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Independent developer Buddy Bergman today releases The Language Buddy 1.0, his new app for iPhone and iPod touch. The Language Buddy provides a simple interface to enter in a word or short phrase in your native language along with a Romanized "sounds like" spelling for another language. You can also assign photos and audio clips. The Language Buddy provides an easy way to manage new words and phrases as you make your travels to far off or local lands.

California based Touchoo today announces Thumbelina 1.0, their latest interactive picture-book for iOS devices. Thumbelina offers a fun and immersive reading experience for parents and children. This classic Andersen fairytale tells the tale of a tiny flower girl, who goes through many adventures and eventually reaches her "happily ever after." Thumbelina sports a fresh design, age-appropriate interactivity and rhyming text. The story makes the readers an important part of the adventure.

San Francisco Bay Area based software company Redbot Software Inc, today announces AppMockup: Design Layout Mockup Maker for iPhone and iPod touch. AppMockUp lets the user layout each screen of a new app idea. Then user can virtually run the idea as if it were a completed app, and without any programming knowledge. The mockups can be used to test a variety of designs for a single idea, or use it to show clients or a programming team. AppMockup is now on sale at a dramatically reduced price.

Australian company Lovatts Interactive today announces GO! Word Power 1.0.1, a language-based Trivia Game for the iPhone, iPod, and iPad. Created as a fun and innovative learning tool, GO! Word Power combines exciting and addictive game play with educational content to expand the user's daily lexicon. With over three thousand language-based quiz questions, this exciting new game also includes interactive challenges, detailed game results and a correct answer display.

Australian company Lovatts Interactive today announces GO! Word Power 1.0.1, a language-based Trivia Game for the iPhone, iPod, and iPad. Created as a fun and innovative learning tool, GO! Word Power combines exciting and addictive game play with educational content to expand the user's daily lexicon. With over three thousand language-based quiz questions, this exciting new game also includes interactive challenges, detailed game results and a correct answer display.

Benoit Maison introduces Barcode Shell and pic2shop PRO for iPhone and Android, offering a technically superior catalog of barcode related apps and tools for developers. Businesses and Developers alike can build barcode-enabled apps by configuring their own web application and using pic2shop PRO. With Barcode Shell, developers can deploy a barcode scanning feature under their own company brand with immediate presence in the iTunes App Store and Android Market.

Benoit Maison introduces Barcode Shell and pic2shop PRO for iPhone and Android, offering a technically superior catalog of barcode related apps and tools for developers. Businesses and Developers alike can build barcode-enabled apps by configuring their own web application and using pic2shop PRO. With Barcode Shell, developers can deploy a barcode scanning feature under their own company brand with immediate presence in the iTunes App Store and Android Market.

UK based FIPLAB Ltd announced today that its London Cycle: Maps & Routes application has surpassed 80,000 user downloads in less than 4 weeks since its launch on the iTunes AppStore. The application is not just being used by cycle hire members, but also regular cyclists who are using the app due to the cycle-safe routes it provides. The routes allow cyclists to avoid busy roads and minimises the number of right-hand turns required to reach a destination.

Raleigh-based NimbleHost today announces Codafy 1.0, the first plugin for RapidWeaver to add native "Firebug" functionality to the popular Mac OS X website design application. The free Codafy RapidWeaver plugin enables web designers to easily see how the underlying HTML, CSS, and Javascript code of their website relates to the actual design, improving workflow and reducing development time.

Chicago-based Renkara Media Group today announced iComedian Best Bar Jokes v1.0 for the iPhone and iPod touch. Best Bar Jokes with Audio is the first in the iComedian series of joke collections with professionally recorded audio presentations of each joke. When appropriate, joke-specific background music and laugh tracks are included also to provide a more immersive comedy club-like experience. Only the funniest jokes are included in each collection.

Big Mouse Media announced that after only two days in the iTunes Store, Plates!, their popular explosive food-tapping game for iPhone and iPod touch, was added to the 'Hot New Games' list by Apple. Plates! is a fast-paced game of kitchen mayhem in which plates of food zoom by on conveyor belts, while the player tries to quickly add the right sauce to each food. Big Mouse Media will release a major update to the title with new gameplay modes, achievements, sound and music options, and more.

New software start-up, Rock Soft today introduces Show Time 1.0, the Modern Alarm Clock app for iPhone and iPod touch. With 58 clock themes and variations, Show Time has the all the features you'd want and does it with style. Great looks and brains too with feature rich alarm settings allowing you wake up to your own playlist or 8 high quality built-in alarms. Show Time also has 25 built-in Ambient Noise sounds to fall asleep to or choose your favorite playlist.

Games developer and publisher Playrix Entertainment will make Fishdom, its first internal iPad port, available to the public via App Store by mid-September. In Fishdom HD, players earn cash by progressing through match-3 boards and solving puzzles to earn virtual cash. They can then use it to purchase exotic fish, ornaments and plants to create an aquarium of their own design. Company also announces plans to bring more of its downloadable hit games to iPad by the end of the year 2010.

In an unexpected move, the judging panel of the 2010 MOBI Awards have selected an app focused PR and Marketing agency, Appency, as one of three finalists for best mobile agency of the year, giving credibility to the expanding world of apps and their role in the mobile ecosystem. Appency was founded by mobile industry executives Aaron Watkins and Liz Jones who bring a combined total of more than 20 years of mobile industry experience.

Hairy Monster Studios today released Save Betsy 1.0, their latest game for iPhone and iPod touch. Save Betsy is best described as Doodle Jump for meat lovers. The game challenges players to help Betsy the cow escape from the Vegan Meat Co. by jumping up on stationary, moving and breakable platforms that become harder and harder to navigate as the player gets higher. Save Betsy has built in Facebook integration so you can brag about your scores along with local and global leader boards.

Ontario based XtraLean Software today announces DataLore 1.1, the latest update to its file searching tool for Mac OS X. DataLore is a unique front end to Spotlight that makes it easier and faster to search and share files both locally on one's own computer, as well as on other Macs on the same network. Version 1.1 adds over a dozen new enhancements to the user interface that simplify browsing the contents of a Mac and improves the speed of searching for files both locally and on the network.

Red Giant Software will host free Final Cut Pro SuperMeet workshops as part of the Third Annual Amsterdam FCPUG SuperMeet, to be held on Sunday, 12 September at the Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky, in the heart of Amsterdam in Dam Square. The training will consist of three separate identical sessions to take place during the day prior to the SuperMeet, which will be the largest gathering of Final Cut Pro, Avid and Adobe editors, DSLR filmmakers, digital media makers and Gurus during IBC2010.

Independent developer, Scott Gruber, today released ShapeEffects Lite 1.0, a free version of their composite drawing app for iPad devices. ShapeEffects Lite offers a very different and exciting way in creating composite works of art from a list of 13 pre-defined shapes and a large variety of colors. You also have control over the translucency of the shapes fill color and border color, independently. When done, you can take a snapshot of your masterpiece that will put your art in the Photos app.

California based idealSky Software, LLC today releases PaperFinance 2.0, an update to the company's flagship money-tracking app for iPhone and iPod touch. PaperFinance is a full-featured, yet easy-to-use personal finance app that skips boring tapfests in favor of fun swiping. Version 2.0 adds six brand new features, an interface makeover, and more than 30 total changes. A new Budgeting screen enables users to set spending limits. Account transfers are now supported natively, and much more.

The Kids Book Review App is still free as a promotion with Amulet Books for the Diary of a Wimpy Kid Truck Tour, ending Saturday August 28, 2010. Kids Book Review App has more than one thousand Children's, Tweens and YA book, and adds new reviews every week. With the release of Suzanne Collin's highly anticipated final book in the Hunger Games trilogy, she is doing a three-month, twelve-city tour to promote Mockingjay, meet fans, and sign books.