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Access Your Computer Anywhere With Remote Desktop Apps for iPhone and iPad

Michael Alexander — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 12:30:30 +0000

This article has been updated for 2011 with even more of the best apps for turning your iOS device into a remote desktop client. Originally written with the idea of using the iPhone for remote access, most of the features in these applications apply equally to iPod touch and iPad devices.

If you need to access your home or office computer while you’re out and about, it’s not hard to find an app for that. Sorting through the options may take a little longer. We think some of the best remote desktop apps for iOS devices are Jugaari’s Jaadu Remote Desktop, Carter Harrison’s WinAdmin, LogMeIn’s LogMeIn Ignition, JumiTech’s JumiOne or, for customers of the KineticD backup service, KineticExtend.

All of these apps are RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) clients for your iPhone and in most ways they’re similar. The big idea is that you can use your iPhone to control your Windows PC or Mac desktop when you’re on an internal network or over the Internet.

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Hottie Hookups Brings Out the Bouncer In You

Michael Alexander — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:30:46 +0000

With its quirky and politically incorrect humor, Hottie Hookups seems to come right off the pages of Mad magazine. This is a zany game that combines elements of time management and castle defense strategies in a way that is refreshingly unique.

Think of yourself as the bouncer in a nightclub whose job is to protect the beautiful people and clear the dance floor of nerds, and you’ll immediately get what this game is all about.

Your job is to connect male and female hotties (gay hookups are not allowed) by drawing lines from one to the other. Wait until the hotties get their groove on and then send them off in taxi cabs. That’s how you score. (In the game, not with one of the hotties).

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Doodle Kart Draws Out the Race Car Driver In You

Michael Alexander — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 21:30:06 +0000

Doodle Kart – Doodle games, with graphics that appear to have been hand drawn, are hot. Lima Sky’s Doodle Jump, for example, is currently sitting in third place in the best-selling apps column.

Among the latest of these games is Doodle Kart from j2sighte, a novel top-down racing game that pits cleverly crafted racers against each other on a graph paper background. j2sighte says Doodle Kart was inspired by Sauce Digital’s Nano Rally, a similar game also with hand-drawn graphics.

There are five stages with 25 unique tracks in all, providing for hours of track time. To begin , you’ll choose between single race and championship modes. In single mode, you have the option of going solo or playing against a CPU opponent. In Championship mode, you have the option of taking it easy, normal, hard or nightmare.

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Likwid Unlocks the Music Within You

Michael Alexander — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 00:00:50 +0000

Likwid – We’ve seen several music-oriented games debut on the iPhone and iPod touch, notably Smule’s Ocarina and Tapulous’ Tap Tap Revenge, 2 and 3, all of which have been long-time best-sellers.

Likwid, from Funmobility, is a new music app—this one combines music and puzzle solving. The big idea is to channel streams of light to “collectors” which will unlock music tracks. You’ll direct, bend and accelerate these streams of light using “affectors,” which can be moved around and enlarged to increase their area of control. As you successfully fill the collectors, you’ll release a single track—say drums or guitar—at a time and as you progress you will eventually complete the entire song and solve the puzzle.

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Pushme.to Puts Free Text and MMS In Your Hands

Michael Alexander — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 19:30:56 +0000

Want to send text and multimedia messages but don’t want the often costly monthly bill? Check out Treebune’s Pushme.to Lite, a free messenger app that enables you to send free text and MMS messages whether you’re in North America or abroad.

Pushme.to is free for the iPhone. There’s also Pushme.to HD that works with iPhone or iPad and comes without ads.

Here’s how it works. Install the app on your iPhone or iPod touch, register for the Pushme.to service using a nickname and you be able to receive from and send to messages and images to anyone else who has installed the app on their device.

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Battle of Puppets Puts Castle Defense in the Limelight

Michael Alexander — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:30:01 +0000

Battle of Puppets, from Small Wonders, is a quirky little 2-D castle defense strategy game that puts you in the role of a puppeteer starring in well-known operas such as Aida, Carmen, Madama Butterfly and Salome.

As you would expect for this genre, Battle of Puppets pits one castle against the other, each on opposite sides of the battlefield. You manage units, while balancing their relative strengths and weaknesses against those of your opponent. In short, it’s a classic, castle-versus-castle, real-time strategy game.

Your objective is to travel across the United States, while defeating other puppeteers, and make it to Broadway. As the campaigns progress, players can unlock up to six professions – ranging from Ninjas to Vikings – as well as learn to repair their troops, and cast spells over the enemy.

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Pounce Takes the Solitary Out of Solitaire

Michael Alexander — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:42:28 +0000

Pounce takes the solitary out of Solitaire, according to its developer, Double Apps. It’s a multiplayer card game that goes by many different names including Nertz, Canfield, Blitz, Grouch, Peanuts and Nerf.

The idea is to unload your cards in sequential order into a center field faster than your opponents. In this version, Pounce on the iPod touch and iPhone can be played against up to four opponents, which can be either real or virtual.

There are two ways to win: Be the first to reach a predetermined number of points or be the player with the highest number of points after a predetermined number of hands.

Each card you play into the center field is worth a point. The first player to empty his or her Pounce pile of cards either earns extra points or else other players are penalized points, depending on the game option you select.

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What You See, You Get, in Live Effects for 3GS

Michael Alexander — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:00:06 +0000

Live Effects is a photographic effects app from Omaxmedia that’s a twist on the old WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) idea. What it does is twirls, swirls and distorts in other ways, images as seen through the iPhone 3GS’s camera in real-time. Note, this app is intended only for the 3GS, which has the computing horsepower to properly run it, although slowly at times.

What you see and get in Omaxmedia’s Live Effects is one of seven possible effects:

Vertical Mirror

Basic Kaleidoscope

Complex Kaleidoscope

Bubble

Pinch

Swirl

ZigZag

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Demolition Master Satisfies an Explosive Temper

Michael Alexander — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:00:00 +0000

Demolition Master — Big crowds always turn out to see a building implode, caused by the handiwork of highly skilled demolition experts. There’s hardly a more satisfying and captivating sight than to see a huge building collapse on itself.

That must explain why building demolition or implosion games have become so popular in the App Store lately. The past few weeks have seen the introduction of at least three of these games including AppMania’s Demolition Master ($1.99), which joins IUGO Mobile Entertainment’s Implode! ($1.99 full and two free lite versions) and iauns’s iDemolished ($0.99 full and free lite versions).

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Blyx Features Fun without Commitment

Michael Alexander — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:00:57 +0000

Blyx – Good-quality, casual games should be easy to learn and play, yet be compelling enough to keep you engaged while you’re waiting for a bus, standing in line at the supermarket or just killing time.
You want a game with simple rules and one that doesn’trequire any commitment on your part. Play it, put it down, pick up from where you left off. It’s that simple.
Blyx, from Pearl Fisher Games, falls into that category. It’s so simple to play that it takes far longer to explain than it takes to learn. It’s also engaging enough to appeal to youngsters and adults, no matter where they decide to play.
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© 2010: written by Michael Alexander for AppCraver.