Bookmark

Posted September 14, 2009 - 8:39pm by Marc Peter
BM1Developer: DockMarket LLC
Category: Books
Version: 1.0
Release Date: September 5, 2009
Size: 1.7 MB
Price: $2.99
Rating: 10/10

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I was a little skeptical about audiobooks on my iPhone when the first apps were coming out with full length books. However, just like I now use my iPhone as a primary print news source, now I also use my phone for entertainment reading and audio book listening. There were some crucial features missing from the iPhone as an audio device that Bookmark has addressed and provided perfectly.

Serious readers get physical with their books. We turn down pages to refer to later, take notes in the margins, put page-mark stickies on with labels on them and do various other things that mar forever the physical state of our reading materials. Bookmark allows iPhone readers to do all of these things to any piece of audio literature that you keep on your iPhone.

Movie Challenge

Posted September 14, 2009 - 7:44pm by Marc Peter
MC1Developer: Redwind Software
Category: Games
Version: 3.1
Release Date: July 27, 2009
Size: 8.3 MB
Price: $1.99
Rating: 10/10

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Some iPhone apps are made specifically for a younger demographic. Farting, blasting, hacking and smashing are all things that the youth enjoy, and so do mature iPhone users to some extent, but eventually it gets old and you feel pretty stupid sitting in the airport surrounded by people reading novels and papers and working on laptops while you adjust the hang time and pitch of a cow fart. Movie Challenge is anything but immature.

FingerPiano

Posted September 9, 2009 - 4:05pm by Marc Peter
FP2Developer: Junpei Wanda
Category: Music
Version: 1.7
Release Date: January 20, 2009
Size: 7.3 MB
Price: $1.99
Rating 10/10

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The iPhone is the perfect platform for completely addicting games that have the capability of eating up hours of otherwise productive time. I have not found many apps outside of the game genre that have qualities that would make them truly addicting. That is why I am so impressed with FingerPiano. There are a lot of synthesizer, DJ mixer type apps in the App Store, and some of them are really fun to use, you can create very complex music with mini-professional mixing devices. FingerPiano does something totally different than any other app in the Music genre, it allows you to play classic songs yourself on a piano keyboard, guiding you through each song.

Liberty Boom

Posted September 9, 2009 - 3:10pm by Marc Peter
LB1Developer: magnate Interactive
Category: Games
Version: 1.0.1
Release Date: August 21, 2009
Size: 8.2 MB
Price: $0.99
Rating: 8/10

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iPhone user by choice, American by the grace of god.....or maybe the other way 'round? It's debatable. There are a lot of games in the App Store that appeal to the international iPhone user masses; space games, shoot 'em ups (although that's an American thing-think Charlie Heston) and slash and hacks. Liberty Boom is all about being proud to be an an American, the 4th of July, fireworks, oohs and ahhs and a little exploding airliner action thrown in for good measure.

Samurai: Way of the Warrior

Posted September 8, 2009 - 9:35pm by Craig Motlong
Samurai1Developer: Mad Finger Games
Category: Games
Version: 1.0
Release Date: August 31, 2009
Size: 44.6 MB
Price: $2.99
Rating 8/10

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Games on the iPhone are rapidly falling into a pattern of me-tooism. Once you have a hit on the platform, a million developers surge toward the chum in the water, producing a slew of nearly identical apps that blur the distinction that made the original so good. The ones that maintain their individuality are either too arty, like Zen Bound, or too silly, like Pocket God, to make a clone worthwhile. For example, you instinctively know how to operate every third-person action game; the controller is on the lower left, fire on the lower right...

Enigmo 2

Posted September 8, 2009 - 9:26pm by Craig Motlong
Enigmo1Developer: Pangea Software, Inc.
Category: Games
Version: 1.0
Release Date: Sep 01, 2009
Size: 9.3 MB
Price: $3.99
Rating 6/10

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Look, I loved the original Enigmo. In an age that now seems like the wild west on the iPhone/iPod Touch platform, Enigmo was one of the few games that was worth the money, addictive, and fun. It was the last app I deleted to make room. Even when I found myself not playing it anymore, I liked the idea of playing it.

So when Enigmo 2 was announced, I leapt on it like mustard at a hot-dog eating contest. I could not wait to see what they'd done with Enigmo. I was expecting a "Rolando 2" kind of upgrade, one that maintains the principles of the original but leans on the walls a little to make it bigger, better, and more fun. Turns out I was half-right.

Cash Trails

Posted September 3, 2009 - 4:47pm by Marc Peter
CashTrails1Developer: Vasyl Smyrnov
Category: Finance
Version: 1.3
Release Date: August 14, 2009
Size: 0.9 MB
Price: $4.99
Rating: 10/10

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In the past I've read a lot of budgeting books, used desktop applications and tried out lots of advice. For one reason or another I always start to slowly slip on my record keeping and get to a point where I ask "What's the point?" and revert back to just using my checkbook to make sure I don't overspend every month. In this economy I've realized that keeping accurate records on my spending and sticking to a budget are not only good things to do, but they are necessity. One of the reasons that I have given up in the past is that the tool for keeping records was never right at hand. Now I have one thing that is almost always with me- my iPhone, so it makes perfect sense to use it to balance my budget and keep track of spending.

Frootrees

Posted September 3, 2009 - 3:22pm by Marc Peter
Frootrees1Developer: Tin Man Games
Category: Games
Version: 1.1
Release Date: July 21, 2009
Size: 3.6 MB
Price: $0.99
Rating: 9/10

 

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I've been exposed to a lot of cartoons in the last 9 years. There was a Dora The Explorer phase, a Cailou phase (shudder), a Sponge-Bob phase, and now, thankfully, we are into the Fairly Odd Parents and Scooby-Doo phase. Frootrees could easily be one of these television cartoons.

The game is incredibly simple, both the UI and graphically. Four types of fruit, or Froot, grow from one single tree. I know, how this is this possible? But how is a red-neck squirrel living in a glass dome under the sea possible? They each have very simple little faces and their expressions change as they ripen. Pluck them by touching them and "flicking" them into the coordinating colored bar on the ground. You have to pluck them before they grow too ripe and wither, falling in clumps that look like little Mr. Hankys to the ground at the base of the tree. The Froot has different action to the plucj depending on how ripe it is.

Fwix

Posted September 2, 2009 - 10:42pm by Marc Peter
Fwix1Developer: Fwix
Category: News
Version: 2.0.2
Release Date: March 23, 2009
Price: Free
Rating: 10/10

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There are a bunch of really good local news delivery apps out right now, some reviewed on AppsAddicts.com. NewsFlash delivers local news according to your zip code, and World Newspapers searches the world city by city for every online news tid-bit available. While I highly recommend both of those apps, and will even venture to say that no iPhone slinging news junky should be without them, Fwix just may be the most cutting edge local news delivering service yet. It offers the perfect synthesis of social media sharing and news delivery.

Gudeballs

Posted September 2, 2009 - 9:50pm by Marc Peter
Gudeballs1Developer: Rogerio Penchal
Category: Games
Version: 1.0.1
Release Date: May 26, 2009
Size: 3.7 MB
Price: $0.99
Rating: 10/10

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I'm feeling really lucky this week. After not finding any really addicting new games for a long spell, I now have three to choose from. Each one has the ability to eat up hours of my day at a time- they are commute slayers, boredom killers, annoying life in the background distractors. There is a hierarchy to these new games, and Gudeballs rules the triumvirate. I can play this game and literally forget what day it is.