8 Great Halloween Apps
Michael (Admin) | Oct 31, 2011 Featured
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Singing Pumpkins (Free) (iTunes)
Singing Pumpkins is just one of those Halloween soundboard apps… tap and hear a spooky sound, and this one also makes goofy musical notes… but if I remember correctly it’s really well done and the kids will probably get a kick out of it.
Halloween Postage ($1.99) (iTunes)
Take your Halloween pics and dress them up with this greeting card app! It’s pretty slick and if you’re sending kiddie costume pics to the grandparents I’m sure they’ll be impressed as hell.
C@rds Master (Free) (iTunes)
Halloween C@rds ($1.99) (iTunes)
The C@rds line of greeting cards covers pretty much every major Hallmark holiday, and the C@rds Master app contains a sampling of all of them with in-app purchasing if you want an entire set that’s specifically Halloween or Christmas or whatever. Or you just grab Halloween C@rds and be done with it. It’s one of the best greeting card apps out there! For realz.
Halloween Wordsearch (Free) (iTunes)
I’m a little old for wordsearch apps, but assuming your kids aren’t then this is a nice freebie to entertain them with!
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Convert Any Unit
Jason O'Donoghue | Oct 31, 2011 Utilities
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Convert Any Unit ($0.99) by Convert Any Unit by Cider Software LLC http://www.cidersoftware.com/
Available on iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad
I have a confession to make. I love unit converter apps; perhaps even as much as I like calculator apps, so I’m always keen to try out new ones when given the chance.
Convert Any Unit is a sleek minimalistic app, sporting a brushed steel finish that’s straightforward to use and has 24 categories of units, covering over 3600 different units.
Rescue City
Lucas Young | Oct 30, 2011 Games
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Rescue City (Free ($0.99 full game)) by Cleverson Leal
Available on iPhone & iPod Touch
We’ve all seen those line drawing games, the ones where you have to direct traffic, land planes, or direct trains, but this game provides a new take on this type of game. The aim of this game is quite simple, get the emergency vehicles to the destination before the time runs out. To do this you simply draw a route across the screen for the vehicle to follow. Although its not quite as simple as this, as you have to make sure that the vehicles don’t crash into each other. This is surprisingly hard in the later levels.
Acc Calculator
Jason O'Donoghue | Oct 30, 2011 Utilities
User rating: (4 votes, average: 4.25 out of 5)
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Acc Calculator ($0.99) by Digital Mind Co., Ltd.
Available on iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad
Carrying out a search for the word “calculator” on the App Store brings up 6601 results (for iPhone apps alone). It’s safe to say that the market is pretty crowded out there. So when we were asked to review Acc Calculator, I was wondering whether or not the app could make a big enough dent to get noticed.
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Spooksfinder
Michael (Admin) | Oct 27, 2011 Entertainment
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Spooksfinder ($.99) by nSpire Studios
Available on iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad
Chances are you already know how you’re going to honor paganism this Halloween weekend, but if you don’t then Spooksfinder might be able to help! The idea here is to give you a birdseye view of all the Halloween festivities going down in your area, and if you’re hosting something yourself then you can add it to the map.
Spooksfinder seems good at finding community events so it (probably) won’t direct you to any sorority costume parties but who knows what you’ll find out there.
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Monster Munch ~ Halloween Feast
Michael (Admin) | Oct 27, 2011 Games
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Monster Munch ~ Halloween Feast (Free) by Bluebear Technologies
Available on iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad
If you’ve ever played Sky Burger (or any of the 10 million games that are similar) then Monster Munch will feel very familiar… stuff falls from the sky, and you control the game by tilting left and right. The difference is that you’re not building any burgers… instead, you’re catching pumpkins while you try to dodge skulls that take away your extra lives. You also want to avoid Holy Water ‘cuz that will make your little Dracula character get big, and being big makes it harder to dodge the evil skulls that are raining from the sky.
Halloween!
Michael (Admin) | Oct 24, 2011 Games
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Halloween! (Free) by Schatzisoft
Available on iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad
If you’re looking for an all-in-one Halloween app, this is it. Kind of. Halloween! comes equipped with a bunch of features including a countdown to October 31st, scary sounds, creepy sound loops, costume ideas, and Halloween trivia, to name a few. Halloween ringtones and wallpapers are also part of the set, but you have to fork over $.99 to get them.
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Zombie Life
Michael (Admin) | Oct 24, 2011 Games
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Zombie Life (Free) by The PlayForge
Available on iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad
Zombie Life is one of those cute, cartoony, Sims-like games where your purpose is to live vicariously through your title character which, in this case, happens to be a zombie. Keep your zombie happy, free of decay, gainfully employed, and complete the “quests” that gradually become available, and you’ll get to unlock new occupations and wardrobes and whatnot that will make your little undead pal’s life that much more exciting.
This is a really well done game that proves The PlayForge has some top-level talent on their payroll, but in all honesty games like this bore me to tears! Is it because I’m almost 40 and this genre seems mostly aimed at gum-snapping teenagers? Yeah, probably.
But I will say this for Zombie Life: it’s funny. Not in a LOL kind of way, but more in a :) kind of way. The characters, the writing, the overall design… funny! And cute.
Tags: halloween, simulation
Tappie Games
Michael (Admin) | Oct 24, 2011 Games
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Tappie Games ($.99) by Zanymation
Available on iPad only
This review was submitted by PMC
So Tappie Games is supposed to be geared for 1+ year olds and to improve finger movement skills and coordination. I let my 1.5 year old play it so this feedback is all based upon one child, one very cute and super intelligent child, who will probably be a pro athlete someday. Anyway…
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Kakao Talk Messenger
Michael (Admin) | Oct 23, 2011 Social Networking
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Kakao Talk Messenger (free) by Kakao Corp.
I have no idea if Kakao Talk is hot in the U.S. but I can tell you this… it’s huuuuuge in Korea! It really is. I live in Seoul, Korea and just about everyone who has an iPhone or Android device here also has Kakao installed.
So why has an entire country taken such a shine to this app? Probably because it allows you to chat (read: SMS) with anyone, anywhere in the world as long as they have Kakao on their iPhone, Android, or Blackberry, and it does all that for free. Oh yeah, and Korean society is also sort of a hive mind, like the Borg in Star Trek… but I digress.
So like I was saying, if you and the people you text regularly all start using Kakao, you can probably stop paying your wireless carrier for whatever SMS package they suckered you into buying, and if you have friends or family living overseas then this app becomes a must-have.
Photofunia
Michael (Admin) | Oct 21, 2011 Entertainment
User rating: (3 votes, average: 2.67 out of 5)
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Photofunia (free) by Alexey Ivanov
Photofunia may be filed under Entertainment but it’s really a photo app and a pretty cool one at that! There are some great apps out there that allow you to do some impressive tricks with your photos, but they also require a little effort (like Juxtaposer).
This one, however, asks you to do next to nothing except choose your photo(s). Photofunia is a collection of over 150 photo templates that will drop your pics into everything from billboards to art galleries to magazines. It also uses facial recognition to automatically turn you into people such as a zombie, a bodybuilder, and a Carnival dancer, among others.
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AC-130
Michael (Admin) | Oct 21, 2011 Games
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AC-130 (free) by Triniti Interactive
Dammit! I really wanted this game to be awesome. It’s NOT BAD… but I think my expectations were maybe a little inflated, and I blame Call of Duty for that.
If you’ve ever played that Call of Duty mission where one guy is on the ground getting his ass torn to shreds while a friend, most likely a girl who’s afraid to get shot at, controls the flying gun in the sky, then you know what I’m talking about. But let me reiterate: AC-130 isn’t bad for what it is, and for the low, low price of zero it’s worth checking out if your lifelong dream is to rain death from above.
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