Personally I don't like this game, but it was recommended by official, Apple-owned, Twitter account of App Store so I bought it (price: $0.99). This app has been published by Chillingo, who has many games in the App Store. So it is not an indy game per se, but credits show that, in fact, some small company developed it. And as you can see above they used ShiVa 3D game engine (a multiplatform engine), so this game might come to other platforms too. Let's take a look at this game! First thing that makes me angry is that this app insists on you being signed-into Game Center, and if you are signed...


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ivoke takes one stop shopping to a whole new level. Take your photo, edit it with Color Splurge, and then turn it into a memory to have shipped straight to your door. You  can do all this directly from the Color Splurge app. Take a new photo, use an existing photo from your photo album, or a photo from your Facebook album. Once you've uploaded your photo, you can desaturate the color - you know, add in color to only where you want it. It's a very simple app that does exactly what it's supposed to do. In the above photo you can see a photo I desaturated of my nephew playing soccer....


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The Life360 Family Locator app, which lets families keep track of each other's locations, could be your next must-have utility app – whether you have kids or not. Life360, which will reach a 15 million user milestone at CTIA (that’s only 5M away from LBS giant, Foursquare), will talk about their expansion plans such as integrating the app with vehicle security systems so that users can see where their car is at any time. In fact, Life360 recently announced a Series A funding round with Bill Ford of Ford Motor Company as an investor. Life360 is also talking to home security firms about...


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If there is a foreign language worth learning, then it must be Mandarin - the language spoken in mainland China and Taiwan. In recent years China has overtaken Japan and Germany, and is now the second largest economy of the world. And according to many analysts, in 10 years it will also overtake the USA. Here I am reviewing an app that helps you to teach yourself Mandarin language pronunciation. What is particular about this app is: it is made by Microsoft Research - a division of Microsoft that is working on products that are usually not directly commercialised (this app is free too). While...


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We visited the PayAnywhere booth at Showstoppers at CTIA to see what was new. If you own a business, this is a must have! Watch the video below for the full demo, and then listen to the next episode of Convertcast to see how you can win one for yourself.


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Although I tend to be careful about what I download to my device, with the news about the rise of viruses in the Google Play store, I decided to look for an anti-virus solution for my phone.  What I found was Lookout Security, which is that and so much more.  For those of you who listen to the ConvertCast, you will remember that my pick of the week on May 6th was Plan B, which was created by the engineers at Lookout Mobile Security. I met with Michelle Masek at Mobile Focus, who was thrilled to hear that Plan B was my choice. While Plan B is a reactive solution meant for those people who think...


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Pen computing is not dead, it was just in hibernation because Steve Jobs hated styluses (styli?) and promoted multi-touch screens without support for digitizer pen. But watch out, boys and girls! In the near future (last quarter of 2012) several Windows 8 powered touch tablet are coming and they will be both affordable (because powered by ARM processors so much cheaper than Tablet PC of old times) and supporting both multi-touch and (high precision) digitiser pen. In the meantime, to get a feel what to expect from Windows 8 touch tablets, we can take a look at Windows Phone 7.5 apps! Here...


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Why is the iPhone the best smartphone out there? Because it has apps not available on any other platform. And some iPhone-only apps are so sophisticated like no other smartphone platform can offer. One example is an app called Halftone. Interestingly, this app has been so successful that the developer, who developed it while moonlighting, has left day job at Microsoft and now devotes all his time to making iPhone apps. What is this app? It's basically a photo editor that allows the adding of various effects to make photos look like comic books, but the possibilities go beyond that. General...


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Why iPhone is the best smartphone in the world? Not just because of some third party apps that are not available for other platforms, but because of Apple's own apps and services unavailable for other platforms never ever forever. Here I am reviewing iTunes U. This can help self-learn just about anything - and that is not available for other smartphone platforms. And never will be. Recently, Apple decoupled some apps. For example, "Newstand" is now a separate app. Similarly, iTunes U was previously a part of standard iTunes for iOS, but now it is a separate iBooks-like app. There is "book...


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What is so special about this game? It's super-hit on Windows Phone where developers earn $245 thousands dollar a year via in-app ads service of Microsoft. Here I am reviewing iPhone app version of this game (which is less sophisticated than the Windows Phone version, which also has level editor etc.) mainly because screenshot-making app that I use for making screenshots on Windows Phone, does not work while taking screenshots in games. Shuriken is the name of Japanese weapon used for throwing, usually in form of small stars and purpose of this game is to throw stars to hit objects. The main...


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