Do you love solving puzzles with jumbled words but bored with traditional games? Then Word Spotter is for you. Word Spotter adds a new twist to the old tradition: it is about how fast can you match a word and not about your word power. It’s a fun game of visual recognition and not a vocabulary test.

Being true to its root, Word Spotter starts with a set of jumbled letters. But you don’t have to find the word on your own. In Word Spotter, you will get four choices to pick from. All of them are proper words but only one of them is made up of exactly those letters and other three will differ by at least one letter. All you have to do is to spot the right word. You don’t even have to know the word. Yes it’s that easy!

The question is how fast can you spot the word? Can you do it in 30 sec? How about 5? So take up the challenge and find out how good and fast you are at spotting words. Give your brain some workout. In the process may be you will learn a new word or two. But no matter what, you will have fun!

This game is free for a limited time only!

http://appshopper.com/games/word-spotter

A different approach to destination guides. Travelbrief looks as luxurious as it feels. Beautifully designed for browsing like a luxury magazine, the Moscow edition gives you the inside track on the best places to Eat, Drink, Stay and Play in the city. The Perfect Weekend will guide you through a decadent couple of days (if you need some more inspiration) and the Useful Information gives you the local knowledge to guide you through it.

Flick through the pages, zoom into listings, call, link to web and email, call up maps, and share it with your friends, register for news and updates, travelbrief does the work so you can have the fun! All text and image content is embedded in the application so you can view it offline, in your own time. The only time you need an internet connection is to link to web or Google Maps. (Telephone links do not work with iPod Touch, of course.)

http://appshopper.com/travel/moscow

Citi Mobile is an easy-to-use mobile banking service that lets Citibank customers bank on the go. To get started, download Citi Mobile to your iPhone then enroll at CitibankOnline.com.

http://appshopper.com/finance/citi-mobile-sm

Use this speedy application to search for your next home using your iPhone or iPod Touch. A touch or two on your screen creates a custom search of nearby homes for sale or rent. See detailed lists or search by maps, and quickly refine your search by price, property type, features and more.

http://appshopper.com/lifestyle/homescom-real-estate-search

Have you ever wondered how many seconds you are old? When you will become a million hours old? On what day your mom or your dad were or will be twice as old than you? On what day you and your girl- or boyfriend can celebrate your 100th birthday together? How to explain the mysteries of life to a grand piano? No? Then do not bother with this software, it will just annoy you.

http://appshopper.com/entertainment/waist-of-time

Zig Zig Zaa is an exclusive application that aims to contribute with the healthy development of children. It has two games: Memory Game and Shadows Game that explore pedagogical concepts as motor coordination, image association skills and creativity.

http://appshopper.com/entertainment/zig-zig-zaa

Gross out your friends with “Crack Attack”, the latest app that allows you to prank your friends! With realistic bone cracking and popping sounds, make anyone around you uncomfortable as you adjust your neck or crack your knuckles.

With an easy to control interface and multiple sounds, you are sure to get hours of enjoyment and laughs with your friends. Crack Attack is a must for anyone with a sense of humor.

http://appshopper.com/entertainment/crack-attack

ScummVM is a program which allows you to run certain classic graphical point-and-click adventure games, provided you already have their data files. The clever part about this: ScummVM just replaces the executables shipped with the games, allowing you to play them on systems for which they were never designed!

Some of the adventures ScummVM supports include Adventure Soft’s Simon the Sorcerer 1 and 2; Revolution’s Beneath A Steel Sky, Broken Sword 1 and Broken Sword 2; Flight of the Amazon Queen; Wyrmkeep’s Inherit the Earth; Coktel Vision’s Gobliiins; Westwood Studios’ The Legend of Kyrandia and games based on LucasArts’ SCUMM (Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion) system such as Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Sam and Max and more. You can find a thorough list with details on which games are supported and how well on the compatibility page. ScummVM is continually improving, so check back often.

Release notes:

As we turned to a 6 months release cycle, here is our newest and best ScummVM version for you!

A couple of new engines were added, and besides 2 Humongous Entertainment titles, we now support The 7th Guest and Bud Tucker in Double Trouble.

Among other notable things there is a completely new vector-based GUI, which is a merged work of our last year GSoC student Vicent Marti, as well as a General Main Menu which adds a common save/load interface to most of our engines, adding the much awaited Return to Launcher feature along the way. It was the work of another successful student, Chris Page.

A complete list of new games and features can be found in the release notes, and the latest ScummVM version itself (available for a large number of platforms as usual) is located at the downloads page.

Let’s play!

Changes:

New Games:
– Added support for The Legend of Kyrandia: Book Two: Hand of Fate.
– Added support for The Legend of Kyrandia: Book Three: Malcolm’s Revenge.
– Added support for Lost in Time.
– Added support for The Bizarre Adventures of Woodruff and the Schnibble.
– Added support for the PC version of Waxworks.
– Added support for the Macintosh version of I Have no Mouth, and I must Scream.
– Added support for Drascula: The Vampire Strikes Back.

General:
– Added CAMD MIDI driver for AmigaOS4.
– Revived the PS2 port (was already in 0.11.1 but was forgotten in the release notes).
– Plugged numerous memory leaks in all engines (part of GSoC’08 task),
– Added audio double buffering to the SDL backend, which fixes the problems with the MT-32 emulator on Mac OS X (for now only enabled on Mac OS X).

AGOS:
– Fixed crashes during certain music in Amiga versions of Elvira 1 and Simon the Sorcerer 1.
– Fixed palette issues in Amiga versions of Simon the Sorcerer 1.

Queen:
– Speech is played at the correct sample rate. (It used to be pitched a bit too low.)

SCUMM:
– Rewrote parts of Digital iMUSE, fixing some bugs.
– Rewrote the internal timer code, fixing some speed issues in e.g. COMI.
– Improved support for sound effects in Amiga version of Zak McKracken.
– Added support for mixed Adlib/MIDI mode in Monkey Island 1 (Floppy).

http://scummvm.sourceforge.net/downloads.php

Daum maps is a local information service based on Korea Map for the iPhone and iPod touch and it’s free.

http://appshopper.com/navigation/daum-maps

Ever been out and about and wished you knew where the closet park was to let your kids run wild for a while? Well now you can find them with Parks. Parks will find the closest parks to your current location with a simple tap. Upon opening the application, your iPhone will ask for your permission to obtain your current location via GPS. Once it’s located you, Parks will locate the closest parks to that location. Never be without knowing where your closest park is again!

http://appshopper.com/lifestyle/find-parks