September 2009
1 post
Chicks Being Ground Up Alive Video
Yeah, good idea. Let’s give little kids nightmares and not allow them to play violent video games because they might rampage their school, but let’s go ahead and show them animal cruelty. Nice.
Sep 3rd
May 2009
1 post
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Melodica
Price: $0.99 (but will be $2.99 after initial offering) I’ve also tried SoundMatrix and ToneBoard, but Melodica is the best. SoundMatrix has several way to adjust the tones (pitch, tone, decay, tempo, volume), but the buttons in the matrix are WAAY too tiny. I mean, if you thought the iPhone keyboard was hard to type on, don’t even think about SoundMatrix. And ToneBoard has a very...
May 9th
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March 2009
4 posts
6 tags
Multi-Photo
Cost: $1 Tired of sending images from your iPhone one by one? Tired of receiving images from someone, one by one, because they are sending from and iPhone? Then you or someone you know needs this app. Multi-Photo connects directly to your email client’s SMTP server to allow you to send more than one image from your iPhone. I take screen grabs all the time with the intent to email them to...
Mar 11th
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Mar 11th
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Mar 11th
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Balls
Cost: free Another one-trick pony, but one that mesmorizes me, especially when I need to perseverate on something. As the colored balls react to gravity, they chime and tingle like wind chimes. Simply double-tap to bring up settings and adjust the number of balls, their size, their color trails, and how susceptible they are to gravity. I love playing with the settings, listening, and taking...
Mar 11th
February 2009
2 posts
7 tags
Safe Note
COST: $1 (free version was available, but does not seem to be at time of publication) If you need a straight-forward password-protected note app, Safe Note is for you. Simply set your password and your notes are safe from prying eyes. I use it for a diary, gift ideas, baby name ideas (we’re keeping the name choices secret), and a list of electronic devices and their serial numbers, battery...
Feb 17th
1 note
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Free Memory (ver. 1.4)
Cost: $1 I bought this app for the battery status feature, but if you really want to know that sometimes very useful bit of information, you should act quickly! Apparently Apple doesn’t want us to have that info, so that particular feature will be progged out in version 1.5. As far as its main function, it seems to work well, but I’m mostly using as a meter to tell whether I should...
Feb 10th
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January 2009
10 posts
8 tags
Timetables
Cost: $1 As a new app, Timetables delivers a solid product with eye-pleasing design. Want to keep track of your busy schedule or simply structure your days? Timetables is exactly what you need, and it’s versatile enough to meet the needs of everyone from busy students to administrative professionals, from teachers to soccer moms. Timetables allows you to set up multiple schedules and...
Jan 22nd
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AppSniper
Cost: $1 Internet connection required? Yes. Have your heart set on an app, but don’t have the pesos in your pocket? AppSniper is the app for you. AppSniper notifies you of all the apps that are on sale, new, and hot. Plus—and this is my favorite feature and the reason I bought it—it tracks specific apps’ prices, your wishlist (that’s my name for it; AppSniper calls...
Jan 17th
5 tags
YearView and Date Calc Free
YearView Cost: Free Internet connection required? No Date Calc Free Cost: Free (Date Calc is available for $1) Internet connection required? No YearView is as simple as its name: A pocket year-at-a-glance calendar with no settings and no way to quickly scroll through the years. It does magnify using the pinch function, and you can view it in landscape mode, but that’s it. I might not...
Jan 13th
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BigStopWatch
Cost: Free Internet connection required? No It’s no more than a stopwatch, but I love the design: Good font choice (is it Trebuchet MS? One of my favorites!) and nice layout (I love the off-centered design). If you need the pressure of a ticking clock to help you work (like me) or just like watching time pass, BigStopWatch is for you.
Jan 13th
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Free Metronome Apps
Metronome Metronome - reloaded Metronome-iTick Even though all three of these apps are free and require no internet connection, there is a clear front-runner in my book: iTick. According to both of the other apps’ info pages, they took an Apple-made demo metronome app, modified it slightly, and released it as an app. They keep time and look similar to a traditional metronome. They are...
Jan 10th
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Just Discovered: Web Apps
While trying to figure out what to do about a dead pixel, the Google let me to a forum thread on that topic, on which a user posted a link to a web app that promised to fix the problem (it didn’t for me). What did work for me was the idea of Apple-sponsored Web Apps. From what I can tell, all the web apps are free and and it seems that there are many that overlap with paid apps in the App...
Jan 10th
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WordBook is on sale!
After reading Ben Boychuk’s review of WordBook (I had bookmarked it before I got my iPod and just remembered it today), I decided to look WordBook English Dictionary & Thesaurus up in the App Store. Since it is an $8 app, I figured I would have to wait a while before it was in my exceedingly small app budge, but to my surprise I found it on sale: only $2! I quickly bought it, and I...
Jan 10th
8 tags
Dots
Cost: Free (Dots Premium available for $1) Internet connection required? No I tried both Dots and Carrie’s Dots and I definitely prefer Dots. The design is better and Dots displays the score at the bottom of the screen. There are three play options: you versus the computer, you versus a human, and computer versus computer (the app store info claims this is for when you’re really...
Jan 10th
4 tags
ShapeWriter Free
Cost: Free (ShapeWriter Pro available for $10) Internet connection required? No This is a must-have. WritingPad provides a completely new method of iPhone text entry: Instead of typing letters, you slide your fingers over the keyboard, touching the letters in the word you are trying to type. ShapeWriter recognizes the word you want, but also displays several alternatives to tap if it...
Jan 9th
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About the Author
Hi, my name is Linden A. Mueller. I’m currently teaching English language courses at a German university, but on the side I’m a blogger, amateur photographer, and technology-lover. I had to wait longer than I wanted to get my hands on my own iPod Touch (really wanted an iPhone!), so now that I’ve got one, I’m really enjoying figuring out all that it can do. This blog is a...
Jan 8th