BowShot
James | Jan 3, 2010 Photo & Video
(2 votes, average: 4.50 out of 5)
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To start off, BowShot isn’t a game. Some of you might have come here thinking that BowShot is a game of timing and skill, but you would be wrong. You don’t shoot a little bow and arrow at balloons or fake ducks as the name might suggest. No, we are actually pronouncing bow, as in bow wow wow, not bow, as in projectile weaponry. Turns out though, this was a good move on Fj Ideas Co’s part because I’m not a big fan of those games.
BowShot is in fact a wonderful photography app that helps you take pictures of your dog. I’m assuming you could use it to take pictures of other animals as well, but I only tested it on my dog, Ava. The basic idea here is that it makes a strange sound, getting the attention of the dog and then snaps a picture. It works like a freakin charm. There is a slide bar in the settings that can adjust the time between sound and shutter. This feature helps if your dog has a very slow reaction time or an extremely short attention span. There are 40 crazy/annoying sounds to choose from and you can set five of those as favorites on the camera screen. Ava’s personal favorites seemed to be the “squeaky toy” and the “baby scream”. It even allows you to record your own crazy/annoying sound and use that to grab your poor dog’s attention.
*Excellent Idea Alert!* Fj Ideas Co. should add a timer in the BowShot options screen. This would allow you to set your iPhone/iPod down somewhere inconspicuous, set the sound and then walk away. It would not only scare the crap out of your dog, but your friends and family as well. Think of their faces! They would have to change the name of the app to “BooShot”! (sorry…)
A lot of polish went into this app. It has a pleasant interface, intuitive buttons and excellent help documentation. In the hands of a capable iPhone or iPod photographer, this could be the key to those perfect shots. Or at least, shots where the dog is looking at the camera.
iTunes Link – BowShot
Version 1.0.0
Reviewed on iPhone 3GS OS 3.1.2
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- Set the delay to suit your dog
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- Ava thinks: WHAT WAS THAT?
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- I think they mean dog "howl"
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- So many sounds to choose
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- Ava thinks: Is there a dog owl in here?
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- Comedy Duck 2 is far superior to Comedy Duck 1
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- Ava thinks: Can we stop this James?
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- Canned sounds not annoying enough for you? Record your own!
(3.92 out of 5)