January 2009

Review: LED Football 2

January 31, 2009 iPhone App News

Touchgrove brought back a flood of memories with LED Football, which was inspired by the classic Mattel Football handheld game. This sequel follows in the footsteps of Mattel Football 2, adding passing capabilities.

Underwater The Game

January 30, 2009 iPhone App News

Underwater The Game is published by GameEra Inc but apparently developed by a Russian team. Mikhail Solovyev is the named seller in the app store but there aren’t any credits in the app itself and the only website linked from iTunes is game-era.com which doesn’t (as of this review) have a listing for it at all.

The gameplay combines elements [...]

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Review: Surf Report for iPhone

January 30, 2009 iPhone App News

Put Oakley’s Surf Report on your iPhone or iPod touch, and you’ll always know what the surf conditions are no matter where you happen to be.

iAmbigram Lite

January 30, 2009 iPhone App News

Ambigram. Noun. A design that may be read as the same word or phrase – or sometimes as two different words or phrases – oriented in two different ways. That is, more or less, the definition of an ambigram, according to Webster’s Dictionary.
I like ambigrams, always have. I have an ambigram as a tattoo. So [...]

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Babelingo Travel Phrases

January 30, 2009 iPhone App News

Babelingo is an application filled to the brim with phrases useful while traveling in other countries, or if you need help speaking English phrases. The application really is overflowing with phrases and translations, and one needs only choose which language to start with and which language to end with.

Babelingo is an expansive application, truly. At first I was under the impression that it only did Spanish-to-English translations (that is the default setting), but I soon discovered that there are eleven different languages to switch between.

Upon choosing your beginning and ending languages, Babelingo does the rest by supplying basic and complex phrases to just about any conversational topic. Tap-through screens are easy to navigate and the design is really quite good.

One thing I really wish this application included was the ability to input text yourself.

Pros: Expansive, intuitive

Cons: Lack of text input

Bottom Line: Babelingo is a sprawling travel-phrase application with multiple languages and plenty of phrases. If you are traveling and need something for better understanding the language, Babelingo is a great source.

‘Duck Hunt’ iPhone game pulled at Nintendo’s request

January 30, 2009 iPhone App News

Duck Hunt, an iPhone game that mirrored a Nintendo game, is no longer available, allegedly due to copyright concerns.

Opinion: Putting a premium on iPhone games

January 30, 2009 iPhone App News

Rumor has it that a “premium” section for $20 games will soon appear at the App Store. Peter Cohen doesn’t buy it.

Sonic Vox

January 30, 2009 iPhone App News

Sonic Vox is a voice modulation application from SonicMule. It comes with five different options for voices, with the possibility of varying the options themselves by sliding the finger to the right or to the left.

The concept of this application is simple but fun: speak into the microphone on the iPhone and sounds comes out through either the iPhone speaker, headphones or anything you can plug into it. There are five options:

• Normal Voice Modulator
• Cylon
• Lion/ Kitty
• Baby/ Grumpy
• Robot

The different options can be modulated further using the ‘touch-pad’ capabilities. Simply slide your finger on the screen left of right to change the pitch or manner by which your voice is modulated.’ You can also choose how much echo is used, which can sound interesting, but oftentimes tastelessly fun.

The fact that there is no way to use this application otherwise can be pretty detracting. I’d like to maybe see an integration for making phone calls (although you can easily just plug in speakers and call people from another phone).

Pros: Entertaining, plenty of options, quick fun

Cons: Very few feasible uses

Bottom Line: Sonic Vox could be useful when faking a voice in public or maybe trying to scare someone, but without external integration, the fun stops as soon as this application is closed.

iPhone apps of the week

January 30, 2009 iPhone App News

(Credit: CBS Interactive)

I scout several Web sites every week for new iPhone applications to try to find what I think are the most useful (or the most fun) for everyone who reads this column. A couple of weeks ago, I featured a budgeting application that I thought had some …

Originally posted at The Download Blog

Flik

January 30, 2009 iPhone App News

Flik by myCodeStudio, LLC takes the game “Breakout” or “Bricks” or “Half-Pong” (Yea I made that last one up.. meh ) and stands it on its head, which is a good thing. I’ve been playing this game the past few days and can say that is something that I’ve ben enjoying in my spare time. [...]