Reviews
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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.…
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…
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 😉
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…
New – Smartphone Tripod Adaptor
Here’s an interesting product that just arrived on Kickstarter, it’s a universal smartphone tripod adaptor, known as the ANYCASE. "The ANYCASE tripod adapter allows you to capture life’s most important experiences in a professional way that will bring lasting memories, without shaky hand-held results. There are other tripod adapters out there for smart phones, but most of them are flimsy plastic or don’t allow you to use your phone with a case on it", says the developer. The ANYCASE adapter fits phones with (or without) cases up to 17mm (.66") thick. The adapter is 114mm (4.5") wide. Designed for any generation iPhone, we’ve also used it with many other brands…
iOS – Soctics League/HD App Review
Soccer tactics games on iOS just got a whole lot more engrossing with this compelling and addictive app. Stats Developer: Bitongo Ltd Price: $0.99 / £0.69 Version: 1.0 Released/Updated: May 31, 2012 Size: 20.7 MB Rated: 4+ Our Ratings Graphics/Sound: 4/5 User Interface: 4/5 Gameplay: 5/5 Re-use/re-play value: 4/5 Overall Rating: 4/5 Price: $0.99/£0.69 iPhone/Download here iPad/Download here What Is it? New from developer Bitongo, Soctics League HD is game of tactics and skill that’s based on soccer but is vaguely reminiscent of air-hockey as the football can rebound off the touch-lines and goal-lines. Continuing with the air-hockey analogy for a while, you use one or more players (up to…
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