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Has Eyjafjallajökull left you stranded? No problem with free Lonely Planet guides
Has Eyjafjallajökull left you stranded? No problem with free Lonely Planet guides is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website
Economists call it a positive externality, we just call it cool. Lonely Planet, the accredited travel and information guide, is offering thirteen of its city guides for free on the App Store due to the Icelandic volcano. The applications, which offer you offline maps, geo-coded points of interest and location-based navigation, usually cost between $10 and $15. Hurry, the offer ends on 22nd April and we can be pretty sure that it won’t happen again soon. Then again, none of us are volcanologists.
Cities available: Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Budapest, Copenhagen, Istanbul, London, Moscow, Munich, Paris, Rome, Stockholm and Vienna.
[via MacWorld]
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App Sale: Luck O the Irish
App Sale: Luck O the Irish is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website
Warning: Skip the text part of the greeting card!
Luck O the Irish is on sale for free – normally $.99
If you’re Irish… or just looking for an excuse to get out and party… chances are you’ll be celebrating St. Patrick’s Day sometime within the next week, or at the very least you’ll be updating your Facebook status with a very clever “Happy St. Pat’s!” or something to that effect.
If your Irish-ness only goes as far as Facebook, Luck O the Irish will help you take it one step further by walking you through its Irish greeting card maker. The seven templates it includes look fairly slick and professional, and as long as you’re just sticking a picture in there you’ll be just fine. Photo handling is pretty bad (but repositioning is pretty easy), and forget about inputting any text because it’ll look ridiculous. Once you’re done putting photo in frame the image gets saved to your camera roll so you can post it to your profile via a Facebook-friendly app (which this one isn’t), or you can just email it.
For hardcore revelers, Sync Studios also included Irish-themed drink recipes and drinking games, plus there are links to info on a whole lotta St. Patrick’s Day parades worldwide.
Luck O the Irish has plenty of flaws that are mainly in the greeting card department, but it does enough things well that it’s worth picking up for free if you see shamrocks and green beer in your very near future.
iTunes Link – Luck O the Irish
Version 1.2
Travel Health
Travel Health is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website
“Travel Health” is an essential app for travelers who visit places where some of the local hospitals could make you sicker than you already are. Dr Deborah Mills’ medical expertise provides sound guidelines and critical “been there done that” information that travelers need, written in a style that’s easy to follow.
“Travel Health“ is the first comprehensive iPhone App created specifically to assist you on your travels, giving you information to manage common travelers’ health issues.
It is based on Dr Deborah Mills’ book ”Travelling Well“, which has sold over 140,000 copies worldwide.
Cupid at Work – iPhone App Review
Cupid at Work – iPhone App Review is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website
Cupid at Work ($0.99)
Version – 1.1
REVIEW – “A great game for Valentines Day!”
If you’ve scouring the AppStore looking for a quick diversion Dot Next has recently released a game for the Valentine’s Day holiday! Cupid at work puts you in control of Cupid’s bow making couples. While it may sound kind of dumb, I was pleasantly surprised 
at how much fun this game really is!
When you open Cupid at Work you are taken to the main menu. There are two different modes of play: “Classic Game,” and “Extreme Game.” In the classic game there is not a time limit for each shot, while the extreme game adds a timer for every shot as well as a few other minor tweaks to make the game 
more tense.
The basic idea of the game is that you will see all kinds of people walking across the screen. There are males and females of all different types from Indians to space travelers and superheroes. You’re objective is to shoot the people that match. You start with 5 arrows and lose one for every time that you miss. Along the way you can also collect more arrows and other items that will give you bonus points by touching them.
What really adds to the game is the social aspect and the fast paced game play. As you play through the game you will earn achievements that you can compare and show off to your friends. What really won me over though is the game play itself. The first few levels are pretty easy, but as you get further into the game you will have a lot more people at once, they will move faster and there will be a lot more different types of people as well.
As you play through the game you will have to shoot one more couple than in the previous round to complete your current round. The way you fire arrows is by touching the bow at the bottom of the screen and dragging it to the place you want to shoot from. Then all you have to do is touch the bow and drag your finger down and then release to fire.
The controls themselves, while they are very simple, seemed to be a little bit glitchy at first, but I was able to quickly adjust and compensate for it. My only real complaint is that the hit detection seemed to be a little suspect at times. This only drives you to try and be more precise in hitting your targets though.
To summarize, while this game is not by any means groundbreaking, it is definitely worth the $0.99 that it is going for right now. Whether you’re looking for a cute Valentine’s Day diversion, or that next game to keep you busy for a few hours, you will not be disappointed if you choose to download Cupid at Work. So check it out in the App Store using the links below!
- David H.
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Download FULL VERSION Now! ($0.99)
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Developer – Dot Next s.n.c.
URL: http://www.dotnext.it/cupidatwork/?s=3en
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Get that Loving Feeling with iCelebrate – Valentine’s Day
Get that Loving Feeling with iCelebrate – Valentine’s Day is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website
Price: $0.99 Score: 3/10 By Aricka Flowers
If you need a bit of a nudge to get into the Valentine’s Day spirit, one of the latest apps by Conduit Technologies might offer the kickstart you need. The iCelebrate – Valentine’s Day app takes the already high cheese factor of the February 14th holiday up a few notches because it’s only purpose is to play “romantic” music to the background of an animated scene.
iCelebrate – Valentine’s Day offers a choice of tunes streaming from an Easy Listening, Love Songs, R&B or Smooth Jazz Internet radio station. There are six colorful, animated backgrounds that you can choose from and enjoy as you listen to sappy, heartstring-tugging Valentine’s Day-friendly songs. The backgrounds feature lots of variations of hearts and glitter, a gift box bursting with love and even a scene of a couple embracing on a balcony in the Big Apple. One possibly useful aspect of the app is that it counts down the number of days until Valentine’s Day at the top of the screen. This feature could be especially helpful to the guys and gals out there who typically forget about V-Day or end up feeling like the annual holiday was thrust upon them without warning.
If you’re not the overly-excited type when it comes to celebrating Valentine’s Day, then I’d definitely recommend you take a pass on this app because there really isn’t much to it. But if you are one of those people who tapes hearts to your house or apartment window on February 1st in anticipation of Cupid’s holiday, then I say iCelebrate – Valentine’s Day might just be the app for you.
iCelebrate – Valentine’s Day is compatible with iPhone and iPhone Touch.
SwingSwing Christmas – iPhone App Review
SwingSwing Christmas – iPhone App Review is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website
SwingSwing Christmas (Free)
USER REVIEW
Version 1.0
REVIEW – “it gathered many people’s interest and finally made its way up to the ‘What’s Hot’ list.”
This App is No.1 on Top Free App list right now in the Korean App Store, so I checked it out. What a GREAT rhythm action game!! Its really unique, the whole idea of using sensors for a music game. I heard the full version will let the players play with their own music with SwingSwing. If you like music and dancing, SwingSwing is definitely the game for you.
SwingSwing is a rhythm action game and you play it by tilting the iPhone or iPod touch (the sensors will sense your movements). You’ll find it quite unique because it’s different from the original touch games that just require touching the screen, you’ll probably get addicted in no time.
The SwingSwing (Christmas 2009 version) is a Lite so it will only play a carol, and there are three levels you can choose from; easy, medium, hard. The lite version has some parts that users may feel unsatisfied with because it is not completed yet, however it gathered many people’s interest and finally made its way up to the ‘What’s Hot’ list on December 22 in the US App store.
Sarah P
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Developer –Pointers
URL: http://www.iswingswing.com/eng/main.jsp
DEVELOPERS NOTES
–Dance to our SwingSwing GAME—-
Just swing your device up and down and left and right to different kinds of dance music! Groove while you move to the beat. Experience the ultimate fun like nothing you’ve ever felt before.
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–HOW TO PLAY–
The notes appear from the center of the screen. Swing your device when the notes reach one of the four points.
Depending on your rhythm, you’ll score a Fantastic, Great, or Good. If the notes fail to rhythmically hit the points, then the screen will flash Miss.
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–NOTE–
If the device is set at a perpendicular angle, the G-sensor may not work properly. If you insert your earphones and play, cancel the silent mode on your device. If your device is set to silent mode, the sound effects will not be activated.
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Dress Jinjee – iPhone App Review
Dress Jinjee – iPhone App Review is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website
Jinjee (.99)
Version 1.0
REVIEW – “If you want a fun, holiday app, this is it.”
Just in time for the holiday – Dress Jinjee is a great app that allows you to customize your gingerbread and send to friends and family. Sending traditional cards through the mail is nice, but for those of us with tons of friends, Dress Jingee is a great alternative and a sure way to make sure no one gets left out. It is a very easy to use app – great for both children and adults and allows you to send by both email or save to your phone and send by MMS.
This app allows you to change the icing, Jinjee’s face, his buttons, socks, bowtie and candies. There are many options in each of the categories: scarfs, colors, lollipops, etc. If you want a fun, holiday app, this is it. And once you finish up with Jinjee, you can turn him into a postcard with or without sound. You get to choose between six colorful backgrounds and seven different pre-recorded sounds (or add your own) before you decide to send out to family and friends.
Decorating your Jinjee is not only fun for adults but it’s great for kids and with a whole lot less mess! Once you’re finished dressing up your gingerbread, you can record a personalized message up to ten seconds and send to the grandparents (or friends and family) who are far away. What better way to melt someone’s heart than with a personalized Jinjee that talks – in your voice?
Download this app and experience the fun, excitement, entertainment and joy that this app can bring. Decorate your gingerbread, give him a fun background and give him a voice – all on your iPhone or iTouch and all with super easy instructions. Adults, kids, pets… this app is for you. Spread some holiday cheer this season with Dress Jinjee.
angelina r
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Developer – Emantras
URL: http://www.punflay.com/dress-jinjee.html
DEVELOPERS NOTES
Come Xmas, we have a gingerbread man fresh out of the pan for you! All Jinjee is waiting for is some bright ideas to dress him up. Add some sticky coatin’ and sugary frostin’. And don’t forget the suit of gumdrop buttons, and put a smile or a sigh on Jinjee’s face. Oh, and what else would you like to give Jinjee? A twirlin’ peppermint cane? A lollipop?
And that’s not all you can do with Jinjee! Choose from a fun selection of wallpapers, record a greeting, and send your creation to family and friends!!
Pass on a smile, Pass on a decorated Jinjee.
Game Attractions:
1. Drag your favourite colored frosting and gum drop buttons onto Jinjee.
2. A fun selection of wallpapers to choose from.
3. Customize the card with your voice.
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Christmas Tree Pro
Christmas Tree Pro is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website
Bells are ringing – The flying snowflakes carry the approach of the Christmas day.
Wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a very prosperous New Year!
“CHRISTMAS TREE PRO” gives you the opportunity to be on the limelight. Let the Christmas Tree be ornamented by you and your beloved one!
The Christmas Tree is decorated with 33 image spaces. Each Space contains colorful photos of different people from around the world. So, this gives you a great opportunity to decorate the Christmas Tree with both you and your dearest one’s snapshots. Once uploaded, a photo will be on the tree until someone else replaces it.
Features:
• The Christmas Tree is decorated by 33 different colorful portraits of people from around the world.
• You can upload your photo as many times as you want!
• You can see each image in full-size when you tap that photo.
• Don’t forget to share the Christmas Tree decorated with your photo to your friends and your loving ones through Twitter, Facebook and Email.
• Get detailed information on the Home page through “i” button.
How to use:
? Choose the image space on the tree where you want to see your photo.
? Tap that image and you will be redirected to the full-size image page.
? Here you will find the Replace button on the top-right corner.
? Tap Replace button, you will get two options for uploading your photo.
One is from your phone library and another one is through your iPhone camera.
? After taking a snapshot from your camera or choosing a photo from the library you will be able to crop the best part of that image by “move and scale” option.
? Finally upload the photo and that’s all. Now you are a part of the Christmas Tree!!!
? On the Home page, you will see a share icon on the bottom right corner. This icon will help you to share the tree with your beloved ones.
Christmas tree free
Christmas tree free is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website
Bells are ringing – The flying snowflakes carry the approach of the Christmas day.
Wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a very prosperous New Year!
“CHRISTMAS TREE” gives you the opportunity to know who is on the limelight this Christmas.
The Christmas Tree is decorated with 33 image spaces. Each Space contains colorful photos of different people from around the world. So, this gives you a great opportunity to see who have decorated the Christmas Tree with their snapshots.
Features:
• The Christmas Tree is decorated by 33 different colorful portraits of people from around the world.
• You can see each image in full-size when you tap that photo.
• Don’t forget to share this splendid Christmas Tree with your friends and your loving ones through Twitter, Facebook and Email. On the Home page, you will find the share icon on the bottom right corner.
• Get detailed information on the Home page through “i” button.
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Do you want to see your own photo on this tree?
All Those photos are uploaded from “Christmas Tree Pro”.
Download “CHRISTMAS TREE PRO”
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Santa’s Run – iPhone App Review
POV: SMS-BOX Christmas Time!
POV: SMS-BOX Christmas Time! is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website
* “POV” (Point of View) is a new feature that we’re testing out *
Flysoft’s rating: 9.0
IAR’s rating: 7.0
Russian developer Flysoft arrives in the Nick of time (see what I did there?) with a nifty little holiday messaging app called SMS-BOX Christmas Time! Does it send visions of sugar plums dancing through your head or give you a case of the humbugs? Flysoft is pretty confident it’s the former so let’s see what they have to say first then I’ll try to confirm or deny with plenty of opinions along the way.
Flysoft’s summary:
What SMS-BOX Christmas Time! does:
SMS-BOX: Christmas Time! is a massive collection of Xmas text messages and cards. Congratulate your loved, friends, colleagues, relatives and everyone you wish. Add one of the 50 original greeting cards to your message!
To send a card or message, just pick one of many, choose which method you’d like to use: SMS, MMS or e-mail (if you have iPod Touch only e-mail), pick to whom the message is going to and send! Standard messaging rates may apply.
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What this app does right:
It’s just on time for Holidays as it gives a wonderful opportunity to congratulate anyone in a very special way. Moreover, it manages to send cards via MMS, SMS and email.
Where this app needs to improve:
The following option might be added – integration to contact list, so that user can see whom he had already congratulted, whom – not.
Features and improvements planned for the future:
- increasing the number of texts and cards
IAR’s take:
In a nutshell this app lets you send either text-based (via SMS) holiday messages or quite artfully created greeting cards (via MMS). Yes, we know the Apple SDK prohibits 3rd party apps from talking directly to the ’Messages’ app but hey, they can still talk INdirectly right? As a workaround the app copies your message/card to the clipboard then closes itself down and launches the Messages app where you simply paste and send. Not elegant of course but it gets the job done and works just fine (not to mention there’s no other choice anyway).
Having someone else do the thinking for you is nice sometimes so the wide variety of text greetings is a good thing. In fact, they’ve got them organized into the following categories: Wishes For, Happy New Year, Toasts, Jokes, Short Poems, Invitations and X-mas. A few problems do exist however. The grammar and syntax are not always accurate and there are several duplicated entries in the Toasts section so a little QA/QC wouldn’t hurt. Fortunately, you can edit/change every greeting within the Messages app before tapping send. Also, and this is of course just my opinion, many of the messages are kinda sappy/silly and it would be hard for me to find situations where I’d use them as opposed to just composing my own text messages to friends and family.
Fortunately however, the real highlight of this app is the greeting cards. It should be noted that unless I’m seriously missing something, the paid app has 29 cards, not 50 (perhaps the Lite has 21 others?). Anyway the cards are illustrated quite skillfully and make for good holiday eye-candy. Each one comes with a default caption but as with the text greetings, they are often grammatically incorrect or just simply make no sense (probably just yer basic translation issues going from Russian to English). Fortunately, you can edit/change these as well before you send which is great and adds a lot of value. Useful hint: you can easily turn a text greeting into a card caption without leaving the app by just pasting it in.
Note the paid app (not sure about Lite) is not for kids as it contains some adult humor and subject matter. Oddly, I didn’t receive the standard Apple warning about this when downloading the app although Flysoft does represent this fact adequately in the iTunes description.
My biggest suggestion to make this app better is to add more content to the greeting cards as in my usage this was the exclusive reason to load it up (and as mentioned whoever did the art for them is quite good).
Hold on to your sleighbells folks, the developer was kind enough to provide 10 promo codes for us to publish so head on over to the comments section!
Version reviewed – 1.0
Reviewed on – iPhone 3GS OS 3.1.2
iTunes Link – SMS-BOX Christmas Time! / Lite version
Reviewed on – iPhone 3GS OS 3.1.2
iTunes Link – SMS-BOX Christmas Time! / Lite version
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* POV is sponsored by the developer
Trigger Happy Christmas – iPhone App Reviews
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Trigger Happy Christmas (.99)
Version 1.0
REVIEW – “There’s nothing better than a gun-wielding Santa to get you into the holiday cheer”
Just in time for the holidays, Games Faction has introduced us to Trigger Happy Christmas – a very fun, very addictive and very
violent game that is sure to get anyone in the holiday spirit. This is my one warning: if you don’t like violence, you won’t like this game. For everyone else out there, this is one that you don’t want to miss. Compared to all of the other games out there, this is nothing.
Trigger Happy Christmas is a fun, well-illustrated game where you play Santa Claus and must grab all of the presents that Rudolph drops before the evil elves take them. While you are guarding the Tele-present 2000 and Rudolph is dropping gifts from your flying sleigh, he also drops better weapons than the standard-issue gun you start off with. Throughout the game you will get things like a flamethrower, grenade launcher and freeze gun among other things including bonus points. 
While the elves come at you from both sides, the goal is to keep the presents on the Tele-Present before the evil elves sneak off with them. But don’t worry, with your various weapons, they usually don’t get too far – usually. As easy as this game sounds, it is challenging. The elves coming at you from the left and right, so while you are guarding one side, they easily sneak up on the other and steal the presents. It is a game of multi-tasking with a quick trigger finger.
There’s nothing better than a gun-wielding Santa to get you into the holiday 
cheer than this game. 99 cents is a steal and you won’t be sorry you downloaded it. Oh, and don’t forget the other option that you have – sending questionable Christmas cards featuring Santa and the other characters. Cards with sayings like “Elf Nuts Roasting on an Open Fire” while Santa shoots the flame gun – who wouldn’t love getting that by email? Download this app now for fun, violent, holiday bliss.
angelina r
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Developer – Games Faction Ltd
URL: http://www.gamesfaction.com/
DEVELOPERS NOTES
Breaking News… the elves have gone bad, again, and are trying to ruin Christmas by stealing all the presents. They’ve hot-wired the sleigh, which is flying around uncontrollably, spilling its contents all over the place.
Santa is running hither and thither trying to gather them back up again but, quite frankly, he’s had his fill of the thieving blighters. Time to dust off “Olde Persuader”!
He’s not alone though. While trying furiously to bring the sleigh under control, Rudolph is also on hand to supply Santa with the a few more ‘persuasive’ tools. You know, like flame-throwers, grenade launchers… that type of thing!
Flame-throwers? It Is the season of good will, isn’t it?
Err, yes of course. I don’t see what’s not in the spirit of the season with dismembering elves… hmm, okay good point. Well, to make up for it, you can send electronic Christmas cards to your friends from the game. That way, you even save the cost of those little bits of printed card people usually send.
Features:
* Beautifully drawn, gory cartoon graphics
* Fun, addictive gameplay
* Online scoreboards using AGON – who is the best elf-bludgeoner?
* Numerous awards to unlock and share on Facebook/Twitter
* Christmas e-cards to send to friends (via email client)
* Awesome, bespoke game music
Other games by us:
Inkvaders – loved for its art-style, slick controls, and comedy capers.
Check out the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx9PJQz_5rc
Follow us on twitter at: http://twitter.com/gamesfaction
Visit us online at: http://www.gamesfaction.com
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