“Like all good things in life it’s free”. What do you feel when you hear this expression? Do you think this app description suits an app called iDie? Incidentally, it is exactly that. Like its cousin, Death Calc, iDie on your iPhone is there to constantly remind you about the remaining days/weeks/months of your stay in this good old planet earth.
Using it is one of the simplest things in life though. Just open the app and enter your date of birth from the scrollable DYM options. Based on a calculation by the US Social Security Administrator’s Actuarial Life Table from Read More...
The iPhone has changed the notion of smartphone entertainment in many ways. Many applications in the App Store under the "Entertainment" category have opened new vistas concerning this as they have added newer dimensions to the notion of entertainment.
For instance, take the application Duck from swoon dot net. This application works on the weird and seemingly unconnected idea of making a duck character quack through a dose of caffeine.
In this application, the developers have ported Bob Nystrom's classic Duck to Mac OS X (Cocoa) to the iPhone. The duck also has a number of avatars. If you are not happy Read More...
Spinning Bottle is among the new genre of apps that make innovative use of the iPhone user interface. The app is simple. It brings the practice of spinning bottles for making decisions to your pocket. The app lets you twist a range of colorful bottles, something that you might have already done a number of times in real life.
Now the iPhone version of the spinning bottles has just that wee bit more than the real world. First, the sheer variety of bottles, the spinning background, the colors change. Second, the simulation of the real-time bottle spinning is quite accurate. And Read More...
Create-A-Cartoon Face is a creative app that lets you make beautiful cartoon faces with your iPhone. The app is a result of a collaboration between New York Times Bestselling illustrator and author Steve Bjorkman and the iPhone developer Ryan Stubblefield.
The app lets you create create black and white cartoon faces against the backdrop of different hand-drawn backdrops.
You can tweak the faces with in a number of ways to get the exact image and expression you want. Change the face, make it a smiling boy’s face or a pirate like face with an evil smile, a cap and a beard.
For changing Read More...
App Store is about virtualization of many real life ideas and concepts. One among many such is “Impossible”.
The stage is all set. The magician is just a tap away from you. And he is just waiting to be downloaded into your iPhone/iPod touch. And then he will read his mind from behind the screen iPhone screen.
Who is it? What’s it? Sounds all freaky? Do you want to find out it all? Spend 99 cents, download the magician and find out his tricks! Remember that behind all magic there is a program!
See how the magician’s tricks work from behind the screen Read More...
The iPhone’s technology has ushered in a series of new user interaction metaphors which are gradually ushering in a paradigm shift in the way people used interact with a smartphone. And these are the metaphors of touch and tangibility. Pinching, sliding, tilting, swishing or plain poking the device.
There are lots of games and apps which have made complete use of these actions and engaged the user in a never-done-before way with his/her iPhone/iPod touch.
So what if you get an application that lets you practice all these in one bunch? What if an app makes you an expert in the essential Read More...
Android Talker app is out there at App Store. Doing acoustic - robotic synthesizing for your iPhone and iPod Touch. Read more to find out...
And not very popular there either.
This is an app for robot tone synthesizing and for generating sound effects for the iPhone and iPod touch.
The Android Talker lets your iPhone sound like a robot. (though not entirely sure whether that’s my greatest acoustic ambition).
How does it work? It does not change your voice, rather this Android Talker uses audio synthesis to control sound directly through the touch screen. You can select the "Android" type, the voice style Read More...
Next time you are expecting some trouble from an apprehensive looking but attractive app you have a very useful, touch wood solution available right at the app store. There is this app called "Knocking on Wood" which, well, entertains you through digitizing supersition.
Once you launch the app, feel "free" to do it, you get a:
"...genuine picture of a wood...Knock on wood will give you a chance tempting fate, or to bring good luck"
So far the good spirits used to live in the trees, now they are coming to your iPhone as well. The touch-screen is now all set to play Read More...
Category: Entertainment Price: $1.99
File Size: 7.7 MB Download Here (iTune Link)
Some prankster must have developed this GottaGo app. What does it do? It helps you to avoid boring and tricky situations in a nice and polite way. How? Set a timer and a “phoney” name and a tune. This app "calls" you at the time you want!
Features of this app include 10 original ringtones and five downloadable options for iPhone users only. The ringtones are simply great. Just have them on your iPhone. You can also include vibration options.
There are Read More...
What?! A cow on your iPhone. “Touch” it to let it “moo”, in all sorts of peculiar ways.
Intended audience: Two year old toddlers. Seriously. Have it from the horse’s, I mean cow’s mouth:
My little boy loves cows and he loves my iPhone, so I’m hoping this keeps him entertained without letting him dial 911 accidentally.
The weird: Cough up $1.99 for this.
Where to find this: Where do you think? The “Entertainment” category. Sort by “Most Recent”.
Comments: Who is going to buy it? Two years old toddlers can't afford to buy an app and their parents might have some other idea about Read More...
Application Category: Entertainment Price: $0.99
File size: 1.2 MB Download here
The app store is changing the definition of “Entertainment”. Here comes another app to hi-techize and glamorize a proxy experience.
The Look:
No questions about the design and look of the app. A Koi pond, with crystal clear waters and both the grayish and colorful varieties of Koi fishes. The water and the stones under the water look pretty natural, the fishes are slightly animated as are the plants and herbs.
The Feel:
However, there is something about the “feel” and that’s important since this app is all about Read More...
You will find some of the weirdest app store applications in its “Entertainment” category. These apps are a bit spooky and sometimes purely useless. Nonetheless, they are different and sure to tickle your funny bone. Rather, your curiosity quotient. Here are a few for you to choose from.
1. Celebrity Gossip: Do you like to sneak peek into the life of Paris Hilton? Or are you plain bored? This app gather the content from all the leaders in gossip mongering – Perez, TMZ, DListed, PopSugar etc. All that is good and well, but $0. 99 for these useless facts?
2. CampFire: Regarding uselessness, Read More...
