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iDev Taxis is a small utility application containing a directory of Taxi companies in Santiago, Chile. Grouped by commune, you can browse and see details for the Taxi companies with the option to add them to your system address book. It is also possible to search a given number of services close to a physical location (address) in a proximity radius.

Sidenote: At the time of posting this program has been marked as beeing freely available without any costs. As this program is hosted with the AppStore the status might change. Authors like to publish their programs for free and / or for promotion purpose and then start charging.

http://appshopper.com/utilities/idev-taxis

Context Logger is an application helping researchers/iphone developers and interested users to record and interpret accelerometer data. During the recording of gestures or movements one can label the records so that it’s easy to distinguish the different parts of a signal at a later point. The user can create up to six different labels for each recording. Additionally there’s a live view that allows the user to watch the data on a real-time graph. The application also offers an integrated web server for uploading the records to any computer that’s connected to the same network as the iPhone/iPod touch. For users without any experience in the field of signal recording and signal analysis there is also a ‘Getting Started’ guide which might be helpful.

Sidenote: At the time of posting this program has been marked as beeing freely available without any costs. As this program is hosted with the AppStore the status might change. Authors like to publish their programs for free and / or for promotion purpose and then start charging.

http://appshopper.com/utilities/context-logger

ChkWebSpeed is FREE utility that reports the real download speed of any website’s page on your Mobile device over any wireless (WiFi or Cellular) network.

Sidenote: At the time of posting this program has been marked as beeing freely available without any costs. As this program is hosted with the AppStore the status might change. Authors like to publish their programs for free and / or for promotion purpose and then start charging.

http://appshopper.com/utilities/chkwebspeed

Think you know our world? Show off and brush up on your geographical skills with World Quiz.

World Quiz asks you to locate world cities on the map, and your score depends on how close your guess is.

World Quiz uses beautiful Earth satellite imagery from NASA, so it’s not only fun to play, it also looks stunning!

Sidenote: At the time of posting this program has been marked as beeing freely available without any costs. As this program is hosted with the AppStore the status might change. Authors like to publish their programs for free and / or for promotion purpose and then start charging.

http://appshopper.com/education/world-quiz

TickTock is an easy to play casual game. Can you defeat the computer AI? It will take some skill and a little luck to knock the AI balls from the maze of levers before it can do the same to you.

Sidenote: At the time of posting this program has been marked as beeing freely available without any costs. As this program is hosted with the AppStore the status might change. Authors like to publish their programs for free and / or for promotion purpose and then start charging.

http://appshopper.com/games/ticktock

As a Christmas present from the TouchBooksReader team, you can now download the ebook “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (1922, short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald) for FREE on your iPhone / iPod touch.

Sidenote: At the time of posting this program has been marked as beeing freely available without any costs. As this program is hosted with the AppStore the status might change. Authors like to publish their programs for free and / or for promotion purpose and then start charging.

http://appshopper.com/books/free-ebook-the-curious-case-of-benjamin-button

MDXspREF is a simple tool for looking up established reference conductance numbers for many battery types commonly used in stationary DC power applications.

Values presented are typical averages to be used as general guidelines only; Midtronics encourages customers to establish their own relevant testing values.

These values are subject to change through Midtronics and battery manufacturer refinement.

Generally, a sample of 30 new or healthy batteries was tested to obtain a value representative of a new battery on-line after 90 days from installation.

The reference numbers presented should only be used with a Midtronics Celltron-series battery analyzer.

Sidenote: At the time of posting this program has been marked as beeing freely available without any costs. As this program is hosted with the AppStore the status might change. Authors like to publish their programs for free and / or for promotion purpose and then start charging.

http://appshopper.com/reference/mdxspref

atari2600land has posted an update of his Atari 2600 homebrew game “Jack and the Beanstalk” which is based upon a fairy tale with the same name.

Release notes:

I’ve reduced the number of birds from 3 to 1. Apparently, the NUSIZ0=$03 was making the birds start more towards the right of the screen. If i set it to NUSIZ0=$00, there’s only one bird, and he starts more towards the left. Also, when you get hit, the bird is supposed to find a new y position to start from, I don’t know why you were having that problem.

Keep reporting stuff you find wrong/improvements, I want this game to be as good as possible.

http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=118991&st=100

Jomtris is a “tetris” style of casual game. You handle and remove dropping 4-tile pieces as long as possible and that’s it. One game session should take max 5-10 minutes.

The playing field is vertical 10×20 square field, there are different 4-tile pieces dropping down from top and you have to fit them nicely at the bottom. All full rows are removed, to give you some more space to arrange tiles.

Changes: