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Send Out A Message In An iPhone With Distant Shore

Distant Shore is a very cool iPhone app that modernizes the concept of sending out a message in a bottle. Upon opening the app, a user finds themselves looking at a top down view of a beach hut complete with ambient sounds and waves. By tapping the screen, users can walk their invisible character (you can [...]

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Tweetie Does Twitter Right

In the AppStore, one of the big subcategories that have popped up is clients to interact with the messaging service Twitter. There are a lot of them out there (both free and paid) and different ones appeal to different people, but Tweetie seems to be the best. Tweetie packs in all the stuff you’d expect from [...]

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SlotZ Racer Falls Just Shy Of Greatness

SlotZ Racer is an iPhone racing game based on toy slot car racing. Basically, cars race around a track on a set path (defined by a slot which would power the car in real life) with the player only controlling the cars speed. Go too slow and you’ll lose, go too fast and you’ll send [...]

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The Weather Channel Does iPhone Weather Right

While I think Apple designed a great product with the iPhone, there are a few  things that frustrate me. High on that list is the weather application. It was great to be able to quickly pull up the temperatures throughout the next few days, but it really lacked in details. Telling me that it’s going [...]

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Apple’s Macworld Keynote Unveils DRM-Free iTunes Plans

Apple’s last MacWorld keynote speech brought with it a new MacBook Pro, but it also had a few things to appeal to the iPhone crowd. First off, iPhone 3G owners will now be able to download music from the iTunes store over the 3G network at no extra cost. The second, and more amazing development is with [...]

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TapDefense Provides A More Traditional Tower Defense

A few days ago I reviewed FieldRunners, a game heavily based in the tower defense genre. I mentioned in that review that I had tried other tower defense games to give myself some perspective, and this was the only other iPhone app from that group. TapDefense, of course, shares many similarities to FieldRunners, so I’ll be [...]

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FieldRunners Will Get You Hooked

Price: $4.99 Links: Developer | iTunes A few days ago I saw a friend mention this iPhone game he’d been hooked on called “FieldRunners” and decided to try it out for myself. Basically, the premise of this game is to build towers with special abilities to keep enemies from crossing from their base to enter yours. You can [...]

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With Stanza, The iPhone Crashes The Kindle Party

Price: Free Links: Developer | iTunes A few weeks ago I read Charles Dickens’ “A Tale of Two Cities”, but there was no paper involved. I also didn’t go out and spend a ton of money on the Amazon Kindle or another device like it. In fact, I didn’t buy anything. I simply downloaded the free application [...]

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VLC Remote Is Every Couch Potatoes Dream

Price: Free or 99 cents Developer: Hobbyist Software iTunes Links: VLC Remote Free | VLC Remote For those who don’t know of it, VLC is cross-platform audio/video player with an enormous amount of codecs built into it. It is extremely rare to find an audio or video file that it can’t play. It’s also rather light in it’s [...]

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Boardwalk Bowl Puts An Arcade Classic In Your Pocket

Price: $.99 Links: Developer | iTunes I’m usually pretty skeptical when it comes to 99 cent applications, but when I saw this on the new release list last night I bought it instantly. Surprisingly, I’m not regretting this impulse buy. Boardwalk Bowl is a game created by the same people that did the popular Apps iFish and iHunt, [...]

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