This logic and reasoning brain training game – a mixture of Minesweeper and Battleships – is designed to challenge your cognitive ability to grasp concepts in a short period of time. Compare your own skills with the results of other great minds.

The game is played on a board of 70 fields. A number of space ships are hidden somewhere on this board. A simple field is a radar station that allows you to scan for hidden ships. The object of play is to find all hidden ships with a minimum number of scans. Black holes block the radar scan and create complex game situations.

The game contains:

• A tutorial that explains game logic,
• 4 Highscore levels,
• freeplay variants that you can configure as you like,
• a 2 player variant in which you can hide the ships for an opponent,
• a 2 player variant that can be played with local WIFI/Bluetooth

You don’t really plan to spend all day long with your girlfriend or boyfriend on St. Valentine’s Day without your lovely iPhone, do you!? vieda.de brings up a very good reason why you should also have some fun with your iDevice . Your partner would benefit for sure when you’re in a good mood. Jump over to the AppStore on the 14th and see what apps are included in this offer!

Winner of an iPod shuffle:

• Gernot S. from Munich.

A power adapter for iPod touch or iPhone:

• Oli H. “near Cologne/Bonn”
• Matthias G. from Wiesbaden
• Peter G. from Kempten

Answer of the iPod-winner:

• Germany (DS = Donaueschingen (until 1972))
• Great Britain (DS = Shrewsbury)
• Norway (DS = Oslo)
• Slovakia (DS = Dunajská Streda)

Most interesting answer from one of the winners:

• DS Glasgow Great Britain
• DS Dunajská Streda Slovakia
• DS Oslo Norway
• DS Papua Indonesia

Since indonesia is not yet included in LicensePlate, i’ll implement it with one of the next updates! Glasgow has been used with DS until 2001 and is now used for Shrewsbury and Deeside.

Thank you very much for all of your answers, some of them have been pretty entertaining!

With LicensePlate Pro, traveling by car is even more fun!

• Find information about license plates and regions in more than 30 countries
• Find plate keys around your current position
• Mark/Collect spotted plates (w/Backup’n'Restore)
• Use the search and inverted search for searching plate keys and regions across all included countries or use the filter for each single country

Win a give-away: Send the names of 4 countries, that have the license plate key ‘DS’ as a regional indicator, to and with a bit of luck you’ll win an iPod shuffle or one of 3 power adapters for iPod touch and/or iPhone (The winner will be contacted via email. Only submissions from a valid email address until the 24th of january 2010 will be accepted).

LicensePlate Pro features include:

• More than 30 countries
• Regions and special hints to some regions
• Integrated map, optional: jump to maps app
• Integrated wikipedia information for some countries, optional: jump to wikipedia apps (Wikipanion, Wikiamo)
• Position-based search
• Search for plate keys or for full text (regions/districts)
• Filter for each country (full text or keys only)
• License plate collection with progress tracking
• Backup and restore of your data
• Continuing insertion of new data/more countries… (LicensePlate started in fall 2008 with just 1 country!)

The LicensePlate Pro home screen shows all the countries it comes with. Select a country or search function and start spotting plate keys!

LicensePlate Pro is the ideal app for longer road trips. And it’s an awesome new way to track what you spotted.

Please, support my development efforts on this little app by jumping over to the AppStore and install it on your iDevice:

Make use of the integrated feedback function to send me your ideas and suggestions.

Follow me on Twitter to stay in touch with the latest developments!

Bring your web applications to life by modeling the workflow of the app. Write incredibly easy plugins that you can use on any trigger-point in your workflow. Make use of the great possibilities of the imatics *FormEngine and extend it with your own components, validators and calculators.

The imatics *ProcessGallery is a simple portal, set up for you to learn about the imatics *ProcessSuite, a simple and powerful tool to develop web applications in a whole new way.

• Begin with your idea.
• Draw and define your app as a process.
• Test your process in a simple runtime environment.
• Discuss your process model and execution flow.
• Integrate your backend systems.
• Check your runtime results, define charts and characteristics

Maybe it sounds like geek-stuff, but it’s not… well, not really

In many countries – especially in europe – you will find a special character combination on a license plate that tells you where a car is coming from or gives other informations about the car.

LicensePlate comes with car license plate shortcuts of several countries, from which you can choose very fast and intuitive (see country list below). It shows informations about the region where a car is registered and links to the maps application, so that you can see on the map where the car is coming from and use the maps application to let it show you the way to that specific location. Once you’ve spotted a plate you can mark it and build up your collection of plates you’ve seen on the street.

Countries included:

Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, former GDR, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Northern Ireland, Norway, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine

No regional information, basics:

Belgium, Denmark, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Sweden, Latvia, Hungary

Reviews:

• apfelkraft.ch
• appsblog.de

The following example shows a full text search for the word ‘Sachsen’.
The result list contains entries for ‘Sachsen’ as well as ‘Niedersachsen’. You get better results if you follow the pattern that can be seen in the list view of license plate. A search for ‘(Sachsen)’ will exclude results in ‘Niedersachsen’.

FlightCode lists ICAO and IATA Codes for airports, aircraft types and airlines. It also lists the country codes/registration informations of an aircraft. You’ll find a link to the maps application for many of the listed airports. And you can mark everything you’ve seen (spotting function). Stay in touch with the developer by using the direct feedback and bring in your ideas to make this application better and better. Nice photographs draw a better picture of the topic. Enjoy flying and enjoy FlightCode!

For passengers:

You want to know where the nicely colored aircraft comes from? Look at the country codes of FlightCode. You want to look where on your route the fuel stop is, but you only have shortcuts on your tickets? Look at the IATA airport codes in FlightCode. You like to know what the shortcuts on your luggage labels tell you? Or you just want to look in the FlightCode database when you don’t have internet access during the flight?

For Pros:

You only have IATA Codes on your flight schedule and want to know what the new destination on that plan is? You got smaller airports on your route, on the left and on the right, and don’t want to consult the manual? The offline database of FlightCode can help. You recognize a callsign like “Yellow Flyer” in an aircraft radio call? Look up the ICAO Callsigns with FlightCode to know what Airline this is…

Reviews:

• boarding.fr
• apfelkraft.ch

The following example shows how to use the ‘Single word filter’ in the list views of the ICAO airport codes.
Target airport is ‘White Sands Regional Airport’ in New Mexico: