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Weekly App Store Roundup: Nov. 15, 2008
This week we’ve covered a multitude of methods for relaxing and socializing: Apple squeezed a new ultra-cheap “Movies of the Week” section in to iTunes; Google announced an update to Talk, now incorporating video chat; and we reviewed Event Box, a powerful tool that rolls all your social networks in to one neat application.

So in keeping with the spirit of chilling, we’ve done all the hard work for you and hand-picked a few bright young additions to the App Store this week. Light some incense, breath deeply and let our wave of recommendations gently wash over you.

This week we’re looking at Yoga Stretch Lite, Sniff_Jazzbox, and Live Poker.
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Armado: 3D Platforming Comes to the iPhone

Gaming on the iPhone and iPod touch comes in many forms, but a lot of genres still lack representation on the mobile platform. Cross one more off that list as Tricky Software, Inc. introduces Armado, a 3D platformer for Apple’s handheld devices.

Tricky Software is a new development studio staffed by former EA employees, including devs who worked on games like the Tiger Woods series, Godfather, and Spore Origins for the iPhone/iPod touch. Armado is their first release developed and published under the Tricky Software banner, so there’s a lot riding on the success of the game for the fledgling company.

Spore Origins is one of the most lauded games on the iPhone/iPod touch platform, so I had high hopes for Armado. What made Spore so successful was its intuitive controls, which showed that it was obviously designed specifically for the accelerometer-sporting device, instead of merely shoehorned to fit as an afterthought. Could Armado live up to its predecessor in this regard?
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I Want MobileMe, Enterprise Edition

I have been using MobileMe, and its previous incarnation DotMac, for just over two years. Everyone has talked about the great features it has as well as some of the near-misses. However, I haven’t seen anyone point out a major flaw in MobileMe — how it does not compare to Enterprise class offerings.

With MobileMe, we can sync our calendars, contacts and email. We have a version of “push” which really only provides instantaneous email, not calendars or contacts. Even Apple has gone on record to state what is “push” and what is not. A colleague here on TAB also wrote about what we should have expected for push when MobileMe was released, as compared to what we received.
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Keep Track of Your Vehicle With Gas Cubby

A couple weeks back, Weldon posted a great round up of iPhone Apps for your car. In it, he covered Car Care and AccuFuel, which handle car maintenance and fuel efficiency tracking, respectively. Well this week brings us Gas Cubby from the folks at App Cubby (who I’ve talked about previously), which handles both of these tasks.

The main functions of Gas Cubby are to track your fuel efficiency and maintenance work on your automobile. Due to the nature of this sort of program, it can take a while to actually get a feel for its use, but luckily a quick export from my AccuFuel application (R.I.P.) and I was busy putting the past couple of months’ worth of fuel history into Gas Cubby. Then the recent tire purchase, oil change, and some other random service records later and I had a good baseline with which to analyze this new application.
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Google Search Will Hear You, If You Have an iPhone
Expectations are mounting that a Google iPhone app will drop later today, bringing with it a minor revolution in how we conduct web searches. While it’s unclear whether this will be a new app or an update to the exiting Google iPhone application, it will support voice searching, allowing you to speak what you want to find into the iPhone’s microphone.

The source of the information is New York Times’ tech reporter John Markoff, who posts images of Google employees Vic Gundotra and Gummi Hafsteinsson posing with and using an iPhone running the new application. Users of the new app will be able to speak search terms, ask for directions using Google Local search, ask for restaurant recommendations based on reviews and proximity, and potentially do much more in future versions. Simple Google search functions like mathematical calculations are likely candidates for future implementations.
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Safari 3.2 Adds Anti-Phishing and Other Security Enhancements
Yesterday, Apple released Safari 3.2 for both Windows and Mac (Tiger and Leopard). As usual, Apple’s normal update announcements are a little short on details.

This update is recommended for all Safari users and features protection from fraudulent phishing websites and better identification of online businesses. This update also includes the latest security updates. For detailed information on the security content of this update, please visit this site: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222

The KnowledgeBase article about the security content of the update takes you to Apple’s main security page, which links to the Safari 3.2 security fixes. Most of the fixes are about arbitrary code execution but some are more subtle fixes to make sure that web pages don’t have access to local files.

The anti-phishing updates are two-fold. If you visit a malicious web site, Safari will warn you with the following dialog box:

Clicking on the “Learn more about phishing scams” link takes you to a web page that explains Strange Behavior and Malicious Software: Phishing attacks. Interestingly enough, this explanation is on Google.com rather than on Apple’s web site. I assume this means that Apple is using Google’s list of sites that they have identified as potentially dangerous, like you might see on some search results.
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