Posts Tagged ‘strictly visual’

There are a few apps out there that try to take you on a virtual tour of The Milky Way and show you the rings around Ur-anus, but iSpace 3D ain’t one of them! Vanilla Breeze’s entry into the space tour app genre is just a leisurely stroll through outer space that doesn’t attempt to [...]

Do you like colorful fish? Are you too poor to buy an aquarium and too lazy to clean it? Then Colorful Aquarium is for you! Well, maybe.
If I could say one nice thing about lianxing Zhu’s app, it would be that it has pretty good graphics! It really does. The water at the top of [...]

Ooohhh baby… it’s Audiogasm! Great name for an app, and the app itself isn’t too bad either.
Audiogasm is a visualization thingy just like you’ll find in most desktop media players. It reacts to sounds picked up by the iPhone’s mic and creates all kinds of crazy animated patterns in response. Shake the iPhone to change [...]

3D Fireworks is a pretty cool visual show that’s probably best suited for desk jockeys and frequent fliers on Air Bud. The bored office slave with a recharging cradle could let it run all day like a screensaver, and the bored stoner could just stare at it nonstop until the pizza guy finally shows up.
This app has [...]

I just got done bitching about an app called Lighter because the developer is planning to charge for it after the free trial is over. It doesn’t look like Moderati is planning to charge for the Virtual Zippo Lighter… my guess is that Zippo already paid them plenty to engineer this exercise in brand marketing… so [...]

I’m feeling kind of ornery today, so I’m gonna rip on an application just for existing. Normally I wouldn’t do this to a free app, but according to Chillingo Ltd’s description for Lighter, the free deal is a “special introductory offer – free for 1st week!”
So how much are they going to be charging? 99 [...]

I just added up the category totals in the iTunes App Store and there are currently 3,772 applications available. Buried in that mountain of software is Crossy which I’m pretty sure has been around longer than most of those apps, yet it’s only been reviewed 19 times.
I don’t know why I never bothered to download [...]

iChalky’s description in the App Store reads like a case study on iPhone accelerometer physics. Eric Metois, iChalky’s creator, uses words like ‘coefficients’ and ‘heuristics’ and ‘perceptual measurements’. It all adds up to a quirky application that sends a frantic little chalkboard stick figure shaking and bouncing around on your iPhone screen as he tries to keep his [...]

The next time you’re at a club and the DJ fires up an Abba track, look for the nearest disco ball and you’ll see a guy standing directly beneath it screaming WOOO! WOOO! with his arms flailing wildly about. And that guy will be Aaron Berk.
If there’s one thing Aaron loves more than screaming WOOO! it’s [...]

Want a “party in your pocket”? Yeah, I bet you do! Crazy Disco claims to be that pocket party (still sounds kinda sick no matter how you say it), as well as a conversation starter and a way to be “Mr. Cool”.
As iPhone disco balls go, I guess Crazy Disco isn’t all bad. It’s a very [...]