Tips, Tricks and Hacks for your iPhone

Imagine bowling from the comforts of your home. The iBowl application of iPhone puts you on a sporty ‘bowling’ mood, at any place. For all those busy bees out there, iBowl whisks you through some mood-stirring moments, only to make it more interesting amidst worries and woos. Going bowling by yourself can be waste of time; therefore iPhone brings to you a concrete structure of the bowling at your finger tips.

Swinging the iPhone is an alluring rule that keeps the game moving. To make the ball hit straight on the target, you let to ping-pong the iPhone, as if mimicking the bowling act. If your target is set right, the ball hits it without much experimenting with your playing caliber. The better you play, the score feeds fat. The game is played safe without any scope of competition. You will love it if you want to be the sole player. This is a free version of iBowl and you get to reap lucratively with zero investment.

No doubt a genius, but perhaps also Woz-centric (think eccentric but with technology founding stripes), cell phone inventor Martin Cooper always likes to have the latest and greatest mobile device on the planet. Ish, according C-SPAN:

> Right now I’m using the Droid, because I want to get some experience with the Android operating system, and I, so far have some favorable results.

He also likes to Tweet from it — he’s @MartyMobile if you want to follow along. In his defense, however, he did have an iPhone. He gave it to his grandson. Lucky kid!

[via @ikagirl via Android Central]

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Queensland, Australia – Independent developer Benedict Lowndes today is pleased to announce the release of WindowFlow Beta for Mac OS X. WindowFlow provides powerful keyboard commands for organizing your application windows. You can seamlessly move and resize windows which will snap into alignment with each other. Window tiling allows you to select a messy group of windows to be re-organized to make the most of your screen space. WindowFlow’s clean and simple interface also acts as a window switcher, allowing you to easily browse all of your open application windows. The beta is available today at a discount for early adopters.

The trend towards multiple screens and higher resolution displays is ongoing and with good reason: research shows that the more screen space available, the more productive you are. In practice this is only true if the screen space is being used optimally and unfortunately we are all used to switching back and forth between windows looking for the information we know is there, somewhere.

WindowFlow was designed to take the hassle out of this by providing smart tools to position application windows most effectively, allowing you to stay focused on your task. Those who prefer to keep their hands on the keyboard will appreciate the simple keyboard commands, reducing the need to keep reaching for the the mouse to make the most of your screen space.

Professional Edition Features:

* Keyboard commands to seamlessly move and re-size individual windows; they smoothly glide across the screen and snap into alignment with other windows and screen edges.

* Window tiling allows you to quickly select a group of windows to fill the screen. Different tile layouts allow you to choose the arrangement that works best for you.

* Plus all the standard edition features.

Standard Edition Features

* Intuitive window switching that gives you a preview of each window with it’s location on the desktop, even windows that are minimized, hidden or in another Space.

* WindowFlow is optimized for large and multiple displays.

Pricing and Availability:
WindowFlow Beta is available with a free 14 day trial. It’s currently in the final stages of beta testing, with a discounted for early adopters. WindowFlow Pro will be priced at $22 (USD) but is available for purchase during the beta for $12. WindowFlow Standard will be priced at $12 (USD) but is available for purchase during the beta for $8.

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Parede, Portugal – SintraWorks today is pleased to announce the release of Metron 2.0, an update to their professional digital metronome for iPhone and iPod touch. The brainchild of a classically trained musician, Metron aids in the practice of runs, excerpts and complete compositions. Featuring an intuitive front panel, you can launch and start practicing instantly, while an organized back panel provides access to powerful extra features.

In addition to the usual single and multiple beat ticks of digital metronomes, Metron offers complex time signatures with beat grouping and dynamic accellerando and ritardando through a high-precision playback engine. A bar based sequencer offers detailed control over tempo changes, rhythmic patterns, sounds, volume and colour. Additionally, Metron incorporates a tuner that can be calibrated to cent level.

New in version 2.0:
* Rhythm patterns. Subdivide beats to create almost any rhythmic pattern in the beat editor, using standard music notation.
* Copy/paste sequences.
* Copy/paste bars.
* Completely redesigned Metron icon.
* Completely redesigned front panel.
* When pausing playback, if a tempo variance of type “per beat” is active, then the tempo is reset to the tempo at the start of the current bar, since playback will, by default, resume at the beginning of the current bar.
* Integrated user guide.

Features in Detail

Metronome:
* Portrait and landscape mode.
* Tempo from 10 to 400 Beats Per Minute (effectively 2.5 to 800).
* Accelerando and ritardando (“Variance”).
* Specify a factor between one quarter (0.25) and double (2.0) the current tempo (Useful when practicing complex sequences).
* Tap the tap pad to set the tempo.
* Visual beat feedback in addition to clear and crisp audio pulses.
* Fully customisable sound, volume and feedback colour on any beat and/or its rhythmic subdivisions.

Sequencer:
* Create your own library with any number of sequences. A set with the most commonly used time signatures is included by default.
* Create sequences with any number of bars.
* Each sequence can set a countdown, a start tempo, a variance and whether the metronome stops at the end of the sequence or repeats the sequence from the beginning.
* Each bar consists of one or more time signatures and can set a tempo and a variance starting on any beat. A bar can be set to play up to a 110 times.
* A time signature can have between 1 and 64 beats over a dotted or undotted denominator (examples: 7/4, 2/8., 9/32, 1/2., 3/1).
* A time signature can be subdivided into beat groups, allowing you to set an accent on any beat you wish, since grouping beats affects metronome playback. Metron differentiates between the first beat, stressed beats and unstressed beats, so you always know where in the bar you are.
* Each beat in a time signature can be further customised into a rhythmic pattern (like triplets or swing, or most any pattern you like). You can assign a custom color, sound and volume to any beat or any rhythmic component of a beat. You are in control. You can keep it as simple as you like, or make it as intricate as you need.
* Mix bars of different meters and tempi at will, and interpolate between tempi between any two points in a score.

Pitch Pipe:
* Plays any pitch from octave 0 to octave 8
* Reference pitch: A4 = 440Hz
* Adjustable per Hertz or per cent level
* Choice of note names: C D E … etc, Do Re Mi … etc.

Minimum Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod touch
* iPhone OS X 3.0 later
* 3.4 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Metron 2.0 is available at the iTunes App Store for $2.99 (USD) in the Music category.

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Atlantic Beach, Florida – Tom Piper of AppleJac Mac User Group says it’s “a gift to yourself that keeps on giving.” AppleJac Mac User Group president Tom Piper had some great things to say about TopXNotes in a recent review. He referred to the award-winning personal information manager’s many templates and samples as “responsive versatility,” and also lauded several of the program’s key features, including the many ways to create a new note, using drag and drop to move text from one note to another and its powerful auto-save feature.

TopXNotes is the premiere personal information manager for Macintosh computers. Macworld magazines 4 out of 5 stars is just one of the many positive reviews it has received. It is a Mac-only product that allows you to also sync your notes with any Classic iPod.

Tropical Software recently announced the release of TopXNotes 1.5, the latest update to its award-winning personal information manager for Macintosh. Version 1.5 includes many improvements, including an all new toolbar that puts the post frequently used tools at the user’s fingertips, making TopXNotes even easier to use.

The review went on to highlight the many improvements introduced in the recently released version 1.5, pointing out the new toolbar, icons, and QuickStart Guide, among other things. “If you are looking for a terrific tool to translate your dreams, inspirations, observations, considerations and proclamations into editable recorded treasures that can be shared with others and converted into actions, then TopXNotes should become a part of your everyday experience on the Mac,” said Piper.

Pricing and Availability:
TopXNotes retails for $39.95 (USD) and can be downloaded from the Tropical Software web site. A trial version is available.

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Tropical Software makes the award-winning TopXNotes, a modern personal note manager with state of the art proprietary encryption technology for the ultimate in securing personal information. Located in Gainesville, Florida, Tropical Software is owned and operated by former Apple employee James Lee, and is dedicated to improving the lives of its customers by offering easy to use productivity software for Macs, iPods, and iPhones. Copyright (C) 2010 Tropical Software. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.