The Free App Store Review XIV: Sorry I’m Late, I Was Stuck in a Traffic Cam
Y’know what I like about the iPhone 3G? I can download apps on the go and play with them without having to be at home. That, and I can point and spit snark at the ones I don’t like without disturbing my wife. It’s a tremendous time saver, even if the people around me on the bus look at me cockeyed whenever I snort derisively at yet another flashlight app or coo at something cool someone’s done. That means, of course, that I’ve got another heap o’ digital freebies to chuck your way, for better or for worse. We’ve got some games, we’ve got some toys, we’ve got some utilities, and we’ve got more traffic cams than you can shake a Hummer at.
Now if you’ll just bite down on this strip of leather, we’ll begin. You might feel a pinch.
Developer: Jeffery Wong
Category: Weather
I must say it’s about time that an app intended for a foriegn-language audience has a description that includes English. Not that this one would have been difficult to figure out, but it’s the thought that counts. This, obviously, is an app that gives you the forecast for Hong Kong. It’s pretty detailed, features display in both English and Traditional Chinese, weather warnings, 7-day forecast details, wind levels, and more. Much more information than the built-in weather app gives you. Now if only someone would release a well heeled weather freebie for this continent.
Developer: 4Technologies Corporation
Category: Health & Fitness
A companion app to the free online service MyNetDiary, aimed at those who are trying to shed a spare tire or two. The service itself is a fairly comprehensive personalized diet log that lets you set goals for yourself — restrict calorie intake, keep track of how many calories you’ve consumed throughout the day, how much you’ve burned doing exercises, how many calories you have left to consume (based on the limit you’ve set for yourself), and will even give you a forecast of how much weight you can expect to lose on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis given your current regimen. MyNetDiary Online Diet Log is a companion to this service to let you access your personal MyNetDiary.com account to make it easier and more convenient to monitor and update your progress wherever you are. So c’mon, chubbo, now you have no excuses! (I’m allowed to say that. I’ve got 40lbs of flab I need to shave off myself.)
Developer: Enabled Solution
Category: Games
We’ll ignore the miscategorisation here. Newton’s Cradle is just what it says on the tin: The traditional mechanical exemplar of the basic physics concepts of conservation of momentum and kinetic energy — or if you’re a pedagogue, Newton’s third law (”For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction”). This is a digital representation of the cradle, and it’s not half had at that. You can tap and drag the pendulums around and watch them smack into each other, transferring their energy to an equal number of pendulums on the opposite side and then back down again to repeat the process ad nauseum (or until entropy kicks in.) The app does a competent job of mimicking the laws of physics that govern the cradle, but does you one better by paying attention to gravity, too, and thus will react accordingly when you rotate the device around. It isn’t perfect though, nor is it a full simulation of proper Newtonian physics. For one, turning it 90 degrees doesn’t send the pendulums plummeting straight down; they behave more like they were tilted at a 45° angle. What’s more, if you turn it completely upside-down, it reacts like it was upright, and the strings behave more like rods, being that it is impossible to introduce slack into the lines, so clearly the physics work here is fudged. Also, the pendulums themselves remain in the same orientation no matter how they swing; it would have been nice if they’d rotate accordingly. Still, it’s a fun little app for a few minutes and just fine if you’re playing with it the way it was meant to be played with — perpendicular to the desk.
Developer: nrme LLC
Category: Social Networking
“nrme” is apparently prounounced “near me.” Yeah, um…no. You fail at phonics, nurme. Nevertheless, narme is a social networking app that centers itself around being location-based. Not location-based like other social networking apps are location-based by making you everyone else’s center of gravity, but rather location-based by being exclusively for chatting with those in your general vicinity, the rest of the world be damned. The idea behind noirme is that you can meet and greet only people who are in your neighbourhood and immediate overlapping areas (though no general radius stats are given) thus attempting to inject a little more of a personal touch to the deal. Its initial release is focused mainly on its San Francisco, CA test area (presumably where all the action is), but as it works globally, so they expect nayme to grow as more people adopt the idea.
Developer: Padadaz
Category: Social Networking
From the Department of Random Acts of Photography comes PhotoSwap. The entire idea behind PhotoSwap is that you take a picture and then exchange your picture with a completely random person who’s also connected. In return, you’ll get one of their pictures. I’ll lay 2:1 odds that a not-insignificant number of outgoing and incoming photos will inevitably be pictures of male genitalia. You can chat with each other if you want, but if you happen to be the unwitting recipient of someone’s wooly nadgers, talk is likely to be unproductive.
Developer: zuLabs
Category: Navigation
There are few things more explicitly Canadian than Tim Horton’s. Well, except for that dark period after Tim died and his wife, the harlot, sold the chain off to some soulless American concern. But its ownership ultimately returned to the land of beer and hockey, where men are men and will happily punch any foriegner in the yambag who tries to end every sentence or fragment thereof with an ironic EH? while asking where all the igloos are thinking they’re being witty. And they’ll do it with a smirk on their face and a Timmy’s in their other hand, because dammit, we love our coffee almost as much as we love our beer, and TimmyMe is here to make sure we are never without a means to guide us to the nearest Tim Horton’s for a piping hot double-double and a cruller. TimmyMe uses LocationServices to pinpoint your location and give you the locations of all of the Tim Horton’s outlets in the vicnity. You can even tap on an entry to bring up Google Maps — it’ll automatically plot a course from where you are to where it is, too. Warp speed, Mr. Sulu. (William Shatner is Canaidan-born, so thematically, I’m still on topic.)
Developer: Ezone.com
Category: Entertainment
Oh, dear. Here we go with another Ezone app. Yes, the people that brought you Crazy Lighter, Crazy Candle, Crazy Eye, Crazy Spark, Crazy Mouth, Crazy Goiter, Crazy Pantone Swatchbook, Crazy Chinese Finger Puzzle, Crazy Sheet of A4 Paper, Crazy Green Lump of Putty I Found In My Armpit One Midsummer Morning, and Crazy Wedge of English Stilton now bring you their latest leisure-suit wearing, Hitchhiker-dancing, Club 54-going, fro pick-sporting app called Crazy Disco. It has a rather poorly animated looping video clip of a gleaming disco ball backed by a generic disco soundtrack. Interaction involves swiping at the ball to make it spin faster, slower or backwards. The music will speed up or slow down accordingly. Ezone helpfully suggest trying to get it to spin so fast that it explodes, and then you can shake to bring it back. I humbly suggest we just move right along to the next app quickly before they release Crazy Refrigerator Door Light.
Developer: Bridger Maxwell
Category: Games
Here’s a nice little puzzler. Lumen Light is another twist on the classic reflection puzzle. The object is to shine your beam through all of the checkpoints. The trick is you must shine the right coloured light through like coloured checkpoints — and you’ve only got one emitter to do it with, so you must strategicaly place colour filters to colour the light, and mirrors to deflect the light where you want it to go. It’s a fun little puzzler and requires some logical thinking, features nice graphics and good gameplay. My only complaint is that in many levels you are not given checkpoint colours, so you have to play a bit of a guessing game as to which coloured light needs to pass through which obstacles. The challenge this is apparently supposed to add to the game feels like an artificial contrivance to lengthen gameplay, and frankly could have been omitted without otherwise losing any of the game’s charm. This of course is a demo version of the full Lumen game, which is a bargain at $2 and features an impressive 200 puzzles to bounce your light through.
Developer: Marius Kazemekaitis
Category: Utilities
Essentially the same as BF Caller or GF Caller; configure it with a phone number and the icon will then sit on your springboard and act as a shortcut to that phone number. The screenshot helpfully suggests an emergency number, but the countdown-to-dial timer suggests to me that if you need an emergency number, you’re probably not inclined to wait.
Developer: Stitcher, Inc.
Category: News
Here’s an interesting twist on personalized radio. Sitcher does for news what Last.fm does for internet radio. It allows you search for a topick a topic you want to listen to news about, and it will then happily trundle off and assemble (”stitch together”) a meta playlist of up-to-the-minute news and audio shows relating to that topic. There’s no scrobbling-equivalent, but then it’s probably not in your best interest to admit to the world that you’re deliberately listening to Bill O’Reilly.
Developer: Tim Knape Softwaretechnik
Category: Utilities
Languages supported: English. Description: German. Fortunately, this one is easy to figure out because it’s been done before. To the letter. Yes, it’s another progam to display all of the fonts installed on your device. Exactly and precisely like the other two I’ve already covered. There’s really no need to go into further detail, so let me take this opportunity to express my undying love for the ScribeFire plugin that I am using to write this drivel. Best extension for Firefox ever. Ever. And I’m not just saying that to get listed on their testimonials page. I do, in fact, love this extension to bits. I am also writing this to point out that you probably haven’t written a very good app if some snarky curmudgeon who reviews it spends more time describing someone else’s software than yours. I mean, you could at least make the text glow or dance around or spell out naughty limericks, even if just to try and differentiate yourself from the other programs that your app is exactly like. Writing a derivative work that you can’t improve upon or even set yourself apart from is artistic masturbation, and we’d rather not be made unwilling voyeurs. You know, when I start getting into iPhone development, I’m going to write a font viewer that displays the various fonts using Figlet-style ASCII images of boobs. I’ll bet mine gets more downloads.
Developer: Geometry
Category: Utilities
Now, see, this is what I’m talking about. Dual Level is a derivative work, but at least it goes to some length to differentiate itself from the pack by offering (and I know you’re on tenterhooks anticipating the big reveal here) two digital bubble levels on one screen, which makes it useful not only for horizontal or vertical planes, but for making sure that corners are level and meeting at proper 90° angles. It has a calibration button to help compensate for some of the inaccuracy of the device’s accelerometer, and has a virtual damper to round off the accelerometer values so you get nice, smooth readings. It even features some snazzy graphics in a Construction Yellow motif.
Developer: Aduci
Category: Lifestyle
I have no idea where this app’s curious name comes from, given its subject matter. (I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that it’s somehow related to how frogs catch their dinner. Not that this makes it any less curious.) Nonetheless I’ll let it slide. iRibbit Plus is an eBay app “built by eBay bidders for eBay bidders,” according to the author, and admittedly, while the UI design occasionally skids off the road and smashes into an ugly tree, this is definitely a pretty robust eBay app. It gives you keyword and advanced search capabilities, item ending alerts (provided you have the app open — oh please, Apple, finish up Push Notification Service so apps like this can get down and dirty with some real background alerts!), an auction countdown timer for those of us who like to snipe (or feel compelled to because everyone else does), a favourite searches list, plus the usual full detail view of auction items, bidding, Buy-it-Now, watch and bidding lists, and more. Most importantly, it works on eBay.ca! Not to mention .au, .fr, .de, .hk, .ie, .it, .sg, .co.uk, and naturally, .com. If you feel that the likes of GarageBuy just doesn’t quite cut it, iRibbit Plus should give you what is so far the ultimate mobile eBay experience.
Developer: MarketWall.com
Category: Games
If you need any further proof that any old yob can get any old piece of crap published in the App Store, this should put any and all arguments to rest: Crash Landing is nothing to do with publisher MarketWall.com. In fact, it is included with the iPhone SDK as sample code to familiarize developers with some basic game programming concepts. Its EULA states that it may be redistirbuted, modified or not, in source or binary forms, with Apple’s full blessing. So, MarketWall compiled it as it appears right out of the box with no modifications whatsoever (read: they wrote exactly zero lines of code) and published it in the iTunes store for what seems to be the explicit purpose of pimping their website that has absolutely nothing to do with the iPhone. It is a freakin’ CraigsList wannabe site that apparently has just started up. I don’t know whether to be impressed by the marketing ingenuity or disgusted at the blatant misuse of the App Store as an ad platform using a vehicle they didn’t even design or commission. No, actually, I’m going to go with disgusted. It may technically be legal, but that doesn’t mean it should have been done.
Developer: MarketWall.com
Category: Music
What I said above for Crash Landing? Mentally cut and paste it here, replacing any references to Crash Landing with references to Metronome. The fact that they have in fact released an original app (Path Tracker) only goes so far towards a small amount of mitigation. That is all.
Developer: Andreas Schmidt
Category: Entertainment
Vintage Unix/X-Windows users (and, heck, Atari ST users for that matter) will remember this as Xeyes. It was a little window that sat on your desktop sporting a pair of eyes that followed your mouse movement. This here iEyes app is an iPhone/Touch version of same. Given that it can only follow your finger movements while inside the app and doesn’t sit somewhere in the background as you tap and drag around, it kind of misses the point entirely. Download only if you have a life-threatening case of nostalgia.
Developer: Kevin Donnelly
Category: Utilities
This pared down unit conver does, at least, make some sense. It’s a kitchen unit converter for converting things like teaspoons, tablespoons, fluid ounces, and other units of weight and volume. It’s aimed squarely at chefs, but I’m sure budding bedroom chemists could probably find some use out of it, too.
Developer: Chaos Geordend
Category: Finance
Is Chaos this guy’s real first name? Because that would be epic. Anyway, this is a simple Risk Weighted Assets calculator for a small scale credit facility, and is bsaed on based on the function laid out by the Basel II accord. This is me with my thumb and index knuckle supporting my chin, nodding and muttering “Mm-hm”s of acknowledgement as I artfully conceal the fact that I have absolutely no idea what’s going on here.
Developer: 1337pwn.com
Category: Social Networking
An Xbox Live friend viewer featuring the ability to view gamer avatars, online status, gamer score, last played game (with exclusive game details pane), and details on your friends such as biography, location, game achievements, iHaloStats face card, and more. This game formerly cost a rather unimpressive $7.99, but Microsoft has been cracking down on developers who charge for their apps, insisting that they be free. So far, two of the three have complied; iLive (featured below this article) has yet to respond.
Developer: Audi of America, Inc.
Category: Games
A simple 2D racing game using a combination of touchscreen and accelerometer. Drive your Audi A4 around a circuit track by turning your device like a steering wheel to turn, and using soft buttons on the right and left to accelerate and brake respectively. Avoid the pylons or you’ll rack up time penalties for each one you knock over. It has some decent graphics, but I found the game rather hard to control — the steering seems too sensitive. Also, there’s no sound. An acceptable time waster for free, but not a whole lot more.
Developer: CharlesMezak
Category: Education
A simple guide for birdwatchers or people who just want to be able to identify birds. This is an absolutely monstrous app, weighing in at a positively obese 96 megs — which may make it the largest app in the App Store — owing largely to its massive database of North American ornithological life forms, including their common names, genus, species, and featuring pictures of each one (the part that makes the app so large.) You can also keep track of sightings.
Developer: Diddy
Category: Music
A simple program for budding and pro DJs alike to mix beats or sound bites into music brought to you by UK DJ and producer Diddy (but not programmed by him). Transfer loops and sound samples to your iPhone, select one, and beatmatch using the pitch slider. It’s simple and effective with just a touch of visual flare.
Developer: MobilityWare
Category: Games
A relatively simple, really quite standard video poker app that plays an average game of Jacks or Better. You’ve got your standard video poker controls on display, a standard set of cards, and some very basic, rather lacklustre sound effects. It’s nothing to write home about, but it’s far from a wasted download if you’re on the lookout for a decent and free video poker app.
Developer: Actus Technology Inc.
Category: Business
iTimeX is a simple compantion to TimeXchange.net, a free service that allows workers, admins, managers, clients connect with each other to “form project time reporting relationships.” In brief, it lets professionals open and edit projects for which there will be time billing and record your project times in order to keep track of how much you need to bill. It’s pretty no-frills, but it’s designed to get the job done without unecessary clutter or bloat.
Developer: InfoMedia, Inc.
Category: Social Networking
iVote is an online polling app that allows users to create polls on any given topic and let people vote and comment. It is location-aware, so you can focus on either people in your general vicinity or around the world. You can also vote on comments, Digg-style.
Developer: Linkedln
Category: Social Networking
The best way to describe LinkedIn would be a kind of miniature Facebook for professionals. Although functionally it isn’t much different than any other social networking app, and could certainly be used that way, it tries to set itself apart through its focus on connecting industry professionals with other industry professionals, effectively attempting to create personalized braintrusts around the industries you have a professional stake in so that if you need topical help, or want to offer help to others, those in your personal network are there for the asking or answering. It’s a good idea, and I hope that it achieves its aim and doesn’t disintegrate into another Facebook.
Developer: MarketignProfs
Category: Business
A kind of Reader’s Digest for marketing professionals. MProfs bring together digested marketing articles from MarketingProfs.com’s “Get to the point” serries for professionals who have a few minutes to kill and want to read up on the latest trends, information, and educational materials in the marketing field.
Developer: Travis Sparks
Category: Utilities
A front end that brings your del.icio.us and FoxMarks synchronized bookmarks together in one place, and even lets you share your bookmarks with others. You can create up to 4 separate bookmark feeds for easy categorization. It’s simple and no-frills.
Developer: Joshua Minor
Category: Music
A scaled down remote controller app to send Open Sound Control (OSC) messages to WiFi-connected music software such as Max/MSP, PureData, SuperCollider, and so on. This lite version is fairly limited; to be able to send accelerometer data, slider control data, and multitouch events, you’ll need to shell out $5 for the full version.
Developer: Mark Howard
Category: Social Networking
It is essentially an anonymous variant of nrme (listed above) with a dash of Cute Overload. Send and recieve messages anonymously to and from other anonymous people within a 50, 1,000, or 5,000 meter radius of your current location. If it is of interest you, they also have a blog.
Developer: Universalis Publishing
Category: Games
Ships2 is a variant on the classic game of Battleship — but it isn’t Battleship in the way that you remember. While you take your pot shots and hope to hit something, the whole point of the game is not to sink the ships, but simply to deduce their location based on clues given in each square and following a strict set of rules. To fully explain the rules would take up far more time and space than I’m willing to commit here. Fortunately, the game includes a full set of illustrated instructions to bring you up to speed. This ain’t your daddy’s Battleship to be certain. Ships2 lite is a scaled down version of the full game that contains only one level for each skill level and lets you play other levels that players can E-Mail to you. To get the full experience, you’ll need to smack down $7 for the full version, which is frankly a bit spendy for what amounts to a challenging yet rather dry logic game.
Developer: TENDA Co. Ltd.
Category: Entertainment
Punctuation failure aside, Stop It! Free (there, fixed it for them) challenges you to stop the timer at exactly 5 seconds by touching the screen when it reaches the magic number. It further challenges you to dig deep within and find the strength to play this more than twice before uninstalling. The explicit statement that this is free suggests that there will be a pay version at some point in the future, presumably one that will have different time goals and the further (and much more difficult) challenge of trying to justify itself to your wallet.
Developer: eNATAL LLC
Category: Health & Fitness
Listen here, son. When I was an OB/GYN, we didn’t have any of these fancy-pants digital readouts or machines that went “ping.” We used paper. Paper! Wheels, if you can imagine, fastened to other, larger wheels with little bits of metal! And they’d rotate, they would, and they’d have markings, and with these wheels of paper and bits of metal we could do everything you hoity-toity modern doctors could — without electricity yet! Just paper and man’s ingenuity! Alright, enough playing the codger. The Wheel RE is a scaled down version of its fuller, more competent, but still quite retro brethren. It is essentially a digital version of the mechanical gynecological wheel that can calculate an estimated date of conception (EDC) from the date of the expectant mother’s last menstrual period (LMP), approximate the gestational age (GA) of the fetus in weeks and days from the LMP or estimated delivery date (EDD), approximate the EDD from a known GA and date, estimate pregnancy ovulation, identify the term of the pregnancy, and keep track of selected EDC’s and dates of interest.
Developer: IPX
Category: Reference
UK Numbers is a very basic app that will take any UK phone number you give it and determine its geographical location based on Ofcom’s current numbering plan. For those of you unfamiliar (like us ign’ant North American furriners) it’s the same as how the first three digits of your North American phone number are given to a particular geographical calling area.
Developer: Robert Chin
Category: Rerefence
Wikipanion is a front-end interface for Wikipedia designed for fast and easy searching and custom formatting of pages. The point here is that pages are designed to load faster and be presented in an easier to read, iPhone-friendly format that’s simple to use and easy on the eyes. Just in case Mobile Safari doesn’t do it for you.
Developer: Iron Square
Category: Games
A nice little trivia game with a vintage game show flair. Answer multiple choice questions within the time limit, complete two rounds plus a lightning round for a chance at winning fabulous virtual prizes, like a year’s supply of cat litter, an 8-track player, or a “486 person computer.” That’s what it said. A “486 person computer.” Of course, it also referred to the study of heads as “fernology” (it’s “phrenology”; Fernology is, I presume, the study of ferns) so, accuracy and grammar clearly aren’t a high priority for Mr. Trivia. It’s a nice game with great presentation and graphics, but it’s rough around the edges when it comes to the actual questions and grammar. This is another game that also doesn’t pay attention to the mute switch. This demo version is limited to 50 questions and no lightning round.
Developer: Frank Schmitt
Category: Health & Fitness
No, those aren’t RuPaul’s measurements. 40-30-30 is a simple but well-presented app designed to break down where the calories (in percentages) of a given food are coming from given its weight per serving of carbs, protein, and fat. This will help you balance your caloric intake so you can tailor your foods such that their macronutrients are coming from healthy sources, or sources that fit whatever diet you may be on.
Developer: Pascal Dreer
Category: Weather
A weather app aimed at pilots, AeroWeather, which is based on the AviationWeather widget for Mac OSX, gives you up-to-the-minute METAR weather conditions forecasts. It lets you choose up to 20 worldwide airport weather stations selectable either by name or ICAO code, and you can choose to view the resulting data in its original format, or parsed into plain English for easier readability.
Developer: Bournesoft
Category: Music
A Tap Tap Revolution style game with a focus on drumming. It features two modes of play: Free play, which is effectively a low-latency drum machine, or the game itself, which is pretty much what you’d expect. I’m not going to lie to you: This app hit almost every branch on its way down the ugly tree. From the hideous “Neon” Photoshop edge filter on the title screen to drum component icons that look like they were antialiased for a white background despite appearing on black, the game screen that looks suspiciously like a fretboard, and the translucent red target dots that travel along it, this game screams “WE NEED 50CC’s OF GRAPHIC ARTIST IN HERE, STAT!” This game is also free only for a limited time; the next version, which is apparently just going through the approval process now, will cost money. If Bournesoft make any, we hope they’ll spend some of it on an artist — or at least some new Photoshop filters.
Developer: Discovery Communications
Category: Games
See, this is what I hate about the App Store. A new release’s appearance in the app store is never based around its actual approval date, but rather its submission date. This means that if you sort the App Store releases by date, and a particular app spent a good week going through approvals, it’ll show up in the App Store somewhere around page 8, even though it’s brand spanking new. It is thanks to this nonsensical methodology that I missed this particular app, released way back on the 4th. Cannon Challenge, by the Discovery Channel’s software division, is a take on the classic artillery game — set your angle and power and fire artillery shells at your enemies. Unfortunately, it’s not a particularly good take, because in this game, your enemies don’t fire back. They don’t even move. They just sit there waiting for you to blow ‘em up real good. There’s no variable wind to give you an additional challenge, and you control an NLOS (Non-line-of-sight) cannon with one type of ammo. That’s it. It also pays no attention to the mute switch, so you get sound whether you like it or not — and it’s loud. It’s a shame, too, because this could have been a pretty good game: The graphics are quite nice, though a little rough around the edges, there’s some variance in terrain, the controls, simple as they are, are intuitive, and the explosions and resulting smoke plumes make for a nice touch. Its lack of any counterattacks or attempts to evade your barrage however cut this game’s entertainment quotient off at the knees. Damn shame. It would have been nice to see a Scorched Earth style game on the iPhone.
Developer: BAMsoft
Category: Education
An educational app for the wee ones, 123s Lite is a flashcard application to help teach your little ankle biter their 1-2-3s in the convenience of your own phone. Just don’t let him/her try to do his/her own learning or he/she’s liable to try and feed it a peanut butter sandwich through the dock connector.
Developer: Plusmo, Inc.
Category: Sports
Need to keep up to the minute on what’s going down at your favourite pro golf grounds? PGA Tour Tracker will keep you in the loop providing the latest scores, leaderboards, news, schedules, and all sorts of other stuff from every major golf tournament around the country. Keep tabs on your favourite golfers and their progress with up-to-the-minute tracking during live play. Say, has Fuzzy Zoeller retired yet?
Developer: D!HV Lighting
Category: Utilities
No, this is not brought to you by the Department of Redundancy Department. it’s a lte version of a light calculator — that is, a calculator for lighting professionals that is used for determining the field and beam diameters given the beam angle, field angle, and throw distance. Also, the app icon looks like the outline of a “personal massage wand.” (Yeah, I know it’s a stage spotlight. I just calls ‘em like I sees ‘em, and I sees a “personal massage wand.” I’m not sure what that says about me, but it can’t be good.)
Developer: Coolgorilla
Category: Travel
Não vou comprar esta gravação, é riscado. Coolgorillia brings you an essential pair of travel companions if you happen to be visiting certain parts of Europe. Their talking phrasebooks give you some key phrases both written and spoken that you can use to get by while looking every inch the camera-wearing, floral-shirt-sporting, fishing-hat-topping tourist. Coolgorilla helpfully tell you that it’ll teach you how to order a round of drinks, tell a woman how beautiful she is, or contact your embassy in an emergency. It’s nice to see they’ve got their priorities in order, because as soon as you get a woman drunk and make a pass at her, you may need to contact your embassy right quick after she kicks you in the nadgers and calls the polícia.
Developer: 3rd Dimension Inc.
Category: Travel
3rd Dimension have, in the course of just a few days, managed to corner the traffic cam market in the App Store. Their latest releases include DC Traffic Cam, Traffic Authority: Mobile and WIBC Cell Cam Traffic for the Indianapolis folks, Connecticut Traffic Cam, MyFox Mobile Traffic for Detroit motorists, FOX43 Traffic Tracker for Knoxville, TN residents, and KSHB Traffic Jam Cell Cams for Kansasites. Hundreds of cameras each, so if you live in any of these areas, you’re well covered.
You know, this may well have been the largest single issue of The Free App Store Review ever. It’s certainly taken me a good 10-12 hours over two days to throw together. I’m just dedicated that way — no need to thank me. Just keep coming back for more — and maybe bring me some gruel and a crust of bread once in a while, maybe stay and chat a while. These shackles chafe so, and I get so very lonely…
But anyway. Tune in again time for more thrills, chills, spills and gefilte fish.
Written by Eric March on August 21st, 2008 with no comments.
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