Articles and Reviews by Jennifer Beam

Whether it’s a crowded mall parking lot during a busy shopping season, the movie theater lot, or even the downtown parking garage, Park’n Find for iPhone makes it easy to remember where you parked and helps you find your car again. For under a buck, you won’t ever be that directionally challenged person wandering aimlessly [...]
Jennifer Beam rated this app 4.5/5 | Category: Editor's Picks, Navigation

DropZap is a new action puzzle game available for iPhone and iPod touch that proves you can still get something good for free. Resembling other block puzzles only slightly, DropZap is set on 7 x 7 grid of squares. The object is to score high by zapping the blocks and setting off a chain reaction [...]
Jennifer Beam rated this app 4.0/5 | Category: Best Free Apps, Editor's Picks, Games

Rocket Bird by Be Tomorrow is a simple, silly, yet whimsical game that features a bird, a rocket, and many country farm obstacles. The app presents a clear, simple objective – fly as far as you can. For a limited time (reportedly only through today 11/30) Rocket Bird is available for free in the App Store. [...]
Jennifer Beam rated this app 4.0/5 | Category: Editor's Picks, Games

Looking for a festive game to put you and your iPhone in the holiday spirit? Santa’s Run is a seemingly simple game that lets you lend Santa a hand by delivering gifts to homes around the world. Featuring two different mini-games spanning four different parts of the world, Santa’s Run is all about spreading holiday [...]
Jennifer Beam rated this app 4.0/5 | Category: Editor's Picks, Games
It’s unlikely that you travel enough to have stayed at a hotel or inn with a view so stunning you’d like to take it with you on your iPhone, but that could be because you’ve never visited the fictional Japanese inn, Yoritsuki. Yoritsuki is an app for iPhone and iPod touch that replicates seasonal views [...]
Jennifer Beam rated this app 3.5/5 | Category: Entertainment

iChapaev by MaxNick is supposedly fashioned after a Russian board game, but I have no real idea. At first glance, it resembles checkers a great deal. However, once you start playing it, it more so resembles a checker fight between two rivaling siblings. The object of iChapaev is to knock all your opponent’s pieces off [...]
Jennifer Beam rated this app 3.5/5 | Category: Games
Magic Earthwand is an interesting app that was clearly a labor of love and the first app out of the gate for new iPhone developer, SwalleyLama. Magic Earthwand gets kudos for being developed in a 3D algorithm designed specifically for iPhone and for its rich graphics and completely hilarious and “enchanting” story line, but it is [...]
Jennifer Beam rated this app 3.0/5 | Category: Games
PixTalk — Wandering about a foreign country and wondering where you can get your hands on a deadly weapon? Well, there’s an app for that! In all seriousness, though you could conceivably convey that very message (or one much more frightening) with Space Lama’s PixTalk, the whole point of this app is based on that [...]
Jennifer Beam rated this app 3.5/5 | Category: Travel

FaceCall, a new photo-based dialer for iPhone, is a neat enough concept. The app adds direct-dial photo icons to your home screen. And, unlike the scores of one-tap dialers in the past, FaceCall will add as many speed dial icons as you want. The dialing scheme works and while some might find it convenient, if [...]
Jennifer Beam rated this app 3.0/5 | Category: Productivity

Over time, the App Store has grown exponentially with an array of personal finance utilities for tracking expenses and budgeting. I’ve always been a firm believer that it is difficult to find a one-size-fits-all expense tracker because of the different styles of budgeting and organizing expenses. Much to my surprise, Cash Trails - Expense Tracker, [...]
Jennifer Beam rated this app 4.5/5 | Category: Editor's Picks, Finance

The arcade/puzzle genre of match and break brick games is inundated with titles ranging from classic games like Tetris and Break Out to newer games with modern twists. If this genre appeals to you, check out Storm Attack, one of the more recent games available from developer Rhock & Rholl Studios, LLC. Not only is [...]
Jennifer Beam rated this app 4.0/5 | Category: Best Free Apps, Editor's Picks, Games

Though there are several different clock apps available for iPhone, it’s actually kind of daunting to browse the app store for a useful alarm clock app. At least that has been my experience. After reading user-posted reviews of many of them, I simply gave up because none of them seemed quite right for me – until I came across [...]
Jennifer Beam rated this app 4.0/5 | Category: Editor's Picks, Lifestyle, Utilities
As far as photography apps go, iFlashReady is pretty basic. It is designed to help enhance pictures taken without the aid of a flash, such as those taken with the iPhone camera. At first, I thought iFlashReady worked in conjunction with the iPhone camera simultaneously, but after checking it out learned it is mostly a [...]
Jennifer Beam rated this app 3.5/5 | Category: Photo & Video

Searching out unique and interesting games in the App Store is sometimes daunting, especially with some games and their developers getting more press than others. If you’re looking for something a little bit different in the $0.99 category, you may want to check out Sketch Dungeon by Casual Distraction Games. The developer asks if you [...]
Jennifer Beam rated this app 3.5/5 | Category: Games, Worthwhile Apps
There’s bound to be plenty of you who have no real recollection of Pong in its original form, but for those of you who do, Ball & Bat Retro – Pong Included is an iPhone app designed to let you relive the experience of the classic paddle and ball game. Even with its clean adaptation [...]
Jennifer Beam rated this app 3.5/5 | Category: Games
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