SPIN Media, the premiere resource for music discovery, and we are pleased to announce that SPIN Play for iPad has today received the FWA “Mobile of the Day” Award.

The FWA (Favorite Website Awards) is an industry recognized award program showcasing the very best in cutting edge website design.  This award-winning SPIN Play app will be displayed and linked as the main feature, “Mobile of the Day,” (MOTD) at http://m.TheFWA.com.   SPIN Play will be listed in the FWA mobile winner archive and will also enter the contest for “Mobile of the Month.”

The SPIN Play app gives users access to premium editions featuring 60+ streaming songs and 30+ streaming videos, along with the kind of forward-thinking, authoritative editorial content on which SPIN has built its brand.

The app is free to download and includes a steady feed of news and reviews delivered directly from SPIN.com.  Each edition enables consumers to watch exclusive performances and hear music by artists as they read about them, as well as seamlessly stream music by the bands they already love or discover on SPIN Play.

SPIN Play is available at spin.com/ipad.  An annual subscription is available for $7.99 through In-App Purchase.  Single issue downloads are also available through for $1.99 through In-App Purchase.

Save Christmas by delivering presents and blasting grinches with your flying attack elves. A fun, addictive and action-packed holiday game that is sure to put a smile on your face. Safe for kids, action-packed for adults.

Features:
• Photo-realistic full 3D world combined with whimsical illustrations and hilarious sound effects
• Deliver presents using your rapid-fire gift cannon
• Blast grinches using your flying attack elves
• Save Christmas by maintaining Peppermint Power
• Speed increases making each level more challenging
• Dangling air freshener tells you which way is up

Apple picked Santa Wings 2 for their New and Noteworthy showcase on the iTunes App Store. Thank you Apple. It’s the perfect holiday gift!

See more about Santa Wings 2 here.

Download Santa Wings 2 from the App Store here.

This is a fun game. – AppReview

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Bottle Rocket is one of the first companies to release an app that controls a hardware accessory connected to the iPhone/iPod Touch.

Please contact us about making an app for your hardware (and the hardware itself).

About the HD Radio iPhone/iPod Touch App:

Turn any iPhone or iPod Touch into a HDRadio receiver using the HD Radio Tuner (available from RadioShack) and this app!

HD Radio is the most significant advancement in radio broadcasting since the introduction of FM stereo more than 50 years ago. HD Radio technology enables AM and FM radio stations to broadcast their programs digitally – a tremendous technological leap from the analog broadcasts of the past.

The HD Radio app controls your HD Radio Tuner, which is an external piece of hardware that connects to any iPhone or iPod Touch’s dock connector to tune your local radio stations. There are two models available from Gigaware that can be purchased at www.radioshack.com or your local RadioShack store.

Features:
- Amazing interface
- Tune manually using the wheel or using auto-seek
- Song and station information
- Tell your friends what your listening to through Email, Twitter and Facebook
- Tag your favorite songs for later review or purchase
- Store your favorite stations
- See what’s playing on a station’s HD Radio channels

Requirements:
- Compatible with all iPhones and iPod Touch models.
- The HD Radio app requires a compatible HD Radio Tuner.

Download the app from the App Store (you must have the HD Radio iPhone/iPod Touch hardware accessory to use the app).

Well, it’s not paint by numbers. But it’s still pretty interesting.

Take a look at our labs page and let us know what you think about it.

Click here for the Bottle Rocket Apps labs page.

NEW YORK—Usually people listen to NPR. But this time it’s NPR who is listening.

Bottle Rocket Apps, developer of several top iPhone applications, announced the 1.1 update for the NPR News app. Less than a month after its initial launch to critical acclaim, the NPR News iPhone app received an important update including ever-popular social networking. This update makes reading, listening to and sharing the news even more accessible for millions of people. Bottle Rocket Apps is bringing iPhone development to the next level with its high utility, visually stunning apps.

Immediately after its release, NPR News quickly became the #1 free News app and the #7 most popular free app overall in the App Store (recently surpassing the Facebook app). Since its launch last month, NPR News has already achieved one million downloads. As the first app offering users the option to read, listen, and peruse NPR’s large catalogue of programs and content, the response by the public has been overwhelmingly positive.

A few of the major features in 1.1 include the ability to:
- Share news stories via Facebook, Twitter or Email
- Pause radio programs
- Fast forward and rewind (scrub) radio programs
- Pinch-zoom news story images

“Working with Bottle Rocket, we built a road map for NPR news and programs and NPR station programming that is audience driven,” said Robert Spier, Director of Content Development and Mobile Program Operations for.NPR. “Our goal is to deliver the highest quality journalism and programs on all of our platforms, ensuring that our content is universally accessible.”

It is important that companies listen to their users; this is particularly true for iPhone developers as consumers have a myriad of choices available in the App Store. NPR and Bottle Rocket Apps selected new features based on user feedback, with social network capabilities and scrubbing being the most requested features. “We dig in deep and push hard on every aspect of the project to make sure it’s the best it can possibly be”, said Calvin Carter, President of Bottle Rocket Apps. “The success of this app is a combination of our unique design process, NPR’s amazing content and our shared focus on what the user wants.”

These constant improvements to the usability of their apps are what distinguish Bottle Rocket Apps and NPR, as both companies understand that they must tailor their service to the user, creating an effortless usability and quality of experience. With this constant attention to detail, they are redefining how to create a polished mobile application that is a pleasure to use.

“Want to read, listen, see, share, Twitter, Facebook, email, scrub, scroll, save and playlist the news? Now there’s an app for that” said Carter.

The 1.1 update to NPR News is available now in the App Store as a free download on iPhone and iPod Touch or at this link.