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Affinicore, Inc. has teamed up with SlapApp to run a promo code giveaway and contest for Park’n Find, their exciting iPhone and iPad parking app. Starting Thursday, September 30th, SlapApp will give away daily promo codes for Park’n Find. Those who promote the contest on Twitter are automatically entered to win a iTunes gift card. To be entered to win a free promo code, readers need to post the correct answer into the form on the contest page.

Double Apps Inc. today announces PounceHD, the new iPad version of their Pounce card game, as well as new versions of Pounce and Pounce Lite for the iPhone and iPod touch. Pounce is an intense multi-player speed card game. Game play is similar to solitaire, except that you are competing to play your cards faster than your opponents. The new iPad version includes updated graphics and more computer opponents, as well as multi-player compatibility with the iPhone/iPod touch version.

Motion Math today announces the launch of their app that will help students master mathematics. Fractions are notoriously difficult for many learners. Motion Math’s innovative game makes estimating fractions an engaging, physical experience. Conceived at the Stanford School of Education and based on research in embodied cognition, Motion Math offers the first learning game that uses the full physical capabilities of iDevices to promote math understanding.

Zikera today announces Groove 1.4 for iOS devices. Groove helps music lovers to rediscover their music library and enjoy their music in a whole new way. It serves as an iPod app replacement, organizing your library and creating a variety of mixes from your music library based on your listening habits. Version 1.4 now allows music enthusiasts to share their music and mixes on Twitter and Facebook, as well as adds support for iOS4, including fast app switching and higher resolution graphics.

Sunday Drive is both a location-based mobile app and a travel aggregator that allows for consumers to choose pre-planned routes with directions via GPS using both maps & voice command. Photos of the Points of Interest along the way, as well as informative descriptions of each POI and the overall drive, accompany each route. Sunday Drive routes are scenic, historic, educational, and are constructed by local photographers, writers, historians and other passionate travelers around the nation.

Bob Groothuis today released a DVD called Dutch Skies 360 Volume 3, with affordable Royalty free HDRI images of Dutch Skies 360. The images, with the famous Dutch Light, can be used for Visual effects, 3D, architecture, game development etc. The Dutch Light is famous all over the world. The great painters captured the Dutch light in their paintings. Today there is a online shop that will bring the future version of the Dutch Light in the form of Dutch Skies 360 to the customers.

Pearson and the Commonwealth of Virginia today launched the nation’s first-ever complete social studies curriculum for the iPad. Pearson has developed four new iPad Apps plus digital curriculum aligned to the Virginia editions of Pearson’s U.S. History and World History programs for seventh and ninth graders. The new iPad program will be piloted in several schools for 12 weeks beginning November 1 as part of Virginia’s Beyond Textbooks initiative.

After two month of private beta, the Mopapp team is finally happy to announce the immediate availability of the free public beta. Mopapp does Mobile Sales Analytics: it allows mobile application developers to track and analyze sales for their apps. It integrates with most major stores, including Apple iTunes, Google Android Market, RIM App World, Handango, MobiHand, and counting. Everyone is invited to sign-up now and get a free subscription to the Professional Plan.

Jambasoft today released Camera Duo 1.0, a new application that provides the ability to simultaneously capture of photos and video on compatible iPhone devices. Providing two different photo capture modes, Camera Duo was designed to be both easy to use and to take advantage of the latest technologies available. In “Real Photos” mode, the app will use the physical camera to obtain each photo. In “Extract from Video” mode, photos will be acquired from the video data and sequentially saved.

IngZ, Inc., an Austin-based mobile software development company, today announced the availability of two new mobile apps – Tour Guide Tool (TGT) and touringZ – which allow area experts to create custom GPS-guided audio tours that can be enjoyed by anyone with a smartphone. Currently available on the iPhone App Store, these applications connect guides and travelers through multimedia, GPS-based experiences.