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iPhone App News Roundup: June 21, 2008

by Steven Sande Jun 21st 2008 at 5:00PM

iPhone App Roundup June 21, 2008Git 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!

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Andrew

The unlocking pattern concept in Lockbox is also used by Google for unlocking an Android phone: http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/googleio12.jpg

June 24 2008 at 1:36 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Tom

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.

June 23 2008 at 2:05 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jack Chance

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 .....

June 23 2008 at 11:43 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
markrich2200

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.

June 22 2008 at 9:19 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
josh

but what about lobster petting?! truly, it will be the iphone killer app.

June 22 2008 at 2:45 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Morgan

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?

June 22 2008 at 12:26 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Catt

I could use bubble wrap right about now.

June 21 2008 at 10:02 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Slartibartfast

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? ;-)

June 21 2008 at 9:13 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Galley

Looking forward to Solebon Solitaire!

June 21 2008 at 5:41 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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