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

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 [...]
Greg Dawson rated this app 4.5/5 | Category: Editor's Picks, Travel

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 [...]
Greg Dawson rated this app 5.0/5 | Category: Editor's Picks, Photo & Video

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 [...]
Greg Dawson rated this app 4.0/5 | Category: Entertainment, Photo & Video

The headlines over the last few weeks have been a buzz about Google's new social networking site. One of its most touted features is its circles option, which allows you to share information with certain groups of people, friends, colleagues, etc. There seems to be a lot of users already, but only time will tell [...]
Greg Dawson rated this app 4.0/5 | Category: Editor's Picks, Social Networking

As a professional photographer, I'm always intrigued with the latest photo apps. And while I like the point and shoot photo apps that allow you to put different effects on the photos themselves, such as Instagram, I really enjoy apps such as Amoveo that extend past the photo itself and make it more of an [...]
Greg Dawson rated this app 4.5/5 | Category: Editor's Picks, Photo & Video

Ouch! Did you just hit me with a ninja monkey? Chillingo, developers of Cut the Rope, has done it again with Swords and Soldiers, where they welcome you to ye olde times of castle defense dominance where your strategy should be mightier than your sword. And yes, there are monkeys with ninja abilities. Luckily for [...]
Greg Dawson rated this app 4.5/5 | Category: Editor's Picks, Games

An outstanding party playlist is irrevocably the most important part of the evening. It sets the tone for the night and can turn your shindig into a chest pounding, musical masterpiece or consequently, it can also turn the party into a "Hey, can we get that to go..." mass exodus. With a little bit of [...]
Greg Dawson rated this app 5.0/5 | Category: Editor's Picks, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music

With its robust mini games, realistic controls and fantastic music, RC Plane 2 for iPhone and iPad is one flight simulator that I've really enjoyed lately.
Greg Dawson rated this app 4.5/5 | Category: Editor's Picks, Games

It's the bottom of the ninth, the bases are loaded and your team is up by three. Do you keep your pitcher in who has thrown a solid game or do you bring in your star closer? These are the types of questions, that as a manager, you'll have to know in Strat-O-Matic's 3-Minute Baseball app [...]
Greg Dawson rated this app 4.0/5 | Category: Best Free Apps, Editor's Picks, Games

I've often wondered what it would be like to play Angry Birds in space, except the bird would be a comet and the game would mash together the fierce style of a Japanese fighter pilot with the speed of light and the physics of space. Much to my entertainment, Cometkaze has created such an app, [...]
Greg Dawson rated this app 4.0/5 | Category: Editor's Picks, Games

The fast track to becoming a runner starts with the 5K Runner app, one of the best iPhone running apps I've tested. Packed with coaching tips, a training program and a lot of interactive content, this app gets you from couch to 5K (or 3.1 miles) in 8 weeks. My running debut came in January 2007 [...]
Greg Dawson rated this app 4.5/5 | Category: Editor's Picks, Healthcare & Fitness

Boy meets girl, girl eats fruit, Celestians create an empire, take over the world with their mystical forces and oppress the children of Terrestrians for centuries. We've all heard this story before, right? Designed to exploit the interactive controls of the iPhone, Absolute Instant is an excellent app that should pique the interest of both hardcore [...]
Greg Dawson rated this app 4.0/5 | Category: Games

Is social networking reaching a tipping point? With Facebook's recent slump in North American growth, one is lead to believe that we as a society might be overwhelmed with the amount of options within the space. Think about it. Between Twitter, Foursquare, Facebook, Gowalla, etc. nobody has time to truly connect with everyone, all the [...]
Greg Dawson rated this app 5.0/5 | Category: Social Networking

TigerMe Club recently went on sale from $9.99 to $.99 and so my curiosity got the best of me. While I'm a happily to-be husband and father, I was very interested to check out the content and see if this "for men only" swagger app was worth the $9.99 regular price tag. So for this [...]
Greg Dawson rated this app 4.5/5 | Category: Entertainment, Lifestyle, Social Networking

Lane Splitter is a fierce, fly by the seat of your pants arcade game that not only keeps you irratically tense throughout the gameplay, but keeps you coming back for more. And it's also the reason why you don't want to be pressed for time for your wedding. That's right, the story follows groom to [...]
Greg Dawson rated this app 4.5/5 | Category: Editor's Picks, Games
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