GTA Chinatown Wars Review: Grand Theft Auto on your iPhone
Grand Theft Auto is one of the most popular, and controversial, games ever. The series has been going on since 1997, and now you can get it on your iPhone. Chinatown Wars was originally released for the Nintendo DS in March 2009, and then for the PSP in October. This week, it was released for iPhone and iPod Touch, with just as much content as the other versions.
Notify 2 Review: A New Email Notifier for your Mac
There are a lot of simple email notifiers available for Mac OS X. Most of them just sit in your menubar, and display the number of new messages you have. But now with Notify 2 Pro, from Vibealicious, you have the ability to read and even compose emails. All in your menubar.
One of Notify’s big features is the ability to have multiple accounts. You can set up Gmail, MobileMe and Rackspace accounts, or just use your own IMAP settings for any other mail account. Notify just sits in your menubar, and has a small envelope icon that lights up blue when you have new messages. When you click this, the main window for Notify pops up displaying a list of your new emails. There are also tabs on the top, so you can switch accounts.
Pastebot Review: A Powerful iPhone Clipboard Utility
Just this week Tapbots released their third app, Pastebot. Pastebot is an extremely powerful clipboard utility. You can save many items to your clipboard, sort them into folders, copy them to your iPhone’s clipboard, edit images and much more. All with this single application.
Airlock Review: Magically Lock your Mac with your iPhone
Wouldn’t it be nice if you never had to type in your password, but your Mac was still locked up so people couldn’t access it? That’s just what Airlock, from The M.H.A. is for. Airlock is a new Mac application that locks your computer when you walk away from it, and unlocks it when you come back. It does this by scanning for nearby bluetooth devices, and it unlocks your Mac when it detects your iPhone (or iPod Touch) in range.
ScreenFlow 2.0: The Best Screen Recorder Gets Better
Ever since ScreenFlow came out there just hasn’t been a better application for making screencasts. ScreenFlow allows you to quickly create high quality screencasts. Just recently, Telestream updated ScreenFlow to version 2.0. If you want to check out our video review of ScreenFlow 1.0, look at Michael Mistretta’s great post here. In this article I’ll be covering most of the new features in version 2.0.
iterum2 Review: Simple Internet Radio
There are a lot of internet radio applications in the app store but iterum2, a new application from Steamtown Media, is a simple internet radio application for the iPod Touch and iPhone. iterum2 includes a list of about 50 radio stations sorted by genre, with more stations being added in updates.
When you start up iterum2 your last used radio station with automatically load, so you can quickly start listening to music. While you are listening to music, you can view the artist and title of the current track along with album artwork. You can also read the lyrics for the song. Oh the side of the screen you can tap buttons to buy the song, search for the song online, or share the song in an email or in a tweet on Twitter. You can add stations to a list of favorites to easily access them.
Bevy Review: A Powerful Application Launcher
If you are like me, you probably have a ton of applications that you use, but you also don’t want to have then all on your dock. Bevy, by bergdesign, is an application launcher that will show you all of your applications in one simple window.
When you first launch Bevy you will want to add a few folders. Just click the gear icon in the top left and select folders. Here you will tell Bevy where to search for applications, and Bevy will display you applications in different sections for each folder. This will let you easily keep things organized. You can also exclude some items that you don’t ever need.
Keymote Review: Keystrokes, Just A Tap Away!
There are many applications to control your Mac in the App Store. Some will let you view and control the whole screen, while some just let you control a single application like iTunes. Keymote, by Iced Cocoa, is a different type of application for your iPhone or iPod Touch. It lets you set custom keystrokes to buttons, so you can create sets (or keysets) of keystrokes for any application. You can even share and download other users’ keysets.
Ecoute Review: iTunes Simplified
Most people who have an iPhone or iPod sync it in iTunes. But what if you don’t want to use iTunes to listen to your music while you are using your computer? Ecoute, is the perfect application for this. Ecoute is a small app to browse and play music and videos in your iTunes library. You can browse artists, playlists, and much more and you can even play TV shows and movies.
Ringer Review: Easily Create Ringtones for Your iPhone
The iPhone has a limited selection of built in ringtones, and only select songs are available for purchase on iTunes as ringtones. Ringer, by Pixel Research Labs, was made to fix this problem. Ringer lets you create any unprotected song into a ringtone. Using the application you can browse your entire iTunes library and quickly create ringtones from audio. This doesn’t only apply to music, Ringer can use audio from videos too.
