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Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Favorite Four Apps for Black Friday

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It’s the most wonderful time of the year. Families gather, feast, celebrate and then get ready for a Black Friday shopping bonanza. The hottest deals mean the biggest crowds will be mobbing stores. With this celebration of conspicuous consumption putting huge pressure on holiday shoppers in a tough economy, how does one find the very best deals? Well, an iPhone loaded with the right apps can make things a lot easier. This week we look at our four favorites for saving time and money.

TGI Black Friday

Powered by two major shopping resources, TGIblackfriday.com and DealCatcher.com, TGI Black Friday is the go-to app for finding the best bargains from the biggest chains like Walmart, Kohls, Best Buy, Target, Old Navy and far too many more to list. The updates come fast and furious and users can see all the Black Friday deals well before they bulk up the morning paper. Push notifications alert shoppers to new deals, users can compare prices and share finds on Facebook and Twitter.

TGI Black Friday

iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Buy Now: FREE
Released: 2009-11-19 :: Category: News

Red Laser

Finding good deals is awesome. Finding great ones is even better. One thing brick and mortar retailers are worried most about this year is what impact mobile devices will have, even in the check out line. Price-matching offers used to be taken up by only a few, but now with bar code scanners, shoppers can quickly scan the items unique product number and Red Laser will find them all the competing offers, many of which are online. That means while standing in a three-hour check-out queue one can just pop out an iPhone, find a better deal online and have it paid for and on its way before they move forward a single inch.

RedLaser — Barcode and QR Code Scan

iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Buy Now: FREE
Released: 2011-11-02 :: Category: Utilities

Black Friday App

Black Friday App provides the same basic features as TGI Black Friday, and many of the stores and deals are the same, but there are retailers one app carries that the other doesn’t. This app doesn’t just look for deals in physical stores, but online-only bargains, too, so consider it another tool in the arsenal.

Black Friday App

iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Buy Now: FREE
Released: 2009-09-08 :: Category: News

TGI Cyber Monday

Just as in-store bargains are selling out, online retailers pick up the slack. The new mega-shopping day has become known as Cyber Monday. TGI Cyber Monday, from the same folks as TGI Black Friday, again helps consumers sort through the best deals – this time from all the major online retailers.

TGI Cyber Monday

Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad
Buy Now: FREE
Released: 2011-11-08 :: Category: News

Apps mentioned in this post: Black Friday App, RedLaser — Barcode and QR Code Scan, TGI Black Friday, TGI Cyber Monday

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Lisa Caplan 24 Nov, 2011

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Social Networking For Couples From Cupple

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Having been in a long distance relationship, I know how tough it is to maintain regular contact and intimacy with a significant other. It’s apps like Cupple that could go some way to ensuring that couples always feel close to each other.

Cupple is a private social networking app aimed specifically at two people in a relationship. It allows users to share various details just between the two of them such as galleries of photos, private messages and even locations so that each person knows where the other person is. In each case, images or notes can be added for the personal touch.

The key thing is that it encourages intimacy. It’s the kind of app that’s particularly ideal for the couple who have to frequently travel for work but still want to keep in regular contact, even if it’s simply to say they saw something and thought of the other person.

Cupple is a free to download app and is available now.

Cupple

iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Buy Now: FREE
Released: 2011-11-08 :: Category: Social Networking

Apps mentioned in this post: Cupple

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Jennifer Allen 24 Nov, 2011

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Bag It! HD Review

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Bag It! HD Review

By Jason Wadsworth on November 23rd, 2011
Our Rating:

:: STRATEGIC STACKING
Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad

Get all the groceries into the bag and don’t let them get smashed.

Developer: Hidden Variable Studios

Price: $0.99
Version Reviewed: 1.2
Device Reviewed On: iPhone 3GS

Graphics / Sound Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Game Controls Rating: 3.75 out of 5 stars
Gameplay Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Replay Value Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

Overall Rating: 3.69 out of 5 stars

Not every trip to the grocery store ends with a thrillingly strategic bag stuffing session. Getting tons of groceries into a tiny paper bag may not seem like the best way to spend some free time, but Bag It! HD makes bagging food more fun than it has any right to be.

Bag It! HD takes the menial task of bagging groceries and turns it into an entertaining puzzle game where players must figure out how to fit different grocery items into a paper sack while limiting the amount of items that get crushed or broken. In each of the game’s levels, a different assortment of grocery items are brought to the player via a conveyer belt (much like in a real grocery store) and the player must fit these items into the bag in the same general order in which they appear. Sometimes the challenge comes from stacking the items so that they won’t break, other times the challenge is just to find a way to fit all of the items in the bag at all.

Each item in the game has its own weight and stacking them accordingly will save players from needlessly crushing other items. Items can also be dropped from varying heights, so players must be conscious of dropping items from too high and having them break from the fall. Items can also be rotated and bagged in any orientation. Once the bag is packed the items needs to survive and few moments as they shift in the bad while the player tilts the device to help them all settle in. Add to all these options the crazy and unique combos that come from placing items close to one another and players will need to take a much more strategic approach to bagging groceries here than they might on a normal Saturday afternoon trip to the store.

The animated grocery items are cute and the faces they make when they are happy, falling, or scared of getting crushed are great. The gameplay is varied, thanks to the many different types of items to bag and players will have a challenging time completing all the game’s levels. Bag It! HD is a nice, quirky little departure form the stacking puzzle norm.

Bag It! HD

Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad
Buy Now: $0.99 ~~$2.99~~
Released: 2011-11-01 :: Category: Games

Apps mentioned in this post: Bag It! HD

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Jason Wadsworth 24 Nov, 2011

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New Infinity Blade 2 Videos Released, Price and Release Date Confirmed

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The game that Apple used to show off the iPhone 4S and iOS5 capabilities when it was released, Infinity Blade 2, is nearing its release, and developer ChAIR Entertainment has posted a pair of videos to talk about the game and hype people up for its release. The first video covers the game’s visuals with commentary from ChAIR staff on how the game’s visuals aren’t just designed to look stunning, but also to help create the atmosphere of the world. The second video covers the story elements of Infinity Blade 2, and what the developers, along with the author of the interquel novella Infinity Blade: Awakening, Brandon Sanderson, wanted to do to help expand the universe with this game. Both of these videos are embedded below.

Infinity Blade 2 will make its way into gamers’ hands starting next Thursday, as ChAIR Entertainment has confirmed the December 1st release date, and a price of $6.99 for the universal app. Those looking to get into the series before the highly-anticipated sequel releases can check out the original Infinity Blade at a sale price of $2.99, and read Infinity Blade: Awakening for $2.99 on the iBooks Store.

Infinity Blade

Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad
Buy Now: $5.99

Our Rating:

:: EPIC SLASHING
Read Our Full Review >>

Released: 2010-12-09 :: Category: Games

Apps mentioned in this post: Infinity Blade

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Wizard Ops Review

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Wizard Ops Review

By Dan Lee on November 23rd, 2011
Our Rating:

:: HE'S ON FIRE
iPad Only App - Designed for the iPad

Control a Fire Wizard in an attempt to free your brethren.

Developer: Phyken Media
Price: $0.99
Version Reviewed: 1.0
Device Reviewed On: iPad

Graphics / Sound Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Game Controls Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Gameplay Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Replay Value Rating: 2 out of 5 stars

Overall Rating: 3.88 out of 5 stars

The story in shoot'em up Wizard Ops starts off fairly cheerful. Four Wizards, each with the power to control an element of nature, protect a vast kingdom ruled by a King and Queen, bringing about peace and prosperity. As well as protectors to the kingdom, they also watch over the Princess, keeping her out of harm's way.

Alas, tragedy strikes and the Queen is killed while dabbling in magic. Distraught, the King forbids any further use of magic, and locks the Wizards away. However, as time passes the situation in the kingdom worsens, and the Wizards are now needed once again to battle the Mad Maker and stop him from kidnapping the princess.

Wizard Ops sees the player control the Fire Wizard throughout the duration of the game. Rather than follow the 'left to right' shoot'em up level template used in games such as Metal Slug, Wizard Ops uses a system similar to Space Harrier, which sees the Wizard shoot into the screen.

The controls couldn't be simpler. The screen has a designated area at the bottom, and to move the Wizard left and right all the player has to do is swipe their finger in the corresponding direction. Doing this also triggers off weapons, which auto-fire, and to control the targeting reticule all the player has to do is swipe up or down. It's very responsive.

The Wizard can equip two weapons at a time from a choice of 18. These can be purchased from the shop using coins dropped by enemies, although with some the player first needs to find their plans scattered about levels. There's some good variety on offer, bearing in mind the fire nature of the character, allowing for some short range/long range strategies.

Graphically Wizard Ops looks great, chucking about a lot of characters on-screen at any one time. The downside is that occasionally the frame-rate dips and stutters, although not to the point where it ruins the game. Michael Winslow (of Police Academy fame) was also brought on board to do the sound effects.

The main downside of Wizard Ops is just how easy it is. I blasted through the six levels in not much over half an hour, and there wasn't much incentive to return as the game is very generous with coins, therefore I could afford all the weapons I wanted to purchase. It's been made very clear this is just the first episode, but a bit more challenge would have been good.

Overall Wizard Ops is an enjoyable experience, with a solid control scheme. Here's hoping the next installment offers a bit more of a challenge.