International Business News Blogs - iPhone Booth http://www.ibtimes.com/blogs/rss/sections/iphone-booth.rss All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 120 30 http://www.ibtimes.com/blogs/rss/sections/iphone-booth.rss http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif Available on iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad You really ought to see my office right now.I've got paper shuffled everywhere and sticky notes from well over a year ago plastered all over my monitor, desk, wall and every other available piece of office real estate.Needless to say, organization has never been my forte.My boss, bless his heart, tried to help me in this area by sending me to one of those sacrosanct "Franklin Cover" classes.I probably followed their method for a good 24 hours before I wa... http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20120209/bugme-stickies-pro-ink-notepad-alarm.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/blogs/articles/34133/20120209/bugme-stickies-pro-ink-notepad-alarm.htm Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:12:32 EST Available on iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad Ski on Neon is currently #1 in the Top 25 Free section in the App Store Yes I know... Ski on Neon is a stripped down clone of Tiny Wings. Press and hold to to make your little skier guy tuck and gain velocity while going downhill, release to let the momentum launch him uphill and into the air. So it's not too original... but it's fun as hell! If you've never played Tiny Wings, this is a game of timing. Each time your skier goes airborne you need to try a... http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20120209/top-25-ski-on-neon.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/blogs/articles/34128/20120209/top-25-ski-on-neon.htm Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:30:54 EST Available on iPhone & iPod Touch Imagine you've got a motorcycle and you have a chance to race it around a dirt track. Sounds good, right? Now imagine that your bike can only make left turns. Uh... WTF? And welcome to Speedway 2012. I understand why Caps Off decided to make this game's motorcycles a left-turn-only deal. It makes for a simple control scheme, and it also allows for four different people to put four different fingers on a single device and race against each other. That's all co... http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20120208/speedway-2012.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/blogs/articles/34096/20120208/speedway-2012.htm Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:30:47 EST Bulbs and Wires ($0.99) by handsmade Available on iPhone & iPod Touch Bulbs&Wires is a puzzle-solving game with a simple objective: connect all the bulbs. Each game begins with a single lit bulb that attaches to unlit bulbs via one or more wires, thus lighting those up as well. Once you have a completely bright network of bulbs, you win. At first, I thought I'd get tired of this pretty quickly but discovered there are seven levels of difficulty, ranging from not too hard to borderline insane. ... http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20120207/bulbs-wires.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/blogs/articles/34073/20120207/bulbs-wires.htm Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:44:02 EST Available on iPhone & iPod Touch I confess. The only reason I gave this app a try is because the icon is so dumb it's funny! A badly drawn bird and a crying kid with a bird sitting on his head... it screams campy. The game itself could be described as a little campy, but mostly it's just dumb. Tilt your device left and right to make BirdieBoy move, and your goal is to catch the badly drawn birds that are falling out of a nest, onto a trampoline, and hopefully into the basket on poor BirdieBoy... http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20120203/birdieboy.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/blogs/articles/34017/20120203/birdieboy.htm Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:00:11 EST Available on iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad I'll keep this short: Camera+ is probably the best all-around camera app you're gonna find in the App Store. I'm sure this is old news to a lot of you, but if you've never used it you should definitely give it a look. I used to have apps like ToyCamera, Lomo Camera, and numerous others on my iPhone but Camera+ has replaced them all! Those other apps are great for certain things, but this one is basically the Swiss Army Knife of camera apps. All the retr... http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20120131/camera.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/blogs/articles/33950/20120131/camera.htm Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:50:01 EST Available on iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad After downloading apps that promise to teach something and finding their formats neither fun nor particularly memorable, I thought I’d had it with anything containing “educational” in the description. But, it’s 2012. Why not get crazy? There have been 2 or 3 instances in the last month where a friend and I were strolling outdoors and wondered what kind of bird we were looking at. So when I saw Five Ravens’ app up for review, I figured it was a sign. Cu... http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20120123/my-bird-world.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/blogs/articles/33786/20120123/my-bird-world.htm Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:54:25 EST Available on iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad Since On5′s first iteration a year ago with We Doodle and Charadium, I've been a loyal fan of their game and could absolutely not wait for its successor, Charadium 2. Charadium 2 is a fun Pictionary based game to showcase your artistic drawing ability. Pictionary has always been a fun game to play growing up and now you're able to relive your childhood on your very own iOS device. The idea itself is amazing and so is the gameplay, especially trying ... http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20120121/charadium-2.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/blogs/articles/33759/20120121/charadium-2.htm Sat, 21 Jan 2012 03:23:49 EST Available on iPhone & iPod Touch Gamania offers this app for free for two more days so I wanted to get the word out in time! From the looks and tutorial of Subcat, you would think this game that has you wiping away fog to find and catch sea creatures is a walk in the park – or the ocean floor. However, this game is not as it seems. A training sea is followed by four more levels. Each challenge has you catching a certain number and / or combination of types of fish and although completing the c... http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20120119/subcat.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/blogs/articles/33737/20120119/subcat.htm Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:21:12 EST Hello, and happy SOPA/PIPA Internet Blackout Day! Despite the billions of Facebook statuses about it I just took the time to learn (like 10 minutes ago) what SOPA and PIPA are. If you're like me and too damn lazy to go find out why this is such a hot issue, I'll explain it right here, right now! The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) are two bills that are supposed to stop the pirating of media, you know, the kind of stuff you would download through torr... http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20120118/what-are-sopa-and-pipa-and-why.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/blogs/articles/33718/20120118/what-are-sopa-and-pipa-and-why.htm Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:35:49 EST Available on iPhone only When I am not writing reviews for IAR, on a completely voluntary and uncompensated basis mind you, I am in my office, or in court, or meeting clients in my daily struggle to keep the bills paid, my kids expensive private-school tuition up to date, and my wife happy. As a practicing attorney I am handed hundreds of business cards every year and I never know what to do with them. Herein lies the benefit of CamCard! CamCard is a business card reader for the iPhone that all... http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20120118/camcard-business-card-reader.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/blogs/articles/33714/20120118/camcard-business-card-reader.htm Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:35:05 EST Available on iPhone, iPod touch, iPad What’s in a name? A tower defense game by any other name would be just as fun to play. Well, UFOlocaust is not the best of the bunch, but it’s not the most boring either. Your mission: protect the anxious, humanoid masses from alien abduction. Seems easy enough, and in some cases it is. The graphics are pretty cool, as are the visual themes. You are started off with the basics which consist of plasma-collecting machinery and offensive weapons. The more poin... http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20120117/ufolocaust.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/blogs/articles/33695/20120117/ufolocaust.htm Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:19:08 EST Countdown™ ($0.99) by Bas du Pre Available on iPhone & iPod Touch Countdown™ is a new app that … counts down to things. Why confuse prospective consumers with punny names that do nothing more than mislead and force a reading of the app description? It’s great that the developer mentioned further features are in the woodworks for next month. As for now, Countdown is a fairly adequate 1.0, but perhaps not yet worth the 99 cents. After downloading the app, you open Countdown to find a streamline... http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20120116/countdown.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/blogs/articles/33675/20120116/countdown.htm Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:32:55 EST Available on iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad Somewhere in the deep recesses of this thing I call a brain, I like to imagine a world where I'm surrounded by adoring women who ooooh and aaaah as I wow them with amazing magic tricks peppered with bits of irresistable charisma... and then I wake up and realize that I'm about as charismatic as a canker sore.. but for whatever reason I still want to learn how to do magic! Magic101 is a collection of videos that teach you how to pull off 12 beginner-level ... http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20120116/magic101.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/blogs/articles/33664/20120116/magic101.htm Mon, 16 Jan 2012 09:24:27 EST Available on iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad Wopple bills itself as the merging of "America's most popular TV game show" with "the most popular mobile word game". I'm taking that to mean it's a cross between Wheel of Fortune and Scrabble or, as most people know it these days, Words with Friends. Wopple is definitely modeled after Wheel of Fortune and not much else, so if you're looking for a kinder and much gentler version of Wheel then you're in the right place. As far as similarities to the... http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20120116/wopple.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/blogs/articles/33663/20120116/wopple.htm Mon, 16 Jan 2012 08:35:09 EST Available on iPhone & iPod Touch Tamagochi were cheap, electronic toys popular in the 90′s. It's basically a battery-powered keychain pet game. To prevent your little pixel based buddy from dying, you have to feed, bathe, and play with the thing constantly. If you know what I'm talking about, you're probably feeling nostalgic and/or bitter right now. I know I was obsessed with my little critter. Once, I forgot to take him on vacation and cried the entire car ride (RIP Flippy). Tamagochi... http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20120114/hatchi.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/blogs/articles/33641/20120114/hatchi.htm Sat, 14 Jan 2012 23:35:16 EST Available on iPhone & iPod Touch iOS action games are a dime a dozen. I can only take so many $0.99 rehashes of tired concepts before I throw my iPhone into a lake and start beating people with a large ax. By all accounts, I should hate Me Red, but somehow, I don't. So what makes Me Red unique and why am I hopelessly addicted? Me Red: The Ultimate Adventure is a runner or platform jumping game. You control an endlessly running red blob. Jump with your left thumb, attack with your right. Watch ... http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20120113/me-red-the-ultimate-adventure.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/blogs/articles/33636/20120113/me-red-the-ultimate-adventure.htm Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:44:11 EST iSo Kingdom ($0.99) by Zleepy Ztudios Available on iPhone & iPod Touch Solve puzzles! Battle monsters! Solve more puzzles! I hope you like solving puzzles, because there's a lot of them. A clever mix of a puzzler and an action/adventure game, iSoKingdom makes some advances in uncharted territory. iSoKingdom is based around the concept of an isometric puzzle. You get a complex 3D shape and must deduce the 2D images of different sides. It requires a fair amount of spatial reasoning and patience,... http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20120112/iso-kingdom.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/blogs/articles/33627/20120112/iso-kingdom.htm Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:19:16 EST Available on iPhone only A whole mess of these replace-your-contacts apps have marched through my inbox over the past couple of years, but I've ignored them all because I didn't really want one... until now. Maybe it's my old age catching up with me, or the fact that I'm super popular and have to sift through billions of contacts in order to find my drinking buddies, but for whatever reason I suddenly feel the need to have shortcuts to certain phone numbers. Photogenda does this by showing ... http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20120112/photogenda.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/blogs/articles/33625/20120112/photogenda.htm Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:48:38 EST Available on iPhone & iPod Touch Every new year I make a promise to myself to drink more, but not being a big drinker I never know what to drink.I'm always asking people what to drink and trying new drinks in order to find "My drink".This app might just be the app to help.Oh yeah, I also like having lots of booze in the house.So, this is an App that can take what you already have laying around, waiting to be drunk, and help you make a nice cocktail.Or tell you what you should get to make the... http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20120109/liquor-cabinet.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/blogs/articles/33559/20120109/liquor-cabinet.htm Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:08:24 EST