App Reviews for iPhone and iPad Devices

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Rainstick: Soothing Sounds All Around


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I've always enjoyed rain. Whether it's a soft, gentle spring rain or the deluge of a summer storm, the sound of falling water is soothing. So it's no surprise that I'm a sucker for a rainstick. And, like an uncommonly large fold-up umbrella, Frontier Design Group has me covered. Rain Stick is an interesting app that does [...]

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Simplify Media - not Quite Ready for Prime Time


Simplify media is a combination desktop / iPhone app that allows you to connect to your entire music collection (includling songs that you haven't uploaded to your iPhone)

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Tris - Like Tetris but without having to blow in the cartridge


With housing prices falling, employment in a lull and food prices making even the wealthy Warren Buffet eat his own food at Dairy Queen, we can’t find a better reason to fill your day aimlessly wandering the streets and playing Tris. Tris may be the first touch-screen version of the classic “fit the doo-hicker in [...]

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Low-tech lives on in OmNomNom Classic Snake Game


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Back in the day -- way back when old school was still new -- Nokia introduced a fun little way to run down your cell phone battery. Snake was a simple game. Use four arrow keys to control the snake while he roams the screen eating snacks, but don't let your ever-elongating snake touch himself [...]

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AOL Instant Messenger -- needs the Next Gen Firmware


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AOL Instant Messenger for iPhone is a fine product, and works just the way you would expect it to -- with one major flaw: unless the application is open (and currently you can have exactly one application open at a time), you don't get alerted when you receive a message. How and when Apple will [...]

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Crazy Disco — An App to Get Your Disco Game On


You've seen Crazy Disco in the App Store. You get the premise—it's a spinning disco ball—but you may be wondering, just when might you need a "crazy" spinning disco ball? Imagine you just snuck out of your window, stole your dad’s sweet Gremlin and headed out for a night at the roller rink. While you [...]

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