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Help your Child Learn to Read with Turn to Read: The app that lets your child see, hear, touch, and learn words of all kinds. Turn to Read shows and says each word then lets your child turn the item around, making reading as natural as talking or seeing.

Features:
12 High Definition Interactive Images and Words. – The 360 degree turn around images let your child touch and explore
Fully Voiced – Each word is read out loud for your child to hear. Includes both Male and Female voices.
Full Color – Words are displayed in random colors and fonts. Each time you read with Turn to Read, the colors and letters will change so that your child learns to read no matter the color or font.
For ages 6 Months to 6 Years
Universal App works on iPhone, Ipod Touch, and iPad.

Bonus Features:
Playback Mode – Plays every word like a DVD for uninterrupted learning and entertainment.

Want a banner when your iDevice begins a new song?

If you have ever wanted to know what song your iPod touch, iPhone, or iPad just switched to, then there is a great free jailbreak tweak available on the BigBoss repo by iOS developer and hacker Ryan Petrich dubbed MusicBanners. As you can see from the image above, MusicBanners renders an iOS 5 notification banner with your song information, album artwork, and Music application icon on it. This banner appears every time that a song begins

Rhapsody is a pretty cool application that you can pick up for free and pay a monthly service for unlimited access too. It is another streaming music service that exists on the market. I compare it to Spotify personally. They have a music bank of over 14 million songs with customized playlists and new music recommendations. Today, Rhapsody announced an update to their popular service that brought in a full featured Android tablet app. Making your experience with the service even better. The updated app brings mostly a visual update for the large screens. With full album art, artist photos and biographies all in a magazine style lay out.

“We didn’t just resize Rhapsody – we re-imagined the entire experience for the tablet,” said Brendan Benzing, chief product officer, Rhapsody.  “The tablet is not a giant phone or a mini computer. It’s your companion on the couch, in transit and out in the world, and therefore people experience music and consume content differently than they would on a computer, portable device, TV or home audio system.”

Nothing wrong with an app revamp that looks better and feels better on our tablets. The monthly service stays at $9.99 a month, but is connected to your account. Which can be used on Apple iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, RIM BlackBerry, Windows Phone 7, Android and 70 other consumer electronics. Gives you an easy way to have music everywhere on everything for one price really. Checkout the app through the market below by clicking or scanning the following QR code.

Application: Rhapsody
Developer: Rhapsody International Inc.
Cost: FREE

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

America’s top premium subscription music service brings an engaging music experience to Android tablets, with a focus on premium, original editorial content

SEATTLE—February 2, 2012—Rhapsody today announced the availability of its new application for Android tablets.  This latest product innovation from the most popular premium subscription music service in America makes it even easier for Rhapsody members to discover new music, read about their favorite artists and rediscover music with expert playlists, guides and features.

The tablet transforms Rhapsody into an immersive experience that’s inspired by what digital music lovers miss about physical albums and CDs: album art, photos and the ability to reach out and touch the next album you’re playing.  The tablet amplifies the experience with the best aspects of digital, with links across the universe of content that Rhapsody editors have produced over the past decade.

“We didn’t just resize Rhapsody – we re-imagined the entire experience for the tablet,” said Brendan Benzing, chief product officer, Rhapsody.  “The tablet is not a giant phone or a mini computer. It’s your companion on the couch, in transit and out in the world, and therefore people experience music and consume content differently than they would on a computer, portable device, TV or home audio system.”

Original editorial content has been a mainstay of the Rhapsody service since it launched in 2001. Each week, the editorial team–who are the leading writers in their respective genres–produces features, reviews, videos and playlists designed to guide members through Rhapsody’s vast catalog of 14 million songs across nearly 600 musical genres.  The tablet application is built around this content, with lush imagery, playable links and franchises designed to guide members through the service.

The application maximizes the unique capabilities of the tablet.  Members can tap, swipe and zoom through Rhapsody content while listening.  In addition to streaming the Rhapsody catalog while connected to the Internet, tablet users can download playlists to their tablet can store to enjoy offline anywhere.

“We are dedicated to creating a premium experience that consistently brings value to every aspect of the Rhapsody service,” said Benzing. “The tablet app delivers on this promise by providing more than just access to music—it’s a guided tour of millions of songs and a musical canvas for a myriad of experiences, from collaborating with friends to build a party playlist by passing the tablet around the room, to providing a soundtrack to a recipe or an e-book.”

The tablet application is available today in the Android Market and the Amazon Appstore for Android.

Rhapsody applications are also available on the Apple iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, RIM BlackBerry, and Windows Phone 7 as well as through more than 70 consumer electronics devices, including those by Vizio, SanDisk, HP, Sonos and Philips.

About Rhapsody

The Rhapsody® digital music service (www.rhapsody.com) gives subscribers unlimited on-demand access to more than 14 million songs, whether they’re listening on a PC, laptop, Internet connected home stereo or TV, MP3 player or mobile phone. Rhapsody allows subscribers to access their music through more touch-points than any other digital music service, including mobile phones from Verizon Wireless and MetroPCS, through Rhapsody applications on the Apple iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, RIM BlackBerry, Windows Phone 7 and Android mobile platforms as well as through devices from Vizio, SanDisk, HP, Sonos and Philips. Rhapsody is headquartered in Seattle, with offices in New York and San Francisco, expanding to include a presence in Luxembourg, London and

Frankfurt upon closing the Napster International acquisition. Rhapsody, and the Rhapsody logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Rhapsody International Inc.  Follow @Rhapsody on Twitter and keep up with the latest on the Rhapsody Facebook page.

Visual Metronome is a metronome for the iPhone and iPod Touch that provides extremely accurate audio and visual beat indication. It is by far and away the most flexible metronome in the app store.

As mentioned in the New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/03/technology/personaltech/03smart.html?ref=technology

- Universal app with different interfaces optimized for the iPhone/iPod Touch and iPad.

- 1 – 800 bpm. The widest range of tempos of any metronome in the app store, doubling what other metronomes are capable of thanks to its precision audio engine.

- Multitask enabled for iOS devices. Visual Metronome can play in the background while you are reading sheet music in another app.

- The click of your metronome is important; you’re going to be hearing it a lot. Visual Metronome is the only metronome in the app store featuring click synthesis that allows you to customize your clicks to sound the way you want.

- Subdivisions from quarter notes to sixty-fourth notes, with every thing in between (16th notes, quintuplets, nontuplets…). Individual subdivisions can be accented or muted.

- Sick of metronomes that only allow you to play in 3,4,6 and 8? Visual Metronome is the only metronome in the app store featuring unlimited length sequences in which accents can be placed on any beat or subdivision. Play in 5, 5+21+2, 7, 13, whatever you want… the sequencer makes it easy to create complex rhythmic patterns like claves.

- Accuracy down to a tenth of a bpm. Visual Metronome is the only dedicated metronome app that lets you specify tempos with this degree of precision. Double tap the tempo readout to enter your exact tempo or tap the large beat display in time and let Visual Metronome calculate the BPM for you.

- Accurate timing is maintained while the display is asleep. Allowing the display to sleep while still outputting audio *greatly* increases battery life. There is also an option to always leave the display on for visual use.

- Setlist allowing you to save and recall custom presets containing BPM info, accent placement and all options. Easily switch between presets by swiping the main beat display… a single swipe is all that is required. Presets are also presented in a list for direct selection.

- The audio engine in Visual Metronome has been custom engineered to provide the most accurate timing possible. See the One More Muse website (linked below) for detailed timing comparisons with other app store metronomes and a graph of the audio output of VM playing sixteenth notes at 720 BPM perfectly in time!!!

- Easily adjustable manual tempo – press your finger on the BPM indicator and then drag up and down for large tempo changes; press the + and – buttons for finer control. Or tap the large number display to have Visual Metronome automatically determine the BPM for you.

- Four octave pitch pipe for reference pitches

One of iOS 5′s nice features… isn’t on the iPad.

With the release of iOS 5 last year, one of the great new features of it was to be able to access our Camera application from the lock screen by double-pressing the home button and then tapping on that camera button. Unfortunately, that was only the case with the iPhone and the iPod touch (where cameras are applicable). iPad owners who upgraded to iOS 5 don’t have the camera button, instead, they have the slideshow button which links to the Camera Roll:

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The Reminders application that shipped with iOS 5 is a powerful tool for reminding yourself to do things. You can type something in and include a time, or if you don’t want to use a time, you can use a location. Wherever you are. Or can you? Well, on certain devices you can. The problem with Reminders for iOS 5 is that only iDevices with region monitoring support can take advantage of location-based reminders. The only devices with support for region monitoring are the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPad 3G model and iPad 2 3G model. The iPod touch and the Wi-Fi-only iPads do not support location-based reminders because they do

Time Warner Cable updated their streaming cable app today enabling live TV streaming on the iPhone.

Before the update streaming live cable content was only possible on the iPad. The update includes support for both the iPhone and iPod Touch, and customers can stream their cable subscription over their home WiFi only. Sadly, the app reportedly hates jailbroken iOS devices. Just a heads up.

The updated app comes at no extra cost to Time Warner Cable subscribers and allows them to manage their DVR, check program scheduling, search for programming, and

The stone age iDevices don’t even support iOS 5.

iOS 5 is Apple’s new iOS operating system that has several new features that we have been asking for as a community for ages. It doesn’t touch on everything, but it certainly does make an attempt to bring some of your jailbreak dreams to iOS. The unfortunate part is that iOS 5 isn’t compatible with any iDevices before the iPhone 3GS or the iPod touch 3G. Even on those older devices – not every feature is available like it is on the newer devices. You can’t use FaceTime, just to name one.

If you’re still rocking an older

Elsternwick, Australia – Jelly Biscuits today is proud to announce the availability of their new children’s interactive book “Slice of Bread goes to the Beach” for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Slice of Bread loves nothing more than hunting for treasure but his day on the beach does not turn out at all the way he’d planned. In a series of unfortunate mishaps, his day goes from bad to worse until he finds a treasure of a very different kind.

Slice of Bread goes to the Beach has been specially written, illustrated and voiced for the iPad and iPhone/iPod touch by Glenn Melenhorst, and combined with Jellybiscuits’ technical excellence has once again created an interactive experience to delight both young and old.

From the author: “After the success of Food Fight, I thought it only natural to follow a sausage story with a bread story:) Actually, Slice of bread was a story I have wanted to tell for a number of years so I’m glad I finally found the time to create the illustrations. I was particularly focused on building interactive elements that were part of the story.”

Jellybiscuits strives to bring a new, contemporary voice to the iPad, iPod and iPhone by publishing new works that speak to a new generation of children. The interactivity in Slice of Bread goes to the Beach is designed to enhance to story without getting in the way: to extend the exploration and entertainment of the story without obscuring the charm of the story itself:

* Studio recorded voice reading by the author of the book, Glenn Melenhorst, with word-by-word highlighting
* Word-by-word narration – touch a word to have it read to you
* Automatic page turn option to have the whole book read to you, alternatively reads to you as you turn to follow your lead
* 3D interactive page turns
* High quality sound and motion
* Rewritten Mini Map navigation for ease of jumping to pages

Device Requirements:
* iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad
* Requires iOS 4.0 or later
* 55.3 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Slice of Bread goes to the Beach 1.0 is $1.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Books category.

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Located in Elsternwick, Australia, interactive book and app developer Jelly Biscuits started designing mobile apps in 2008. With a background in visual effects and graphic design they like to explore and play. Copyright 2008-2011 Jelly Biscuits. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Moscow, Russian Federation – Open Name today is proud to announce the release and immediate availability of Cut the Buttons 1.0, its new gaming title for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices. Cut the Buttons is a new game with a unique game control. The player’s task is cut off the scraps colored buttons, managing virtual scissors with two fingers as quickly as he can and direct the bottoms into the cup.

The scissors are very obedient. It is possible to manipulate them to control the trajectory at which the buttons fall. Throw them down, pull them towards you or flying them up thereby to direct the most of cut off buttons into the cup. You can’t cut buttons held down by bolts. In that case you’ll receive the penalty points and the scissors will grow blunt. You can adjust the scissors both for right-hand player and for left-hand player. Upon catching 100 buttons in the cup, the player can recover a previously lost button or receive additional points.

There are two modes to play at Cut the Buttons game. In the Classic mode you have to cut off the scraps all the buttons. As you’ll miss three buttons the game will over. In the Arcade mode you have to cut as many buttons as you can in the allotted time. To maximize the amount of points you gain you have to cut off more than three buttons in a single cutting movement several times in succession.

Four days after launch the game for iPad (Cut the Buttons HD release of 04.11.2011), thanks to posting only one release on a Russian site, it consolidate its top position in the common category for iPad application for three days, and was cut out only because of sales. In China almost without advertising support during the period from 18.11.2011 to 03.12.2011 the game was in the Top-10 games and in the Top-20 common category. The China player gain more than 15,000 scores. The results registered in the Game Center.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S
* iPod Touch 2G, iPod Touch 3G, iPod Touch 4
* Requires iOS 3.2 or later
* Supports Retina display
* 16.0 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Cut the Buttons 1.0 is only $0.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Games category.

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Located in Moscow, Russian Federation, Open Name is a privately help company founded by Ivan Petrov. The company’s areas of activity are the development of mobile applications and web sites. Copyright (C) 2011 Open Name. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Scarborough, United Kingdom – JAS Applications today is proud to announce the release of version 1.0 of their new iPhone and iPod touch App ‘ImageTweet’. ImageTweet is a fantastic new App to let you share images to your Twitter friends and followers. With the sleek, easy to use interface you can easily choose any image from your device’s photo library or simply use your device’s camera to take an image there and then. You can also add a caption for the image and then with you one click you can upload to your Twitter account.

Simply run ImageTweet and then select the image you would like to tweet from your device’s photo library or camera. Then simply press the ‘tweet’ button and add a caption to the image. You can even add your current location so Twitter followers can see where the image was posted from! Then press ‘send’ and the image will be posted to Twitter. With ImageTweet, you can easily tell the world about your current mood with your photography life!

Main Features:
* Tweet any image to Twitter.
* Select the image from your device’s photo library or camera
* Sleek, easy to use interface
* Add Captions to images
* Add GPS Location to images

Device Requirements:
* iPhone, iPod touch
* Requires iOS 5.0 or later
* 2.0 MB

Pricing and Availability:
ImageTweet 1.0 is 0.69 GDP ($0.99 USD) (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and is available exclusively for iOS on the App Store in the Social Networking category. Please enjoy the App and email us with any questions or problems.

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JAS Applications headed by 16 Year Old James Shaw creates useful, intuitive Apps for iOS Devices. Our aim how we can develop amazing Apps to make the experience of for the consumer as pleasant and fun as we can. Copyright (C) 2011 JAS Applications. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Paris, France – Renowned game developer KijomagiDay, is pleased to announce today the release of “Lost Pirate”. The game will be available for purchase exclusively on the Apple App Store for iPhone and iPod touch on December 16, 2011 for $0.99. Based on an original idea, “Lost Pirate” is a game never seen before. The player will have to help a little Lost Pirate, who have gone too far from his secret Pirate Island, come back home. Lost Pirate features hours of gameplay, awesome sea management and amazing graphics. It’s not only fun to play, but also pleasant to watch.

Lost Pirate features:
* Awesome graphics
* Awesome music and sound effects
* New levels at every game
* Ultra realistic sea with dynamic waves
* Ultra realistic sea storms and natural elements
* Upgradable ship
* Game Center: leaderboards and achievements
* Special atmosphere that will make you feel like a real Pirate

Device Requirements:
* Compatible with iPhone 3GS, 4 and 4GS and 3/4G iPod touch
* Requires iOS 3.2 or later
* < 20 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Lost Pirate will be available worldwide exclusively through the Apple App Store in the Games category on December 16, 2011 for $0.99 (or equivalent amount in other currencies). KijomagiDay invites all reviewers interested in the game to contact them in order to receive redeem codes.

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Founded in 2009, KijomagiDay is an independent game development studio based in Paris, France. KijomagiDay has successfully developed and published many games on the iPhone and iPad platforms. KijomagiDay focuses on creating funny, innovative and highly addictive titles for the general public. Copyright (C) 2011 KijomagiDay. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Los Angeles, California – Here is another effort by Demansol to change the conventional way of kid’s education. Kids will enjoy learning only if they don’t get the bookish feeling but some entertainment. Count The Squirrels 1.0 is an amazing and interactive way to teach, how to count and also implement their knowledge. This app has been developed keeping the above fact in mind that gifts the talent which every parents expect to see in their child.

What’s Inside – Different sections in the App:
* Count Squirrels – Learn to Count
* Compare Squirrels – Learn to Compare
* Catch Squirrels – Play and Interact to Learn

Count The Squirrels 1.0 has been designed keeping little ones in mind, who actually don’t not want to learn, but to play around. This app will let your kids play, enjoy and rapidly learn counting without any effort. The graphics are fun and a bit cartoonish which attract kids towards it. This app is suitable for kids from 02 years up to help reading numbers and learn to count.
In case you find difficult to teach your kids, then Count The Squirrels is the ultimate counting teacher for your kid!! Watch your kid as and when they play with it & quickly learn how to count and recognize numbers in this fun app. Your kid will be counting in no time!!

Feature Highlights:
* Three different ways to teach counting.
* Available marks sheet to asses’ performance.
* Available for both iPhone and iPad.
* Clean, colorful and attractive graphics for kids.
* Fun while learning.
* Enjoyable way to learn counting.

Check out our other best selling Apps:
* Detectives Chase 1.0 for iPad
* Kindergarten:21 in 1 pack
* Skiing Penguin 1.0

Device Requirements:
* Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad
* Requires iOS 3.0 or later
* 23.8 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Count the Squirrels 1.0 is now for $0.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store under the Education category.

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Demansol Software Solutions is a Los Angles based applications Development Company that specializes in entertainment applications for iPhone and Android platforms. It is one of the biggest iPhone game/app development firms and our growth has been great over the past year. We have grown from 3 to 21 iPhone developers and had developed more than 100 applications for App Store out of which many apps have been in top 100 in their categories. Demansol crosses 1 million total downloads of games and apps on App Store and would sincerely like to thank its app users for giving their apps a try and for helping them to reach this astonishing milestone in just one year!! Our goal is to provide user with great games and applications for their entertainment. Copyright (C) 2011 Demansol Software Solutions. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Sakiai, Lithuania – Graphic Node, a graphic design company that specializes in creating themes, templates, and illustrations for Mac OS X, today is thrilled to announce the release of a brand new wallpaper app for iOS, Screen Oven. iPhone or iPad users can download the app from the iTunes App Store and adorn the screens of their devices with one of nearly 500 backgrounds and tens of funny frames.

Graphic Node’s Screen Oven offers users a great supply of backgrounds to make the screens of their devices more exciting. The 500-piece background collection is classified by style into four categories. The Photo category contains over 100 high-quality photos depicting nature, food, and everyday objects. Textures include a number of familiar and unexpected patterns. Luminous offers tens of neon-light ornaments, and Abstract contains various 2D and 3D backgrounds.

To customize their screens further, users can supplement their selected backgrounds with a line of exciting photo frames or choose among tens of funky avatars, which can be used as screen backgrounds or assigned to contacts. The frames can also be combined with users’ own photos.

“With Screen Oven, we tried to create a little nice app that would be both useful and simply fun,” said Jolita Unguvaitiene, the general manager of Graphic Node. “iPhone and iPad owners glance at their devices hundreds of times a day, and it’s always nice to look at something special.”

Device Requirements:
* iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, 3/4G iPod touch and iPad
* Requires iOS 4.3 or later
* 168 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Screen Oven 1.1 is only $0.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Lifestyle category.

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Graphic Node is a graphic design company based in Lithuania. It is committed to creating exceptional templates and themes for the Mac OS X community. It launched in 2011 and now offers an extensive choose of beautifully crated themes for iWork, iWeb and other applications. The small team of dedicated professionals at Graphic Node works hard to ensure the consistent quality of their products and maintains a constant focus on their users. Copyright 2011 Graphic Node. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Cluj-Napoca, Romania – Art Dynasty today is pleased to announce the release and worldwide availability of the new application Surprise Box – a collection of scary and cute surprises.

“It’s free… it’s funny… and it’s just the beginning… more cool animated surprises with sounds are coming soon. Try it and share any surprise with friends,” said Sveatoslav Vizitiu, CEO of Art Dynasty.

Features of the Surprise Box app include:

* Free Surprises Included:
This version contains a predefined number of free surprises. Rotate the wheel for 2 seconds and the box will be opened with a random surprise played each time.

* Surprise Share:
Do you like a specific surprise? With one click you can share it via E-mail. You can make your friends enjoy every cute or scary surprise played in the app by sharing it with them.

* Surprise Import:
Anyone having the Surprise Box app installed can import and play a surprise directly from the E-mail received with that surprise attached.

* Buy More Surprises:
Can’t find the perfect surprise to be shared from the free surprise collection? Users can buy more surprises from the “Buy More …” section. More fun animated surprises will be available soon as In-App purchases.

“We designed our app specifically for the iPhone’s Retina display so that Surprise Box users could enjoy HD Surprises. We hope users will also appreciate the fact that the content is updated on a monthly basis,” Sveatoslav Vizitiu said.

Device Requirements:
* Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch
* Requires iOS 3.2 or later
* 19.5 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Surprise Box 1.0 is free and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Entertainment category.

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Art Dynasty is a design studio consisting of 2 hard-working enthusiasts willing to bring new ideas into the world of mobile apps and photography. The company was founded in October of 2005 with an ambitious goal to spur the market of creative design and photography. Creativity and innovation runs in the company and many new and amazing titles are planned to be released in the near future for all fans of design. Copyright (C) 2011 Art Dynasty. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.