Category: App Reviews
Monsters Inc. Run Into Fun on iPhone and iPad
Monsters Inc. Run is a level-based platform game by Disney Interactive. Great graphics on both iPhone and the iPad along with excellent background music make it an excellent choice for both children and parents. There are plenty of power-ups, saves, gadgets, and even different teams to purchase along the way. As you progress through each…
Pixel People – Making People a Test Tube at a Time
Well it appears that the future has arrived to the city of Utopia in this far out game published by Chillingo. Pixel People is one of those build forever type of games. Your goal is to splice genetic material to create different types of people that will work in Utopia. For example if you splice…
Broken Sword – Old School Adventure Works on iPad
Broken Sword is an old-school adventure game. Point and click games actually work better on an iPad and iPhone touchscreen than they did originally with a mouse and keyboard. The original game was actually published in 1996, but with this director’s cut and remastered graphics you would never know. In Broken Sword you play two…
Quickoffice for iPad – What’s Pages?
Who needs iCloud and Pages when iPad users have had Quickoffice with dropbox, box.net, evernote, catch, sugarsync, and huddle? Quickoffice could be considered an alternative to Pages, Numbers, and Keynote, however it is far more than that. You can sync your docs, pdf’s, powerpoint, pages, excel, numbers files and more, and the price is less…
Flipboard Rocks!
Flipboard is the first app to fully realize the “magazine” aspect of the iPad. It quite simply just works. You don’t need to buy a subscription to some magazine you don’t read, it just takes your twitter feed, facebook friends, RSS, and more and put it nicely into a magazine format for you to read,…
Gusto for iPad
Gusto is a finely crafted web page development app. I searched for quite a while for a good web page editor and Gusto is one of the best. To write this, however, I am using the WordPress app which is splendid as well, but not every website is made in WordPress, and there are some…
Jetpack Joyride Fun Never Ends
The fine line between a casual game and regular action games is a little blurred with this fine title from halfbrick studios. The premise is basically to ride around in a jetpack and don’t die. The length of your journey is tracked in the upper left hand corner of the screen. The farther you go…
Notability Note-taking Extreme
Ginger Labs hit it out of the park with Notability. This app fills a great need for note taking software. Many times when taking notes I wish I could go back to hear exactly what the speaker was saying. Sometimes I might be thinking about what I’m having for lunch or some other unimportant detail…
The Cleanest Gator in the Sewer: Where’s My Water?
Help swampy the hygienic aligator that lives beneath the city get clean. Cranky and the other gators don’t appreciate his cleanliness and are attempting to sabotage the water system to swampy’s bathtub. This game will be a huge hit with the kids. A simple physics puzzler with a very gradual difficulty incline. As they say…