7 minute workout challenge

This research-backed app is a simple but effective workout program. One of the best features of the app is that all the exercises are simple to perform, don’t require any accessories or equipment, so basically they can be performed anywhere without the need to spend extra time going to the gym.

The app has video and audio guides with a modern design and features a high-intensity training that increases your metabolism as it is equivalent of working out for over an hour.  There is also a weight tracker and activity calendar included.

Instant blood pressure

Monitoring your blood pressure was never so easy. With the help of this app you can now monitor your heart rate and blood pressure only using your smartphone without the need of other medical equipment.

It works by placing you phone in a horizontal position while gently pushing the phone against your abdomen (near your heart). Measurements take only about 50 seconds and give you systolic, diastolic and heart rate measures. We have to add however that the results may vary and sometimes users can get inaccurate measurements but the software is constantly updated and improved.

Sleep cycle alarm clock

Sleeping is made of a series of phases, ranging from light sleep to deep sleep. Ideally it is important that you wake up when you are in a “light sleep” phase, so as a result you will feel fresh and full of energy.

This alarm clock app is built to wake you up when you are in the lightest sleep phase. It work with the help of the built-in accelerometer of you iPhone, so that it monitors your movements in the bed, movements that are a tale-tale sign of the phase you are in. It also features sleep statistics, a great variety of alarm melodies, snooze option so if you are preoccupied with your sleeping habits, you should definitely use this app.

Fitness Buddy

Fitness buddy is a great iPhone app for workout. It features HD videos that show you how to do certain exercises for certain body parts like the lower body, chest or arms. There are also more than 1700 exercises that cover major equipment like barbell, dumbbells, kettlebells, resistance bands or stability balls.

All in all, this app makes it easy for you to track your workouts, to quickly find your favorite exercises or to track your body weight and metrics. You can also do routines specific goals like: build big chest, lose weight and many more.

 Instant heart rate

Less than 10 seconds – that’s the time it takes for this iPhone app to measure your heart rate and pulse. This award winning application monitors your heart with the help of you phone’s built in flash.

An interesting feature of the app beside the ability to measure your heart rate, store it and show your pulse in a waveform graph, is the standup test for fatigue and fitness.

Full fitness

This iPhone app uses text instruction, pictures and videos for each of the exercises stored in the database making workout understanding easy and effortless.

There are hundreds of unique exercises, some do require equipment while others like cardio or stretching exercises don’t require accessories at all. Being fit is definitely beneficial for your health as well as occasionally changing exercise routines so you don’t get bored. This app definitely helps you out with both.

White noise

This iPhone app is designed with the goal to make you achieve better sleep. Quality sleep is essential for your health or well-being, but unfortunately usually those of us value good sleeping the most who have problems getting it. The white noise app will help you get good sleep by playing calm and relaxing music. This way the app will help you block distraction and reduce stress.

It can be also used to calm crying babies as there are more than 40 perfectly looped sounds included with other ones available for free download.

Period tracker deluxe

Period tracker is a cute and simple app that helps woman track their periods. It features a great variety of functions within an easy to use customizable interphase. This iPhone app can be used to log your periods and to calculate your menstrual cycle predicting the start date of the next period based on your past 3 months data.

It also can be great for those who want to conceive as it predicts ovulation and the eight day “fertile window”. Alternatively it can help your natural birth control method (thermometer or calendar method) to be more effective.

Yoga Studio

Yoga is a physical, mental and spiritual discipline that aims to transform your body and mind, being beneficial for strength, flexibility, relaxation, balance or a combination of all four. This iPhone app brings this centuries old practice and knowledge in your palms with features like ready-made yoga classes or custom made classes.

There are image illustrations and HD videos showing you a series of meditation and yoga classes ranging from 10 to 60 minutes. It is suitable for beginner, intermediate or advanced users.

Sleep talk recorder

You don’t need to feel weird if you talk during sleep. Actually around 5% of the population talks occasionally or regularly in their sleep.
This app will not just simply record everything, it will detect sounds that are made by you or your partners so that you can have an idea of the topics you cover while you sleep or you can get proof if your partner’s snoring.

Besides being practical, this app can give you reasons to entertain yourself.

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Read New York Times best-selling electronic books right on your iPhone or iPod touch!
NEW! Version 2.1.3 has been updated to run on the latest iPhone OS – 4.0 and iPad. This is on top of the cool new features we’ve already added like cover flow, thumbnails, speed enhancements, improved access to other ebook sites like Manybooks, and more!
Over 100,000 e-books are available and thousands more are added each month via top eBook retailers like eReader.com and Fictionwise.com. The eReader application also lets you upload your own personal content or eBooks from many other web sites. You are not locked into any one site.

2. Google Books By Google

The Google Books app offers access to over 2 million Google eBooks on your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad. Take your favorite books with you on the go.
Great Reading Experience
– Change font, search within book, information about book – Night-reading mode – Offline reading mode
Discover Millions of Titles
– Millions of books in every imaginable category, from the New York Times® bestsellers to favorite classics – Over 2 million free ebooks available instantly – Hundreds of thousands of books for sale – Free preview pages – Unlimited storage of books in the digital cloud – Worry-free archive

3. Audible by Audible, Inc.

Audible.co.uk, the UK’s largest provider of digital audiobooks, is now available on your iPhone and iPod Touch! This free app features the most comprehensive audiobook experience ever, including Wi-Fi delivery of your Audible.co.uk library, detailed listening stats, and much more.
Audible for iPhone features the best audiobook experience:
• Chapter Navigation, Bookmarking, Sleep Mode, Button Free Mode, and Play as you Download
• Wireless transfer of your books from My Library to your device over Wi-Fi
• Multitasking for background audio playback and background downloading (iOS 4 and compatible device required)

4. Goodreads by Goodreads

Tap into the world’s largest social network for readers with the Goodreads iPhone app! No other app combines the power and depth of the Goodreads community with an enormous catalog of books and book reviews.
Read reviews of other members and friends, keep a virtual bookshelf of what you’ve read, use our NEW barcode scanner, and build your to-read list as you discover great books either on the app or out and about in the world.
Goodreads is a free website for everyone who reads. We have more than 5,400,000 members who have added more than 100,000,000 books to their shelves. Our mission is to help you find new and interesting books by showing you what your friends are reading. Browsing Goodreads is like wandering through the world’s largest library. Find thousands of book reviews and peruse the bookshelves of friends and other readers. Post your own reviews and keep track of what you have read and want to read.

5.  iBooks By Apple®

iBooks is an amazing way to download and read books. iBooks includes the iBookstore, where you can download the latest best-selling books or your favorite classics – day or night. Browse your library on a beautiful bookshelf, tap a book to open it, flip through pages with a swipe or a tap, and bookmark or add notes to your favorite passages.
Features:
• Download many of your favorite books from the included iBookstore.
• Read a free sample of any book on the iBookstore before making it a part of your collection.
• Reorder your books on your bookshelf or browse them in a list sorted by title, author, or category.
• Organize your books and PDFs into personal Collections. Swipe left or right to jump between Collections.
• Easily adjust your screen brightness to find the perfect lighting for any environment.
• Change the font size and pick from six included type faces to make your books more comfortable to read.
• Find a word, character, or phrase anywhere in your book with the built-in search feature. More….

6. Kindle By Kindle

The Kindle app is optimized for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch, giving users the ability to read Kindle books on a beautiful, easy-to-use interface. You’ll have access to over 700,000* books in the Kindle Store. Amazon Whispersync automatically syncs your last page read, bookmarks, notes, and highlights across devices (including Kindle), so you can pick up your book where you left off on another device.
Get the best reading experience available on your iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad:
• Shop the Kindle Store by visiting Amazon for over 700,000* Kindle books.
• Get free book samples – read the first chapter free before you decide to buy.
• Customize your reading experience by choosing the background color, font size, and either portrait or landscape format.
• Instant dictionary word lookup with 250,000 entries and definitions. Tap and hold a word to view the definition. Use the Google and Wikipedia links to get more information.

7. Stanza By Lexcycle

Read books on your iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad! Lexcycle Stanza brings the digital book revolution to your pocket with a reading interface that is unrivaled in its clarity and ease of use. With over 4 million downloads around the world, Stanza has become an iPhone phenomenon, and is featured as one of the top three Apple favorites in their “App Store Turns 1” celebration.
Purchase popular new books from a selection of over 50,000 contemporary titles available in various partner stores, or choose from an additional 50,000 free classics and recent original works available from Project Gutenberg, Feedbooks, and many other sources. Store and categorize hundreds of books in the organizer, and transfer your own ePub, eReader, PDF, Comic Book Archive (CBR & CBZ), and DjVu books from your Mac or PC to Stanza by dragging & dropping the files into the “File Sharing” section of the “Apps” tab of your device in iTunes.

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Use your iPhone® and iPod touch® to activate an arsenal of 16 weapons including Spiked Brass Knuckles, a Submachine Gun, and Dynamite. Tap and swipe to punch, kick, and shoot. Use the accelerometer to take down the Axis Agents from a distance with a powerful sniper rifle.

2. DOOM Resurrection By id Software

Immerse yourself in the first person on rails experience that takes your iPhone or iPod Touch beyond previously imagined limits. Introducing DOOM Resurrection, a brand new, technologically advanced, heart-pounding chapter in the legendary DOOM Saga!

Scientists on a remote research facility on Mars have lost control of their experiment and all Hell has broken loose. As the last surviving Marine in your unit, you must defeat Hell’s minions and unravel the mystery of what has happened on Mars. Earth’s future depends on you!

3. Alive 4-ever By Meridian Digital Entertainment Limited

Alive 4-ever is a zombies-shooting game, with which players have a selection of 4 main characters coming from different backgrounds, trying to rescue hopeless survivors from a small town that was attacked by an unknown deadly virus which turned dead people into zombies.

4. Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars Lite By Rockstar Games

Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars Lite brings the entire world of Liberty City to the iPhone™ and iPod®touch. Download it now and get behind the wheel of one of the most critically-acclaimed handheld titles of this generation.

Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars Lite is an introduction to your criminal career in the most dangerous city in America. Play the first three missions from the full game — meet Uncle Wu “Kenny” Lee, and help him in his quest to regain control of the Triad Gangs of Liberty City. Get ready for hotwiring, reckless driving, gunfights, and plenty of hot pursuits.

5. iGun Pro LITE – The Original Gun Application By Crimson Moon Entertainment LLC

Don’t settle for cheap imitations. Get the Original Gun Application

iGun Pro lets you do everything from virtually reload, chamber, and fire your favorite guns, to learning about their history and specifications. From the gun graphics to the interactive gun wall, you will not find a higher quality gun application on the AppStore.

6. Resident Evil: Degeneration By CAPCOM

Based on the recently released CG-animated movie of the same name, Resident Evil: Degeneration uses a true 3D engine to immerse players into this 3rd-person survival horror shooter. Explore Harvardville Airport, rescue survivors, unlock puzzles and battle an army of undead.  Use your in-game PDA to collect intel, manage inventory and access maps.

“Laser targeting” allows the players to make aimed accurate shots.  Backgrounds, character models and objects are all rendered in full 3D.

7.  i Sniper Lite

iSniper is the best selling sniper game for the iPhone. The story begins when a group of terrorists broke into MASQ Corp. HQ and took everyone inside as hostages. Your squad, the best anti-terrorist unit in the world, is called to take control of this emergency situation.  However, this is just the top of an iceberg. As the drama unfolds, a long and tough path is waiting for you and your team.
Hold your breath, seek, aim and FIRE!

This lite version of iSniper features three missions and four types of enemies from the full game. For the full iSniper experience, please purchase the full version.

8. Modern Combat: Sandstorm By Gameloft

War is hell. Step inside.

Modern Combat: Sandstorm, Gameloft’s new action-thriller will plunge you into the heart of modern war. Assigned to Mission Sandstorm, your duty is to locate and annihilate a new terrorist cell setting up shop and recruiting foreign insurgents in a remote desert hot spot. This jarring first person shooter will equip you with the most sophisticated and powerful modern-day weapons.

9. Assassin’s Creed Altaïr’s Chronicles Free By Gameloft

Jerusalem, 1191 AD. The Third Crusade between the Crusaders and Saracens is tearing the Holy Land apart. You are Altaïr, a Master Assassin sent by the Order of the Assassins on a quest to find “The Chalice”, an object of such power that it can end the Crusades, depending on which camp owns it. Steal The Chalice from the Templars before someone offers them the right price for it. The fate of the Holy Land depends on you…

Plunge into this direct prequel to the critically acclaimed game title, Assassin’s Creed™:

10. GunApp By Felix Khazin

The best gun/weapon simulator on the iPhone.

You’ve all been waiting for the update to GunApp, and here it is GunApp Version 2! GunApp v2 is a complete rewrite. Every gun is animated!

Features:
– 36 highly detailed animated Guns/Weapons ranging from M16’s to Nuclear Weapons!
– Detailed Descriptions of each Gun/Weapon. Read all about your favorite gun in amazing detail straight from Wikepedia.
– Twitter Support! Tweet to your friends about the Gun you are shooting.

11. Skies of Glory By SGN

Gear up for the ultimate in multiplayer air combat! SKIES OF GLORY takes you back to the groundbreaking aeronautics of World War II, set in the real life terrain of both Pacific and European theatres of war. Over land and sea, under realistic weather conditions, you and your friends can team up to defend a base, destroy enemy compounds and logistical resources, or show off your piloting skills in a full-force free-for-all.

12. BATTLE BEARS Free By SkyVu Pictures

OLIVER the teddy bear is stuck behind enemy lines and has to survive unending waves of adorable Pink Bears wishing to HUG HIM TO DEATH! Armed with his trusted rifle and a whole lot of attitude, OLIVER blasts away armies of cute Huggable Bears and earns powerful weapons along the way. Gameplay is simple and fun. Use one thumb to aim and use your other thumb to tap-and-fire.

13. iDracula Lite By Chillingo Ltd

You are the hunter. Vampire hunter. Well, not quite. In fact, you are being hunted. Or you’re just trying to survive a little more against the horde of Vampires, Werewolves, Witches and Dracula himself.

Can you stand the night? iDracula Lite is an intense survival shooter – the most intense game in the App Store. You start with a limited resources, and it’s your choice to use them wisely, to survive as long as you can. Monsters grow stronger and faster, and you’re losing the very last of your ammo and health.

14. Eliminate Pro By ngmoco, Inc

Engage in multiplayer first-person combat against real players from around the world. Your goal is simple: put the most advanced weapons systems to the ultimate test against real player combatants. Earn credits based on your performance, buy upgrades and better gear and compete to be the warrior in the ELIMINATE weapons research program.

Playable over 3G or Wi-Fi, ELIMINATE invites you to join ranked competitions against other players in a variety of high fidelity arenas through the Plus+ Network. Send challenges to your friends using Push Notification and they can join your game with a press of a button — whether they’re currently in the game or not.

15. Vampire Origins LITE By Chillingo Ltd

After being trained by the ancient fathers known only as The Order, Vincent began his life as a vampire hunter. His deep hatred for the blood-sucking scourge grew exponentially after his bride was brutally murdered. Vincent’s anger grew and the destruction that lay in his wake brought him to the attention of Valafar, the evil Vampire leader.

Valafar, The highest of the Vampire Lords challenged Vincent to dual. Valafar was too strong and upon loosing the fight and being cast into the depths of the underworld. Only the memory of his fallen bride remained with Vincent, now a shadow of his former self.

Driven by revenge, Vincent now returns to the mortal realm to bring war to the plague of vampires that had infested or destroyed all that was good in the world.

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1. How to Make an HTML5 iPhone App [Tutorial]

You’ve been depressed for like a year now, I know. All the hardcore Objective-C developers have been having a hay-day writing apps for the iPhone. You might have even tried reading a tutorial or two about developing for the iPhone, but its C—or a form of it—and it’s really hard to learn.

I don’t want to say that you should give up on the objective: you can get it eventually. But in the meantime, there is something else that you can do. You can create a native app that lives with all the other apps, and for the most part, it’s going to be a pitch-perfect imitation.  You can do this with the skill set you probably already have: HTML(5), CSS, and JavaScript. I’ll show you how to create an offline HTML5 iPhone application. More specifically, I’ll walk you through the process of building a Tetris game.

2. HTML5 Apps: Positioning with Geolocation [Tutorial]

At the heart of every location-based application is positioning and geolocation. In this tutorial you will learn the geolocation capabilities of HTML5 and the basic principles needed to take advantage of them in your next HTML5 app!

Three years ago, the smartphone “boom” was still an uncertain possibility. Today, we are surrounded by a society of smart phone addicts who live as if their lives cannot continue without instant, mobile access to the web, e-mail, and apps for every occasion. Mobile devices have come a long way in just three short years, and now support a wide range of useful features beyond making phone calls. For location-challenged individuals like myself, geolocation is one of the most useful additions. Many iPhone and Android devices have been fitted with GPS hardware that can produce reliable geographical data, and in this article we will discuss the geolocation capabilities of HTML5.

3. Beginning iPhone and iPad Web Apps: Scripting with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript [Book]

This book will help you join the thousands of successful iPhone App developers without needing to learn Objective-C or the Cocoa touch APIs. If you want to apply your existing web development skills to iPhone and iPad development, then now you can. WebKit’s support for HTML5 means any web developer can create compelling apps for both the iPhone and the larger-screen iPad.

Beginning iPhone & iPad Web Apps takes you through the latest Mobile Web Standards as well as the specific features of the iPhone and iPad. You’ll learn about WebKit and Mobile Safari, HTML5 and CSS3, Vector Graphics and Multimedia support. You’ll discover the built-in hardware features of the iPhone and iPad and how best to take advantage of them.

The market for web apps for the iPhone and iPad is expanding rapidly. You’ll want to know about all the advantages, and Beginning iPhone & iPad Web Apps is the perfect starting point.

4. Web Development for Mobile: GTUG Talk at Google [SlideShow]

5. Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript: Making App Store Apps Without Objective-C or Cocoa [Book]

It’s a fact: if you know HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, you already have the tools you need to develop your own iPhone apps. With this book, you’ll learn how to use these open source web technologies to design and build apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch on the platform of your choice-without using Objective-C or Cocoa.

• Device-agnostic mobile apps are the wave of the future, and this book shows you how to create one product for several platforms. You’ll find guidelines for converting your product into a native iPhone app using the free PhoneGap framework. And you’ll learn why releasing your product as a web app first helps you find, fix, and test bugs much faster than if you went straight to the App Store with a product built with Apple’s tools.
• Build iPhone apps with tools you already know how to use
• Learn how to make an existing website look and behave like an iPhone app
• Add native-looking animations to your web app using jQTouch
• Take advantage of client-side data storage with apps that run even when the iPhone is offline
• Hook into advanced iPhone features — including the accelerometer, geolocation, and vibration — with JavaScript
• Submit your applications to the App Store with Xcode

This book received valuable community input through O’Reilly’s Open Feedback Publishing System (OFPS).

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