We thought we’d create a hub for all this excitement and anticipation right here, by collecting our favourite pieces of up-to-the-minute news, commentary and gossip about all things football related.

Take a look, below, at what we’ve found, and if you like what you see why not get European football updates (and results) every minute of every day by downloading our FREE Euro Football app from the app store: http://bit.ly/EuroFootball

• To get us started, it’s worth acknowledging that many of us are still recovering from the end of the World Cup and trying to come to terms with the gaping hole that it’s left in all our lives. Our first link is therefore to the most intelligent (and, frankly, beautiful) football blog that we know of – RunOfPlay.com – and its overview of the joy, the tears, and the damn good football: http://bit.ly/9t69jD

• Next up, we head to Scotland, where Celtic have been voicing their confidence about their Champions League qualifying draw against FC Braga – but is this confidence misplaced? Alsion McConnell at the Scotland Herald assesses the situation: http://bit.ly/aCHIuU

• One of the great losses for the upcoming European season (and another European football legend to have been poached by the Americans) is Thierry Henry’s departure to Major League Soccer at the New York Red Bulls. Paul McDonald of goal.com ponders over how the iconic Frenchman will be remembered at his previous home, Barcelona? http://bit.ly/chL3ud

• Meanwhile, over at Manchester City, rumours and confusion still abound between the club and Brazilian defender David Luiz. We got the lowdown from FansFC.com: http://bit.ly/abEE8w

• While the rumour-mill whirls in the pre-season build-up, The Independent has put together portfolios of what they consider to be ‘Potential Transfer Targets’ for every team in the Premiership: http://bit.ly/doSxQE
Who do you want coming to your team? Let us know via facebook: http://bit.ly/bvLjDU

What we do have is a two-step programme to make you feel a heck of a lot better:

First, revel in the best goals of the tournament by watching this highlights video:

Second, download our Euro Football app and look forward to a fantastic season of European football ahead: http://bit.ly/EuroFootball

This week, Google launched its new, easy-to-use Android software, designed to allow iPhone users to create their very own apps. The ‘Google App Inventor’ is completely free, and its creators claim that everyone who has tried it out so far – from nursing students to schoolgirls – has been able to use it effectively.

Here at MagicSolver we have always been excited by the prospect of user-generated content, and without fail we consult the everyday users of our apps during every stage of development, to ensure ease of use and to acquire practical, constructive feedback. We believe that Google’s App Inventor isn’t something to be feared by professional App creators and developers, but is something that should be cherished for the variety and creativity that it will bring to the industry.

Although the App Inventor only became available on Monday, there have already been some inspired uses of it by iPhone owners. A student in San Francisco has made an automated SMS response for when he is driving, to avoid having to either ignore his friends or to drive dangerously. A nurse from Indiana set up an instantaneous emergency alert from an elderly person’s iPhone if the gadget’s motion sensors detect that the owner has fallen, alerting a relative or friend immediately to check up on them.

As we celebrate the realms of possibility that this software development brings to innovation and personalisation of applications, MagicSolver is also able to rest assured in the ‘magic’ that our company is able to bring to a market of basic, quick-fix apps. We dare you to attempt to re-create our Sudoku Magic or FaceShift apps using the Google App Inventor!
[See how far you get and let us know via Facebook!]

If you think there’s still room for a little bit of magic and cutting-edge technology in the midst of your do-it-yourself apps, download one of our most innovative applications today, both of which use patented image-recognition technology:

Sudoku Magic, our first iPhone app, can capture and solve any Sudoku puzzle in a newspaper in 10 seconds:
http://bit.ly/sudoku_magic

Fancy swapping faces with your friends in a few seconds? Take a picture of a few friends on your iPhone and FaceShift automatically detects their faces! Shake your phone and the faces shift around and find a new body!
http://bit.ly/FaceShiftFull

http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/about/

Like 1.5 million other iPhone users, you can follow the last week of the World Cup with World Football Calendar 2010 by MagicSolver http://bit.ly/WCC2010

MagicSolver will offer you  a free World Cup Calendar for iPhone, iPod and iPad with  the schedule of all the matches, the latest results and the latest news on your favorite football team! You will also discover  plenty of cool surprises inside!

Would you like to know which day this new free calendar will be released? Sign here!

Are you an iPhone developer or iPhone publisher and would like to be among the happy few iPhone apps selected inside our World Cup Calendar? more info

World Cup Calendar 2010 for iPhone icon

What’s new:
- Facebook & Twitter integration
- Update of free presents: check present number 3 (and number 2 outside US & UK)
- French version available

Enjoy Advent Calendar 2009 … and be patient for next Christmas

Click below to get Advent Calendar 2009 now for free:

Click below to get Advent Calendar 2009 now for free:

Video available on Youtube: New iPad app: Sudoku Battle!

Sudodoku Battle is more than just a Sudoku game for iPad; it is a unique application to challenge your friends and family.

• First, enjoy unlimited high quality Sudoku puzzles and improve your solving skills at your own pace in the Practice mode. Make your way up through the difficulty levels, from Easy to Extreme. For the iPad launch, we completely redesigned our Sudoku app for the new screen size to give the ultimate Sudoku puzzle playability.
• Then, when you’re ready to challenge your friends, choose a level of difficulty and play the same Sudoku puzzle head-to-head on your iPad. Progress bars indicate who is leading the Sudoku battle. Only the fastest will win!
• A free update of Sudoku Battle by the end of April 2010 will provide you with a new twist to spice up your battles (Magic Fog, Magic Rubber, etc.) and a collaborative mode will soon be following too to solve Sudoku puzzles with a partner.

MagicSolver has a long experience of creating Sudoku for the iPhone and iPod touch with Sudoku Magic, the ultimate Sudoku game to play, capture and solve any Sudoku puzzle. Sudoku Magic Lite was the  #1 Sudoku app in the UK, France and German in December 2009.

Sudoku Battle, the first Sudoku for iPad available now on the AppStore!

(this will take you to the App Store)

Sudoku Magic est une appli unique qui permet:

1. De prendre en photo et de capturer en quelques secondes n’importe quel sudoku dans votre journal ou votre magazine préféré pour pouvoir le résoudre plus tard.
2. De créer et de résoudre un nombre illimité de sudokus sur votre iPhone / iPod touch
3. Enregistre toutes vos parties précédentes et vos meilleurs temps dans la bibliothèque des sudokus.

Sudoku Magic, disponible sur l’AppStore http://bit.ly/sudoku_magic

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