Filed under: iPhone, App Store, SDK
iPhone App News Roundup: June 21, 2008
Git along, little iPhones! TUAW readers keep sending us announcements about forthcoming iPhone App Store goodies that are in the works. Send us your tips about iPhone applications you plan on having in the App Store either at launch or shortly thereafter, and we'll pass that info along to the rest of the world.Here's today's roundup:
- Cocoa Touch Games has two of a planned four "fun, simple, joyful" apps ready to go for the App Store launch. Bug Bounce and Cocoa Marbles will both be priced at $2.99.
- Synthesis AG, developers of the SyncML platform and transmission media independent protocol for intelligent data synchronization, have announced a SyncML client for iPhone.
- Lint Labs (great name!) has announced No. 2 (AKA HB in Europe), an app that lets you use a virtual pencil and eraser on the iPhone to sketch or take notes, then organize your work into books.
- Jeffrey Grossman of movies.app fame is working on another great product, Currency. It's a currency exchange application with over 50 different countries. Looks good, Jeff!
- In the "it had better be a free app" category is Philip Corliss's Bubble Wrap. It looks like a great stress relief tool.
- Tom Cain of Smallware let us know about Solebon Solitaire for iPhone, a complete rewrite of their popular package for Palm OS.
- Sol Robots, the offspring of Cortis Clark, is offering a free app to help you save money to buy that iPhone 3G. Save Benjis works with Finders Cheapers, a price comparison site, to let you find the lowest price on just about anything.
- Steve Streza's Lockbox provides AES and SHA-1 level encryption and a unique gesture unlocking procedure to keep your notes and pictures secret. Expect it for less than $10 in the App Store.
- LateNiteSoft has a jailbreak app called Sketches that is moving to the AppStore.
- Right now it's for jailbroken iPhones, but hopefully Make Your Day Media's Remind You will be heading to the App Store within a month. It turns the lock screen of your iPhone into an appointment list.
- One more jailbreak app, textReader by James Beesley, will hopefully be scootin' to the App Store soon.
Keep 'em coming, developers!
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Galley said 5:41PM on 6-21-2008
Looking forward to Solebon Solitaire!
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Rubbinz said 9:13PM on 6-21-2008
And let slip the tons of garbage...
Except Lockbox, I'd definitely use that. I do wonder though, what portion goes to Al Gore for the name? ;-)
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geochick said 10:02PM on 6-21-2008
I could use bubble wrap right about now.
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Morgan said 12:26AM on 6-22-2008
I'm still waiting for Frozen Bubble, either JB or App Store. It's been ported to just about every platform out there, including at least two different OS X ports, so it should be feasible right?
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josh said 2:46AM on 6-22-2008
but what about lobster petting?! truly, it will be the iphone killer app.
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markrich2200 said 9:20PM on 6-22-2008
I hope either Apple or a developer will add a audio recorder so we can record audio memo's, lectures, etc., utilizing the audio capability that is already in the iPhone.
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Jack Chance said 11:43AM on 6-23-2008
App Request:
Will someone write some software that turns the 3G iPhone into a bike computer?
It should give speed, distance, etc, and store the route so that you can sync with your mac at home .....
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Tom said 2:09PM on 6-23-2008
Is anyone working on anything to make the iPhone notes actually useful? I'm dying for a Mac app that would sync up my notes from computer to phone.
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Andrew said 1:37AM on 6-24-2008
The unlocking pattern concept in Lockbox is also used by Google for unlocking an Android phone: http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/googleio12.jpg
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