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iPhone / iPad apps and games we are giving away for free include:
Mouse Trapz – “a fun and challenging puzzle game for the iPhone with 80 unique levels of varying difficulty with a nice gradual learning curve.” (View in iTunes)
Blockees – “Blockees is played by matching coloured blocks. It sound(s) incredibly simple and it does start off that way, but soon the puzzle gets very challenging” (View in iTunes)
HalfCamera – “Apply effects, arrange poses and take a photo with an 18×24 format view finder. One film roll consists of 6 shots (12 photos). You can develop an image by choosing two photos which are close to each other. You can write text between photos and frame images.” (View in iTunes)
AppZilla 2 – 100+ in 1 – “currently the number 1 utility application in USA and several other countries, as well as ranked #4 Top Paid App overall.” (View in iTunes)
Heidi Part I – “an interactive picture book with voice-over in English and German, based on the original Heidi book of Swiss author Johanna Spyri, who wrote this world famous classical swiss children’s book in 1879.” (View in iTunes)
RJRCollections Pro – “a revolutionary software with an innovative interface that allows you to make, organize, and display the collections you have in your life, like, coins, photos, cars, badges, etc….or even your ideas, plans or notes, right on your iPhone / iPod Touch device. ” (View in iTunes)
Folder Lock for iPhone – “It lets you secure personal files, documents, pictures, videos, audios and all other private files that you keep in your iPhone.” (View in iTunes)
Freaky Alarm – “an alarm clock that forces you to wake your brain because you will have to solve a series of logical-math games otherwise it will not stop ringing.” (View in iTunes)
Tiltopolis – “A modern twist on an old classic, Tiltopolis uses the real physics engine “Box 2D” to introduce a new level of game play to a beautiful looking and technically advanced attention grabber.” (View in iTunes)
Alice & Andy in the Universe of Wonders – “Read, listen, play and learn about our planet with this original and interactive iPad app, an entertaining learning tool in five different languages that you can choose from.” (View in iTunes)
Greedy Bankers – “an arcade-style puzzler much in the vein of Tetris and Puyo Pop. It has a simple and fresh interface, and is a completely new take on puzzle games, built around space-management and a deep strategic core.” (View in iTunes)
Food X Friends – “a great tool for you to capture your precious dining moment. Easily keep track your meal records (where / when / with whom / how much / how good). Browse your records from a calendar, a list, the map or from your friends you tagged and with its unique Friends utility, you can always keep track of how many meals you had with each of your friends.” (View in iTunes)
Bubble Buble 2 – “To survive, dodge yourself with accelerometer to run away from evil fishes coming after you. Yet the game is simple, it is so catchy and works well for killing time.” (View in iTunes)
Dandelion – “Blow a Dandelion and see the seeds floating with the wind!Its new, and you cant find nothing like this for iPhone!” (View in iTunes)
Please note the app descriptions above have been provided to us by the developers and do not represent our opinion.
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This is a bit of a turnaround for Apple after initially saying promo codes wouldn’t be available to developers wanting to offer free apps to reviewers and the like. Presumably this also means iTunes gift cards can now be redeemed via the Mac App Store too, whereas before users had to use iTunes to add credit to their account.
The change brings the Mac App Store in line with it’s iOS counterpart. Make sure you follow us on Twitter and become a fan on facebook to enter promo code giveaways for the hottest apps and games.
]]> https://touchreviews.net/redeem-mac-app-store-promo-codes/feed/ 1The accountant on the Developer Portal reads:
Your promo code distribution is no longer limited to U.S. customers. Promo codes in iTunes Connect can now be redeemed by all App Store customers worldwide. Your Team Agent can request 50 codes per version of your app in iTunes Connect and your customers can redeem these codes in any App Store. To learn more about requesting promo codes in iTunes Connect, see the iTunes Connect Developer Guide.
But what does this mean for the masses? Well, first off all this will open our competitions to the whole planet, so if you’ve not entered before – now’s your chance!
Try these : (Each promo code can be used only once, leave a comment below if you use one. Follow us on Twitter or Facebook for more giveaways)
If Tracker ($4.99, View in iTunes) Find anti-inflammatory foods and build a healthy, anti-inflammatory diet. Also tracks calories, fat, protein, and carbs. Includes 2,200 generic and brand-name foods.
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Four Letter Words ($1.99, View in iTunes) Four Letter Words from Linguamation Studio is a word game like no other. Featuring compelling graphics and entrancing audio, it wraps the cerebral addictiveness of a word game in the chillaxing deliciousness of groovy ambiance.
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Ringtone DJ ($0.99, View in iTunes) Ringtone DJ – Mix your very own unique ringtones!
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GoBang Of Chinese Style ($0.99, View in iTunes) This application is a casual game for players named gobang .It has a screen with a large number of elements of Chinese ink painting style and of which you will play with the Chinese classical music.
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We will be doing more giveaways and contests in the future so make sure you follow us on Twitter and Facebook to win free iPhone games and apps every Friday!
Giveaway: We have 10 CopyTrans licenses to giveaway! Retweet this post with #CopyTrans4 hash tag included and leave a comment below with your First and Last Name (required for activating license) and you could win CopyTrans 4 worth $19.99
CopyTrans 4 [rating: 5/5]
If you manually sync your iPod library with many computers or just have a large collection of music which you want safely backed up then CopyTrans 4 is the perfect solution for you.
The music on my iPod is collected from various sources and is always on manual sync, in the past when I felt the need to backup iPod music back to iTunes on my computer I was out of luck as iTunes does not allow that. After, searching and trying various iPod backup softwares nothing seemed to work perfectly, sometimes the music info was missing and at other times I feared my iPod getting corrupted.
WindSolutions was founded in 2004 and have created the best softwares for managing, backing-up and repairing your iPod, iPhone/iPod touch. Their latest product to hit the market is called CopyTrans 4.
CopyTrans 4 is a simple iPod, iPhone/iPod touch music backup software with power packed performance. With one of the simplest installations possible and Smart Backup feature the software is ready to use without any settings to deal with. Before using CopyTrans 4 you need to make sure iTunes is not open or working in the background. Once CopyTrans 4 detects your iPod, iPhone or iPod touch it is ready to backup your music without you having to wonder where it will copy the music or if all the info will be backed up. In our case CopyTrans 4 successfully transferred 576 songs in under 10 minutes. It transferred the iPod music to iTunes while retaining the the album artwork, ratings and play counts.
Touch Reviews Highly Recommends CopyTrans 4
Price: $19.99 (Buy Now) (Free Version)
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Can you turn a chimp into a Black Belt Karate Master?
Train this monkey in the ways of Karate, perform different movements and try not to hit the Sensei!
Karate Monkey is a funny and addictive game where you will assume the role of a monkey trained by a Sensei to become a Black Belt Karate Master. You will do sequences of karate attacks following the Master instructions. React quickly but remember: if you make the wrong move, itís the Sensei whoíll take the beating!
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Christmas Lifecards is the latest app from Vivid Apps, developers of the popular Lifecards app for iPhone/iPod touch.
Design your own imaginative Christmas Greeting cards with Christmas Lifecards.
You start by picking one of the more than 50 templates. Then you may insert up-to four of your own photos, add titles and text, apply photo filters, and insert speech balloons. When you are done, you can email the resulting card, or share it with Facebook, Flickr, or Twitter.
While you design your card, you can zoom in on specific regions to preview and edit them in detail. Christmas Lifecards enables to pan and zoom freely.
* Photos can be freely rotated and scaled to fit perfectly with the place holders.
* Fonts, alignment, and color of text can be fully controlled.
* Speech balloons can be inserted and rotated. You can use this to insert text boxes
* The end-result can be emailed in low and high resolution.
* Lifecards automagically adapts to your device’s orientation. To edit a card in landscape or portrait simply rotate the screen, and Lifecards follows.
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The app features more than 1200 mathematical formulas, tips, figures and examples of equations and concepts.
Some of the new features in Math Ref V2.2 are:
New Sections:
–Chemistry
-Interactive periodic table
-Probability and Statistics
Algebra:
-More functions
-Help on graphing functions
-Solving perfect squares
Differentiation:
-Functions and derivative tests
-Typo fixing
Integration:
-Integration by partial fractions
-Typo fixing
Table of integrals:
-Typo fixing
Discrete:
-Typo fixing
Vector Calculus:
-Differential Geometry
Physics:
-Quantum mechanics
-Navier-Stokes equations
-Friction term added to Bernoulli Equations
-Sonic velocity
-Added precision to constants
-Typo fixing
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On November 4, 2009 Apple announced that developers have created over 100,000 apps for the App Store, making it the largest applications store in the world.
With more than 20 categories to choose from and new apps being launched everyday, sometimes it’s difficult to discover new apps of your interest. iPhone OS 3.0 introduced new genius feature for the App Store which enables you to discover apps on the basis of installed apps on your device.
Genius for App Store is certainly a great way to explore apps which you would probably be interested in, however it is limited to the number of apps you install or buy for your device.
Apptizr is a new iPhone app recommendation service (still in beta) which uses proprietary algorithm to suggest app recommendations on the basis of your tastes. After the initial sign up for the service (available by invitation only) you are presented with a series of questions which help the service identify your interest and start recommending quality apps.
We have been testing the service for a few days and the results are positive. Although, almost all recommendations were already owned by us.
David Li, CEO and Co-Founder of Apptizr describes the service as follows:
With over 100K apps approved by the Apple App Store, finding high quality apps that match your interests is like finding a needle in the haystack. Apptizr does the heavy lifting through our proprietary algorithm that matches the users’ interest with the right apps. The engine is smart enough to learn more about our users’ preferences over time as they tell us whether they liked the recommendations we made. We also evaluate the applications for quality and only recommend the best apps in each category to our users.
The service allows you to either like or dislike a recommendation which enables the service to become smarter.
If you love to discover new apps which match your interest level then you should definitely try Apptizr!
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We will be giving away 5 promo codes for an addictive Traffic Management game called Autotrafego and 5 promo codes for a 3D match-3 game called Chromodyne.
AutoTrafego
The developer of AutoTrafego sent us the game for review when it was submitted to Apple for approval and we have been highly impressed with the gameplay and detailed graphics. If you think you posses the skills of an effective traffic controller or feel you can control frantic traffic then this is just the right game for you.
Off-by-One Mobile Marketing has also developed a free Halloween edition of AutoTrafego which will definitely spook you out with it’s spooky sound track by Squall.
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Chromodyne
Gameplay is a twist on the traditional match-three style, with 5 concentric rings made up of different colored shapes. You have to touch and rotate the rings and line up 3 or more of the same color and shape in a line going towards the center in order to clean up the MESS and add to your score.
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Photo Philter Phun [rating: 3/5]
With the new iPhone 3GS and it’s upgraded 3 mega-pixel camera, not to mention the auto focus feature it’s little surprise that more and more people will be using their iPhone as their main camera and with more pictures you are going to want to do more things with them and this is where Photo Philter Phun aims to help out.
PPP (Photo Philter Phun) lets you apply 20 different filters to any photo you’ve taken on your phone or for that matter transferred to your phone from your PC, downloaded from Facebook, Twitter, Safari or any other place you can imagine, if it’s on your iPhone you can apply the filter. The fact that you can apply the filters using any picture means that PPP can also be used with the iPod touch.
Applying a filter is easy, select a picture, choose the filter and preview. Applying the filter can take anything from a second to 5 seconds and the more filters your apply the longer it will take. As easy as it is to apply the filters you can also easily undo the changes using the Revert button so playing around and testing is pretty easy. You can only apply a filter to the whole picture rather than specific areas but as simple as it is that doesn’t really matter.
Depending on the picture the filters that you apply can range from the sublime to the ridiculous and some are definitely better than others with my favorites including the Oil Painting Effect, Negative Image and Sharpen Image, the last of which doesn’t add any fancy effect but can certainly right many wrongs on photo’s that are a little too fuzzy for their own good.
Once you are happy with your creativity you have a few options of what you can do, save the updated image to your camera roll, upload to Twitter or publish to Facebook all of which can be done at the click of a button.
At 99c you can’t really go wrong with this app and while there are other apps that will allow detailed editing of your pictures this is a quick and easy way apply a range of cool effects.
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Reviewed By: Craig Willis
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Polyhedra [rating: 3.5/5]
“Another puzzle game” I hear you cry, “my iPhone is already full of puzzle games, why should I get another one?”, well I’ll tell you, if you have an iPhone/iPod touch full of puzzle games you must obviously like them, and secondly it’s only 2 bucks so what have you got to lose? If that hasn’t got you interested already, read on, if you are interested also read on!
The aim of Polyhedra is to fill a given percentage of the screen with geometric shapes, sounds simple enough right? Well obviously it’s not that easy. Firstly you only have a certain number of shapes to use, secondly, there are a multitude of enemies hell bent on stopping you from building your shapes. The whole game can be played with a single finger so that makes controls pretty simple. Touching the screen creates your shape and the longer you hold your finger down the larger it grows, don’t let one of the enemies that are bouncing around the screen touch the shape that you are creating though as it will kill it and reduce the number of shapes that you have at your disposal by one.
You start with circles and as you complete enough levels you get to unlock squares, pentagons, hexagons and more with your high scores all being uploaded to the Agon leaderboards which is a portal for Polyhedra and other games too. The psychedelic backgrounds create quite a colorful experience and with the simplicity of the game play the balance works well.
A ‘Toy Box’ has been added where you can play with all the geometric shapes just for fun to create you own pictures, but it doesn’t really add anything to the game and most of my time was spent playing the game rather than playing in the Toy Box.
Polyhedra is a relatively short game but what it lacks in quantity it makes up for in simplicity and fun.
Price $1.99
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Reviewed By: Craig Willis
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Polyhedra iPhone Gameplay
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Phantom Solitaire [rating: 3.5/5]
It’s creepy and it’s kooky, Mysterious and spooky. It’s all together ooky, Phantom Solitaire. This newly released game by Butterfly Donuts with a Halloween theme spins a new web on solitaire.
Classic solitaire with 21 different spooky Halloween themes creates an exciting new way to play. Rich, crisp graphics are pleasant to the eye while the spooky background music and sound effects is optional. There is unlimited undo with the option to draw 1 or 3 cards. Did your game get interrupted? No problem. This fat cat of an app will save on exit or interruption.
Amazing graphics and adorable theme give Phantom Solitaire two pumpkins up. Take your broom and fly to the app store to download this treat just in time for Halloween.
Price:$.99
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Reviewed By: Dana Sperling
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Phantom Solitaire – Trailer
Vocalizer is a text to speech synthesizer application for iPhone/iPod touch. It features custom voice control for a virtually unlimited number of voice variations.
Potential applications:
* Paste in news articles or long emails to be read out
* If you’re learning English, listen to the pronunciation out loud
* People with speech-impairing conditions like A.L.S., autism, Down syndrome and strokes can improve their communication using Text to Speech software.
* Disguise your voice, or just have fun
* Create new voices on the fly – control pitch, pitch variation and speed
* Make it talk very slowly, or make it talk vey fast.
* Save a default voice for later use
* Large multiple line edit window
* Pause, resume or stop playback
* Small download size
* No network service required
* Low price
Minor bug fixes, improved animation
Price: $1.99
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Block Drop iPhone
Block Drop [rating: 4/5]
With endless levels and challenging game play, Block Drop with be a hit amongst puzzle game enthusiasts. This game has a simple foundation; remove all of the blocks on each level until only the block with the checkered flag remains. Although a simple foundation, the game will keep you going and going and going…..
Using intense strategies, the player must shift a sparkling gem across blocks on a tranquil body of water. Blocks rise up out of the water and blocks rise down. But only one block holds a checkerboard flag. Utilizing whatever tactic it takes, the player must get the gem on the block with the checkerboard flag. Sound easy? Wrong. Every time you leap off a heap of blocks, the bottom block disappears lowering the tower. The player is left with the obstacle of lowering and rising towers until he/she discovers the pattern that will destroy all of the blocks leaving only one, the checkerboard.
Levels are randomly generated providing a multitude of options. This prevents the player from memorizing patterns and actually having to use the brain. I played without background music because the new age tunes became maddening. The controls are simple, a virtual pad is displayed which controls the direction in which you move. With 999 levels I don’t see anyone getting bored. Feeling puzzled? You’re in luck; a level solution waits in the options menu. I found this to be extremely helpful.
With replay value at its’ highest, this is a bargain.
Price: $.99
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Reviewed By: Dana Sperling
Block Drop for iPhone
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Keep an electronic eye on your bills with this handy app
Picking up on this application up again from my review in March, it’s great to see plenty of improvement, particularly the interface which as a whole looks far more sophisticated, complete with 6 different colour variations to help add a touch of personalization although I find gray most fitting to my iPhone.
The most apparent change over the previous version is a month to view option which lets you quickly add bills with the due date that you have tapped, it also lets you see how heavy your month has been on your finances with green squares showing paid and red unpaid bills. The ever present All/Paid/Unpaid filters helping with this letting you flick between these states and changing the also ever present month. This has also seen improvement as you can now tap this to bring up a list of Accounts handled by the app (previously known as collectors, a very sensible name change I must say) so you can easily filter down from all bills down to individual accounts.
The accounts tab has been improved with additional categories that cascade on a tap to reveal accounts inside them letting you handle larger amounts of accounts without feeling bogged down in information overload.
New in settings is push notification, which requires a small annual fee and option of what time to receive that notification although I would like to think this time is relative to your device rather than the push server where ever it may be. Also new here is on tap to pay which lets you mark a bill as paid by tapping the most left icon in the list view changing it from a simplified calendar icon into a green tick mark and an option to turn on PocketMoney Integration. Sadly I can’t comment on how this works as I don’t own the other application but will update if it ever comes up for review in the future.
Perhaps the biggest improvement to this application is getting data in and out of the application, with two new tabs, one for backup/restore and the other for exporting. Backing up your database now couldn’t be simpler with a simple flick of a switch enables a mini webserver in the app, which lets you use your computer and web browser to back up or restore your database as long as it’s on the same wireless network as your iPod Touch. You could also email the backup directly from the app to an email address of your choosing should you get caught away from your computer. The export function lets you specify a start and end month then lets you email it as a .csv file however there’s no option for to specify which account you want it to export from, dashing your idea of sending your business expenses directly to your boss for example.
Price: $1.99 (free lite version available)
as of ver 2.1 27/09/09
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Reviewed by: TylerDurdan
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]]> https://touchreviews.net/billminder-push-version-21/feed/ 0Who hasn’t lent someone something? Who hasn’t borrowed something from someone? I think that covers everyone doesn’t it? Well if it does, and if you do either a lot, then Mooch!, not to be confused with Mooch, could be just the app for you as it allows you to simply keep track of what you’ve borrowed and what you’ve lent and to whom. Helping you keep track of everything and making sure that you don’t become know as a mooch!
Getting started is as easy as clicking on either the ‘I Borrowed’ or ‘I Lent’ button. From there your options are the same. If it’s cash then you can simply enter in the amount add the contact from your iPhone/iPod touch Contacts to whom you lent to or borrowed from and click save. With the lending and borrowing of money Mooch! will also give you an overall balance meaning that if you lend someone $20 and then borrow $25 it will give you a balance showing that you owe them $5.
Mooch! iPhone
If it’s an actual item that’s being traded you can even add a photo of the said item and categorize it into one of six groups. The groups do cover most items that you’d want to trade but it would be nice to have the ability to set your own categories too. Notes can be added to any item too.
All your traded items get listed on the home page by contact so you can easily see at a glance who owes you what and what you owe other people. It’s also easy to edit and ultimately delete any item once it’s be returned to you or you return what ever item it is you’ve borrowed, so keeping your items up to date and is easy.
Once an item has been returned you can mark it as returned and if you haven’t received back something that you sent out some time ago then you can use the inbuilt reminder option that will send the person an email with a friendly reminder.
If you do a lot of borrowing/lending that you could do a lot worse than purchasing this simple yet effective application especially as it’s on sale for just 99c at the moment.
Price: $.99
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Reviewed By: Craig Willis
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Pogg [rating: 4/5]
As a teacher I am always looking for the latest technology to integrate into my classroom. I took a risk this year and decided to fill an iPhone/iPod touch with educational games for the students to use independently while practicing important skills and strategies. Thus far it has been a complete success. So successful that I plan on adding more devices to the classroom full of the most engaging and thought provoking apps available. While in the process I thought it would be helpful to other educators and parents to read reviews of educational apps.
The first educational app on my list to review is Pogg. Pogg, a cute green alien is the star of the show. He hops, reads, draws, hides, claps, eats and anything else you tell him to do. There are two modes in this game, Spelling and Picture Mode.
Spelling mode starts by asking “What should Pogg do now?”. Using the virtual keypad, the player types in a basic word and watches Pogg complete the task. For example, if I type “jump”, a short movie clip would display Pogg jump. Kids can experiment and practice spelling all sorts of words while watching their new green friend show off his talent by demonstrating the action or flaunting the item. This is an exciting way for kids (2-8) to work on their phonemic awareness independently while having fun.
Picture Mode displays all of the Pogg animations available on icons. The player touches an icon and watches while Pogg demonstrates. For example, if the icon says “bell” a clip of Pogg ringing a bell will appear. This mode is perfect for those emerging spellers or young kids to little to spell. Currently there are 30 different clips of Pogg with a spelling dictionary of approximately 300 word/phrase combinations. The developer plans to release many more as free upgrades.
This game has inconceivable graphics that appeal to kids of all ages. This is a wonderful addition to the currently available educational apps. In the future it would be nice if different sections were added. For example, word families, basic sight words, Dolce word list according to age, more advanced words etc. Pogg is sure to amuse while educate the young ones for hours at a time. Two thumbs up for this champion.
Price: $.99
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Reviewed By: Dana Sperling
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The first educational app on my list to review is Pogg. Pogg, a cute green alien is the star of the show. He hops, reads, draws, hides, claps, eats and anything else you tell him to do. There are two modes in this game, Spelling and Picture Mode.
Spelling mode starts by asking “What should Pogg do now?”. Using the built in keyboard, the player types in a basic word and watches Pogg complete the task. For example, if I type “jump”, a short movie clip would display Pogg jump. Kids can experiment and practice spelling all sorts of words while watching their new green friend show off his talent by demonstrating the action or flaunting the item. This is an exciting way for kids (2-8) to work on their phonemic awareness independently while having fun.
Picture Mode displays all of the Pogg animations available on icons. The player touches an icon and watches while Pogg demonstrates. For example, if the icon says “bell” a clip of Pogg ringing a bell will appear. This mode is perfect for those emerging spellers or young kids to little to spell. Currently there are 30 different clips of Pogg with a spelling dictionary of approximately 300 word/phrase combinations. The developer plans to release many more as free upgrades.
This game has inconceivable graphics that appeal to kids of all ages. This is a wonderful addition to the currently available educational apps. In the future it would be nice if different sections were added. For example, word families, basic sight words, Dolce word list according to age, more advanced words etc. Pogg is sure to amuse while educate the young ones for hours at a time. Two thumbs up for this champion.
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My Little Eye was recently featured on the App Store as one of the top hidden object games!
Are you good with your eyes? Test your powers of observation by playing My Little Eye – a variation on the classic hidden object game “I Spy with My Little Eye”. Work your way through 11 levels to find over 200 hidden objects. Some you’ll spot right away, some you’ll have to hunt for by zooming in and out or turning your iPhone or iPod for a different view. All you have to do is search a photo until you find all the items in a list.
Got a spare couple of minutes? You can start and stop in a level and your progress will be automatically saved.
It’s a classic – simple but addictive. Enjoy!
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My initial reaction to this application was “omg someone’s tried to clone Windows Mobile home screen for iPhone” but thankfully syPhone feels a lot better to use despite crashing out a few times. At the top of the screen you have 4 tabs, Email which lets you write a quick email within the application and ToDo which is a simple to do list, both support landscape keyboard however the latter not so well with the text entry box not filling the available screen space.
The next tab is RSS which is a simple RSS reader however it only lets you read what is in the feed itself, there is no pass through to Safari for reading the whole article if the publisher only decides to put a snippet in the RSS feed. The last tab is Find which brings up a list of all the names and phone numbers in your address book and lets you filter it down by name or number by simply using the keyboard or switching to the keypad towards the bottom of the screen are a series of quick call buttons which you can assign to individual numbers from your address book, the button is then replaced by the picture in the contact page, there are 12 of these available with 4 being visible at any one time and you drag left to right to scroll through them.
Other functions include, the current date, current time (mine for some reason is stuck at midday) with location and the current weather conditions with temperature. Tapping these items brings up further functionality, so tapping the date will bring up a month to view calendar and tapping either the time or weather will bring up 4 configurable locations thankfully the background pattern and colour is customisable by turning the device into landscape mode and tapping the a colour and then the pattern of your choice out of a selection of 10 colours and 4 patterns easily matching any iPhone case you care to adorn it with however accessing this function does clash a bit after say writing emails or notes in landscape mode.
As this application launches pretty fast it could be used quite a bit despite not being able to integrate fully into the iPhone software, as you could simply sleep the device while in the app and return to it quickly when going into your phone again.
My gripes with this application is that it feels cramped, partly due to the fact that most of the interactive elements are crammed into the top half of the screen with the static bottom half rarely leaving the screen. I also find this application a good bit unstable having it crashed on me at least 3 times during testing, and for some reason the clock in the middle reports my location but time stuck at midday. Initially I was at a loss as how you remove or edit items like quick call icons, weather and world clock entries all appeared permanent with no obvious way of removing them but actually if you swipe upwards over an item it will come up with a question “are you sure you want to remove this?”
syPhone 09 for iPhone is definitely worth checking out!
Price: $2.99
(as of 11/09/09 ver 1.5)
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Reviewed by: TylerDurdan
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When you initially launch PDF Expert you are presented with a User Guide for the app in PDF format, (what else!) and to get an idea of what this app will do for you not only can you read this guide but just opening it starts you off being able to use some of it’s functions.
The documents will display in both landscape and portrait mode. Landscape will allow you to read the document easier while in portrait mode you can view full pages, in full color, and access the menu items. And it’s these menu’s options that really bring this app to life.
First up is the search option which works excellently, simply enter the word you wish to find in the search box at the top of the page and after it has finished searching, which took only a matter of seconds for a 100 page document, you can the move though each of the found words using the arrow keys.
Copying the text of any document is easy too. After selecting the copy option a block is highlighted on the page which you can resize and move by simply touching the screen. Once you’ve highlighted the text you want you simply tap the Copy button and that text will be available for you to copy into any other application. Other options include Bookmarking, very important especially while ready large documents, Go to page which does just what it say’s and an email option that allows you to forward your PDF doc to someone via email.
The display of the documents is clear and easy to read and zooming utilizes the standard touch screen controls making it very intuitive to navigate around. If you receive password protected documents then PDF Expert can handle those too. It’s not limited to PDF documents either as it can also view MS Offics, HTML and txt files too.
The best feature of this PDF application for me though was the ability to drag and drop files to my iPhone and have them directly appear within the PDF Expert document. This means all the files I download to my PC can easily be transfered to my iPhone quickly and easily over the wifi network by simply entering setting up the iPhone in your Network Places. And don’t worry if you’ve not done that before because the applications steps you though it and you will be up and away within a matter of seconds.
PDF Expert is a one stop shop for all your PDF needs so if you use your iPhone/iPod Touch for work and/or handle a lot of PDF documents this app is a must for you. If you’re quick you can get hold of it for just $3.99.
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Reviewed By: Craig Willis
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Remember back in the day when the carnival came to town? Well it’s back and better than ever! Squirting water into a clowns’ mouth as he moves back and forth across the screen has never been so much fun!
Cutting edge graphics is the bottom line. Although the game could be longer, and more challenges could be added, this game has some of the finest animations out there. Using astounding claymation graphics this is a game for everyone.
A simple and intuitive control scheme allows easy and competitive game play. Excellent replay value with time, prizes and leaderboard competition will have you coming back for more. With the integrated worldwide leaderboard, you can compete against players from all over the world!
Grab a corn dog and reminisce back in time. Enjoy the amusement and thrill of iCarnival. Cotton candy and snow cones sold separately.
Price: $1.99
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Reviewed By: Dana Sperling
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Puzzlegeddon [rating: 4/5]
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Fasten your seat belt. Leading German mobile games publisher HandyGames (developer of top hit BeerShooter and Tattoo Mania) and Swedish game developer Pieces Interactive present the much anticipated iPhone version of the puzzle action hit Puzzlegeddon. Having sharpened their take on the game with PC and mobile versions, they have now unleashed this challenging mix of puzzle, action and strategy to the iTunes Store.
Imagine using the character of your choice along with your strategic puzzle skills to conquer planets. Defend and defeat through the manifold galaxies, game modes and challenges. Presented with a square puzzle board made up of blocks in four colors, the player shuffles blocks around by moving rows and columns. As a block is moved out of one edge it wraps around the board and appears on the other side, similar to a “flattened version of a Rubik’s Cube”. The objective, similar to other match 4 games, is to match blocks of similar color ultimately defeating countless obstacles that patiently await your arrival.
Featuring 12 attacks and power ups, eight different characters with their own special skills, you must make your way through themed planets by sliding rows and columns of similar color. Make sure to make large combos which will reward you access to the various power-ups necessary to boost your score.
Due to the massive amount of puzzle games available at the App Store, these developers have worked hard to stand out from the competition. Some of the exceptional features include:
I have only a few gripes about this application. The background music is irritating and repetitive. Turning off the volume fixes this problem however it would be nice if it supported iPod music. As for the graphics, they are “good”. The animations are simple but smooth. In order for this game to make it to the top of their competition, multifaceted and complex animations must be added to enhance the overall look.
“PUZZLEGEDDON is a game for every taste and play style – it makes you think hard, play smart and act fast!” Use your skills wisely and your strategies wiser. Try the free version to see if you are up for the challenge. You can’t go wrong with “Geddon” this game!
Price: $3.99
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Reviewed By: Dana Sperling
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Puzzlegeddon for iPhone/iPod touch: Trailer
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T-Kara [rating: 3.5/5]
As more and more puzzle games flood into the App Store a game needs to have something different if it’s going to stand out and that is what T-Kara developed by Mexond is offering, and not only that it’s offering two for the price of one.
The game is played on a 8 x 9 grid and in both modes the movement of the pieces is done by sliding entire rows or columns back and fourth either vertically or horizontally and while this premise is easy the puzzles are not.
The first mode is Time Attack, a Bejeweled style game where aligning four or more matching shapes will make them disappear. You’re up against the clock though and you need to reach a certain score to open up the next level and new pieces. Each level also brings new challenges where certain new pieces can only be cleared in certain ways. These lock patterns certainly raise the difficulty level but certainly make it more of an enjoyable challenge too.
Puzzle mode takes away the timer and makes for a more relaxing game. While the controls and movement of the pieces remain the same the task now is to move the pieces so that they match a predefined pattern. The difficulty level racks up pretty quickly here but thanks to the the lack of a timer your able to take your time to complete the 12 puzzles.
The game graphics and menus look sleek and navigation is via unique system of side panels around the edges of the screen, this can be a little confusing to begin with but after a few minutes you’ll be navigating around the app with no troubles at all. While the music is your standard puzzle style background music it certainly doesn’t irritate and the sound effects fit in well.
If you are quick you can pick up this new style puzzler for a bargain 99 cents and while this puzzler could be completed quickly by puzzle addicts this should provide enough of a challenge for most puzzle fans. Hopefully future updates will include more pictures for the puzzle mode too.
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Reviewed By: Craig Willis
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