Browse tag: App Store

Browse tag: App Store

Review: Silent Swords for iPhone
This 2-D stealth platform game may not have advanced features or sophisticated graphics. But it offers a truly challenging set of missions.
Review: NetNewsWire Premium for iPhone
With version 2 of both the free and premium version of its newsreading app, NewsGator Technologies has introduced solid improvements (though some flaws remain). Still, this version of NetNewsWire feels more at home on the iPhone than its predecessor did.
Review: Mindjet for iPhone
Mindjet has managed to squeeze the power, ease, and versatility of its desktop mindmapping application into an iPhone app. It's an effective tool, though it comes with some limitations.
Review: NBA Live for iPhone
You might think it would be tough to slim down all the gameplay elements of a feature-rich console title like NBA Live to work on the iPhone. And you'd be right -- NBA Live is a bit of a hodgepodge, mixing elements of awesomeness with assorted weaknesses that detract from the rest of the game. Even with its glitches, though, the game is great fun to play.
Review: Perfectly Clear for iPhone
This image-correction app is best for photos that you want to look as clean and clear as possible. In most cases, a quick run through Perfectly Clear should leave you pleased with the result.
Apple's Schiller talks App Store, approval process
In an interview with BusinessWeek, Apple senior vice president Phil Schiller discusses the App Store, its controversy-laden approval process, and what it's doing to improve matters.
Bookmark for iPhone
Notwithstanding some annoying limitations and quirks, audiobibliophiles will find much to love about Bookmark, an iPhone and iPod touch app that gives you greater control over audiobooks on your mobile device.
Review: iPhone Thanksgiving apps
Stressed about Turkey Day? The App Store has many offerings that aim to help you plan and prepare a meal. We'll help you find the worthwhile apps while staying away from the real turkeys.
Gameloft to cut back on Android development
Mobile games developer Gameloft has announced it's cutting back on development for the Android, citing a lack of revenue.
Review: Geared for iPhone
In spite of some flaws -- it can be hard to position pieces and the game is a little picky about when you're allowed to move things -- Geared is a perfectly fine puzzler that satisfies after its too-easy early stages.
Review: Snapture for iPhone
As a one-stop solution for the shortcomings of the iPhone's built-in camera, Snapture does an admirable job. It should be one of the first apps you turn to for improving your phone's camera.
Review: Mini Golf Wacky Worlds for iPhone
This fun miniature golf game lives up to its wacky moniker. More important, with five courses and three modes of play to chose from, there's plenty of replay value to be found.
iPhone to drive mobile game adoption
Apple will drive the game market with the iPhone, according to a survey of 8,000 gamers in North America, Europe and Australia.
Review: Photo geotagging apps for iPhone
Geotagging -- adding data to a photo that reveals the location it was taken -- brings a new dimension to enjoying and sharing photography. Several apps let you start tagging your photos with GPS data. We'll help you find the one that's right for your needs.
Review: Quip for iPhone
This app aims to let you send pictures with text messages to your friends' cell phones a la MMS, only without the texting charges. But Quip doesn't offer iPod touch support, and it has a number of flaws that make it a poor choice for most iPhone users.
Analysis: Five qualities of a great iPhone app
Thinking about creating an iPhone app? A contest run by retailer Gap shows off five common strengths of winning iPhone apps. Here's a look at the lessons learned -- and the apps.
Slideshow: CatPaint got your iPhone?
The newly-released CatPaint iPhone app makes a simple promise: to let you insert cats in your photos. But does it deliver? Macworld editors put the application to the test.
iPhone apps run background checks on your date
PeopleFinders has created iPhone apps that let users perform background checks on potential dates.
Review: Print Magic for iPhone
This app, which aims to let you print from your iPhone to a printer on your network, has a lot of promise. Unfortunately, the current version commits too many unpredictable errors to be worth your download.
CatPaint iPhone app adds cats to any photo
CatPaint lets you add cats to your photos. For some reason.
Service lets users build own iPhone, RIM, Windows apps
The BuildAnApp online service helps novices create mobile applications for several platforms and submits them to the iPhone App Store.
Review: 10 Pin Shuffle for iPhone
Gorgeous graphics make this mobile version of the sports bar classic a fun addition to your iPhone or iPod touch.
Mac hardware, tested and reviewed
We take a final, definitive look at Apple's fall hardware update and revisit the vagaries of Apple's App Store approval process.
Review: NASA app for iPhone
With this app from the U.S. space agency, you can get info on NASA missions, view images from space, access NASA TV videos, and follow NASA Twitter feeds -- all for free.
Review: WritePad Pro for iPhone
Apart from some quibbles and a few trade-offs, the feature-rich WritePad Pro is a very fine personal organizational tool.
Review: JunoWallet GiftCards for iPhone
This app aims to help you keep track of all those plastic gift cards you accumulate. Unfortunately, it has a way to go before it's a truly useful option.
Review: Archmage Defense for iPhone
Archmage Defense is a darkly humorous, clever, addictive, and beautiful tower-defense game that puts you in the shoes of an evil necromancer. An in-app purchase option ratchets up the difficulty and the fun.
Apple reverses decision, approves iPhone political caricature app
Apple has now approved an application that provides contact information for every representative in Congress in addition to bobble-head caricatures of them.
The Macalope Weekly: Business 101
Windows inspired by the Mac? Microsoft seems conflicted about the answer. And while the App Store continues to get attention, you can't argue that Apple knows how to sell iPhones.
Review: iSing for iPhone
A combination of "American Idol" and a karoke bar, the slick iSing lets you compete in a global talent show.