If you shop online frequently and are nutty about keeping a close eye on the whereabouts of your packages, Junecloud's Delivery Status touch could be useful. The rest of us will probably find it a bit of a yawn. Delivery Status touch, which began life as a Mac dashboard widget, enables you to track your [...]
Gameloft's new Hero of Sparta is positively stunning in every way: The graphics are beyond belief, the game play is nearly flawless and the sound tracks and effects are exquisite. There's been a recent influx of games in and around the $9.99 price point and I'm starting to get a feel for which ones are [...]
Remotely controlling your desktop PC or Mac using your iPhone is a compelling idea. Unfortunately, most solutions I've tried have been too limited, quirky or as slow as a three-toed sloth. LogMeIn's LogMeIn Ignition iPhone app and its desktop client work reasonably well and I've been pretty happy with the combination. Before you can launch [...]
Quip - Some iPhone owners might be starting to think multimedia messaging service is like the alien of Roswell — everyone knows that it's out there, somewhere. It's the same thing with MMS — the ability to send images, audio and other media — over cell phone networks, also is out there, somewhere. Some developers, [...]
I thought Gotham Waves Games' iLava, Virtual Lava Lamp, would be a groovy kind of the thing. You know, something that you and your frat-boy friends would gawk at and say "Gee whiz!" or something like that. Alas, what you see is what you get: A simulation, and not a very good one, of a [...]
Your mind is a terrible thing to waste. Your money is a terrible thing to waste. When you waste both at the same time, you're really a loser. I know this from experience. The App Store features several apps that pump binaural audio waves into your head that supposedly will help you self hypnotize, feel [...]
Pinger Phone is designed to integrate instant messaging and social networking into the iPhone experience, says Joe Sipher, a co-founder of Pinger. IM offers presence (the ability to know who is actively online), is faster and can be cheaper than text messaging, Sipher argues. Also, social networks currently don't exploit the advantage provided by iPhone [...]
If you often need to send emails to more than a few people in your contacts list at the same time, then Javid Alimohideen's Mail2Group fills a gaping hole between iPhone Mail and Contacts. Mail2Group is an adjunct to the iPhone's native email app. You can organize your contacts into groups and manage your groups [...]
KonstrooThis! from All of Zero is a simple word game in two parts. In the first part, you decipher three jumbled words in one of three categories: Easy (three and four letter words), Standard (three, four and five letter words) Difficult (five letter words) and More Difficult (six letter words). Once you've solved the three [...]
Experts say your brain is like a muscle: The more you exercise it, the stronger it gets. If that's true, Braineous: Challenge Your Brain, will have your gray matter as muscular as a weightlifter on 'roids before too long. Try This Networks's app features 10 mentally challenging games that require solving math problems, matching gestures [...]
You don't have to be a history buff or scholar to appreciate the wealth of information contained in U.S. Historical Documents, from Standard Works. U.S. Historical Documents contains more than 100 of the most influential documents in U.S. history in their entirety. You start the app from a table of contents that is sectioned by [...]
There's much more to life than the App Store, although it's easy to forget that, with its 10,000-plus apps. If you're new to the iPhone, or even an old hand with a poor memory, don't overlook the wealth of free stuff on Apple's Web Apps site. At last count, there were 1,700 Web apps, all [...]
Monopoly: Here and Now: The World Edition - Who doesn't know how to play Monopoly? You buy low, sell high. You buy properties you really can't afford in hopes you can flip them to someone who can. Sometimes you go to jail. And every now and then, you cop a lucky break with the equivalent [...]
Right Brain Factory believes its new Gab to Go will help your family savor the holidays, which can be quite a feat for some. You know how it is: Everyone in the family can't wait for the holidays. Uncle Jim and Aunt Janice fly in from Milwaukee. Cousin Gunther and Polly his new wife (she's [...]
Electronics Arts' recreation of the long-time, popular SimCity series for the iPhone is somewhat astonishing given the parameters the developers had to work with. That's not necessarily a good thing, however, as I'll explain later. First, for game players unfamiliar with SimCity, it's a city-building simulation game first released about 20 years ago. The fact [...]
