Dallas, Texas - April 12th, 2012 - Award winning indie developer MumboJumbo, LLC today announced the release on iPad of Pickers HD, a unique trash-or-treasure game in which players travel the back roads of America, looking for gold in an ultimate treasure hunt adventure. Inspired by the popularity of such television shows as American Pickers, Pawn Stars, Storage Wars, and American Restoration, Pickers HD provides a new twist on hidden-object games by putting YOU in charge. You not only choose what items you can pick, but also when, so you can sell your items when they aren't in high demand. Pick...


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Dallas, Texas - April 11, 2012 - Award-winning indie developer MumboJumbo, LLC today announced the release on iPad of Midnight Mysteries: Haunted Houdini, the fourth entry in the long running hidden-object adventure game series. The Midnight Mysteries series has become one of the most well known and most popular hidden-object adventure game series in the world since debuting on the casual gaming market in 2009, and has attracted millions of players across multiple gaming platforms,  Stirring scenes within the game, combined with a mysterious storyline surrounding the life and death...


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I wouldn't describe myself as a huge game player, but I like some games. I don't have a huge music collection, but it's enough to fill my 32 GB iPhone. So what do you do when that describes you? Play Guess Your Songs! Guess Your Songs is a great new game that pits you against your music library. The best way to play? On your iPhone or iPad. This, of course, suggests there are other ways to play, right? Right! You can also play online at guessyoursongs.com. And a little birdie tells me Guess Your Songs will soon be available on other mobile platforms as well. Let's go ahead and concentrate...


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Personally, I use Amazon Cloud Drive as cloud storage for my private needs. But sometimes I indeed use Dropbox, too, because it makes file sharing much easier. For example, I use Dropbox to upload raw MP3 files with a podcast recording so that my co-host can do audio editing (adding intro, outro, mixing). Also sharing some files with friends, like some huge PDF files with documentation, is easier via Dropbox than via eMail (that is sometimes impossible due to size limits in some email services). However apart from storing huge files in Dropbox, one can use it to store small text files with notes...


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I have always had a certain penchant for services that easily bridge the platform barrier. So when I recently discovered ON Voicefeed for iOS, I had to take a closer look. On Voicefeed for iOS takes the concept of visual voicemail, and makes it more...visual. There are other visual voicemail services, notably YouMail and PhoneTag, but ON Voicefeed is clearly different. ON Voicefeed offers not only a service providing outgoing voicemail, but an incredibly simple iOS UI. With other visual voicemail servies, you have to enter a specific text string into your phone's dialer in order to change...


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The importance of Apple releasing iPhoto for iOS goes beyond a mere feature set: it's the final part of the iLife suite that has been ported from OS X to iOS and by far the most important one because it's the most widely used (most people take photos but only few people record videos, for example). Moreover iPhoto for iOS includes some spectacular (see screenshots below) and animated user controls that break from classic oldie theme of user controls of iOS, tries to use realism in presentation and indicates what Apple expects from 3rd party apps. A pessimist would say "it's just feature-poor...


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I am not Sigmund Freud: I am not interested in interpretation of dreams. However sometimes my dreams are like scenes from science-fiction movies that I have never seen, or videos recorded in remote future, so when I wake up I can do 2 things: forget them or use these dreams for something. Sometimes I use them as inspiration for writing short science-fiction stories (that I publish via Amazon Kindle self-publishing, mainly just for myself). However life is short and time is scant so I would like to write those short stories also when I am away from the computer, e.g. on my iPhone or iPad. That's...


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Get ready for some exceptional photography! Latest iOS devices like iPhone 4S and iPad 3rd generation have rear camera with advanced optics, that lets you capture stunning photos but what about timing? It doesn't matter how many pixels or how good lenses you have, if you don't time it properly. With Fast Camera app (it works on any iPhone, iPad and iPod touch with camera, not just on latest models) you can take several/many sequential photos to capture moments you treasure. Of course you could record video and then try to search for a frame that suits you the best, but the best resolution for video...


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I've been to London many times as a tourist. On Oxford Street at one of many shops with souvenirs one can buy t-shirts with the slogan "My Friend went to London and all I got was this lousy t-shirt." Similar impressions I had when testing Skype for Windows Phone: Microsoft paid 8 billion dollars to buy Skype but all Microsoft got was this lousy app for Windows Phone. Really? (more...)


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Drawing on the iPad is extremely lame and sucks due to lack of digitizer pen (not to be confused with stylus) but I thought that since there are so many gazillions of apps for iOS, then I can find some good app to learn to draw cartoons. So I bought this app and got several lessons via in-app purchase. I am doodling cartoons and comic strips from time to time (on Tablet PC with digitiser pen though, not on iPad), so I own several paper books about drawing cartoons but apps obviously are more interactive so I wanted to give it a try. Of course, I am disappointed. But first things first. In...


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