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I love old games, retro games. Although the graphics are indeed not so delicate as those new games today, but the gameplay is just so great classic, and the main fun of playing a game comes from the gameplay, right? Retro games are great not only because of the gameplay, but also the fun sweet memory of our childhood. Check out this ‘new’ iPhone game called Pong 72, it will take you right back in time to 1972, the birth of Pong!
Pong 72 takes you back in time to 1972, the birth of Pong. Complete with small paddles (try Hard!), MONOCHROME graphics, high-fidelity 8-bit digital sound effects, and amazing gameplay like you’ve never seen before 1972. Think you were good at pong? Compete around the world with an online leaderboard and achievements.Now with iOS4 multitasking and automatic game save, you will never lose your best game to an interruption.
Here’re some main features of this awesome retro game:
1. Realistic computer player with 3 skill levels
2. Volley challenge game
3. 2 player mode (on one device)
4. Online leaderboard
5. Nostalgic sound effects
6. Several screen colors to choose from (like amber and green from the 70s!)
It is fun and enjoyable!
automatic game save, cellphone app, cellphone game, iOS4, iPhone app, iPhone game, Pong, Pong 72, retro, retro game
cellphone appsSeptember 13th, 2010
Karaoke is like the one thing we do every time we hold a party with a bunch of friends. I guess that’s because everyone loves singing, but that doesn’t mean everyone knows how to sing well, and that’s where the problems comes. Every time in Karaoke with your friends you might feel a little frustrated for you cannot sing as well as others. So how about to get the score back with the Lyric Lend app for iPhone?
For those of you less musically gifted than your peers, this iPhone app might let you unleash your talents in a karaoke-style game you could actually win.
To do well in the game, all you need to do is learn the lyrics. Called Lyric Legend it’s all about getting the words right and the tune can go to hell. It works like Guitar Hero in that you have to say the right word at the right time to register a hit and ‘burst’ the bubbles. You don’t even need to sing in front of your friends to compete against them, you can do it with just you and your iPhone then rack up the scores afterwards.
Given the vagaries of voice recognition technology (you know.. the sort of thing where your voicemail saying you’re locked out of the office gets transcribed as “I’m in South Africa”) – it actually sort of works.
The app is free but the catch is that you have to pay for songs – three come free with the app but if you want your favourite you have to buy it, there’s only a choice of 60 too.
Sometimes I find these pay-extra-to-buy-songs apps a bit annoying because if you’ve already spend 79p downloading the song onto your iPod, it seems downright wrong to pay for it again. Though the prices a bit more reasonable here: you can get a two pack of songs by a particular artist for a 59p – available for Rihanna and Robbie Williams for example.
This is fun, well maybe not as fun as singing itself, but you have a chance to win this time! The Lyric Legend App really turns your iPhone into a Karaoke device. You should really try it out. Just not in the office
cellphone app, iPhone, iPhone app, Karaoke, Lyric Legend, Lyric Legend App
The biggest of advantage of today’s smartphones is the massive app support, and that’s what we enjoy. Then why we are tightwads over apps? The only reason I can think of is that because it comes from the Internet, and things should be always free from the Internet!
Usually if I thought something would set me back 59p, I wouldn’t blink an eyelid. Hell I pay easily triple that for a coffee and that’s just coloured water in a cup.
But we still have a slight reluctance to splurge on apps. Even as a dedicated iPhone user I still hesitate over any app that costs over £1. That is exactly the mental contradiction that the Oatmeal, that chronicler of geek dilemmas, picks up on in his cartoon recently “This is how I feel about buying apps”.
I do sort of know why of course: that’s because at heart I still think stuff on the internet is free, so I don’t compare apps with coffee, I compare them with FREE STUFF ON THE INTERNET. Compared to nothing, 59p is expensive. Still, I’ve got 90 odd so it’s not exactly prohibitive.
The Android store is known for having the most free apps, then Apple’s store is probably next with Blackberry and Window’s mobile apps being pretty pricey – in general. Nokia’s Ovi store prices are moderate but they don’t have many quality free apps.
The Internet has been well developed for the recent decade, and it becomes a most important part of our life. But things become ugly when it comes to shopping for internet resources, we are way more generous when buying real things that we can touch and feel. It’s just we don’t get it that the Internet is real, and so are the apps! We could really become a tightwad when it comes to the Internet, and the Oatmeal comic well explained this, you can check out the full cartoon at their official site.
Well, how do you feel about apps?
app, App Store, cellphone app, comic, free app, Phone Talk
cellphone appsAugust 26th, 2010
The iPhone app world is a well fertilized market, therefore we can see lots of apps for iPhone out there, really helpful ones, interesting ones, beautiful ones, useless ones…totally a sea of iPhone apps. And today we’re going to tell you about a quite weird one called iKaddish. Tell me what you’ve learned from the name?
Yes, it has something to do with Kaddish, very clever. Actually this is an app that teaches you Jewish mourning prayers.
I don’t know if this is an common need among iPhone users, but an app now helps you to pronounce a Jewish mourning prayer.
If you find it hard to master the intonation while reciting the ancient Aramaic text of the Kaddish, this app will definitely help you.
It’s a free tutorial program that displays the text of the Kaddish in the original Aramaic and English transliteration, and chants the text, highlighting each word as it is pronounced.
I guess it could be embarrassing getting it wrong on sombre occasions, so take the time to download this app and get it right.
And if you want another app to help you cope with the grief itself, try Personal Cemetery, an app that lets you make gravestones for people who have died. Only kidding. Even Engadget think it’s a bit shoddy.
The iKaddish is free on iTunes, so why not give it a shot? It’s free anyway, nothing to lose.
cellphone app, iKaddish, iPhone app, Jewish mourning prayers, Kaddish
Lots of things you can do with your new iPhone, for there’re lots of different apps which do many different things for the iPhone, and that’s the one of the biggest advantages of modern smartphones. And today here’s a cute app for you: If you like to do self-measures, the TrakIt app for iPhone will help you keep tabs on your life.
If there’s one thing people like finding out about, it’s themselves. So iPhone app TrakIt is probably onto a winner with their tracking yourself app. It doesn’t really do very much apart from provide a format for you to track things in: helping you help yourself, you know.
Describing itself as a “unique Goal Setting and Daily Tracking app”, TrakIt says that they ”enable users to track anything on a daily basis: Sales calls, blood sugar, pill taking, their weight, stock prices, billable hours, miles run, whether they worked out or not, or anything else they would like to track. Users can also take notes, set goals, and quickly see how they’re performing in relation to those goals.”
Obviously that is most useful if you have some particular area you want to improve on and certain goals you want to achieve. Like with a lot of stuff it’s down to how much effort you put in. Do you remember to record stuff?
Features of the app that make it useful include the ability to track anything. Other apps tend to focus on particular things like weight loss. There are three ways to input data – you can either input numbers (calls made a day); yes/no data (did you go for a run?); or an average (what was your weight?). Your progress and goals can displayed visually in a graph, and the app also generates an automatic To-Do list which can buzz you with reminders – “eat a carrot!”, stop looking at it, you can’t have cheese burger!
It’s part of a broader trend of tracking ourselves, taken to a sort of extreme by the people in this New York Times article on self-measurement. Something that has increased a lot with smartphones because of the convenience of updating something that is always available.
Available for $3.99, it’s actually quite pricey for an app, but totally worth it for some people.
cellphone app, iPhone, iPhone app, track yourself, TrakIt
cellphone appsJune 18th, 2010
This is the season for football fans, a season for soccer fans, for everyone who love ball sports, this is the merry time, and watching the World Cup Match becomes a really important thing in our life. This is the season for sweats and tears, for joys and cheers, but what if you’re stuck abroad? What a disaster! Don’t worry, the Footy Pubs App will help you.
Are you missing the USA vs England World Cup match right now? And you happen to be abroad, the Footy Pubs App should help you out. The Footy Pubs 2010 mobile application, the first of many mobile applications to come from Drinksin was launched on the Apple iTunes store this May. Nokia and Phones4U have also partnered up with Drinksin for the Nokia Footy Pubs 2010 application released 1st June, in time to promote and celebrate watching the World’s Greatest Football Tournament this summer.
How Footy Pubs 2010 works:
1 – Open the app and hit matches nearby
2 – View a list of pubs just around the corner showing World Cup matches that day
If planning ahead:
1 – Select Match Planner
2 – Pick your city/town
3 – Select the match you want to watch
4 – Discover pubs to visit to watch your favourite nation play.
The applications developed by Drinksin, work anywhere in the UK to bring you bang up-to-date World Cup match information. Get directions to all the pubs and bars showing this summer’s big games.Get fixtures and kick-off times in venues round the corner or anywhere you’re going. Pick a match then pick your spot.
Some main features:
1 – Uses GPS to find a pub or bar showing the match you want to see near your location
2 – Search and browse pubs and bars with matches showing & World Cup offers
3 – Tell your friends where you’ll be watching the match via Twitter & Facebook (Nokia version only)
4 – Use directions to easily find the nearest World Cup pub showing the match you want to see
This is like the best app ever for football fans, for more informations please visit www.drinksin.com/worldcupapp
Apple iTunes store, cellphone app, Drinksin, football, Footy Pubs, iPhone, Nokia, Phone4u, soccer, World Cup, World Cup match
cellphone appsJanuary 22nd, 2010
Today we use phones to do a lot of things besides making calls, generally, get information, have some entertainments. In order to do those, you might have to installed quite a lot apps on your phone, which can be really annoying when you don’t have enough disk space, or you just hate to have so many apps for one purpose. Well, now the solution comes up with this amazing app, Mesa Info Booth.
Mesa Info Booth is a free Java ME (J2ME) application for cell phones and PDAs. With Mesa Info Booth, you can check up-to-date weather information and forecast for your location, read all kinds of news with optional photos, check stock price, market news, and company headlines, look up new words with online dictionary for many languages (e.g. English, Spanish, Chinese, German, French, Italian, Russian, Portugese, Arabic, etc.), get TV & Movie news, recommendation, box office, and sport news and scores. Mesa Info Booth also includes several popular games for you to relax or kill time.
So basically, it’s a ‘one for all’ app, almost all your needs on cellphone can be satisfied by this one single app! Compact and functional, but pity that right now it only supports most of Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson phones.
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