The Basics:

Enable OpenFeint in DoodleBomb 1.5 (full version). Play your heart out. Winners selected on April 4, 2010 from the online leaderboard. Don’t worry, even if you’re not a Bomb Master, you can still win great cash prizes.

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The Details:

Think you’re one of the best Bomb Masters out there? Prove it and earn your chance to win your share of over $2,000 in cash and prizes! Anyone who enters can win.

1. Pick up your copy of Doodle Bomb (full version) and join the thousands of other satisfied Doodle Bombers!

2. Enable OpenFeint by tapping on the “Scores & Awards” button on the Main Menu of the app and following the instructions.

3. Be sure you associate an email address with your OpenFeint account. This is done by tapping on the Edit Profile Button in OpenFeint and then complete the Enable Account Retrieval process in the app. This email address is used to contact you if you win and you won’t be added to any marketing lists by Bottle Rocket.

4. Bombs Away! Complete missions using as few bombs and as quickly as possible. You can check your rank on the * Top Overall Scores * leaderboard. This is the sum of all your scores from each mission. We will select winners on April 4, 2010 for the following prizes:

–> Grand Prize <–
We will randomly select one of the top 5 overall scores to be awarded $1,000 cash!

–> First Prize <–
We will randomly select one of the top 10 overall scores to be awarded $500 cash!

–> Second Prize <–
We will randomly select one of the top 20 overall scores to be awarded $250 cash!

–> Third Prize <–
We will randomly select one of the top 40 overall scores to be awarded $150 cash!

–> Fourth Prize <–
We will randomly select one of the top 100 overall scores to be awarded $100 cash!

… And More … Everyone on the online leaderboard will be eligible to win one of 10 $25 Gift Certificates!

// Only one prize will be awarded per user.
// Winners outside the U.S. will be paid in US dollar value of the prize via PayPal.
// This contest is open to anyone 18 years or older.
// Void where prohibited by law. Winner responsible for any taxes or fees and must comply with any tax requirements.

* This promotion has no affiliation with Apple, Inc.

Now, NPR raises the bar again with over 180 changes to the app, the most noteworthy being:
-> Resume listening after a phone call or relaunching the app
-> Improved Facebook posting including story photos
-> New graphical look
-> More timely editorial content in Top Stories
-> In-session notification when NPR runs special live coverage (e.g., breaking news events)
-> Stations section will default to user’s favorites
-> All new Playlist including single-screen presentation, previous/next, fast forward/rewind and what’s playing
-> A variety of user interface refinements and enhancements
-> Zoom news photos including landscape viewing
-> Playlist record counter
-> Ability to reset the application to remove all user data
-> New app icon
-> Many more tweaks and improvements

The 2.0 update has been submitted to Apple for review and will be on the App Store soon.

Get the NPR News app today free.

The third update to the popular Doodle Bomb physics puzzle game for iPod and iPhone touch will include some great updates for those who want to take their skills to the next level. With a new scoring system from OpenFeint that measures speed and accuracy, over 65 unique leaderboards and 22 achievements to discover and unlock… this update will challenge even to most battle-hardened Bomb Master! Players also will have the option to boast their scores to either Facebook or Twitter through the OpenFeint network!

Doodle Bomb 1.5 was submitted yesterday for approval by Apple for the iPhone and iPod touch App Store. Look for it soon on the App Store.

Get Doodle Bomb on the App Store now!

Doodle Bomb, Bottle Rocket’s physics puzzler with a bang, has been awarded MacWorld’s coveted Editors Choice award and rated 5 stars.

Doodle Bomb: Physics Puzzle with a Bang from iPhone developer Bottle Rocket is one of the few puzzle games we’ve played that gets better the more time you invest in playing it. Addictive, the game is perfectly balanced between too easy and too hard, slowly building momentum and ensuring extended hours of challenging fun with some excellent responsive controls.

Read the full MacWorld review and article by Nick Spence.

“There are no shortage of news apps in the App Store. But this app takes one of the most trusted news sources, NPR, and presents it in a wonderful way. Not only do you have access to audio from nearly all of the NPR programs, but you have the latest news available all the time. Also throw in access to finding the broadcast times and stations of your favorite NPR programs no matter where you are and you have the best news app.” - 148apps.com

Winning this category was no small feat. The NPR News app had to beat out strong contenders such as The New York Times, Instapaper, NetNewsWire and CNN Mobile.

Judges included 148Apps.com, Appular, AppVee, IGN, The iPhone Blog, Ars Technica, TUAW, Slide to Play, Wired and much more.

Bottle Rocket Apps shares this honor with NPR as well as our good friends at Apple.

Get the NPR News app for iPhone on the App Store now.

“…it sets a new standard for future physics puzzle games.” — Slide to Play

Sliver Medal Award — Pocket Gamer France

And now, less than a month after Doodle Bomb hit the App Store, Bottle Rocket Apps releases a major update with the following new features:
—> 10 new Master and 5 new Standard missions to challenge your skills.
—> New anti-gravity control that allows you to get to hard to reach places and to roll bombs on ceilings
—> No more Bomb Badge requirement to start the Master Missions. Dive in and start playing them whenever you feel like it
—> Variable Bomb Tilt. Carefully nudge the bomb into place or lean hard to chase something down before the fuse expires
—> And more…

Doodle Bomb for iPhone and iPod Touch is a very unique game with 65 levels (and growing) and tons of re-play value.

Get Doodle Bomb for iPhone on the App Store today.

Save enough money to make your iPhone free! We’re not kidding. GasBuddy will pay for itself in one tank of gas and will pay for your iPhone after one year of use.

Gas prices change frequently and may vary as much as 20% within only a few blocks. It’s important to be able to find the service station with the lowest priced fuel.

Fuel prices are updated constantly by millions of volunteers making it one of the most successful crowd-sourcing projects on the internet. These are actual figures from 2/12/2010: A car that has an 18 gallon tank that gets 18 MPG in the city and drives 15,000 miles per year in Dallas, TX will save up to $6.48/tank and $358.33/year by using GasBuddy. Savings can change by the minute.

The newly released 3.0 update has a ton of new features including:
– Maps are 10x faster
– Drag map to update prices from coast to coast
– Price freshness indicated
– Sort by Price or Distance
– App automatically inserts decimal for price reporting in both US and Canadian formats
– Report prices for unknown stations
– Fetches updated prices automatically on launch
– Shake to update prices
– More

Get GasBuddy on the App Store now.

This Valentine’s Day, don’t settle for just any generic card – show them or better yet, TELL them how much they mean to you in a Voice Valentine.

Features:
– Over a dozen themes
– Add your own photo
– Record a personalized voice message
– Add a written message
– Send cards to any number of people in your contact list at once
– Share your cards through Twitter or Facebook (including audio)
– Beautiful and easy to use app design makes sending cards enjoyable

And now Bottle Rocket Apps is giving 30 copies of the app away for free. Promotional codes have been given to several known bloggers, 5 codes were just posted to Bottle Rocket’s Twitter account (@btlrkt) and 2 are listed below. Try them soon before someone else uses them. All we ask is that you post a review of the app once you’ve had a chance to use it.

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Use them on the App Store here.

The iRelate app allows you to bring the power of Personology with you wherever you go. Includes 1,176 relationship reports, a great birthday selector screen, entertaining celebrity relationship reports, quick access to relationship reports of the people in your Contacts with birth dates and much more.

Download from the App Store.

And here is a video from KTLA news Cyberguy.

The iPad stands as the middle ground between a full-blown laptop computer and an iPhone.

Steve Jobs was quoted today saying “It’s so much more intimate than a laptop and so much more capable than a smart phone.”

Bottle Rocket intends to help Apple fill that gap with excellent iPad apps to compliment the amazing new iPad device. Bottle Rocket has also begun conversion of multiple custom-developed apps for its clients. Those titles will be released in the next 2 months to coincide with the availability of the iPad.

Bottle Rocket was there when the first apps shipped on the iPhone in 2008. Bottle Rocket was the first iPhone developer to release an iPhone app that controlled hardware that was widely available in retail stores in the summer of 2009. Bottle Rocket will be one of the first iPad developers when the first iPad apps ship this year.