If you have been using audiobooks, you are perhaps aware of Audible, which is one of the largest providers of audiobook download, which was picked by Amazon in the year 2008. Even though you could play Audible content in your iPhones and iPods earlier, this is the first time that the company is venturing into App Store by offering a free application for iPod touch and iPhone (it is also available for iPad but isn’t a universal application). It features a Wi-Fi delivery for Audible library, detailed listening stats, iOS4 multitasking support and many other such features.

It has all the basic features that you expect from an audiobook application. It has bookmarking, chapter navigation, viewing and listening controls an also some high enhanced features which will definitely be enjoyed by all the audiobook enthusiasts. Some of these enhanced features are the ability to move books from the Audible library to iPad or iPhone over wi-Fi and a button less mode that allows controlling the playback using gestures.

This application also features a sleep timer, uses the multitasking support from iOS4 for audio playback as well as downloading. Apart from these core features, it also has some other features which are primarily included to bring in a fun element to it. It enables you to keep a track on your listening habits and you can earn badges by performing certain tasks. You can also stay connected with your friends through Twitter or Facebook and let them know what you are listening to. 

According to the company Waterslide Extreme has been downloaded 12 million times, and hit the number 1 spot in 57 countries. However, here comes a new free application and the authors hope to beat the previous records.

This new game will take you on a thrilling rollercoaster ride through enchanting New York City. The game is fun, simple, relaxing, quick and very beautiful. By the way, it’s a great excursion!

Frankly speaking, I don’t know whether this game will be as popular as Waterslide or even more popular, but the beginning is fantastic and we all remember that a good beginning is half the battle.

Be ready to become a capable and successful rollercoaster rider, beat the clock, avoid obstacles, and enjoy surprisingly realistic views of New York.

The game will be free to download.

TouchDx (Touch Diagnostics), global leader in mHealth solutions for smartphone devices, has announced that it will release the “Edu” version of its highly successful medical application for iPhones for free. With this, TouchDx looks at empowering the patients as well as the healthcare practitioners.

This application was only available to medical institutes and students, but with this announcement it will be available to healtcare providers and patients and help them experience the cutting edge technology of mHealth solutions. According to the CEO of Touch Diagnostics, Brent Gutekunst, this will revolutionize the way people look at healthcare and will empower them as well as their healthcare provider to use this platform to look for options best suited to them. With this technology being available to the common men, they have the option to choose from and this could be a game changer in the healthcare industry.

In a world that has seen so much advancement in technology, mobile phone is undoubtedly the most used. Statistics say 4.6 billion people out of the 6.8 billion uses or own mobile phones. Hence, it is no surprise that Touch Diagnostics chose to use this platform to reach out to the people.

TouchDx are highly optimistic about mobile phones playing a major role in bringing about a sea change in the healthcare industry. Touch Diagnostics global leadership position and expertise in offering unique and innovative health solutions places it very well in this space and is expected to leverage these advantages in creating even better solutions to the healthcare industry.

Spinning Streak is not pure fun, it is a game of skill and balance where you should show both and become the best and most famous player in the world. This game provides incredible opportunities: you can not only perform breathtaking balancing acts but ponder over your life and career.

The game sees you spinning plates by flicking away at the touchscreen, stages as well as sceneries come and go, locations change and you are still thinking …

The question is: what is it all about? May be we should make a kind of projection, our life and work, even relations are very much like spinning plates – you should always keep an eye on them otherwise they can crash.

The application is compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad and completely free. NB! It requires iPhone OS 3.1.2 or later.

Be very careful, this simple yet cool game is very catching and surprisingly fun!

All the fans of Nigella Lawson’s cooking, here is some great news for you. Now, Nigella Lawson will be right there at your kitchen instructing you, while you prepare your favorite Nigella Lawson recipe. All you need is an iPhone and you new to have the latest food application by Nigella. 

The recently launched application is already a rage and has been topping the iTunes chart as well as the application stores of paid applications. Another food application from Apple, the Olivers 20-minutes meal, released last October has been recently crowned as the top grossing Apple application in the UK. So, it is hardly a surprise that this new food application is already popular and also the fact that Nigella is already a big star helped its cause a lot. 

There are over 50 million iPhone users across the globe and with mobile applications getting very popular, Nigella has entered this space to ensure that she makes full use of this growth in mobile apps market. UK alone has over 3 million iPhone users and Nigella is very popular in this part of the world. This application is already at number two amongst the 5 most popular paid food apps that appear in the top fifteen lifestyle apps.

This application will immensely help all those aspiring food professionals who would like to enhance their careers in this industry. These videos from Nigella provide an in depth guidance in the preparation of various recipes. It is surely a great addition by Apple and Nigella Lawson!

Nuance Communication Inc. recently announced the release of another wonderful and impressive application on the Apple store. Called the Dragon Dictation, the application is truly a spectacular gift for the iPhone users all over the world. The application is set to change the way people connect with their near and dear ones. The iPhone users now no longer have to take the pain of typing their messages as this application would help them to speak their emails and messages thereby saving a lot of their precious time.

The application, which is available for free on the Apple store also works with the iPhone clipboard. It allows users to paste what they speak in it for further use in other applications like Twitter and Facebook. The General Manager of Nuance Mobile, Michael Thompson was very certain that Dragon Dictation would take the experience of messaging to a whole new level. Being supremely natural and intuitive, the application is built on the fact that users use more of their speech to communicate with others at an incredible pace.

The application works on one of the most trusted dictation software called the Dragon Naturally Speaking. The speakers have the luxury to update more than one line of messages by simply speaking it out to their iPhone. The application stores 20 seconds of your speech and then stops recording so that you can check it out for any errors. The application is available for free just for a limited time. So, better hurry!

CoPilot Live, the best selling GPS navigation application for Apple iPhone 3G and 3GS by ALK Technologies is now available throughout Europe for the iPhone users. Hailed as the number 1 iPhone navigation application of the present era, CoPilot is power packed with amazing features. It enables turn by turn navigation to your iPhone and also makes it very easy for you to follow 3D map displays. The incredible application has the ability to make automatic route calculation and clear sequential voice directions.

The application does not require any extra hardware or monthly fees. All you have to do is to enter the house number or the point where you intend to go and the CoPilot Live lets you know the best route available to that point. The application provides you with guidance that you can only expect in an expansive or in-car system. It has features that provide lane assistance when you are out on the road apart from giving you signpost displays and speed limit alerts. The feature of copilot ClearTurn simplifies the complex motorway and major road exits.

The internet connection which comes built in with the application provides users with various services like weather information and Live Link which is a free location sharing service. In certain selected areas, users would be able to know the traffic information and also the fuel price at the nearest gas stations with the help of this application. The CoPilot Live application is easily available and can be bought from the iTunes and iPhone Application Store.

Vonage recently launched the “Vonage World” which gives the users the facility to make unlimited calls across the globe to almost 60 countries. It covers nearly two-thirds of the world’s population and all you have got to pay is $24.99 a month.

There are speculations that Vonage is busy working on an application for the iPhone and has proposed their application to Apple. This would be phenomenal news for the iPhone users who would have the luxury to use the application along with the Vonage’s World’s global unlimited plan. The innumerable iPhone users and the large base of Vonage users will make the largest deployed WiFi VoIP phone on the planet.

Vonage Companion which is the present SIP client of Vonage uses unique technology which helps to share the exact same SIP credentials with the ATA device which you have connected to the cordless phone system at your home. This enables you to accept calls on your PC and also on your regular phone. The application would no longer require you to set up call forward to your home phone when you are on the move. It will also allow the users to make any outbound calls with the caller ID of their home phone number and will also ensure that you can use the unlimited amount your VoIP minutes.

However, the main concern would be whether Apple gives a nod to Vonage application to work over 3G as they have not allowed it for any VoIP application so far. The Vonage iPhone application is expected to have voicemail playback, block caller and features to send voicemail and voicemail push notification.

Obviously the game was made not for our pleasure alone, Waterslide Extreme is only one of the most interesting parts of large Waterslide advertising campaign.

Getting back to the point, the game is pure fun. It was developed by fishlabs and Dare for Barclaycard, and it offers nine highly addictive levels. Your main aim is to move your hero down an increasingly difficult waterslide while collecting as much points as possible and avoiding objects you are about to hit. One more difficulty – you have to show the quickest time.

I am ready to bet, everybody who saw the Barclaycard Waterslide ad, would die to play this new free iPhone app.

Enjoy the demo video and … what are you still doing here? You’d better experience the Barclaycard Waterslide for yourself – simply download the game from itunes here!

The Facebook web application made specifically for the Apple’s iPhone makes social networking a wonderful experience with its great speed and amazing networking. The movement from one screen to the other and the way of presentation of the information is quite different from the online version of Facebook. This feature makes it a real hit. However, the application is compatible only with the iPhone.

The term social networking has become popular these days. Although some facets of the social networking have made their way in the cell phones, computer is still the preferred device for social networking. However, the Facebook application for the iPhone has a definite edge over a mobile device and also does not require you to sit in front of your computer to upload a picture or upload your profile. The application does not require any twitter as we can update anything by simply touching a button.

The Facebook application for iPhone lets us do things which we thought were never possible. We can know the whereabouts of our friends, text them, call them or check out our own pictures tagged by some friend and all this can be done by just a click from within this amazing application.

The Facebook iPhone application has really been growing in popularity and the kind of experience that it offers, sure is a step in the right direction as far as the future of social networking is concerned.