Frenzic - I'm always trying to carjack SUVs, race motorcycles, play rock music and annihilate alien lifeforms creatures with shotguns. At the moment, I have a new copy of "Call of Duty4" on my desk and when I find time, I'm going to "Get some," as the U.S. Marines say when they're rocking the heavy [...]
eC2 - Imagine yourself as a war fighter with a mission to a remote mountainous region in search of a terrorist training camp. Under normal conditions, it might be impossible to carry out your mission in the time allotted because of the difficult terrain. That was then and this is Jack Bauer time. You reach [...]
La, la, la, you stroll into your favorite bookstore and you see a book that you'd like to buy. "Hmmm," you say to yourself, "Self, I wonder if this book is any good and better yet, can I find it cheaper somewhere else?" So, you pull out your trusty iPhone and launch SnapTell Explorer, the [...]
Application developers who are looking to capitalize on their free apps, have yet another option to generate revenues using the iPhone as an advertising platform. VideoEgg, the latest entry, joins AdMob and Flurry in the battle for precious advertising real estate on the iPhone's screen. VideoEgg, an advertising network provider, has just introduced AdFramesSM for [...]
iFun - Social Gaming Network, or SGN as it is better known, has built a business around popular iPhone games such as iBowl and iBaseball as we noted in our interview with Shervin Pishevar, CEO of SGN last month. Now, SGN has upped the ante with iFun, a golf game that uses the iPhone as [...]
Smule's Ocarina iPhone app is an electronic version of the physical instrument. Blow into the microphone, touch any combination of four "holes" and tilt the phone to alter vibrato. If you have any talent (I don't) you'll be playing music in no time. Ocarina is currently the number one paid app in the AppStore. Smule [...]
I really tried hard to find something worthwhile to write about Samposoft's WiPix picture-viewing program, but in the end, I figured that I'd better get right to it and not waste anyone's time. Go to Samposoft, set up an account, upload your pictures of the new baby using your PC or Mac. Then, anytime you [...]
Mateusz Rajca's Gazette works exactly as advertised: Gazette is a simple to use, RSS reader that seamlessly syncs to your Google Reader account. It takes only seconds to set up. Gazette connects to your folders in your Google Reader account and it doesn't matter how many feeds you're subscribed to. Some App Store reviewers have [...]
Google's Mobile App is freakin' awesome. You can search Google's index using only your voice (no buttons to push and no keys to type). It's also location aware so that you can search for places that are in proximity to wherever you happen to be. Here's how the Google Mobile Search app works: Tap the [...]
There are an awful lot of terrific free and inexpensive apps available for downloading from the AppStore and after reading a few recent blogs on pricing at the AppStore, I'm beginning to wonder why that is. Many devs price their apps at the bottom of the money scale thinking the cheaper it is, the more [...]
There I was staring at some angry fruit salad, when my boss who thinks he's an alpha geek, tells me he's gonna blammo me if I don't get busy. I just pulled an all-nighter groking a bletcherous communications protocol and the bag biter is treating me like a tape monkey. Just what you'd expect from [...]
You might be tempted to refer to Vocalia, a voice-recognition app from Creaceed, as a one-trick pony, but why insult the poor little pony who has never done you any wrong? The idea behind Vocalia is that with a modicum of training, you can pull up the contact info of anyone on your contact list [...]
The news broke late last week that Google would launch it's much-anticipated Google Mobile App for iPhone with Voice Search, perhaps on Friday. As of late Sunday afternoon EST the app has yet to debut in the App Store. Now, the latest word is that it will be released sometime today. Just when it will [...]
What do you think? Can the iPhone and iPod Touch compete as gaming platforms with the likes of Sony's hugely popular Playstation Portable or Nintendo's DS? According to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, Apple execs, including head boss Steve Jobs seem to think so. It takes only a quick scan through the [...]
Think of Left Coast Logic’s SmartTime 1.3 as a more powerful and adaptable to-do organizer and scheduler than similar apps and that pretty much sums it up. Where SmartTime Organizer really differs from other pocket organizers is in its flexibility to easily organize items on your schedule, prioritize them, accommodate unexpected changes and integrate tasks by [...]
