Greg Dawson

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9/10

GAIN Fitness Builds Custom Workouts for iPhone

Gain Fitness App for iPhone

Fitness is a multi-billion dollar industry. While there is an absorbent amount of “As Seen On TV” health and exercise widgets and gadgets, one look on the app store and one would notice that the fitness industry has taken over there as well. Not all good though. Finding an iPhone exercise app such as GAIN [...]



9/10

MotionX GPS Drive is Top-Notch Auto and Pedestrian Navigation App

motionx gps drive

However, that’s not to say drivers don’t need them from time to time. And if they do, MotionX GPS Drive is the one they want.



7/10

Another World App is Old School Action and Adventure Game

another world

It’s 1991, your name is Lester Knight Chaykin and you’re a physicist. Unfortunately, it’s not your day and while you’re running an experiment using a particle accelerator lighting strikes and wreaks havoc and teleports you to Another World. Fastforward to 2011, the 20th anniversary of the game, and instead of playing this title on an [...]



7/10

Doodle Rams is Multiplayer King of the Mountain

doodle rams for iPhone

Some of my fondest childhood memories are centered around playing King of the Mountain, hill, snow mound and various other locations I was trying to conquer. Doodle Rams has brought this idea to the iPhone, but with one caveat, there must be another player on the gaming network to be able to play. This idea [...]



9/10

Jetpack Joyride is 007 Strapped to a Rocket

jetpack joyride

Halfbrick, developers of Fruit Ninja, have struck gold again. This time with a James Bond-esque jetsetter who breaks into a laboratory to get his hands on experimental jetpacks before the science evildoers take over the world. The game, Jetpack Joyride. If conquered, Money Penny will be impressed. While the game is extremely simple in game [...]



10/10

Scanner Pro Makes Multi-Page Scans a Breeze on iPhone

Scanner Pro for iPhone

As an iPhone- and iPad-toting mobile office executive, I take pride in discovering the apps that help get things done on the road and in the coffee shop, a.k.a. my mobile office. That’s why when I found Scanner Pro, I had to review it as it’s quite possibly one of the most useful business apps on [...]



9/10

Bizzy is Perfect Mix of Yelp and Foursquare

Bizzy iPhone

I’m a big fan of Foursquare and while I like leaving “tips” at the places I check-in at and earning badges such as “I’m on a boat”, I’ve always wanted more integration of a rating system for the places I’ve explored kind of like Yelp offers. That’s why I was pleasantly surprised to find Bizzy, a [...]



10/10

Teddy Tumble Takes iOS Spin in Washing Machine

teddy tumble

Don’t be fooled by the cute little fuzziness in Teddy Tumble for iPhone because you’ll soon realize that its cuteness is out shined by 90 levels of ultra fun addictive gameplay. With similar game theory as Angry Birds and Cut the Rope, this physics-based puzzler puts quite the twist on sliding, turning and bumping Teddy [...]



10/10

Contre Jour HD is Epic Mix of Art and Immersive Gameplay

contre jour hd game

With an E3 debut earlier this year and a Game Critics Award nominee nod, Contre Jour HD is an epic mix of art and immersive gameplay. This is one game that I’ve been waiting for all year and it’s way better than I could have imagined. And it definitely demands the larger screen of the iPad [...]



9/10

Cor.kz Wine Info App is an Essential Wine Guide

Corkz Wine Info App

For some reason it took my palette quite a long time to appreciate wine. A friend suggested I start with the sweeter whites and work my way up. I never looked back and soon discovered that my favorite is Pinot Noir. And even though I enjoy wine, I don’t know much about them and when [...]



Essential Apps for College Freshmen

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Well, kids, summer is officially over which means students everywhere are heading back to the school. And for those freshman entering the unknown at their college of choice — or college of “this is the only one I got accepted to” — you undoubtedly have a smartphone and most likely it’s an iPhone. You might [...]



10/10

Infinity Field is Asteroids on Crack for iPhone

Infinity Field for iPhone

At one point in your life, you will find something that impresses you so much that you want to tell the entire world. For me, at this point in my life, it is Infinity Field, the award-winning geometrical shape blasting masterpiece. Is it the definitive dual-stick shooter on the App Store? Yes, I would have [...]



9/10

Catch the Kid App Tracks Billy the Kid in New Mexico for $10,000 Award

Catch the Kid iPhone app

Geochaching and iPhone apps, two of my favorite things, have combined to bring a bit of fun and awareness to the state of New Mexico. The Catch the Kid app, created as a campaign by the famed creatives at M&C Saatchi for the New Mexico Tourism Department (NMTD), is a very large-scale scavenger hunt for [...]



10/10

Color Range is Next Generation Photo Editing App for iOS

Color Range - selective color app

As a photo addict, I’m always on the hunt for iPhone photo apps. The latest and greatest is Color Range, an iOS app that specializes in adding selective color effects to pics in your iPhone or iPad Photo Library. The developer promises this to be a revolutionary tool that can read the color range of [...]



8/10

GIF SHOP iPhone App Makes Gif Animation Simple and Easy

Gif Shop App Icon

We’ve all seen them. Those images and pictures that look like they are dancing, smiling or doing wacky little gestures and motions. If you did a quick Internet search you could most likely figure out how to make them, but the GIF SHOP iPhone app wants to make it even easier to create and edit [...]



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