Q&F: Outlast Football
Michael (Admin) | Aug 31, 2009 Quick & Free, Sports
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Call me a commie but I don’t give a crap about baseball… (American) football is the only sport that matters! And now that football season is finally here I’m on the lookout for apps that will make the games even more fun to watch.
Outlast Football is your basic survival pool where each week you pick ONE team that you’re absolutely sure will win, and if you’re right then you live to see another Sunday (or Monday or occasionally Thursday). If you choose the wrong side of an upset, though, you’re done for the season. The only catch is that you can only pick a team once during the whole season, so after Chicago crushes Green Bay at Lambeau in Week 1 you’ll have to move on to other possible winners in subsequent weeks.
You can make your survival pool public or private and you can also join other public pools if making one pick a week isn’t enough for you. There’s also the option to add a point spread if you’re fully convinced that your team will win by (x) points, and you’ll either get rewarded or penalized in “LastCreds” depending on the outcome.
I don’t fully understand the point of LastCreds, aka Outlast points, but I’m guessing it’s just a way of ranking players and their knowledge (or luck) in predicting winners. As for how this app performs in the heat of battle I don’t really know yet since the NFL season hasn’t started, but I guess we’ll find out soon enough!
Outlast Football is free, so if you’re a football fan you need to download it and join my public pool! Just go to “Buddies”, click Search in the top left corner, look for “iphone” and you’ll find iPhoneAppReviews.net. Be sure to join the league called “(for real this time)”.
iTunes Link – Outlast Football
Version 1.0
Reviewed on iPhone 3G OS3.0.1
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- Arrrgghh I can't delete my screwed up 'IAR survial pool!'... that needs to be fixed
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- Outlast hasn't assigned any spreads for Week 1 yet, probably because we're still in preseason
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- Join my pool! Make sure to join the one called 'for real this time'
Tags: american football, free, NFL
POV: Mr. Dumb – Go Down
Swain Valasek | Aug 30, 2009 Games, POV
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* “POV” (Point of View) is a new feature that we’re testing out *
Zenux Lab’s rating: 9.0
IAR’s rating: 7.0
Mr. Dumb – Go Down from Zenux Lab is actually Epsiode 1 of an ongoing series of games featuring the same characters (currently Ep. 2 called ‘Mr. Dumb – Toilet’ is in development with a preview posted here). The developer is keying on the blatant silliness, apparent homage to Beavis & Butthead and pickup and play simplicity of these games to win over some fans. The gameplay in Go Down is reminiscent of Papijump or Doodlejump but in the opposite direction so you’re trying to go down as far as you can. Let’s first have a look at what the developer has to say then I’ll provide an IAR angle for comparison.
Tags: $0.99, casual, Swain Valasek
Lingopal in Portuguese and German
Michael (Admin) | Aug 28, 2009 Travel
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If you’re cruising this website at 11:45 pm on a Friday night, you must be as much of a loser as I am! Here, fill your otherwise empty life with some foreign language phrasebooks, courtesy of Lingopal. :)
And this concludes the Great Lingopal Promo Code Bonanza of 2009! Thanks again to the Lingopal folks for spreading the liebe.
iTunes Link – Lingopal Portuguese (Brazilian)
iTunes Link – Lingopal German
Q&F: Mover
Michael (Admin) | Aug 28, 2009 Entertainment, Quick & Free
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Wheeee this is fun
It *almost* works just like you’ve seen in the iPhone commercials… Mover lets you move photos and contacts from one device to another via either wifi or bluetooth, and they get automatically saved which is a really nice feature.
I say “almost” because sometimes the transfer is smooth and instant like the commercial, and sometimes it takes a few seconds for the receiving iPhone/iPod to get what you just slid over. And sometimes it just hangs and you’re not sure what Mover’s doing, and then the transfer happens much later than you were expecting.
For the most part it works and it’s fun to do, so for the low, low price of Free it’s worth grabbing, if for no other reason than to try it out and wow (or possibly disappoint) the crowd gathered around you. There’s also a paid version of Mover called Mover+ which I haven’t tried, but for $2 hopefully Infinite Labs was able to make it more stable than this freebie.
iTunes Link – Mover
Version 1.0.2
Reviewed on iPhone 3G OS3.0.1
Tags: contacts, free, photo sharing
Lingopal in Hebrew and Polish
Michael (Admin) | Aug 28, 2009 Travel
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You thought the pool of free Lingopal codes had all dried up, didn’t you? There’s still one more round after this (German and Portuguese) which I’ll post either today or tomorrow.
iTunes Link – Lingopal Hebrew
iTunes Link – Lingopal Polish
Update: 2 Across
Michael (Admin) | Aug 28, 2009 Games
User rating: (1 votes, average: 1.00 out of 5)
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When I reviewed 2 Across over a year ago (on IAR’s second day of existence!), one of my very few complaints was that I wanted easier crosswords:
“…a slightly better variety of puzzles would be nice, and by “variety” I’m really talking about more Puzzles for Idiots. You know that crossword in the back of People magazine, where all the clues are celebrity-related? Idiots like me just love those.
Well, People Magazine’s ridiculously easy crossword has been added to the list! Up until now my total number of successfully completed crosswords in this app was zero, but I’ve knocked out several People puzzles in about 15 minutes each. If you’re a crossword fan, get 2 Across. It’s an old vet in the App Store and it’s still awesome.
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- Completed in 12 minutes! Most other crosswords would take me 12 years
Call Global App
Michael (Admin) | Aug 27, 2009 Social Networking
User rating: (39 votes, average: 2.95 out of 5)
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A few months ago I needed to call a friend in Korea from my cell phone and even though I didn’t have an international calling plan I figured it couldn’t cost that much, so I dialed him up and we talked for about 10 minutes. Two weeks later I nearly crapped in my pants when I got the bill and saw that AT&T had charged me over $30 for that phone call! Groan. They literally charged me $3/minute. Bastards!
That’s never gonna happen again, though. AT&T would love for dumbasses like myself to pay them a monthly fee for an international calling plan or get raped on every overseas call I make, but starting now I’m using Call Global App whenever I feel the need to dial another country from my cell.
You’d think there would be cheaper ways to make these calls… I’m sure a lot of people will say “just use Skype” or some virtual calling card deal… but Call Global App’s rates are actually better than Skype’s and waaaayyy better than AT&T’s. Even if I had an international calling plan, AT&T would have charged me $.15/minute to call my friend’s cell in Seoul. Skype would have charged me $.08, and Call Global’s rate via their Direct Dial option was about $.07/minute.
Even better is that you get $2 of free calling when you install the app so you can take it for a test drive.
WTF: Poo Log
Michael (Admin) | Aug 27, 2009 Healthcare & Fitness, WTF?!
User rating: (4 votes, average: 4.75 out of 5)
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There are lots of ways to pass the time when you’re squeezing one off in the bathroom… read a magazine, call your mom, pluck your treasure trail… but none of these activities will teach you a damn thing about your poo!
The hilariously named Poo Log is part fecal tracker, part bathroom timer, and part trivia game, and it’s all pulled together in a surprisingly fun app that you can use to create, well, a different kind of poo log than you’re used to producing while you’re on the can. With this app you can time how long it takes to do your business and how often you’re doing it, and to keep you busy there’s a poo-related trivia game, that is, assuming your ass isn’t unleashing the kind of chaos that requires you to hold on for dear life. When the smoke clears you get to rate your crap in several different categories and even make notes about how majestic it looks down there in the toilet bowl.
WTF: iWakeupGirls
Michael (Admin) | Aug 27, 2009 Entertainment, WTF?!
User rating: (3 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)
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Waking up to a beeping alarm clock sucks. That’s why there are apps that let you wake up to your music instead, or perhaps some internet radio from around the world. That’s great and all, but pathetic losers like me who wake up alone every day with morning wood demand more!!
iWakeupGirls by Branded Research is a goofy collection of really short video clips that start looping when the app’s built-in alarm goes off. Instead of being jolted out of dreamland by your usual means, you get your choice of a bunch of hot girls with one-liner wake up phrases that range from slutty “good mornings” to other things that are more obscure or just plain weird. Here’s a quick sampling of some of the more bizarre phrases you’ll hear from the ladies of iWakeupGirls:
Coffee is for closers, now you better get with the program!
Gym… bar… gym… bar…?
Hey, this is a corporate environment!
You can be an angel, or you can be a devil.
Urgent weather bulletin, tornado coming through! ( and the girl starts spinning)
Um… huh? I sort of get the corporate stuff (of which there’s plenty), but some of these other phrases… eh whatever! If you’re truly waking up, it doesn’t really matter what what the girls are babbling about as long as you can hear it in your sleep.
SongDNA
Michael (Admin) | Aug 25, 2009 Music
User rating: (2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
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If you’re strictly looking at the icons it would be easy to assume that SongDNA was made by the same design-haters who made Song Info, but you’d be wrong! The two apps do essentially the same thing (deliver music lyrics and trivia and whatnot) and even though 8Projects may not have put a lot of thought into their icon, they at least went to the trouble of arranging your music info on a single, readable page within the app.
All SongDNA asks you for is an artist name or a title of some kind and then it will spit out some search results that lead to a page where you can see a short artist bio, YouTube videos, “highest US chart” position for songs, and if you’re lucky you’ll get some lyrics, too.
Tags: $.99
Song Info
Michael (Admin) | Aug 25, 2009 Music
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Ok… first of all, “LOL” at Song Info’s icon! I know it has zero impact on the app’s functionality, but based on the clip art icon and the screenshots you’ll see at the end of this review, it’s abundantly clear that design and aesthetics weren’t part of First Option Solutions Ltd.’s gameplan when they produced this app.
At least the icon tells you what the app is for… song info! Oh yeah, the name does that, too. If you’re obsessed with a certain song or artist or album, Song Info will help you find stuff out. Lyrics, Wikipedia entries, YouTube videos, album reviews, artist bios and photos, you name it and it’s in here. Kind of.
I say “kind of” because nothing’s actually “in” Song Info; the whole app is more like a music trivia gateway that takes a song name, album title, or artist and plugs it into a whole bunch of different websites that may or may not contain info on what you’re looking for.
iBombSquad
Jay | Aug 24, 2009 Games
User rating: (1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
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It’s an all too cliché scene: Our hero is in front of an explosive device furiously ticking down in that soulless “beep, beep, beep.” It’s almost been disarmed, averting total disaster, but as the timer gets closer and closer to zero, only one choice remains: Cut the red wire or the blue wire? Whoa, calm down. This isn’t some 90’s action film, it’s iBombSquad, a new gaming app that allows players to do their best Keanu Reeves impression (The first one that came to mind because I watched “Speed” last weekend) as they remove wires without setting off the ticking time bomb on their screen.
Tags: $.99, Entertainment, Games
