Wind OS
Sara | Jan 3, 2010 Entertainment
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Wind OS is the first Windows emulator for the iPhone. “What is an emulator?” you may ask. Well, it is a program that tries to mimic the real thing, and this app does just that. Although this Bamboo Group app is a great emulator of Windows, it does lack some programs that you would expect from Windows.
Since it is only $.99, I thought it would probably just look like Windows and do little to nothing. I was wrong. It had an internet browser, a notes feature, and of course, Minesweeper. Although 2 of the 3 programs listed here already come standard on the iPhone, I found it cool that it put them there. Also, when you turn on the sound, you hear a cooler.
When I “booted up” the emulator app, I got a good laugh as while it loaded, it provided screens that looked like a computer booting up. It even had a page that said, “Wind OS loading” with a progress bar that looked like it had come out of Windows XP.
Tags: Entertainment, fun, interesting
BowShot
James | Jan 3, 2010 Photo & Video
User rating: (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.
Q&F: My Attorney
Tony Mei | Jan 2, 2010 Quick & Free, Utilities
User rating: (2 votes, average: 3.00 out of 5)
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Injured on your Caribbean vacation? Whip out that trusty iPhone if you don't remember what to do.
The My Attorney App supplies information and accident guideline checklists, all leading the wallets of prospective customers to the service of good lawyers.
I don’t have any immediate usage for this app (I don’t really hope I will need a lawyer any time soon), but the My Attorney App does provide a useful, everyday and free service. And, most importantly, the phone number of a lawyer (especially helpful after that long night at the bar).
My Attorney is on my cell phone – Is it on yours?
Version 1.01
Reviewed on iPod Touch 3.1.2
Rail Adventures
Sara | Jan 2, 2010 Games
User rating: (1 votes, average: 3.00 out of 5)
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Imagine you are a star of a horror movie gone wrong. Instead of having “fake” scary scenes, this is all real. You play as a character stuck in a mine in a cursed mountain. Armed only with two guns and limited ammunition, you hop into an old mine car and try to escape. You encounter skeletons, zombies and bats who are all trying to kill you.
This game has great 3D graphics, and at $.99, this exosyphen studios game is a great. It is divided up into five levels. In order to advance, you must get 85% in kills, gold bars obtained, and objects avoided. After you unlock all the levels, the only way to unlock the final level and escape the mountain is to make sure you have bumped that 85% up to at least 90%.
Impossible Finger Carnival
Sara | Jan 2, 2010 Games
User rating: (2 votes, average: 4.50 out of 5)
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Step right up! Step right up! Only $5 for 3 shots! Knock over the milk bottles and win a fabulous prize! I remember walking through the midway at the fair that always came to my town being tempted by the carnies to step up to their game, fork over $5, fail miserably, and receive a puny $.5o toy. I, of course, was gullible enough to fall for their tricks.
When I saw this app, it immediately brought me back to last summer, walking through the midway to watch the suckers fork over outrageous amounts to win useless stuff (but I did see someone win an electric guitar, but that’s a different story). The Impossible Finger Carnival, a fiendish game designed by Darrellution, is exactly what the name says, impossible! It’s not that the tasks (removing slime, finding a lost item, keeping a ball in play, popping a certain color balloon, spelling a word, solving a math equation, catching items, and tapping a button) are not feasible, but rather the time limit given.
Parcel Panic – Post Car Racer 3D
Brad H | Jan 1, 2010 Games
User rating: (3 votes, average: 4.67 out of 5)
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Welcome to Tapiti Island, home of Tapu City. This is where you get your big break in the delivery business. In your trusty pick up truck you drive around town picking up and delivering parcels, but don’t start lolly-gagging around because there is a time limit on each delivery. Starting out can be rough, with a truck called the snail, but things can only get better. With big dreams and hard work one day even you can drive the illustrious Falcon.
I was supposed to spend the day driving across California to buy myself a pick up truck but when that fell through I picked up this gem of a game and satiated my truck desires. Parcel Panic is way funner than a drive over the grape vine. Mad Processor hit the mark with this one. Just in the loading and menu screen alone the quality of this game shines through. Even though the game is graphically intensive it ran smooth on my iPhone 3G.
Q&F: Hungry Dragon
Sara | Jan 1, 2010 Games
User rating: (1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
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Hungry Dragon is an Asian remake of the popular retro-game, Snake. In this game created by Secret Game Lab, you are a dragon trying to eat the green dots to grow and the red dots to obtain shields. You don’t have to worry about bumping into the walls, as they are barriers and won’t make you lose one of your three lives.
The game is divided up into levels where you have to eat all of the dots in the level before more appear. This makes the game more challenging than the original Snake. The only flaw to this otherwise fun game is the controls. You move your dragon by tapping the bottom left and right corners. You tap the middle to activate a shield. I often found myself accidentally activating the shield and would have rather had a D-Pad for movement and a button to activate the shield. Other than this minor flaw, Hungry Dragon is a great game.
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- Rawr I'm a hungry dragon
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- The game seemed simple enough
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- Dragons are way cooler than snakes
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- All good things must end
iTunes Link – Hungry Dragon
Version 1.o
Reviewed on iPhone 3G OS 3.1.2
Sudoku!
Sara | Jan 1, 2010 Games
User rating: (4 votes, average: 3.50 out of 5)
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Sudoku, everyone’s favorite Japanese puzzle game. It first became popular a couple years ago and spread from newspapers to hand held games to finally the iPhone. Of course you know how to play, right? If you answered, “No,” to that question, you should Google it. This sudoku app designed by Mayan Software is cheap, fun, addictive, and did I mention cheap?
For only $.99 you get 20,000 that’s right, 20,000 different puzzles! That divides up to 4,000 puzzles per level. If you played a puzzle a day, it would take you about 54 years to complete every puzzle! Now that is a worth-your-dollar app! The levels range from easy to devilish. And when they say easy, it’s not, “This is sooooooooo boring,” easy, but, “Wow, I actually have to think,” easy. It took me 7 1/2 minutes to complete the first puzzle, so I can’t imagine how long it would take me to do a devilish level puzzle 8O . Either I am stupid, or this app is really challenging!
Tags: $.99, challenging, fun, Games, puzzle
SlidR
Tony Mei | Jan 1, 2010 Games
User rating: (2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
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A take on a ‘sliding’ puzzle game, SlidR takes a photo, divides into square segments, and forces it upon you, the mighty adventurer, to slide the photo to correctness before the evil dragon* destroys your village and the helpless peasants.
The app has a slick, clean interface and a variety of high quality pics to choose from. An especially clever feature was the option to provide your own photos from your album or camera roll, as some pictures make a substantially more interesting puzzle than others.
For a dollar, this app is a worthy investment for those searching for a casual puzzler, something to idly whittle away battery life on your iPhone or iPod Touch. As an added bonus, a couple of codes were graciously provided by the dev, Critical Fever, so a few lucky ones can save a dollar and spent on something less epic.
*Dramatization. There is no dragon, evilness, villages or peasants. However, you are still a mighty adventurer. And you still get a picture of an elephant’s rear end, so that kind of makes up for it. I guess.
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- Vikings, attack!
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- Enough to stump the most hardened slidR veteran.
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- Our consolation prize. I named him Henry.
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- We may be an ultra-powerful app review site, but we still have no idea on how to get rid of this from our gallery.
Version 1.0.6
Reviewed on iPod Touch 3.1.2
iToons
Sara | Jan 1, 2010 Lifestyle
User rating: (3 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
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Have you ever had that strange craving for your favorite comic, but not had a newspaper nearby? Or have you been stuck in a plane/train/car with nothing to do? Well if you love comics, then iToons is the app for you! At only $.99, this app developed by Brite systems Inc is a steal considering it has a library of 34 different comics ranging from Adam At Home to Ziggy. Although some of my favorite comics like Pearls Before Swine and Dilbert were missing from the list, there were many great ones like BC, Garfield, and Cathy.
The set up of the app is very simple and easy to use. You go into settings, and just flip the on/off switch next to the desired comics you want to read. I did have some problems with the app. Some of the comics were longer than the iPhone screen, so you had to scroll back and forth. It would have been better if the app could have made it so that you can view the comic panel by panel. That way you could slide to each panel as if viewing photos.
Tags: $.99, fun, interesting
Where’s Waldo? The Fantastic Journey
Sara | Jan 1, 2010 Games
User rating: (1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
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Imagine a game with pictures straight out of your favorite childhood picture finding book. Now combine that with the technology of an iPhone and the great game play from Ludia. Add some cute music, bundle it all together and you get Where’s Waldo? The Fantastic Journey.
This app is a Where’s Waldo book with some extras. The game is set up as an adventure game where you follow Waldo, Whitebeard the Wizard, Wendy, and other characters through a journey to collect the 12 mystical scrolls. When you collect all 12 scrolls, Whitebeard the Wizard will reveal to Waldo an important secret that Waldo has been searching for. At the start you can choose normal game play or kids. The kids version is noticeably easier as it will make sure the item/person you are looking for is always in the area it brings you (in other words, you don’t have to move the screen view around).
Tags: $2.99, fun, game, good for kids, sale
Q&F: Braineo
Sara | Jan 1, 2010 Games
User rating: (1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
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Recently, I downloaded the free app Braineo by Veriunique Productions, Inc. It is a fun memory game. The object seemed simple enough: study the picture, answer the questions, and get points. However, I soon learned it was harder than I thought. The questions were rather specific such as, “What color was the largest light bulb?” I aced the first couple of rounds, but my score started to go down the drain when I reached the more complex pictures. Every time I got a question wrong, a panda head would pop up and taunt me with phrases such as, “Your IQ is a negative integer.” After completing 18 questions, the panda prompts you to pay $.99 to have access to the other 11 levels. Although I would have liked the game to have a few more free levels, the game was fun and satisfactory.
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- This dude's got a tiny brain!
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- Braineo How-To
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- The cute panda loves to insult you
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- woohoo! I got 10,750!
iTunes Link – Braineo
Version 1.0
Reviewed on iPhone 3G OS 3.1.2
Tags: casual, free, fun, Games, lite version
