With an easy-to-use interface and great support, Police Radio could be just the ticket if you’ve got the citizens-band itch to scratch ... read more at Macworld
Aqua Forest 2 is the sequel to Hudson Entertainment’s popular puzzle game, Aqua Forest. The sequel features 50 challenging stages ... read more at Macworld
Microsoft’s Bing app for the iPhone and second-generation models of the iPod touch takes dead aim at Google’s impressive mobile app ... read more at Macworld
Swap It, a $1 iPhone app from Robert Hodgen, is a clever way to share data between multiple iPhones and second-generation iPod touch models ... read more at Macworld
Twin Blades is an anime-influenced hack-and-slash game developed by Bulkypix. You play as a heavily armed (and somewhat stylized) battle nun who must confront the undead ... read more at Macworld
Note-taking apps of varying quality fill the productivity section of the App Store. Simplenote, from Codality, aims to provide a high quality experience ... read more at Macworld
Emo Weather is a fun and funky little weather app that provides all the basic weather information most people need. It does so with a unique emotional flourish ... read more at Macworld
There have been some really good racing games in the App Store so far, but as far I’m concerned, Need For Speed Undercover leaves them all in the dust ... read more at Macworld
Anyone can record video with an iPhone, but it takes a real Spielberg to make a movie. That’s the idea behind ReelDirector, an app for the iPhone and second-generation iPod touch that attempts to be a full-fledged movie creation tool ... read more at Macworld
Planets—not to be confused with The Planets—is a pretty nifty utility from Q Continuum that does just a few things, and it does them well. Not nearly as full featured as John Kennedy’s affordable Pocket Universe ... read more at Macworld
PAC-MAN Championship Edition - Namco Networks America
Pac-Man Championship Edition is the fourth Pac-Man game brought to the iPhone and iPod touch from Namco after the original Pac-Man ... read more at Macworld
John Cotant’s News Rush and News Rush Pro for the iPhone and iPod touch have a pretty interface and link to a ton of news sources. But the diversity and quantity of sources is undermined ... read more at Macworld
John Cotant’s News Rush and News Rush Pro for the iPhone and iPod touch have a pretty interface and link to a ton of news sources. But the diversity and quantity of sources is undermined ... read more at Macworld
Essentially, the app works like a karaoke machine: you select from several included T-Pain songs (minus vocals, but lyrics included) and then sing into the inline mic ... read more at Macworld
Offered by Cyclus.ch, WorkLog is different. While most time-racking apps I’ve used for the iPhone are tied to some kind of for-fee, Web-based accounting/billing application, WorkLog is a standalone iPhone app ... read more at Macworld
Offered by Cyclus.ch, WorkLog is different. While most time-racking apps I’ve used for the iPhone are tied to some kind of for-fee, Web-based accounting/billing application, WorkLog is a standalone iPhone app ... read more at Macworld
With 3D Mini Golf Challenge, Digital Chocolate succeeds in bringing a beautiful and entertaining miniature golf game to the iPhone and iPod touch ... read more at Macworld
QBaseball from Kdan Mobile Software performs the cardinal sin of iPhone gaming: You’re forced to dismiss a video each time you launch it ... read more at Macworld
For the basketball fan on the go, NBA Game Time provides a variety of ways to keep tabs on the league action wherever you are ... read more at Macworld
Mini Squadron from Mr Fung Fung is an action packed flying shooter that will have you coming back for more. With its great graphics, smooth controls ... read more at Macworld
Before you rush to download Photoshop, understand that it's based on the online photo editor rather than the Mac version. You won't find drawing tools ... read more at MacUserUK
Driver puts you behind the wheel as an undercover cop to infiltrate the criminal underworld. You'll undertake increasingly dangerous missions, from a run-of-the-mill escape from a bank job to ... read more at MacUserUK
While the more recent Grand Theft Auto videogames all focus on expansive 3D worlds, GTA: Chinatown Wars steps back in time to the series’ 2D roots. Surprisingly enough--and in spite of its forgettable narrative--it’s more refreshing and brilliant ... read more at MacLife
Call of Duty: World at War: Zombies - Activision Publishing
Call of Duty: World at War: Zombies’ 3D graphics are an impressive low-res mimicry of the console game--the shambling zombie animations and brutal dismemberment are bang-on ... read more at MacLife
Nintendo should be flattered. Rogue Planet imitates so many aspects from other strategy games--especially Advance Wars--that old fans will jump right in ... read more at MacLife
P.T. Barnum could have been an App Store powerhouse. Dazzle an iPhone owner who (rightly) doesn't understand all of the technology inside Apple's magic device ... read more at MacLife
In its concept, Skater Nation copies almost everything we'd want in a skateboarding game. 10 game areas allow hours of exploration ... read more at MacLife
Voltron by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is an isometric adventure game in which you alternately pilot each of the five mechanical lions on Planet Arus ... read more at Macworld
Pocket Devil from Eyedip is a hilariously evil game that crosses well past the line of “homage,” deep into the realm of “blatant rip-off” ... read more at Macworld
When I mentioned to a friend of mine that I was testing Order Pizza—a free app from Order Mapper that lets you punch in a pizza order and send it off to your local pizzeria ... read more at Macworld
Minim is an original, clever puzzler for the iPhone. The $2 game from Fishing Cactus excels because of its simplicity and its elegant ties to the iPhone’s unique interface ... read more at Macworld
ShakeItPhoto is a very simple app, as something like this should be. When you launch the app, the camera immediately takes over and prompts you to take a shot ... read more at Macworld
What does Dow Jones’s financial wire service, MarketWatch, have that competitor Bloomberg doesn’t have? After all, both offer up-to-the-minute market news ... read more at Macworld
NFL Quarterback Challenge from ProAppSports can boast of being officially licensed by the NFL, and it’s offering players the chance to win NFL Pro Bowl tickets ... read more at Macworld
Developer Skyworks recently updated Arcade QB Pass Attack. And while the update added some interesting new challenges to the game, it also took a sizable step backward in replayability ... read more at Macworld
SugarSync is an online backup service somewhat reminiscent of Dropbox. The SugarSync iPhone app from Sharpcast lets you access your backed-up files ... read more at Macworld
The unique puzzle game Enigmo originally debuted on the Mac in 2003. Developer Pangea Software ported the popular game to the iPhone ... read more at Macworld
Open Door Networks, makers of the Envi family of photo browsing apps for the iPhone and iPod touch, has contributed Decade Review to the deluge ... read more at Macworld
In Knights Onrush, you must defend your castle from—quite literally—onrushing knights. You have a plethora of defensive strategies at your disposal ... read more at Macworld
Apps are fast becoming essential to the immense press junket required to promote a movie. Ninja Assassin, the Warner Bros. companion game ... read more at Macworld
I found it more challenging to keep track of my tasks or edit jobs in ClockIn than with the other two apps. You can add more client information in ClockIn ... read more at Macworld
Kyoobed’s ClockedIn is a more straightforward and intuitive task timer. It isn’t as feature-filled as On the Clock, but it boasts a few features ... read more at Macworld
On the Clock - time tracking for clients,... - Impresario Digital
On the Clock is made with the independent professional foremost in mind. Developer Glenn Barnett says he wrote the app to the specifications of a lawyer friend ... read more at Macworld
Texts From Last Night is a $1 app from the creators of the Website of the same name. Both feature a seemingly endless stream of tawdry ... read more at Macworld
TED—which stands for “technology, entertainment and design”—is a conference which seeks to bring together some of the more innovative and brilliant people in the world ... read more at Macworld
Xmas Card Factory from Bytes in Boxes allows you to create and send customized cards in a matter of minutes, using several of the iPhone’s functions ... read more at Macworld
Run Stats is designed to be used on your iPhone to track your running; it uses the iPhone’s built-in GPS to track your run, recording time, distance ... read more at Macworld
Arachnadoodle by Connect2Media takes an interesting and refreshing twist on the puzzle genre. While comparisons could be drawn to games like Peggle ... read more at Macworld
The Mill is one of leading visual effects companies in the world. With its Mill Colour app, The Mill takes some of the excellent color control ... read more at Macworld
Anyone who grew up in proximity to a video arcade in the 1970s or ’80s remembers Space Invaders. And anyone who grew up afterward ... read more at Macworld
With the promise of stunning graphics and a vast world to explore, RavenSword: The Fallen King is one of the most highly anticipated games ... read more at Macworld
SpeedNote, a $2 app from DevLux, attempts to solve a problem that I just don’t have, and does so in a way that’s absolutely antithetical not only to how I use the iPhone, but to how I write ... read more at Macworld
I had more hope for the iPhone app The Planets. The $1 app from Eric Vollnogel does provide a lot of information about the planets ... read more at Macworld
Headline writing is as much an art as a science, and truly funny headline writing is a rare art indeed. The intrepid journalists at the Onion ... read more at Macworld
When you launch Camena, it grabs the song that’s currently playing in the iPod application and heads online to find the lyrics ... read more at Macworld
I’m looking at you, Chore Bank. The $2 app from Data Jedi aims to help you track which chores your kids complete, how much each of those individual chores is worth ... read more at Macworld
Captain Galactic: Super Space Hero - Digital Chocolate, Inc.
What could be more fun than playing as a super hero in charge of saving the galaxy? Captain Galactic: Super Space Hero from Digital Chocolate ... read more at Macworld
Anyone who grew up obsessed with Mario Kart is already familiar with the game’s format: characters race go-karts through cartoonish environments ... read more at Macworld
Best Camera is a photo editing app from professional photographer Chase Jarvis and Ubermind. Jarvis has long been a proponent of the oft-repeated photography phrase ... read more at Macworld
Jirbo’s Dreidel Tap, which is also as free as the Macabees, is rather ridiculous. Against what seems to be the same MIDI dreidel soundtrack that Dreidel, Dredel, Dradel employs ... read more at Macworld
Dreidel Dreidel Dreidel from Maui Media Lab instead incorporates a more satisfying “swipe” mechanism, but inexplicably places the dreidel on a tiled matzah background ... read more at Macworld
Dreidel, Dredel, Dradel from Excelltech plays a MIDI version of “I Had a Little Dreidel” and features the better-looking dreidel, but incorporates some weird physics ... read more at Macworld
If you really want to play the game of dreidel, and have no dreidel and no pennies, M&Ms, or other tokens, this is the dreidel app for you ... read more at Macworld
The first two apps I looked at aim to merge multi-touch with the menorah. iMenorah is a $3 app from Jutanabet, while Mobile Menorah is a $1 app from LilBros ... read more at Macworld
The first two apps I looked at aim to merge multi-touch with the menorah. iMenorah is a $3 app from Jutanabet, while Mobile Menorah is a $1 app from LilBros ... read more at Macworld
GoodReader from Good.iWare is, at its heart, a superb PDF file viewer for the iPhone. It is also much more—an app that seems like it has so many extra features ... read more at Macworld
Enter CodingArt’s A Masterpiece Collection, which has all of Classics’ virtues and improves on at least two of its flaws. The app features 36 novels, plays, and short story collections ... read more at Macworld
The feature list with Dropbox for iPhone is impressive: You can view all kinds of documents—Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations ... read more at Macworld
Layar Reality Browser promises an awful lot for an iPhone app. Layar B.V., the developer, refers to Layar as an “Augmented Reality Browser ... read more at Macworld
Touch Pets Dogs is a beautiful, clever, Tamagotchi-style game for the iPhone era. The game is well-conceived, fun to play, and painfully cute ... read more at Macworld
Mover uses Wi-Fi and Bluetooth to shuffle files between devices. If two people are on the same Wi-Fi network, they will be recognized ... read more at Macworld
Mover uses Wi-Fi and Bluetooth to shuffle files between devices. If two people are on the same Wi-Fi network, they will be recognized ... read more at Macworld
Arkanoid, the classic arcade game from Taito, finds a welcome home on the iPhone and iPod touch. Arkanoid is a Breakout-style game ... read more at Macworld
World Cup Air Hockey from Skyworks looks like it should be the best game of this trio. Its viewing angle is just above the table-top ... read more at Macworld
A free offering from Brainjuice, Arcade Hockey has the best graphics—the paddles and puck have a more cartoonish, well-designed look ... read more at Macworld
Air Hockey from Acceleroto is the best simulation of those I tested, even if it uses a perspective that makes the table-top seem smaller than in other games ... read more at Macworld
If you love Flight Control… Well, I can’t promise you’ll love Aqua Globs, a $1 game from Qwiboo—but you’ll certainly recognize it ... read more at Macworld
What could be more all-American than roundhouse kicking Commies to death in the streets of rural Texas? Chuck Norris: Bring on the Pain! ... read more at Macworld
Jeremie Welden’s Santa’s Little Helper is in roughly the same vein as Pocket Santa. The app lets you organize your gift purchases by person, group, store and gift type ... read more at Macworld
Shopping List works slightly differently from Santa’s Little Helper, and has a few interesting features that set it apart from similar apps ... read more at Macworld
I often don’t need to say anything more than a good Twittelator post can’t handle, especially when the iPhone is my weapon of choice. But for more than 140 characters ... read more at Macworld
BlogPress Lite will only publish to Google’s Blogger, which is great if that’s your blog, but useless if it’s not. Paying for the full version of BlogWriter ... read more at Macworld
I often don’t need to say anything more than a good Twittelator post can’t handle, especially when the iPhone is my weapon of choice. But for more than 140 characters ... read more at Macworld
If you’ve ever wanted to create those cool black-and-white photographs with part of the image in vibrant color, then ColorMagic from Molinker is just the app for you ... read more at Macworld
Greed. Backruptcy. The American Dream. Yes, the classic capitalistic board game Monopoly has finally made its way to the iPhone ... read more at Macworld
Professional photographers with Cadillac-style equipment have long enjoyed the ability to operate a camera by remote control. Such pro-quality remote capabilities allow you to ... read more at Macworld
Professional photographers with Cadillac-style equipment have long enjoyed the ability to operate a camera by remote control. Such pro-quality remote capabilities allow you to ... read more at Macworld
If you use the LittleSnapper desktop application from Realmac Software—and the Ember image hosting service that accompanies it ... read more at Macworld
For the first official Harry Potter game, Harry Potter: Spells, the developers at Warner Bros. spared no expense in the graphics department ... read more at Macworld
The board game, Settlers of Catan is among the most elegant, refined strategy games you could ever play away from a computer. So with such great roots, we're disappointed ... read more at MacLife
According to iPhone game, Chuck Norris: Bring On the Pain, "Death once had a near-Chuck Norris experience." Developer, Ludigames has turned the Internet-fed Chuck Norris legend of badassery into a pulpy action game ... read more at MacLife
These hybrid apps combine the iPhone’s location services, friends lists, databases of user-generated hot spots, and user-achievement systems borrowed from the world of videogames ... read more at MacLife
These hybrid apps combine the iPhone’s location services, friends lists, databases of user-generated hot spots, and user-achievement systems borrowed from the world of videogames ... read more at MacLife
To round out my game night, I left the EA/Hasbro fold for a few sets of Backgammon Premium ($1.99, www.trivialtechnology.com). The beauty of backgammon on the iPhone is the ability to see where you can move ... read more at MacLife
Monopoly Here & Now: The World Edition ($4.99) and Clue ($2.99) were clearly built for--and maybe by?--today’s video game-suckled youth. Neither stoops to merely re-creating the original game ... read more at MacLife
Monopoly Here & Now: The World Edition - Electronic Arts
Monopoly Here & Now: The World Edition ($4.99) and Clue ($2.99) were clearly built for--and maybe by?--today’s video game-suckled youth. Neither stoops to merely re-creating the original game ... read more at MacLife
The iPhonized version of Yahtzee isn’t your traditional faire. As you progress through the game as an adventurer, new variations of basic Yahtzee appear as options ... read more at MacLife
FT Mobile is the London-based Financial Times’ application for the iPhone and iPod touch. The app is the only one of this lot that encourages but does not require free registration ... read more at Macworld
Gomi is a cute and colorful game for iPhone and iPod touch with unique, if tiresome, gameplay. You control the titular character, a Muppet-esque colorful ball ... read more at Macworld
Gomi is a cute and colorful game for iPhone and iPod touch with unique, if tiresome, gameplay. You control the titular character, a Muppet-esque colorful ball ... read more at Macworld
TweetTheBeat is very simple to use because it provides only two options: Tweet This Track, which generates a tweet containing info about the song that’s currently cued up ... read more at Macworld
It’s usually a good sign when a game makes you curse under your breath every time you lose. Addicus, an arcade puzzle from Get Set Games ... read more at Macworld
The embodiment of True Yankeedom has lent his name and gallingly handsome visage to Derek Jeter Real Baseball, a $3 baseball simulator from Gameloft ... read more at Macworld
Camera Genius can’t really do anything about the iPhone’s camera hardware. But the app from CodeGoo can help you take better pictures ... read more at Macworld
With the release of Touch KO, Chillingo takes the heavyweight title for boxing games on the iPhone, with hard hitting gameplay ... read more at Macworld
Lab48’s vTie and vTie Premium for the iPhone and iPod touch are helping preserve what’s becoming increasingly arcane knowledge. The app provide step-by-step instructions for a dozen necktie knots ... read more at Macworld
Lab48’s vTie and vTie Premium for the iPhone and iPod touch are helping preserve what’s becoming increasingly arcane knowledge. The app provide step-by-step instructions for a dozen necktie knots ... read more at Macworld
If you like to nap, or, like me, need to nap sometime during the day to rejuvenate yourself, there's a good change you'll find Pzizz Relax for the iPhone to be a helpful piece of napping equipment ... read more at Macworld
Silent Swords, a cartoon 2-D stealth platform game from Oniric Games, challenges the player to sneak through an underground base ... read more at Macworld
NetNewsWire started life as a Mac app seven years ago, making it one of the oldest RSS readers around. The application arrived in iPhone form as Apple opened its mobile platform ... read more at Macworld
NetNewsWire started life as a Mac app seven years ago, making it one of the oldest RSS readers around. The application arrived in iPhone form as Apple opened its mobile platform ... read more at Macworld
The $8 Mindjet app lets you create mindmaps in either portrait or landscape mode. Initially, it opens to a map management screen ... read more at Macworld
NBA Live, a $10 game from EA Sports, continues EA’s march to port all its major sports titles (Madden, Tiger Woods, FIFA) to the iPhone ... read more at Macworld
As its name implies, Perfectly Clear by Athentech Imaging is an iPhone app that can quickly and easily improve most iPhone photos ... read more at Macworld
DockMarket’s Bookmark app for the iPhone and iPod touch is the reader-friendly audiobook app that booklovers and listeners have been waiting for ... read more at Macworld
For the same price as Ringtone Maker ($15), Ringer actually has more in common with RingtoneStudio because it supports the same file formats as QuickTime ... read more at Macworld
Xilisoft iPhone Ringtone Maker 1.0 is compatible with a much wider variety of video and music formats than PocketMac's RingstoneStudio 2 ... read more at Macworld
PocketMac RingtoneStudio 2 for iPhone lets you create a new ringtone with a few clicks. Just drop a music file onto the interface ... read more at Macworld
Thanksgiving Party from PTAJ Marketing offers no help at all. The apps lists a series of ideas for organizing a holiday get-together ... read more at Macworld
On the planning front, iFeast: Thanksgiving from Digital Laundry looks to help you synchronize your meal’s prep work and cook times ... read more at Macworld
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