Articles and Reviews by Jennifer Beam

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 [...]
Jennifer Beam rated this app 4.0/5 | Category: Books, Games

Part of Viaden’s series of slots games that brings the casino to your mobile device, Viaden Magic Slots may be the best value of them all. Four slot games are included with a free bonus game available for registering. Players can have a go at any of the games anytime they’re feeling lucky without risking [...]
Jennifer Beam rated this app 4.0/5 | Category: Editor's Picks, Games

Colorize is an iPhone app that lets you create and recreate colorful pictures with the stroke of a brush – or really your finger. Developed by Widgetize, Colorize is a creative photography editing application that allows re-coloring of entire photos or specific parts of a photo at different levels of saturation. With the goal being to [...]
Jennifer Beam rated this app 3.5/5 | Category: Photo & Video

A productivity app with a claim of being “designed by moms, for moms,” Intuition makes it easy to organize the tasks every family manager (a.k.a. mom) needs to tackle. With an array of included categories as well as customizable options all organized into a list view, Intuition is more than just a to-do list and is [...]
Jennifer Beam rated this app 4.5/5 | Category: Editor's Picks, Productivity

If you’re hooked on sweepstakes, instant win games, and other “free” chances to try your luck at winning something, then check out Scratch Off Now by Thought Quarry, LLC. Scratch Off Now is basically like adding an instant win scratch off game to your iPhone with the opportunity to try your luck at winning small [...]
Jennifer Beam rated this app 3.5/5 | Category: Entertainment

If you haven’t witnessed renown British chef Jamie Oliver in action, you’re missing out on an incredible personality with a passion for healthy food. If you love him in The Food Revolution, you’ll love him on your iPhone as he demonstrates some of his recipes designed to be made in 20 minutes or less. 20 [...]
Jennifer Beam rated this app 4.5/5 | Category: Editor's Picks, Lifestyle

A newbie in the long and growing list of music apps, Groove lets you take your music library for a new spin by providing a quick and easy way to listen to your songs. Groove was designed to help users “rediscover” their music library and it accomplishes this by being organized, intuitive, and bit more [...]
Jennifer Beam rated this app 4.0/5 | Category: Best Free Apps, Editor's Picks, Music

With a couple of App Store successes—like Ocarina and I am T-Pain—under their belt, Smule has partnered with FOX to unite Gleeks around the world with the new Glee app for iPhone and iPad. A melding of Rock Band style karaoke and auto tune technology, Glee (the app) lets users sing along in the vocal [...]
Jennifer Beam rated this app 4.0/5 | Category: Editor's Picks, Music

Barefoot Explorers’ Panda Hero for iPhone and iPod Touch is an ideal game to celebrate Earth Day and helps bring a bit of environmental awareness into the technology laden world of kids. Panda Hero is a unique combination of adventure game and virtual pet. And Barefoot Explorers has partnered with Trees for the Future to [...]
Jennifer Beam rated this app 4.0/5 | Category: Games
With the Shop Healthy! app for iPhone, users can browse nutritional information on thousands of food products organized by category and grocery aisle.
Jennifer Beam rated this app 4.0/5 | Category: Healthcare & Fitness

As the summer travel season is approaching, there are some serious benefits to being an iPhone user. If you haven’t already discovered the numerous ways to use your iPhone to find restaurants, buy tickets, book hotels, and perform other useful tasks while traveling, then it’s time to start living a little. There are dozens and [...]
Jennifer Beam rated this app 3.0/5 | Category: Travel

Designed for parents, iTOT – The Innovative Time-Out Timer is an iPhone application meant to turn your phone into a time-out aid. A fairly decent concept, iTOT features some good ideas in terms of design, but unfortunately the execution is a bit lacking. The settings features include the ability to turn sound and movement detection on or [...]
Jennifer Beam rated this app 3.0/5 | Category: Lifestyle, Utilities

Animal Hide & Seek Adventure for iPhone is a game for young children featuring colorful animation and friendly music built around a simple seek and find premise. Choose from three adventure themes – jungle, circus, and ocean – and find the animals hidden in each image. Most appropriate for young children and preschoolers, Animal Hide [...]
Jennifer Beam rated this app 4.5/5 | Category: Editor's Picks, Games

Insure Me is an app aimed at helping people find iPhone insurance at a special discounted rate to guard against theft and damage. While theft and damage are both real possibilities for iPhone users, there is such a thing as handset replacement insurance available through your wireless carrier. Using that logic, I approached Insure Me [...]
Jennifer Beam rated this app 3.0/5 | Category: Finance, Utilities

Listenial is a music app for iPhone and iPod Touch that links to the music stored in the default iPod application to allow you to create playlists on the go. As a music player, it’s effective and as a playlist creator, it’s equally effective. While the UI isn’t totally sexy, it’s simple enough to use [...]
Jennifer Beam rated this app 4.0/5 | Category: Music
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