Articles and Reviews by Greg Dawson

Greg Dawson is a writer, photographer, marathoner and self-proclaimed Mac fanboy.



Spotify Premium for iOS Gives Instant Access to 15 Million Songs

spotify for iPhone

How the world has changed since the iPod gave us 1,000 songs in our pocket. Now, through the Spotify Premium service, we have access to 15 million songs. Plus, it allows us to take all of our playlists no matter if we're connected or not. A feature that separates Spotify from Pandora. I absolutely love [...]


Greg Dawson rated this app 4.5/5 | Category: , ,


The Habit Factor for iOS is Fast Track to Personal Achievement

The Habit Factor - goal setting iPad app

The Habit Factor is by and large one of the most useful productivity apps in giving yourself a fighting chance to succeed in forming positive habits. This is not a GTD product, rather it's a self awareness app that helps you set goals and assign the habits to make those goals a reality. It does [...]


Greg Dawson rated this app 4.5/5 | Category: ,


Day-Timer iOS Productivity App Syncs with Facebook, iCal and Outlook

Day-Timer for iPhone

Smartphones have allowed many workers to transition themselves into on-the-go productivity machines. And while the iPhone's built-in Calendar and Reminders apps work wonders, they've left plenty of room for improvement for third-party developers such as Plan2Go and their Day-Timer scheduling productivity app. With the ability to get an overall view of your entire schedule (tasks and events) and [...]


Greg Dawson rated this app 4.0/5 | Category: ,


Zombie: The Rescue Makes Delicious Brain Suey of Unsuspecting Hostages

Zombie: The Rescue game for iOS

Rescue the hostages, save the world. Or at least the hostages. Zombie: The Rescue is an action puzzle that gives you a third-person view of the playing field, which is laced with zombies hungry for brains. I'm still intrigued about how many games there are within this genre. Even more surprising is how games such [...]


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Crystal War Blood Field is Perfect Blend of RPG and RTS for iOS

Crystal War Blood Field iPhone game

Crystal War Blood Field is a real-time strategy (RTS) game that is the sequel to Crystal War, which became quite popular among mobile gamers. The one thing missing was the ability to game against other fans. Now, by popular demand, multi-player in real-time is available. Even better, the iOS game still delivers on all facets, [...]


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aFinance Budget 3 Makes Mobile Budgeting a Breeze for iOS

afinance budget

Budgeting in the current economic times is essential to making every dollar count, but tracking every one of those dollars can be cumbersome. Sure, we all know we should budget, but let's face it, it's not the most exciting task. One app that makes it bareable is aFinance Budget 3 and almost makes number crunching [...]


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Skype for iPad Still Offering Same Great Service As the Original

Skype for iPad

A few years ago, I offered English lessons via Skype to anyone wanting to improve their conversational skills. I spoke to a wide range of people, including a student from Japan, a businessmen from India and a mom in Spain. It was a lot of fun and it would have been extremely expensive had I [...]


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Sonic The Hedgehog 4 Episode 1 HD is a Blast from the Past

Sonic the Hedgehog game for iPhone

Sonic The Hedgehog 4 Episode HD brings me back. Seems like just yesterday I set down Altered Beast and took on this new superhero that collected rings, defended against evil and rolled up like a ball and flew around the screen like something I'd never seen before. I cannot even begin to think about how [...]


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Checkbook HD is Essential Ledger and Budgeting App for iOS

checkbook HD

The New Year brings all sorts of things to mind such as giving more attention to being physically fit. Of course, don't forget being fiscally fit too. Budgeting is or should be a key factor in anyone's resolution and one such app that can help is Checkbook HD from iBearSoft. One of the most important [...]


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Recollect Syncs with Twitter Followers for Music Discovery and Recommendations

find new music with Recollect for iPhone

Ever since I've started working from home my music library has shrunk and my time on online music streaming services have increased. One thing I like about Spotify is the the ability to play the music from your friend's playlist. I love being able to checkout their playlists for something refreshing. Another service I recently [...]


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Super Crate Box is Frustratingly Awesome Arcade Action for iOS

Super Crate Box Game

Excruciatingly difficult. So addictive my fingers are now bleeding. I wish the disc gun had never been invented. These are just a few thoughts running through my mind when I think about Super Crate Box. The 8-bit sound and blitzkrieg type movement is evil, but feels so right. It's a symphony of tiny chaotic jitters [...]


Greg Dawson rated this app 5.0/5 | Category: ,


Relax and Rest Guided Meditations is Essential Deep Relaxation App

relaxandrest

Throughout my short, but travelled life, I've yet to find anything better for oneself than a bit of time alone. I'm sure just about everyone out there who's coming down from the holidays is thinking to themselves how great it is to have some peace and quite. To help get a little bit more out [...]


Greg Dawson rated this app 4.5/5 | Category: ,


Vidify Simplifies Moviemaking on iOS

Vidify

If you've every worked with video, you know that it can be quite cumbersome to capture, edit and then output something worth keeping. Sure, capturing isn't too hard, just open your video camera app, push record and voila. However, editing is another story and until recently hasn't had too many options available that were quick [...]


Greg Dawson rated this app 5.0/5 | Category: ,


Curio is Insanely Frightening Escape from Asylum for iOS

Curio for iPhone

One of the most frightening aspects of a film such as Saw is the thought of being tied up or restrained with an abysmal amount of chance of escaping. The idea that a film like this could be entertaining baffles me, yet I've watched almost the entire franchise. That's why when I found out about Curio, [...]


Greg Dawson rated this app 4.0/5 | Category: ,


Draw Pad Pro is Much More than Note-Taking App

Draw Pad Pro app

I know... another note-taking app right? Wrong. Draw Pad Pro is much more than the run of the mill note-taking apps that have seemed to overrun the App Store. One extremely useful feature is the ability to upload and trace a photo directly within the app. Think of how useful this would be for graphic [...]


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