I got to meet the creators of Angry Birds back at E3 earlier this year, but because of our busy schedules, didn’t get too much of a chance to really talk with them in-depth about their experience on the App Store so far. Fortunately, GamesBeat has done just that, providing a nice profile of Rovio’s Peter Vesterbacka and Mikael Hed, the two Finnish creators of one of the App Store’s most popular titles. They’re actually mobile app veterans — while Angry Birds is their biggest hit as a company, they’ve also developed for lots of other groups, including Real Networks and Electronic Arts.

The game was created to be casual, open to anyone to play, and use some really memorable characters that would resonate with anyone who picked it up. They accomplished those goals — the game has found a surprising following around the world, and almost everyone who owns an iPhone recognizes the birds and pigs characters. A US$4.99 iPad version has also taken off, and Rovio plans to bring the app to lots of other mobile devices as well. The growth has been entirely organic, too — they haven’t spent a single cent on advertising the game, instead relying completely on word-of-mouth and Apple’s own promotional tools.

And while their success is already quite widespread, the two say their goals are even bigger than what they’ve accomplished so far: they hope to eventually see 100 million paid downloads. Definitely possible — it’s interesting to see how iPhone-created brands are growing so quickly.

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Toodledo, a popular to do list app for the iPhone and iPad, is being offered free for today only.

Toodledo is a powerful task and note manager, for the iPhone and iPad. It will help organize your to-do list and notes, and make you more productive. You can use Toodledo as a standalone application, or you can have it seamlessly synchronize your lists with Toodledo.com, one of the most popular online task managers.

With Toodledo you can:
✔ Track the priority, start date, due date, time, length or status of a task.
✔ Assign the task to a folder, context or goal.
✔ Flag the task with a visual star or tag it with keywords.
✔ Get audible popup alarms for tasks that are due soon, using Apple’s Push Network for remote notifications. There are 20 high quality alert sounds to choose from. Requires some setup to work properly. Instructions: www.toodledo.com/info/iphone.php
✔ Add a free-form note to your task.
✔ Take longer, non-task related notes in the Notebook section.
✔ Create tasks that repeat on a schedule of your choosing.
✔ Search through your tasks to quickly find the ones that matter.
✔ Drill down into your to do lists by a variety of useful criteria. For example, if you want to see all the overdue tasks, just go into the “Due Dates” to do list and select “Overdue”.
✔ Apply filters to your todo lists to hide unimportant tasks.
✔ Sort your list by multiple fields, to ensure that important tasks float to the top.
✔ Quickly find important tasks with the “Hotlist”. This smart to do list is automatically filled with important tasks based on priority and due date.
✔ Securely sync your todo list with Toodledo.com for backup purposes, and to use the additional functionality available on our website: file attachments, subtasks, sharing/collaboration, rss feeds, forums, etc.
✔ Existing Toodledo.com Pro subscribers who use subtasks on our website will also have access to subtasks on the iPhone.
✔ Works on iPhone and iPad. Two apps in one! Buy our low priced task manager and get your to-do list everywhere.

What’s New In This Version:
Version 2.0.5 Updates:
✔ Bug fix for crashing on iPad with “Sync on Edit” enabled.
✔ Bug fix for note on iPhone being invisible after the first 2 lines.

Version 2.0.4 Updates:
✔ The “Start Page” preference will work again when resuming the app from the background after 15 minutes of idle time.
✔ You can now select the full list of reminder times without needing a Toodledo Pro account.
✔ Fix for sync on startup not working for people on slow networks.
✔ Fix for remote notification not always displaying the task being reminded about.
✔ Fix for occasional crash when entering “Fields & Defaults” settings page.
✔ Fix for a task’s note not visually updating if it is visible on screen when a sync finishes that updated that note.
✔ Improvements to French, Italian and German translations

You can download Toodledo – To Do List from the App Store for free.

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Apple has just pushed iBooks 1.1.1 and now available for download. iBooks 1.1.1 comes as a universal update for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch and brings improvements like support for audio and video embedded in books, PDF related enhancements, etc.

Complete iBooks 1.1.1 new features list after the jump…
What’s New in iBooks 1.1.1

In addition to iPad, iBooks is now available on any iPhone or iPod with iOS 4.
Open and read PDF documents from Mail. PDF documents will be added to your library and appear on the PDF bookshelf.
You can even search PDFs for words or phrases and bookmark your favorite pages.
Take advantage of new ways to bookmark. In addition to highlighting a word or a passage, you can now also add notes or bookmark an entire page with the new page ribbon.
Keep your bookmarks, notes, and your current page wirelessly in sync between iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch with the new automatic bookmark syncing feature.
See your book pages in a new font, called Georgia.
Read your books on white or sepia colored pages.
Choose left or fully justified text layout from Settings.
Read pages with greater ease by increasing to even larger font sizes.
Enjoy greater stability and better performance.
You can download iBooks for iPhone, ipad and iPod Touch from App Store for Free! [iTunes Link].

Apple has responded to an incident last weekend which saw a developer use hacked iTunes accounts to make fraudulent App Store purchases.

The developer Thuat Nguyen and his apps were removed from the App Store for violating the developer Program License Agreement, including fraudulent purchase patterns.

Developers do not receive any iTunes confidential customer data when an app is downloaded.

If your credit card or iTunes password is stolen and used on iTunes we recommend that you contact your financial institution and inquire about canceling the card and issuing a chargeback for any unauthorized transactions. We also recommend that you change your iTunes account password immediately. For more information on best practices for password security visit http://www.apple.com/support/itunes.

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