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tagtraum industries releases French version of beaTunes

Raleigh, North Carolina – tagtraum industries is proud to announce that beaTunes 2 is now also available in French, in addition to German and English. beaTunes is a popular iTunes library management utility for Mac OS X and Windows. Working in parallel with iTunes, beaTunes can analyze any music library, fill in missing and fix existing information to generate better playlists. It can even help find the titles of tracks that have no artist or title associated with them.

Build better iTunes and iPod playlists. By analyzing the songs in an existing library and using customizable rulesets, beaTunes is capable of building playlists of similar sounding music. It can analyze any number of tracks, and detect various types of metadata, such as beats-per-minute (BPM), missing artist or album information, detect language of the lyrics, musical key, as well as song color.

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ReaddleDocs iPhone Document Viewer is on Sale

Odessa, Ukraine – Readdle has announced time limited sale for ReaddleDocs, their popular document and file management solution for the iPhone. The special ReaddleDocs price is set at US $4.99, a 50% discount from the regular price, and the sale will end on Sunday, May, 17th. At the same time, Readdle has submitted a new updated ReaddleDocs 1.5 to Apple’s App Store.

ReaddleDocs combines a network file server, web storage client, web browser, file manager and powerful document viewer within a single iPhone business application. It allows people to transfer documents to their devices over Wi-Fi and 3G in a number of ways, view them on the go, send by email and share with other iPhone users easily.

ReaddleDocs 1.5, that will hit the App Store soon, is capable to view iWork ’09 documents saved with preview and upload files to WebDAV enabled online file storage systems like MobileMe iDisk. ReaddleDocs 1.5 will be available at App Store as free upgrade for existing users.

“With the current App Store economy many people afraid to buy products that costs more than 5 dollars,” explains Alexander Tyagulsky, Readdle CMO. “The sale lets them get familar with the high end products like ReaddleDocs and take advantage of the iPhone as the most powerful document viewer available on the smartphone market.”

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Clever Coding And Southwest Apps release Domino Domino iPhone app

Springville, Utah – Clever Coding, developers of the hit game Paper Pilot, in partnership with Southwest App, have just announced the release of their newest 3D iPhone application, Domino Domino. “We wanted to build a 3D game where the player creates their own 3D Domino Masterpiece, and then allow the user to watch their creation topple over from as many different angles as possible. This is a new genre for the iPhone. Allowing the user to create their own 3D environments and then give them the freedom to interact with them” said Clever Coding’s President, Steve Moon.

The first thing users notice about Domino Domino is how fun and easy it is to make your own domino course. Users simply select the tool they wish to use from the toolbar on the top of their screen, then use their finger to draw the course exactly how they pictured it. For example, when using the “Follow” tool, users can trace a path on the phone, and the game will automatically place dominoes following their path. Users can also experiment with a variety of objects provided by the game to add style to their course.

Some of these objects include, spiral staircases, bridges, stairs and even a mousetrap that flings a ball at its own target domino. Steve also mentioned that more objects are on their way if the game is popular enough on the iPhone. Once users have built their course, they can choose how they want to watch their creation fall. If the users select manual camera mode, they can control the camera using the two “touch joysticks” provided.

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Juicy Development Releases Police Scanner 1.1

Orem, Utah – Juicy Development today released the newest version of Police Scanner, the iPhone application that allows listeners to listen in (but not broadcast) on police, fire, and EMS activities across the country. Version 1.1 of Police Scanner now has an upgraded interface, allowing users to more easily navigate streams, as well as get streams faster and with more accuracy.

Instead of scrolling through all 1100 national and international EMS streams, Police Scanner now sorts streams by country and region, letting users pinpoint their favorite streams with just a few finger strokes. “Since many of our users are police and firefighters, we wanted to insure that they could pick up the stream that they need in a hurry,” said David Kyle, project manager. Users may also bookmark their favorite streams for quick access.

In addition to being easier to navigate, Police Scanner has also improved database accessibility, making the streams faster to update and access. In order to give users real time information during use, Police Scanner can update the database without restarting the application. And more accurate GPS data has been attached to streams allowing for improved location by area.

Police Scanner has also improved its reliability on the Edge network, making it backwards compatible with older iPhones.

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BumpChat 1.1 released for iPhone and iPod touch – Mobile Dating and Chat

Sandy, Utah – Bump Mobile today releases BumpChat 1.1, their new location-aware mobile dating and chat application for the iPhone. Users can connect with people in their immediate area or all over the world. It provides free unlimited texting and picture messaging through an easy-to-use interface. Currently, thousands of people are logging into BumpChat daily, meeting new people conveniently with their iPhone.

BumpChat incorporates many features from web-based dating and chat applications including an advanced search capability to find people who match a very specific profile. You can specify gender, sexual orientation, age ranges, and distance from your current position. The iPhone’s ability to provide position is utilized by the application to show user profiles within a specified radius so you have a live, accurate location capability that ordinary web dating and chat applications cannot provide.

BumpChat users can add a personal picture, message and detailed description to their profile. This profile is immediately visible to all people who are online. Chats can be initiated immediately between any two users and can include test and pictures. The BumpChat application makes use of the integrated iPhone camera to grab live pictures or pictures from the phone’s library can be used to send to other chat users.

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