Reflection Connection is a new iPad puzzle game of strategically placing mirrors to reflect beams of light to connect gems without blocking other pathways. The concept may be simple, but completing the goal is a challenge!

• Easy to learn, difficult to master
• Game board sizes from 4×4 to 20×20
• Get bonus points for connecting quickly
• Challenge friends & family to head-to-head competition
• Thousands of unique boards

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

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Orange has developed a t-shirt that also doubles as an iPhone charger. The t-shirt which is called the Orange Sound Charge is in a prototype phase at the moment. Extensive testing will be carried out at this year's Glastonbury Festival.

The eco charging device uses an existing technology in a revolutionary way; by reversing the use of a product called Piezoelectric film, allowing people to charge their mobile phones whilst enjoying their favourite headline act at Glastonbury. Usually found in modern hi-fi speakers, an A4 panel of the modified film is housed inside a t-shirt which then acts much like an oversized microphone by 'absorbing' invisible sound pressure waves. These sound waves are converted via the compression of interlaced quartz crystals into an electrical charge, which is fed into an integral reservoir battery that in turn charges most makes and models of mobile phone. As the 'device' is worn, a steady charge is able to be dispensed into the phone via a simple interchangeable lead which fits most handsets.

Orange believe that a sound level of around 80dB (which is roughly the ambient noise level of a busy high street) could produce up to 6 watt hours of power. That should be enough to charge up your iPhone which needs 5 watts. The panel in the t-shirt is removable so unlike most festival attendees, you can wash your t-shirt if you need to! Take a look at the video after the break then let us know what you think in the comments!

[Orange]

Fruit Ninja for iPhone and Fruit Ninja HD for iPad have been updated with the Pomegranate, a multi-slice bullet time fruit.

• The pomegranate blasts its way into Classic and Arcade mode – slice it as many times as possible before it bursts apart, clearing away bombs and destroying all the other fruit around it!
• New relaxing musical score for the Dojo.
• Your friends all time best scores can now be viewed in the results screen, so you can easily check out which of your friends is the greatest ninja of all!
• Tweaks to Arcade mode which now has even more opportunities to combo and blitz your way to staggering high scores!

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

[$0.99 for iPhone - iTunes link] [$2.99 for iPad - iTunes link]

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Returning to your regularly scheduled ZENandTECH, Georgia and Rene discuss the benefits of exercise and how it alleviates depression, burns away stress, helps you sleep, improves your concentration, and otherwise works wonders. Plus, some app picks to help you keep track of your progress and build good habits.

Read on for more, including our Nintendo Wii giveaway!

Topics

• The importance of aerobic exercise
• The benefits of aerobic exercise: Rapid metabolism of adrenaline and thyroxin, oxygenation of blood and brain, stimulates endorphins, decreases cholesterol, improves circulation, lowers insomnia, increases self esteem, improves concentration and memory
• How to know if you’re not getting enough: Are your muscles tense? Can't walk up a set of stairs without being out of breathe? Long recovery time after you exert yourself? Feel tired? Lethargic? Feeling depressed? Ache for days after a work out?
• Examples of aerobic exercise: Cycling, running, swimming (great if you have injuries), combat sports like grappling, vigorous sex
• Help getting motivated: Join a gym, join a team, ask a friend to start with you

Tools

• Think about how well you take care of your gadgets, how you keep them clean, protect the screens, keep them charged and updated.
• Now think about how well you take care of your most important gadget — your body. You deserve the same level of care! More even!

Homework

• Get your heart rate up for 10 min., 5 times a week (to burn stress)
• Start slow if you’re new, better to aim small and accomplish

Giveaway

to coincide with ZENandTECH 4: Exercism, we’re giving away a barely used, mint-condition Nintendo Wii (we review a lot of stuff we never have a chance to use later). One lucky listener will get to work out, and have fun, with Wii Sports and a bunch of other active, exciting games.

All you have to do to enter is head on over to iTunes and give ZENandTECH a review. (We’d love 5 stars, but that’s not a requirement!)

Because iTunes doesn’t provide contact info, once you’ve posted your review, just shoot us an email at podcast@zenandtech.tv and let us know which one is yours. We won’t make your email public, but we will use it to contact you if you win!

And hey, if you already have a Wii, enter anyway. You can give it to a loved on or friend, a child or grandparent, anyone who would benefit from staying healthy and having fun!

That’s it! Go enter!

Tech pics

• BlackBerry: GymTechnik
• webOS: Jogstats
• iPhone: Top 5 iPhone Fitness apps
• Android: Android fitness app picks

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TiPb’s developer spotlights are like DVD/iTunes Extras for the App Store — a weekly look behind the scenes at the programers and designers that bring you the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad apps and games you love. This week Rene talks with Alexander Tsepko from MacPhun.

Note: This interview was conducted a few days before WWDC 2011.

What’s your name? Alexander Tsepko. Some people call me AT.

What’s your company? MacPhun LLC.

Where are you located? USA and Ukraine (Europe). Most of MacPhun people are located in these two countries. But we also have freelancers (developers, beta testers, designers) in some other countries around the world. These people give us great input on what features to include in apps. For example we collected suggestions on what filters to include in FX Photo Studio from all continents and it is absolutely amazing how tastes differ.

What’s your website address? www.macphun.com – corporate home page, which is now in the process of remaking, but you can get an idea about what applications we have developed. Also we have www.fxphotostudioapp.com, www.perfectphotoapp.com, www.silentfilmdirector.com and www.cartoonaticapp.com for our most loved apps.

What’s your Twitter name? Mostly I use @fxphotostudio where I share news about our photo applications, iPhoneography and all fun things. You can say it is both personal and business; I am not a type of person to keep several accounts for different purposes. Don't have that much time. Also there is @silentfilmdir, where we tweet about things related to video with iPhone and iPod touch.

What apps do you make? We have a photo processing application FX Photo Studio for iPhone and FX Phone Studio HD for iPad. There is a version for iOS and newly released version for Mac OS, which is called FX Photo Studio PRO. Then we have Silent Film Director for iOS. This app lets you create awesome retro movies. Photo editor for iPhone Perfect Photo and photo editor for iPad PhotoPal. Also fresh and free video app Cartoonatic for shooting animated videos. This is by far my favorite app. I am a big A-HA fan and this app lets you create music video which will look almost like that famous "Take on me" clip. We have developed more apps, but these are the titles which people and us love and use most.

What apps, other than your own, are currently among your favorites? As a photo and video fanboy I really love Instagram for sharing and innovations, QuickPix for speed, Super 8 for style and LensFlare for almost everything about it. Also I am greatly enjoying the app, called SkyView, it lets you see some mind blowing things around you. And I play Infinity Blade quite often: have spent lots of money on in-app purchases, so I am not surprised they are among top grossing apps. Wondering if guys from Chair Entertainment Group ever purchased in-apps in FX Photo Studio☺

How long have you been a developer? How long have you been an iOS developer? Almost from the day Steve Jobs went on stage and showed iPhone to the world. We were sure and we still are that this big little (or little big) device changed everything. Right now I don't do much of development and mostly take care of marketing and corporate relations.

Do you develop for any other platform in addition to iOS? If so, which one(s)? We have recently released FX Photo Studio for Mac and therefore made our way into software business. Enjoying it, getting good feedback from Mac users, learning things… Not a secret we are looking at other platforms, including Android, Bada, Symbian, etc. Looks promising and challenging; we will introduce our apps to those markets pretty soon. And since we have developed FX Photo Studio PRO for Mac, why not making a version for Windows as well. All users should have equal opportunities, shouldn't they?

What primary computer setup do you use for your iOS development? I have MacBook Pro with latest software just to be on top of things. iPad 2 arrived recently. Plus the one and only iPhone 4. Just enough not to miss important things and make sure no one important misses you. If you visit our offices, you will find about a dozen of different iPhones for testing, same with iPads and a variety of different Macs. We even have those toy-looking iBooks. Not to mention few Android and smartphones to know what's new among Android apps.

What mobile devices, other than iOS, do you currently use? None at the moment, but thinking of getting few Samsung and Nokia devices to test some of the apps they offer. I am a big Apple fan, can't imagine what can make me move to other device, though I tried many.

What’s your favorite thing about developing for iOS? First thing that comes to mind is that practically anyone can learn how to do this. But the most favorite thing is no doubt a possibility to meet new people. You won't believe how many people inspire me and they are all connected with Apple (I mean the brand, not necessarily Apple Inc). I have been working in different markets, but for some reason people who are connected with Apple are the friendliest, smartest and most innovative I ever met. Glad to be among them.

What’s your least favorite thing about developing for iOS? That practically everyone does it and the number is growing, thus you see lots of apps, which I wish I've never seen in my life. They are that bad.

What feature would you most like Apple to add to the iOS SDK? Frankly speaking, I am ok even with current features. I mean lots of people were fine without web search until Google came and now they can't live without it. I am pretty fine with current iOS SDK, but am sure that next version will bring something I won't be able to live without as time passes. This is what I like most about everything Apple makes.

What feature would you most like Apple to add to the App Store? It could be cool to let developers contact users who leave comments about apps. Quite often you get some feedback and you know you have to reply to it with a suggestion or additional question and you just can't do that. Would be cool to let developers leave comments, which are highlighted with a different color, so people know that a developer left it. A developer will be given a limited number of such comments (2-5 per app), not to turn the feedback section into chat room, but reply to a particular comment or discussion.

Also I really love the idea of showing people up to 300 top apps, not TOP 50 only. FX Photo Studio is in TOP 50 and our other apps are among category tops, so we should not worry, but I know how many awesome apps were left unnoticeable just because the users could not see them. And the last, but not least, Apple should do something with iPad App Store, the navigation is quite confusing. Or is it just me?

What do you do when you’re not coding iOS apps? I learn how to drive a small single engine plane (not mine☺), take pictures with iPhone, try to get in touch with tech bloggers to let them have our apps, beta test apps by other developers, watch Lie to Me and (most of the time) plan the birth of our first kid with my awesome wife.

What should we look for from you next? Definitely more apps and updates. MacPhun stays in this business. First of all new versions of FX Photo Studio both for iOS and Mac OS. We are now looking for iPhoneographers and Photographers who will help us to develop new filters and frames. So, if you are one of those people, or know anyone, feel free to contact me for details. Also, new features for Silent Film Director App. The app has almost 300 000 users now, so it would be good to give this army of retro fans something new to play with. And so on and so forth.

Thanks Alex!

While Apple boldly cut the cord with iOS 5, moving from iTunes to iCloud, it looks like they’re wisely leaving some account management power in the veteran desktop app — namely the ability to manage iCloud associated devices.

With iOS 5 on your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad, you can choose to enable automatic downloads — so any app or iBook (or music in the US) bought on iTunes on Mac or Windows PC, or on any iOS device on your account, is pushed out to every other client on that account. Buy Pages on iPhone, it automatically installs on your iPad as well. With iOS 4.3 and iOS 5, you can also call up a list of previous app (and music in the US) purchases and re-download them.

So seeing exactly which devices are on your account, and being able to remove them if you have to (buh-bye, ex!) is a great feature for iCloud to have, and it makes sense for it to live in iCloud.

Moreover, since you can only change the account any device is registered to once every 90 days (to prevent everyone from logging in to every friends’ account and downloading everyone else’s content without paying for it), iTunes will also show you how many days you have left until you can switch accounts again.

If you only have one device, it may not be a big deal. If you’re managing a family, or your account status is as complicated as your relationships, it may matter to you more.

Koder is a code editor for the iPad. It has many features including syntax highlighting, snippet manager, tabbed editing, find and replace code, editor theme, remote and local files connection.

• Syntax Highlighting
• Project Based
• Built In Snippet Manager
• Tabbed editing
• Find and replace code
• Previewer Browser with View Source function
• Editor theme
• Extra Key / Additional Keys on Virtual Keyboard with open+close brackets keys
• FTP Connection, Dropbox, iDisk, local ipad file storage
• Sophisticated File Browser
• Expandable editing space
• Bluetooth Keyboard Support

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

[$5.99 - iTunes link]

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Not that many of us are Bond, Borne, or Sarah Walker types, but just in case you might be a target for cellular call eavesdropping, iOS 5 will now warn you when you’re talking over an unsecured network. If you’re a high value target, you’re probably avoiding even the secure ones, but if you’re simply living next to a nosy neighbor with too much time and Radio Shack kit on his or her hands, it could be handy to know when you’re vulnerable.

Anyone glad for this warning?

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!

• Quick Recall: A full featured to do list and note manager designed for users by users. [$2.99 - iTunes link]

• Pimp Your Screen: Customize the look of your device by giving you an exclusive selection of specially designed backgrounds, icon skins, app shelves, neon combos and many other eye candies. Now with a Home screen Maker, multitasking support, and more! [$0.99 - iTunes link]

• Bamboo Paper (Sale): Provides you with the ability to create virtual notebooks for your iPad, letting you share your ideas visually with handwritten notes, sketches or doodles. Free until the end of June! [Free - iTunes link]

• Meme Generator: Enjoy making memes in a few seconds! Now with a Meme Showroom, font color selector, and 25 new memes and images. [Free - iTunes link] [$0.99 for Pro - iTunes link]

• Life Stats: What have you done with your life? From sports, to mundane tasks like brushing your teeth, rank, and compare the activities that have consumed you and your friends' lives. [Free - iTunes link]

• fotobookr: An easy-of-use lightweight photo app for iPad and iPhone that allows you to preview photos of your Facebook friends updated in the last 24 hours. [$0.99 - 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!

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