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Exclusive Interview Questions: Ballast Lane Applications, LLC for Master Pieces: The Curator’s Game
We love Master Pieces: The Curator’s Game iOS app here at theappwhisperer.com. The games within the app are based on over 350 details from 54 masterpieces. They challenge you to identify the artist of a detail with help from clues and the ability to view the full work. There are three ways to play. The first two do not require any background in art history while the third is for those who know (or, think they know!) all about the classics. We are currently reviewing this app but in the meantime we wanted to interview the developer, Larry Ehrhardt to find out how this app came to be materialised and…
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Lead Wars iOS App Updated
DemonStudios has released a much anticipated update to its Universal iOS turn-based skill/strategy war game, Lead Wars. The update adds a single-player vs-CPU mode, a Map Creator and new fully configurable rules of battle. Online head-to-head games over Game Center can also now be searched for in the background while playing local games to vastly increase players’ chances of finding an online opponent. Lead Wars simulates a pencil and paper war game that can actually be played on a real piece of paper, the kind of which were popular in the days before portable gaming devices. The player controls a fleet of planes, tanks and artillery units around a hand-drawn…
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Halftone – iOS App – Going Free This Weekend
Don’t miss this opportunity to grab Halftone for free from the App Store this weekend. It’s a great update and the price will go back to $0.99 after the weekend, so grab a bargain today and start making your own pulp action photos. Check out the features below… Halftone adds an aged halftone-style printing effect to photos to give them a unique, vintage look. With 21 paper styles, nine built-in layouts, two caption styles, six different speech balloon styles, and the ability to choose a font (including an embedded font called Digital Strip), photos can be customized, then saved to the photo album, sent via e-mail, shared with friends on…
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Exclusive Interview With IntoWine Food & Wine Pairing App Developer, Brad Prescott
We reviewed the IntoWine Food & Wine Pairing App a short time ago, (you can read the full review here) but we also wanted to find out more background to this remarkable app. We interviewed Brad Prescott the developer and he provided us with a very honest and comprehensive interview. It reveals the trials and tribulations of app development as well as the successes and rewards that make it such a worthwhile exercise. Read our exclusive interview below… The Beginning 1 Please explain how your app was originally thought of and what were your thoughts behind the marketplace, specifically? We have a ton of wine recommendation content on the parent site…
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Exclusive Interview With Notebooks iOS App Developer, Alfons Schmid
Notebooks is a fabulous app, it allows you to conveniently write, capture and organize your ideas, notes, reminders, journals, diaries or details of life that you want to keep close at hand. We are currently reviewing this app but we also wanted to find out more background information such as how it came to be developed, the design details, production and planning and of course what the future holds. We interviewed Alfons Schmid the developer behind Notebooks to find out more. Read this exclusive interview below… The Beginning 1 Please explain how your app was originally thought of and what were your thoughts behind the marketplace, specifically? I should start by…
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360 Browser iOS App Review
360 Web Browser comes fully loaded with a stack load of features including Firefox Sync, Download Manager, ability to view Flash Videos using CC Plugin, Media Player & Dropbox. We recently interviewed the developers of this app, Digital Poke – see the interview here – and now we take a closer look at the mechanics of this app. Read our review here… 360 Browser is a universal iOS app that offers you an alternative browser on which to view the web. It is a feature rich app but manages well to keep an uncultured and clean appearance, these ascetics are of particular importance to Apple iPhone/iPad users. 360 Browser has…
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Giveaway – Measure Map iOS App
Measure Map lets you quickly and easily measure distances, perimeters and areas with laser sharp precision! It even takes into account the curvature of the earth’s surface. We recently reviewed this app, see here and interviewed the developer, see here, and now for good measure, we are offering you a great opportunity to try this app out for free. It usually costs $1.99 in the US App Store. Would you like to try this app? It’s very simple, just like us on Facebook, join our massive and ever growing, 10,700+ Twitter followers, and send us a message telling us what you love most about theappwhisperer.com, that’s it you’ll be measuring…
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Our App Of The Day – Montessori Crosswords
Based on the internationally recognized Montessori learning method, the app helps young learners develop their writing/reading skills by building words from a set of pictures using a Movable Alphabet. The app includes audio for each word as well as phonics (letter sounds), and uses 300 word-image-audio combinations to create tens of thousands of different crosswords. As our App of the Day, all our regular readers know the trailer for this app will feature on every page of our site for a whole day. Just scroll to the bottom of this page to take a look. Features * 300 different word-image-audio combinations * Letter Sound (phonics) when a letter is…
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Exclusive Runtastic iOS App Interview With App Developer, Runtastic
As many of you already know Runtastic is the most incredible fitness app. Many reviewers already in the app store markedly mention that they couldn’t even run without this app. That is how good and essential it is. We have almost completed our review of this app but before we publish that we wanted to publish our exclusive review with the App Developer. Read this incredibly insightful interview here, find out how the app was created, the challenges faced and what Runtastic have got planned for the future, just don’t miss it… The Beginning 1 Please explain how your app was originally thought of and what were your thoughts behind the…
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Our App Of The Day – Master Pieces: The Curator’s Game
With Master Pieces you can train your “curatorial eye” and learn what makes a masterpiece great while playing fun games and reading Thomas Hoving’s inspired clues and essays. Kids (ages 6 plus) and adults enjoy playing the game and learning (or re-learning) about these works and how to really appreciate the details. Tom, director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1967 – 1977, wrote Master Pieces with Lori Stein and Kate Learson in 2005 to bring a favorite game of his to the public. As our App of the Day, all our regular readers know the trailer for this app will feature on every page of our site for…