Q&F: MyAppIdea
Michael (Admin) | Sep 10, 2009 Business, Quick & Free
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(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
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Everyone and their mother has an idea for an iPhone app… trust me, I get plenty of emails from people asking how to find a developer to make their nutty ideas a reality! I may someday try to build something around those requests but if you need some creative validation right now you can give MyAppIdea a shot.
You see the irony here, right? It’s an app whose purpose is to farm new ideas for apps! Har har. All you have to do is submit your idea and wait for the public to weigh in on whether your brainchild is a flash of brilliance or a flash of utter stupidity. If Regenus picks your idea and builds it, you would get a part of the revenue. Not sure how exactly that would work, but that’s the claim being made here.
MyAppIdea is fun to browse through… some of the ideas people post can be pretty hilarious and not in a good way… but its fatal flaw is in the concept the app is built on. I mean, if you have a truly novel idea for an iPhone app, are you really going to put it out there for someone to poach? Regenus may be legit and sincere about working with you, but you’ll never know how many other iPhone developers are quietly scanning this app for their next big hit.
iTunes Link – MyAppIdea
Version 2.0
Reviewed on iPhone 3G OS3.0.1
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- Let the silliness commence!
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- Wow, this one is truly brilliant! What a great idea!
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- Is it just me or does this post look like pre-release spam from another app already in development?
Tags: free
Quick Picks Fantasy GM
Michael (Admin) | Sep 10, 2009 Sports
User rating: (3 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
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I heart gambling and I heart football even more, so naturally I gravitated towards Quick Picks Fantasy GM the second it hit my inbox! It’s a weekly salary cap game where you re-draft your team every week so even if Tom Brady gets mowed down by a bus (perish the thought!) you won’t be screwed for 17 weeks straight like you probably were last season in your standard fantasy football league.
Not only do you get to pick a new team each week, but you can also win money doing it. That’s right… iPhone apps don’t cost money, they make money! Maybe. If you know your football. Free The Fan is giving out weekly prizes of cash and Overstock.com gift cards, plus there are some hefty cash and Overstock prizes for the overall season point leaders! In total, $10,000 in cash and prizes that will be handed out over the course of the NFL season.
It may sound easy but the salary cap is the Great Equalizer here. Is it really as simple as blowing $20 million of your $25 million cap on four studs when you have EIGHT roster spots to fill? Haha, you wish.
Tags: $1.99, american football, fantasy football, NFL
WTF: Zombie Weatherman
Michael (Admin) | Sep 9, 2009 Weather, WTF?!
User rating: (1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
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Apple’s default weather app is sooooooo lame! No blood, no zombies, nothing.
Clockrocket Games gets goofy here with their version of the weather, complete with a not-quite-dead guy bleeding next to the forecast. Tap Mr. Zombie to attack him and spray blood all over the screen and then rub him to get him cleaned up.
Adding and swiping through different cities works pretty much just like the default weather. I can’t really say the weather this app serves up is all that accurate since the numbers deviate by 3-5 degrees (F) from Weather.com, but you’re not really getting Zombie Weatherman for the weather, are you?
It’s gross, it’s funny, and thankfully there’s a free version to try out.
iTunes Link – Zombie Weatherman
Version 1.1
Reviewed on iPhone 3G OS3.0.1
I'll take this dude over Al Roker any day of the week
WTF: Frog Box
Michael (Admin) | Sep 9, 2009 Entertainment, WTF?!
User rating: (3 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
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Well… you gotta give FAYJU credit for thinking “outside the box” on their strategy for marketing their other less ridiculous app, Fayju Ball.
There are two main things you can do with Frog Box: play a few sample levels from Fayju Ball, or flick a dead frog around either a classroom or a cardboard box. You read that right! Flick a dead frog. I tried the ball game and it’s not bad, but frankly I prefer the frog corpse; it’s a nice way of reconciling the inner demons that still haunt me from when I had to dissect one of those little bastards in high school.
It’s free, it’s stupid, and it’s relatively well done, especially for an app that’s really just a marketing vehicle in disguise.
iTunes Link – Frog Box
Version 1.0.3
Reviewed on iPhone 3G OS3.0.1
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- At least there's something to do when you get tired of the frog after 5 seconds
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- Nice... check out the instructions and promos on the blackboard
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- Fayju Ball... ehh it's ok I guess!
iPsychedelic
Swain Valasek | Sep 8, 2009 Entertainment
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(52 votes, average: 3.15 out of 5)
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Feeling the need for some mindless release? Stress of the day getting you down? Can’t promise iPsychedelic from Ubik will set you right but it’s such a passive experience you just might feel a boost in your personal chi afterward. This is a purely visual app and stripped down to the absolute bare bones. There are no options of any kind and no user interface. In fact, apart from a simple splash screen, once the app loads you literally see nothing but a blank screen. When proper balance has been achieved in your synapses, you begin tracing 1 or more fingers around the screen. A brilliant orb follows each finger, leaving a ‘wake’ in the liquidy plasma field along with a few stars that follow the flow. Smooth color transitions occur periodically to keep your ocular-centric medtiation moving, changing and rotating. There is no BGM at all but as expected iTunes music is fully supported. Truth be told, most folks will be bored with this app within minutes but there are those out there who simply enjoy this type of experience far more than others and would find the dollar price worthwhile. If I were to make suggestions it would be to include an airy, ambient backing loop, include the accelerometer function somehow, maybe to induce more color changes or change viscosity in the ‘liquid’ and definitely would be cool to have an ‘attract mode’ where you just sit back in conscious reflection and watch as it does its own thing randomly.
Version reviewed – 1.0
Reviewed on – iPhone 3GS OS3.0.1
iTunes Link - iPsychedelic
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- Chill, pretty trippy
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- Little trippier now as a dynamic orb follows your touch
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- Nice effects with 1 orb but is there more?
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- Why yes, multi-touch is supported for up to 5 fingers/orbs!
Tags: $0.99, casual, psychedelic, Swain Valasek, trippy
Double Feature: 3 Card & 4 Card Pro
Michael (Admin) | Sep 8, 2009 Games
User rating: (1 votes, average: 2.00 out of 5)
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364 days ago I reviewed Avalinx’s masterpiece 21 Pro: Blackjack and even now, a year later, it’s still one of the best casino games I’ve ever played on the iPhone… and I’ve played a few. Maybe it would be more accurate to say it’s the best casino series I’ve ever played; 3 Card Pro and 4 Card Pro are built on the very same foundation as 21 Pro, and they both come with the same slick graphics and smooth gameplay that the blackjack game features.
Some of you are probably wondering what the hell happened to good old 5 CARD poker like they play on TV, but if you play either of these games enough you’ll see why they’re so popular at casinos. 3 Card is vastly different from 4 Card, but both are easy to learn, fun to play, hard to win, and like most casino games, they can get pretty addictive even when you’re not playing for real money.
Q&F: Space Shooter
Michael (Admin) | Sep 8, 2009 Games, Quick & Free
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(2 votes, average: 4.50 out of 5)
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Invasion of the Upside Down Batteries!
Off to a slow start here after a long weekend so, while I’m finishing up a couple of other reviews, go and amuse yourself with Space Shooter!
If there was a contest for the simplest arcade shmup on the planet, this game by Dokimi would win hands down. Drag left and right across the bottom of the screen to move your “spaceship”, and tap aroud elsewhere to shoot the evil geometric shapes that mean to do you harm.
I had the entire thing beat on my first try (yes, levels are limited) and it took all of 10 minutes! But whoop-dee-doo, who gives a bibble, gabba gabba hey! It’s free, give it a try. Oh, and extra credit to whoever can identify the quote I just threw down.
Space Shooter
Version 1.0
Reviewed on iPhone 3G OS3.0.1
Luigi’s Adventure
Michael (Admin) | Sep 4, 2009 Games
User rating: (1 votes, average: 2.00 out of 5)
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I featured Luigi’s Adventure in a recent newsletter [subscribe] because I have a certain admiration for small developers who try to dive into the 3D shooter market. Plenty of these games are ambitious but, in the end, they suck the big one for various reasons.
Crazy Monkey Software’s entry in this tough genre doesn’t completely suck, but it’s definitely not wowowow great either. Your job is to get this fruitcake named Luigi out of the spaceship where he’s being held captive and back home… apparently his captors have a lot of robots running around, and in Luigi’s world these robots occasionally drop diamonds when you kill them. Collecting these diamonds open doors that lead to your escape, and if you collect enough of them you “win” the game.
IAR’s 6 Random Freebies
Michael (Admin) | Sep 4, 2009 Random Freebies
User rating: (1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...This used to be called “Eric’s 6 Random Freebies” but it’s become something of a team effort so now our weekly collection of random free junk has a slightly different moniker.
The name may be different, but the untested freebies are just as free!
imeem Mobile by imeem – You like genre-based streaming music but, in an effort to fight the power, you refuse to join the Pandora army… maybe imeem is what you’re looking for!
Facts About Sex by Inner Four – Everything you never wanted to know about sex and were just too lazy to ask
College Football Live! by Plusmo – Play-by-play coverage + all kinds of NCAAF features = (potentially) very good app
SepiaCamera by Takayuki Fukatsu – If you’re too cheap to spring a buck or two for one of Mr. F’s other camera apps, grab this one for the low, low price of zilch
Question of the Day by Sporkfly Media – Entertain and/or annoy everyone around you with incessant questions that are none of your damn business
Flood-It! by LabPixies – With an average rating of 3.5 stars from nearly 11,000 reviews I have a feeling this app may have graced the Top 25 at some point but I’m not sure
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- imeem Mobile
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- Facts About Sex
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- College Football Live!
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- SepiaCamera
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- Question of the Day (the answer is THE BANK, haha me funny)
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- Flood-It!
Tags: american football, free
Fanball.com Fantasy Draft, Player & Injury News 2009
Michael (Admin) | Sep 3, 2009 Sports
User rating: (3 votes, average: 2.00 out of 5)
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If you’re a fantasy football geek you already know who Fanball.com is… they’re one of just a handful of credible fantasy news sources not named ESPN. A few weeks ago I did a three-app Draft Kit Roundup and this app from Fanball fits right in with that group; it provides player rankings, news and injury updates, and it also tries to be a live draft companion which it kind of succeeds at but not entirely.
I made it pretty clear in my Draft Kit Roundup that I think trying to track your live draft on any iPhone app is a waste of time, and even though Fanball’s app is pretty good overall I still think it’s a dumb idea! I’m in three leagues this year (as usual) and my first live draft was last night. iPhone apps like this one do have some value in a live draft setting, but mostly on the news and stats side.
Tags: $.99, american football, fantasy football, NFL
POV: Bomb Shot Recipes
Swain Valasek | Sep 2, 2009 Entertainment, POV
User rating: (1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
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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: 5.0
Bomb Shot Recipes from Zenux Lab is a fun little app to help you get smashed drinking bomb shots with your friends (or alone if that’s how you roll). If you’ve been out of the loop on this term, a bomb shot is very simple in concept. You take a shot glass full of hard liquor and drop it into a glass filled partway with something neutral like cola, fruit juice or an energy drink (called the ‘wash’). Some bomb shots are meant to be imbibed ‘clean’ wherein the shot glass contents are left intact when dropped into the glass while others are ‘dirty’ where the shot glass contents get partially mixed with the wash or even poured directly into it. As you can imagine, people have gotten insanely creative about bomb shots over the years. Bomb Shot Recipes aims to corral this favored pastime right onto your iPhone so let’s see what the developer has to say followed by the opinions of yours truly.
Tags: $1.99, bomb shots, drink recipes, shots, Swain Valasek
WTF: ManWax
Michael (Admin) | Sep 2, 2009 Games, WTF?!
User rating: (5 votes, average: 2.60 out of 5)
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This guy isn't crying because the wax hurts, he's crying because this app is so incredibly dumb!
A direct quote from RustyCroc’s app review request:
“OUR APP MIGHT SUCK BALLS LOL BUT CHECK IT OUT AND LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK. I AM ONLY 17 YEARS OLD AND IT WAS MY FIRST APP, I AM TRYING TO PAY FOR COLLEGE.”
Love the CAPS LOCK, love the upfront admission that the app sucks balls (it does), and I don’t quite buy the “trying to pay for college” bit (heard that one before) but hey I suppose it never hurts to try.
With ManWax you’re supposed to tap the wax applicator, rub your finger on the fat hairy guy lying on the table, and then select the paper thingy to strip the wax off. During the process you’ll hear recordings of a guy making all kinds of noises that range from moaning to screaming “oww my nips” to outright sobbing.
It’s mildly amusing for all of 5 seconds… if you’re not Asian. If you are Asian then you’ll probably find ManWax to be grossly offensive for the inclusion of a thick-accented Asian “woman” voicing the role of the waxer as she says things like “ooohh you so hairy”. I guess it could actually be a chick, but my hunch is that it’s probably a white guy doing the voice which makes it even more distasteful.
Normally I’d just laugh at an app this dumb, but because of the bad example set by the racial stereotyping all I can really do here is shake my head. Tsk tsk, RustyCroc. If you’re really trying to pay for college, get a job at Radio Shack.
iTunes Link – Not!
Version 1.0
Reviewed on iPhone 3G OS3.0.1
