Star Walk Review: A Sky Map in Your Pocket
One of my favorite things to do on a clear sunny day is look up at the stars at night. It is amazing how many stars and even planets you can see. It makes it even more fun if you have a booklet telling you what stars and/or planets will be visible on specific nights. But, wouldn’t it be even nicer if you didn’t have to bring one of those booklets around with you (which are hard to read in the dark by the way). With Star Walk, this dream becomes a reality.
5 (Free) iPhone Apps Every Parent Should Have
One of the best things we can do as tech-saavy parents is get our kids acclimated early to the wonders of a digital life. I’m not saying kids can’t be kids, but I think it’s pretty darned cool that my 4 year old is the only kid in her class who knows how to work an iPod Touch or bring up web-based games in Safari. At the end of the day, growing up around technology could really give kids a leg up when they get out into the real world. And so, with that in mind, MacApper is proud to suggest five free apps that every parent should share with their kids.
Img2icns Review and Video: Making Icons Can’t Be Easier
The Mac platform is dominated by icons. There are icons on your dock, icons depicting your file types, even icons in your menubar. A long time ago there used to be an app called Pic2Icon from Sugar Cube Software. This app (now discontinued) allowed you to turn your images into icons that you could copy onto your folders and files. Ever since its long departure from the Mac app world, I have been searching for the perfect app that allows you to create icons from your images. I couldn’t be happier to say that I have found this app! Introducing Img2icns:
Seven Tower Defense Games You May Not Have Heard Of
The App Store has no shortage of games, both originals and classics. One popular classic is Tower Defense. Today I will talk about a few Tower Defense games that you probably have not heard of (i.e. not Fieldrunners).
Tiki Towers Review: Structural Engineering with Monkeys
Puzzle games that put you in the seat of a structural engineer were all the rage in 2008. It started with the PSN’s Elefunk and found something akin to perfection in the sublime World of Goo. It was only a matter of time until we saw such a game, seemingly so perfect for the iPhone, make it’s way to the AppStore. RealArcade stepped up to the plate late last year and released Tiki Towers, a game of bamboo buildings and monkey mayhem.
Snow Report Apps Showdown
The App Store has many great types of apps, and many horrible ones. One that may seem useless to most of us is a snow/ski conditions reporter. Although I only go once a year, these apps are still pretty interesting to look at. Don’t tell me you don’t want to know the conditions at your favorite resort all year round. Well, today I will be talking about two of these apps.
Classics Review: Classic Novels in your Pocket!
Over the past few years many eBook readers have been released. These have changed how some people read books. Instead of carrying around a heavy stack of books they can use a small device with hundreds of their favorite titles. What if you could read eBooks books without buying a new device? If you own an iPhone or iPod Touch, then you’re in luck.
Classics is a new book reader for the iPhone and iPod Touch that is meant exclusively for reading popular classic novels. Currently the application includes 14 different titles ranging from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea; but more are planned in future updates.
Seadragon Mobile Review: A Dragon on the Move
Apple and Microsoft have long been rivals in the field of computers but a few days ago marked a rather impromptu “collaboration” between the two: the launch of the iPhone app, Seadragon.
Seadragon is a project which is part of the Microsoft Live Labs, an experimental application warehouse of sorts. The idea behind Seadragon is to allow you to “infinitely zoom” on giga-pixel sized images. The application was originally developed on Microsoft’s Silverlight for the PC platform but the people over at the Live Labs have adapted it for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
Camerabag Review: Bring it with you!
As we have mentioned in previous posts, the iPhone’s camera is really sub-par. To rectify this you could bring the pictures you take into Photoshop or your favorite image editing application, but why not use an application on the phone itself.
Camerabag is an application from an unlikely developer, Nevercenter, whose claim to fame is actually a 3D modeling application. Camerabag itself is a relatively simple application. It is very obvious that they are focused on your photos and not a “delicious” interface, which I find pleasing. Camerabag allows you to take a photograph and apply one of several effects. The effects revolve around styles of older cameras, such as Holga and Lolo, as well as photographers like Ansel Adams.
Night Stand Review: Ditch the Alarm Clock
The iPhone, just as many other cell-phones functions very well as an alarm clock. It allows you to create multiple different alarms as well as repeat them on certain days of the week. But unlike many other phones, when plugged in the iPhone will not constantly display the current time.
The fellows at Spoonjuice saw this problem and created a clean astheticly pleasing solution. The app is know as Night Stand and it serves its purpose surprisingly well.
