Eric’s 6 Random Freebies
Michael (Admin) | Aug 14, 2009 Random Freebies
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Loading ...This round of Eric’s free untested stuff is somewhat about practicality… do a house budget, figure out how depressingly broke you are, call a taxi, talk to deaf people, that kind of thing. If you actually have money or don’t know any deaf people, just play Blackjack Free!
Taxi Magic by RideCharge Inc.: You’re hammered and a DUI is the last thing you (or the people you’re about to kill) need right now. Get a cab! NFL players may be able to get away with it but you won’t.
HomeBudget Lite by Anishu Inc.: You spent $900 last month on entertainment and only $46 on groceries? Well done, my friend.
Quicken Online Mobile by Intuit, Inc.: Sign up for the free Quicken Online and you can use this app to remind you of just how close you are to complete financial ruin!
iSign Lite by iDev2.com: The full version of this animated sign language phrasebook has 800 signs, but the lite version only has 25. Lite indeed! But if you ever go to a restaurant where all the wait staff is deaf you’ll be able to ask them to boil soft whale muscle.
Blackjack Free by MobilityWare: It’s ad supported, but hey it’s a free blackjack game! And yes, you can split and double.
Mega Man II Lite by Capcom Interactive: Get a taste of console nostalgia with what I’m assuming is a pretty limited version of Capcom’s classic NES port.
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- Taxi Magic
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- HomeBudget Lite
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- Quicken Online Mobile
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- iSign Lite
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- Blackjack Free
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- Mega Man II Lite
PlayFootball
Michael (Admin) | Aug 13, 2009 Games
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Jebudas Communications, aka Destroy Objects, Inc., knew that porting a Madden clone to the iPhone would be pretty impossible to pull off so they did the next best thing: they kept the play calling and got rid of the players! Well the players haven’t been ditched completely, but they’re now reduced to little dots that make very Madden-like grunts while they’re executing plays called by you, their offensive and defensive coordinator.
PlayFootball is a funny little game that’s boiled down to making coaching decisions rather than trying to figure out how to run, catch, and throw. Just call your play and watch the little dot people run into each other until the whistle blows and it’s time to huddle up again for the next down.
Tags: $2.99, american football, Sports
Lingopal in Greek and Russian
Michael (Admin) | Aug 13, 2009 Travel
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The folks at Lingopal love IAR’s readers sooooo much that they’ve provided a whole mess of codes for several language-specific versions of their full-flavored phrasebook! The full version will translate 900+ phrases to and from any of 44 languages, and these language-specific version give translations for just one target language.
Today I’m posting Greek and, in honor of crazy Uncle Boris, Russian. These are the other languages that will be posted in the coming days:
Czech
French
Hebrew
Korean
Polish
Portuguese (Brazilian)
Spanish
Vietnamese
German
Japanese
If you desperately want a language that isn’t listed here, post a comment and I’ll see if Richard @ Lingopal has any codes lying around for you!
iTunes Link – Lingopal Greek
iTunes Link – Lingopal Russian
Pathways promo codes
Michael (Admin) | Aug 13, 2009 Games
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Conniption Entertainment contributed some codes for IAR’s birthday code giveaway back on July 30th but that day was pretty insane and I didn’t have time to post everything, so here they are!
I reviewed Pathways a really long time ago and if you’re looking for a new puzzle challenge this one will get you good, plus there’s LOTS of playtime in this game.
iTunes Link – Pathways
Conniption Entertainment website
Dreamcatcher
Chrisa | Aug 13, 2009 Lifestyle, Uncategorized
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Everyone dreams every night – you know that, right? But remembering your dreams is another story. Most everyone has had the dream where you show up to school totally naked, and most everyone I knew in college had the dream where you show up to take a final and realize you hadn’t attended class all semester. I’ve been having this reocurring dream where I’m in Sicily, stomping grapes a la Lucille Ball while a “little person” is hurling random fruit at my head and swearing at me in Pig Latin. I think it’s a result of my falling asleep while attempting to watch The Godfather twice last week. At least, I hope that’s what it is. And if you don’t understand my Lucille Ball reference, click here - then slap yourself for being under the age of 40.
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter
Michael (Admin) | Aug 12, 2009 Website Stuff
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...In case you hadn’t noticed, there’s now a Newsletter! link in the navigation tabs at the top of the screen… a few days ago I sent my very first weekly newsletter to IAR’s writers and it was a snapshot of about 15 apps that look promising and are waiting in our review queue this very moment.
Our writers are free to review whatever they want and last month we got 450 review requests, so I’m trying to provide some help in finding all the gems hidden in the growing junkyard that is the App Store. Keep in mind that there’s no guarantee the apps in the newsletter will get reviewed, but on the surface they look cool enough to be worth talking about.
So then I got to thinking that maybe y’all out there in the public iPhone world would like my stupid newsletter, too. Fear not, I won’t do anything evil with your email address and you can unsubscribe the moment you get sick of it so just sign up! Maybe you’ll like it?
WTF: Ask Uncle Boris
Michael (Admin) | Aug 12, 2009 Entertainment, WTF?!
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The things crazy old men will do for a dollar these days...
If John Tabernik were my best friend and he came to me and said, “hey I’m gonna make an iPhone app that’s like a Magic 8 Ball except instead of the 8 Ball it’s gonna be pics of an old Russian guy spouting nonsense,” I would have slapped him across the face and called him an idiot!
Apparently John doesn’t have friends like me so he went ahead and created Ask Uncle Boris, the 8 Ball that isn’t an 8 Ball but you desperately wish it were.
Ask the poor old man trapped inside this app a question and he’ll reply with one of 30 yes/no/maybe answers, and not only do you get to read his nuggets of wisdom but you have to HEAR them, too!
File Ask Uncle Boris under So Dumb It’s Funny and move on with your iPhone life. Oyyy!
(Sorry guys, no free codes on this one! Try to hide your disappointment :razz:)
iTunes Link – Ask Uncle Boris
Version who cares
Reviewed on iPhone 3G OS3.0
WTF: Flexible Girls
Michael (Admin) | Aug 12, 2009 Lifestyle, WTF?!
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If you’re scanning iPhone App Reviews.net for reviews of “sexy girl” apps, you won’t find many! I’ve tried a couple and they’re all so… BLAH. Don’t get me wrong, I love nearly-naked ladies as much as the next horndog, but seriously… you can stare at all the boobies you want in Safari by searching Google Images or a similar service.
Something that’s a little harder to come by is pics of girls who are scantily clad AND bending their bodies in some very unnatural and scary-looking poses. And thus Eighth Art brings you Flexible Girls! It’s Sexy Girl app meets Freak Show and, even if you’re completely uninterested in looking at ladies, it’s kind of hard to look away from these very fetishy pics.
ThreadBound
Chrisa | Aug 12, 2009 Games
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DISCLAIMER
(if I put it in caps, bold, and italics, it looks more legal-like)
I’ve said it in previous reviews, and I’ll say it again here as a caviat to this review, and by way of defending myself if you absolutely 100% disagree with my review of this application. I am NOT a video game enthusiast. I didn’t get the video game gene. I didn’t go to the arcade as a kid, and I don’t use my kids’ Wii. Mostly because I suck at most video, computer, and electronic games. I do play The Sims and Mafia Wars and some other types of games, so I’m not a game hater. Really, I’m not.
END DISCLAIMER
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Chrisa | Aug 11, 2009 Utilities
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I don’t text message a lot. While I type 96 words a minute, I still fumble when I only have 140 characters at my disposal. My kids text me all friggin’ day long, but I can’t seem to get my idea across in that small amount of space. I started Twittering though (follow me), to see if I can get the hang of it, and now I hear that teens don’t twitter. I guess I’ll never be able to speak to my teenagers again. I’m all broken up about it…
iNinja
Michael (Admin) | Aug 11, 2009 Games
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You know those console fighting games like Tekken and Soul Caliber where you’re just madly pressing buttons without knowing what will really happen but it seems to work so you keep on doing it? iNinja’s gameplay is just a tiny bit like that except instead of pressing buttons you’re frantically swiping your fingers this way and that and, somehow, you manage to knock out the ninjas who are flying all over the screen.
iNinja arms you with throwing stars and nunchuks for beating down wave after wave of flying ninjas and, depending on the game mode, UFOs. The controls are simple enough… swipe upward with one finger to throw a star, hold down a bit to gain power and then swipe to really fling that star as hard as you can, and use two fingers to swing the chuks like an out-of-control moron.
mimic: sync fb photos
Michael (Admin) | Aug 11, 2009 Social Networking
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The title of this app kind of says it all: mimic syncs profile photos from your Facebook friends to your contacts. Cool concept! But does it work?
mimic’s “design”, if you can call it that, is an exercise in minimalism. It’s simply a blue screen with a brief description of what the app’s about to do plus a “Connect” button, and once you provide your login info it goes right to work. I have 169 Facebook friends but I wasn’t really expecting to get 169 photos since some of my contacts on my iPhone aren’t named exactly the same way as they are on Facebook. I was, however, expecting more than 16 photos to get synced which was my grand total after mimic did its thing.
