APPLE NEWS

A new beta of Launchy, an open source keystroke launcher, adds support for Mac OS X.

Real Trophy Hunting requires skill, patience, and persistence as players find themselves in realistic locations, using all the tools of the trade to bring in and bag the most prized big game animals straight from the Rocky Mountains!

Acer may be planning to launch a new ultra-thin frameless notebook with a touch keyboard in the second half of 2010

App Genie Lite allows its users to unlock up to 3 applications from a selection of more than 30.

Smooth Movie analyzes shaky videos and applies an image stabilization algorithm to the frames, resulting in a much smoother movie.

Traveler's Quest is a GPS Game which allows you to hunt for virtual treasures in the real world.

Dream Planner features a Wheel of LifeSM in which users can enter their dreams in important life areas such as finance, career, relationships, physical well-being, community service and life's "maintenance" activities.

ACTGratuity is a full-featured tip calculator for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. ACTGratuity aims to be not only the most convenient tip calculator, but also the best looking one.

ACTRocket allows for quick searching of web sites and search engines. It not only speeds up the process.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs attended the Oscars tonight during which the first commercial for the iPad aired.

Portal 2, the upcoming single-player first person action/puzzle video game by Valve, is coming to Mac

Asteroid shooter is classic arcade game, with cool space design, where the goal is to shoot all asteroids in the playfield.

Infiniboard, the tweak by chpwn to vertically scroll your iPhone Springboard, is now available.

Namco Networks will soon release Tekken: Iron Fist Tournament for the iPhone and iPod touch.

O2's new iPhone tariffs offer a hint that the next generation iPhone will include a front facing camera for video calls.

LockInfo for iPhone has received an important update which adds numerous new features including the ability to access your LockInfo screen from anywhere

In response to an email from a Swedish Apple fan, Steve Jobs has confirmed that the iPhone cannot tether to the iPad.

Secret Exit has released preview images showing what Zen Bound 2 will look like on the iPad.

Tiptoe is a useful application that brings a Safari like 'private browsing' feature to many other applications.

NVIDIA has announced that their Optimus Technology works perfectly with Intel Wireless Display.

Analysts believe that a small delay in release of the iPad is due to hardware production problems; however, it may actually be due to software.

Documents To Go Premium for the iPhone and iPod touch has been updated with Google Docs support.

Last month Google acquired reMail and the app was removed from the App Store. Today the app has been made open source.

Big in Japan has announced that it has acquired Snappr, a pioneer in mobile barcode scanning and creator of the first iPhone application capable of scanning 2D barcodes.

Volkswagen has released Think Blue. Challenge, an iPhone game which challenges drivers to compete based on their ability to maximize fuel mileage.

Balance Forecasting helps the user be more organized when it comes knowing how much money will be in their account on any given day in the future.

ImageQuest is a pictonym puzzle game for the iPhone OS, the player is asked to find the single word that links together a group of pictures.

ExactScan is popular for being a modern and easy to use Mac OS X scan software with built-in drivers for over 200 document scanners, including Avision, Kodak, Oki, Visioneer and Xerox.

ChangeWave has published its latest survey results showing a large wave of pre-launch demand for the iPad

The creators of Sleeping Pill have researched various methods for accelerating the sleeping process and created a precise three stage procedure.

My Colorz & Shapes is a powerful way to learn basic color and shape recognition as kids read their way within a virtual classroom environment with active participation from the Nanoschool friends.

The Microsoft Courier will reportedly function as a 'digital journal' and is designed to be portable with dimensions a lot smaller than expected.

Apple today announced that the iPad will be available in the US on Saturday, April 3, for Wi-Fi models and in late April for Wi-Fi + 3G models.

Tidy Up! has become a must-have utility for Mac owners seeking to reclaim disk space being taken up by duplicate files and packages.

WritePad is a text editor that incorporates advanced handwriting recognition software for text entry.

SonicPics is a tool for creating and narrating custom photo slide shows on the iPhone or iPod touch.

iBless Torah displays the text of the blessings in the original Hebrew and English transliteration on screen, and chants the text, highlighting each word as it is pronounced.

Apple has drastically dropped the price of their Mac Developer Program from $499 or $3499 to $99/year.

Saurik has uploaded a new version of APT that has an optimized cache generator and greatly improves Cydia performance.

Thieves cut a hole in the roof and rappelled down into a Best Buy, without touching the ground, to steal $26,000 worth of Apple notebook computers.

Sony is developing a new lineup of products to compete with Apple's growing stable of portable devices.

Macvide FlashVideo Converter is a powerful and versatile program for converting any flash SWF or FLV video file to one of many popular video formats.

The V Phone uses Internet connectivity to route your calls and SMS's to the receiving party.

HDRtist is a user friendly HDR Photo processor & tone mapper for the Macintosh platform.

CosmoPod is an intuitive Safari extension that lets you download Flash videos from all popular websites like YouTube, Vimeo, DailyMotion, etc.

Projector provides all the tools you need for professional project management. It is designed to keep track of tasks and calculate a project's cost.

Cocoto Magic Circus is a handheld version of cute, cartoonish, and atmospheric nintendo Wii Shooter!

FORTUNE has ranked Apple as the World's Most Admired Company for the third year in a row.