iSo Kingdom

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iSo Kingdom

Tony Mei | Jan 12, 2012 Games, Uncategorized

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(6 votes, average: 4.50 out of 5)

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iSo Kingdom ($0.99) by Zleepy Ztudios

Available on iPhone & iPod Touch

Solve puzzles! Battle monsters! Solve more puzzles! I hope you like solving puzzles, because there’s a lot of them. A clever mix of a puzzler and an action/adventure game, iSoKingdom makes some advances in uncharted territory.

iSoKingdom is based around the concept of an isometric puzzle. You get a complex 3D shape and must deduce the 2D images of different sides. It requires a fair amount of spatial reasoning and patience, and is something you’d expect to find on IQ tests and brain teaser books.

Since I have the reasoning skills of a plant, I didn’t plan on doing so hot. Thankfully, the app foresaw my incompetence, and provided a thorough tutorial. Needless to say, after completing a few puzzles, I was hooked. After a few hours, I wouldn’t be surprised if my IQ doubled.

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Photogenda

Michael (Admin) | Jan 12, 2012 Productivity

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(4 votes, average: 4.25 out of 5)

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Photogenda ($1.99) by AwakeningIdeas

Available on iPhone only

A whole mess of these replace-your-contacts apps have marched through my inbox over the past couple of years, but I’ve ignored them all because I didn’t really want one… until now. Maybe it’s my old age catching up with me, or the fact that I’m super popular and have to sift through billions of contacts in order to find my drinking buddies, but for whatever reason I suddenly feel the need to have shortcuts to certain phone numbers.

Photogenda does this by showing me the photos associated with contacts instead of the typical line-by-line list that Apple’s default iOS provides. Show names or don’t show them, it’s the pics that count. If your contact doesn’t have a photo then Photogenda asks you to specify gender and then spits out a generic icon in place of the absent photo. Sounds good right? Yeah it is… mostly.

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Liquor Cabinet

Joel Madison | Jan 9, 2012 Lifestyle

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Liquor Cabinet ($1.99) by Lavacado Studios

Available on iPhone & iPod Touch

Every new year I make a promise to myself to drink more, but not being a big drinker I never know what to drink. I’m always asking people what to drink and trying new drinks in order to find “My drink”. This app might just be the app to help. Oh yeah, I also like having lots of booze in the house. So, this is an App that can take what you already have laying around, waiting to be drunk, and help you make a nice cocktail. Or tell you what you should get to make the cocktail that you want. It’s really very handy with a built in shopping list and some nice visual ads.

It’s laid out like a virtual liquor cabinet with bottles on shelves etc. It keeps track of the booze, the mixes, the other stuff like bar fruit. I used to live on bar fruit. Okay so the only pain part is the initial adding all your stuff into the app. Then I guess if you drink a lot you need to add and subtract all the stuff. If you have a big bar where things get lost in the back or your have lots a parties this could be the app for you. They have an extensive list of brand name booze in the data base but could add some more. There were a few big name brands that I had that the app didn’t support. In that case I just put in the generic “Vodka” and that worked fine. Cheers! I’m off to make an “Old Fashion.”

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Asteroids 2012

Tony Mei | Jan 8, 2012 Games

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(1 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)

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Asteroids 2012 ($2.99) by SKAPP Enterprises

Available on iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad

Asteroids is a pioneer video game, classic staple on old arcade boxes and computers. Zoom around in your spaceship, shoot asteroids, and dodge threatening flying particle chunks. Now, Asteroids 2012 hopes to revamp this arcade classic by bringing in a graphical overhaul, a variety of ships and weapons, and a full 3D space-combat engine. Does this iPhone remake stand up to the popular arcade classic?

Asteroids 2012 lends an strong first impression. Graphics are sharp and cartoony, fully optimized for HD space glory. Navigating around the clever space station home screen is easy. There’s variety of game modes, ranging from the wave attack campaign to a mini-game where you fly across the galaxy looking for secret (guess what?) asteroids. Spend money on upgrading your weapons or unlocking shiny new ships.

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Tags: $.99, arcade, Games, space shooter, Tony Mei

XLCamera

Tony Mei | Jan 6, 2012 Photo & Video

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(1 votes, average: 3.00 out of 5)

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XLCamera (0.99$) by Maksym Tsanko

Available on iPhone & iPod Touch

According XLCamera, you can enjoy better “pictures at low light with much better quality.” This sets off alarm bells immediately. I’m skeptical of any app that claims to boost your iPhone camera’s picture taking ability. Does XLCamera live up to it’s hype, or does it fall short like dozens of other photo apps?

Let’s look at technique behind XLCamera’s photo enhancement. XLCamera uses two-step process to brighten and enhance dark images. There’s a ‘torch’ function that toggles your camera flash to stay on. An additional a built in slider adjusts images by tweaking with color saturation and hues. The slider doesn’t make images magically brighter, but increase the warmness and blurs the sharp edges associated with flash night-photography.

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Tags: $.99, camera, photo editing, photos, Tony Mei

PhotoSync

Michael (Admin) | Jan 5, 2012 Photo & Video

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(3 votes, average: 3.33 out of 5)

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PhotoSync ($1.99) by touchbyte GmBH

Available on iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad

I just made the leap back to Mac after about 13 years of suffering with PCs! Thank you, thank you… please hold your applause. One of the first things I did after firing up my shiny new MacBook Pro was to go hunting for apps to install (yes, PC users, Apple also has an App Store just for Mac users), and I grabbed PhotoSync right away because I’m constantly moving photos off my iPhone to use on my desktop computer. In the past I’ve always relied on WifiPhoto to do this job but I wanted to see what, if anything, PhotoSync could do better.

Bottom line? PhotoSync does *almost* everything better, and it does way more! I still plan to use WifiPhoto for getting screenshots off my iPhone (I’ll explain why later) but if you’ve got a Mac (or PC) with PhotoSync installed and an iPhone or iPad with PhotoSync installed, the whole thing is just ridiculously easy. The desktop app isn’t mandatory, but it’s free so hey why not.

So far I’ve only moved photos back and forth between my iPhone 4 and MacBook… that’s right kids, file transfer here swings both ways… but you can also send your photos to other iDevices, to Dropbox, to a whole bunch of social places like Facebook, Picasa, and Flickr, and you can even go with FTP if you’re a SuperNerd.