Sydney based SmartLearnApps today announces the new version of LensTutorial for iPhone & iPad. LensTutorial 1.4 is a free app that allows to manipulate a photographic lens in a virtual environment. Play with new zoom values to investigate photographic opportunities. You can interactively slide focal length (zoom the lens), lens aperture and focusing distance. The app will show you how depth of field, angle of view and size of the model being photographed is changing according to your selection.

Maximum Felix Media is releasing Something Blue, the first in a series of digital iPad Flick Books. Something Blue features a squishy blue monster that gets bigger and bigger as you flick rapidly through the iPad pages. The images are accompanied by a rhyme, which according to the author, is what might have happened if Edgar Allan Poe and Doctor Seuss got together and wrote a rhyme about a horrible blue monster. This Flick The Pages Quick! Book, will be available in the iBooks Store October 1st.

Indie developer Matthias Schonder today announces immages 1.5 for iOS, an update to his innovative photo app that provides a nearly endless stream of content from the user’s favorite photography and design websites. With advanced pre-fetch and caching, users can scroll through individually displayed photos as fast as they like, with no waiting. The app features photo downloading/sharing, favorites, and native website view, and it streams the best of FFFFound, Flickr, Tumblr, 500px, and Dribbble.

Independent developer, David Likosar, today announces Direct Remote 1.30, an update to his popular remote control utility for iOS devices. The Direct Remote app offers a new way to control DirecTV receivers connected to your home network. The app features quick tuning using up to 40 favorites and allows control of your receiver using intuitive gestures or a more traditional touch control. The 1.30 release is updated with a fresh look for iOS7.

New app Perfect Shot from TapMedia, LLC takes advantage of advanced eye and blink technologies that are exclusively available in iOS 7 in order to create single, flawless group photos where everyone is smiling and has their eyes open – without exception. The app is optimized for iPad and iPhone, and 25% of sales each month are donated to DevFund to support charitable efforts and help people in need.

Whether they’re hosting an event or searching for one, Bookingbay 1.1.2 from Portal Gurus Pty Ltd is a simple yet powerful app that lets users manage all of their online booking needs for either personal or business purposes. Bookingbay is designed for both buyers and sellers alike. The app puts a world of power and functionality into users’ hands, and lets them control everything from the convenience of their iPhone, iPad, iPod touch or Android-enabled device.

Paris based Tayasui today has announced that it’s acclaimed children’s app Drawing with Carl is now available for Mac, and features an extraordinary user experience that is unlike anything seen before in a Mac app. It’s unlike anything seen before in a Mac app, and includes big, fun and beautifully-crafted icons and gorgeous graphics. Plus, the app’s iPad version has been updated with an array of special new features, including enhanced drawing tools, ultra-realistic brushes and more.

Award winning children’s publisher iStoryTime today released the Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs storybook app for free on iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. The Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs children’s book takes readers on an interactive and narrated adventure alongside Flint Lockwood and his pet monkey, Steve. Flint uses his invention that turns water into food to help turn their tiny town into a thriving “food tourism” destination.

Indie developer New World Interactive issued a reminder today that the Mac OS X gamers can square off head-to-head against PC gamers in the Beta of their squad-based, competitive shooter INSURGENCY. The Beta version of the game delivers a newly refined level of detail to all gameplay aspects and a vast amount of updated content. INSURGENCY is leading an indie revival of the tactical shooter genre. The new Beta showcases a robust feature set packed with hours of intense tactical shooter goodness.

QaiboGames today is proud to introduce Amigo Pancho 1.0 for iOS. The game was released on the App Store on September 26, 2013. This is an interactive physics puzzle about funny Amigo Pancho. He loves going to the highest places in the world! And he does it in an unusual way: by holding on to two small balloons. The Flash version was released in May 2011, followed by two sequels in the next two years. More than 50 million plays and have been distributed over 2,000 websites and game portals.