Articles and Reviews by Jennifer Beam
Ant Assault is a game for iPhone and Touch that pits players against an army of ants invading your device and trying to steal its inner components. The ants come in waves and attempt to steal any one of five components and players stop them by tapping, flicking and shaking. If you’re not fast enough, [...]
Jennifer Beam rated this app 3.5/5 | Category: Games

The Jerky Boys Prank Caller is one of two recently released Jerky Boys apps for iPhone, with the other being The Jerky Boys Pinball. This app that lets you set up your friends to receive an inbound prank call on your phone. The Jerky Boys Prank Caller is a logical ancillary to the cult status Jerky [...]
Jennifer Beam rated this app 4.0/5 | Category: Entertainment

Spring is finally here and with it comes an app of great proportions for amateur gardeners and botanists. Landscaper’s Companion is a reference guide to more than a 1,000 plants in every category – perennials, annuals, trees, shrubs, groundcover, ornamental grasses and more. Designed to be a comprehensive resource for gardeners, Landscaper’s Companion contains thousands [...]
Jennifer Beam rated this app 4.0/5 | Category: Editor's Picks, Reference

For those who are design and style-conscious, but may have difficulty with the rules of color, Palette.able gives iPhone users color compatibility guidance at your fingertips. More than just a color wheel, Palette.able is a color compatibility app that allows users to select and compare two colors at a time, breaking down their compatibility into [...]
Jennifer Beam rated this app 4.0/5 | Category: Editor's Picks, Utilities

Since healthcare professionals are telling the general public to become more involved with their own healthcare all the time, why not use technology to make involvement simpler. An addition to a handful of other iPhone apps that allow users to track specific medical information, Chronic Pain Tracker is a fairly comprehensive app that helps track [...]
Jennifer Beam rated this app 4.0/5 | Category: Editor's Picks, Healthcare & Fitness

Are your government leaders paying attention to you? They should be – and now you can pay more attention to them with Visible Vote Mobile. Visible Vote gives you quick access to your representatives in Washington, shows their real-time approval rating based on other users, and shows you how they are voting on the issues [...]
Jennifer Beam rated this app 4.5/5 | Category: Best Free Apps, Editor's Picks, Social Networking

With the ever-growing list of practical applications for iPhone users that allow your iPhone to become an all-in-one device, sorting out the good from the bad is the only rub. While you may not have been looking for a way to turn your iPhone into a wireless headset, Shape Services' Headset is an app that [...]
Jennifer Beam rated this app 4.5/5 | Category: Editor's Picks, Utilities

If you missed last year’s Halloween special when Transylvania Adventure was offered for free, fear not – the game is still available for a mere $0.99, which in the App Store is the next best thing. For those who remember Transylvania from years gone by, Transylvania Adventure is the iPhone adaptation made possible by RetroVenture in [...]
Jennifer Beam rated this app 4.5/5 | Category: Editor's Picks, Games
Just released this week, Dreamwalk is touted as “the mobile treasure hunt” and in essence, that’s pretty much what it is. It sort of equates to commercialized geocaching, but it’s really a pretty simple concept. Dreamwalk uses GPS technology to show users where prizes, or “treasure,” is waiting to be discovered. If you decide you [...]
Jennifer Beam rated this app 4.0/5 | Category: Entertainment

Boardz is an iPhone app that contains four classic two-player strategic board games – Chess, Go, Shogi, and XiangQi. It is designed to work over a network connection and seeks out other players as opponents. If you’ve tried Chess With Friends, you’ll have a pretty good idea of how Boardz plays out. Being a game that [...]
Jennifer Beam rated this app 3.5/5 | Category: Games

For parents of preschoolers on the prowl for good apps that mix learning and technology, Color Me!!! by SID On is a featured app for kids that provides young children with a mobile electronic coloring book. Color Me!!! was recently updated and now has three categories—water creatures, woodland critters, and numbers. There are a total [...]
Jennifer Beam rated this app 4.0/5 | Category: Education

iPhone and iPod Touch users already familiar with OstinGames’ Zepi will appreciate Zepi:Dark, which is one of two new Zepi themes just released. Granted, those with a strong aversion to the macabre or a preference for flowery things will probably prefer Zepi:Spring over Zepi:Dark, but both versions give the game a whole new look and feel. [...]
Jennifer Beam rated this app 4.0/5 | Category: Editor's Picks, Games
For fans of casual shooter games and displaced carnies who enjoy clowning around, Knife Toss by Crawlspace Games and Elevate Entertainment could hit the mark as the next game in your iPhone or iPod touch arsenal to combat boredom. Knife Toss is a target shooting game that features a clown strapped to a spinning wheel and [...]
Jennifer Beam rated this app 4.0/5 | Category: Games

If you’re big on Twitter and following tweets and ever thought, “Wow, it would be so cool if I could hear tweets instead of reading them,” then check out Talking Tweet for iPhone. This app is designed as a Twitter client that vocalizes new tweets using speech synthesis, which is supposed to result in a [...]
Jennifer Beam rated this app 3.0/5 | Category: Social Networking

For those with musical talent or just an appreciation of musical ability, Riff Raters is a fairly new iPhone app that combines music with social networking. Riff Raters allows users to record and upload 20-second riffs, which, as the developer says, are like musical tweets. Categorized by instrument, including vocals, Riff Raters is simple to [...]
Jennifer Beam rated this app 4.5/5 | Category: Editor's Picks, Music, Social Networking
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