Lots of features!

• App review for SimplyTweet Lite
• Posted by jenniferbeese April 10, 2010
• Recommended for Social Butterflies or Tech/Social Networking Junkies

SimplyTweet is a full of features. It includes push notifications for replies & DMs, app notification letting you know how many messages are waiting, multiple accounts, HootSuite integration, conversation review, proximity search, built-in photo viewer, reply to multiple people at once, etc. etc. The interface is simple and easy to navigate. My favorite part is probably the profile pages. They're pretty detailed and make following/unfollowing nearly effortless.

Must-have for any iPhone owner

• App review for Appolicious
• Posted by jenniferbeese April 10, 2010
• Recommended for Gamers, Social Butterflies or Tech/Social Networking Junkies

Admittedly, Appolicious isn't an app I check every day, but mostly because I check the website everyday. Call me old fashioned! The app, however, is pretty sweet! It has a great UI and all you need is a free Appolicious account to get started. Sometimes I just HAVE to get the word out about an app so it's nice that this website offers an on-the-go app. This is one of those apps I'd require first-time iPhone owners to download. It's the best way to find new apps!

An app for everyone

• App review for 43 Things
• Posted by jenniferbeese April 10, 2010
• Recommended for Workout Junkies, Music Fans or Career People

43 Things is a website that allows you to create a Life List of goals, share them with friends, and report your progress. The iPhone app makes it easier to keep track of those goals and add more information/progress about each one. It's not an app that I check daily, but I check in from time to time to make sure I'm crossing things off of my life list. It's a feel-good app :)

Good concept; needs a bit of work

• App review for textPlus Free Text + Calls : Free Texting + Free Phone Calling + Free International Messenger
• Posted by jenniferbeese April 10, 2010
• Recommended for Social Butterflies or Tech/Social Networking Junkies

This app came in handy when my team went out to SXSW. We were able to create a group so we could send just one text and reach 6 or 7 people at once. However, I had trouble logging in through the actual app and had to use the iPhone's text app instead. It's possible that it was user error, but regardless, it's a great concept and I look forward to using it more.

Junk

• App review for RSS Speedreader
• Posted by kwiveo April 10, 2010
• Recommended for Gamers

Junk

Easy to use but..

• App review for Video Panorama
• Posted by CarolynC April 10, 2010

Granted, it's much easier to use and creates a panoramic photograph faster than snapping 1 picture at a time. Unfortunately the end result isn't that great. Pictures are blurry from camera movement. I've only tested it indoors and the panos looked horrible.

Brilliant controls and gameplay!

• App review for Spirit
• Posted by Revenant April 10, 2010
• Recommended for Gamers

Easy to learn, challenging to play!

The controls are easy to use, fun, but at the same time challenging.

Good choice in bgm as well.

This is my new got-a-few-minutes-to-kill goto game.

Why Buy a Bike Computer?

• App review for The Bike Computer
• Posted by jessicadally April 09, 2010
• Recommended for Road Warriors, Workout Junkies or Outdoors Enthusiasts

I’m not certain that this is my favorite bike computer app but it is certainly the best looking bike computer screen. Not only are the different reads easily large enough to read while riding but the layout is pleasing to the eye as well. It may well be the only bike app that makes me really want an iPhone bike mount.

Like most bike apps you have several main screen readouts including your average miles per hour, your max miles per hour, your current miles per hour and your trip miles and trip time. Of course like all bike apps don’t count too strongly on the miles per hour readings… I’m pretty sure I never got to 91.8 miles per hour on my last ride. You can save your rides on your phone or upload them to the EveryTrail site if you wish to keep the information someplace other than your phone.

One way or the other this app is certainly easier to use than any other I’ve seen. If you’re not looking for excessive information and just want a basic app, able to use without having to think or learn anything in advance this is the app for you.

Very cheesy

• App review for Tap Tap Revenge 3
• Posted by squishy1992 April 09, 2010

Fun for a minute and then the songs just get annoying

Really, a fulfilled hope!

• App review for Oxford Deluxe (ODE & OTE) - powered by UniDict®
• Posted by Revenant April 09, 2010
• Recommended for Book Readers or Students

I had downloaded first Enfour's American Heritage Desk Dictionary, then the Roget's Thesaurus, then the American Heritage Fourth Edition, and finally the American Heritage Fourth Edition Deluxe (a AD4H and Roget's all in one package). Each was an improvement on the last, and Enfour, besides a few odd bugs here and there, always had a great UI with gorgeous graphics).

I'm an English teacher in Japan, and having a great dictionary and thesaurus on hand especially for the more advanced classes I teach makes explaining words the difference between words with similar meanings but different nuances a whole lot easier.

I was hoping that Enfour, an app company I trust, would put out an Oxford Dictionary. The moment I heard Enfour put out an Oxford dictionary, I was at the nearest WiFi spot a lot earlier up then I usually get up. That the dictionary wasn't just a concise version, and that it inculded the Oxford Thesaurus, was all more than I had hoped for.

Gorgeous interface, great UI, explanations between words of similar meaning in the Thesaurus, phrasal verbs, and example sentences make it the best Dictionary you can currently get on the iPhone.

Expensive, but if you're looking for the best, this is it!

My only complaints are not every word in the phrasal verbs or idioms hyperlinks, and occassionally I get a blank screen in search, which just means I must tap another function at the bottom, then return to search.

This is it!

• App review for Flashcards Deluxe
• Posted by Revenant April 09, 2010

After having tried close to a dozen flashcards app, including every major and more expensive flashcard app, and a lot of them had great features, but not every feature I was looking for, I stumbled across this app.

It was as near to perfection as I had seen. The option to choose tap controls was exactly what I had been looking for and had suggested to other flashcard developers. Tap left to mark wrong, right to mark right, and center to flip the card. No more swiping or tapping small arrows.

The choice of background color, and text size, as well as adding picture or sound to the flashcards, as other decent flashcard apps had, was awesome.

I can create, edit, and choose the study style. Leitner and spaced repitition for large decks made studying a lot more effective.

The number of options are too great to list here, just know that it's a great list of options, and the developer is constantly updating and listening to his clients.

Amd while almost every app could use improvements in some way, this is far ahead of the competition, and the developer will only make it better, so it's a definite five star app in my books.

What's Your Opinion

• App review for AtlanticWire
• Posted by fletchisimo April 09, 2010
• Recommended for News Junkies

The Atlantic has been around a mighty long time. It's a good magazine that publishes thoughtful, insightful articles. Well now they have an app that aggregates and brings news of the world and the opinions of media pundits right to your iphone. What do you think of that?

This app...

• App review for Cat Piano Jr
• Posted by fletchisimo April 09, 2010

...will drive your cats crazy. Guaranteed to entertain for at least 5 seconds.

This Slacker Works

• App review for Slacker Radio
• Posted by fletchisimo April 09, 2010
• Recommended for Music Fans

What a great app for music lovers. Clean design, easy to use and lots of choices. I love it!

Not exactly impossible but feels like it sometimes

• App review for The Impossible Test
• Posted by rachely April 09, 2010
• Recommended for Gamers, Social Butterflies or Tech/Social Networking Junkies

Ok, I'm not all the way through this game yet, but when I am...well, drinks on me. This is the type of game that's painfully addictive and you'll just keep pushing yourself for one more go, and God forbid a friend should see you doing it because it's infectious. This game reminds me a bit of Wii's Wario Smooth Moves, with lots of little mini games. There is quite a bit of wordplay and outside-of-the-box thinking and you need to not be discouraged if you can't get a challenge the first, second or hell even fifth time you tackle it. I don't know how many levels this game has or how increasingly hard they are going to get but I'm looking forward to my time on the subway spent finding out.

Hey, Wait, Where's My Music Go?

• App review for BikeMateLite
• Posted by jessicadally April 08, 2010
• Recommended for Road Warriors, Workout Junkies or Outdoors Enthusiasts

I would talk more about this app but honestly, I haven’t used it. I tried but the second I started using it my iPod functions turned off. Yeah, that’s right, no music while you’re using this app. Sure, you shouldn’t ride with music blasting but very low it can be very motivational and the fact that this app isn’t music enabled is a deal breaker for me.

More importantly however to get the full use of this app you have to pay for the full version, still won’t get music and frankly there are great apps out there that are perfectly free so why pay?

The screen is OK with a fake analog speed gauge which is strange since quite obviously your phone is not transmitting analog data or receiving it. Like all other bike apps you can lock the screen but unlike other apps this app will not tell you about your altitude, which can be very useful for large climbs or anything with hills. As other users have stated it would be nice if the app stopped recording when you stop so your average speed is accurate but thus far I haven’t found an app that does well with this and this one is no exception. In the end I would use one of the many other free apps over this one without question.

Too Simple - Maybe Good for Young Children

• App review for Wacky Circus Pinball HD
• Posted by sharakarasic April 08, 2010
• Recommended for Gamers or Parents

I was really excited to try pinball on the iPad, childhood memories of banging away at a pinball machine in a boardwalk arcade fresh in my mind. Wacky Circus Pinball is way to simple for an adult to enjoy for long - there's just not enough happening and it's too easy to whack the ball with the flippers right back to the plunger - when that happens three times in a row, it becomes annoying.

For 99 cents...

• App review for The Simpsons Arcade
• Posted by Deleted User April 08, 2010
• Recommended for Gamers or Film/TV Fans

For 99 cents this is a worthwhile pickup. For $4.99 – no way. This is a knock off the Simpsons arcade game from 10 years back. Play as Homer and kick/punch your way through Springfield. Made by EA so not as buggy as most games on the iPhone.

Huh? QR Datawhatrix?

• App review for i-nigma qr datamatrix barcode reader
• Posted by jessicadally April 08, 2010
• Recommended for Gamers, Career People, Social Butterflies or Tech/Social Networking Junkies

I wasn't at all familiar with a reader like this if only because, sadly, I don't get out enough. But now, at the #10NTC conference I'm getting to try this out for the first time.

For those of you that don't know, basically you use this to read a barcode and get a link to a webpage or sentence or clue or whatever, using the camera on your phone to read it. In the NTC case it's part of a hide and seek type game which has always been a favorite of mine.

The great part of this app as compared to other reader apps is that you simply move your camera view over the barcode and once it gets a good image it reads it on it's own. No need to take a picture and upload, hoping it works and shows correctly.

While still not sure the value of this I'm definitely excited to play the game at NTC so if you see a girl running around scanning stuff like crazy, well, it might just be me!

Fish are Delicious!

• App review for Seafood Watch
• Posted by jessicadally April 08, 2010
• Recommended for Foodies, Animal Lovers or Outdoors Enthusiasts

Fish are delicious. They are. But with that said we want them to stay around so they can keep being delicious right? And it’s not as though we’d ever be able to know everything about fish and seafood unless that’s literally what you do. Well, remembering which fish to eat, yup, there’s an app for that.

This app will tell you what to avoid, what to get and what can be an OK alternative. Organized by the name of the fish in question you can search easily at dinner to see if what’s on the menu matches what you ethics require. Not only do you get the basic rating but by clicking onto the fish in question you get the reason for the rating in question.

Another great feature of this app is that it knows where you are and makes recommendations based on that. As areas of the country are likely to have different fish available at any given time.

The only issue with this app is something that an app can’t solve… knowing if the catfish is farmed in the US or outside is likely something your menu won’t tell you and something your server won’t know. That said, if you’re shopping in a grocery they should be able to answer that and as awareness increases your server may know as well.