Sophia Antipolis, France – L’Escapadou is pleased to announce that Montessori Crosswords will be free on September 3rd, as part of Moms with Apps’ AppFriday. Based on the proven Montessori learning method, the app helps kids develop their writing/reading skills by building words from a set of pictures shown. The app provides 282 words and associated pictures sorted by their phonetic complexity. At the time of writing, Montessori Crosswords is ranked #22 in USA top paid iPad education App and its average rating is 4 stars.

San Francisco, California – The Apple iPhone is defined by its user experience. “Sleek”, “Sophisticated” and “Stylish” are only some of the words that come to mind when faced with a shiny new iPhone or iPad. Traditionally, national and global news coverage does not have the same sort of adjectives associated with them. Things like “depressing”, “flat” or “biased” are often found more closely tied to how the public views mass news media. Pulling the two together is Blancspot, a revolutionary new way to experience and interact with the news on the iPhone that combines photojournalists elements and solid news reporting with social media and cause activation tools.

New York, NY – iCandyApps today is pleased to announce the release of Mind Games HD, a high definition version of Mind Games previously released for iPhone and iPod touch. The app features a collection of high resolution illusions designed for iPad screen. Mind Games HD takes advantage of the iPad’s broad screen and includes only high quality images with guaranteed mind-blowing effect. It is build on the latest gallery app solution providing smooth user experience and great feel and look.

Chicago, Illinois – Sprout!, a Chicago based company, today is pleased to announce the release of Pixelate! 1.1, for anyone looking to pick the perfect color(s) for their house or just to have fun with their pics on the iPhone.

Vancouver (BC) Canada – Moving Tales Inc., producer of innovative and exciting 3D Animated Storybook Apps, today released an upgrade for the first story in its Classic World Tales series, The Pedlar Lady of Gushing Cross.

The Pedlar Lady v1.01 upgrade has a number of new features, including additional musical accompaniment and sound effects, random audio effect implementation and stability improvements. A free upgrade for existing users, The Pedlar is available for new iPad users at the App Store for $4.99.

Hong Kong – CDE Humble Gaming Limited today is pleased to announce Arena 9-HD, the iPad version of their popular iPhone game. The user begins as an Apprentice with 5 free cards. The object is to have multiple duels with other users through which Experience and Arena Points are accumulated. Accumulation of Experience Points allows the user to upgrade from Apprentice to Journeyman then Adept and finally Expert.

Buffalo, NY – PXL Creations today is pleased to announce the release of DashPad (version 1.2), bringing even more functionality to the iPad user experience. Rated 4 out of 5 stars by MacDirectory, and featured on MacWorld, the new and improved DashPad delivers eight handy widgets in one Dashboard-like app, which includes a clock, calendar, calculator, unit converter, sticky note, Google search, Yellow Pages search and weather widget.

Staten Island, New York – HungrySeacow Software today is pleased to announce the release and immediate availability of YummySoup! 2, a major update to their popular recipe management application for Mac OS X. YummySoup! 2 is a complete re-write over version 1, including the features that has made it popular like the visual browser and web importer, but also introduces brand new features such as Recipecasts, Keywords, Themes, and more.

Los Angeles, California – App Apps today is pleased to announce the release of version 1.5 of Audiotorium Notes for iPad with added localization support, new features for organizing notes and user interface streamlining. With this latest release App Apps continues to improve upon their note taking product.

Toronto, Canada – Announcing that Christopher King, the developer of KwikList Plus, has released the latest update for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad users. The application combines unique functionality with professional design to offer the most flexible and efficient list tool available for a mobile platform. KwikList Plus is extremely user-friendly, makes list customization a breeze and the resulting organization that users experience gives them welcome relief from their typical list chaos.

Lierskogen, Norway – Announcing that Kristanix Games, the developers of Mahjong Epic HD, has launched a new product for iPad users. The application has been enjoyed by iPhone and iPod touch users for some time and now, iPad owners can get in on the action, playing on one hundred different Mahjong boards or even creating their own. Kristanix Games is offering the app for 99 cents as an introductory price to celebrate their debut on iPad devices.

Marina del Rey, California – Reactor LLC announces the release of Sciphone Wallpapers, a free application providing over 9,000 wallpapers for iPhone and iPod touch. Wallpaper categories include: 3D, Abstract, Animals, Cars, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Fine Art, Food, Funny, Music, Nature, Simple, Space, Technology, Textures, Travel, and much more. The perfect blend of premium content and refined user experience. Each month, Sciphone serves over 4.8 million wallpapers to more than 150,000 new users in over 190 countries worldwide. Their web app, mobile.sciphone, received Apple’s Web Application Staff Pick, and was featured on Apple’s website before the App Store even existed.

Chantilly, Virginia – KadaMedia’s first game,”Save Teddy!” is now available in the app store and can be played on all versions of the Apple iPhone and Apple iPad. Save Teddy! is an addictive game for kids and adults alike and features physics based gameplay, great soundtracks and 20 fun levels. Easy to play, tough to master.

Buers, Austria – Independent game studio Honey Milk Labs is a one-man team, but that doesn’t stop it from releasing what could be the next best game on the iPhone. Today, Honey Milk Labs is pleased to announce the release and immediate availability of Confetti Championship 1.0, the craziest and most colorful game you’ll see on the iPhone, iPad or iPod touch.

Buffalo, NY – PXL Creations has done it again, bringing clever functionality and simple solutions to the Apple touch screen user experience. Today, they release DashPad, an app that brings a Dashboard environment to the iPad. And here is where “clever” and “simple” come into play; DashPad solves the problem of Apple-imposed limitations by bringing multiple widgets to the iPad without jailbreaking or Apple approval. DashPad runs in Mobile Safari, exclusively on the iPad OS.