One of the most useful, and universally loved apps in the App Store is the Apple remote, which allows you to remotely control iTunes from your iPhone. But what about controlling Pandora, PowerPoint or any other Desktop or Web App? The answer is Power Keys, a utility from Silicon Studios that has a single review [...]
Flick Bowling was developed by NY City based company called Freeverse. The makers of Flick Bowling have been developing great games since 1994, and is one of the leaders on the iPhone gaming platform. We loved “Wing Nuts”, saying at the time that it was arguably one of the best apps in the entire App Store.
If you liked Pocket Guitar, you will love iKoto, a beautifully designed iPhone rendition of the traditional Japanese stringed instrument. Released yesterday, with only one review on the App Store, iKoto is easy to miss. We thank Akira, from GClue, Inc, a spin off of the University of Aizu located a few hours north of [...]
AppCraver recommends Flipbook — see the FlipBook review. The developer, Josh Anon writes to let us know that the price will be reduced — today only! I wanted to let you know that in celebration of having over 1,000 movies posted to flipbook.tv and 400,000 downloads of FlipBook Lite, we are going to have a [...]
The idea of “Take Me to My Car” is great: record your GPS location, go somewhere, and get a map back to where you started. In practice, however, the Free App by independent developer Eldar Sadikov falls short of this promise. The two major problems of the app are the extremely slow response times and [...]
Flickr, owned by Yahoo for the last 4 years, is simply the best photo sharing web service out there. Flickr defined web 2.0 with its simple, uncluttered interface, its use of tags and groups, its privacy controls and many other cool and innovative features. Despite many attempts to overthrow it, including Apples own MobileMe galleries, [...]
Atari Missile Command, the classic game of thermonuclear war, was released today for the iPhone. At $4.99, its a faithful version of the original arcade game, with the accelerometer filling in for the old trackball. Missile Command was always one of my favorite arcade games. I think anybody over 30 will want to pick this [...]
According to Janco Analyst Mike Hickey, its very likely that the next platform for Grand Theft Auto (and specifically, GTA Chinatown Wars), will be the iPhone. “We expect GTA will likely be ported to Apple’s iPhone platform, leveraging the device’s touch screen technology and accelerometer. Apple’s determination to layer gaming applications into the device’s consumer [...]
Fuzzle, from CandyCane Apps, describes itself as a “classic, highly addictive puzzle game, that is simple and yet challenging. The idea behind Fuzzle is to move balls around on a board trying to line up 5 balls of the same color. The developers posted this video (although we are not convinced that the model presenting [...]
Back in the 70′s and 80′s, when computers where primarily text-based, Interactive Fiction, or “Text Adventures” were all the rage. The first of these, Colosal Cave Adventure (or just Adventure for short) for short, took place in a fantasy cave world. Game interaction is done by typing in words at the prompt. For example, if [...]
NewsGator, the RSS reader company, released today some interesting metrics on their iPhone application. In particular: There are over 200,000 users of NetNewsWire for iPhone Over 115,000 iPhone users have signed up in the past 30 days The average NetNewsWire iPhone user subscribes to 26 feeds One NetNewsWire/iPhone user has over 2,800 feeds — wow! [...]
Versus Chess is a lightweight version of Yahoo Chess for the iPhone. The implementation of the game is basic — there are no timers, no types of games, no rooms — but Versus Chess is one of the first of its kind, offering true one-on-one gameplay on the iPhone over the internet. At the time [...]
Two weeks ago, the app “PodCaster” from independent developer “Alex S” was rejected form the App Store for “duplicating iTunes functionality”. The story was documented in the developer’s blog and then widely covered in the blogosphere. Then, last week, the developer announced that the App could be purchased on the “Grey Market”, taking advantage of [...]
For $9.99, XPlane offers a realistic flight simulator experience for the iPhone. Released last week, and developed in only a month, the app takes full advantage of the accelerometer of the iPhone to create a truly accurate flying experience. As a pilot with 400+ hours, its a pleasure piloting the simulated Cessna 172 around what [...]
PhotoSwap is about a month old, and was written up recently in Wired. The idea is unique — you take a picture with your iPhone, submit it, and you receive a random picture back. Generally, the pictures aren’t particularly interesting (computer screens, offices, apartments, etc..), but some are quite innovative. What makes it particularly interesting [...]
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