Apps, News, Reviews
Math Shouldn’t Be This Fun, But Is With MathLands!
MathLands (by Mamanijo) is an interactive math reasoning game for people of all ages (7 to 77) to teach crucial math concepts through the 30+ levels of intense thinking puzzle games. This iPad math learning game features 2 main game modes: either game mode where the player will go through all game types completing all [...]
Color-Splitting Fun In This Zen Like Puzzle Game!
Crystal Lights is a unique iPhone puzzle game that will challenge your ability to split the light spectrum into the various correct colors in order to solve the 121 puzzles within this challenging, but not impossible game. The developers at Slice of Soup created this application in a mere 2 months, which is pretty amazing, [...]
WorldMate – All-In-1 Android Travel App!
The WorldMate FREE Android app will keep you in the know on all things travel, as well as provide you with a few extras. This application primarily lets you track trip itineraries by forwarding all your trip details to the email address at trips@worldmate.com. A view of the sample they provide looks really well organized, [...]
Colored Texting Is All The Rage!
If you’re one on those people who likes to be different, or at least different when it comes to your text messages or iMessages, then you’ll want to grab the new iPhone app, Pimp My Text – Send Color Text Messages (by MobGen) for FREE. This iPhone utility application is super easy to use and [...]
College T.A – All-In-One FREE iPhone College App!
Most college students keep very hectic schedules when classes are in session and have a lot of information to keep in order, but now they can easily keep track of pretty much everything college related with the College T.A. (by ArcDNA Inc.). This FREE iPhone app has a variety of college specific categories or buckets [...]
Watch FREE Popular TV And Movies on Your Android!
Crackle – Movies & TV (by Crackle) for the Android is a great FREE Android entertainment application that provides high-quality FREE movies and television episodes, with content being added on a regular basis. This app did not work until I downloaded the Adobe 11 Flash app onto my Samsung Galaxy Nexus; you may find that [...]
iPrize Wheel HD – Great Customizable iPad Party Event Tool!
iPrize Wheel HD (by NRT Media, Inc.) lets you take the prize/game wheel fun with you to your next event with its fully customizable productivity game application, and conveniently on your iPad! Most people know the Wheel of Fortune television gameshow with Vanna and Pat. Now, you can be a part of the same type [...]
Don’t Be Scared…They’re Only Paper Monsters!
Let your imagination take you into an adventure where everything is made of paper, including the monsters in Paper Monsters (by Crescent Moon Games). This 2D platform-type game has cutting edge 3D graphics and out of this world gameplay featuring 4 unique areas (chapters), 16 large levels, and a Dash Game mode to be unlocked, [...]
Crystal War Blood Field – RPG Meets RTS; Can You Survive?
You will need a sharp mind and skill to do well in Crystal War Blood Field (by Digitalfrog), a castle defense game where you build and strategize an army of goblins or humans successfully through 3 game modes and 88 levels of intense gameplay in order to lead your army to victory. Crystal War Blood [...]
Pulse News – The Only Kindle Fire News App You Need!
Want news fast, high speed, and low-drag, then you want the Pulse News app for your Kindle Fire. This FREE news application, also available in the iTunes App Store (for the iPhone/iPad) and Android Market, is a fantastic resource for all sorts of information (news, sports, lifestyle, entertainment, and more). Why you will want the [...]
Animal Spell’em All – Imaginative Animal Spelling Game
Animal Spell’em All (by N Star Studios) is a children’s application that will broaden your child’s awareness of animals from around the world, in a fun and adaptive spelling game. This game uses a bit of imagination with the help of Malika and her trusty dog, as your child plays through 3 different spelling game [...]
Magical iPhone Online Strategy Game – Will Suck You In!!
Looking for a great “magical” game to play, that can be played anytime, against anyone, and is FREE? Sounds like a tall order, but look no further than Hero Academy (by Robot Entertainment), an apparent collaborative team effort from the makers of Halo Wars and Ages of Empire. Hero Academy has the right mix of [...]
Fruity Bamboo Puzzler – Test Your Gaming Endurance!
Fruity Twist (by Yves Robert) is a fresh puzzle game with 6 stages and 45 levels of tricky fruit-sorting gameplay that will test your gaming endurance. This indie-style game features a very simplistic puzzle game engine, but requires your complete focus, correct timing, and mental endurance to work your way through all 6 stages or [...]
Smash Cops – The Real Deal Police Pursuit Game
Having been a police officer and involved in numerous police pursuits, I can tell you that Smash Cops for the iPhone and iPad (by Hutch) is the first video game that I’ve played, with a computer-based opponent, that has successfully mimicked the actual behavior of a real criminal. Yes, Smash Cops in my humble opinion [...]
Shoot The Apple On Android – Just Like Ragdoll Blaster iOS!
If you’re an Android only user, there is a good chance you may have never heard of the hit iPhone game Ragdoll Blaster (by Backflip Studios). Shoot The Apple (by DroidHen) while an awesome game, is not quite original, and appears to be an almost exact duplicate of the hit iPhone game Ragdoll Blaster, which [...]
Scramble With Friends Free – Make Words Fast!
Like the rest of the “With Friends” franchise, this one’s sure to be a hit. Scramble With Friends Free (by Zynga) takes the classic word scramble game and makes it feel fresh. The intuitive user interface (UI) definitely stands out, and is one of the main reasons it is so addicting. You get a few [...]
Get Hooked – Bizarre and Silly Fish Game, GOGO Fishing!
Cast your line in GOGO Fishing, a FREE iPhone fishing game featuring 5 aquatic settings, 22+ bait types, over 80 cool fish ranging from the usual and expected (normal) to the more silly and bizarre. Moxy Games, known for entertainment apps like Hair Plucker and Pimple Popper have come out with an enjoyable freemium fishing [...]
Our Everyday Lunch for iPad – Easy Dinner Ideas, Anyone?
Our Everyday Lunch for iPad (by IMGNATION Studios) is a great recipe idea application that includes some unique and healthy food ideas, an auto shopping list generator to make getting all the required ingredients super simple, and a timer feature. There are 4 weeks currently included (5 recipes for each week), and a special day [...]
Disney Android Game – Huge Value and Levels, Cool Gator!
Meet Swampy, our friendly alligator who just wants to get wet. Being from Florida, most gators are not as cute or cool as Swampy, so don’t feed the gators when you visit! But, in Where’s My Water! (by Disney) for the Android, this game is a whole lot of fun and packed with 140 levels [...]
SOULCALIBUR – Mostly Awesome, Except For………………….
SOULCALIBUR (by NamcoBandai Games) is a port of the wildly successful arcade game from 1998, which was later ported to the XBox 360 (2008), and is considered to be one of the all-time-best games according to numerous game websites and publications. This game has recently become available on the iOS platform (by the same name [...]
An ABC Learning App – A Lasting Impression On Your Child
ABC Spy (by Stealth Education) is a unique alphabet learning experience that builds creativity and independence in young children through a fun iSPY photo-taking and filmmaking process. This kids’ iPhone game (education) app has a really simple user interface that appears to be specifically designed with young kids (4-8) in mind — there are not [...]
Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombies – an iPhone Video App Review
Those of you who have played Call of Duty: Zombies on your iPhone or iPad are going to be very happy with the follow-up game, Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombies. Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombies has many more maps, multiple playable characters (each with their own comments throughout the game), massive amounts of [...]
Monkey Quest: Thunderbow – Blow Everything Up!
Monkey Quest: Thunderbow (by MTV Networks) is an arcade style game that features a monkey with a Boom Bow battling his way through lots of levels destroying creepy monsters and collecting upgrades through 6 different lands of arcade gameplay. While I have never played the Monkey Quest MMO online game, having played the iPhone game, [...]
Color Texting for your iPhone Could Carry A Huge Price Tag
Color Texting for iMessages (by Apps4Life) provides some cool text messaging and iMessaging effects to your messages — but, buyers beware. The price of this app is not the cost you need to worry about, but rather how using this app may destroy your data plan allowance. The reason is that this app uses images [...]
Thomas & Friends: Day of the Diesels..Awesome on the iPad!
Thomas The Train is the lovable and classic talking train character that has been capturing kids’ hearts for years. Now, by way of the new technology that the iPad offers, there is a wide selection of interactive iPad Thomas the Train books available to fuel the passion even more. Thomas & Friends: Day of the [...]
Kunundrum Lite – Puzzling Colored-Orb GamePlay
Kunundrum Lite (by Hope This Works Games Inc.) is an intense-thinking puzzler that may have you scratching your head as you try to guide your orb through 20 challenging levels of colored-orb gameplay, and if that is not enough, get 130 more levels (totaling 150 levels) in the paid version, Kunundrum. This FREE version gives [...]
Space Panic – Top Down, Arcade-Style Shooter Game
Space Panic (by Geemzo) is a classic arcade-style shooter game that features 2 game modes (1 with 3 difficulty settings), 4 weapons, ship upgrades, and a twist of physics in the gameplay that gives personality to this game. You control a military-grade defensive satellite that shoots a variety of weapons, but most are either earned [...]
Plants vs. Zombies Kindle Fire Android Edition
PopCap’s Plants vs. Zombies game originated on the iOS platform and has been in the top 100 of the Top Paid Apps it seems ever since. The game has already been on the Android market and has now been developed to play on the new Kindle Fire. The Kindle Fire Plants vs. Zombies edition has [...]
Bag It! – Can You Fit Everything Into 1 Bag?
The game Bag It! (by Hidden Variable Studios) is an iPhone puzzle game that stands out from the crowd due to its unique and fresh idea of grocery bag puzzle gameplay. Most of us go to the grocery store at least once a week, unless you have teenagers — and that means you may go [...]
Trenches II – More Units, More Strategy, and Perks!
War strategy games can be boring, but this is not the case with Trenches II, which replaces the original Trenches that has recently disappeared from the iTunes App Store. While Thunder Game Works is the creator of this game, Electronic Arts now shows as the developer, or in this case, the publisher. The original game [...]
Cross Platform Around The World Dunk Competition!
Playing online multiplayer Android or iOS games that really perform, meaning that you are able to connect within a few seconds and play without interruption, are few and far between. Stardunk (by Godzilab Inc.) for the Android takes online gameplay even farther with cross platform multiplayer gameplay. You can play online against the world or [...]
Attention Movie Buffs – Catalog Your Collection and More!
Movie buffs will definitely want the FREE iPhone app My Movie Collection (by GoToMyCollection). This iPhone entertainment app allows users to catalog their movie collection easily and intuitively, and includes lots of nice features as well. First, getting your movies into this app can be done in a super-fast manner by using the built-in bar [...]
Magic Charger, by Mobee Technology – Mac Accessory Review
If you own an Apple Magic Mouse, you’ve probably figured out by now one of the biggest weaknesses to this otherwise best overall mouse ever — the battery. Having used a Magic Mouse for the last 6 months, I’ve burned through dozens of AA batteries, adding to the mountain of used batteries in our dead-battery [...]
What’s The Mystery with Snappers…Snappers HD for iPad
Snappers and Snappers HD have been runaway hits in the iTunes iPhone and iPad App Stores, so we decided to take a look at Snappers HD (the iPad version) to see what the fuss is all about. I believe this game is so popular due to its simplicity of gameplay, as well as its look [...]
Woody Woodpecker Flies Onto The iPhone and iPad
I grew up watching Woody Woodpecker and his friends (in cartoons) as a kid on Saturday mornings, and will never forget that famous Woody Woodpecker laugh — I can hear it now. Finally, Woody and his pals have come to the iPhone and iPad as a casual racing game featuring this classic cartoon character and [...]
Android App Reviews
WorldMate – All-In-1 Android Travel App!
The WorldMate FREE Android app will keep you in the know on all things travel, as well as provide you with a few extras. This application primarily lets you track trip itineraries by forwarding all your trip details to the email address at trips@worldmate.com. A view of the sample they provide looks really well organized, [...]
Watch FREE Popular TV And Movies on Your Android!
Crackle – Movies & TV (by Crackle) for the Android is a great FREE Android entertainment application that provides high-quality FREE movies and television episodes, with content being added on a regular basis. This app did not work until I downloaded the Adobe 11 Flash app onto my Samsung Galaxy Nexus; you may find that [...]
Mac App Reviews
Clean Up Your Mac Desktop with Tab Launcher
My Mac desktop is typically a mess with screen shot images of the various applications that I’m reviewing, including video files, documents, and folders. Being a bit of a type “A” freak, I get a little stressed out when my desktop is crowded with clutter. Tab Launcher for Mac (by Oktoid) actually is a very [...]
Alfred – Your Personal Mac Search Butler!
Search the web and your Mac with Alfred, your own personal and customizable Mac butler who does more than just search. This FREE Mac productivity app is your search friend examining not only your Mac, but Google, Bing, and a bunch of other web search engines (all at the same time) for whatever it is [...]
Protect Your Mac for FREE with ClamXav
Mac machines are by nature better protected from viruses than PC Windows’ machines. But, you never know what may be hitch-hiking on files these days — and virus creators/hackers are always experimenting. ClamXav, a FREE Mac utility application, is a great little behind-the-scenes app that will help you easily scan all your files, on your [...]
App Demos
Youreka…A Social Party Game for iPhone!
Next time you’re at a party with some friends, play the FREE iPhone game Youreka and see just how well you know your friends and yourself. Youreka is a social pass-and-play game between 3 to 6 people that starts with a word being read aloud by the “focus person” (as well as a short phrase), [...]
Juicy Tomato vs. Tomato Smack Down…Tomato Crush!
Every now and again a crazy iPhone app comes along that really makes you ponder…..”What and the heck were those developers thinking?” I see some really interesting game scenario ideas reviewing apps all the time, as is the case with the new iPhone game, Tomato Crush (by Dysotek). This iPhone game is nothing more than [...]
Entertaining, High-Flying Cloud Fun…SuperNimbus!
SuperNimbus is a uniquely-fun indie iOS universal game that has a fresh gameplay concept, as well as objective and game graphics. This game comes to us from indie developer Pleznt Interactive, Inc. and lets you play as a cloud on a stick that you control with touches on the iPhone or iPad screen. You can [...]
Free App Today
Colored Texting Is All The Rage!
If you’re one on those people who likes to be different, or at least different when it comes to your text messages or iMessages, then you’ll want to grab the new iPhone app, Pimp My Text – Send Color Text Messages (by MobGen) for FREE. This iPhone utility application is super easy to use and [...]
College T.A – All-In-One FREE iPhone College App!
Most college students keep very hectic schedules when classes are in session and have a lot of information to keep in order, but now they can easily keep track of pretty much everything college related with the College T.A. (by ArcDNA Inc.). This FREE iPhone app has a variety of college specific categories or buckets [...]
