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One of the major announcements alongside the Apple iPad launch was the fact that Apple is now in the chipmaking business. The Apple A4 is a system-on-chip that includes an ARM based processor that is believed to have been designed by the engineers A…

Following up on the release of Today Todo Pro 1.4.1, the latest creation from Spielhaus was picked up by Apple. For the last week Apple featured the app in the popular What’s Hot category in the App Store. Today approaches the crowded segment of productivity apps with a fresh take on usability. Designed with a strict policy of fewest taps possible in mind, Today has been created as such to expand its feature set without hampering usability.

Harmonist Inc. has released DrumPro 1.0, an incredible multitouch drum app for iPhone and iPod Touch. Featuring multitouch drumming, high quality drum sounds, and shakeable instruments, this app is fun to use, sounds great, perfect for the everyday user, and fine tuned for the musician. DrumPro includes four shakeable instruments, which work like magic. Just shake your device like you would shake each instrument in real life, and it will play the respective sound.

North Carolina based Harmonist Inc. is pleased to announce StudySound 1.0, a brand new iPhone app that helps students study in noisy environments. StudySound is a premier app for college students who can’t get away from the busy, noisy environments that are common on today’s college campuses. Using StudySound is easy. Just start up the app and select the sound you like best. Press play, and hear the distractions fade away.

California based gaming outfit Punflay has released Adams Trouble Full 1.1 for iPhone and iPod touch devices. Adams is a curious looking creature trapped in a dingy sewer with obnoxious liquid. Adams tries to flee by jumping to different levels and escape out of the valve at the top. The tail of Adams is used to make it leap and the iPhone user finds it very engaging and intriguing to pull the tail and see Adams jump each level.

iPhoneMOFO has released Lulla – Prenatal Lullabies 1.1 for iPhone and iPod touch. Prenatal Lullabies is specially designed for fetus and moms-to-be. Version 1.1 includes a fine-selected combination of classic and prenatal music is added in tune library. Prenatal Lullabies can help fetus gain enhanced attention spans, improved sleep patterns, increased cognitive development, sharper language skills, and more.

Houdah Software has announced ACTGratuity 2.0, an update to their full-featured tip calculator for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. ACTGratuity 2.0 aims to be not only the most convenient tip calculator, but also the best looking one. Version 2.0 sports an all new interface and looks so cute you can’t resist. Most importantly though, it is easy to use and yet loaded with all the features you need.

Veenix Technologies has announced TypeBook Creator 2.4, its highly acclaimed Macintosh font/type specimen book creation software for graphics professionals. TypeBook Creator features precision automatic font categorization via Veenix’s GlyphLogicEngine smart font technology. The new version features an innovative new approach to font organization which sorts fonts by energy and ranks them using an associative color, making it easy to index fonts of similar weights and more.

Norbert M. Doerner has released CDFinder 5.7, an update to the popular disk library cataloger. CDFinder organizes of your digital files, photos, songs, movies, on hard disks, CDROMs, Blu-ray disks, DVD-ROMs, server disks, & any other digital media. Version 5.7 can now geotag photos, and improves cataloging by supporting many more thumbnail and office file formats. For numerous photo and video formats, CDFinder generates thumbnails during cataloging, displaying them in all in a convenient list.