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

Happy Weight is a free application that suggest your ideal weight using your height, current weight and gender to help determine a healthy happy weight range for you.

You can also calculate your BMI (Body Mass Index). Your happy weight can be calculated in Pounds or in Kilograms.

http://appshopper.com/healthcare-fitness/happy-weight

With 2tch you can navigate smoothly on this very famous Japanese BBS.

http://appshopper.com/entertainment/2tch

GPSchat allows you to find and make connections with people around you.

It uses built-in GPS to track the distance between you and other GPSChat users. With no restrictions on the times you can change your user name, you can remain truly/completely anonymous inside your GPSChat community.

http://appshopper.com/social-networking/gps-chat

MeeHive is a FREE, personalized way to stay in-the-know about breaking stories, hot gossip, and updates from your favorite news sites and blogs. Your news, your way.

http://appshopper.com/news/meehive

Text OS is a small application designed to be of quick use to developers. The purpose of Text OS is to get developers to test their games faster on the DS Hardware.Text OS provide support to boot only Homebrew apps. It will also boot what ever is in slot-2 of the device.There is a R4 ready version in the “R4_ready” folder. This replaces the R4 interface.All you have to do is delete the old R4 files, backing them up of course and placeing the files from the folder on the root of your card.

Thanks to http://www.nintendomax.com for the news.

http://forum.palib.info/index.php?topic=6813

retrohead has updated “Take the eggs! Ornithorhynchus Anatinus GO GO GO! DS.”

This is a port of the Sega Saturn game by NAXAT SOFT called Motteke Tamago with Ganbare! Kamonohashi. The game can be seen as a cross between the classic Bomberman games and Flicky.

Changes:

Vehicle speed on world 2 increased to be closer to the original game.
Time stop active time decreased to be closer to the original game.
Ghost / Death Messenger can now hit eggs and loose babies.
Added 5 new stages.
Added 4 new characters.
Score sprites positioning improved.
Added Hi-Score menu and awards for story mode.
Story sections incorperated.
2 hidden modes available for ranking high in story mode.
Options screen with sound level options added.
Save game support added to keep your Hi-Scores and unlocked modes etc.
Beat characters in story mode to unlock them in versus mode.
Play worlds in story mode to unlock them in versus mode.
Various bugs fixed.

Thanks to http://www.nintendomax.com and http://www.ds-scene.net for the news.

http://files-ds-scene.net/take_the_eggs/?

Would you like to play with a virtual shot gun for free without wanting to risk hurting someone? Well now you can pretend to be in the army, pretend to hunt, or just have fun with Shotgun. When you jerk the phone towards you or any direction, it cocks the pump and when you tap the screen it shoots. With the Shotgun you could even have a fun pretend war with your friends.

http://appshopper.com/entertainment/shotgun-2

The infamous UNIX fortune cookie program. Over 17,000 fortunes. Configure which fortune files to use in iPhone settings.

http://appshopper.com/entertainment/unix-fortune

We’ve all heard the sickening sound of bones breaking, now you can make them splinter and crack before your very eyes. Whether you find this app disturbing, calming or a little of both, we think you’ll agree there is something oddly addictive about breaking bones.

Tap on different areas of the hand to watch the bones break and shake the phone to heal. XRay Crack-Up is sure to make you do just that!

http://appshopper.com/entertainment/xray-crack-up