iPhoneTunes has selected some new and noteworthy utility apps for the iPhone, from the App Store.

• Sound Blaster from askone, 3,99€ / $4.99.
• URL Shortener from Binary Implosion, 0,79€ / $0.99.
• Cryptocus encode and decode your Email / SMS fast and easy, from Thomas Schober, 2.99€ / $3.99.
• is-phone for iPhone from iscoord, 3,99€ / $4.99.
• WiFiCam from Ahrina, 0,79€ / $0.99.

Sound Blaster

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New York, Tony Karakashian // Dec 27, 2009

As has been mentioned in other articles, I like to read on my iPhone. Unlike the general populace, I actually prefer reading in a digital format if for no other reason than it means I can have multiple items ready and available at any given time.  To do the same with paper books, I’d have to drag a shopping cart behind me.  So, when Good.iWare came to us and asked us to review some of their offerings, I scooped up GoodReader for myself.

GoodReader is often found referred to as simply a PDF reader, but the fact is it can view so many different file types that I can’t imagine a need for much else.  Not only does it do PDFs, but also TXT files. Using the built-in iPhone rendering engine, you can use one tool to view Word, Excel & Powerpoint files.  And that’s just the non multimedia stuff.  You can also use it to listen to MP3s or watch videos!

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Brussels, Robin Bollen // Dec 25, 2009

Santa brought me some really cool stuff this year, an aftershave from Polo and the NAVIGON Car Kit. I must have been a nice boy this year, ahum… Especially the latter I was looking forward to since quite some time. Before, I always placed the iPhone in the Radio display console of my car, when I was navigating with the iPhone. Although this worked quite cool and I had some fair GPS satellite reception, it was about time for some improvement.

I requested the Car Kit from Navigon but they had better things to do then to reply to our email apparently. TomTom Iberia was so nice to send us a Car Kit for testing purposes like you have read in Dani’s review before for sure. That’s why I asked Santa to bring me the NAVIGON Design Car Kit this year.

[Update: NAVIGON Iberia has contacted us, with the promise to supply us with future review models.]

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NDrive announces that the NRadar safety camera warnings app is now available in the iPhone App Store in UK, France, Italy, Poland, and Iberia. NRadar is a free application developed using NDrive’s state of the art technology. NDrive has a history of experience developing full feature turn by turn GPS applications. With NRadar, NDrive leveraged that experience to create a functional, and free solution for people needing safety camera alerts.

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Translation and interpretation are professions in which there is much professional encroachment, people without proper training jump into the market without any shame. As if this wasn’t enough, this group has a new competitor, an iPhone application called Jibbigo.

On Jibbigo’s website you can read that the app acts “much like a personal human interpreter would”. In this review, we will check if it’s true.

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December 2009, Modena, Italy – IK Multimedia is proud to announce the release of the first artist created GrooveMaker® app for iPhone/iPod Touch: GrooveMaker Rock Ace by Skunk Anansie’s guitarist Ace. This is the latest addition to the hugely successful Groove-Maker range of 9 currently available titles. GrooveMaker Rock Ace is designed for non-stop, in your face, rocking -Grab a tasty guitar riff, throw in some massive rock beats, then add a bone crushing bass line! Anyone can now create and share non-stop metal and rock tracks for DJing, remixing, multimedia and movie soundtrack compositions on the go, in real-time, just like a professional DJ or rock producer. Skunk Anansie are back and this is your chance to groove like a rock star!

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Brussels, Robin Bollen // Dec 22, 2009

GPS Manufacturer Magellan has emailed its newsletter subscribers that from today on you can re-order their iPhone Car Kit. Something noteworthy is the compatibility with the iPod Touch 2nd generation because the “iTouch” doesn’t have a GPS receiver chip.

The Kit supports the Magellan Road Mate 2010 GPS application and also the other GPS apps. We reviewed the first edition of Road Mate 2010 here, but note that in the mean time version 1.1 is available since yesterday, with a lot of improvements and some new features.

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iPhoneTunes has selected some new and noteworthy photo apps for the iPhone from the App Store.

• iReflection from Hidayat Ullah, 0,79€ / $0.99.
• iVideoCamera - Record Video on any phone from Laan Labs, 0,79€ / $0.99.
• TrueHDR from Pictional, 1,59€ / $1.99.
• Camcorder (for iPhone 3G and 2G) from KendiTech, 0,79€.

iReflection

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iPhoneTunes has selected some hot games recently published in the App Store.

• Mission: Deep Sea from Chillingo, 2,39€ / $2.99.
• Ridge Racer Accelerated from Namco, 2,39€ / $2.99.
• HOUSE M.D. – The Game from Hands-on Mobile, $2.99.
• Driver from Gameloft, 5,49€ / $6.99.

Mission: Deep Sea

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A few days ago, we have published the un-boxing and presentation of the TomTom car kit. We also tested the compatibility of the car kit with the first generation iPhone models; iPhone (1G/2G/EDGE) and the GPS navigation application TomTom Western Europe 1.1. Now, it’s time to publish the road test results with a combination of 2G, 3G and 3GS iPhones.

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