Too busy pulling together your Na’vi wardrobe to keep up with Crave this week? Here’s what you missed while you were putting on your blue mask.

Who says you can’t find naughty sex games and some females baring skin in iTunes? More than a few apps have made it past Apple’s content filters. Here’s a selection of adults-only apps, from the steamy to the downright absurd.

Originally posted at iPhone Atlas

CTA Digital’s pushup bar provides a pair of removable handles to improve grip and posture for performing deeper, more effective pushups.

Since it was introduced in late 2008, VoxOx has tried to cut a name for itself in the competitive multi-protocol chat client market by providing users with an aggressive feature set. These include VoIP, a “personal assistant” for managing incoming calls with more than a simple redirect, and SMS and Web-based callback to cut down on the cost of long-distance, transnational calls. The latest improvement is a universal translator that translates all text-based messages in real time, and with a reasonable amount of accuracy, for both the Windows and Mac versions of the program. It will work with all supported instant messaging services, including Facebook IM, Twitter, and SMS messages.

The VoxOx Universal Translator will work on all supported IM networks, including Facebook IM, as well as Twitter and SMS messages.

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To activate the translator, click the Universal Translator button to the right of the text box; it looks like a grayed-out globe. Check the “translate” box and choose whether you want all messages translated, only incoming, or only outgoing. Next, choose your languages, hit OK, and start typing. For both incoming and outgoing messages, you will only see them in your preferred language. Click on one to view its translation.

The feature supports 50 languages, from French, Spanish, simplified and traditional Chinese, and Hindi to more obscure languages such as Welsh, Icelandic, and Catalan. Some heavily-used languages, such as Tagalog, are not currently supported.

In tests performed with several colleagues at CNET, we discovered that the translator works well in general. It works best when the selected languages are set as the defaults for the system users. This means that if I’m translating into Chinese, the person I’m chatting with should have his or her chat program’s default language set to Chinese. While this may seem frustrating to some, it’s important to remember that the program only requires one user to be using VoxOx to take advantage of the translation feature.

The translator only requires one participant to use VoxOx. This is what somebody receiving the translated text might see.

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Somewhat annoyingly, the translation feature also lacks any kind of “nuance engine” to help determine the context of the words as they’re being used in the conversation. In other words, there’s no support for slang. It translates what you type more or less literally, so expect some broken translations along the way.

For a free, on-the-fly text translation service that requires little effort from users, this seems like an acceptable trade-off and should be considered another feather in the VoxOx cap.

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Before we get to this week’s apps, a news item over at AppleInsider indicates we may be getting a change to the iPhone operating system that many have been talking about. According to one AppleInsider’s more reliable sources, the iPhone OS 4.0 could add multitasking support in the next OS update. This means you’ll be able to run apps simultaneously making it possible to switch between apps without closing them.

A lot of smartphones already have multitasking support, so it’s been one of the bigger complaints for detractors of the iPhone. Frankly, I think it’s a welcome change to the OS that might make it easier to do some tasks, but up until now I haven’t really had any need for it. I’m sure there are plenty of readers who have been waiting for this rumored upgrade in the next iPhone OS, so please let us know in the comments how you think multitasking will change the way you use your iPhone.

This week’s apps include a powerful clipboard manager to store information and media, and an enormously popular arcade fighting game that is now on the iPhone.

Store images or text and browse through your clips with a swipe of your finger.

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Pastebot Command Copy & Paste ($2.99) lets you take clips of information and save them for later in a slick-looking interface. When you’re browsing the Web and come across interesting information or find an image you want to save, Pastebot lets you copy the image or information and save it to its own clipboard. Simply use the iPhone’s copy tool to select the info or image you want to copy, hit copy, then launch Pastebot and the image or text will automatically show up in the app. From there you can edit text, give the clip a title, or run the clip through a filter to perform specific tasks such as converting all text to lowercase, straightening quotes, wrapping in HTML tags, and much more.

Pastebot lets you store up to 99 clips through the normal clipboards, but you can store items in folders for long-term storage. This makes creating titles for clips extremely important because it will enable you to search for them later. If you’re using a Mac, you also can download the Pastebot preference pane from the developer’s Web site that allows you to wirelessly transfer clips to your Mac over Wi-Fi (the Windows sync tool is still in development). Overall, if you have the need to collect information and images you find on the Web, or need a good way to transfer info and images from your iPhone to your Mac, Pastebot Command Copy & Paste is a good choice.

Street Fighter 4 ($9.99) is a 2D fighting game that needs little in the way of introduction, but is surprisingly fun even using the iPhone touch screen. In the iPhone version you can play with eight characters from the original game across seven environments. The graphics look great even on the iPhone 3G, and the touch-screen controls work surprisingly well with only a little bit of practice. There are a few different ways to play including a Tournament mode, where you fight multiple matches against each of the different characters; Dojo, which trains you on all of the different moves for your selected character; Free-Sparring, for when you want to fight a specific character to find his weaknesses; and a Training Room where you can practice your moves. You also can play against your friends in versus mode, but only over a Bluetooth connection.

Though it may appear the controls get in the way of the action, once you start playing you won't even notice.

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I think the main question most people will have about Street Fighter 4 on the iPhone (before spending the money) is how well the controls work on a touch screen. You get a control pad on the left and buttons for Punch, Kick, and special moves on the right (though you can move the controls wherever you want using the settings). Capcom decided to leave out the low and medium punch/kick buttons, which may bother Street Fighter veterans, but even without them, the game offers an enormous amount of moves. When I first started playing, it was admittedly difficult to get used to the onscreen control pad and buttons to perform some of the more complex moves. But after a few fights, even the more difficult moves started to get much easier. Overall, if you’re a fan of Street Fighter, the iPhone version is true to the original with great-looking graphics, surprisingly solid controls, and a challenging AI, making it easily worth the price tag.

What’s your favorite iPhone app? Are you happy to hear about the rumored addition of multitasking support? Do you have a better clipboard manager than Pastebot? What do you think of the touch-screen controls of Street Fighter 4? Let me know in the comments!

Originally posted at iPhone Atlas