Free Codes: After The Catch, part II

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Free Codes: After The Catch, part II

Michael (Admin) | Nov 28, 2009 Uncategorized

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(2 votes, average: 3.00 out of 5)

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I hope you guys like fishing ‘cuz I got another round coming after this!

iTunes Link : After the Catch

On deck: After The Catch, part III

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Thank you Paul Wood Software!

Please play nice and LEAVE A COMMENT telling everyone which code you took. If you get one, I’m sure the developer would also appreciate an App Store review!

1. KM7XAJRMER6X
2. PME3RK3X6JXE
3. AX3LFF66RKP3
4. AYP9FEP76JFX
5. N6RY9W3MMKTE
6. FEMKKHE6RYAL
7. HLFA6EJA7HRR
8. RE39L4FWW73M
9. HH94L6Y4RJ9K
10. P79TE4N6LNPX
11. MTM39PYWMRPN
12. FJP6L6KMXJAY
13. MWA9FNFJLXYR
14. 474TP9MKWRAY
15. J79AXEPYY76J

Instructions on how to redeem promo codes can be found here:

http://www.iphoneappreviews.net/how-to-get-free-apps/

You must have a U.S. iTunes account to redeem codes.

* Codes are normally posted in the comment box, but these are being posted on a schedule due to the Thanksgiving holiday

Free Codes: Reef Fish, part II

Michael (Admin) | Nov 27, 2009 Uncategorized

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(1 votes, average: 1.00 out of 5)

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Last shot at Reef Fish.

iTunes Link : Reef Fish

On deck: The Idiot Card (Entertainment)

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Thank you GroundHum.com!

Please play nice and LEAVE A COMMENT telling everyone which code you took. If you get one, I’m sure the developer would also appreciate an App Store review!

1. FTMYRYWEY6RF
2. 3MMTKA4L99AH
3. 43NYPPX9HYY7
4. Y7N66FXEEFTY
5. 3WYNPHET449Y
6. P934W4E9TN4F
7. JM4RAKE7ALYK
8. KH4RWTA7PFAJ
9. X63RJ9AHX693
10. EYM4LPH7A3RY
11. 9WMTWYK977WR
12. P4TPY99R9L77
13. M6RHPHJPWWNX
14. FTT799EATJYL
15. 6EH93AFK63KT

Instructions on how to redeem promo codes can be found here:

http://www.iphoneappreviews.net/how-to-get-free-apps/

You must have a U.S. iTunes account to redeem codes.

* Codes are normally posted in the comment box, but these are being posted on a schedule due to the Thanksgiving holiday

Free Codes: Top Rated Apps, part II

Michael (Admin) | Nov 25, 2009 Uncategorized

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(1 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)

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Last chance at cutting through all the silliness that is the App Store.

iTunes Link : Top Rated Apps

On deck: HotSearch (Navigation)

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Thank you MF Software!

Please play nice and LEAVE A COMMENT telling everyone which code you took. If you get one, I’m sure the developer would also appreciate an App Store review!

1. WXRW7NYPR4J7

2. YFMMETFH3PWF

3. LPE4RTA4X4L9

4. KXMARYEF9RJK

5. P6RKMY4AYNYL

6. PX7J7MLLTMWR

7. 3TMHJ3N7MKAE

8. A34LARRM7AHN

9. 6EYJN9F6TX74

10. FNNFWF9F7MKW

Instructions on how to redeem promo codes can be found here:

http://www.iphoneappreviews.net/how-to-get-free-apps/

You must have a U.S. iTunes account to redeem codes.

Dreamcatcher

Chrisa | Aug 13, 2009 Lifestyle, Uncategorized

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(2 votes, average: 1.50 out of 5)

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Everyone dreams every night – you know that, right? But remembering your dreams is another story. Most everyone has had the dream where you show up to school totally naked, and most everyone I knew in college had the dream where you show up to take a final and realize you hadn’t attended class all semester. I’ve been having this reocurring dream where I’m in Sicily, stomping grapes a la Lucille Ball while a “little person” is hurling random fruit at my head and swearing at me in Pig Latin. I think it’s a result of my falling asleep while attempting to watch The Godfather twice last week. At least, I hope that’s what it is. And if you don’t understand my Lucille Ball reference, click here - then slap yourself for being under the age of 40.

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Tags: $1.99, Lifestyle

Nintaii – Updated with more promo codes!

T.J. Brumfield | Jul 16, 2009 Games, Uncategorized

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(3 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)

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Edit: This app is on sale, 50% off until July 26th. That explains the lower price than what I’ve seen previously.

This may be my new favorite game on the iPhone, edging out Stoneloops! of Jurassica (which Swain also loved). Time will tell how well it holds up. Simply put, Concrete Software’s Nintaii is brilliant in its simplicity. So many games I play are rehashes of gameplay I’ve seen somewhere else. I’m shocked that I’ve never played a puzzle game exactly like this before.

The Japanese term ‘nintai’ means patience, perseverance, or endurance. Reading other’s peoples reviews and comments, I half expected the game to frustrate me with its difficulty. In reality, the calm colors and music seem to sooth me even as I attempt to unravel difficult puzzles. Gameplay consists solely of flipping a block around a level to its destination. The block itself is two squares long, or tall depending how it is flipped.

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Tags: $1.99, Games, logic, puzzle, T. J. Brumfield

Lifecards

Chrisa | Mar 17, 2009 Photo & Video, Uncategorized, Utilities

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(20 votes, average: 3.05 out of 5)

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I’m a fan of postcards. I collect antique postcards from places I’ve lived, and I still send postcards to friends and family when I travel, especially if I can find one that is either really beautiful or really corny. So I like the idea of being able to create a postcard-type image and email it from my iPhone to people. That way I can take a crisp picture of something beautiful or corny in my travels and send it while I’m still standing in front of said beautiful or corny thing, complete with personalized message (i.e. “the weather is here, wish you were beautiful.”).

Lifecards from Vivid Apps offers all the promise of creating electronic postcards, with none of the joy of easily creating and sending something you’d be proud of.

There are 20 nice backgrounds and several different layouts to choose from. You can import a picture from your photos and resize it, rotate it, and position it easily. But that’s where the ease stops. Choose the text box on the template to add your text, type in what you want, then use the tools to change the color of the font or resize it. Maybe. Sometimes it takes you back to the text entry screen, no matter how many times you choose the tool for font color or size, sometimes you can size the text, sometimes you can’t. It’s as buggy as my garage in mid-summer. Save the image and come back later to edit it? Forget it. You might as well start again. You can’t choose a new image, and the text editing bugs are still there in all their defective glory.

After you create your card, you can save it to your image library, and then, of course, email it from there or use it as wallpaper. But the resolution of the photographs is somehow degraded in the translation to a Lifecard, and then one of the great things about the iPhone camera – it’s resolution – is lost.

I checked the developer website for signs of a new release – this is version 1.0, after all – but there was no clue that an update was coming. That being the case, I’d definitely recommend holding on to your $2.99 until they work out the bugs. If I was Vivid Apps, I’d make this free until I got this stuff worked out. It’s got a lot of promise, but it’s just not usable in its current version. Close, but no cigar.

: My sister-in-law. Not that you'd know, because I can't size the text.

: The text sizing tool seems to be ornamental.

: Save for later or export. Yes, my dog died. Thanks in advance for your sympathy.

Tags: $2.99, Photo & Video, Utilities

IQ Test

Chrisa | Mar 2, 2009 Entertainment, Lifestyle, Uncategorized

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(6 votes, average: 3.50 out of 5)

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I like to think of myself as intelligent. I can read and write in more than one language, and my checkbook is balanced, after all. I’m pretty sure I’m smarter than a 5th grader, but I don’t know if I’m as smart as Geena Davis. So IQ Test by Max Voloshin gave me the opportunity to gauge just how smart I really am, versus just how smart I think I am.

This IQ test is different from others I’ve seen, in that it is based mainly on patterns, and the user’s ability to pick the next logical item to continue the pattern from a list of choices. According to the developer, it is based on Professor Hans Eysenck’s work and, since I’m not familiar with Prof. Eysenck, I looked him up on Wikipedia. After I read up, I realized anyone who’s taken Psych 101 is at least somewhat familiar with his work. Prof. Eysenck was a British psychologist who argued the genetics of intelligence and personality – and got famously punched in the nose debating this point. Gotta love a guy who’ll take it on the schnozz for his beliefs.

Whether this IQ test conforms to the good professor’s test or not, I can’t say. I can say that this test is timed – you get 40 minutes to complete the test, and I suggest you be sure you have 40 minutes to do it before you start, because you can’t start and stop and start from where you left off. I can also say that the graphics are well done, and you can have more than one person take the test and compare your scores.

If you’re interested in an IQ test, for $0.99, this isn’t a bad one. And I’m not just saying that because it pegged my IQ at 137. After all, according to the scoring scale, that makes me not as smart as Sharon Stone. At least I’m smarter than Mike Tyson.

: Which circle to choose....

: Damn you, Sharon Stone.

Tags: $0.99, Entertainment, Lifestyle

Sushipedia

Swain Valasek | Feb 8, 2009 Lifestyle, Uncategorized

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(3 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)

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I can remember a time when a sushi bar (literally a bar, no tables) was a niche destination (in my neck of the woods anyway) where the upscale and generally alternative crowd hung out. Nowadays of course, sushi is everywhere, from buffets to food courts to supermarkets and on everyone’s radar; it’s completely ubiquitous. However, despite this dilution into American culture, there has always been the ever-loving faithful who insist on doing sushi right.

Enter Sushipedia from Hussein Khalil. First of all, what this app is not: a list of Americanized sushi which is all rolls, mostly cooked or fried then drowned in soy sauce and wasabi (not saying that isn’t delicious mind you but it would offend the crap out of a real Japanese sushi chef). Thanfkully this is included to some degree (we Americans do love our sushi) but rather the focus here is on bringing you a guide to authentic sushi such as gooey sea urchin (uni), strips of raw fish (sashimi) and even the posionous puffer fish (fugu). The app lets you look for sushi by scanning a full index, by keyword search, by attribute search (raw, cooked etc) and by type (nigiri, temaki etc). Once you find the sushi you’re looking for you can enjoy an informative text description and a very detailed photograph. If you’re feeling brave, you can just tap ‘I’m feeling lucky’ and order whatever the app randomly chooses. A cool thing about the app is it sprinkles lots of interesting sushi lore and knowledge all around, including a ticker at the bottom of the main menu that will tell you cool things like ‘itamae’ is the proper word for a sushi chef and ‘sushi’ does not mean fish but instead refers to the traditional vinegared rice often served with it. Clearly a lot of time was put into this app as it’s big on content and personal touches.

On to the gripes then which are all about interface consistency and usability. First, a convention set forth at the onset is the ability to touch and hold any particular button to get help on it. This is quite necessary for those unfamiliar with the terms yet this feature is inconsistent throughout the app and in fact only works on the main menu and contents page. On top of that, touching and holding doesn’t just give you the blurb but whisks you off to that option automatically when all you want to do is read the blurb. Also, some (but inexplicably not all) definitions of categories are contained within the category listing itself which is very unintuitive and really should follow the already-established help convention above. I’d love to see more time spent cleaning up the help system and streamlining the interface in general. Also, if you drill down to say, the sashimi category, you’re presented with authentic names such as amaebi and hirame (along with japanese) which is great but you’d have no idea this is shrimp and flounder until you bring up the full listing. A simple convention of adding a simple english word as well would go a long way to making this app easier for us gringos to use. Not to totally nit-pick but all text should be run through a spell-checker as well. Also, worth noting is this app requires you to have the 2.2.1 iPhone update but I have no idea why. I had no intention of installing 2.2.1 and meant to jump straight to the next release and there are probably others just like me. Anyway I took 1 for the team to get this review out there for you all so you’re welcome! :wink:

As far as suggestions, it might be neat to have an email function within the app so you could send someone a picture or description of a particluar sushi or just to cutely plant a bug in someone’s ear about what you want to do for dinner tonight. Also it would be great to have even more cool sushi info nuggets such as knives a real chef uses, what a ‘sushi bar’ in Japan is like and just general info about the traditions and origin of sushi.

So in summary I’d say what’s offered up here will help and educate you about sushi and that’s certainly the point. I’m also compelled to say Sushipedia feels a bit overpriced in its current state but with some polish and shine would definitely rise in value.

Version reviewed – 1.0