The MacTrack – iPhone, iPod, iPod Touch and Mac News

London, United Kingdom – Alakazapps today is proud to announce Magic Beer Bottle 1.0, a beer simulator that literally comes off the screen. After demonstrating what looks like a normal iPhone(R) ‘beer app’ , the performer of the trick can literally pluck the top off the bottle – it becomes real in their fingertips. Beer simulators have existed since the dawn of the App Store, Magic Beer Bottle takes the concept to the next level.

Using accelerometer controlled liquid motion and bold graphics, Magic Beer Bottle presents itself as an entertaining toy. This is the very essence of magic, taking something that people are now familiar with and doing something ‘impossible’ with it. The illusion is achieved by combining the unique features of the iPhone with classic magic techniques. Learning the illusion is made simple with a full video tutorial included with the app.

An intuitive welcome screen allows the user to access the video tutorial. Once mastered this screen can be hidden in the devices settings menu. Magic Beer Bottle is Alakazapps tenth magic trick for the iPhone platform, it complements the unique range perfectly. Alakazapps develop bold, visually stunning and conceptually clear magic trick apps.

Device Requirements:
iPhone and iPod Touch 2.2.1 or later

Pricing and Availability:
Magic Beer Bottle 1.0 is only $1.99 (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Entertainment category.

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Indie developer Alakazapps! brings years of professional magic experience to the iPhone and iPod touch. Classic magic techniques are combined with fresh app design to create truly amazing pocket magic tricks. Copyright (C) 2009 Alakazapps!. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Portland, Oregon – Whimsy Animals for iPhone and iPod touch, a simple kids jigsaw puzzle game, is now available on the iTunes App Store from David Ross Software, developer of Uni Sudoku, Knit Buddy and Bike Quiver. Explore sixty beautiful animal photos and sounds by completing simple jigsaw puzzles. Practice hand-eye coordination, recognize shapes, and learn about scale while unveiling a world of animals – familiar and new, domestic and wild, baby and adult – all with their fun and unique sounds. All ages.

With the easiest level just slide touch over piece to send into place, the hardest level requires precise placement. Play in order or browse to your favorite. Great to play with your kid or to give them for a plane or car ride or at a restaurant. Beta-tested by my own three-year old niece.

The different levels allow kids of different abilities and ages to enjoy the game. Pre-schoolers will probably enjoy the game the most as this is the height of when kids are obsessed with animals and their sounds. Whimsy Puzzles is not designed to be played for hours a day, but as a fun moment to share with your kid or something to absorb them when you have to focus on something else, like a phone call or driving.

Device Requirements:
iPhone and iPod Touch 3.0 or later

Pricing and Availability:
Whimsy Animals 1.0 is only $1.99 (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Games category. Video preview available on YouTube.

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David Ross Software is an independent developer of highly rated Mac and iPhone applications. Our best-selling product is Uni Sudoku for the Mac and iPhone, rated four and a half mice by Macworld. We also develop Knit Buddy, a popular knitting app for the iPhone rated four mice by Macworld and reviewed by Interweave Knits. Bike Quiver is our iPhone app for tracking component and maintenance information for multiple bicycles, especially to help in recovery after theft. All Material and Software (C) 2009 David Ross Software / All Rights Reserved. Apple, iPod, and iPhone are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Charlotte, North Carolina – Dan Russell-Pinson, author of the popular game Block Drop, has just released Furballs!, his second game for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Furballs! is an addictive new iPhone game that combines the two popular game genres of path-drawing and match three into one package. Using the familiar “tap and draw” control system made popular by Flight Control, you must guide the colorful furballs through space to make matches. As you progress, special objects appear such as meteors which can burn furballs, comets which freeze them, wildcard furballs and satellites too.

Furballs! features original music, sound effects and over 150 levels of ever increasing difficulty. The level selection menu allows you to continue playing where you left off or to load already completed levels. Every five levels, you can take a quick break from the action and watch a short furball cartoon. For only 99 cents, Furballs! is a “hard to put down” game which offers hours of entertainment.

Features:
* Over 150 levels of ever increasing difficulty
* Original sound effects
* Level selection menu
* In-game tutorial
* High score submission
* Play your own music
* Hours and hours of gameplay!

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 2.2.1 or later

Pricing and Availability:
The full version of Furballs! is available at the introductory price of $0.99 (USD). Furballs! Lite will be released soon.

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Dan Russell-Pinson has been independently creating online flash games since 2007. His best known titles are Tipping Point, Block Drop and Collider which can be seen on hundreds of web sites across the Internet. In 2009, Dan moved into the iPhone arena with a port of his popular game Block Drop followed by his newest title Furballs!. Copyright (C) 2009 Dan Russell-Pinson. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Hollywood, Fl – Marware Inc, designer and manufacturer of innovative products for the Apple market, today is pleased to announce the Eco-Runner for the iPod nano 5G is now shipping. The Eco-Runner for nano 5G is made from Eco-Prene and is an environmentally friendly case for the eco-conscious jogger or exercise enthusiast. The unique design details look like muscle fibers when you wear it. The armband extension strap allows this case to be worn on your wrist or upper arm, and a bottom adjustable strap allows room for the Nike + Sport Kit receiver.

The Eco-Runner is available in black, blue and pink Eco-Prene. Eco-Prene is made from innovative sponge-like limestone. This is combined with recycled rPET to create an end result which looks and feels like neoprene, only far less toxic and more sustainable because it doesn’t contain high levels of petroleum or PVC. This material meets all RoHS standards, and all adhesives used in this product are non-toxic. The Eco-Runner keeps your nano secure while providing comfort for an active day, all the while reducing your carbon footprint.

Features:
* Works with iPod nano 5G and Nike + Receiver
* Eco-friendly materials help the environment
* Wrist/armband case gives 2-in-1 solution and flexible wearing options
* Clear vinyl cover protects nano screen and Click Wheel
* Smooth high quality Eco-Prene armband provides personal comfort and durable protection
* Includes: Eco sleeve with attached wristband, armband extension, clear screen protector, cleaning cloth and Marware’s Lifetime Warranty

Pricing and Availability:
The Eco-Runner is made of eco-friendly materials and is available in black, blue and pink. It retails for $34.99 (USD) and is now shipping. Please visit Marware online for more information. Marware is a leading provider of software and eco-conscious accessory solutions for Apple iPhones, iPods, and Notebooks.

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Recognized worldwide for innovative, high-quality product design, Marware develops a diverse range of solutions exclusively for the Apple market. Marware products can be found at retail and campus locations worldwide, including Apple stores and Borders. For more information call (954)-927-6031 (voice), (954) 927-2477 (fax), or write to Marware Inc., 2402 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, FL 33020 USA. Copyright 2009 Marware Inc. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPod and iPhone are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries. All other brands and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

Minneapolis, Minnesota – Plaid World Studios today is proud to announce the release of Mouse House 1.1.5 for iPhone and iPod Touch. Now anyone with an Apple iPhone or iPod Touch can enjoy the app the Unofficial Apple Weblog calls a “very adorable and surprisingly complicated puzzle game.”

“Mouse House is a natural fit for the iPhone,” said Chris Dillman, CEO of Plaid World Studios. “Your entire family will enjoy it’s cute style and hours of clever puzzles.”

Use your environment to block stingers and wind your way to the top of the house. Mouse House’s touch control offers two control schemes to choose from. Guide the heroic Mouse through 57 levels of challenging and addictive puzzle fun! Mouse House has been continually updated since it’s initial release, adding new levels and user requested features. The most recent update added music, a level select screen and multiple save slots.

Game Features:
* Intuitive touch based controls: Touch the screen to make Mouse move a space in that direction, or hold your finger down to keep him moving along
* Classic puzzle fun
* A lively cast of adorable critters
* Power up with fireballs you launch with a tap of your finger
* 57 levels of challenging puzzles to keep the fun going

Device Requirements:
iPhone and iPod Touch 2.2.1 or later

Pricing and Availability:
Mouse House 1.1.5 is only $1.99 (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Games category.

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Plaid World Studios LLC is located in St. Cloud, MN. Plaid World’s President, Chris Dillman, has published multiple products beginning with Final Impact in 1993. Plaid World’s games are built using it’s proprietary game engine, Bang2D. Copyright (C) 2009 Plaid World Studios LLC. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Atlanta, GA, USA – Mac Games and More today announced the release of a new Mac game called United States of Pool, which is a set of billiards game that allows you to travel across American stopping off in various cities to play a match of 9-Ball pool and more. In order to advance to the next city, players are required to earn a minimum number of points and win the game against their opponent.

United States of Pool features two kinds of game play. An arcade mode for one or two players, where the rules of 9-Ball are only loosely enforced and includes fun bonuses that add speed and different movement to balls as well as opportunities to earn points and more shots. The other game play involves two players playing a straight game of 9-Ball, where the actual rules of 9-Ball are strictly enforced.

United States of Pool incorporates very realistic physics and sound effects and therefore comes very close to feeling like a real game of pool, as close as one could get inside a Mac computer game. Players choose their avatars from a choice of 15 characters, and are able to customize them by adding their own names if desired. They can also choose the color of the table top from five different colors.

Pricing and Availability:
United States of Pool features hours of entertaining game play. A free trial version is available to download at Mac Games and More. United States of Pool costs $9.95 (USD).

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Mac Games and More is an independent game developer and publisher. Their website features a variety of games for the Macintosh computer from various independent game makers from all over the world. Mac Games and More also features their own developed games. Copyright (C) 2009 Mac Games and More. All Rights Reserved.

Los Angeles, California – 24x7digital today is proud to introduce TeachMe: Kindergarten 1.0, their new children’s learning game for the iPhone and iPod Touch. TeachMe: Kindergarten is an educational app which teaches four different age appropriate subjects to kindergarten aged children: sight words, addition, subtraction and spelling. Parents can select which subjects they want, set different difficulty levels, and even choose specific questions. Parents can review performance history for each subject to check how their child is doing.

TeachMe: Kindergarten keeps children engaged with a unique reward system where children earn a coin for every three correct answers. Coins can then be used to purchase stickers to place in fun sticker scenes. Sticker scenes can be exported as wallpaper or emailed to family and friends. The simple and intuitive user interface is designed to be child friendly, which allows children to play without help from an adult. An animated teacher (Mimi Mouse) gives verbal instructions and feedback to the child which makes learning fun.

Feature Highlights:
* 4 different sticker reward scenes: beach, underwater reef, pirate cove, city
* Over 70 different stickers for adding to scenes
* Save learning information for up to four children
* Select which subjects are displayed for each child
* Turn on/off specific questions within a subject
* Change the number of correct questions to earn a reward
* Tracks performance for each subject item (last five)
* Export sticker scene to Photos, for emailing or using as wallpaper

Learning Subjects:
* Sight Words: Dolch (Pre-K), Dolch (K)
* Addition: up to a total of 10
* Subtraction: from 10 down
* Spelling: complete words by choosing the first letter

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 3.0 or later

Pricing and Availability:
TeachMe: Kindergarten for iPhone and iPod touch is available for the introductory price of $0.99 (USD) and available exclusively through Apple’s App Store.

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Based in Los Angeles, California, 24x7digital is a privately funded company founded in 2002 by Rei Yoshioka and Mark Yamashita. Leveraging their longtime experience in development and consulting, 24x7digital’s focus is developing high-quality, simple, and easy-to-use utilities for the Mac and iPhone platforms. 24x7digital are also the creators of the highly rated HappyNewYear and HappyHolidays. Copyright 2002-2009 24x7digital. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

College Station, Texas – Independent developer Brice Milliorn today announced the sale of JBMJBM, LLC. JBMJBM is a well established company whose sole purpose is creating consumer applications for the iPhone platform. JBMJBM has seen an explosive growth in just under a year, and offers a stable of high quality, well developed applications that are mixed in scope and genre.

Some of Brice’s best-selling applications are Friday Night Lights, iSpy Game, iReferee, iSexyRef, iSexyRef2, Pro Rodeo Fan, Sit Up Counter, Shake 2 Count as well as several College oriented applications for sports enthusiasts, and many more. All applications are currently listed on the App Store and are selling now.

“In an incredible short time, JBMJBM has simply grown out of my hands,” said Brice Milliorn, founder of JBMJBM LLC. “I have found that I am taking time away from my young family. Establishing JBMJBM as an LLC in July of 2009, I have sold over 30,000 applications in my short tenure as an iPhone programmer. Because of my limited time that I am able to give to this business, I am unable to properly market what I have. If an interested party has time to market them, their results should be much better.”

This single purchase lands the prospective party 87 applications, currently listed on the App Store. JBMJBM will transition all application assets into the party’s name or into their business name. Interested parties are bidding on the source code files, website files, and all collateral (in other words, the whole kit and caboodle) for all 87 apps from JBMJBM.

Best-selling applications:
* Friday Night Lights
* iSpy Game
* iReferee
* iSexyRef
* iSexyRef2
* Pro Rodeo Fan
* Sit Up Counter
* Shake 2 Count
* And many more
* Plus several College sports applications

“As my knowledge grew and the word about my apps grew, I started getting inquires on making apps for other companies,” Milliorn continued. “I tested those waters as well and was able to make $10,000 plus on building other companies iPhone apps that they were requesting. I remain convinced that with the right people balance and great marketing, JBMJBM can be very successful in its own right.”

What’s Included:
* DVD Copy of All the 87 Apps Source Code
* Technical support and backup as need to ensure a smooth transition for two months
* Website File Transition to Buyers domain.

Due to family obligations, Brice is selling JBMJBM. The business is currently listed for sale on eBay as a 10 day auction. Starting bid $100,000. Interested parties are bidding on the source code files, website files, and all collateral (in other words, the whole kit and caboodle) for all 87 apps from JBMJBM. Interested parties should place a bid, or contact Brice as soon as possible.

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Based in Texas, JBMJBM LLC is a privately held company co-founded in 2009 by Brice Milliorn. JBMJBM is an individually owned LLC incorporated for sole purpose of creating iPhone Applications. Copyright (C) 2009 JBMJBM LLC. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Hong Kong – Gee Logic Software Co., LTD today released Video Poker: Jacks or Better 1.0 for iPhone and iPod touch. Video Poker is a casino card game based on Five-card draw poker first appeared in the mid-70s, and has been popular among casinos throughout the world since. This game is a simulation of video poker machines featured in casinos. It is based on Jacks or Better variant.

There are already a list of features planned and being developed. We’ll keep updating it regularly, and aim to make it the only Video Poker game you’ll ever want to keep on your iPhone / iPod touch. If you’re a Video Poker fan, this will be a perfect companion for your iPhone and iPod touch. If you’re a poker learner and just started playing poker, this will also be a perfect tool for you to learn about poker hand.

Feature Highlights:
* Shuffle Engine (our own proprietary Random Number Generation engine)
* Card Animation

Up coming updates:
* Improved shuffle mechanism (although already very good, we want it to be even better)
* Graphical and UI improvement
* New logo
* Other enhancements

Device Requirements:
iPhone and iPod touch 3.0 or later

Pricing and Availability:
Video Poker: Jacks or Better 1.0 is only $0.99 (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Games category.

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Gee Logic Software Co., LTD is an independent, primer software development house. We are located and incorporated in Hong Kong, the center of telecommunications in Asia. As the mobile penetration rate continuously increases throughout the world, we strongly believe that the demand of quality software in such mobile platform will increase as well. It is with this belief that we decided it will be the direction we focus on. We are currently concentrating all of our development effort on Apple’s iPhone/iPod touch platform. Our debut title, Video Poker: Jacks or Better is now available to millions of iPhone users throughout the world! We strive to deliver the best user experience possible, and take pride in shipping a quality software product. Copyright (C) 2009 Gee Logic Software Co., 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.