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Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Astrid, An Android Task/Todo Manager Will Comes on iPhone

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Astrid is a mobile social networking with to-do list that helps individuals and groups keep organized, get more done and have fun in it's processes. The app has long provided for free...

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Experience Santorini: An App For The Greek Island Traveller

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Summer is upon us (although us Brits wouldn’t be so sure about that one) and so begins the great holiday rush. One such popular resort in Europe is that of Santorini, an island just off Greece’s mainland. There’s a lot to like about the place, with some fantastic geography thanks to its volcanic cone and all the great mythology that comes from Greece and its islands.

For those who intend to visit the island, there’s now an app to help guide the way. Experience Santorini is available in iPhone and iPad varieties, both offering a user friendly and welcoming way of helping its users get acquainted with the island. It promises to reveal the place’s darkest secrets and offers more than 500 suggestions for places to stay, eat, shop and enjoy. The app works offline also to ensure that there are no pesky excessive roaming data charges involved too. As is always useful with such things, the app tells the user what attractions are nearby them, whether it be a beach, museum, archaeological site or just a nice cafe to relax at.

The iPad version also boasts more than 20 minutes of videos offering interviews with archaeologists and winemakers of the area amongst others.

Throughout the rest of the app, the general ambience and design looks ideal for the tourist, so hopefully it’ll be a great help to anyone visiting Santorini this summer.

The app is out now and priced at $4.99 for the iPhone/iPod Touch version and $6.99 for the iPad HD version.

Experience Santorini EN

iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Buy Now: $4.99
Released: 2011-06-14 :: Category: Travel

Experience Santorini HD

iPad Only App - Designed for the iPad
Buy Now: $6.99
Released: 2011-07-13 :: Category: Travel

Apps mentioned in this post: Experience Santorini EN, Experience Santorini HD

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The 21st Century Pager: OnPage

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Released today is an app that combines modern technology with some pretty dated 1980s and 1990s technology. The humble pager was crucial back in the day when important people needed contacting at a time when the mobile phone wasn’t in mainstream use. These days they’re only really used by doctors and other medical professionals, and for a very important reason. Pagers ensure that important information such as a heads up to report in quickly can be done without being blocked by SMS messages, phone calls or internet usage. OnPage, a new app for iOS devices aims to create that kind of effect without the need for a separate device.

It’s an app that, much like the pager before it, prioritizes emergency messages sent through the OnPage system, even gviing it an unique sound regardless of the current audio settings for the device (such as if it’s muted). OnPage ensures that its users can offer people a way of contacting them on their phone without actually having to give out their personal phone number, providing a great privacy feature for many.

Unlike paging devices, it’s also possible to view exactly when any page has been sent, delivered and read which is always extremely convenient for those needing to confirm such important things. Replies can also be sent. Finally, OnPage promises to be faster than the average Pager network.

Other smaller benefits also exist such as the ability to perform group broadcasting and the ever useful global coverage. It’s simple enough to set up an OnPage account and could well be a great help for those who need to be in constant contact with others while maintaining their privacy.

OnPage is a free app with a 30 day trial ensuring users have plenty of time to work out if this is the tool for them.

OnPage

iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Buy Now: FREE
Released: 2011-04-04 :: Category: Productivity

Apps mentioned in this post: OnPage

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Farm It! Seasons Review

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Farm It! Seasons Review

By Monica Stevens on July 19th, 2011
Our Rating:

:: FUN FOR ALL SEASONS
iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad

Which came first? The chicken jumping rope. . .or the egg?

Developer: AppMania
Price: $0.99
Version Reviewed: 1.1
Device Reviewed On: iPhone

Graphics / Sound Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Game Controls Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Gameplay Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Replay Value Rating: 3.75 out of 5 stars
Overall Rating: 4.06 out of 5 stars

I have a fantasy that when I retire, my husband and I will move to a farm and raise chickens, pigs, alpacas, peacocks, and border collies, to name a few. Oh yeah, and we'll have an entirely organic supply of freshly picked microgreens for the purpose of making lavish yet simple and artful meals. Right now, I have to work at a desk and can only dream about plowing the fields and cultivating the garden. So, Farm It! Seasons is a nice escape, complete with cartoon chickens, dogs, and skunks, to name a few.

The interface of the game is navigable and pleasing to the eye. I even found myself bopping my head to the hoe-down farm music that accompanied the game. Farm It! Seasons is clever and winks at itself in a casual, playful, and even snarky way without becoming hipster-doofus. It provides clear information on the various animals the player will encounter on the farm, and it is also good at providing pop-up hints and clues as to how to improve chances of being successful. I scored point values easily and understood the concept and object pretty much right away.

Farm It! Seasons is equipped with a tutorial, which was helpful as I nurtured my hens to lay eggs by tapping twice on the screen. Colorful and changing emoticons indicated the mood of the hens, and the game should also be easily understood and enjoyed by grade school children and their families. ATTENTION ALL PARENTS: Roosters and hens jumping rope together and sharing earthworms are visual euphemisms for procreation. . . just so you know. In other words, these roosters like their hens barefoot and pregnant pretty much all the time.

As I played around with the game, I discovered that, upon repeated play, I was able to unlock features, such as different farm settings in Europe and other countries as well as changing seasons, hence the title. I could see where these features would be enjoyable and fun to explore. Overall the look and interface of the game appealed to me. I certainly see the potential to interact with family, particularly children. The game is repetitive by its very nature, so young children may lose interest or be unable to understand Farm It! Seasons conceptually. For me, it provided mindless fun that only furthered my fantasies of buying a farm before I, um, buy the farm.

Farm it! Seasons

iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Buy Now: $0.99 ~~$1.99~~

Our Rating:

:: FUN FOR ALL SEASONS
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Released: 2011-06-30 :: Category: Games

Apps mentioned in this post: Farm it! Seasons

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Push Morty Push Review

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Push Morty Push Review

By Monica Stevens on July 19th, 2011
Our Rating:

:: PUZZLING
Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad

Does pushing virtual (or literal) boxes around sound like a fun time? Not to us either.

Developer: Sigma3
Price: $0.99
Version Reviewed: 1.1
Device Reviewed On: iPhone

Graphics / Sound Rating: 3.75 out of 5 stars
Game Controls Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Gameplay Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Replay Value Rating: 3.25 out of 5 stars
Overall Rating: 3.38 out of 5 stars

Patience is not a virtue. Well, okay, it's not MY virtue. In my personal life, patience is a concept that I struggle to attain. So what if my mother is ALWAYS 15 minutes late? I've learned to survive by tricking her into believing that dinner reservations are at 6:15 instead of 6:30, or that the movie time is at 1:00 when it is actually at 1:30. Personal issues aside (okay, not really), I tackled Push Morty Push, which is a universal app based on the Japanese game "Sokoban", with my usual enthusiasm and idealistic bent.

The home screen is simple to navigate. It provides a top-down point of view on the physical game and on its title character, Morty. It also offers the options of "continue quest," "begin from scratch," "free play," and, well, "options." I began to simply play around with the game in the "begin from scratch" mode. I seemed to be succeeding, as I was visually and audibly rewarded with flashes of brighter colors and sounds that indicated positive things. The initial problem I had with this game is that I had no idea what I was doing to earn these Pavlovian rewards. The game dropped me in the middle of a room, where I worked on navigating through obstacles by making Morty push.

The character Morty is cute and appealing, as is the general appearance of the game. Push Morty Push could potentially or ideally be a relaxing way to spend some free time. Several reviews noted its "addictive" properties. For me, if addiction is about abusing myself, it could be rewarding in a certain sense. I happen to prefer to reward myself with Ben and Jerry's – just sayin'.

Push Morty Push provides no instructions on how to play the game; nor does it provide a tutorial. I attempted the "free play" option and received some apparent rewards (again via happy dings and bright flashes of seafoam green light), but I neglected to earn points or propel myself to the next level. A feature of the game that did encourage me to keep at it was an arrow at the top of the screen, which allowed me to undo my previous moves. Also, with the "begin from scratch" mode, I was able to rearrange the room/setting, and that enabled me to become unblocked.

I can see the drive that others playing the game may have to push Morty to the finish line. The game itself and the object of the game is essentially constructed of various puzzles that move in sequence from room to room until the highest level is obtained by the player. The left brain could potentially be exercised and give me the ability to recognize mathematical patterns and develop untapped spatial skills. I see the benefits of Push Morty Push as a visually pleasing game for players who enjoy virtual puzzles. I may be impatient, but open-mindedness? I have that in spades.