Relax in a colorful fashion: match 16.7 million colors with three sliders through Eye vs Eye

Relax in a colorful fashion: match 16.7 million colors with three sliders through Eye vs Eye

What is your eye for the colors? Are you an avid Photoshopper? With just three basic sliders- red, green and blue, the Eye vs Eye app tests your eye for the color for 16.7 million colors. I am not sure whether I know the name of all these colors even after working with photoshop for years. Yes, magenta, cyan and the standard ones are there. However, there are millions of other shades and varieties that I simply don’t know! This app tests your eye for the color and the accuracy in a really nifty way. And tests whether you really have the Read More...

Enter the world of “clay”mation through Platypus on your iPhone

Enter the world of "clay"mation through Platypus on your iPhone

In a time when arcade means all of boom, bang, slam, antimatter and  solar escapades  it is a pretty welcome break to see the flat, slosh world  of platypus and clay explosions. The game scores on the classic Mac cult and in bringing the flat and pulpy word at its best interaction phase, the touch interface. The pulpy, mashy world of the Platypus game is a real treat and it also highlights the potential of the iPhone’s interface as a gaming platform. As for the pure gameplay it has lot of pluses of which defending peaceful Mungola from the swarming Collosatropolans is Read More...

Tap to let your child master the Times Tables through an iPhone education app

Tap to let your child master the Times Tables through an iPhone education app

The iPhone as a medium of education has started gathering attention. Especially for the kids. Why is it so? Take the case of the Flash Table. This application makes the boring Times Table (from 0 to 12, upto 12x12)a cakewalk for the parents if they are looking to drive home those concepts into the heads of their children. Presentation: The Flash Table app uses different variations and methods to drive home the concept of Times Tables to the learner. If your child is unwilling to learn math, use this app. It does: 1.    Provide the full list of Times Tables. 2.    Provides practices 3.    Provides Read More...

Making iPhone apps out of casual strolls in Taipei, iLove nature, iLove Birds

Making iPhone apps out of casual strolls in Taipei, iLove nature, iLove Birds

How to make money out of the iPhone? Rather, how many types of applications can you possibly have? Rather, when does the lightning strike? Let us pin down – what is a good application idea? Ask Quin Genzel. This application has been inspired, conceptualized and created while on a jog, a stroll, a hike and a drive around the Taipei suburbs. The app has lots of birdie staff taken by Quinn on the Taipei walks. Lots of good enough photos., sound and wiki references. There are lots of natural sounds for each of the animal categories. Those sounds, photos and the slide Read More...

Blowing in the Wind: Smule’s Zephyr turns the iPhone into a wind receptor

Blowing in the Wind: Smule’s Zephyr turns the iPhone into a wind receptor

Created with the ChucK audio programming language developed by Dr. Ge Wang, Smule's chief technology officer and co-founder, Zephyr is the app that captures the music of the wind. Zephyr comes at the intersection of language, music and self expression if you may. The way you write on the snow-covered screen that comes when you launch the app and tilt–gently or roughly – will create differently sounding wind – a breeze or a blizzard. These natural sounds of the wind will then be released into the ether, and start globetrotting, waiting to be caught by the iPhone users anywhere around Read More...

Enter the world of colorful tap-o-logy with Petri

Enter the world of colorful tap-o-logy with Petri

Petri is about playing with colors and turning into iPhone screen into a color riot while trying to make it look like one color –the one that you are instructed to do , and the one that is sitting pretty at the right bottom corner. The idea is simple. As developer Matthew Gillingham tells iPhone footprint: It's an action-puzzle game.  The idea is simple: the screen is filled with colors that are moving around in a pattern.  Red moves into green, green moves into blue, blue moves into red.  The other colors are more neutral. Use of the interface: Petri is based completely Read More...

More options for editing Excel on the iPhone

More options for editing Excel on the iPhone

Looks like editing existing killer apps is the new wave in the app world. Quickoffice’s MobileFiles Pro joins an existing gallery of applications – namely Spreadsheet, Spreadsheet LX, iSpreadsheet, and also the forthcoming Mariner Calc app that make editing and accessing the spreadsheet that bit more efficient. Quickoffice has displayed two apps together –the lite or free version, MobileFiles and the full-fledged MobileFiles Pro which is priced at $9.99, just in case you wanted to check out how the app works before going for buying it. Through this app the users can edit their Microsoft Office Excel spreadsheets. The app is structured Read More...

Chicktionary: The popular Microsoft word game is doing great at the App Store

Chicktionary: The popular Microsoft word game is doing great at the App Store

Remember the game that shot up  Microsoft’s stock options by 13.2% in June 2007?  Well, that game, the famous Chicktionary is now doing great business at the App Store. This word game, presented at the App Store by Blockdot Inc and kewlbox.com brings in all the fun of Eggchievements and the “fowl sounds” every time you get the right number of eggs, ahem letters to arrange them into nice egg stacks,  aka words. Plus, the app has all those nifty features that are sure to keep you engrossed for hours: 1.    Select and drag hens to different positions in the hen house to Read More...

Tech Rumor? Qualcomm chip in the iPhone

Tech Rumor? Qualcomm chip in the iPhone

It is not yet absolutely certain since the guys concerned, Qualcomm, have not yet commented on anything. But as is the general norm in the blog-o-sphere, silence generally turns out to be true. So what’s the big news and big deal? According to a report, the rumored iPhone nano is rumored to be run on Qualcomm chips. Is it another rumor that will never see the daylight of truth? Highly unlikely, since Friedman, Billings, Ramsey Group analyst Craig Berger has also said that some “industry sources” have told him that the iPhone nano will appear in the second half of 2009 and Read More...

Apple to make iPhone accessories

Apple to make iPhone accessories

With the Winter in full swing, Apple has decided that they will go beyond their sacred shrine that churns out pathbreaking software and hardware  and will instead make something else – a glove. According to a report in Geek.com, they have recently filed a US Patent Application. The glove in question will be different from the regular pair of gloves that keep you warm in the chilly winters but prevents you from smoothly using the ultra-sensitive iPhone touch-screen and its various aspects. The glove will be double layered with the second layer being electrically conducive. The wearer will just need to peel Read More...