When I first fired up APPZILLA I was a little overwhelmed! There are a full two and a half screens full of just about every mini-app and widget (both useful and fun) I could think of that I might want to have on my iPhone or iPod. That’s 50 individual apps all individually launch-able and managed from a simple springboard interface! Just to give you a very small taste of what’s in APPZILLA there are some obvious apps like a clock, currency converter, flashlight, tip calculator and a unit convertor. There are also some more esoteric things like a voodoo doll simulator, strobe light, and a massager! So now you know what the name, “50 in 1 : APPZILLA” is all about!

As the amount of apps we end up keeping on our devices grows it seems sensible to try and consolidate them into one space. This is one of the initial appeals of APPZILLA, once you know what it is all about. You can click one place on your iPod or iPhone’s main screen and be presented with a nicely presented alternative springboard with pleasing and descriptive icons for a myriad of apps you might use in various situations in any one day.

Real world story: A week ago I dropped a bottle in our underground car park behind the wheel of my car. I wanted to clean the glass up so I or anyone else didn’t drive over it. It took me a few moments to find a blank white display in a notepad on my iPhone to give me some light to scan around the dark floor area behind my car and pick up glass shards. APPZILLA has a “Book Lamp” and a “Flashlight” on it’s front page. I’d have paid $0.99 for either of those there and then. And I’d still have had 49 other apps for free!

Another story : Two weeks ago I was putting a shelf up at home and couldn’t find my spirit level. My wife “put it away” somewhere. You know how it goes! APPZILLA has one of those too. In fact it has two of those. A “Level” app which is like a spirit level, and a “Clinometer” which is even more funky and works in two dimensions at once.

In the last two paragraphs I’ve touched on 4 apps in APPZILLA. We still have another 46 to go. You’re getting the idea, I hope.

In an App Store where there are literally thousands of little apps for a dollar each which do one or other thing, this is a great deal. What’s more the presentation is neat, clean and easy to follow, if a little light hearted. Once in each app the graphics and animations are smooth and detailed. This carries throughout each mini-app. I could understand if a developer decided to skimp on presentation here or there when cramming this many apps into one package. But these guys haven’t at all. Everything is pleasing to look at, if a tad quirky sometimes.

The simplest way to let you know what’s in APPZILLA is to list everything it contains. So I’ve included a list underneath the main review. The names are pretty much self explanatory in most cases. The ones that are not are entertaining to explore!

You could take some of these mini-apps individually and sell them for a dollar on the app store. Some developers already have done so. And in some cases have not done as nice a job for even that one app as Fossil Software have with each of the 50 in APPZILLA. You could even bunch 3 or 4 of these mini-apps together at this price, and it would be a bargain. You would’t even need to provide instructions for them as they are all pretty simple to use in most cases. But the guys who made APPZILLA included instructions anyway. They also included a way to organise the apps into the order you use them most frequently. A really nice touch. Especially considering just how many apps there are!

The interface, icons, layout and functionality of this app all “just work”, with the only exception being that the camera related apps were a bit quirky on the devices I tested them on. I did manage to get them to work though. But hey, 48 out of 50 pretty flawless mini-apps is not bad for a dollar – which is the price right now! I believe it is $1.99 at other times. Either way a bargain in my opinion.

For me personally, apart from the apps I’ve already mentioned, I can certainly see myself using the “Coin Flip” which flips a virtual coin on the screen, or the “Buzzer” which kind of makes your iPod into a game show button, or even the “Voodoo” app which allows you to stick pins in a rag doll. I’d use those at parties or with friends.

I could also see myself letting my nieces and nephews use the “Glow Paint” (a Day-Glo finger painting app) or “Sound Box” (a fun sound effects app). I might even use the last one to play tricks on some adult friends. Oh and of course the “Trip Wire” app which is a kind of sound activated alarm, with a sensitivity setting, could be a lot of fun too.

I am not letting my wife know about the “Cook Timer” as she already steals my iPod too often as it is But I might use it myself to get boiled eggs perfect!

More serious apps are included, like a “Metronome” for you musos, and a “Hot Topics” widget which gets popular news feeds from the internet. Plus a “Ruler” and a “Protractor”. Yep, they do what they say.

Did I mention that there’s an app to translate between pretty much every language I am aware of? It does need an internet connection though, as do most of the conversion apps that rely on real world data.

I could go on The “Morse Code” app I will be keeping handy for any war movies I watch so I can see if the subtitles match up to the signals.

I heartily recommend 50 in 1 : APPZILLA

The Good

• Just about every widget you could need on your iPod or iPhone.
• It even has instructions for each mini-app.
• Fun presentation, nice graphics in each mini-app and for app icons.

The Not So Good

• App is a little hard to take seriously as it’s presented as a novelty item, when it actually has quite a lot of seriously useful mini-apps.
• Camera functions are a little unstable.

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List of all APPZILLA apps:

– 50,000 Famous Quotes
– Twitter/Facebook tools
– Currency Translator
– Language Translator
– Touch Anywhere Camera
– Timer Camera
– Whiteboard
– Dictionary
– Digital Clock
– Trip Wire
– Unit Converter
– Voodoo Doll
– Sleep Sounds Generator
– Glow Paint
– Battery Life
– Book Lamp
– Tip Calculator
– Game Buzzer
– Clinometer
– Bubble Level
– Plumb Bob
– Protractor
– Ruler
– Price Compare
– Hot Topics
– Coin Flip
– Cook Timer
– Crystal Ball
– Tesla Meter
– Decibel Meter
– Advanced Random Number Generator
– Sale Price Calculator
– System Info
– Flashlight
– Music Box
– Grill Timer
– Homeland Security
– Concert Lighter
– Moon Phase Calculator
– Morse Code Flasher
– Password Generator
– Massager
– Color Picker
– Metronome
– Pitch Pipe
– Sound Box
– Strobe Light
– Tally Tracker
– Dice Roller
– Location Tool
– Fake Call

Price: $0.99 (iTunes Store Preview)
Released: Mar 11, 2010
Reviewed Version: 1.0
Size: 31.2 MB
Languages: English, Arabic, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
Seller: Fossil Software LLC
© 2010 Fossil Software, LLC
Rated 9+ for the following:
Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch. Requires iPhone OS 3.1.2 or later.

I’ve tried many different apps but How2Draw Faces is a completely new genre for me and a quick search of the App Store would suggest that it’s relatively unique for the iPhone/iPod touch too. ZeroUm Digital aims to teach us how to draw faces, there are future apps planned that will teach the user how to draw other items too but for now it’s faces.

There are 8 faces to draw, 3 men, 3 women a child and an old man, although the end results are completely different the steps that the app takes you through are broken down into simple steps that makes drawing a face a simple task for even the most artistically challenged people, and I should know because I am one of those people. The app is well put together and is easy to navigate and looks as professional as the results that it aims to help you create.

After selecting any of the 8 faces you are shown over the course of around 12 steps to draw the face, from a simple circle to start with and guide-lines for the features to the finer details of the eyes and lips and the final stages where the the pencil marks are over written with a pen allowing the initial pencil lines to be erased and the final results revealed.

The unique thing about How2Draw Faces though is the ability to take a photo of your drawing and overlay the your drawing with the drawing in the application. This is easily completed and once the image has been loaded you can resize and rotate the picture to align it and see where you may need to make any adjustments.

For a non-artistic person this app made it surprisingly easy to produce some decent results so for any aspiring artist I would say that this and the future apps that are planned in this series will be a great starting point to get the basics done.

How2Draw – Faces does exactly what it sets out to do.

Price $1.99

The Good

• Simple navigation
• Great use of the camera

The Not So Good

• Could have more than 8 faces!

Reviewed By: Craig Willis

Give yourself a handy launch pad with SyPhone!

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)

The Good

• Comprehensive launch pad
• Customizable
• Launches quickly

The Not So Good

• Cramped interface
• RSS Reader little too limited
• Removing items not so obvious

Reviewed by: TylerDurdan

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More and more companies are sending out documents in PDF format these days and with the iPhone also being used as a professional device having a good PDF document reader for it makes complete sense.

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.

The Good

• Easy PDF Bookmarking
• Ability to open password protected PDFs
• Searches and navigates large files easily

The Not So Good

• No menu’s in landscape mode

Reviewed By: Craig Willis

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[rating: 5/5]

Lifecards successfully breaks the monotony of regular emails and picture messages to convey that special message!

Features:

– More than 350 templates in 20 categories with more to come.
– Up-to 4 photos per template.
– Control scale, position, and rotating of photos.
– Control alignment, color, size, and font of text.
– Complex visual engine allows free pan and zoom while manipulating card.
– Automatically adapts to landscape and portrait mode.
– Save cards to finish them later
– Automatic save and restore when you exit and reenter the application
– Change templates without changing contents

Lifecards is great way to share what your are thinking, doing or dreaming about. It has a very intuitive interface which makes creating your Lifecard very easy and an enjoyable experience.

Once you select ‘Create new card’ you are presented with various categories (Beach, Filmstrip, Winter and many more) which further have different themes. After you’ve selected your theme, you get various customization options.

Customization options include:

• Text (Alignment, Color, Size and 19 fonts which you can preview)
• Add picture from Photo Album (Pan/Zoom/Rotate)

At this stage if you feel you are not happy with the theme you can still change it without losing your text and pictures you just added.

When you feel you’ve got what you wanted tap save (you are presented with a preview) tap save again and there you get two options, either to save for later use (re-edit later) or Export to Photo Album. After you’ve Exported to Photo Album you can exit the app and email the card you created.

The entire interface from creation to completion of the card is very well thought and implemented.

Lifecards will certainly make your friends feel jealous of your iPhone/iPod touch.

[Update] Lifecards has had many updates since we last reviewed it. The app feels very snappy and smooth now. The developer has also added sharing features which allow you to share your beautiful Lifecards via Facebook and Twitter (Touch Reviews suggested twitter) With the latest update now you can also add speech bubbles to create unique Postcards on your iPhone/iPod touch.

Touch Reviews Highly Recommends Lifecards

Price $2.99

The Good

• A lot of customization options
• A very structured interface

The Not So Good

• The resolution of the card is a bit low

Lifecards Screenshot

A Black Box of Tricks

Black Box is a UNIQUE PRANKSTER APP that allows you TRICK, JOKE and EMBARRASS your friends (or yourself!) with FUN, CRAZY and SCARY sound effects.

Other prank apps require you to launch sounds with an iPhone in your hands, but Black Box can also be REMOTE CONTROLLED via TWITTER, something the target of your prank won’t expect!

“LOOK MA, NO IPHONE IN MY HANDS!”

Black Box uses TWITTER, the popular micro-blogging service, as a REMOTE CONTROL! With SIMPLE COMMANDS SENT AS A TWITTER UPDATE you can PLAY ANY SOUND from your Black Box (included are farts, audience noise and even CRAZY KITTENS!), UPLOAD YOUR OWN SOUNDS (WAV, MP3) or delete them, set up ALARMS, and MORE!

We all like a laugh and there’s no better way to get one than by the watching someone squirm with embarrassment or jump in fear and while pulling down someone’s pants or placing a spider on someone the introduction of Black Box lets you do both of these items and more from a simple $0.99 app.

In simple terms Black Box is a joke machine that you can control remotely via your Twitter account. Now to be honest, leaving my iPod Touch hidden near someone while I send it a tweet from the other side of the room makes me feel a little cold with fear, but none the less for the sake of seeing how this works I did exactly that.

Before playing the prank there are some initial things that you’ll need to configure. Firstly you’ll need to enter your Twitter account details; this account will be the one that Black Box monitors for instructions. Then you’ll need to decide on which sound you want your iPhone/iPod Touch to be activated when you instruct it too.

There are 20 inbuilt sounds to start with inc. multiple fart sounds, cats, boo’s and applause, however if none of these are appropriate you can load your own sounds. Unfortunately it’s not just a of browse to a specific sound file, to load a new sound you’ll need to send the URL and name of the sound to your Twitter account, and a direct message will not do, it will need to a public tweet which may prompt some questions from your followers as to what you are doing!

The other thing you’ll need to learn before setting your trap is the secret ‘gesture’. When ‘activating’ your phone for the prank Black Box will turn the screen black and to the untrained eye it will look like it’s switched off so in case someone finds it they can’t use it. In realty though the back light stays on and if anyone knows anything about the iPhone/iPod touch they’ll know that a simple click of the Home key will give them access to the phone, though if you need to re-open Black Box you’ll need to perform the secret gesture on the phones screen.

With all that said it took me no longer than five minutes to set everything up. Next I activated Black Box and placed my iPod touch in a suitable spot.

Black Box monitors your Twitter account every 10 minutes so it could take up to that amount of time between you sending the tweet and your phone making the sound. You can make it scan your Twitter account as frequently as every 5 seconds but with that you’ll use up your 100 Twitter account scans per hour extremely quickly.

The tweet that you send to yourself will need to contain the name of the sound in Black Box, so you could just Tweet the word “boo”, “fart”, ”applause” or you could build the trigger word into a sentence, in fact I used “I wonder who deserves a round of applause” with applause being the trigger word.

After sending the Tweet I didn’t have to wait any longer than 3 minutes before my phone spontaneously let out a round of applause causing my victim to jump with surprise before searching for where the sound came from.

In essence the app does exactly what it is supposed to do. However while using Twitter as a remote control is pretty ingenious having your twitter account spread with instructions didn’t really work for me.

Price $0.99

The Good

• Simple to setup
• Simple to use
• Customizable Sounds

The Not So Good

• Twitter integration can look like spam
• “Locked” appearance can easily be bypassed

Reviewed by : Craigwillis

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Enjoy Horseshoe Flinging Fun with another Quality Game from Skyworks

KEY FEATURES:

– TOURNAMENT – Move up the ranks against seven computer opponents!
– ARCADE TOSS – Pitch to multiple position-changing stakes!
– RINGERS – See how many ringers you can make!
– PLAY-N-PASS – Compete on the same iPhone/iPod touch!
– SOUND AND MUSIC VOLUME CONTROLS
– LOCAL HIGH SCORE BOARDS
– GLOBAL HIGH SCORE BOARDS – Compete against players around the world!

Even before reviewing this game I’ve always been a fan of the throw large weights at a target type game, whether that be the indoor variety like Shuffle Board, the ice variety like Curling or the grass variety of Boule, so to get an iPhone app in the same vein was very exciting.

For those of you who don’t know the game of Horseshoes it is best played outside in the warm sunshine with a horseshoe in one hand and an ice cold drink in the other. The aim is to launch the aforementioned horseshoe through the air to a pole sticking out of the ground in the attempt to get as close as you can or even better, hook the horseshoe around the pole itself.

So with all that said how does the iPhone version match up to the real thing? With a cold drink on hand and sunshine streaming through my window I fired up the app and set about my review.

HorseShoes Pro comes with four styles of play, Ringers, Arcade Toss and Tournament and Play-n-Pass which allows you to challenge someone head-to-head on a single iPhone/iPod Touch.

The game offers the usual polish of other Skyworks games with effective graphics and sound rather than groundbreaking, but as with many games it’s all about the gameplay rather than how pretty it looks.

For those wanting an authentic game of Horseshoes then Ringers or Tournament Mode are the choice for you and the game plays very well. Throwing of the horseshoe is via the tried and tested method of sliding your finger up the screen and this works very effectively, in addition the accelerometer is used to affect the flight of the horseshoe and wrap it round the pole.

After a few games of horseshoe you’ll begin to see that using the accelerometer is required esp. if you are playing in tournament mode where each opponent will get progressively more and more accurate with their shots.

Each round can take a significant amount of time to play as you race your opponent to 40 points but if you enjoy the challenge and the subtleties of the game that won’t worry you. Being able to win the tournament on my first attempt though suggests that the difficulty level may be set a little low for some.

The final version of Horseshoe Pro is Arcade Toss which brings the games indoors and adds a bit of glamor to the game with the addition of bright lights, lazers and bonus points. Ultimately the game is still the same old throwing a bent lump of iron around a stick but the change is nice and the addition of two further targets mixes things up and will challenge you finger flicking skills.

At the end of every game you’ll get the opportunity to upload your score to the online servers to see how you compare globally but with the only a local multiplayer option Skyworks missed an opportunity here to make a good game a great game.

That being said I’m still coming back to the game for a quick go and that has to be a sign that they’ve got something right.

Price $1.99

The Good

• Great port of the real thing to the hand help
• Intuitive Controls
• Skyworks quality

The Not So Good

• Only local multiplayer
• Too easy

HorseShoes Pro™ Screenshots

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SimplyTweet developer @simplytweet has made more than 25 changes in the latest version 1.5

Some major updates are:

• Add swipe-to-reveal shortcuts for replying to tweets, viewing conversation, multiple selection (for “reply all”)
• Add Posterous support, support for multiple photos
• Display multiple photos in a single Posterous post in an album
• Add posting multiple photos support for TwitPic
• Display multiple Twitpic photos in a single tweet in an album
• Landscape mode for drafting tweets
• Show unread counts for Friends, Mentions and Direct Messages (Inbox) timelines. Autoscroll to first unread tweet.
• Add option to automatically load Mentions and Direct Messages(Inbox) upon startup
• Add option to open account view from an account note
• Add better navigation for account notes
• Change format of photo tweets (links appear at the end instead offront of a tweet)
• Add option to clear cache

We reviewed SimplyTweet almost a month back. Since then this app has seen a number of updates and with version 1.4 we could not help but write a fresh post about it!

SimplyTweet has successfully transformed from being a simple twitter client to an app which does almost everything what a twitter app should do.

• Browse CONVERSATIONS – display the reply chain of a message in 1 screen
• Saved views (create groups of friends, etc)
• Multiple accounts support
• Quick account switch when sending tweets and direct messages
• Account Notes
• View your timeline and replies
• Perform search
• Saved Search
• Post tweets
• Re-tweet Tweets
• Reply to tweets
• Direct messages support, including browsing list recipients and autocompletion
• Drafts of tweets and direct messages are automatically saved
• Follow and un-follow people
• Built-in web browser
• Instapaper support
• Support for Searching for Hashtags within a message
• TwitPic support
• Delete tweets
• Favorites support
• Trends support
• Load older tweets and direct messages
• Avatar caching
• Contacts lookup when composing a tweet
• Safari Bookmarklet support

User Interface

SimplyTweet has a very clean and simple UI which displays tweets is large chat bubbles. It also supports mutiple accounts which you can access through ‘More’ option. When you click on an account it will ask you to confirm using that account. SimplyTweet displays tweets from your friends, mentions. messages (sent & received), Trends and Favorites. The ‘More’ option can be edited to rearrange your preferred view. The app has a refresh option on the top left and compose tweet option on the top right.

Reply, Post & User Profile

Once you choose to compose a tweet you have an option to attach pics and address multiple users in your tweet. While attaching a picture SimplyTweet also gives an option to Move & Scale the picture. It’s easy to switch accounts while composing the tweet by simply taping on your account name in the middle.

When you tap on a tweet you can either Reply, Retweet, Mark Favorite or View the conversation. SimplyTweet does not offer TweetShrink, TwitLonger or updating location services in this version. Clicking on a link brings up an inline web browser which gives you an option to either ‘Read Later’ or ‘Email Link’ but no ‘Repost Link’ option.

Taping on the twitter avatar of a user brings up their profile and there you can view their latest tweets, short bio, followers, friends and choose to follow or unfollow them. It also shows you if the user is following you or not. The more option on the top right in the user profile view gives you further options to Send Message, Send Public Reply, Add to Saved View and Edit Note.

Trends, Save Search, Saved Views & Notes

SimplyTweet also adds Trends and the ability to save search. Saved Views can be used to create different groups to track different sets of people and is a very helpful feature. Creating notes is a handy feature to quickly keep your ideas safe!

Verdict!

SimplyTweet has evolved from being a simple twitter client to a very useful twitter client. Saved View and Notes are the strongest features of this app.

Price $3.99

The Good

• Saved View, Forward Messages
• Move and Scale picture before uploading
• Contacts lookup, View Conversation, Instapaper support
• Developer will be adding features with future updates.

The Not So Good

• Missing Features – TweetShrink, TwitLonger, Location Service, Repost Link to Tweet, Mail link to tweet.
• Auto refresh and icon badge for unread tweets, mentions and messages also missing.
• UI needs further enhancement

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An addictive connect 3 game that you need to check out.

Features:

• Time and Arcade Mode
• Up to 100 levels of fun
• Bonus Items
• Local and Online scores
• Resume Mode
• Sound and Music On/Off support

Friki Tricks is an intense connect three puzzle game that keeps putting on the pressure as you level higher. The game is fairly simple (well maybe at the beginning), the point is to line up three or more like items horizontally or vertically, and get through 100 levels, don’t worry you can mess up three times before your game comes to an end.

When you start the game you have the choice to play Timed or Arcade mode. In Time mode you are given 30 seconds to make 120 blocks disappear, and after each set of blocks you remove, you are rewarded more time. If you want to take it easy at your own pace then Arcade mode is for you, no time limit, so you can take your time and not get stressed out. Once you complete a board you get to spin the bonus wheel to earn items that could greatly help you get a higher score or maybe get something that could hurt you. The game really starts to get hard when your eyes start to play tricks on you after staring at these funny looking blocks for so many levels and your number of possible moves start to get lower and lower.

The User Interface is very simple, swiping your finger across the block in the direction that you want it to go is all that is really required, and maybe a few taps here and there for the bonus round and to purchase the Red Bombs.

The added score board feature brings even more competition to the plate, there is always room for matches against your friends to get the highest score or to just beat your personal best; better yet try claiming a spot in the top 10 on the Online score board.

Friki Tricks Game Hints:

• Save the Red Bombs for critical situations.
• Purchase a Red bomb after collecting 100 Gold Coins
• Keep an eye on the number of possible moves in the lower right corner.

Price: $.99

The Good

• Addictive Fun
• Online and Local Leader Boards
• Ability to resume a game after giving your Brain a break.

The Not so Good

• You may get a headache or your hair might turn gray from frustration

StessShaker has hundreds of quotes. These are arranged within four stress levels; Beautiful World, Dealing with Daily life, Coping with Stress, and Never give up Hope. With a shake of your iPhone, enter more intense levels of stress to reveal level appropriate thought provoking quotes to guide you to safety. With a swipe of a finger, you have control to command a new quote, or flip back to a quote that you may find needs further thought. With a tap of the screen, you are elevated to a calmer, more peaceful state providing a path to the inner peace within your grasp. We are certain you will enjoy this revolutionary and interactive experience.

This is a very simple application that presents a vast range of quotes based on four increasing categories/stress levels accessible with a shake of your device to go up and a tap to go down again. The quotes come from a range of sources including popular media figures and psychologists and do offer some relief in the form of thoughtful distractions but personal tastes do vary and of course, as stated quite clearly, this application is not a replacement for professional help.

Generally my only gripe with this application is that interacting with it isn’t quite as satisfying as it could be, when you swipe along the screen to move between quotes you have a few moments wait before the quote changes fading out then in with the new quote, where I feel it is better for quotes to move in the same manner as images in the OS photo viewer, also shaking the device to change stress levels could be made easier as presently you have to shake it quite hard to make it change.

Price $1.99

The Good

• deep and peaceful
• large amount of quotes

The Not so Good

• Interface needs refining.

Perfect app for carrying your documents and files where ever you go!

– Copy Files Directly From any Mac or Windows Computer
– Read all common office documents
– Save attachements you have goy in the Email
– Email files stored in Readdledocs to your colleagues and partners
– Read books on the go
– Transfer files to your iPhone with or without Wi-Fi
– Save documents from the web
– Access MobileMe iDisk and other popular Web Storages
– Exchange files with other iPhone users

I am highly impressed with the quality of ReaddleDocs. The developers of ReaddleDocs have covered almost all possible ways of leaveraging iPhone’s capabilities to be used as a complete document and file management device. Since Apple opened the gates for iPhone’s enterprise capabilities, Business apps have flooded the app store. ReaddleDocs surely shines amongst all in providing a very satisfactory experience in document and file management.

ReaddleDocs UI is very intuitive. You can choose to view available Documents, go online using Wi-Fi or ReaddleDocs account, use in-line web browser to download documents from web, view recent documents and configure settings.

Viewing a particular document or file has an option to email it as an attachment, bookmark the spot where you stopped reading and fast scroll for documents with large number of pages. The app can also show pictures taken from the camera roll and in the photo albums.

Readdle offers you 512MB of free storage on their web storage service http://readdle.com/register/appstore which can be used to upload your documents with an easy to use interface (multiple uploading possible) and then acceses through ReaddleDocs app on your iPhone/iPod touch anywhere. The app also supports WebDAV protocol to share data with computers via Wi-Fi. You can also configure MobileMe iDisk and Other Servers too.

The in-line web browser is a very useful feature as you can browse for documents and download (books) without leaving the app. After you configure your Readdle account you can use your uniqe email address to forward attachments and view using ReaddleDocs app.

ReaddleDocs supports following document formats for viewing:
– Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, Powerpoint (.doc/.docx, .xls/.xlsx, .ppt/.pptx)
– Apple iWorks: Pages, Numbers, Keynote (.pages, .keynote, .numbers)
– Portable document format (.pdf)
– Web pages (.html, .htm)
– Rich text documents (.rtf, rtfdnew)
– Text files (.txt)
– Fiction book (.fb2)
– Plucker e-books (.pdb)
– Images (.jpeg, .jpg, .gif, .png. .tiff)
– NEWMedia formats (mp3, mp4, 3gp, mov, mpv)

The app also has an option to use safari bookmarklet, set a passkey to protect your documents and sort documents in different folders. Readdle also provides extensive documention detailing each and every feature with the app.

ReaddleDocs is a highly polished app which will ceratinly make your iPhone more powerful than it ever was!

Price $9.99

The Good

• 512MB free storage
• Supports all popular documents & file formats
• Embedded web browser, E-mail attachments
• Offline viewing, download books.

The Not So Good

• Could use flick gesture to view different pics

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Version 2.0

twitterena is a pretty twitter app with promising updates on it’s way!

– twitterena features –

> see your followers recent tweets

> look at their profiles

> see your direct messages

> see your replies and reply to tweets

> tweet to the world

> magic refresh

> clear twitterena’s memory

> look at your profile

> upload pictures to twitpic

> follow new users

> GPS location finder

> More clouds in background

> and a lot more….

There has been a sudden overflow of Twitter apps for iPhone/iPod touch in the App Store. It is interesting to notice that in-spite of many great apps available users still like to evaluate new twitter apps.

twitterena is a very good looking twitter app with bright background and different colors. The user interface of this app is fairly simple. You can view your followers tweets, replies and messages. There is a refresh option on the top left and tweet option on the top right. Tap on a tweet to reply, send message, retweet, view users recent tweets or users twitter profile. Selecting your own tweet gives an option to view your own timeline and profile too

While composing a new tweet you can add more users to one tweet by selecting ‘my tweeps’, add your location using ‘locate me’ or upload a picture via twitpic.

This app shows replies and messages in “conversation’ view with iChat bubbles interface which is very attractive. It also supports in-line web browser to view links within the app and also gives an option to either open link with Safari or Email the link.

With Version 2.0 now you can add map link, search twitter, save search, view trends and get sound notification (not push!) when you receive/send new tweet, mention or message. In the settings you can edit these options

twitterena is a great app for those who wish to get started with twitter on their iPhone and want to avoid extra features.

Price $0.99 Sale

The Good

• Nice background
• Conversation View, Auto refresh
• Developer is working on 2.0 which should address ‘The Not So Good’

The Not So Good

• This app has very limited features & meant for newbies
• No search option, no trends (twtiter app is incomplete without these)
• Twitlong, Tweetshrink not supported
• Favorites missing

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– Emit streams of plasma from your finger tips
– Ignite explosions of dust and gas
– Use gravitational force to shape the cosmos

Galactica is an attractive entertainment app which will certainly enthrall you with it’s dazzling visuals.

The User Interface of Galactica is very simple & intuitive, it can be used to create stunning effects with simple touch and tilt gestures. Touch anywhere on the screen to emit particles, flick to launch a ball of particles, Double tap for explosion and Multi-touch to attract particles. The app creates unique visuals each time the screen is touched.

Galactica also features three original music tracks by Bloom co-creator Peter Chilvers though you can also listen to your own music.

*Price $0.99

The Good

• Captivating visual effects
• Soothing music tracks
• Create stunning wallpapers

The Not So Good

• No setting option (Thickness, speed options missing)
• More shapes could be added (random lines, stars etc.)
• Auto Mode (app could create random effects)

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How to take Screenshot on your iPhone?

Hold ‘Home’ and ‘Sleep/Wake’ buttons together.

Galactica Screenshots

With stunning visuals and fantastic gameplay, you cannot go wrong with Glyder!

Features
– Collect over 200 crystals to unlock new magical lands
– Over 35 achievements to master
– Discover and complete over 20 trips
– Fly seamlessly through 6 imaginative lands

Glyder ia a beautiful adventurous game which will captivate you with its stylish gameplay and freedom to fly over magical lands.

The objective of this game is to guide Eryn through dimensional rifts and collecting crystals to open the portal home.

The game begins with you choosing your first destination and then you enter a magical land. Tap the screen to start your flight and tilt your iPhone/iPod touch left or right to turn. Glu has has paid close attention to key elements of a flight which are speed and altitude. While you are flying you need to maintain your speed by diving and rising again. In order to soar higher you need to flap your wings by titling your device forward and backward or use the thermal vents.

As you fly though the dimensional rifts you need to collect crystals, these can be collected by flying over them at a low altitude. During your journey you can also choose to complete Trips (get from one place to another in the shortest time) and gain Achievements (Follow the ledge, Blind Diving, Crazy Fast etc.)

Glyder also offers complete freedom to fly to any destination within the game which is absolutely amazing. The replay value for this game is very high as you try to unlock all achievements and improve your statistics.

*Price: $0.99 (Sale)

The Good

• Beautiful graphics
• Stylish gameplay (dive, rise and flap wings)
• Achievements, Trips and Statistics
• Fly to any destination within the game, unlimited lives

The Not So Good

• Leaderboard missing
• More episodes could be added (enemies, weapons etc.)

Glyder High Score and Statistics

Until Glu adds global leader board use the space for comments to share your stats and scores (please leave a link to your screenshot to get your comment approved)

Our Stats

Best Altitude: 26 km

Best Speed: 216 km/hr

Longest Flight: 0:06:25

Farthest Flight: 118 km

Total Time: 0:40:31

Total Distance: 852 km

EZ Loan Pro is the number one utility for calculating and comparing home loans, car loans, boat loans, cow loans, or any type of loan. With the ease of the free EZ Loan Calc, you can quickly determine how much a certain loan and rate will cost you every month, how long it will take to pay off, how much it will cost at the end, and more!

Features:

• Quickly save and review loans
• Copy loans to create different scenarios
• View and compare all saved loans easily
• Accurate term and cost calculations
• Nice orange color for fun!?!

Fields Include:

• Principal, Interest, and Term
• Primary Mortgage Insurance
• Home Owners Insurance
• Home Owners Association Fee
• Annual Taxes
• Monthly Overpay

EZ Loan Pro is a great loan calculator to have, it includes all the fields that you need to fill in so that you know what your monthly payments will be, it will also break it down so that you know how much of each payment goes to interest and how much goes to the principal. The strongest features of EZ Loan Pro are save and name calculated loans so that you can compare before you make your big purchase.

The interface is very simple, once you start the app you go right to the blank fields you need to fill out, fill in all the necessary fields, hit the calculate button and there you have it, a total of what your going to pay and a breakdown of your monthly payments for every month down to the penny. If you’re buying a home, there is a separate tab for you, because of all the extra costs involved.

Touch Reviews Highly Recommends EZ Loan Pro!

Price: $0.99

The Good

• Fast and easy calculations
• Ability to save
• Detailed

The Not So Good

• It uses the alpha/numeric keypad, would like to see just a numeric keypad

Touch Reviewer: Fishinsmit

An Inca themed Sokoban game with 3D-esk graphics

Exercise Your Brain with the #1 Sokoban Style game!

Keep your mind agile, while having fun solving the 40 puzzles of Ankagua.
Help our friend to escape from the lost ruins, putting the green stone blocks over the marked positions, but be careful, because one false move can be fatal, and leave him trapped forever!

This is one pretty slick game with good graphics, which could be argued as more isometric than 3D. Gameplay generally is pretty solid and challenging however some of the later levels tend to pitter out into “move the blocks into something accessible then put them in the Goal” making the level one third challenge, 2 thirds chore but before you get to that stage you’ve gone through a lot of fun levels. While on the subject of gameplay this game does have a habit of being unstable, crashing, occasionally jerky framerate and for some reason you can walk through the moveable pieces after you stop pushing them around, while not sure if it’s a bug but it’s pretty handy sometimes. All that aside this is a challenging and fun puzzle game for you Vulcans logical people but could do with some tweaking, for example when the blocks are in place why not have the game character walk out the door as opposed to just raising his arms and letting out a cheer, he is after all trying to escape from an Inca ruin. Levels could always be made more interesting with things like falling floor blocks, cave in and other traps because all ruins have security devices to them

Moving on to controls, here you have two options, swipe and a slightly rotated D pad (to suit the isometric perspective). Now the problem with the D pad option is that it releases the character from moving in straight lines which doesn’t really suit the nature of this interface. It would be better locking the character to straight lines ala traditional Sokoban and having a third option with a virtual analogue stick in the form of two circles, as for swipe I find it too slow for my liking but again that’s in it’s nature as an interface.

Price $0.99 (sale price until 1.2)

The Good

• Challenging and fun
• Good Graphics
• 40 Levels and more promised

The Not So Good

• Unstable at times
• Level arenas pretty similar
• Controls somewhat annoying

Touch Reviewer: TylerDurdan

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BeastFace Photo MashUp is a photo editor for fun which can transform your friends into great looking beasts!

BeastFace MashUp is the most hilarious way to MashUp your iPhone’s photo roll or camera images with beasty lookin’ creatures! This very realistic MashUp tool makes amazing creations.

This is one simple and fun photo manipulator, essentially you choose your picture, either from your library or take one straight from your iPhone’s camera (sorry Touch owners, this app is limited for you) choose a face from an extensive list of mammals, fish and reptiles (59 faces in total). Using familiar gestures you then manipulate the animal layer over the face of your victim subject, more advanced controls are available including brightness, contrast, hue, saturation and sharpness however they are only applied to the animal layer, making this app somewhat clever but rather self limiting as you can’t even rotate or zoom in on a large background to make the layers fit better.

With your manipulation masterpiece complete you now have option of either saving it back to the photoroll or emailing it directly to who you want.

This application is very effective and fun, making monkeys (as well as birds, lizards) out of your mates, I would also like to see the scope for this application expanded into things like editable labels banners and borders maybe, the sky really is the limit.

Price $0.99

The Good

• Effective and fun
• Good range of animal faces

The Not so Good

• Needs more angles
• Effects limited to application applied layers
• No background image editing at all
• Little slow loading pictures

Touch Reviewer: TylerDurdan

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iShred is a must have for all guitar and music lovers!

Adrenaline: Treble Booster for that extra shot
* HK-2000 Delay: For fat slap sound or huge echo
* Hot Fuzz: Get buzzed with an electrifying distortion
* Kömpressör: Power chords just beg for it
* Q-36 Space Modulator: Multi-pattern modulation
* Sybil: Dual chorus pedal to hear your evil twin
* Trembler: Get a healthy dose of Tremolo
* Wahsabi: Tilt your iPhone to control this wah pedal!

From the moment you click on the iShred logo and the guitar spins smoothly into place you know that this app has been built with care and attention and right away you can start strumming the strings to create what has to be the most accurate guitar sound the iPhone has heard.

After you’ve rocked out for a few minutes though you’ll want to move on to something a little more serious and that’s where the pre-loaded song sets come in. Now if you after a Guitar Hero style painting by numbers game you are going to be disappointed as rather than letting you pretend to be Joe Perry or Jimi Hendrix, iShred teaches you to become your own legend.

Each song set provides you with just the right chords to create your own version of a guitar classic inc. Wild Thing, Highway to Hell, Godzilla and more but not only that, when your done with creating your own instant classic you can tweak you guitar to really make the song your own.

This is where the $4.99 becomes great value for money as you can chose from a multitude of premier effects and take your guitar shredding to the next level. There are 8 effects to choose from each with multiple settings allowing you to create your definitive sound, my favorite, the Wahsabi even allows you to shake the iPhone to add your wah wah effect.

Each string can be adjusted, refined and perfected in your hunt for the perfect sound and once you’ve mastered, or in my case annihilated, your favorite tunes you can not only record your masterpiece but share it with fellow iShreeders around the world with the AirPlay. Not only that, but you can also listen to other songs that have been uploaded and rate them.

iShred has been created by a team that clearly knows and loves the guitar, its sound and the raw emotion that strumming those 6 strings can bring, in my opinion installing the iShred application onto your iPhone is 2^nd only to hanging the real thing around your neck.

Price $4.99

The Good

• Great sound
• Slick interface
• Instant guitar in your pocket
• Multitude of options and settings

The Not So Good

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For fast relief, use iFlush!

Flush away the things you love to hate, and feel better instantly.

Quickly select a built-in image or a photo from your library. Then drop it into a realistic toilet of your choice. iFlush comes with a standard toilet, a high-performance toilet, and an outhouse (for you woodsy types).

For on-the-spot fun, snap a shot right into the crapper.

Add some smelly sounds, then whooosh!

Down the drain with your co-workers, your boss, your ex-whatever, or the cat next door.

Aaahhhh. Satisfaction!

Email your Flush to a friend, send to your public flush log on iFlush.net, then Tweet your flushes with an iFlush URL.

Recommended for fans of iFart, iBeer, Pull my finger, Whoopie Cushion, and Bubble Wrap.

Get iFlush today. You never know when you’ll need to go.

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Satisfaction now, and in the future. It’s our promise.

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What’s new

* Edge softening during image import
* Flush a friend
* Import a flush sent by a friend

Price: $0.99

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Review

An addictive slot machine simulator

Description

Temple of Gold is a Las Vegas style slot machine for the Apple iPhone and iTouch platform.

If you have ever visited Las Vegas or stepped foot inside a casino, then you already know how fun these machines are play.

Start your game with $1,000. Play up to 20 lines and bet up to $20 per line.I have worked hard to find the right sounds and graphics, so I hope you enjoy playing it.

While this game is a pretty accurate and good looking simulation of a slot machine it does feel very limited. You choose your lines, place your monetary bet on those lines and press spin and you keep doing that until you either run out of money or win so much money it would take forever to spend. There lies the rub when you run out of money you have to quit to the springboard and enter the application to play again, the flip side isn't too good either as when you win a ridiculous amount of money ($438364.00 is my current best) all you can do is keep playing the same game.

What I would have liked to have seen here at the very least, is an option to submit your winnings to a high score board, cashing out so to say. I would also like to see different machines you can progress onto when you have enough money to unlock them. Of course this doesn’t stop the game being somewhat fun, the how high can I go factor is here in abundance however there are a few bugs.

I found the application crashed frequently on initial installation which was only cured after turning the device off completely and on again, unusual for a simple application. The other problem I found was with the resume function, if you went into the application but quit to the springboard without resuming your last game (or received a phonecall at that moment) it would be lost, an annoying bug to say the least but one that you should rarely encounter.

Reviewed by TylerDurdan

Price $0.99

Feature Request

More machines to progress into, high score board for your massive wins

The Good

• Addictive
• Realistic and good looking

The Not So Good

• No high score board
• Only one machine to play

Temple of Gold Screenshots

Tasty is a powerful Delicious tool for your iPhone/ipod touch which will certainly make Bookmarks easier to organize!

– Save new bookmarks to delicious.com and modify existing ones
– Extended bookmark details including screenshots, previews through webview and favicons
– Browse your recent bookmarks, popular delicious bookmarks and fresh bookmarks from all users
– Browse all your bookmarks organized by tags or bundles
– Watch your bookmark inbox and your subscriptions from everywhere
– Stay informed about bookmarks from your friends and co-workers
– Access your delicious fans from your mobile device
– Save bookmarks from within Safari (http://tastymobile.com/bookmarklet.htm)

Tasty offers a very clean and simple UI which integrates with Delicious very well. With this app you can view your existing, popular and fresh bookmarks. It also Integrates Subscriptions, Network features and search by tag.

With 77.6% of mobile Web Browser share Safari is the most popular and preferred web browser for phones and Tasty just makes it easy for us to bookmark all the great sites we come across.

Tasty let’s you browse and edit existing bookmarks in your Delicious account with ease. Once you select a bookmark you can view screenshot (also supports embedded browser), notes and tags associated with the Bookmark. Further you can also Open Bookmark in Safari or Tweet the link with either Tweetie, TwitterFon or Twitterrific.

It also enables you to keep a track of your subscriptions, Fans, Networks and inbox within the app.

Tasty is a must have for all Delicious users who love to organize and keep a track of their bookmarks.

Price $11.99

The Good

• Delicious is integrated well
• Bookmarklet makes bookmarking very easy

The Not So Good

• UI enhancements are required
• Search any Delicious bookmark feature is missing.

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Build-a-lot is an exceptionally well built game for all who love real estate development simulation games!

Enjoy all the features and functionality for this immensely popular computer game including:

-Two Modes of Play – career and casual
-35 levels in 8 unique neighborhoods
-Construct, buy, sell and upgrade 8 types of buildings and 6 types of homes
-Purchase blueprints and unlock the CostMart
-Enhanced graphics augment the beautifully rendered animated backgrounds and sleek user interface

Build-a-lot is a very addictive strategy game with an objective to earn money by constructing, buying, renting, repairing, selling houses and hiring work force

In the beginning you are alloted some lots and you begin by buying blueprints for buildings or houses, construct them to collect rent and earn money. Houses you build can be upgraded up-to three times which sometimes require more work force than you actually have. Constructing and upgrading houses requires to maintain stock of materials you have. So as you earn more money you can hire more work force to enable constructing and upgrading your houses faster and also purchase additional material. Over a period of time as your houses get older you might have to repair them to continue collecting rent. Upgrading buildings also increases their value and rent. In the end the total rent collected and value of all buildings is added to your score.

The current version of this game offers two modes: Career Mode and Casual Mode

In Career Mode your objective is to earn money as per the goal allotted by the Mayor of the city by building specific buildings and accomplish the given task in limited time.

In Casual Mode your objective to earn specific amount of money with no time limit.

Build-a-lot compels you to strategize your next move. Your objective is to maximize money therefore you have to make careful choices over your next blue print, construction, work force, and upgrade keeping cost, material, time and work force required to build in mind.

The game also features a detailed tutorial so it won’t take much time to get familiar with the gameplay and in no time you will get engaged in generating money! The graphics, animation and sound effects are also very well done.

Build-a-lot is a highly impressive strategy game which has amazing replay value.

Price: $ 4.99

The Good

• Simple and addictive gameplay
• Very High replay value
• Graphics and sound effects

The Not So Good

• Online scoreboard could be added with some titles to be won.
• Very Very Addictive, difficult to take your hands off this game.

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Build-a-lot Screenshots

Review

BlackJack Run adds a very interesting twist to the traditional BlackJack game making it fun to play and an entirely new game!

Description

BlackJack Run is not your grandmother’s BlackJack! The object is to get the highest score for each of the five rows, without busting (going over 21 points for a row), all before the time runs out for the round.

At the end of each round, if you have scored at least 95 points, you get bonus points for having time left, making natural BlackJacks, making hands of 21, and for getting all rows equal to 21.

The game is ultra-customizable which allows you to play 15 different levels! Once you start playing, you won’t be able to stop!

BlackJack Run is basically based on the rules of traditional BlackJack game with time limit, levels and additional rules. The gameplay is very simple and easy to understand with the detailed ‘How To Play’ within the app.

You get 30 seconds to get a high score in all five rows without busting even once (achieve a total close or equal to 21 ). The game also offers various Bonus points to be earned if Base Score is 95 points or higher.

Now, this application works and works well with a responsive interface. The game also supports various customization options (Gameplay and Background customization ) for all those who love to personalize their games or apps. The game also gives you an option to view and submit High Scores.

BlackJack Run certainly adds freshness to the traditional BlackJack game, making it fast paced and addictive!

Price $4.99 (Right Now on Limited Time Sale $1.99)

The Good

• It’s challenging
• Fast Paced
• Global High Score

The Not So Good

• Interface could be polished further

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iToony allows you to decorate and share your iPhone photos quickly and easily. iToony uses simple gestures. Want a speech bubble? Draw a circle. Want a caption? Draw a straight line. Swipe with two fingers to undo mistakes.

– Quickly turn your favorite snapshot into a comic
– Annotate photos with bubbles and captions
– Draw, sketch and decorate in many colors
– Move bubbles and captions around the photo
– Flickr or Picasa support for sharing
– Browse/decorate your Flickr and Picasa photos
– Save to your library for more sharing options

With iToony, you’ll be an iToonist in no time!

What’s new

– fixed fuzzy image when saving to library
– fixed dragging tail problem

Price $2.99

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Don’t fight your drunk dialing habit, embrace it!

Unlike other mobile phone apps that work to prevent drunk dialing, Ringr Roulette actually encourages it. Let Rignr Roulette take the guesswork out of who to call. With a simple shake of your iPhone, Ringr Roulette will go through your contacts and choose someone for you to babble to late at night or early in the morning. Ringr Roulette also allows you to create an “excluded” list while you are clear-headed. This helps avoid those hard to explain calls to your mom or your boss at 2 in the morning. Ringr Roulette also has easy to understand sound effects in case you aren’t seeing your screen too clearly.

Rignr Roulette is simple to use:

1. Get really crazy
2. Shake your iPhone
3. Wait for the “chicken out” timer (user settable in case you NEVER want to chicken out)
4. Wait for phone to ring
5. Babble incoherently about how much you hate and/or love the person you are talking to.

Never drunk dial without Ringr Roulette again.

Price $0.99

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