News Archive for 09/04/10

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iPhone apps: Beauty, Smackarooni, Aim for the Brain!

04/10, 3:15pm

Master Golf, Postcards

Beauty ($2) is a face analysis tool that can determine how proportional and symmetric a face is. Facial symmetry is one of a number of aesthetic traits associated with health, physical attractiveness and beauty of a person. The application calculates the position and proportions of the mouth, eyes and nose and converts them into a value between 0 and 100.

Myst for iPhone nearing completion

04/10, 11:35am

Myst for iPhone soon

A version of Myst for the iPhone and iPod touch is almost finished, says developer Cyan Worlds. The game is a recreation of the 1993 original for the Mac, which helped to popularize QuickTime and the CD-ROM format. All features are said to be intact, including the original graphics, environments, music and sound effects.

Twittelator Pro 2.1 saves tweets for offline reading

04/10, 10:50am

Twittleator Pro 2.1 update

Stone Design has released an upgrade to Twittelator Pro, its higher-end Twitter client. The v2.1 update makes significant improvements, such as the inclusion of single-tap replies, as well as single-tap tweet and link shrinking. Users can also save any collection of tweets for later reading, with or without Internet access.