(10+2)x5 Procrastination Hack
Tony Mei | Apr 28, 2010 Productivity
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(17 votes, average: 2.47 out of 5)
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As far as working effectively goes, I am a black belt in procrastinating. In fact, I’m procrastinating at the moment from writing a research paper in order to review this app, which, ironically, is supposed to help end my procrastination. But at least it’s an incremental step.
(10+2)x5 Procrastination Hack by EBratton revolves around the idea that if you commit 10 minutes to working on a task and then take a 2 minute break afterward, you will be able to ‘hack your procrastination to oblivion’ if you rinse and repeat the cycle 5 times. The app is essentially a single screen with a set of buttons and a timer that clocks how long you’ve been working, and when you deserve your scheduled 2 minute break ration.
For such a simplistic and bare-bones app, it gets the concept across pretty nicely. I find it much easier to work on a project when there is timer tracking my progress and keeping me motivated. While I found the app successful, these kinds of unique productivity apps will obviously have wildly different success rates from person to person.
Tags: $1.99, procrastination, Productivity
SoundGrid
Brad H | Apr 26, 2010 Music
User rating: (15 votes, average: 2.93 out of 5)
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A few months ago a friend of mine sent me the you tube promo video for the Novation Launchpad for Abelton Live. The device is a controller for making beats and loops. I fell in love instantly and even though I’m not in the music scene I totally wanted one.
Now thanks to mifki and their app SoundGrid I don’t have to spend more than five dollars to have my own beat maker only iPhone. It’s no Novation but this thing is AMAZING. This app is by far the best music app I have played with. It’s easy enough to pick up right away and hammer out some beats, and the mixing options are there to get complex with your beats.
Tags: $4.99, Entertainment, fun, Music
CUE
Michael E. | Apr 25, 2010 Music
User rating: (6 votes, average: 2.17 out of 5)
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The iPod Touch and iPhone music players, although adequate and stable, haven’t really seen a revolutionary change since it debuted in the very first iPod. That’s not to say that it’s a bad player, because it isn’t. It still sets the standard for the majority of players out there. But it is a little…how do you say…boring? Bland?
Apparently, I’m not the only one who thinks so. Even the briefest of perusals of the AppStore will find any number of music players designed to do everything the stock i-device player does while adding a splash of color and attitude.
Tags: $2.99
The Impossible Game
Jacob Jones | Apr 22, 2010 Games
User rating: (24 votes, average: 3.04 out of 5)
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You’ll pretty much suck no matter what.
The Bible says that on the seventh day God rested. Well I like to believe that on the eighth day he created The Impossible Game and then to fool everyone he jumped forward through time to present day and published it in the app store under the name Flukedude. But don’t let the title of this game fool you! This game is not impossible; just insanely difficult. It’s honestly more like The Insanely Difficult Game of Trial and Error. Trial and error with an awesome soundtrack. With that said, If you’re the type of gamer that is easily frustrated and discouraged by games then this is not the game for you. However, if you are the type of gamer that takes pleasure in the otherworldly challenges offered by difficult games, then this is the game for you.
Tags: $.99, fun, Games, Jacob Jones
Q & F: Wave Study Bible
Michael E. | Apr 22, 2010 Uncategorized
User rating: (11 votes, average: 2.73 out of 5)
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I’m always on the lookout for affordable (read FREE) and feature-rich Bible applications for my iPod Touch and over the past several months, I’ve tried at least a handful of them. Many are simply adequate, allowing me to access the verses I need to find when I need to find them. Some are entirely dependent on a wireless connection, while others can access it both on and offline. I may even have the choice of downloading a translation or two that I can use to compare verses. None has truly contained everything I’ve really needed, however.
The Wave Study Bible is a visually appealing app that appears to have some very good potential. It’s colorful, provides you with four free translations (Greek New Testament, King James, New English, and God’s Word) that can be stacked side by side for easy comparison. Additional translations are available for a fee that seems a bit pricey to me: $14.99, but even if you opt not to purchase any, you’ve still got a pretty solid foundation of translations to work with.
It’s a fairly intuitive app, having been designed not for the Biblical scholar but the average, everyday Christian. Verses can be shared through email, words in the Greek translation can be quickly defined, there are four distinct ways in which verses can be located, and there are a number of short tutorial articles covering everything from the application itself to how to read the Bible. You’ve got nothing to lose with this app, so give it a gander when you’ve got some time.
Multiple translations side by side in landscape mode
iTunes Link – Wave Study Bible
Version 1.0.1
Tested on an iPod Touch 3.1.3
AirDrop Pro
Michael E. | Apr 22, 2010 Games
User rating: (9 votes, average: 3.00 out of 5)
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AirDrop Pro is an app that really doesn’t need much of a tutorial. If you’ve had an iPhone or iTouch (yeah, I know that’s not the formal title) for more than five minutes, you know how to play this game.
It involves a cargo plane, a target, and variable wind. Your task: to drop each plane’s cargo onto a bullseye target. Here’s how it works: at the top of the screen, a cargo plane flies by. Somewhere on the ground is a raised stand with a red and white bullseye target atop the stand.
As the plane flies across the screen, it is your objective to time the release of the plane’s cargo so that it drops from the plane onto the target. If the cargo lands on the target, you’ve succeeded and get to try again. If the cargo does not land on the target, it’s game over.
Tags: $.99
NukeZen
Michael E. | Apr 22, 2010 Games
User rating: (6 votes, average: 2.83 out of 5)
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Nuke Zen, from Bo Multimedia, is probably the most challenging puzzle game I’ve ever encountered in iTunes. I don’t fully understand it, but does that stop me from playing? Absolutely not!
Here’s the premise: you are Professor Zen, an Albert Einstein-like bloke with an impossibly high IQ. This is a good thing because you’re also a nuclear engineer tasked with stabilizing a series of nuclear reactors on the brink of going Three Mile Island. The fate of the world rests in your highly-skilled hands and not even Jack Bauer can do what you do.
Tags: $1.99
Uni Sudoku
Tony Mei | Apr 21, 2010 Games
User rating: (7 votes, average: 2.43 out of 5)
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For the past few days, I’ve been rolling out lots of reviews for the action-y, thrilling and edge of your seat type iPhone games. So I figured that I would change pace for a while, and review an app that features a calm, relaxing and ubiquitous type of app store puzzle- Uni Sudoku by David Ross Software.
Completing Sukoku puzzles is easy- simply tap a box, then double tap a number to insert it or a single tap to just enter in a ‘pencil mark’ for numbers you aren’t quite sure of yet. For those of you who are sporting a brand new iPad, you apparently have the ability to ‘draw the number you want in an open square’, which seems pretty awesome, but I can’t personally attest to the functionality of this app on Apple’s latest gizmo.
Boxterity
Jacob Jones | Apr 21, 2010 Games
User rating: (8 votes, average: 3.13 out of 5)
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Boxterity is the mutated offspring of “Where’s Waldo” and “The Rubix Cube”.
I have to say that I’m pretty impressed with Boxterity. I don’t say this very often about an iPhone game but the way Boxterity presents itself is downright sexy. I’m not the type to play puzzle games but SoftMosis had me hooked from the very beginning with the whole comic/cell shaded look. Not to say that the only reason I like this game is for it’s aesthetic beauty, the game play is original and challenging, it’s just in a world where so many app developers develop games for a quick buck and skimp out on delivering a quality product, its nice to see some people are still putting forth the effort out to make a seriously professional game.
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Tags: Games, Jacob Jones, puzzle
Pencil Toss
Michael E. | Apr 20, 2010 Games
User rating: (9 votes, average: 3.00 out of 5)
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DSJP Enterprises’ Pencil Toss is one of those deceptively simple games that you start playing and before you know it, 5 minutes have passed. Then another five. And five more. Simply put, you lose track of time all because you want to get better at playing it.
If the name is reminiscent of Paper Toss, it’s for a good reason. Although the two games have different developers, they are similar in the respect that they both take place in office environments. With the first game, you’re trying to toss balls of paper into a wastebasket. With this one, you’re tossing pencils up into the air trying to get them to stick in the ceiling tile. Now, you might think it’s an easy task, but you would be mistaken. You must contend with wind and arcs and ceiling vents and- wouldn’t you just know it? – people tend to get a little annoyed with you when your flying pencil just happens to hit their computer, land in their coffee, or poke them in the eye.
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Happy 420 Day
Michael (Admin) | Apr 20, 2010 Website Stuff
User rating: (8 votes, average: 2.38 out of 5)
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Retro Paddle
Jacob Jones | Apr 20, 2010 Games
User rating: (9 votes, average: 3.33 out of 5)
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You have to respect the classics.
Retro Paddle is Richard Fennema’s tribute to Pong for the iPhone! Although insanely simplistic in nature, Retro Paddle serves more to remind to the world how far the gaming world has come since Pong’s console release in 1974 (roughly three years before home computers were available to the public). This ridiculously simple concept was something the world had never seen before: at home console gaming! Pong, with sales totaling over $40,000,000 in it’s first year, was a massive hit and the public ate it up. This simple game sparked a series of innovations that led to cartridge based gaming and the decision to port classics like Space Invaders from the arcade to the TV screen.
