06.02.2012 in App Reviews, App Store, iPhone by Edward Jean 0

BlackBook Didit – iPhone App Review

This iPhone app review is only meant for users over 17 years of age and may contain adult related material.

Well it is matter of fact that there aren’t a lot of app on the app store that help you track and monitor you sexual life, but BlackBook Didit is an exception and a wonderful utility that offers you a quick and easy way to save your experiences throughout the life in a convenient way.

BlackBook Didit starts with a main screen that displays a graph of your sexual activities along with a monthly historical summary. From the same screen you can add your new love(partner); you can choose the gender of your partner; add a name, picture and contact number for quickly recalling them with a glance. Followed by the partner details, you have an option to rate them based on your experience, add the date, mark if you used a contraceptive, and achieved the climax with simple yes/no switches.  There can be times when you are drunk and would like to take it in consideration too, for the same convenience you can add the number of bottles you are down by simple tapping on the bottles rating bar. The app also offers a comment section within the partner details area, here you can add any other details or elaborate your experience.  You can add as many partner as you have in the app and the see the aggregated data on the home screen where it is shown as a monthly graph. You can change the view to detailed monthly view or partner view, showing you a list of partner and further taking you to their profile by tapping.

The settings section button in the app takes you to the your statistics which show total number of partners, contacts,  number of times a contraceptive was used, and number of times climax was achieved, while also including the number of times you were drunk before the activity. The statistics are managed yearly and show you the number of days you have stayed away from your partners. At any  point you can delete the complete application data by using the reset your data button. The app also allows users to ask questions through email, though we haven’t tried reaching them nor do we know how effective their solutions can be for your cause, but at least you can have your questions answered privately.

The only feature we found missing in the app was the ability to lock the data with a password protection, which can be really useful in this app which stores really personal data of yours. You don’t really need to worry until you share your phone with others or don’t lock it with a screen lock password. $2.99 is a small price to spare for an app that can help you manage and track your partners and sex activities in a easy and quick way.

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App Name: BlackBook Didit 1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
App Category: Lifestyle
Price: $2.99 BlackBook Didit - Infoaudit
Developer: Infoaudit
01.02.2012 in App Reviews, News, featured article, iPad, iPhone by Edward Jean 0

Right gifts for the right occassion, Avas Flowers : iPhone App Review

Flowers are the most beautiful gifts suitable for any occasion.  Right from a birthday to an anniversary, flowers never fail to make a positive impact and also add a personal touch to your wishes. Avas Flowers is a quick and convenient way to send flowers to your loved ones, especially if you find it difficult to purchase gifts due to your busy schedule, then Avas Flowers can help you choose, personalize and order some flowers right from the comfort of your iPhone.

Most of the apps available on the app store allow you to buy flowers, but the good side of Avas is that it allows you to quickly navigate between different types of flowers based on occasions, seasons, best deals, plant, brands like 1800flowers, FTD and few more and thus helps you find what you are looking for with useful categorization. Users can simultaneously search for any type of bouquet they want and add it to their shopping cart or view more details like pictures, reviews & ratings and some other related products. You can add multiple products to your shopping cart and return anytime later to complete your order with PayPal, Google checkout or your credit card. While you tend to make your loved ones day special you don’t want to miss their most loved chocolates, a beautiful greeting card or a soft toy that can be added to personalize your gift before sending on a pre scheduled date. It could be possible that you forget the occasion but your feelings will definitely reach your loved ones to tell them that you care.

Avas Flowers integrates the power of multiple branded apps in one and aggregates flowers, bouquets and personalization gifts from multiple sources to give you wide variety of choices before you choose the right gift for the right occasion.  Though we experiences small delays while navigating through the app, though they do affect the browsing experience by making you wait a little longer for pages to be rendered from their web server but this does not affect what the app has to offer. Avas Flowers is available for Free on the app store, so you just pay for the price of your purchase.

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App Name: Avas Flowers 1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars
App Category: Lifestyle
Price: Free Avas Flowers - Official Mobile Avas Flowers App - Avas Flowers
Developer: Avas Flowers
01.02.2012 in App Reviews, App Store, News, iPad by nand 0

iPad Educational Game Review- Reading books gets more engaging with “The Scroll First Chapter”

We have seen a lot of eBooks for both kids as well as adults that are great to spend some time on a long journey or an uninteresting weekend. “The Scroll First Chapter” is one such education book that not only comes with a meaningful storyline but also helps readers build their skills with questions that are a part of the story.

You start The Scroll First Chapter app and read the story of Zoe and Zolnar- the two twin brothers who live with their father in a faraway land and an aim to find the scroll. The wonderful story is accompanied by colourful images and background music that makes the whole reading experience rejoicing. Each part of the story ends with a small quest that is a part of the story and you actively take part to help Zoe and Zolnar to solve them. By learning science concepts and solving simple maths puzzles like generating electricity, pest killing techniques, learning the conversion units and much more, kids will enjoy the story despite these short breaks that teach them interesting facts.

The Scroll First Chapter was specially designed for kids and teenagers to be enjoyed by them while they take small challenges to move to the next episode of the story. The Scroll First Chapter is actually the first chapter of its series and the developer will release the next chapter of the story soon.

If you want to gift your kids an app that keeps a balance between fun and education then The Scroll First Chapter could be a nice start for free. Currently The Scroll First Chapter is available for only iPad considering the real estate of screen it tries to utilize.

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App Name: The Scroll First Chapter 1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars
App Category: Education
Price: Free The Scroll First Chapter - MSPublishing House
Developer: MSPublishing House
31.01.2012 in App Reviews, App Store, News, iPad by Yoyo 0

iPad Education App Review- Oolly App: Interactions that teach while kids have fun

“Oolly App” for iPad is a very exciting kid’s interactive learning app from Progressive education.  The app aims to teach new skills to preschooler’s with its interactive method and a character named Oolly.

The app has different type of activities/game modes that can be played by kids. Currently the app has a sorting mode in which Kids need to sort things and place them rightly. For example a milk bottle goes in the fridge, while the hand gloves are kept in a cupboard or near the microwave rather than a fridge.The sorting mode has 4 different locations to be played in- the bathroom, kitchen, bedroom and the backyard. These simple activities improve kid’s observation levels and help him identify each item with its unique shape, color and use. Moreover the character Oolly keeps talking to the kids and pronounces the name of each item that is being picked and dropped anywhere. When a kid goes wrong or does not know where to place an item Oolly guides him/her by directing what they need to do next.

When we say interactive, it’s not just the character but various items in the room work like they do in real life. For example you can turn on the shower by tapping the knob, open the door of microwave by pulling it, or pull the curtains by sliding over it and similarly do much more with the interactive elements in the picture.

Oolly App is played with a natural gesture of grabbing things but with fingers to pick them up and drop somewhere else in the app. Each correct activity is appreciated by Oolly and so is the level completion which awards an ice cream to the kid for helping mommy. So, kids aim to complete the delicious ice cream bar on the left hand of the screen in each activity making the whole experience very engaging and fun.

There are lot of advantages of interactive learning, besides their primary benefits of being more engaging, easy to learn, easy to remember and cost effectiveness.  And Oolly App has got it all what your kid will love to learn while he/she enjoys the bright and colorful graphics. The developer has planned to add four more modes to the Oolly App in near future shown in the app with a coming soon badge. For only 99 cents, Oolly app is wonderful gift your kids will love while they enjoy and learn simultaneously.

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App Name: Oolly App 1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars
App Category: Education
Price: $0.99 Oolly App - Progressive Education
Developer: Progressive Education
30.01.2012 in App Reviews, Games, News, iPad by Edward Jean 0

Explore The Depths Of Universe With Physics Based Game Spaced Away: iPad Game Review

Spaced away remind us much of the popular game rocket bunnies in the first look. Well this is an interesting game where you get trapped in a escape pod after the supersonic aircraft crashes in the space. The honey bee named escape pod has lost in the middle of asteroid field with limited fuel and oxygen that needs be used very smartly to get back home.

As you start the game you learn the art of using asteroids gravitational pull and rotation to gain speed.  Each asteroid has a different rotation speed which decides the maximum speed the escape pod can gain in its orbit. Your biggest challenge is to avoid space dust that depletes your speed and blocks your vehicle from moving while these space clouds can be overcome with high speeds gained from asteroid orbits.

Advancing to higher levels takes you to more complex areas with more number of dust fields, less number of asteroids and longer home distance which demands efficient use of fuel and oxygen to complete a stage. The game starts with very simple levels with in-game tutorials which are easy for practical understanding without leaving the actual game.

Spaced Away is a perfect mix of strategy and physics based game play that blends with its beautiful graphics and sound effects. The game’s interface matches the space styled theme and gives a scrollable look to levels in form of asteroids in its main menu. Spaced Away comes with game center support and game summaries to compete against highscores achieved by yourself as well as others.

Heed to the App Store to check out this wonderful game and definitely you would not be disappointed to play its 36 unique challenging levels and fun of beating your friends highscore on game center.

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App Name: Spaced Away 1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars
App Category: Games
Price: $1.99 Spaced Away - Falanxia
Developer: Falanxia
27.01.2012 in App Reviews, App Store, News, iPad, iPhone by Edward Jean 0

Personalize Your Movie Shelf With My Movie Collection iPhone app: REVIEW

A few weeks back we saw a wonderful app that let us easily manage our collection of books and read them anytime later with the comfort of our iPhone or iPad. Since then I desperately wanted to add the capability of managing my huge library of movies to my iPhone. Out of my interest i have been checking out for a similar solution until i stumbled on “My Movie Collection” an app specially designed for movie lovers to help them create and organize their favorite movies in a painless way.

Fire up My Movie Collection app for the first time and the app will take you to a book shelf kind of look where you can add and re-arrange your favorite movies. You can quickly toggle between the elegant- shelf view, the compact- list view or a detailed list view with thubnails according to your navigation needs. While the app comes for free and allows you to add up to as much as 16 movies to your collection, an in-app purchase would unlock the app for unlimited movie addition and remove advertisements that can be annoying for a few. With a growing database of favorite movies it can be difficult to find a movie quickly from your shelf but My Movie Collection app adds quick search functionality available right over the top bar and lets you filter movies by their format, genre, status(either purchased or rented), ratings, decade of release, watched and many more criterions. The availability of filter in the app adds convenient browsing between the movies, based on your mood. Say you have invited your friends for a sleepover and wanted to watch a comedy movie you have at your home, you can quickly show them the list of comedy movies available to choose from and thus eliminates the need of searching your actual collection.

Adding a new movie to your collection is much easier than you can imagine. You simply type the name of the movie, or type the barcode of the movie from its cover or even simple just scan it with your iPhone’s camera. The details are populated by looking into the online database and displayed with appropriate image, rating, length, genre, synopsis and details of cast & crew. Just imagine if you were planning to rent a movie and wanted to know more about the movie you can also watch the official trailer of the movie you want. This is a really cool feature that could save a lot of your time in hunting around for details and could thus serve useful for movie lovers who wish to learn about the movie and its cast or crew members in detail.

The settings menu offers further customization of the app according to your requirement, like choosing a default format for any movie you want to watch or its status, input type, view, and more. The app is highly customizable, easy to organize your movie collection and also offers a learning curve for most of the people who like to know the tidbits of the movie and its background. My Movie Collection is absolutely worth checking out  for Free on the app store for both iPhone and iPad.

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App Name: My Movie Collection 1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars
App Category: Entertainment
Price: Free My Movie Collection - GoToMyCollection
Developer: GoToMyCollection
25.01.2012 in App Reviews, iPad, iPhone by arun 0

iPhone app review – iFortress: Securing your confidential files in a more secure way

File management can be one of the most important and challenging things on your iOS device. Due to fact that these come with huge memories and the wide variety of file type supported on them, thus users end up storing huge number of personal and confidential files on it . But if you are concerned about your privacy or share the device with others or even worse you fear of losing it in the wrong hands then you definitely need to look out for a powerful and highly secure digital locker which can protect your personal data against any unauthorized access.

iFortress is one such digital locker where you can store you personal files with ease, access them anytime and manage them neatly.  iFortress comes with password protection that utilizes industry standard AES 256-bit encryption.  The app is not just a locker, it also lets you manage files in folders which are easy to recognize visually with variable colors that can also work as tags for grouping items in a folder. Apart from the home folder you can add as many folders as you like to categorize your files.  With iFortress you can not only use the files created outside the app but also add notes and snap pictures directly from the app, so that they stay secure from their birth. Notes can be shared via email, opened in another text editing app on device or moved to a different folder within the app just like pictures. You can also navigate between all the items with easy next and previous buttons in the app.

Getting your iPhone or iPad lost is one of my worst nightmares but what’s even worse is letting a stranger play around with my confidential data. The good part about iFortress app is, that it requests password each time the app goes to background and so the multitasking feature in iOS devices won’t leave it accessible for a stranger. In a situation where you have lost control over your iPhone or iPad, the app will readily take care of your personal files by allowing a specific number of wrong password attempts after which the data within it will be wiped completely. You can set the number of wrong password attempts can be set in the settings menu.

iFortress comes with an individual help guide in each section of app thus you can quickly start with the app without having to worry about the general usage.

iFortress is worth the buy if you really care for what you carry in your pocket and its highly secure standard AES 256-bit encryption makes it impossible for a stranger to bypass the security.  If you are willing to spend a little more than the average price of security apps without any compromise of security, iFortress is worth the buy.

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App Name: iFortress 1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars
App Category: Utilities
Price: $9.99 iFortress - Protect Private Documents and Confidential Files - CommandHub Inc.
Developer: CommandHub Inc.
23.01.2012 in App Reviews, News, iPhone by Yoyo 0

A complete collection of Classical Blockbusters : ClassicTunes-USA1 – iPhone App Review

Classical music lovers now have a wonderful companion for your hobby. ClassicTunes-USA is more than just an app, it is a series of three large volumes. This classical blockbuster Includes themes by Bach, Beethoven, Handel, Mozart, Berlioz, Brahms, Chopin, Franck, Liszt, Dvorak, Elgar, Mussorgsky, Puccini and many more with a total of 211 songs in all the three volumes.

In this review we are taking up ClassicTunes-USA1 which can give an idea about the whole series.  The app comes with rich variety of songs including Bach, Beethoven, Handel, Mozart and many more. On the songs pane you can choose from the songs, composers, genres and musicians or search for the same. While songs can be played by tapping the play button next to the title, you can also tap on a multiple song titles to select them and click to play them one after the other or add them to a playlist. When you add songs to a playlist you can access the playlist in its individual section which can be accessed from the navigation bar. Though the songs list and playlist menu provide enough options to control the song, you can access your current queue in the Player section which shows up the details of the songs, and details of the composer in more clean way while you see a rotating disc, trying to give you an old classical feel.  From the player section you can control playback like pause, play, next, previous, shuffle, repeat and view the playlist queue to switch to any song. Apart from these basic controls you can also search more songs by composer, work or artists over YouTube directly and conveniently from the app.  We appreciate the developer to embed the sleep option in the app that allows it to turn off automatically after desired time and thus preserving battery drain if you leave you device idle for long.

The settings in the app prevent auto lock when playing a track and also allow you to socialize by auto posting the current track to twitter or facebook.

ClassicTunes-USA1 has been designed with a beautiful wooden themed UI and easy access buttons that does not interfere with your wonderful music experience with the app. For a classic music lover ClassicTunes-USA series could be great way to listen to classical blockbusters.

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App Name: ClassicTunes-USA1 1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars
App Category: Music
Price: $1.99 ClassicTunes-USA1 - twowaynco
Developer: twowaynco