Entertainment Apps

IIt’s not a mystery that colors are emotionally evocative. Psychologists have been giving subjects and patients visual tests for years to help them understand themselves a little bit better and to let them know how they can help. Now there is Color Your Personality.

Tagged: personality test

The team over at Golden Plum collectively has a big pair by moving forward with their audacious new application. Bikini Alarm Clock is the fruit of their labor that’s intended to get a rise out of their audience.

Tagged: misc entertainment apps

With a developer named Marmot Kilt, it has to be good. Say What!?! is a unique photo manipulation app that allows iPhone and iPod touch users to make a photo "talk," like a ventriloquist's dummy.

Tagged: beer, goofy app, photo effects

Whale Song Project is an awe-inspiring app. Designed by Glad Works, Whale Song Project streams live whale songs from an underwater microphone in Maui, Hawaii. Whale Song Project was not created solely to be a soothing sound machine like Ambiance.

I was skeptical at first that I would enjoy Awesome Ball. I thought it would be another one of those silly time wasters, which it is, but like so many of the simplest apps in the App Store, I discovered I liked it.

Tagged: bouncing ball

Ten year olds around the world will unite and eternally prank each other and drive their care takers insane once they discover SmackTalk! Smack Talk is a voice altering app developed by Marcus Satelllite for the iPhone.

Tagged: goofy app

Hardcore movie fans will like Trailers International from xTeo. Personally, I don’t care for movie trailers. The real movie seldom looks as good as the trailer so I always think some marketing type is trying to fake me out whenever I see a trailer.

Tagged: movie trailers

Face Melter Pro lets you melt photos and create an animated video one frame at a time. This app is fantastic in theory. In reality, it has some issues. The original Face Melter app was simple. Choose a photo, melt it with your fingertips and save it to your photo album.

Tagged: Flickr app, photo effects

Zen Magic - As the iTunes App Store continues to grow and expand, there are more and more applications that let users doodle, draw and write on the iPhone's touch screen.

FlipDown - I rarely get excited about random apps that aren’t clearly designed for productivity or have a specified purpose that seems useful or necessary in some way. However, FlipDown by InterHive is clearly an exception. Simply put, FlipDown is a customizable countdown timer for target events.

Galactica is a groovy, transporting app for your iPhone. Did you ever dim the lights, turn on trance music and stare at your lava lamp as it morphed and swam?  Galactica from Thumbspark Limited provides a similar sensory experience, except you are in charge of the dynamic ebbs and flows of the app.

Tagged: art app

Peacemaker - "What movie do you want to see?" "I don't know. You pick." "I don't know either. You pick." "I honestly don't care; it's up to you." Ever had a conversation like that? Of course you have.

Tagged: decision maker

Magic Eyeball - One of the very first reviews I ever wrote for AppCraver was of an application called MyEye, which features a giant eyeball and which scared the bejeezus out of me. So now, as I review Magic Eyeball by Joy Entertainment LLC, I'm once again confronted with a big old creepy eyeball.

Tagged: decision maker

OK. Here's the thing, readers. iPhorest, much like A Real Tree, is an application for the iPhone in which you can plant a virtual tree, and an actual real tree is planted somewhere in the world. I love trees; they're fantastic. I love the planet; it's where I live.

Tagged: green living

Cinco de Mayo is about a month away so it's time to start the countdown to the well-known Mexican holiday with ¡Cinco!, from developer Chunky Chicken Apps. Launch ¡Cinco! and you'll immediately see the number of days, hours, minutes and seconds to Cinco de Mayo (May 5).