take a picture of the gift item and add it to the gift item in your app.

All the gifts can be viewed as per the group and stores. Total amount for the group and individual person will be displayed on the home screen. There is another beautiful feature with this app, in-app emailing. You can email the Christmas gifts of individual, group and store wise list. This would be of great help if you ask another person to go for shopping.

Once you purchased an item, that can be ticked-off from the list and you can filter the gifts by All, Purchased and To Do (means, yet to buy, before the Christmas).

If you want to keep the list of gifts for your loved-ones as a secret until the Christmas day morning, you can optionally choose to protect the app with a password. Surprise your loved-ones with a perfect gift for this Christmas.

Price: $0.99
Compatible With: iPhone and iPod touch (2^nd generation)
Required OS Version: iPhone OS 3.0 or later
Download Link: iTunes

Just like more and more To-Do type apps available and released in App Store everyday, Taskedit from Yo Dev released this week in App Store for $3.99. Lets see, this app is one among the stereotype apps or really it has some potential differentiator rather than other apps of its kind.

Basically, Taskedit is a to-do task management app with simple and clean interface. You can easily create tasks, assign context, start date, due date and priority and group them into projects. In the Main tab, you can have an overview of the tasks in three different views: Global, Timeline and Projects. All pending tasks and sorting them and archived completed tasks are in the Global view. In Timeline view, tasks can be filtered based on overdue, undue, next and today which gives you an idea to what you will have to do and when. You can also view the tasks assigned to different projects related tasks Projects view to keep you focused. You will be able to reorder your projects as per your convenience.

Individual task will give you the complete context, priority and when it’s due and also the activities on that tasks. This is made possible by adding a notes thread for each task that you can jot it down for future reference and follow-up of the task. So you can keep track of the task activities.

If you feel using iPhone (or iPod touch) app to create projects and tasks is cumbersome, Taskedit has an additional but very impressive feature, online task management website Taskedit.com, where you can sync all your tasks and projects with your account. Thus, it will be easy and efficient for you to manage your projects. Simply you can create projects, tasks and assign appropriate priority, start date and due date on your desktop and sync it with your iPhone then you can keep track of those tasks and projects on your iPhone without the need for punching in more data on iPhone. But, brief notes on the activities for any task would be enough to strike out your to-do items on iPhone (or iPod touch). Online synching option is available for very few task management apps for iPhone and it adds much value to the app and money you paid for it.

Price: $3.99 (Limited Launch Price, 50% Off)
Compatible With: iPhone and iPod touch
Required OS Version: iPhone OS 3.0 or later
Download Link: iTunes

App Description:

Taskedit is a genuine Iphone tasks and Todo application working in sync with a modern web site at www.taskedit.com.

➤ Limited Launch price, save 50% !

Taskedit app and taskedit.com thanks to their straightforward interfaces must be yet the most enjoyable Todo application on the App Store. Test the web version to have a feel of what to expect from the Iphone application.

Designed by the final user for the final user, you will find in Taskedit all the must have features that you await when wanting to clear a busy list of tasks and actions.

✔ Assign context and group tasks by projects
✔ Create notes to follow up task activities
✔ Assign priority (low, medium, high)
✔ assign start date / due date
✔ Order projects
✔ Filtering by date status (overdue, today, next, undue)
✔ Smart ‘in list filter’ (creation date, begin date, completed status)

Sync feature
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When you’re done editing on either the Iphone version or on the web, syncing will keep all contents in your web account. Sync through Wifi, Edge or 3G indifferently.

How do we compare, what do we offer ?
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➤ You won’t spend time learning how to use it or remember how Taskedit works.It’s just accessible !

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➤ Get a full pass to a modern website at www.taskedit.com and keep your datas safe.

➤ Be a PC users or a Mac user with a modern internet browser, no extra cost required.

➤ Enjoy a style conscious interface, preserving the ease of use at the same time.

Support and note
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With Taskedit, you are the end user, not the end buyer, benefit from a user friendly support and write us your comments. We will be fast to react.

For the website version, we recommend you use Firefox 3, Google chrome, safari 3-4 or opera 9+.

Powerful Shopping-list app with an elegant and easy to use interface. Intuitive with a number of unique features.

FEATURES
* Tap and create lists with ease
* Ability to Prioritize
* Ability to add coupon info with each list item
* Easy to use interface
* Check/Uncheck completed items
* Email shopping list
* Ability to add Custom Notes with each list item
* Generate reports of completed items
* Share lists via emails
* Automatic timestamp
* Flexible with great features
* Use it for Grocery Shopping list
* Reports are generated in Printable format
* Easy to Manage – Add, Delete and Modify list items
and more..

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* Sync with companion website
* Push notification on due dates

Compatible With : iPhone and iPod touch (2nd generation)
Required OS Version: iPhone OS 3.0 or later
Download Link: iTunes

Are you swamped with tasks that you are not able to manage efficiently and effective? Do you want to have a tool to get things done? Here is MyProjects app for $3.99 from Avellana Software in Apps Store. Apps description says, “MyProjects is a powerful and intuitive task manager”.

How well is it going to help you to organize and cross out the tasks?

MyProjects has easy to use and intuitive interface. There are just four tabs that can organize your tasks into projects. In the Inbox tab, you can click ‘+’ to add new task with priority, status, context, due date and description. Different indicators with different colors are displayed for priority and status to identify easily. These tasks can be assigned or grouped into appropriate projects in the next tab Projects. Here also you can add new projects and assign tasks. Each projects’ number of tasks are displayed along. Also you can see all the tasks organized by status for each project.

If you want to see what tasks need to be completed and at what stage those are, you will have to use Views tab. Here you can search the tasks by tags, status, due date and today. Same way you can see by context too in the last tab. It’s a pretty much organized way to get your tasks done.

MyProjects is compatible with iPhone and iPod touch running iPhone OS 3.1 or later.

iTunes Link To Download

As the holiday season is around the corner, have you started budgeting for your gifts, purchases and expenses? How messy it is, right? You might use pen and paper or excel sheet or anything else to manage your budget. But you would still need to spend time to balance them. How about an iPhone app manages your budget and let you worry about the items to buy? Yeah that’s right, a new app Budgetator (how funny name is it) is available in iTunes App Store for $0.99.

Highlight of this app is, you can have six different budget to manage with different names andamount for each budget with it’s own item list. You can keep track of your available balance so that you can pick new items based on price more effectively. Also, The budget balance will turn red once your item list is over budget. Sorting the item list by Unit Price or Sub-Total helps you to quickly identify which item(s) best matches the available balance or to identify which item to remove/reduce in order to stay within budget. You don’t need to delete any item to preview the grand total without it, you can just disable it.

Budgetator’s simple and intuitive interface lets you easily add new item to the item list, disable/enable or delete. Items can be sorted by Name, Unit Price, Quantity or Sub-Total.

It would be the much-needed app to manage your budgets and expenses more effectively, be it a budget for shopping, business project, school project, monthly expense, renovation or traveling.

It’s compatible with iPhone and iPod touch and requires iPhone OS 2.0 or later.

iTunes Link To Download

Here is a good news for procrastinators who want to be otherwise. Now you can organize yourself by using the Get It Done app from the App Store. You are double lucky too, yes, this app is available for free as a limited launch offer. Go and pick it soon before it gets charged.

If you don’t like the complicated To-Do apps, definitely, you would like this. As it’s interface simple enough to get things done. Simply create an item, and then tick it off when it’s done. How simple is that?

You can group the to do items into projects, be it work, home, bills, housework, or perhaps someproject you’ve been working on, by custom tags. Also, items can be assigned priority and due date if you want to be top of it.

You will never forget a birthday again thanks to the built in birthday tag that lets you keep track of those pesky upcoming anniversaries.

The cool feature of this app is, an innovative alerts panel provides at-a-glance information of all the things you have to do today, plus what’s coming up tomorrow. You will never miss anything that you want to accomplish for the day.

It’s compatible with iPhone and iPod touch and requires iPhone OS 3.1 or later.

iTunes Link To Download