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
App Category: Entertainment
Price: Free
Developer: GoToMyCollection

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
App Category: Utilities
Price: $9.99
Developer: CommandHub Inc.

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
App Category: Music
Price: $1.99
Developer: twowaynco

Making a call to one of your favourite numbers is not a relatively difficult task, but ShakeMe adds some more fun and action to the calling experience. By simply shaking your phone you will be able to call your pre-added numbers.  The app uses device’s accelerometer to trigger the call action.

Contacts from phonebook or new contacts can be added to the list of pre-assigned contacts through the app interface where you can also edit them, rearrange them and remove from the list. The contact cards start falling from the top of the screen at regular intervals and halt for a limited time which can be altered in the settings. By shaking the phone when a contact is being displayed, you trigger the call action and the call continues with the same interface as the regular call via phonebook. Some settings in the app include changing the shake sensitivity according to requirement, scrolling speed, changing font, using group call mode with a list,

Within a short time ShakeMe has been adopted by a number of users and like them you too could find its worth in your life.

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App Name: Shakeme (Let’s shake the phone to make a call!)
App Category: Utilities
Price: $0.99
Developer: nzin.net

Whether you are a student or a parent, the fast and busy daily routine can leave you with a lot of physical or mental stress and anxiety.  Mind Synchro System for iPhone comes as a wonderful utility that can help you relax using enhanced meditation techniques.

With the use of two way audio transmission technology, Mind Synchro System triggers relaxation techniques on your brain with varying electric potential for both, right and left hemisphere’s which work in different way.  By normalizing and synchronizing neurons in the brain, the app can treat your chronic stress in a very effective way.

The app comes with a short tutorial which helps you understand the basics of relaxation and how to achieve it with Mind Synchro System. Basically the app is comprised of two main sections “Train your mind” and “Relax Yourself”.  Based on, how new you are to the app the “Train yourself” has three different levels beginners, intermediate and advanced. Based on different tones and track lengths Mind Synchro System enhances your meditation power with its every use.

The Relax yourself section, as the name says is basically meant to be used when stressed and thus helps in relaxing your mind and body. There are different patterns according to your state, a basic pattern, a regenerative track for stimulating brain activity and the deep sleep pattern which can relax your mind to achieve a healthy and deep sleep.

Mind Synchro System does not use too much of system resources and conserves battery life even when used for long sessions. The app also functions when the screen is locked and thus you don’t need to leave your screen on when listening to longer tracks.

Though Mind Synchro System works on a scientific concept, its results may not be the same for every user or body type and its effectiveness needs to be tested on your body.  For $1.99 Mind Synchro System is not a bad deal, especially when you want to stay healthier and more active.

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App Name: Mind Synchro System
App Category: Health & Fitness
Price: $1.99
Developer: Paolo Papa

Animated short films are a whole new world of humour, entertainment and inspiration. Whether its getting over a tedious coffee break or an uninspiring Monday morning, the beautiful stories packed in 2-5 minute sequence can set your mood and relax you in a short duration of time. Compiling a meaningful story into a short film is a really challenging task but the creativity of designers and artists could make you laugh, cry, put a smile on your face or even leave you shocked.  Similar is the app T-All in One from T-short, the creators of the official application of BIMINI International Animated film Festival.

T-All in One brings  a compilations of 12 festival animated short films with all popular genre’s like comedy, black humour, drama, melodrama, tragedy, romantic, tales, crime, horrors, musical, abstract-surrealistic and experimental films.  All the shorts available in the T-Short apps took part in various International film festivals and many of them have been actually granted awards like Oscar, Cannes Film Festival, Berlinale, Sundance Film Festival, Annecy International Animated Film Festival, Bimini , etc.

Despite a totally new interest for me, animated short films have made their place in my list of hobbies that are surprising addicting.

T-All in One is a Demo for all other apps from T-short that come in various genres. The app comes in high quality graphics, 3 zoom depths for video and short introduction for each short film to start with.

With a mix of cute characters, amazing animation and interesting stories T-All in One is ready to entertain you for hours together. T-All in One gives more for less- Its Free availability makes it worth downloading for anyone right from kids to adults.

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App Name: T-All in One
App Category: Entertainment
Price: Free
Developer: T-Short

Not everyone might love the picture puzzles or crosswords. If you are one of those who likes quizzes based on words, symbols, math problems and phrases; SetBreaker is worth taking a look.

This simple puzzle game was created by the developer to keep his mind sharp with puzzles of all types.  The game comprises very simple exercises like choosing the true or false statement, choosing the similarities between two words, solving math puzzles or also watching the similarities in words. The statements can be answered by tapping on the right answer out of the four options available or by choosing the all match when all answers are right or match the criterion, similarly there is a No match button when there isn’t a single correct answer in the options displayed. Based on the correctness of the answer the answer button glows up in green or orange to show a correct or wrong answer respectively. For every question you answer wrong you can see the answer at the top before proceeding to the next question.

The two main challenges in the game are getting the answer right and racing against the clock to achieve a set score which counts down by one for every extra second you take to answer the question. So the faster you answer the questions right the higher you score at the end of the game. In this game the scoreboard is at the top and displays a set score for different interval of time. SetBreaker reminds me of the old school group games which were played between two teams with equal number of players.

The game includes a “How to Play” section which makes it easier for beginners to understand the gameplay. SetBreaker comes with a couple of customization settings that include choosing your gameplay duration, game skin to choose from a variety of themes, 3 difficulty levels and a choice between arcade and normal mode. The game automatically saves the scores locally for different players who have played on the same device.

SetBreaker is a wonderful puzzle game, whether you are all alone on a long journey or hosting a party game, the simple quizzes can make the evening more fun and educating.

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App Name: SetBreaker
App Category: Games
Price: $0.99
Developer: EZEZ Apps LLC.

Did you know that Korean cuisine is one of the fastest growing food cuisines in the world? If you haven’t tried some of the popular Korean dishes like Kimchi or Bulgogi, don’t be surprised to find them in your nearby areas. Well, throwing a frozen pizza into a microwave and nuking it is not cooking. But if you would like to learn the art of cooking Korean Food, there’s a wonderful app on the app store called “Korean Food Ma:tt 02”.

With the help of colorful and mouth watering HD pictures of delicious dishes, Korean Food Ma:tt 02 helps you learn wide variety of Korean dishes in a step by step procedure and  video assistance.  Each recipe starts with a short introduction, a cover image, ingredients used, extra activities required(if any), and finally takes you through a series of steps, sub steps and tips to get the right taste in your dish. The use of videos within the app makes it really easy to understand each step for first time users who want to learn Korean Food preparation.

Coming to UI of the app, it is pretty simple in design and easy to use.  You can use the home key to get back to the cover of the magazine or navigate within the recipes by sliding left or right. The list view helps you to quickly navigate to a recipe while seeing its name and picture, while the preview mode can help you choose a recipe by looking at its cover page, steps or ingredients with a quick preview of the guide.

Apart from just teaching new recipe’s the app can also help you understand some facts about healthy food products, Korean festive season and special food preparations, and some basic expressions used in Korea to. Isn’t that amazing, when you want to invite your Korean friends over a dinner.

This wonderful app is available for Free and offers a fully featured version. The good part is that all video files come along with the app, so you don’t need to worry much about Wi-Fi hotspot availability and extra data charges over your operator’s data plan.

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App Name: Korean Food Ma:tt 02
App Category: Lifestyle
Price: Free
Developer: Studio Meotjit