Measure your heart rate using the iPhone camera

This app, Instant Heart Rate by Azumio allows you to measure your heart rate using the iPhone camera. It does so by shining the iPhone flash LED and detecting the changes in colour on your finger placed on the iPhone camera lens. I was skeptical until I tried it and it really works (I think)! Well worth the 99 cents, if you don't mind smudging your camera lens every now and then.

EA's $0.99 Sale for the weekend (most iPad/iPhone Games available)

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List of games available includes:

Dead Space
SCRABBLE
MONOPOLY
MADDEN NFL 11
TETRIS
Need for Speed Shift
SimCity Deluxe
THE GAME OF LIFE
COMMAND & CONQUER RED ALERT
SNOOD
YAHTZEE
Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 12
Coconut Dodge
CLUE
BATTLESHIP
Reckless Racing
BATTLEFIELD: BAD COMPANY
FIFA 11 by EA SPORTS
Draw Jump
Need for Speed -Hot Pursuit
NBA JAM
Mirror's Edge
Max and the Magic Marker
Ultimate Mortal Kombat
RISK
TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON
Pictureka! for iPad

Check out http://www.eamobile.com/sale for more details!

Tiny Tower game for iPhone and iPad

Very fun game in the likes of Farmville, We Rule, etc. From the makers of Pocket Frogs, Nimblebit. Amazing pixel art. Seems like Nimblebit really upped the game with this offering. I've played this for a few hours and the gameplay is pretty solid. You level up by literally making new levels on a tower. You can assign each floor to be commercial or residential, and you assign each person who moves in a job. You earn money from their rent and the commercial activities. Like most free to play games of this genre, there is an option to purchase "Tower Bucks" to advance faster. Highly recommended!

Get it here.

Skype for iPad. Finally.

One of the reasons why my parents wanted the iPad 2 was because they could use Skype on it. But for a long time, we had to use the iPhone version, which was clunky and ugly. Looks like Skype is going to launch its software for the iPad 2 really soon!

PS: The reason why the video above has no sound is because, according to razorianfly.com, Skype put up this video, but then later set it to private. Someone screen captured it down, but without sound.

Coin Drop for iPhone/iPad free for now!

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If you're a fan of the coin push game genre, you'll like this. It's just like Coin Push Frenzy mixed with Pachinko, except there is an actual goal. You have drop the coin so that it captures the bandits and gets all sorts of bonuses. I can only hope this will stop my parents' addiction to Coin Push Frenzy. Available for iPhone and iPad, although when playing, the iPad version doesn't cover the entire screen.

Available here.

Bamboo Paper iPad App by Wacom is free for now

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If you've been holding off for a nice drawing app to pen your ideas down, or maybe you've decided that the Penultimate was just too costly, now you have Bamboo Paper from Wacom. It's a free app to promote Wacom's capacitive stylus, which actually isn't very much different from the hoards of capacitive styli out there. The pen input is very similar to Penultimate. The slower your stroke, the thicker the line and vice versa. You even have a choice of 3 different papers as your background. Free till July. Download here.

We are addicted to Birzzle! #iPhone #iPad

Simple, addictive gameplay

Move it, line it up, and blow it up! Anyone can enjoy Birzzle™ by directly touching the bird on the screen. From variety of items to the adorable birds, Birzzle™ provides a nonstop gameplay which is fun & attractive.

The folks at srsly.sg are currently addicted to this eye-catching puzzle game with loads of adorable birds and a cute background music.

Together with Game Center support, you can keep track of high scores among friends.

Birzzle and Birzzle HD is now available on the App store at $0.99 and $1.99 respectively.