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.

Want to know what PBS programs are available or coming up? No problem, just check out the Programs section which lists videos from all PBS programs or the Previews section of the app to view clips from several upcoming shows.

Want to watch a PBS program you love right now? The Spotlight section is where you can find full episodes, short clips and highlights of your favorite PBS programs.

Don’t want to miss the PBS shows you love? Then check out the app’s Schedule where you can set a reminder and invite family and friends to watch with you by sharing through Facebook, Twitter and email.

What makes this app great is that all video content streams nicely over wifi as well as 3G so you have access to video of your favorite PBS programs whenever you’re connected.

The PBS iPhone app can be downloaded for free from the App Store so definitely download it if you haven’t yet.

To celebrate the holidays, Bottle Rocket Apps has developed new missions, characters and holiday theme for its popular iPhone and iPod touch game, “Doodle Bomb”. The new version, available to existing owners of the game as a free download from the iTunes App Store, adds a holiday theme as well as new missions to continue to challenge players.

Doodle Bomb is one of the most popular physics puzzle games on the iTunes App Store, with more than 1 million downloads since its release in early 2010. The game features physics driven bombs, strategically placed machines, and hilarious characters and sound effects. It’s easy to pick up and play, but difficult to master, requiring strategy, timing and precision. The game has been played more than 7 million times, and players have already completed more than 25 million missions, in less than a year.

This free holiday update gives Doodle Bomb fans 12 new challenging missions on which to earn “Bomb Badges,” plus a new present machine that acts as a springboard to send virtual bombs hurling into hard to reach places. The game’s cast of characters has received a holiday facelift as well: the enemy soldiers and bomb-bouncing rats have dressed up for the season with hats and antlers.

“We wanted to give our fans an update that didn’t just provide new mission content, but also gave them a reason to go back and explore the missions they have already played to see what has changed in the Doodle Bomb world for the Holidays,” said Bottle Rocket’s Matt Johnson, designer of the game. “Nothing gets people into the spirit like giant peppermints falling out of the sky and rats with antlers toting shotguns!”

Since its release at the beginning of the year, Doodle Bomb has garnered critical acclaim from industry review sites, including a MacWorld Editor’s Choice Award and being named as one of the five best doodle games of the year by Appolicious. The game consistently receives great customer reviews, and even celebrity interest: in a recent Entertainment Weekly interview with actor Neil Patrick Harris before hosting the 2010 Video Game Awards, he praised Doodle Bomb as a “great game,” saying that it was one of his favorites!

Bottle Rocket’s Doodle Bomb is available for both the iPhone and iPod touch and is compatible with the iPad. The new version of the game can be purchased on the iTunes App Store now for $0.99 (U.S.), or downloaded for free by existing users.

Other featured video on the app includes archived content from ABC’s Wide World of Sports as well as ESPN’s E:60 and Outside the Lines. The app also features sports analysis from “Picks Central;” and bar trivia from the “Answer Guy.”

After a free two-week trial, a six-month subscription for the app runs for $9.99 and includes a subscription to ESPNInsider.com, ESPN’s paid content site. Current ESPN The Magazine and ESPN Insider subscribers can download the app for free using their ESPN Insider username and password.

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.

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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).

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.

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.