Insults in 44 Languages, but seriously...

• App review for LINGOPAL 44 - multilingual talking phrasebook
• Posted by fletchisimo April 05, 2010
• Recommended for Road Warriors or Students

Now you can learn to say, "Are your parents cousins?" in 44 languages. This talking phrasebook is great fun and you could use it just about anywhere. You could even use it to find a museum, order a steak or flirt with the locals. At $9.99, it's a little pricey, but think of all the predicaments you could get yourself into, and out of. It's also a pretty big download, so it takes a while to get, but once it's installed, you don't need a connection. It works offline, it's simple to use, and it performs well. I like it!

All-In-One Organization Tool

• App review for Springpad
• Posted by woodwindtech April 05, 2010
• Recommended for Students or Career People

This app attempts to provide the user with an all-in-one organization tool, but unfortunately falls very short on many aspects. Check out my full review on AppVee.com!

http://www.appvee.com/t/iphone-app-review-springpad

Something to do tonight while you're watching commercials during the NCAA game

• App review for Basketball Trivia
• Posted by rachely April 05, 2010
• Recommended for News Junkies, Outdoors Enthusiasts, Sports Fans or Film/TV Fans

Come on, it's not enough to just lord your fantasy basketball wins over your friends or brag about your bracket success...you have to really beat them down with your vast basketball knowledge and make them think you're some superhuman basketball savant. This app can help you do it, and one of the cool parts is that since it's just released it's going to start including all the recent NCAA data after the game, and already includes a glut of stats on history, teams, etc. This could be a really half-assed app, but it's actually executed quite nicely with some precise tweaking down to what color font you want to see your trivia in. If you're looking for something to do during commercials while you watch the game tonight spring for for this $.99 app (besides you can afford it with all your big bracket winnings, right?)

Not bad

• App review for Underworlds
• Posted by iCat3GS April 05, 2010
• Recommended for Gamers

This doesn't even come close to the polish of Dungeon Hunter, but is still a fun game none the less.

Favorite Game

• App review for Dungeon Hunter
• Posted by iCat3GS April 05, 2010
• Recommended for Gamers

This has been my absolute favorite so far. Graphics are great, the storyline is fleshed out (for an iPhone game) and everything just runs smoothly. I hope they make a sequel ;)

Emoji - cute icons for your loves one

• App review for Emoji Love
• Posted by puiyee April 05, 2010
• Recommended for Book Readers, Workout Junkies, Parents, Students, Career People, Social Butterflies, Budget Hawks or Tech/Social Networking Junkies

The variety of icons can suit to your lovers, friends, family and buddies for sure. Grab some for them. Cheer up their daily life. :)

iNoise Meter

• App review for iNoise Meter
• Posted by puiyee April 05, 2010
• Recommended for Road Warriors, Gamers, Workout Junkies, Parents, Students, Animal Lovers, Outdoors Enthusiasts, Career People or Sports Fans

So interesting to test out the decibel come out from different device and even people. Amazing results can be obtained sometimes. Check it out!!!

Balloon Poke

• App review for Balloon Poke - Addictive Balloon Game
• Posted by puiyee April 05, 2010
• Recommended for Gamers, Parents or Students

My kids simply love this game. Colorful balloons, white clouds, blue sky..... I feel so relief to make my ignorance kids addict to this FUN + LOVELY game. :)

Q Mosquito

• App review for Q Mosquito
• Posted by puiyee April 05, 2010
• Recommended for Workout Junkies, Parents, Students, Animal Lovers, Outdoors Enthusiasts or Budget Hawks

What an appropriate app name is that!!! 'Q Mosquito' = 'Kill Mosquito'. Haha..... You may not know how I like this app especially during this hot season in Singapore. It indeed works. No more blood donation to mosquito. Woohoo....

Osfoora > other Twitter clients (v1.2.0.3)

• App review for Osfoora, for Twitter
• Posted by ynzr April 05, 2010
• Recommended for Road Warriors, Social Butterflies or Tech/Social Networking Junkies

I've tried several Twitter clients for the iPhone (Twitbird, Tweetie 2, Echofon, Twittelator, TweetDeck). Osfoora has seemingly gotten lost in this rather large crowd of Twitter clients but do not overlook this app.

Osfoora does everything you need in a twitter client and presents it in an intuitive and aesthetically pleasing manner. The dev is quite responsive and makes appropriate updates.

If you're in the market for a multi-account Twitter client, I highly suggest taking a look at Osfoora.

Great for on the go (v2.0.7)

• App review for Pleco Chinese Dictionary
• Posted by ynzr April 05, 2010
• Recommended for Students or Career People

A free and fully functional English-Chinese dictionary--what's not to like. Pleco has support for both simplified and traditional characters and you can search entries by english, pinyin, or characters.

Pleco also has paid addons available in-app, such as audio pronunciations. But for me, the basic app does what I need for free.

All aboard, well, in China anyways (v1.2)

• App review for Pocket Timetable (China)
• Posted by ynzr April 05, 2010
• Recommended for Road Warriors, Outdoors Enthusiasts, Career People or Students

If you're living or traveling in China, this is probably a handy app. This app let's you check train schedules for pretty much every station in China. It even lets you select a particular train to check if seats are still available and tells you the cost of the ticket. You can search by train number, train station and station-to-station.

Unfortunately, this app falls short of being great. You can only look up ticket information 2-days in advance and by then, most of the seats are gone. But, it functions well as far as looking up train schedules.

I scream, you scream... (v2.3)

• App review for Scoops - Ice Cream Fun For Everyone
• Posted by ynzr April 05, 2010
• Recommended for Gamers

Pay no attention to the App Store average rating. People complain about the dev's monetization scheme of paid-for additional themes--devs have to make a living too. But, themes don't make or break a game, design and gameplay do. I mean seriously, the game is free (it used to be $1.99); just don't buy additional themes, duh.

The gameplay is simple--stack your ice cream cone (or your burger, a free theme) as high as you can. It's a simple concept, but don't let that fool you, the game is still quite challenging. As your stack gets higher and higher, it becomes more difficult to shift left and right. Avoid the tomatoes and onions (or the burger buns in the burger theme)!

I'm not sure if the dev plans on charging for the game in the future so get it while it's free!

Stellar Casual Game (v1.1)

• App review for Spirit
• Posted by ynzr April 05, 2010
• Recommended for Gamers

Spirit is a fine example of a great game that gets lost in the App Store fold. It is highly polished and the gameplay is excellent--highly impressive given that it was dev'ed by one guy.

You control "Spirit" (the ghost looking dude) by guiding him with your finger. Enemies pop up on the screen and the goal is to distort space (by flying in a loop) around enemies to suck them into another dimension. Occasionally, an enemy will be tethered to a small Spirit; destroy the enemy and then collect the small Spirit for an extra life.

Each new game generates different stages to keep things fresh. The action starts off easy but becomes increasingly difficult with each stage. The action is quite fluid and don't worry about your finger covering up Spirit, you can use any part of the screen and the movements are relative. The graphics are GeometryWars-esque--which isn't a bad thing--and the accompanying soundtrack is excellent. This version (1.1) adds Open Feint support as well.

I don't believe I've played a game quite like Spirit before and I definitely think it's worth the 99 cent price tag.

Where have I been?

• App review for Reeder
• Posted by glamrat April 04, 2010

I have been on the sidelines for the this whole RSS hoopla, and I have been missing out! This is a great, simple way to to sync with Google Reader and the best part...Instapaper integration.

BugMe is a welcomed interruption!

• App review for BugMe! Stickies Pro - Ink Notepad & Alarms
• Posted by jenniferbeese April 04, 2010
• Recommended for Book Readers, Students, Career People or Tech/Social Networking Junkies

BugMe is like many note pad and reminder apps out there, but I love the bulletin board showing your latest (post-its) notes. It adds color and you can write a note with your finger as a stylus. It's much more fun reminding myself to pay my bills when I can draw it out. In addition to choosing the background color of your notes, you can also use existing photos in your gallery or by snapping a new image and drawing on it. Notes can have alarms attached to them, but you need data connectivity for the alarms to actually work. That's probably the only "bummer" about this app.

Duh!

• App review for Fandango Movies – Times & Tickets
• Posted by jenniferbeese April 04, 2010
• Recommended for Film/TV Fans

This is one of those apps that make me feel like an iPhone n00b. I can't believe it's taken me more than a year to discover it! Very convenient and the location-based feature is a lifesaver.

Great way to lead off a season

• App review for At Bat 2010 for iPad
• Posted by spirrison April 04, 2010
• Recommended for Sports Fans

This app is beyond expectations. What a weekend! The iPad, opening day at At Bat 2010 for iPad.

This app combines all the gee-whiz innovation of the iPhone version with the experience of watching baseball on a nearly TV-sized screen.

It really knocks it out of the park.

Now I Know What Technetium Looks Like - From Every Angle

• App review for The Elements: A Visual Exploration
• Posted by sharakarasic April 04, 2010
• Recommended for Students

The periodic table in 3D. The Elements is an app which brings me back to my days of creating educational websites in the late 90's, as textbooks were quickly becoming obsolete, and we wondered what the future of interactive education was. Choose any element - Copper for example (#29 on the periodic table) - and you can see various objects made of copper - a Persian weave chain, a brass ring, a Chinese bronze - and then rotate them with your finger to get a 3D view. This is one of those iPad apps that brings learning to life and gets me excited all over again about the future of education.

Simple, Easy to Use

• App review for Dropbox
• Posted by durgadas April 04, 2010
• Recommended for Road Warriors, News Junkies, Foodies, Book Readers, Gamers, Parents, Students, Outdoors Enthusiasts, Music Fans, Shopaholics, Career People, Social Butterflies, Budget Hawks, Sports Fans, Film/TV Fans or Tech/Social Networking Junkies

Dropbox does everything you want and nothing you don't. Using it to synch data to it's service from your desktop or iPod is simple to understand and works nicely and easily. The best way (even better than using my iDisk) to get data synched.