Keith Lewis

Thanks to the Talk Stream Live app by talk Stream Live, LLC, my son’s spring season soccer practices will be a blast! First off I must admit, as a listener and also a broadcaster, that I love Internet radio. What I don’t like is having to be tied to the computer all the time to [...]

Seafood Watch is a mobile guide based on the Seafood Watch educational service from Monterey Bay Aquarium designed to help you make sustainable seafood choices quickly and easily. Seafood Guide allows you the convenience of access to an enormous amount of information right from your iPhone. Many of us, in our efforts to live with [...]

Stick Stunt Biker for the iPhone is a combination two very successful game genres: the stick-figure ragdoll physics game, and the side-scroller dirt bike stunt game. It’s a great example of both of these, so it’s no wonder Stick Stunt Biker is consistently in the best-selling games section of the App Store. Like other ragdoll [...]

Nike+ GPS is a study in appropriate technology. The first upgrade that long-time users of the Nike+ GPS app will notice is that the iPhone is now doing what the iPhone has been able to do for a long time: tell where you are. Runners tend not to want things in their shoes other than [...]

For the uninitiated, HDR photography is all the rage, supplanting tilt-shift photography as the trendiest way to manipulate your photos and earn your Flickr feed a little extra attention. Previously the domain of only high-end digital SLR cameras and pricey photo manipulation software, it has now come to the Apple iPhone, in the form of [...]

I’m just going to do this review in full-on geezer mode. (For a female perspective on Cocktails HD, see our previous review of the iPhone version, Pocket Cocktails.) Here’s how you make a martini. Five parts gin, one part vermouth, unless you want it dry. Then you just wave the vermouth bottle around in front [...]

It’s hard to categorize CosmicPainter, unless you’re familiar with the world of VJing. That’s a special place where it’s deemed important to be able to create patterned artwork in motion, because sometimes you just need peoples’ eyeballs glued to a screen displaying no representative visual content. Just as music can simply be sound with no [...]

Moto Mania is a ragdoll physics-based dirtbike game for the iPhone and iPod Touch, and it follows in the footsteps of some of the classic side-scrolling dirtbike stunt games of the past, like Excite Bike for the original Nintendo Entertainment System. Moto Mania has an advantage over the older games, however: thanks to the built-in [...]

Problem: You like launching explosives in physics-based puzzle-worlds to kill enemies. Solution: Angry Birds. Residual problem: You really want to kill people, not pigs. Better Solution: Fragger. Fragger’s a smooth-playing, cute, physics-based slaughterhouse a la Angry Birds, but you’re throwing grenades instead of slingshotting feathered furies, at enemy people rather than pigs. Well, mainly people [...]

Overall, I really like Assault Commando, but I do have one nit to pick. 3D Magic says Assault Commando is set in a South American jungle, but its look seems Asian; Perhaps we’re in Peru during the rule of Alberto Fujimori. Even at that, I’m seeing palm trees and huts here, not Japanese pagodas. The [...]

Ringtone Designer Pro — The ringtone on your iPhone says a lot about you. Choose the wrong ringtone and your otherwise hip iPhone will become a loud label announcing your inner geek. Unfortunately, sometimes, the only way to get the perfect snippet of sound is to create your own ringtone. Here’s a perfect example of [...]

Pinball Apps Review — Geezer alert: I remember real pinball. I know you can still find a freestanding machine here or there in a turnpike rest-stop or an arcade. But I remember row after row of tables lining our arcades, bowling alleys, and other dens of iniquity, before the Galaga and Donkey Kong consoles stole [...]

SexyTime Sex Position Guide and Choreographer isn’t for everyone, and it isn’t for “every-when,” but then neither are you. Described by the developers as the best thing to happen to couples since the invention of the honeymoon, SexyTime Guide and Choreographer is trying to “make the world full of happier and healthier people, one choreographed or randomized romp [...]

“Digital never looked so analog,” says Hipstamatic’s App Store description, and that’s the key to this funky photo app’s appeal. Hipstamatic gives you a choice of three lenses, three films, and two types of “flash.” These last, of course, do not make your iPhone flash at your subject; rather, they apply different brightening algorithms to [...]

Guerrilla Bob is a dual stick shooter with throwaway lines that aren’t that funny — “Say hello to my bullets!” — a 3D landscape that looks like Legoland gone bad, and a story line that won’t replace the Odyssey as the standard of heroic epics any time soon. It’s still a fun jaunt with tons [...]