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TOUCHOTEL, the most innovative iPhone application for hotel reservation, today announced the launch of its version 2.0.

Building on TOUCHOTEL‘s early success in the mobile online travel sector, the new app adds a powerful search tool and includes several usability enhancements, together with an even faster search performance.

New features and upgrades of the TOUCHOTEL 2.0 iPhone app include:

• Hotels sorting by price, popularity, star rating, customer reviews
• Filters to better select type of properties and star rating
• Search by address, zone, area code, hotel or chain name
• Based on iPhone GPS technology to locate users and find hotels around them

Accomplished mobile application creator, SpinThought announced today it would be one of the first companies to offer their app (StoryPages 2) on the iPad. Programmed by iPad Developer Zco Corporation, StoryPages 2 helps iPhone and iPad users to create illustrated stories on the go.

The StoryPages 2 application allows users to create illustrated storyboard-style pages using photos, drawings, and text. Projects can include comics, children’s books, architecture, landscape design, help manuals and any project where words are enhanced with illustration. Through its unique and easy to use interface, the application rapidly lays out drawings and associated text, including anything needed to describe a photo or drawing.

Your custom StoryPages can then be delivered via email as a PDF, exported to the Photo gallery and sent via MMS, or imported to your desktop as PNG files. StoryPages 2 is currently available for the iPhone & iPod in the iTunes App Store for $2.99.

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iFear, the all-about-phobias iPhone application was launched last July and since then has attracted the interest and curiosity of a large number of iPhone and iPod touch users. In order to encourage even more people to experience this really singular app, it is now offered at a special price: only 0.99 USD or 0.79 EUR for lots of unusual content, not available elsewhere. Just go on the App Store and purchase it online.

iFear is the result of the creative collaboration of a psychologist, a linguist and an iPhone software expert. With over 700 fears and phobias complemented by images, links, curious facts and an exclusive quiz game, iFear is the must have app for everybody interested in the mysteries of the human mind.

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iPhones can be turned into virtual guitars thanks to certain apps which you can get over at the iTunes app store but for the people who want to use actual guitars, here is a connector kit you can get for your iPhone for only $15. Credit actually goes to Gadget Lab reader Paul Stidworthy who put together a guide on how to make your own connecting cable.

To make the connector you need a cable that splits a jack into three RCA phono plugs and needs to have the ground on the right ring of the Jack. A good quality iPod AV cable will be perfect. Connect a RCA-to-mono jack adapter to your guitar and an RCA-to-female-minijack adapter for the headphones.

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Launched today, the new “V” iPhone App allows users to create and share photos inspired by the series. Choosing from a collection of “V”-themed backdrops and overlays, fans can manipulate existing photos or take new ones within the App to reveal their reptilian selves, add one of the motherships into a personal pic or make it appear as if they are delivering an address to an entire city (just like Anna addressing the world).

Users can merge their photos with “V”-themed content using appropriate scaling, positioning and resizing via the intuitive user interface. After completing an image, these new V’s can share their photos and passion for “V” with friends through Facebook and Twitter.

On March 30, the “V” story continues with the ‘Welcome to the War’ episode. Erica (series star Elizabeth Mitchell) finds her life in danger when she’s attacked at home, and, as the Visitors build up their defenses, a dangerous new member is recruited for the Resistance. Meanwhile, Anna (series star Morena Baccarin) wonders why Chad (series star Scott Wolf) hasn’t followed up on his diagnosed aneurysm, and Ryan’s (series star Morris Chestnut) concern grows over Val’s (series star Lourdes Benedicto) “abnormal” pregnancy. ‘Welcome to the War’ was written by Scott Rosenbaum and directed by Yves Simoneau.

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StyleTap Inc. today announced the release of StyleTap Platform for iPhone, which allows over 30,000 applications originally written for Palm OS to run on iPhone and iPod Touch devices.

StyleTap Platform for iPhone supports standard features that include TCP/IP networking, audio recording and playback, the ability to use the multi-gigabyte storage as a virtual memory card, and cut/copy/paste of text between native and Palm OS applications. It also provides innovative capabilities such as giving Palm OS applications access to the iPhone GPS by providing location information in standard GPS NMEA format.

StyleTap Platform for iPhone can be purchased for US$49.95.

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The GO Group has launched a new web-based application that allows travelers to book a GO airport shuttle from their iPhones.

The app is designed also to work with Apple’s web-enabled iPod Touch and the soon-to-be released iPad.

To make a reservation, the iPhone user accesses the GO website www.goairportshuttle.com, and clicks on the iPhone icon on the home page to reach a special reservation page. By bookmarking the site and clicking the “add to home screen” option, an icon will appear on the phone’s home screen to expedite future bookings.

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Flightwise, the world’s longest-running, web-based flight tracking service announces the availability of its flight tracking applications for the iPhone mobile platform.

Available in three flavors: “Free”, “Lite”, and “Pro”, the applications provide easy-to-use, mobile versions of the same data available at the flightwise.com website.

The Free version provides the ability to track aircraft by entering basic search criteria, such as a flight ID, destination or departure airport (as well as others), and also provides the ability to display all active flights around the users current location. Current weather radar for the US is displayed along with the flight track. The free version is ad-supported.

The Lite version sells for US$.99, and provides the same features as the free version without ads.

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With an iphone merchant account, merchants will be having a head start. The advantages of having one are the fact that it’s lightweight, adds to your business’ credibility, cuts cost, has a clean-cut security, and it boosts customer sales.

In the uprising of technology, merchants now have convenient alternatives to the bunch of equipments needed in order to complete and operate a merchant account. Merchant accounts can now be accessed by mobile especially when using the iPhone. This is most convenient to e-business owners because its many advantages. Below are the following:

Lightweight

The mobility is exceptional. It’s literally having your business in the palm of your hand. Say goodbye to carrying that burdensome laptop wherever you go. Bid your last farewell to household-to-household selling, trade shows, agency campaigns and other business strategies for you have the iPhone to do all those things for you. This is made possible by the virtual credit card terminal on your iPhone unit. This time, it saves you from the hassle of acquiring a phone network to link with your payment gateway since there are online payment gateways that cater to the iPhone merchant account.

Adds to your business’ credibility

Without a doubt, you’ll achieve the trust and confidence of the customers in no time. Features such as real time and speedy transactions, and email notifications that comes with the merchant account terminal app installed in your iPhone improves the credibility of your biz.

Cuts cost

One aspect where you can definitely save is that you no longer have to pay for the installation of a credit card terminal in your workplace or store, or any phone line or network. Your iPhone has all these requirements to get your merchant account up and on the go.

Has a clean-cut security

The storage of information is the finest feature about the iPhone merchant account. This provides you with further security to spare as data are never stored the phone’s memory. The credit card information of your client and other transaction information are directly transmitted to the online payment gateway utilized by your merchant account. This is routed across a secure Internet link that only you and the payment gateway can have a hold on. You are free of hacking from some external source.

Boosts customer sales

All these pros come down to the increase in customers and thus, increase in sales. Don’t burden yourself with any loss in retails caused by the absence of card processing terminals. Any mishaps in a credit card transaction can be solved right away. Feedback on acceptance and refusal is made accessible to clients with no trouble.

The iPhone merchant account could widen the horizons of your business opportunities and will never be a loss of money. If it benefits you and your business then you are indisputably, in the right track.

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A child can now learn and practice writing the alphabet on his parent’s iPhone or iPod Touch thanks to an application called “Witty Bit World ABCs” available for $1.99 through iTunes. The application was developed by Dr. Jennifer Hudson, a board-certified pediatrician in North Carolina.

The “Witty Bit World ABCs,” application features the letters as characters used to teach children the upper- and lower-case letters of the alphabet, according to Dr. Hudson. Children can explore each letter of the alphabet, listen to music that teaches the child the sounds the letter makes as well as trace the shapes of the letter with their finger on the touch screen.

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