Ionocraft Racing HD is a racing game with “dieselpunk” stylings. The environments, tracks and racers take on an industrial grime with a touch of Victorian class.

• Build and upgrade your own speeder piece by piece
• Time-trial racer
• Game Center leaderboards and achievements.
• 13 tracks with hours of gameplay.
• Global world records to beat.
• Retina display support.

If you pick this one up, let us know what you think! Check out the screenshots after the break.

[$3.99 - iTunes link]

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Google has finally taken the wraps off their long awaited, highly-anticipated (what?) social network, Google+ and it looks like a really clever take on the age-old problem of mapping personal relationships to a virtual space. It will eventually roll out across Google’s web properties, but rather than one monolithic service, it’s comprised of several parts:

• Circles, which let you define your relationships and how much you want to share with who and when. These are usually annoying to set up so no one uses them. Google aims to change that.
• Sparks, which brings you content based on your interests and hopes to strike up conversations
• Hangouts, which is multi-person video chat. FaceTime is currently only one-to-one…
• Mobile, which lets you share and upload from your devices (iOS app in the works?)
• Huddle, a group messaging platform now in competition with the mature BBM on BlackBerry and nascent iMessage on iOS

Google hasn’t had much luck with previous projects like Wave and Buzz, but this feels both more ambitious and far better considered. Whether it will be enough to put a dent in Facebook’s 750 million member and growing dominance of the social space remains to be seen. (See how I snuck them into the post? I thought you did.)

One thing is clear, with Apple integrating Twitter into iOS and introducing Game Center, Ping (no snickering), and replacing MobileMe with iCloud, they’re getting more serious (if not yet more adapt) at Social. And Google’s just re-entered, once again, that game in a big way. Are you going to switch?

Videos after the break.

[Google blog via Android Central]

Google +

Sparks

Circles

Hangouts

Mobile (Instant upload)

Huddle

Comex’s Jailbreakme.com site has been updated again with yet another image that shows a list of commits along with an overlay saying:

“It’s been far too long.”

The commits go back almost a year, which is certainly a long time. Whether or not this signifies any progress on the long-anticipated iPad 2 Jailbreak is unknown. Jailbreakme.com was last active during the early days of iOS 4, when a PDF exploit allowed an easy, over-the-web Jailbreak unseen since the early days of iOS 1. The site was recently updated with another cryptic image, so hopefully something is afoot…

[jailbreakme.com]

Google has an interesting tool up called Swiffy, which converts Flash FLV files to “HTML5″ formats which should be compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. (I put HTML5 in quotes because it represents not just the HTML5 standard itself, but typically and conveniently includes CSS3, JavaScript, H.264 video, and other technologies).

Swiffy converts Flash SWF files to HTML5, allowing you to reuse Flash content on devices without a Flash player (such as iPhones and iPads).

Swiffy currently supports a subset of SWF 8 and ActionScript 2.0, and the output works in all Webkit browsers such as Chrome and Mobile Safari. If possible, exporting your Flash animation as a SWF 5 file might give better results.

Flash is more than just video, however, and Flash games, interfaces, and other media types can’t yet be replicated by HTML5. Still for content that Flash — and its overhead — aren’t needed for, this sounds like a great tool. (It also sounds like something banner ad companies will jump on…)

I’m trying it out now on some simple Flash slideshow files but getting errors. If I get it working, I’ll update with the results.

[Swiffy via Daring Fireball]

As Rene previously mentioned, we have been making massive changes in our forums the past few weeks in effort to provide you with one of the best Apple related communities on the web. And the changes do not stop here, in the next few weeks we will continue improving our community to the best of our abilities.

Listed below are some of the hottest forums currently within the community. We are proud of the improvements that have been made so if you have not already done so, please take a moment visit our forums and register today!

• Discuss rumors and speculation surrounding the upcoming iOS 5.

• Discuss and get help with Apple’s upcoming iCloud service (and MobileMe… while it lasts!).

• Discuss rumors and speculation surrounding iPhone 5!

• Discuss and get help with Jailbreaking the iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Apple TV, and talk about Jailbeak apps and hacks.

• Discuss and get help with the AT&T/GSM iPhone 4.

• Discuss and get help with the CDMA/Verizon iPhone 4.

Expect more great changes to come in the weeks ahead! See you in the forums!

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Welcome to Iterate, focused on design, user interface, and user experience from conception to realization. In our debut episode, Marc, Seth, and Rene talk Notification Center in iOS 5, Photoshop 5.5 and SDK, linen textures, justified text, and talk with Anton and Dmitry of SoftFacade. Loop until done.

Iterations

• iOS 5 beta 2 changes Notification Center
• Photoshop 5.5 and the PhotoShop SDK
• Quartz Composer
• Is linen the new brushed metal?
• Text justification

Interrogation

• Anton and Dmitry of SoftFacade.
• For more of their work, check out http://dribbble.com/softfacade

Hosts

• Marc Edwards (@marcedwards)
• Seth Clifford (@sethclifford)
• Rene Ritchie (@reneritchie)

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Every day, TiPb gets flooded with announcements for new and updated iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad apps and games. So every day we pick just a few of the most interesting, the most notable, and simply the most awesome to share with you!

• In Case of Fire: The world is burning! Run through traps, obstacles, and mazes. Escape from a world of fire. Your goal is victory, freedom, the open air! (Trailer after the break). [$0.99 for iPhone - iTunes link]

• IntelliVocab for Business (Sale): Learn common jargon and vocabulary terms used by enterprises and business-oriented individuals. Free until the end of June! [Free for iPhone - iTunes link]

• Stack the Stuff: Stack all the colorful stuff and reach the stars. You’ll find a stack of fun within this simple game. [Free for iPhone and iPad - iTunes link]

• Shufflr: A social video app where videos will find you – spend less time searching and more time watching. [Free for iPhone - iTunes link]

• Boob Job: Yep! There’s even an App for That! [$0.99 for iPhone - iTunes link]

Any other big apps or game releases or updates today? If you pick any of these up, let us know what you think!

Check out a trailer of In Case of Fire after the break!

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Contacts Journal for iPhone and Contacts Journal HD for iPad have updated with calendar integration and new badges. This Contacts Relationship Management (CRM) app is like having a diary and to-do list for each of your contacts, all in one app.

• Log all your interactions with your contacts; review them to prepare for the next meeting
• Add To-Dos for your contacts to remind yourself of important upcoming events and follow-up steps
• To-Dos support adding local alarms, repeating events, and adding to your iPhone Calendar
• View all your Logs and To-Dos across all contacts, sorted by date
• Export your data for reporting by AirPrint, email, CSV or even to your iPhone Contact notes field
• Call, SMS or email your contacts directly from the app, and
• Save to DropBox from one device, and Fetch from DropBox on another, to easily transfer data

The update features are:

• Calendar integration! Now you can add your To-Do item to your iPhone / iPad calendar!
• Icon badges! See a count of your To-Do items right on the icon, on your home-screen.
• Contact badges! See a count for the number of Logs and To-Dos attached to your contact. Great for quickly browsing through your list to see who you have already entered information for, and who you haven’t.
• Badges on the More tab-bar for unsaved DropBox changes. This will help remind you to save your changes to DropBox frequently.

The good folks at zaal have given us a few promo codes to give away to you, our awesome readers! For a chance to win, let us know how many contacts you have and which version you prefer: Contacts Journal or Contacts Journal HD.

If you pick this one up, let us know what you think! Screenshots after the break.

[$4.99 for iPhone - iTunes link] [$4.99 for iPad - iTunes link]

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With iOS 5, Apple has moved the powerful CoreImage framework from OS X over to their mobile operating system, allowing the Photos app for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad to do some basic image editing work. Now, by tapping on the edit button at the top right, you get access to several iPhoto-like tools:

• Rotate, to turn your image in 90 degree increments
• Auto-enhance, which waves a magic wand and tries to balance your image
• Red-eye removal, so you can just say goodbye to flash-induced evil possession
• Crop, which lets you cut away the parts of an image you don’t want, and includes all the standard presets

As is the case with most built-in functions, it provides the basic set of tools but is by no means a feature complete photo editing app. Still, it’s free, its bundled, and very many it will be good enough.

Screenshots after the break. Think any dedicated photo editing apps are in trouble?

The crazy guys from Topfruit have put together a very clever time lapse video showing what they think the iPhone 5 will look like. Strangely enough, these fruit obsessed people decided to make an iPhone 5 solely from fruit and vegetables. They also point out that no fruit was harmed during the making of the video. All the fruit was used for compost at the end!

Take a look at the video after the break and let us know what you think!

[YouTube]