a) Install and use one of the third-party Web browsers available on the App Store – replacing Safari entirely.
b) Use one of the less-than-stellar “bookmarklets” circa 2007 that feature no user interface for navigation among search results and suffer from a number of technical, as well as general usability issues.

Unsatisfied with these options and tired of waiting for Apple to add in-page search to mobile Safari, the developer of Find In Page simply created his own app to deliver this missing feature to iPhone and iPod touch users via the App Store. Find In Page app delivers its functionality in the form of a “bookmarklet” – the only way new features can be added directly to the mobile Safari browser. Once installed, accessing in-page search functionality is exactly 2 taps – same as the two clicks required for “Edit – Find” in traditional browsers.

In-page search is one of the most important productivity tools for doing serious research on the Web, as well as simply getting oriented in larger webpages. It significantly reduces the amount of time required to review search engine results: instead of scanning and reading each page for relevance, you can use in-page search to look for relevant keywords, saving time and frustration. Ability to search text, especially in long webpages is critical to mastery of online content. Now this vital productivity tool is available to iPhone users.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod touch 3.0 or later

Pricing and Availability:
Find In Page 1.0 is only $0.99 (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store.

Find In Page 1.0: http://findinpage.blogspot.com
Purchase and Download: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/find-in-page/id349889817?mt=8

Whatever your name is, whomever is calling, there’s a ringtone for that. Users can select from 20  voices including quality commercially licensed voices such as British Man or Woman. They can also use 100+ introductory sound effects as fun attention getters. With AutoRingtone, users simply type the name of a contact to create a talking ringtone. Ringtones Uncensored lets users type any message they want and have it turned into a talking ringtone!

No wonder 9,999 Ringtones Uncensored has become a bestselling Top 15 Social Networking app in its first week of availability. In fact, over 100,000 unique AutoRingtones have been created so far. And many are leveraging the “uncensored” feature. Why settle for built-in stock ringtones or even third-party ringtone collections when you can have each caller’s name, title, and a personal message spoken out loud! No more guessing who is calling or whose phone is ringing!

Users can submit funny ringtones to No Tie for a weekly contest for the funniest ringtone created using AutoRingtone or 9,999 Ringtones Uncensored. Prizes include iTunes giftcards, iPhone cases, chargers, headphones and earbuds!

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod touch 2.2.1 or later

Pricing and Availability:
Ringtones Uncensored and AutoRingtone PRO are both currently available at an introductory price of just $0.99! There are even free “lite’ versions of AutoRingtone so users can try before they buy. In addition to the iPhone .m4r ringtone format, ringtone sound files can be downloaded in .AIFF format, for use on other phones! No Tie Software has dozens of apps in the app store, but 100sounds is their most popular app. indeed, many of the 100′s of sound effects in 100sounds are included in AutoRingtone PRO and 9,999 Ringtones Uncensored.

No Tie Software: http://www.notiesoftware.com/
AutoRingtone TEXT-TO-SPEECH on iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=333264447&mt=8
9,999 Ringtones Uncensored on iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/9-999-ringtones-uncensored/id348701167?mt=8

These holidays, only iPhone and iPod touch users with fring can talk with and also see their family and friends on Skype or fring, from anywhere, for free, over Wi-Fi internet connection. This is the first video over internet service on the iPhone or iPod touch.

This video feature is embedded within the fring application that enables free voice calls from the iPhone and iPod Touch to other fring users, Skype and GTalk buddies as well as friends on regular phone lines via Skype-Out and hundreds of popular SIP services. fring users can live chat, update profiles, share files and talk with friends from several Instant Messaging services like MSN, AIM, GoogleTalk and Skype, in addition to interacting with popular online social networks like Twitter ,all from one integrated fring contact list.

Avi Shechter, Co-Founder & CEO of fring: “Leveraging excellent video capabilities on the iPhone and iPod touch together with our open internet and social environment, we’re bringing together families and friends these holidays, wherever they are…” Shechter continued, “We were the first to bring mobile voice over internet (VoIP) to mobile devices, the first to bring iPhone/ iPod touch users the choice to make free Internet calls, the first to enable cost-saving mobile twitter over internet, and now we’re proud to continue leading the field of  rich mobile-internet communication by bringing users the world’s first fring video calls over internet for the iPhone and iPod touch.”

The new fring version with video calls support is currently available to users with iPhone/ iPod touch OS 3.0 (only incoming video-stream available, due to the location of the camera) and selected  Nokia Symbian S60 devices (2-way video streaming is available) . In addition, fring supports thousands of handsets on multiple platforms including Symbian S60, Android, Windows Mobile, J2ME and Linux devices.

San Diego, California – Kabuki Vision has just released an update to their popular note-taking app NoteMaster for iPhone and iPod Touch. NoteMaster, already well-known for its ability to create great-looking notes that contain text, images, and headers, now extends its capabilities in version 2.3 by allowing for font selection and supporting hyperlinks.

NoteMaster makes it easy to create great-looking notes by inserting images, photos, and headers right inside the text. Fonts can be selected for each note for a customized look.

“The ability to insert images directly into your notes opens up a world of possibilities”, says Adam Shaw, founder of Kabuki Vision. “It is the key to making NoteMaster perfect for meetings, shopping, travel, journals, or just general note-taking.”

Other NoteMaster features include categories, password-protection, hyperlink detection, full-text search, e-mail, and syncing with Google Docs(TM). As the only notes app offering true syncing with the Google Docs(TM) service, NoteMaster makes it easy to sync your notes to the cloud, allowing one to read and edit them on the web.

System Requirements:
* Any iPhone or iPod Touch

Pricing and Availability
NoteMaster is $3.99 (USD) and is available exclusively through the App Store in the Productivity category. NoteMaster was recently featured by Apple in the “New and Noteworthy” section of the US iTunes app store, and is currently one of the top-selling note apps in the store.

NoteMaster 2.3: http://www.kabukivision.com
Purchase and Download: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/notemaster-notes-with-images-synced/id297921531?mt=8
Screenshot: http://www.kabukivision.com/screenshots/files/page6-1000-full.jpg
Screenshot: http://www.kabukivision.com/screenshots/files/page6-1001-full.jpg

And what a new year’s gift this is… the world’s first video calls over internet on the iPhone and iPod Touch!
fringsters with iPhones and iPod Touch (and selected Nokia devices as announced last week) can now see all their family and friends on fring and Skype this Holiday Season!

Right now iPhone and iPod touch users can receive and make fring and Skype video calls entirely over Internet connection (for free!) and see the person on the other end. When a front camera is placed on these, we’ll have two-way video calls available here too just as we do on all the supported Nokia devices.

Just download the new fring version now and see your family and friends on fring and Skype these holidays!

Your feedback and comments are welcome, as always.

Lost all your dreidels and want to play a quick game? There’s an app for that.

Need to know how many days you have left to buy Chanukah presents? There’s an app for that, too.

Chanukah-themed applications have been a presence in Apple’s iTunes App Store almost since its inception, and with the holiday beginning Dec. 11, a number of new applications have cropped up to help iPhone and iPod Touch users meld technology with the ancient holiday.

When Apple debuted the App Store in July 2008, it contained 500 applications (known as apps) that could be downloaded and installed on an iPhone or iPod Touch. Earlier this month, the company announced that it had just surpassed 100,000 apps and 2 billion downloads.

Jewish developers have pounced on the ability to bring a little Yiddishkeit to the handheld devices, and today there are dozens of Jewish-themed apps available at the store.

Some of them are obvious: Siddur, iTalmud, Hebrew Date. An app called Mikvah shows users the nearest mikvah and provides a checklist of pre-mikvah preparations. The Los Angeles–based Kabbalah Centre International sells the Dialing God app, featuring kabbalistic meditations and blessings.

Then there are the more offbeat apps. ParveOMeter counts down the waiting time between eating dairy and meat; iCharity allows one to deposit virtual coins into a virtual tzedakah box; and if you’re wondering whether mahi-mahi is OK to eat, download Kosher Fish.

And then there are the holiday-based apps: Megillas Esther for Purim, several Omer-counting apps and numerous Passover apps, including haggadahs and a game called Find the Matzah.

But when it comes to Jewish holidays, Chanukah has a clear monopoly on the App Store. From iDreidel to DaysTo Hanukkah to Mobile Menorah, there’s an app for everything you might need for the holiday — except maybe one that makes latkes.

“All the kids in my family are always grabbing at my iPhone, so I figured they should play a Jewish game,” said Jeff Howard, creator of a Chanukah-themed app called Super Dreidel.

Howard, a Los Angeles–based screenwriter who describes himself as an “enthusiastic nerd,” came up with the idea for Super Dreidel shortly after Chanukah last year. He joined forces with another tech-obsessed friend, Richard Barry, and the two hired a programmer in New Hampshire to write the program.

Super Dreidel provides unique variations on the ancient spin-and-win game. Players still spin a dreidel (or virtual dreidel, in this case), but now they can choose between playing “traditional,” “Vegas” or “turbo” style.

For example, in “Vegas,” to make the game go faster, every time a player rolls a shin (put one in), the value of shin increases by one. The ante also increases by one every round.

Users can also set a specific number of rounds or increase the bankroll. Super Dreidel allows for up to eight players.

“A friend of mine and I sat down at his kitchen table with a dreidel and we played and played and played,” Howard said. “The funny thing about the traditional version is that it almost never ends. When you’re playing the electronic version … there’s actually a winner instead of it going on forever.”

The other benefit to the virtual game is that it avoids many of the game’s pitfalls.

“The dreidel never falls off the table,” Howard said. “It never hits gelt and the kids shout, ‘That was no fair. I should respin.’ ”

The application took about three months to complete, and after passing Apple’s strict vetting process, it was released to the App Store earlier this month.

Super Dreidel retails in the App Store for 99 cents. Thirty percent of each purchase goes to Apple, so Howard isn’t expecting to get rich off the app.

“When you do something that’s mainly directed at the Jewish community [rather than at a vast audience], you figure you’re not going to sell millions and millions,” he said. “It was mainly just for fun and to do something Jewish for the iPhone.”

For complete article, visit: http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/40647/eight-nights-of-apps-iphone-programs-put-chanukah-in-the-palm-of-your-hand/

The link to Super Dreidel on the iTunes store is:
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=336392073&mt=8

The Super Dreidel app can also be accessed by visiting www.nobars.com

To qualify, iPhone users need to only download one of nFinity’s two apps from Apple’s iTunes App Store. One of them is a free app! The two apps are: QuickVoice Recorder (free version) and QuickVoice2Text Email nFinity’s PRO app which sells for 99-cents app. Both are App Store “Top Ten” iPhone apps with more than 1-million unique users.

The give-away recorder, QuickVoice pC for Mac or Windows (a USD $15 value), has garnered numerous software awards including MacWorld’s “Best Software Under $40.” QuickVoice pC is a feature rich voice recorder for laptop and desktop computers with its one click recording, voice email, voice reminders, and audio stickies. Additionally, both of nFinity’s iPhone apps can sync recordings to the QuickVoice desktop app making this setup a “one stop” audio recording solution for the iPhone and personal computer.

QuickVoice recorders are ideal for conveniently capturing voice notes, reminders, to do lists, dictation, even entire lectures and-or multi-session seminars. QuickVoice is equally suited for professional, student, or personal use alike.

For details about obtaining your copy of QuickVoice pC simply visit one of nFinity’s App Store product pages by searching the App Store for QuickVoice Recorder or QuickVoice2Text Email (or click on one of the links below). The promotion is scheduled from now until the end of the year or until the 25,000 reserved copies have been redeemed, whichever comes first.

Website Product Links

QuickVoice iP Website Product Page:  http://www.nfinityinc.com/quickvoiceip.html

QuickVoice PC Website Product Page:  http://www.nfinityinc.com/quickvoice/

App Store Product Links

QuickVoice Recorder:  http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id284675296?mt=8

QuickVoice2Text Email: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quickvoice2text-email-pro-recorder/id285877935?mt=8

Kiev, Ukraine – VolnaTech has just released latest NimbleKit SDK which allows to develop iPhone applications much quicker using just HTML and Javascript. No need to spend time learning how to use complicated tools, just start development from a template and immediately HTML file available for modification or to launch your app in simulator.

NimbleKit is really easy to use and has many useful features:
* Navigation Controllers: upper navigation bar and bottom tabs to allow automatic navigation between your pages
* Native fixed position controls like buttons with images, slider,  activity indicator, etc
* Full control of application appearance including changing main status bar  and style of navigation controllers
* Playing streamed and bundled audio has never been easier, to play streamed or bundled audio you need just 2 lines of code
* Vibration support
* Map Kit support
* In-App purchases
* Address Book support with ability to search for contacts
* Access to bundled files so it’s possible to read any amount of data for pages from any location in the file
* Internet availability to know if we can reach internet via wifi or cellular network
* Settings to allow your application save application specific information
* Overall stability was greatly improved

What is very important for every application developer is documentation, that’s why every function or class in NimbleKit is well documented and for most of them sample code available.

Requirements:
* Mac OS X Version 10.5.5 or higher
* iPhone SDK 3.0 or higher

Pricing and Availability:
NimbleKit SDK is available for only $99.00 (USD). Trial version is full featured but apps created unregistered can run only on iPhone simulator (part of iPhone SDK).

NimbleKit SDK: http://nimblekit.com
Download NimbleKit: http://nimblekit.com/nimblekit.dmg
Purchase NimbleKit: https://usd.swreg.org/cgi-bin/s.cgi?s=107825&p=107825-1&v=0&d=0&q=1
Screenshot: http://www.nimblekit.com/vdj_screenshot.jpg

Wilmington, Delaware – Consumers now have a new mobile tool to save time and money while holiday shopping this Black Friday. TGI Black Friday has just released a Black Friday iPhone App to help plan holiday shopping wisely. The app allows users to browse over 8,000 deals from all the major retail store’s Black Friday ads.

Users can create a personal shopping list within the app to map out their Black Friday shopping. They can also use the app to compare prices with online stores and purchase select items online avoiding the crowds. PC Magazine named TGI Black Friday one of the top 3 online Black Friday resources. The TGI Black Friday iPhone app available for download in the Apple iPhone App store immediately.

iPhone App Features:
* View Black Friday ads for all major retail stores
* Search thousands of Black Friday deals across stores and categories
* Create a personal shopping list to check off items as you purchase them on Black Friday
* Email your shopping list or individual deals to yourself or others
* Get exclusive online deals and coupons
* Compare prices for items to confirm you are getting the best deal on Black Friday
* Shop online for items that may be available before Black Friday

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod touch 3.1 or later

Pricing and Availability:
TGI Black Friday app for iPhone and iPod touch is completely free and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the News category.

TGI Black Friday: http://tgiblackfriday.com
Download TGI Black Friday: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tgi-black-friday/id335329737?mt=8
Screenshot: http://ww1.prweb.com/prfiles/2009/11/19/2463354/gI_0_blackfriday.jpg