w00t! Another batch of iPhone App Store pre-announcements:

• Jeff at TrouserMac Industries sent a blurb about an upcoming iPhone app that's right up my alley. Brewing Buddy will be free from the App Store after launch and consists of a tool for calculating and refining beer receipes, a brewing helper, and a social recipe sharing application. Bottoms up! [Our esteemed colleague would like to remind everyone that pants-based computing is a registered idea of Erica Sadun Enterprises. -Ed.]
  
• TheBarCodeProject is readying TouchWord, an iPhone Holy Bible with sections for notes and an included RSS reader for Christian learning resources.
• Meanwhile, over in Oxford, Mississippi, Deepak Mantena and TapeShow, LLC are getting ready to release Chores for Mac OS X and a companion app called Chores mobile for iPhone. Deepak says that "all the unnecessary fluff that's in existing productivity tools is eliminated."
• While it's not an announced app, I loved reader Jack Chance's idea -- "Will someone write some software that turns the 3G iPhone into a bike computer? It should give speed, distance, and store the route so that you can sync with your Mac at home..." A lot of bikers would love this app idea -- go for it, developers!
• Long-time Palm game developers Seahorse Software are bringing Blackjack Run to the iPhone and iPod touch in July.
• Advenio, makers of MacGourmet, are bringing a yet-to-be-named recipe application to iPhone.
• The amazing ApolloIM app will be going legal for all of you IM addicts.
• Michael Howard at Midnight Martian Software is bringing his 3D OpenGL-based Midnight Mahjong Solitaire to market soon!

Send us your announcements of upcoming iPhone App Store goodies, and we'll try to get 'em posted.

iPhone developers never sleep, since we're still getting a steady stream of news about upcoming App Store over the weekend. Here's the latest:

• Alex Price over at The Mac Box has a few free "toys" that will be available at App Store launch. PhoneSaber turns your iPhone into a virtual weapon worthy of a Jedi, while NearPics uses Panaramio.com to find pictures that were taken near your present location.
• Meanwhile, Brian Tunning pinged us about NotepadSync, which consists of matching applications on iPhone and Mac to enter and edit notes. The notes are synced wirelessly to a central store, so there will be a $14.95 estimated annual cost for the service.
• Another ebook reader for iPhone, Books, is being readied for the App Store by a team of developers including three Zachs!
• Probably the coolest App Store contender I've seen so far is Nuance's Voice Search app. As you can see in this video, you speak your search criteria, it is sent to Nuance's servers for recognition, and then text-based criteria are pushed back to your iPhone to do a search. Thanks to Gunnar Evermann at Nuance for this tip.
• Andy Qua is a recent Mac convert and new father who has developed three games for iPhone -- CubeRunner (steer your iPhone through a landscape littered with cubes), iCave (fly a ship through a cave avoiding obstacles), and iNono (puzzle game for solving nonograms).
• Greg Bernhardt had info about GroceryZen, an app that simplifies grocery shopping by organizing recipes, items, and locations in the grocery store.

That's the Sunday wrapup. If you have an iPhone app that's heading for App Store release, let us know about it.

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!

The thundering herd of announced iPhone apps keeps coming! By popular demand, TUAW will be publishing the iPhone App News Roundup every day as long as we keep getting announcements from developers.

• Hungry? Chef On Your iPhone from Chef's Little Helper can help you pull up recipes and put together a grocery list.
• xhead software is moving info.xhead, their secure information manager for Mac, to the iPhone.
• If you use iZepto for time tracking, it's time to cheer! They'll have iZepto on the iPhone available soon!
• Jeff Grossman wants you to go to the movies! His Movies.app theater and movie finder can tell you what's showing when at the nearest cinema.
• UK developers VisualIT are working on Tube 2 for iPhone and iPod touch. You'll love this app if you ride the London Underground.
• Zoosware is releasing Mobile Holy Quran and American Sign Language for iPhone.
• One of the most popular Windows Mobile PIM apps, Pocket Informant, is being readied for iPhone. The app features full two-way over-the-air synching. Developer WebIS is also working on Note2Self and Touch2Notes.
• Logic High Software is planning for a July release of xHunt, a treasure hunt application leveraging the GPS receiver and camera of the iPhone 3G.
• Developer Dimitri Bouniol is working on a detailed periodic table of the elements app called Periods.
• Last but not least, it's not an app, but longtime iPod case manufacturer Speck is making six colorful PixelSkin cases for the iPhone 3G.

iPhone developers -- remember, we want to hear from you.

Wondering what's coming when the AppStore launches in early July? So are we, and here's what's been announced in the past few days:

• Webstate is building iSharephone. It's Sharepoint on your iPhone. It will connect your phone to Microsoft Sharepoint portal servers.
• Want to create music on your iPhone? Intua is developing it's BeatMaker product, which will let you beatbox, loop and sequence your way to musical joy.
• Ambrosia SW has announced Aki Mobile Mahjong for iPhone. It's built around Core Animation and promises a "Cover Flow interface for level selection."
• EasyTask Manager is a simple task manager that's getting ported to the iPhone. Here are a couple of early product screen shots.
• Rusty Red Wagon is porting Solitaire to the iPhone, with three variations: Klondike, Freecell and Spider.
• Synthesis is working on a SyncML data sync product. For now, it's planned as a free contacts-only version but they're hoping to expand it to provide calendar support, which their developers say is not currently available in the SDK.

Got iPhone software in development? Drop us a note at our tips line.