Monthly Archives: October 2008
ChromaticBytes releases ZeusDaw Mobile for iPhone/iPod Touch
New York, New York – Chromatic Bytes, LLC announces the release of ZeusDraw Mobile, a versatile drawing and painting program for the iPhone/iPod Touch. ZeusDraw Mobile is a professional drawing program for the iPhone/iPod Touch. It works for anything from doodling on a photo to serious drawing.
ZeusDraw Mobile features:
*Smoothed drawing – with many programs, if you move you finger quickly, your line turns into an unpleasant looking polygon. ZeusDraw Mobile’s freehand tool can turn these into nice smooth curves or smoothly drawn filled areas for you. (You can control the degree of smoothing or turn it off if you like.)
Vote Report helps poll the polls on Election Day
I love this idea — if there’s one thing our voting system here in the US could use, it’s a little more transparency, both in how the votes are counted and weighed, and in how the polling itself takes place. And now there’s an iPhone app aimed at making sure that on next month’s Election Day, we get exactly that.
Vote Report is currently submitted to the App Store — all you do is download the app, punch in your Twitter information (although the site says you don’t have to, but I’m not sure how it makes the report otherwise), and then when you’re done voting, you can fill out a quick form that will send information on how it went straight to Twitter itself (you can see all the reports collected on this page as well).
Of course, the Internet (including Twitter) will be awash with reports from polling places on November 4th, but if you’re bringing your iPhone along, this will be a quick and easy way to get the word out if something went right or wrong. And Vote Report has teamed up with Election Protection, so if something does go really wrong at the polls, they’ll hopefully be standing by to get the word out.
When Passion Meets High Tech
In a complete break from the usual iPhonegizmo topics, we are letting our readers know about a completely different type of freebie that we can use on our iPhones!
Here’s a site where passion and high tech come together to provide us with a great service.
Their passion? – promoting the production of sustainable food
SplashID for iPhone gets some update love
SplashData, Inc. has announced a major update to SplashID for iPhone and iPod touch. SplashID, which first shipped in July, is a secure information manager application that has been available on other handheld platforms for years.
Version 4.5 is up to 2 times faster for power users who have a number of records in their SplashID databases. Other enhancements include:
- Enhanced user interface with simplified navigation
- Improved search and look-up functions
- Landscape view
- Number pad login
- New browser window to make log-in to websites on the iPhone easier
- Updated Mac and PC desktop software
THQ’s Pass the Pigs in the App Store
Our friends at THQ have sent word that their latest iPhone game, Pass the Pigs, is in the App Store right now. You may have already played this one (and if you haven’t, there’s an online version to check out for free). Apparently you toss pigs in the air, and get points for however they land, like a strange porcine form of two card poker.
Can’t say it appeals much to me, but as a game to distract the kids while waiting somewhere with only an iPhone to entertain, it might do the trick. There’s even a “Pig’s Life” story mode, where you can earn extra disguises for your pigs, and hey, it might even be worth the $4.99 just to see how they tacked a story on to a game of throwing plastic pigs around.