Independent developer Andrew Kazmierski announces the release and immediate availability of Ruler 1.0, his new digital ruler for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices. Beautifully crafted, Ruler is designed for intuitive, natural usage. Despite a size disadvantage, Ruler mirrors the practicality and ease of a physical ruler. To accurately measure objects larger than your device, the app features a movable marker that snaps

New app allows users to receive card payments from anyone

PXL Creations announces the release and immediate availability of DashPad - the only app that brings widgets in a Dashboard environment to the iPad. DashPad runs in Mobile Safari, which means all iPads can use it without Apple approval, and no jailbreaking required. There are no crazy menus or confusing layouts, just user-friendly widgets for checking time, converting digits, doing simple calculations, and many more

Vancouver based Pocket Pixels today announces that ColorSplash, the popular and celebrated iPhone photo manipulation app, is now available in a version specially adapted for the iPad. ColorSplash allows users to quickly and easily give photos a dramatic look by converting them to black and white, while keeping chosen details in color. The user's finger acts as a brush that removes, or restores, color from the original image

Embraceware Software announces Awaken 1.6 for iPad. Awaken is a full screen clock, music alarm clock, sleep timer and flashlight. Awaken for iPad is a free update to anyone who has already purchased the iPhone version. Awaken is now a universal application which runs on both iPhone and iPad with a unique interface for each device. Choose from a selection of 10 fullscreen clock styles. Works great as a night table or desk clock. Supports both portrait and landscape modes

UK based Byte Squared today announces Office2 HD 3.3.1, its office application for the iPad. Office2 HD provides DOC compatible document editing and XLS compatible spreadsheet editing, including tight integration with Dropbox, Google Docs, MobileMe iDisk and several other cloud based services. Compatible with Microsoft Word, NeoOffice and any other .doc compatible word processor, users can view, create, edit and save documents in Word 97-2003 format and much more

Sinecure Industries is out to ruin your life. After cataloging over 800 pieces of bad advice, Sinecure Industries put it into Halp 1.0.1 and is now serving it up for mass consumption. This advice will more than likely land you in the hospital, jail or the morgue - use it at you own discretion. Esteemed humorologist Michael Mizov spent a year finding people whose lives serve as a warning for others

Revolutionary WIRED reader application delivered through new Adobe Digital publishing technologies. vjoon is integrating Adobe's new digital magazine packaging tools into the K4 Cross-Media Publishing Platform. WIRED is already making use of the new technology for the magazine's successful digital edition on the iPad platform, with 24,000 issues sold its first day in the iTunes App Store. vjoon now is developing features to streamline the creation of the alternative layouts and aspect ratios required to deliver quality digital pages to the iPad and forthcoming alternative mobile platforms

Budding fashion designers and fashionistas alike are being granted access to the most comprehensive clothing design tool to ever hit mobile phones with Style Studio: Fashion Designer 1.0, XMG Studio's new app for iPhone and iPod touch. Style Studio takes XMG's powerhouse customization engine and applies it to the world of fashion, allowing the user to create a full line of women's clothes from dresses to tops, outerwear, pants and skirts

Free app for reading Kindle books on iPad gives readers in Japan and around the world the choice from hundreds of thousands of titles

Portland based Dejal Systems, LLC today announces Tweeps 2.0 for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. Tweeps is a Twitter companion app. It isn't a full Twitter client - you can't post tweets from it. Instead, it is a tool to manage your Twitter account. Edit your name, bio text, website URL and location, plus follow/unfollow people, see if someone follows you, block people, and find people. To celebrate the addition of iPad support, Tweeps is available completely free for a limited time

The most easy-to-use, customizable iPad app for reading & buying eBooks