Articles and Reviews by Jennifer Beam



Don't Read too Much into The Face Reader for iPhone

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Facial recognition software for iPhone might seem like a stretch, but that’s what Profiler-One would have you believe is incorporated into their face reading app. The Face Reader is apparently based on research and statistical mumbo jumbo, collected over years of research on thousands of faces. Keeping in mind that many iPhone apps hinting at [...]


Jennifer Beam rated this app 3.0/5 | Category:


Workout and Look Wow! in 12 Weeks

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If you’re looking to make a 3-month commitment to working out and wondering if there’s an easy way to keep track of your progress, the answer is...maybe. Look Wow! In 12 Weeks is a fitness and workout app featuring a 12-week workout schedule along with fitness and nutrition tips. The aim of Look Wow! In [...]


Jennifer Beam rated this app 3.5/5 | Category:


Earthquake Preparedness With iPhone and Quake SOS

QuakeSOS - RT News earthquakes + SOS and Safe alerts app icon

Though I’ve seen a pretty wide variety of iPhone apps in every category and admittedly don’t know all of them by a long shot, Quake SOS is the first app I’ve seen that is designed for use in a natural disaster emergency. A combination of an emergency alert system for victims of earthquakes and an [...]


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Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star Preschool Storybook Piano

twinkle twinkle little star preschool storybook piano iphone

The average iPhone user doesn’t typically get too excited over apps specifically designed for small children. Unless you’re a parent, grandparent, or preschool teacher, apps like Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star Preschool Storybook Piano are probably not on your radar. But for those who care, you should know that aside from being a mouthful to say, [...]


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iPUBQUIZ-Trivia Quiz: Pub-Style Trivia Anywhere

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Anyone who loves a good trivia game, especially the multiple choice restaurant and pub style trivia games that pit players against the clock as well as other players, will surely appreciate iPUBQUIZ-Triva Quiz. In the same spirit of testing trivial knowledge in myriad categories, iPUBQUIZ presents players with an easy to play version of the popular fast-answer [...]


Jennifer Beam rated this app 4.0/5 | Category:


Balance Forecasting Gets Upgraded With More Tools for Bill Management

Bills and Balance Forecasting

A favorite personal finance app has undergone a digital makeover so that you can undergo a financial one. Originally available for download as Balance Forecasting, the new and improved Bills and Balance Forecasting w/Reminders is now free for download and use for up to six line items. If you already purchased Balance Forecasting the update [...]


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LoKast is Quick and Easy File Sharing and Social Networking

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For most iPhone users the ease of social networking is a blessing and a curse (don’t get caught at work). But however you look at it, new apps that break the social boundaries are emerging all the time. LoKast is a newer social networking app and, similar to Bump, allows users to instantly share information— without actually [...]


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Get and Give Fashion Advice With Love It or Lose It

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Love It or Lose It is a fashion iPhone app that uses social networking concepts to allow users to develop their own network of fashion critics. Users can share photos taken from the store rack, the dressing room, their own closet, or anywhere else and then upload them for feedback from their fashionista friends. Clearly aimed [...]


Jennifer Beam rated this app 3.5/5 | Category:


Color Puzzle 3D - It's Not Your Average Cube Puzzle

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Color Puzzle 3D is a three dimensional, multifacited puzzle block solved by switching and rotating the faces of cubes until all the colors are matched up together. Loosely likened to the famous Rubik's Cube, Color Puzzle 3D instead features tiles with four triangular color segments per cube face, which can be switched out with another [...]


Jennifer Beam rated this app 3.0/5 | Category:


Make an Anatomical Point with Muscle Trigger Points

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Any iPhone or iPod Touch user with an interest in the human body may find Real Bodywork’s reference app Muscle Trigger Points to be of special interest. More specifically, it is designed for those with an interest in muscle function, trigger points and pain referral. Muscle Trigger Points has excellent 3D graphics and some good [...]


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The Impossible Game - It So Is

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Finally, a game that completely lives up to its name. The Impossible Game is exactly what it sounds like. Well, OK, while "impossible" may seem like a strong word, "improbable" or "really, really hard" doesn’t have the same ring to it. Besides, for someone with slow reaction time, The Impossible Game is pretty much just that – [...]


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Feng Shui Game: Keep the Balance!

Keep the Balance! Feng Shui Game app icon

Happy Blue Fish’s Feng Shui Game: Keep the Balance! is a charmingly animated app that tests your memory and balance skills in a Zen themed, interactive game. The Feng Shui Game offers four modes of gameplay including a two-player Duo version. Players learn and memorize the feeding and destruction cycle of the elements fire, earth, [...]


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iCountCash: The One With the Most Money Wins

Said to be “as addictive as real cash,” iCountCash adds to the long line of addictive frantic tapping, swiping, and poking games available for iPhone, iPod Touch, and now iPad. While it’s kind of baffling how games like this have caught on, there’s no denying the popularity of such non-placid entertainment for the touch screen [...]


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Word Droppings - Funny Name, Fun Game

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Don't worry, it's not in your eye, it's with an I and an E, O, U and sometimes Y. Word Droppings is a word building game played by tapping letters to form words, which as expected, scores you points. You can compete against yourself to advance through 75 different levels or play online against other [...]


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Simon Graham and the Extraordinary Timepiece

Simon Graham and the Extraordinary Timepiece, Book I app icon

While the title is a mouthful, Simon Graham and the Extraordinary Timepiece, Book I proves to be anything but ordinary. An intriguing story about 10 year-old Simon Graham and his grandmother’s mysterious past coupled with riddles and puzzles that tie the story line together keep players entertained for a couple of hours. Similar to Nintendo’s [...]


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