A nice Jump Jump fitness game came to our attention this weekend. To play, hold the iPhone/Touch firmly in your hand, listen to the music, get a knack of the rhythm and jump on cue, trying to land exactly in the middle of the target shown on the screen. The more accurate your timing, the more points you get.

Jump Jump and enjoy better health, improved fitness, reduced weight, boosted immunity and even increased oxygen flow to the brain.

It uses two “lie” readings, one at the ball and the other at the cup… to simulate the real trajectory of the putt, given enough power to travel to the ball.

It gives the break in distance across from the cup, and desired power compared with level ground.

Give it a try!

I do not think so! The tremendous difference  is exactly in the screen size, content (movies, newspapers, books) made for big screen and WHAT IS MOST IMPORTANT — APPS for big screen! Developers, just think about the opportunity of developing and using new innovative interfaces with huge multi-touch OLED beauty! This is a new platform even if it looks same as iPhone and huge challenge to get your applications right and discover all the new use cases of the device.

Do not get mislead. We are going to see a success of iPad.

With iShoot Hoops, you have to swipe and flick the basketball into the basket. The game gets difficult because the board moves from side to side. To get more points, bounce the ball of the wall. You have thirty seconds and ten lives to score as many points as you can. Every time you miss, you lose a life.

iShoot Hoops even develops your timing skills, especially if you try getting points by bouncing off the wall. You have to know when to shoot and at what angle because the basket board is moving. Unlike some other shooting apps, iShoot Hoops uses complicated algorithms to measure the velocity and angle of your finger and creates accurate bounces and throws – this way, it actually works on skill and not just luck. The practice is recommended for “brain gym” and for developing accuracy in hand-eye coordination.

Developed to satisfy players, iShoot Hoops includes real sounds of Bouncing, Scoring, Swishs, and even Audience cheers.

Like a lollypop, it costs $0.99, but unlike a lollypop, it lasts.

Please contact any suggestions to: iShootBaskets@gmail.com
Or at: http://www.TylerWeitzman.tk/

Tyler Weitzman

MyTP is the snowboarding game with unlimited possibilities, no matter if you throw down double corks in the terrain park, back-to-back 1080 combos in the half pipe or if you prefer a powderline in the backcountry – feel it & enjoy it !

Whether on a hand rail or in the air, with the choice of different grabs and jibbs you can perform way over 500 trick variations. You have to crack 3 challenges and 3 missions in each of the 3 resorts, where you can have a real good romp !!

Well-known resorts will grant you with an incredibly real experience: The famous freestyle resort LAAX, Switzerland (Swatch Snowpark) as well as the top resort Flachauwinkl, Austria (The Stash and AbsolutPark), both resorts holding their top spot amongst the scene`s best. The third level of MyTP snowboarding brings you to the freeride paradise of Alaska, for all those that prefer to ride fresh powder over a rail line or just to get that adrenaline rush to master the biggest kicker.

To make sure you are riding with the most recent equipment, you can select your favorite pieces from Nitro Snowboards and L1 Outerwear to create your own character. If you feel confident, you may put yourself in the shoes of a Nitro Global Teamrider like Cheryl Maas, Markus Keller or Eero Ettala.

Hence you are ready to give proof of your skills – in the world of MyTP snowboarding !!

FEATURES:
- realistic 3D graphics
- half pipes, kickers, rails and powder
- 3 resorts
- 9 slopes
- 9 missions
- 10 snowboards
- 3 pro snowboard characters
- individual male and female characters
- over 500 tricks
- „world tour“ and „quick play“ modes

Doing sports with a virtual personal coach while listening to your music and without ever losing touch with your friends is now possible thanks to the IPhone and the Joggy Coach.

From now on you decide when and how you progress. Joggy coach will visually and vocally inform you in real time about your performances.

Thanks to its multifunctional character, you can:
• save different parameters (your journey path, the average speed, the average time in kilometers, calories burnt, chronometer…
• schedule training depending on your fixed objectives (competition, leisure, relaxation, weight loss).
All this can be done while listening to your playlist and sending real time information about your session and your geographical location to your friends (via email and twitter…).

From the “ghost” mode – which allows you to compare your different training sessions, to the “data” mode – which creates a report on your sports session, Joggy Coach will accompany you during and after your fitness session.

Thanks to an efficient and intuitive interface, which exploits the ‘multi-touch’ facilities of the IPhone, you will easily navigate through a range of functions.

You will be able to point out your body specifications simply by setting up your physical characteristics, obtaining in this way, the instant calculation of your BMI that will be transformed in a clear indication of your physiological state. The inserted data will also be useful to measure, in real time, the used calories.

The months database subdivision allows you to hold in check the data of your trainings, thanks to simple and efficacious graphs that will make you have, at a glance, your finger on the pulse.

With “Run” it is not necessary to take your precious iPhone during your daily run, you will finally be free to annotate with precision the information related to your runs, regardless of the GPS signal or an Internet connection.

“Run” is an intuitive and rational application that, with few clicks, keeps, in clear and understandable way, the lid on your runs and trainings. So, also after a long time, you can remember if it was just a simple walk or one of the most important competition of your life.

Characteristics.
For every run you can record:
- Date and place
- time
- meteo conditions
- distance covered
- duration
- type of run
- shoes
- friends

The application calculates:
- the average speed in Km/h
- pace in minutes/km
- consumed calories

A monthly summary provides:
- the amount of Km ran in the month
- the monthly average speed
- the monthly average pace
- the total consumption of calories

The charts display:
- the distance covered for day
- overall time spent
- the average speed
- the pace
- the calories consumption

• IM+ (down to $1.99 from $9.99)
• Business Card Reader (1.99 down from 6.99)
• RDM+ (down to $1.99 from $19.99)

Electronic Arts, Gameloft and Konami have also greatly decreased price to $0.99 for many of their top games.

More over number of companies are doing or planning to do giveaways, Here are some cool freebies for you:

• SEED 1 – RISE of Darkness
• Sentinel: Mars Defence!
• And my favorite F.A.S.T. — Fleet Air Superiority Training!!!!

More discounts and giveaways are yet to come!!! Stay tuned.

Skateboarding meets H.O.R.S.E. meets Simon Says in this game of S.K.A.T.E. Memorize the sequence of tricks Greg Lutzka does, and repeat his sequence by touching the illuminating buttons that correspond to each trick. See how long you can last against the best in the world.

Press Kit: http://www.dizmenterprises.com/share/dizm_SKATE_pressrelease.pdf

The rules are simple but the strategy is very challenging. The game starts on an empty square field of boxes, with goals of two boxes wide. The puck is originally placed into the center of the field and the objective is to score goals into the opponent’s gate. In one turn, the puck may be moved into one of the eight line crossings around it (horizontally, vertically, or diagonally) and a segment is drawn to mark the move. The puck can also bounce from an existing segment endings and the move is extended.

FEATURES:
- Simple and intuitive touch control
- Addictive game play against the computer or a friend on the same device or over WiFi
- Choose between three levels of difficulty
- Configurable game options (match length, field type and size, player names, sound)
- Automatic save and resume game capability

Requires iPhone OS 2.2.1 or later (iPhone OS 3.1 tested).

Are we almost there yet?

Another “boring” journey?

Long away trip?

Plane delayed?

You need i-Spy Football Stuff…the first in a series of new i-Spy games.

Designed as a great time filler for you, your children, your mates!!

Release the “inner child” and play on your own (if you must!), with your family or with your friends.

Ideal for filling time on any journey – especially a long away trip to Sunderland or Portsmouth!!!

Spy the most unique number of team shirts, car mini-kits or any other club related item and score points against the other players.

Currently available as a Premier League Edition featuring all 20 teams in the top flight for season 2009/10.

PLUS – free copy of i-Snap “shirt matching” game. Play on your own anywhere, anytime. Great for improving your memory skills … and good fun too!

Future products will include the Championship Edition and the World Cup 2010 Edition.

Also, watch out for future i-Spy Stuff releases including:

i-Spy Stuff – La Liga Edition
i-Spy Stuff – Bundesliga Edition
i-Spy Stuff – Serie A Edition

Plus …

i-Spy Stuff at the Airport
i-Spy Stuff on the Train
i-Spy Stuff in the Car

Visit www.ispy-stuff.co.uk for more information.

Suggestions and feedback can be sent to suggestions@ispy-stuff.co.uk

You can play the computer or you can play a friend on the single iPod TouchiPhone device. Perfect for kids on roadplane trips!

6 Unique Levels

5 Levels to unlock by beating the computer.

How to Play

When it’s your turn, click your players and move the arrow in the desired move direction. Move the arrow in and out to set desired move strength.

Then hit Go!

It is convenient if you see the distance to a pin in iPhone, isn’t it?
Then we introduce the iPhone application “Question Yards” that we developed.

Because it measures the distance with an image, neither the GPS measurement nor the packet transmission is necessary.
So it is an advantage that ANYONE is usable ANYWHERE in the world immediately.
This is a simple distance measurement application at the time of the approach.
Please experience it by all means if you cannot readily catch the sense of distance at the time of the approach and are troubled!

[The usage is simple]

- Start “Question Yards”, then take a picture toward the pin.
- A scale is displayed, and put the pin and the scale on top of one another.
- You can measure a rough distance to the pin.

* By the looking of the photograph, sometimes you cannot measure it well.
* The range that you can measure is from 25 to about 200 yards.

In the next updates, the program will include GPS data representation on the map and export the GPS data on a gpx format (waiting for review by Apple). Facebook and twitter integration and more social options will come with the next version (working on it).

DID YOU KNOW…?
Obesity has become one of the more valuable public health challenges of the twenty-first century. According to WHO (World Health Organization) estimates, between 1980 and today the occurrence of obesity has tripled in many countries, both in Europe and America, and the number of people affected is growing at an alarming rate.

Too often the impact that obesity can cause are neglected. Here are some:
- Diseases that affect the cardiovascular system (atherosclerosis, heart disease, hypertension, cerebral vascular disease, coronary heart disease, stroke and heart attack)
- At the osteo-articular diseases (arthritis, osteoporosis)
- Higher incidence of developing certain cancers (especially stomach, colon, breast, and endometrium Coleschi)
- Frequently obese people also develop type 2 diabetes mellitus, hyperlipidemia, gallstones, and respiratory problems.

Fortunately you can combat obesity, and easily!
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FOR YOUR HEALTH
Fitness & Healthy Weight is designed to help you assess your state of health, taking into account several indicators, such as BMI (Body Mass Index, widely used and recognized even by the WHO) and the BFI (Body Fat Index, which allows assess the relationship between body fat and lean mass in the body).

COMMENTS
Each result is automatically annotated so that anyone, even the less experienced, can become aware of their health and have, at the same time, useful advice.

ENERGY INFORMATION
If found to be overweight (or underweight), advice on recommended daily amount of calories and amount and type of physical activity to be conducted will be very usefull.

CHRONOLOGY
You can record your values every day, so you can accurately track changes in your weight. If you intend to start a diet, this tool will surely
be very useful.

SUGGESTED DIET
Not enough! Fitness & Weight ideal suggests 2 diets (breakdown of carbohydrates, fats and proteins throughout the day depending on your needs).

ADVICE ON PHYSICAL
With the calculation of the recommended daily calories are also shown some values related to physical activity, such as the maximum heart rate, the threshold for aerobic and anaerobic and other suggestions.

ENCYCLOPEDIC DATABASE
Lastly but not least, a database containing information of all kinds on nutrition, on the indicators used within the software and on physical activity. This is because we want you be aware of what you are considering!

Here is a summary of the main functions of Fitness & Healthy Weight:

√ Ability to choose between SI (metric) and U.S.
√ Calculation of BMI (Body Mass Index)
√ Display of weight-height BMI chart
√ Calculation of BFI (Body Fat Index: percentage of body fat)
√ Calculation of fat mass and lean mass
√ Deviation from your ideal weight
√ BMR (basal metabolism)
√ Daily caloric needs (based on Fat Mass or not)
√ Daily amount of carbohydrates, proteins and fats
√ 2 suggested diets (normal and high protein)
√ Maximum heart rate during exercise
√ Heart rate for aerobic and anaerobic
√ Each result commented
√ Report incorrect results due to errors in the input of measurements
√ Saves results in history
√ Encyclopaedic information on various topics (What is BMI? What is BFI? How many calories you burn with exercise? What are macronutrients? Etc. ..)

The rules are simple but the strategy is very challenging. The game starts on an empty square field of boxes, with goals of two boxes wide. The ball is originally placed into the center of the field and the objective is to score goals into the opponent’s gate. In one turn, the ball may be moved into one of the eight line crossings around it (horizontally, vertically, or diagonally) and a segment is drawn to mark the move. The ball can also bounce from an existing segment endings and the move is extended.

FEATURES:
- Simple and intuitive touch control
- Addictive game play against the computer or a friend on the same device or over WiFi
- Choose between three levels of difficulty
- Configurable game options (match length, player names, sound)
- Automatic save and resume game capability

A demo is available on my website (http://papersoccer.p4o.net) or search Paper Soccer for iPhone on youtube!

The exercises listed are comprehensive and are neatly tagged according to the body regions and muscle groups that they benefit. Drilling down into an exercise brings up photos of how it works, with tabbed pages for description/instructions, for a log (e.g. how many repetitions, what weights, etc), with all entries date stamped automatically and, after a few days of data, also plotted on a chart. Oddly, after bringing up the log screen, there’s no way back to the exercise screen – you have to return to the main index page and then drill in again, which seems a bit inefficient.

Still, there are plenty of lovely touches, such as the ‘60 seconds’ and ‘3 minute’ timers on the log page, possibly alleviating the need to bring a stop watch with you into the gym. If you need a reminder of which exercises you’d planned to do in a session, the ‘My workouts’ section lets you select any from the iFitness database and they’re automatically ticked off after you enter data for the appropriate exercise. You can have multiple workouts, named accordingly.

‘Routines’ suggests sets of exercises according to particular themes, I especially liked the ‘Business Travel Workout’, designed to be done by the iPhone user on the move and with little or no access to gym equipment, but ‘Beginner’ and ‘Body Toning for Women’ were also noteworthy. At any point, you can view your exercise logs for the current day, week, fortnight or month, even exporting the details via email. And kudos to the developers here for including email functionality within the iFitness code – there’s no ugly reliance on closing down and using iPhone Mail instead.

Extras include a weight monitor, again logging against date and providing charting and a Body Mass Indicator monitor (ditto).

A few minor glitches in the interface aside, I was tempted to dock iFitness a star because, although, after an interruption (e.g. a phone call), it remembers completed exercises and also your intended routine, it doesn’t return you to the same exercise/log screen, which can be annoying when you’re trying to get back to where you were, possibly with sweaty fingers. However, the wealth of information and functionality won me over at every point and it seemed churlish to withold a five star rating!

At the heart of iPump Yoga are three ‘flows’ (sets) of exercise poses, each described and illustrated beautifully. You swipe your finger across the screen to progress, which seems easy enough. Tapping on a particular exercise brings up any aids you might need, including a short video showing exactly how to get from one pose to another smoothly and (presumably) serenely. Never mind tapping on the navigation bar or videos, just the swiping alone is enough to interrupt the smoothness of your exercise, although you’ll quickly learn the ‘flow’ and won’t need to consult iPump Yoga after the first few times through.

Which is not to say that the application is redundant once you’ve learnt the routines, since there’s also a facility to record the number of repetitions of each flow and your weight that day. Data entered here wasn’t always retained here though, a black mark against the application. On the plus side, there’s also a ‘Log’ where you can enter your thoughts and feelings after each session. And iPump Yoga (thankfully) remembers exactly where you got to, should you get interrupted by something tiresome like a phone call or an urge to check your email.

If your budget won’t stretch to membership of your local Yoga club or gym then this is an excellent way to learn some useful routines and to feel like you’re ‘doing it right’. Just don’t expect to match the poses shown in the photos if, like me, you’re mid-forties, male and a few kilos over your ideal weight!

Underlying the Drinks and Cocktail Recipes application is the database, of course. As the name suggests, there’s more here than just cocktails, with the likes of ‘Coffee’, ‘Beer’ and ‘Milkshakes’ all represented too. If it’s a drink and involves mixing ingredients together then it’s here. Period. The instructions for each recipe are brief but well written and (though I’m not an expert) the ingredient quantities look accurate too.

Most impressive of all though is the interface. Drinks and Cocktail Recipes uses the style of the iPhone’s built-in applications to tremendous effect. For example, in any of the exhaustive drink lists, a Contacts-like alphabetic sorter can be used to jump quickly to entries starting with a particular letter. It’s quick and elegant. There’s a Search function too, which works well enough but doesn’t let you search within words, only from the start of words. Once you’ve found a recipe you like, tapping on the star icon adds it as a ‘Favourite’, accessed in future from the first toolbar icon.

The only place where the interface breaks down is in the controversial ‘Ingredients’ section. The idea is to add some of the esoteric ingredients you actually have in the house and the application will search its database and let you know which recipes can be made. The problem is that the ingredients, all 300 of them, are selected using an iPhone ’spinner’, a widget designed to offer far less choices. So getting to ‘Vodka’, for example, (near the end of the alphabet) is an abject lesson in frustration. There’s definitely room for improvement here – the spinner is simply the wrong interface component to use. Once one or more ingredients have been selected, a single tap finds all matches in the database. Rather magically, given that you might have selected a couple of very obscure ingredients.

Having found a recipe by any of the above means, I liked the way the full text could be seamlessly emailed on to a friend. Or even to yourself, for copying and pasting the text from an email client on another computer. Very handy.

If the graphical adverts at the top of every screen bother you, then there’s a commercial ‘pro’ version which does exactly the same job but without the ads for only a couple of dollars. Most people will do just fine with the ad-supported version though. The ingredient spinner and the lack of photos in the application lose it a point for me, but Drinks and Cocktail Recipes still comes highly recommended for a slot on your overflowing iPhone or iPod Touch.