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Panda Mittens releases Gravity Shmavity 1.0 for iPhone and iPod Touch

Austin, Texas – Panda Mittens Software LLC today released “Gravity Shmavity”, an accelerometer/touch-screen game for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The game offers 30 challenge levels, an endless mode, and quirky gameplay featuring the image of baroque scientist Isaac Newton.

Gameplay primarily consists of rotating the iPhone/iPod Touch screen, altering the direction of gravity. Falling apples and other items can then be directed to hit the open, exposed brain of Isaac Newton. Gameplay is further varied by hazards and optional actions by the player, including touching the various power-ups, and shaking the device to cause items to drop faster.

The game also features an up-beat remix of a classic, public-domain recording of a Mozart piano concerto, and combines bright, colorful graphics with a similarly tweaked portrait of Isaac Newton.

Developed with cross-platform development strategies, direct video captures of “Gravity Shmavity” actually show the current tilt of the screen, and further illustrate the gameplay style. Additional information can by found on the “Gravity Shmavity” product page, or by contacting Panda Mittens Software.

Pricing and Availability:
Offered at a low price-point ($1.99), and available exclusively through Apple’s App Store. “Gravity Shmavity” is the first title Panda Mittens Software has released, and is the first title to attempt their strategy of small, inexpensive, fun games with above average production values.

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Panda Mittens Software LLC is a newly formed company committed to making quality games with above average production values, but with limited scope to keep price-points low. Copyright 2009 Panda Mittens Software LLC. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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ObjectivePlay releases Amber Alert Mobile 1.0 for iPhone and iPod Touch

Provo, Utah/United States – ObjectivePlay has announced the release of Amber Alert Mobile to the iTunes App Store. Amber Alert Mobile is an iPhone / iPod Touch application which enables members of the community to participate in the search for missing and exploited children. Features of the application include the ability to list children who went missing, were sighted, or last known to be near the user’s current location.

The objective of this application is to provide the user with the most pertinent information as to their current GPS location. If and when a user suspects a sighting, quick links within the application enable them to report sightings with their current GPS coordinates or call the hotline for The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) to report suspicious activity.

Feature Highlights:
* Listings of Amber Alerts and Missing Children Alerts
* GPS based ‘Near Me’ display which lists children who went missing from or who are suspected to be in your community.
* Integrated links to services provided by The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC).
* Notification options to enroll in Amber Alert SMS text messages and email notifications.
* Quick links to Report GPS Sightings or Call the NCMEC hotline.

Minimum Requirements:
* iPhone / iPod Touch 2.2.1 Software

ObjectivePlay has extended this invitation to the public to download Amber Alert Mobile free of charge in the hopes of providing a public service in which information regarding missing children, including Amber Alerts, maybe be quickly disseminated to the general population.

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ObjectivePlay is a division of the Objective Company and focuses in the development of wholesome family interactive entertainment. Current products include Amber Alert Mobile and Shock Ball for the iPhone and iPod Touch devices. Copyright 2009 ObjectivePlay. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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Turn your iPod or iPhone into a portable drive

Whether you use your iPod or iPhone for entertainment, communication, or to amplify your cool quotient, all models share one thing in common: They can function as portable storage devices. Depending on the model, your device features either a hard drive or flash drive that allows you to read and write files to it just like an external drive once you enable it to do so. Here’s how.

Enable your iPod

You can turn any iPod (except iPod touch, see below) into a portable drive using iTunes. If you manually manage your music instead of having iTunes automatically sync songs, you don’t need to do anything-your iPod is already set to function as an external drive, and will mount and be accessible on your desktop whenever you connect it.

If you set iTunes to automatically sync music to your iPod, you’ll need to enable disk use; connect your iPod to your Mac, open iTunes, and select your iPod in the Source pane under Devices. Click the Summary tab (or Settings tab for iPod shuffle) and then select the “Enable disk use” checkbox. Your iPod will now mount as a drive volume on your desktop whenever you connect it.

iPod shuffle users and those with any click-wheel iPod that can be synced over USB running iTunes 8.0 or later can additionally allocate the amount of disk space that will be reserved for storage when autofilling the iPod. To do this with an iPod other than an iPod shuffle, plug in the iPod, select it in the Devices area, click the triangle next to it to expose its contents, click on the Music entry, click the Settings button that appears at the bottom of the iTunes window, and in the resulting Autofill Settings window, use the Reserve Space for Disk Use slider to determine how much of the iPod’s storage media will be reserved for data. Note that this slider works only when autofilling the iPod. If you sync data either automatically or manually to the iPod, this slider’s settings will be ignored. More »

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iPod touch generates more traffic than most phones

Apple mobile device user interface has become much easier to access the Internet compared to other mobile devices to your iPod touch, which is not even a mobile phone, the times of all mobile phones, except iPhone in terms of volume Internet access, according to data released by Admobis.

The iPod touch does not have a cellular connection, but users can access the Internet via Wi-Fi Généré 6.7 per cent of mobile traffic Admobis in February. This is less than the 11.2 per cent of the traffic generated by the iPhone, but more than any other mobile phone. Motorola Razr came third with 2.9 percent for admob traffic.

Admobis hosts a network of mobile advertising. Each time a user opens a Web page that is part of the network, affecting Admobis records. For ads on mobile websites of 6000 and 1000 in the world.

Admobis discovered some interesting trends. Smartphones continue to generate more Internet access to mobile phones. Over six months, despite the economic downturn, smartphones have increased their share of access to the mobile Internet from 26 percent to 33 percent in February, Admobis reported.

Admobis defines a smartphone as a device that runs a complete operating system such as Symbian, Windows Mobile or Android.

In the world, the iPhone accounts for 33 percent of requests for phone Admobis February, Symbian, but it was still in first place by the operating system. Symbian phones generated 43 percent market share. More »

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Party with iTunes DJ

The most interesting feature of the new iTunes 8.1 iTunes DJ should be, which replaced the Shuffle. It allows iPhone and iPod Touches to your Wi-Fi at the request and vote for songs to add to the iTunes playlist DJ (which otherwise looks like the Shuffle). The more people vote for a song, the highest in the list to be moved, and the sooner you can play.

The only disadvantage of this approach is that all iPhones need to be in your Wi-Fi, which is annoying if you have an encrypted network. In addition, everyone must have the remote in your iPhone, but can easily download it directly from the iPhone App Store.

To configure iTunes DJ, you must first open iTunes on your Mac and click the Settings button under the iTunes playlist DJ. In the configuration, you must check the box to allow customers to request songs, and, optionally, type a welcome message. Also check the box for voting.

Now when you open the iPhone remotely, will happen in different ways depending on whether you have connected to your iTunes library. Linked iPhones are supposed to belong to the host, and therefore have the ability to play, pause, skip songs, and rearrange the playlist, as before. More »

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