Articles and Reviews by Jennifer Beam

Microsoft OneNote, which is a note taking and sharing program available in Microsoft Office 2010 and as a web app, is now available as a mobile app for iPhone and iPad. OneNote has some pros and is a good snag for heavy Office users with PCs, but it is far from a perfected note sharing [...]
Jennifer Beam rated this app 3.5/5 | Category: Productivity

If you like fun photo apps, then you might want to check out WordFoto by bitCycle. This app expands on the tired adage “a picture’s worth a thousand words” and lets users take any picture and use any word to create a one-of-a-kind fun piece of photographic art. With a built in algorithm that fills [...]
Jennifer Beam rated this app 4.0/5 | Category: Editor's Picks, Photo & Video

A fashion-fun app for girls, the Dress App is a combination fashion show and pattern-recognition game. Dress App is like a modern-day paper-doll and game rolled into one. Four fashion-forward cities – Paris, New York, Tokyo and Milan – are represented by different models, each with their own array of fashion items to model. Players [...]
Jennifer Beam rated this app 3.0/5 | Category: Games

The infamous Yellow Pages has really had no choice but to embrace digital reinventions of itself and while the Yellow Pages Mobile app rolled out quite some time ago, it scored a 2011 “Best in Mobile” Digi Award winner for location services. There are many features and aspects of YP mobile that businesses may be drawn to, [...]
Jennifer Beam rated this app 4.5/5 | Category: Lifestyle, Reference

Have you been waiting to read NOOK books on your iPad or iPhone? The latest version of the NOOK app from Barnes & Noble has improvements for keeping your ebook library synced across multiple devices as well as improvements to the overall reading experience for users who enjoy reading magazines on the iPad. But, is [...]
Jennifer Beam rated this app 4.0/5 | Category: Books

Vampireville is a seek-and-find game that features a rich, progressive story line with hidden object tasks, puzzles and mini-games spanning a total of 24 chapters. The premise of the story leads players to assume the role of a real estate appraiser checking out an ancient castle up for auction. With McGyver-like skills, you will weld [...]
Jennifer Beam rated this app 4.0/5 | Category: Games

Once upon a time there were two pigs who built their castle out of jewels…Well, maybe that’s not the exact version of the classic tale, but this game isn’t the exact version of the classic game it appears to be. PiggyWoogy is a version of the classic match-three puzzler and while it has a very [...]
Jennifer Beam rated this app 4.0/5 | Category: Editor's Picks, Games

Disney Mobile’s Where’s My Water? has received some well-deserved accolades as a top-rated game and indeed, since it’s release in September the water-physics puzzle game has been a top seller in the App Store. For fans of the Swampy and Cranky battle for bathwater, the recent update that included “Cranky’s Story” is a welcome addition [...]
Jennifer Beam rated this app 5.0/5 | Category: Editor's Picks, Games

Hard as it might be to imagine anyone NOT using Facebook, if you’re still not sold on Facebook, let 2012 be the year you jump on board the social networking bandwagon. If you're on Facebook, but haven’t been using it because the only computer you’re ever chained to is the one at work, then by all means it’s [...]
Jennifer Beam rated this app 4.5/5 | Category: Editor's Picks, Social Networking

Whether you’ve got discriminating taste in mixed drinks or just like to experiment with different cocktails, then belly up to the Liquor Cabinet app for iPhone. This app is a party host’s dream and is both thorough and concise enough to replace other bar books and drink recipes. The best part is, Liquor Cabinet has [...]
Category: Editor's Picks, Lifestyle

Last year Warner Brothers brought 5th Cell's award-winning Scribblenauts game to the iOS platform for iPhone in the form of Scribblenauts Remix. As evidenced by its original success on the Nintendo DS, Scribblenauts is an ideal game for a mobile platform. During the holidays, the price for Scribblenauts Remix dropped to .99 and fortunately for iPhone [...]
Jennifer Beam rated this app 5.0/5 | Category: Editor's Picks, Games

If you’re a believer in the power of suggestion or have ever wondered if hypnotherapy might work for you, then you guessed it – there’s an app for that. The newest, Infinite Relaxation, is one in a series of several meditative, self-improvement apps designed to promote relaxation, relieve stress, quit smoking, eat better, and so [...]
Jennifer Beam rated this app 4.0/5 | Category: Editor's Picks, Healthcare & Fitness

What happens when a child has an idea and grownups support it? Often times, good things happen —which was exactly what ten-year-old Henry Maw had in mind when he was inspired to create MonkeyBerry for iPhone. A game that was clearly designed from one kid to another, MonkeyBerry is the brainchild of young Maw who [...]
Jennifer Beam rated this app 4.0/5 | Category: Editor's Picks, Games

There are a variety of alchemy games for pretty much every platform and iPhone has its own abundance of them – some paid and many free. Denis Butyletskiy created his version of Alchemy for iPhone in 2010 and it has a current total of 231 elements. If you’ve never played an alchemy game, you should definitely [...]
Jennifer Beam rated this app 3.5/5 | Category: Best Free Apps, Games

Wouldn’t it be nice to have a go-to source that could potentially provide reviews of places and things at a glance? Who wouldn’t want a quick, efficient and to-the-point review of a place, its service, food or current occupancy? Along these lines, Tiny Review for iPhone aims to be that source. Tiny Review is short [...]
Jennifer Beam rated this app 4.0/5 | Category: Best Free Apps, Editor's Picks, Social Networking
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