Reviews
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Bubble Grubble – iOS App Review
A great app for kids, challenging, addictive, creative and a whole lot of fun. Stats Category: Games Released: July 05, 2012 Version: 1.1 Size: 18.2 MB Developer: Fan Studio Our Ratings Graphics/Sound: 4/5 User Interface: 4/5 Gameplay: 4/5 Re-use/play value: 4/5 Overall Rating: 4/5 Price: Free/download What Is It? This is a very fun and addicting game where you control the mother bird and try to attain food/bugs for your youngsters. But it’s actually a lot more than that, it’s jam-packed with cool graphics, challenging and addictive gameplay bringing to you hours of pleasure. Is It Easy To Use? It’s one of those games that you need to get…
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Amazing Kitty – iOS App Review
An excellent enthralling game for young children. Stats Category: Games Released: June 30, 2012 Version: 1.0 Size: 14 MB Developer: ihee Kim Our Ratings Graphics/Sound: 4/5 User Interface: 4/5 Gameplay: 4/5 Re-use/play value: 4/5 Overall Rating: 4/5 Price: $0.99/£0.69/download What Is It? A wonderful ‘lucky cat’ overload game. Simple in some respects but challenging in others and fun in all areas. Is It Easy To Use? Yes, it is for ages from 4+ and it is definitely accessible. To play this game you need to match up pairs of lucky cats. When they are touching you can select one, they then disappear and you achieve points. It’s quite tricky…
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Adventures of Marvin and Mel Monkey: Word Rescue – iOS Review
A challenging and exciting educational game for young children… Stats Category: Games Released: June 28, 2012 Version: 1.0.2 Size: 13.5 MB Developer: On TheDot, LLC Our Ratings Graphics/Sound: 4/5 User Interface: 4/5 Gameplay: 4/5 Re-use/play value: 4/5 Overall Rating: 4/5 Price: Free/download What Is It? This is an educational game for young children, helping them to spell and have fun at once. Is It Easy To Use? It can be a little bit fiddly at first, you need to keep moving the monkeys to the left and right and it takes a little practice to gain experience and be fully competent. This is quite a fast paced…
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Wood Camera – iOS Photography App Review
When you first open up the Wood Camera app, you get a nice feeling of familiarity about the interface. The ever popular Camera+ app springs to mind. Not that the makers have copied anything – itʼs just one gets the feeling that all the knobs and buttons are all in the right places and is intuitively navigated. There is a handy “live“ tutorial when you first open up the app so you should be creating images with ease in no time at all. With 22 “lenses” (filters), 17 textures and 12 frames, there are thousands of creative ways to chop and change an image to achieve some interesting results. Read…
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London 2012 – Official Mobile Game Review
We’re all getting quite excited over here in the UK with the Olympics starting is 25 days time and this new app is just the thing to curb that excitement in-between times… Stats Category: Games Updated: June 19, 2012 Version: 1.0.2 Size: 143 MB Developer: NEOWIZ Our Ratings Graphics/Sound: 5/5 User Interface: 4/5 Gameplay: 5/5 Re-use/play value: 5/5 Overall Rating: 5/5 Price: Free/download NB: We tested the free version, the paid for version is $2.99/£1.99 and comes with 5,000 stars which you can use to purchase game items and customise your character further. With the free version, you can purchase additional items at any stage within the app. What…
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AstroWings3 – ICARUS – iOS App Review
An awesome sci-fi shoot ’em up with style and grace… Stats Category: Games Updated: June 28, 2012 Version: 1.0.1 Size: 53.2 MB Developer: M2M Entertainment Rated: 4+ Our Ratings Graphics/Sound: 5/5 User Interface: 4/5 Gameplay: 4/5 Re-use/play value: 4/5 Overall Rating: 4/5 Price: Currently Free for limited time, includes free ship, weapon and items upgrades/download What Is It? AstroWings3 – ICARUS is the third installment of the very popular AstroWings series of gaming apps. It is a very fast paced sci-fi shoot ’em up. Is It Easy To Use? Yes, the interface is very simple to use, you play the part of Hera, the warrior goddess of AstroWings3,…
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PlaceBox Review – New Travel App For iPhone
PlaceBox is essentially a Google powered app with a twist… Stats Category: Travel Updated: June 18, 2012 Version: 1.3 Size: 3.3 MB Developer: LinkDotz Rated: 4+ Our Ratings Graphics/Sound: 4/5 User Interface: 4/5 Gameplay: N/A Re-use/play value: 5/5 Overall Rating: 4/5 Price: $0.99/£0.69/download What Is It? PlaceBox helps you to find places on location. If you have travelled to a new place you can find local restaurants, petrol stations, coffee shots etc. You can also record your travel experiences by taking photos within the app and making notes. Is It Easy To Use? Yes, the interface is simple to use, with colorful icons depicting the various options.…
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New Schneider Optics 2X Telephoto Lens – Now Available
Now your iPhone camera can shoot twice the distance and get twice as close with the 2X Tele Lens. Whether you’re capturing the action from the sidelines, snapping a shot of a butterfly in the backyard, or framing a beautiful portrait, this lens allows you to do it all without compromising the quality of the image. This lens is part of the if iProLens system and you can order it here. It retails for $199/£149. Once we receive our sample we will put it through its paces with our very own in-house lens guru, Kevin Carter. Kevin is also the technical lens expert for The British Journal of Photography and…
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Sponsored Video: Using Bugs To Power Smartphones
A bewildering headline we know, but Qualcomm managed it. Qualcomm have created a new video, posing the question, ‘how many praying mantises does it take to power a smartphone’ – well you may be surprised. Take a look at the video below to find out… Qualcomm created the set and shot this video themselves to promote their new SnapDragon S4 processors, they are built using a much smaller transistor process with tons of power optimization features. Looks a very green way to power your device, but might be a bit tricky to set it up everywhere you go 😉
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Pocket Lighting Studio For Your iPhone
Another interesting project on Kickstarter has caught our attention, known as The Kick. With the Kick and the Kick App you can also sample light effects from any video stored on your iPhone. Or simply sample light straight from the iPhone camera, while you use it. Just point the iPhone towards the light effect you want the Kick to recreate, tap the screen – and the Kick will emit that light! It’s automatically stored in the effects library for use later on. At it’s most basic the Kick can emit straight white light, when you just need a little extra light. Then it allows you to adjust the color temperature…
