It seems Apple may be starting another round of application removals from the App Store. On Thursday it started removing selected Wi-Fi finder apps, otherwise known as “stumblers”. These apps enable iPhone and iPod Touch users to locate Wi-Fi networks around them and then try to use those networks for internet access. … Read the Full Story →
Last Front Europe Rating: Ever want to re-live famous battles from World War II on your iPhone or iPod Touch? Well now you can with Last Front Europe, a real time strategy game that see’s you take control of any one of four national army’s as you defend yourself against … Read the Full Story →
It’s been a busy week for Apple… Apple shares hit another high today at the end of a week where the computer company (which is now predominantly by it’s own COO’s admission a mobile device company) launched it’s first thinly veiled attack on it’s old bedfellow Google, dropped the entry … Read the Full Story →
NewsAlert Rating: NewsAlert is what I would call a “Programmable Universal RSS Feed”. It uses keywords which you define to aggregate news stories of interest to you from around the web. The interface is simple but clean, and consequently relatively quick and easy to set up for your own purposes. … Read the Full Story →
Sky Master Rating: I’ve always enjoyed star gazing and know all of the big constellations such as Orion and the Big Dipper but I’ve never had the time or energy to work out all of the other stars and constellations as I’ve never found an easy way to do it. … Read the Full Story →
Apple WiFi iPad available for pre-order on March 12th. In store pickup on April 3rd. US Only initially. Since the day Steve Jobs appeared on stage for the Apple Special Event 2010 to announce the iPad there has been a lot of buzz about it’s availability. Many rumor blogs suggested that … Read the Full Story →
I have been lucky enough to have been using gDEBugger for iPhone and iPod Development work for over a year now. It is an indispensable tool for profiling iPhone OpenGL ES applications on the iPhone Simulator. Whilst the present retail version does not give real world performance metrics it is … Read the Full Story →
Color Shooter Rating: Color Shooter is another game from a new developer to the App Store named Glow Night. Color Shooter initially appears to be a breakout style game and that is certainly how the game is looks, but instead of bouncing a ball off of a bat to clear … Read the Full Story →
We have not seen any major releases from EA Mobile in the past month, the two highly anticipated games Sims 3 World Adventures and Mirror’s Edge ran into unexpected delays. Some rumors suggested that EA Mobile might have been busy working on some new iPad Games or refining existing iPhone titles for … Read the Full Story →
The Examiner is reporting that Apple store employees will receive iPad training on, or around, March 10th. They are quoting various sources including an Apple Store manager in Southern California “who wishes not to be named”. This seems to tie up with the anticipated date of the iPad launch. The … Read the Full Story →
Alone Rating: Back in the day one of my favorite game developers were a company called Ocean, they produced some of my favorite games including Cool World, Wizball and the classic worms, however my favorite was an isometric platformer name Head-Over-Heels and to be honest I thought I’d seen the end of them. … Read the Full Story →
FleetMaster Rating: If you’ve ever played Battleships before then you won’t need me to tell you that in FleetMaster you and your opponent place a fleet of your ships on a 10 by 10 grid and then take it in turns to blow your opponents vessels out of the water … Read the Full Story →
Unlike other markets for handheld games the App Store is still a new concept and still evolving. The advantage of a new market is that it gives developers the freedom to adopt new strategies and be innovative. After the ‘freemium’ model proving to be a great success, iPhone developers are … Read the Full Story →
Gamebook Adventures 1: An Assassin in Orlandes Rating: Many years ago, too many to mention to be honest, I used to play the Choose You Own Adventure books where on each page you would have a few options as to what your character should do and you move to the … Read the Full Story →
Look In My Eyes (Restaurant) Rating: This is a bit of a different kind of iPhone App to what I am used to reviewing as while Look In My Eyes is a game then underlying purpose of the app is to help children with Autism to improve specifically on one … Read the Full Story →
