Pencil Toss
Michael E. | Apr 20, 2010 Games
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(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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Retro Paddle
Jacob Jones | Apr 20, 2010 Games
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(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.
Doodle Cannon War
Jacob Jones | Apr 19, 2010 Games
User rating: (14 votes, average: 3.00 out of 5)
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Doodle Cannon Wars! Now with more vitamin D!
I’m going to start this review right off the bat by saying that I absolutely love Doodle Cannon War! I haven’t been this in engrossed in an iPhone game since I purchased Doodle Jump (a different game from a different developer) a couple months back. Anyone who’s ever played a video game can sense when a game just feels right when they play it. Doodle Cannon War has that tangible feel only a few games I’ve played on the iPhone have. The guys and gals at infiworks have truly created a game so fun and challenging that if it weren’t for the game crippling glitch in level nine, chances are, I probably would have bought it! I’ll tell you more about that later in the review.
Tags: $.99, Doodle, Games, good for kids, Jacob Jones, simple
Perfetto
Jacob Jones | Apr 17, 2010 Education, Games
User rating: (7 votes, average: 3.00 out of 5)
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Exercise your brain and raise your stress levels at the same time!!
Welcome to Perfetto! Chances are you’ve probably played this game in your childhood as it is a direct copy of the legendary game Perfection by Milton Bradley. The object of this game is to place all the yellow pieces into their respective slots before the red timer runs out. As a kid, playing perfection was five times more scary than it was fun. I’d always freak out and jump when the timer ran out and the pieces all flew out. After a week of messing around with it I shoved into my closet and never touched the thing again until I was in middle school. Luckily, when your minute runs out it doesn’t pop up into your face like the original game did. Instead, the pieces float up magically and the board resets itself.
Tags: $.99, Games, good for kids, Jacob Jones, puzzle, traditional
Nintaii 2
Michael E. | Apr 14, 2010 Games
User rating: (5 votes, average: 3.00 out of 5)
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Concrete Software’s Nintaii 2 is, of course, the follow up to a unique puzzle game unlike any I’d ever played before. I’m referring to Nintaii. It’s a Japanese term, meaning “patience, perseverance, or endurance”. These were three things I needed with the first game and three things you’ll need in spades if you’re going to make it through the 100 levels of this one.
The objective of the game is easy enough. The player manipulates a rectangular concrete block across a field with the goal of getting the block to fall into a square exit hole located somewhere near the end of the level. Sounds easy enough, right? It isn’t. There are all kinds of obstacles and traps in the way and because you’re not able to see the entire field at once you don’t always know how a move at the moment will affect what’s to come.
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Ogre Hunt
Jacob Jones | Apr 14, 2010 Games
User rating: (7 votes, average: 3.29 out of 5)
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The Ogre Hunt experience from developer DGC can be summed up in two words: simple and frustrating. The instructions tab in the main menu failed to mention that the accelerometer is used to point your gun instead the single D-Pad on the screen. I spent a good minute wondering why my character was just going in circles instead of moving in the direction I was pressing on the D-Pad. Needless to say, the ogres that spawned in the starting area owned my ass with their hatchet things before I could get my bearings.
Tags: $.99, Games, Jacob Jones, shooter
How To Train Your Dragon- Kids Book
Brad H | Mar 28, 2010 Books
User rating: (6 votes, average: 3.67 out of 5)
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When I was growing up my Dad would always read me stories at night before bed. I believe this played a major role in my love for reading even to this day. Now that I have two boys of my own I have made it a point to read to them every night before bed. We have a decent sized collection of books to read but it seams like I just rotate reading the same five books. This is where FrogDogMedia LLC comes in with their iStory Time line of children’s books.
I was able to review the “How To Train Your Dragon” book. The book is based off the movie with the same name. The story follows the viking teenager Hiccup as he tries to make it in the world of brawn and muscle. Being a small lad he uses his brain power to invent tools to help him in the ways of dragon fighting. This puts him face to face with a dragon whom he befriends. Let the drama ensue. I wont go into any more of the story but be warned this book goes through the whole movie so if your worried about spoilers you might want to wait.
Tags: $.99, Entertainment, good for kids
The Price is Right 2010
Michael E. | Mar 28, 2010 Games
User rating: (6 votes, average: 3.67 out of 5)
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“Come on down! You’re the next contestant on The Price is Right!”
If you’ve ever wanted to hear those words directed to you, now’s your chance. Ludia’s The Price is Right 2010 is as close as you can get to the real thing as most of us ever will. Short of going to Burbank, California, that is. But even then, there’s no guarantee that you’ll hear your name called to run down that aisle to participate in the classic game show.
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Next Episode
Michael E. | Mar 25, 2010 Lifestyle
User rating: (6 votes, average: 3.17 out of 5)
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Here’s an app you might not have known you needed until just this moment.
I’m referring to Next Episode by Nikolay Nachev. What does this app do? Let me ask you a question:
Have you ever rushed to get home from work or school or wherever to watch what you thought was going to be a new episode of Chuck or House only to find that the episode was a repeat?
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Todew
Tony Mei | Mar 23, 2010 Productivity
User rating: (9 votes, average: 3.56 out of 5)
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Face it: most of the to-do apps that run rampant in the App Store are filled with clutter and difficult to navigate, making them useless. It’s not fun having to spend more time organizing your day’s events then actually doing your day’s events. Todew, in the words of its developer SomanticContact, is a “no-frills, yet powerful to-do app that won’t waste your time”, is sounds like exactly what the App Store needs.
Todew’s interface is fast, sleek and simple. No unnecessary buttons to fumble around with. No option panels to get lost in. Adding the day’s events is super efficient and easy. Press a button. Make a title. Pick a day and a color. Done. My biggest gripe with the built-in iPod Touch/iPhone Calendar is that it coerces you to make a time for your event, or else use the generic ‘All-Day’ feature. Thankfully, Todew takes care of this by only sorting the events into different days, which makes for a more simple and efficient process.
Tags: $.99, Productivity, to do
Killbo
Michael E. | Mar 10, 2010 Games
User rating: (6 votes, average: 3.17 out of 5)
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I just love a good word game. So much so that I will effortlessly bypass an adventure, puzzle, or board game app that has great graphics and scores of 5 star ratings in favor of a word game that I believe to be original and offers a good challenge. And if that word game has an online multiplayer element, then so much the better.
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NewsAlert
Michael E. | Mar 6, 2010 News, Uncategorized
User rating: (7 votes, average: 3.86 out of 5)
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I don’t consider myself a newshound, but I do like to be in the know. I keep an eye on Wiki trends, Twitter trends and get weather and breaking news updates by SMS.
Anytime a story about the iPhone or BlackBerry comes out, I want to know. Plus, there are artists, authors, and actors I’m a little ashamed to say I know more about than I probably should.
RSS feeds are a good way to stay on top of those tidbits and I have three such apps that I rotate among depending on the features included in their latest updates. But as good as RSS is, it’s a pain to have to mine through 1000+ articles to find that small handful of gems worth my time to read.
That’s where NewsAlert can be a handy app to have.
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