Articles and Reviews by Casandra Armour

Pinger, known for its popular iPhone interface, has developed an application that many users are clamoring to message boards and review sites to cheer as another great innovation. Supporting America's pastime, texting, with a contract free, low cost iPhone/iPod utility, TextFree Unlimited gives the user unlimited messages, albiet with limited texting capabilities, at no per message cost. Achtung, baby, the app's title is slightly misleading. 

From its inception, Tapulous and their Tap Tap family of games have become App Store legends. Like fellow juggernauts Tap Tap Revenge and Tap Tap NIN before it, the new Tap Tap Revenge 2 involves the seemingly simple task of shaking the iPhone or iPod touch and tapping bases at the bottom of the screen as orbs guide your [...]

Remember that gorgeous, graceful teenage girl, gliding around on roller skates at the old fashioned rink and arcade. That wasn't me. I was clinging to stationary objects, seconds from peril with every move. And the arcade games I played were a predictable disaster. Poor aim, weak arms, bad form. Those big maroon-framed Sally Jesse Raphael glasses didn't help either. Times have changed [...]

VooDude - I'm a petty person. If one could say I get a thrill from winning, it'd be with ease that one could go a step further and say that revenge actually brings me a perverse pleasure. As such, I reveled in the opportunity to exact revenge via Aspyr Media's VooDude application. VooDude takes the archetypal [...]

A charming interactive book, Wheels on the Bus encourages you and your little one to poke or slide things on the screen to see what happens!

An unparalleled, heart-racing challenge of coordination, codeglue's HydroTilt is a strategy game in which the player manipulates their iPhone/iPod touch to control the flow of a droplet of water through obstacles over floating platforms. Don't be deceived by the mundane sound of the concept, HydroTilt can be riveting.

TV Show King - Trivia games are so enticing because it just feels stunningly sweet to be right, to win, to have shown one's intellectual superiority over all other participants. Belittling the brains of a geek at a bar: brilliant. Pulverizing party guests: priceless. Gameloft has accentuated that thrill with mobility and a game who promises to crown me king [...]

Adding the innovation of iPhone's range of motion capabilities to a Tetris-like puzzle format, BitCaper's Block Knights spins, or more appropriately, tilts and dips, into four fun different variations of the classic challenge of  arranging predetermined block combinations to form and clear rows of blocks. The motion really adds a fun but formidable element to these puzzlers. There [...]

With its enchanting rewards of music and gifts for negotiating a path, but an infuriating lack of guidance, MusicNeon serves up a delectable digital bite of quirk that may make an Apple user feel like Alice in Wonderland. Japanese creator SG Game leaves the player to figure a lot out as they go, which lends to small victories (Yay! I figured it out!) but [...]