App • TheBORG.me

Posts Tagged "App"

Jan25

SPORE Creatures is Out

Posted at 8:43 PM • One Comment

EA Mobile has released their second iPhone game in the SPORE universe today, SPORE Creatures. It starts off where SPORE Origins left off. You come out of the prehistoric water onto land where you need to continue to evolve to survive.

You can customize your SPORE Creature with over 45 unique body parts like legs, mouths, shells, and wings, plus different skins, shapes, and colors. EA Mobile says there’s over a billion possible combinations within the SPORE Creature Creator. Plus there are 20 levels across 4 different sprawling zones: Sandy Shores, Barren Desert, Dark Forest, and Icy Mountains. You will need to avoid snapping, carnivours plants, shooting urchins and more while trying to solve puzzles to complete each level. And like SPORE Origins, you will need to collect DNA to evolve. There are 5 abilities to max out to build your survival skill-set.

You can get SPORE Creatures at the App Store for $6.99.

Dec23

Dilbert Makes it to the iPhone

Posted at 12:38 AM • No Comments

Now you can get your favorite comic strip character on the iPhone! Dilbert Mobile is out now. It’s the official Dilbert iPhone app! Get immediate access your daily Dilbert comic as well as the 20+ year archive of the entire Dilbert collection – all from your iPhone.

Dilbert Mobile features a random button (called “Random Comic”) that will flash you back to hilarious Dilbert comics from the past. You can also pick the date of the comic in Calendar View or by week with Weekly View. Even select your favorites. No matter where you are you can always get your Dilbert fix.

This app is a must for any Dilbert fan. Pick up Dilbert Mobile for $3.99 at the App Store.

Nov18

Use The Force, Luke

Posted at 5:46 PM • 3 Comments

So, back in October I posted that Star Wars: Trench Run was coming out. I received a comment stating that “Not sure that this is true” and I I got a few replies to my tweets about the post saying the same thing (I don’t recall if it was the same person or not). Guess what folks, Monday Apple approved & released THQ Wireless’ STAR WARS: TRENCH RUN (App Store link). I was right. HA HA!

I was reluctant to buy the $4.99 game, but eventually succumbed to the Dark Side. For a Star Wars fan, the game is a must. Taken from the old 1980’s version of the Star Wars arcade game, Star Wars: Trench Run is just you, playing as Luke Skywalker in his X-wing fighter during the Battle for Yavin 4 (the last battle during Star Wars: A New Hope [Episode IV]), you dogfight with TIE Fighters and do the trench run (hence the name of this game) in an attempt to destroy the Death Star.

You use the iPhone’s accelerometer to control the flight of your X-wing in the game. It takes a little bit to get used to, but once you do you’ll enjoy the game. There are four parts to the screen, divided into 4 quadrants: change view (chase cam/cockpit views), pause, slow (using the Force), and fire weapon.

There are 2 modes of gameplay: Mission and Arcade. The Mission mode you must complete each mission before you can advance to the next step of the game to eventually when you get the chance to blow up the Death Star, complete with clips from the movie. In Arcade mode, you pick either doing the trench run or dogfighting the TIE Fighters. You must clear several distances or waves of TIE Fighters to see how far you can go. And there are also different levels of difficulty to play. I’ve had the game for about 24 hours and played it several times and it does get harder and harder.

Star Wars: Trench Run is definitely a good and fun game to get and a must for any Star Wars fan. It has great game play and great graphics. It’s only $4.99 so pick it up from the App Store.

Nov10

I’ve Got Squirrels!

Posted at 10:43 PM • One Comment

Shortly after the famous picture of the squirrel that crashed into a photo of a couple in Banff National Park in Canada, it’s become a big hit on the Internet. Then you got iPhone apps. Eventually the two would meet. And they did. I’ve come across two apps that deal with this squirrel.

Original crashing squirrel photo

First, I found Squirrelizer from iavian.com. You can score it for $0.99 from the App Store. Squirrelizer is pretty plain looking, but don’t let that fool you. You can choose if you want to use a photo from your library or take a new photo with the camera. With which ever one you pick, you’re taken to a screen where you can move or resize the squirrel. It’s a little tricky to place and resize the squirrel, but once you get the hang of it, it’s easy. Once you have the squirrel where you like it, just click the Save button and the new photo is saved to your Camera Roll. You can also have the app send the photo to your Twitter account. The app tweets text that you enter and uploads the photo to TwitPic.

Squirrelizer

The one thing I don’t like about Squirrelizer is that it puts a black border at the bottom and top of the photo. Other than that, it’s a great app. I hope that the developer changes this.

Next we have Crasher Squirrel by United Playcos. It’s also in the App Store for $0.99. The design of the app is definitely fancier than Squirrelizer and the user interface is more like other iPhone apps. With Crasher Squirrel you can zoom and pan the image, move and resize the squirrel, erase parts of the squirrel, and unerase parts that you’ve erased. The app also sends photos to Twitter, again just like Squirrelizer.

Crasher Squirrel

Unlike the previous app, Crasher Squirrel does not add any kind of black border to the photo, which I really like. Also, Crasher Squirrel uses a different squirrel than the one from the original squirrel from the photo above. Where did this squirrel come from? Why did United Playcos use a different squirrel? Did you notice? Find a larger version of the original photo and check for yourself (HINT – use Google to do a image search).

Overall, both apps are very similar, besides a few minor differences. Both are $0.99 from the App Store. If you’re lucky, you might be able to score one or both of them for free. Both developers have put their apps on sale for free. The best place to check for when they go on sale is mentioned here in a previous post.

Final thoughts… I like the original squirrel from Squirrelizer better, even with the black border at the top & bottom of the photos. iavian, please change that. If you want to be a little bit more creative, check out Crasher Squirrel.

Nov3

Chorus

Posted at 7:21 PM • 2 Comments

This is be a brief commentary on my first impressions of the app. Not much of a review. I still need to play with the app some more.

I’ve had some time to play with this new app for the iPhone and it seems pretty nice. It recommends apps to and from people you follow on Twitter and/or friends on Facebook. Instead of just one app doing it for itself, Chorus does it for every iPhone app out there. The app uses those two social media sites to find you apps and recommend apps to your friends. It’s great idea.

I found one thing lacking (as of now) in Chorus and that is it will only pull a picture/avatar from Facebook. Why the developer, envIO Networks, left the basic functionality to import a picture directly from the iPhone or be able to log into their web site and manage your profile I have no idea.

Why do I find this a missing feature? Because I keep Twitter and Facebook separate, besides a few friends that are on both sites. This basic functionality should have been present upon release of the app. I’ve been talking to their support (@ChorusSupport) and they have said “But I did just confirm that we’re working on an easier way to add photos as I write this.” And they agree with me that this should have been there. How did I spot this? I do QA at work on programs and applications all of the time. This is basic end-user functionality/design. Simple as that.

You may not see this as an issue, but I do and hope that this is corrected soon.

If you want to check this free app out, get it here at the App Store.

Oct27

Zombie Bikini Babes

Posted at 8:16 PM • One Comment

I love zombie movies. I also love Marina Orlova, known to millions of fans around the world as a sexy master of language from HotForWords.com. She has two degrees in philology (the study of linguistics and origins of words), her own book out, and now a iPhone app featuring her! This app is Attack of Zombie Bikini Babes from Outer Space from Smort (the “evil twin” of Smule, who brought you Sonic Light, Sonic Boom, Ocarina, Leaf Trombone and others).

There is a lite version for free and the full version of the game for $0.99. I opted for the full version since I trusted Smort (aka Smule) on the quality of their apps. I played a few times and the game is very fun, but your thumbs will eventually get tired. You might need to play a practice game or two until you figure out how to aim the dual slingshots at the incoming army of Zombie Bikini Babes from Outer Space that look like Marina. Although I do prefer to use guns while fighting zombies, this is what you got to start with since you play as a hillbilly (you’ll see when the game starts up).

You score points for killing the zombies and points to buy more weapons and upgrade them. You can upgrade your dual slingshots to better ones that fire faster. You can also get small, furry animals to slow the zombies down with. And if that doesn’t help, you can throw Molotov cocktails (and dynamite from upgrading) at them too. The blonde zombies walk at you, the red headed ones run at you, and the brunette ones take more hits to go down. Beware the large brunette ones though, they’re even harder to take down!

Of course the game has the spinning globe like Smule’s other apps that shows the scores of other people that are playing the game around the world. A nice touch to the game is the soundtrack and Smort recommends that you have the volume all of the way up. In the globe view you can hear people (pre-recorded from the soundtrack) talking over radios about the alien zombie invasion. While fighting off the zombies, you can hear Marina’s catchphrases in the background. Every third wave (I think) you have an option from the main menu to make the zombies dance. They’ll stop and start dancing to the soundtrack, giving you time to knock them out until they start coming at you again.

You can find her little video trailer on her site or the full trailer on YouTube. Again, there is a lite version for free and the full version of the game for $0.99.

Enjoy killing those zombies!

Oct27

How To Get FREE iPhone Apps

Posted at 6:29 PM • One Comment

OK. Not every app will be free, but they could also be at a discounted price. Still, it’s better than paying full price for an iPhone app if you don’t want to do so. Just keep reading.

I have tried out a few of the apps that let you mark them to watch for when they drop in price like AppSniper and AppMiner, but they only work if you go into them constantly. Don’t pay those types of iPhone apps anymore! I’ve found that waiting for a specific Twitter users to tweet a promo code and then try to race to copy it and paste it into the Redeem box in iTunes is a losing battle. I don’t know how many times I’ve tried to score a promo code that way only to see that the promo code has already been used. ARGH! That is very aggravating! Forget both of those useless and futile ways!

Go to AppShopper.com, register on the site, and start browsing for apps! When you find an app that you want, but don’t want to pay the full price for it, look for the two checkboxes underneath the price of the app; Own It and Want It. Simply put a check in the Want It box. Then just wait for the app developer to lower the price of the app and you’ll get an email in your Inbox saying that the price of the app was lowered. HOW EASY IS THAT? When you do get that email, follow one of the two links in your email (one takes you to the app’s page on AppShopper.com and the other will take you directly to the app’s iTune page), click on Buy Now button, and you’re whisked over to the app’s page in iTunes to actually buy the app (like said previously, the second link will take you directly to the iTune page). Make sure that the app’s price in iTunes shows the change. A few times I’ve caught iTunes still having the full price. Sometimes AppShopper.com isn’t up to date with iTunes. The app developer can make sudden changes or do so by mistake. So be sure to check the price in iTunes before you buy the app!

Also, check the Own It box for apps that you have. You can view all the apps that you own, as long as you check the Own It box, from the orange My Apps tab at the top of the site. You can also click on the purple Wish List tab and browse the list of apps that you’ve marked that you want. If you find an app that you bought that’s on your Wish List, just check the Bought It checkbox and the app is automatically moved to your My Apps list. SO EASY! A good thing to do, if you can, is to visit the site on a regular basis and see all of the apps that are out there. You can browse all of the apps, only the apps that have been updated with a new version, only apps that have price changes, or just the new apps.

I’ve found that AppShopper.com is a great asset to any iPhone app addict! You can even use the site from Mobile Safari on your iPhone! How great is that?

Oct24

Star Wars: Trench Run on the iPhone

Posted at 6:00 PM • 4 Comments

Yes, I love Star Trek, but I also love Star Wars and a new iPhone Star Wars iPhone game is coming to us fans & iPhone/iPod Touch owners. Star Wars: Trench Run. Developed by Infrared5 and distributed by THQ Wireless Inc., you can fly through the trench of the Death Star just like Luke Skywalker from Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope and get the chance to blow the sucker up. Check here for a video of the game play.

Star Wars: Trench Run will be available at the iTunes store for $4.99. See below for a list of features of the iPhone / iPod Touch version:

Force Power: Slow down time and increase agility using the Force to bring TIE fighters into shooting range, and to dodge obstacles while flying down the trench.

Breathtaking 3D Experience: Incredible 3-D graphics based on the original Star Wars movie.

Amazing Special Effects: Vivid lighting, advanced shaders, explosions and incredible lifelike models.

Authentic Star Wars Music and Sound Effects: Combined with real movie footage for complete immersion into the Star Wars universe.

True-Life Flight: Accelerometer controls with life-like physics.

Addictive Game Play: Ever increasing challenges, and tons of replay value.

Multiple Points of View: Featuring both chase cam and cockpit modes.

Mission Mode: With storyboards, music and dialogue from the original Star Wars movie.

Arcade Modes: For increased re-playability, includes both Trench Run and Dog Fighting modes.

Multiple Difficulty Levels: From Easy to Jedi.

Optimized Gaming Experience: To work on the 3G, with special graphical features for the 3GS, iPod Touch 2nd Gen and future devices.

Leader Boards: Players compete against others across the world for the top spot. Find out who are the true Jedi.

Oct21

Earthworm Jim

Posted at 4:08 PM • No Comments

I loved this game from the 1990s! It was on some SEGA system I had access to back then and I fell in love with it after the first time I played it. I eventually found it for the PC and played it like a mad man. Today, Gameloft has released Earthworm Jim for the iPhone. You can find it in the App Store for $4.99. Here’s a quick review of it; once you master the controls on the iPhone/iPod Touch, it’s just like it the old games on the various game consoles & PC versions. If you like Earthworm Jim, GET THIS GAME!

Play as the grooviest earthworm in the galaxy, and explore a crazy universe that offers huge gameplay possibilities:

Run, gun, swing from hooks with your head, launch cows, bungee jump,
rocket through speed levels and more!

Face 12 types of enemies and 9 bosses!

4 different styles of gameplay: Side-scrolling run & gun, space racing,
bungee jumping and underwater levels!

10 original environments divided into 16 levels!

4 levels of difficulty – including the challenging mode of the original game!

The re-mastered cult soundtrack!

iPod library access to play your favorite tracks while playing the game!

Follow Gameloft and the Earthworm Jim game on Twitter and you might be able to score a promo code for it! If I had some promo codes, I’d love to give them out, but alas I do not.

GROOOOOOOOOOVY!

Oct10

THE Best iPhone Twitter App is…

Posted at 5:05 PM • One Comment

Twittelator Pro. It’s my choice over all of the other iPhone Twitter Apps. I’ve tried many other Twitter apps for the iPhone and I keep coming back to using Twittelator Pro. It’s the ONLY full-featured Twitter app out there for the iPhone.

I had tried out the free version when it first came out and I had my first iPhone (3G). I tried that and two other Twitter apps. Twittelator was very ugly and I didn’t understand it so I used the other apps I had. Eventually those other apps got on my nerves. A friend of mine told me to get the latest update of Twittelator Pro and that it had improved since I had first gotten it. She was right. It was improved and I was happy. I’ve used Twittelator Pro ever since. Of course it’s gone through some more improvements to make the app even better than before!
Read the rest of this entry »

« Older Posts

Pages

Polls

Tag Cloud

Archives

Categories