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 allows you to take all those pesky paper business cards and convert them to digital form. According to Intsig Information Co., Ltd., CamCard is able to capture business card images with your iPhone-based camera, recognize the card image content, and then automatically organize and extract the person's first name, last name, company name, work phone number, email address, physical address and company/contact website url. If only it were truly that easy!

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 points you gather, the more weapons you can buy in the Laboratory. But there are a few facets where the game is lacking.

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 streamlined UI consisting of two buttons and a blank space where countdowns will eventually end up. The “+” button adds countdowns and selecting “Edit” updates preexisting ones. The best feature includes the ability to add a photo to the countdown item – either extracted from the internet as you input text or uploaded from the device. Once the photo-customized item is created the op...

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!

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 "popular mobile word game"... uh, sorry guys, not seeing it!

So like I said, this is like Wheel of Fortune but it's waaayyyyy easier and not nearly as exciting, partially due to the fact that the computer is dumb as dirt. Your mission is to solve word puzzles that come from categories like Food or Celebrities, and in typical Wheel fashion you can buy vowels and guess at consonants. There's no wheel to speak of, just some randomized cards that determine how much "bamboney" you'll earn if you guess a letter correctly, and unless you've got the IQ of a doorknob you're pretty much guaranteed to win every time.

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.

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 out for enemies. If you die, too bad, start over. There are dozens of games like this languishing in the dark recesses of the app store, each with varying levels of suck.

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.

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 me the photos associated with contacts instead of the typical line-by-line list that Apple's default iOS provides. Show names or don't show them, it's the pics that count. If your contact doesn't have a photo then Photogenda asks you to specify gender and then spits out a generic icon in place of the absent photo. Sounds good right? Yeah it is... mostly.

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 cocktail that you want.It's really very handy with a built in shopping list and some nice visual ads.

It's laid out like a virtual liquor cabinet with bottles on shelves etc.It keeps track of the booze, the mixes, the other stuff like bar fruit.I used to live on bar fruit.Okay so the only pain part is the initial adding all your stuff into the app.Then I guess if you drink a lot you need to add and subtract all the stuff.If you have a big bar where things get lost in the back or your have lots a parties this could be the app for you.They have an extensive list of brand name booze in the data base but could add some more.There were a few big name brands that I had that the app didn't support.In that case I just put in the generic "Vodka" and that worked fine.Cheers! I'm off to make an "Old Fashion."