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Proboards App Review Reveals Exactly What Makes A Great Utility App

jmcclain0129 — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 23:21:13 +0000

ProBoards

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Are you what they term colloquially a “post count warrior”? Do you like interacting with thousands of others in a certain niche community? Or do you just want something else to while your time away online? If you answered “yes” to any of those questions, then ProBoards is the app for you.

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A seemingly endless amount of message boards are available for participating in through ProBoards. Essentially a mobile site for these forums, it allows you to partake in forum discussions anywhere and anytime as long as you have a working network connection. ProBoards presents you with a selection numbering in the thousands, from which you can choose from many categories to suit your personal interests. Following which, you can choose to save the boards of your choice for easy access in the future.

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The simplicity of the app is lovable. There are no frills, and no fanciful features to distract you. Everything is presented in one neat page for your scrolling and reading pleasure. Forum signatures are not displayed, making load times much faster. How many times have you had a page take forever to load because one user chose to use a massive image for his signature? Forum posts just include the avatar and content, nothing more. There is even a toggle for users to choose if they want the avatars to be shown or not!

Organization wise, ProBoards groups everything neatly in categories and folders. Each section of a forum board is neatly categorized through folders, which in turn have tabs to separate the sticky threads from the normal ones, and a separate tab containing the announcement. All this adds to the wonderful user experience, making it easy to access sites that do not have mobile skin support.

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At $2.99, this is one app that is really handy to have. While the steep price might not be justifiable for some, users who frequently access online message boards will love the convenience it brings as well as not having to deal with ridiculous skin templates that sometimes prove to be an eyesore.

Pros:

Neat and well organized.
One touch access to all your forums.
No huge images to slow down your surfing experience.

Cons:

Price is a little too high.

abcDJ

Rich DeBell — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 15:35:54 +0000

Have you ever dreamed of being able to spin a soundtrack together like a DJ? Many of my friends in high school and college were into spinning as a hobby. If there is one thing I learned is it can be an expensive hobby to have and time consuming to get good at. The equipment needed can cost hundreds to thousands of dollars. So it stands to reason that if you invest that kind of money you’re probably pretty serious about becoming a good DJ and maybe even making some income off of it. Fortunately there are cheaper options available to the posers like myself who simply wish to play around with DJ capabilities without all of the money and time investment.

abcDJ is an app available on the iPhone and iPod touch which gives you the ability to spin music like a DJ right in the palm of you hand.

abcDJ Features:

2 Analog Players
- These 2 players can play songs you have sent from your PC
Real time pitch controls
Super realistic scratches
Two turn tables
CD Player
- It plays your songs in your iPod library
Effects
- Over 50 built in effect sounds like horns, guns, car crash and so on
Mixer
- You can mix above 4 sound sources independently
- Also you can cross fade these 2 analog players sounds

I found acbDJ to be a fun app for playing around with basic DJ capabilities right on your iPhone. There are other DJ style apps available, but most are more expensive then abcDJ so it’s worth a download for the money. I would like to see some improvements to both the interface and intructions/directions available. It takes a bit of a learning curve to understand how all of the features work. The layout isn’t extremely intuitive, atleast to a DJ newbie like myself. For that reason much more descriptive help and instructions should be included within it. None the less if you like to play around with music then abcDJ might be up your alley.

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New York 3D Rollercoaster Rush

Rich DeBell — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:43:11 +0000

New York 3D Rollercoaster Rush, developed by Digital Chocolate Inc., is as exciting as any of their previous 3D Rollercoaster games. I personally am a big fan of this game series. The graphics and audio are great (you can use your own soundtrack if you like)! Most importantly the game-play is fun and quick. This is the perfect game to pickup and play when you have a few idle minutes to burn. Each level flies by quickly, just like a real roller coaster, however the fun and difficultly level keep you coming back to levels again and again. New York City makes for a great backdrop with sky scraping peaks, huge drops and gut wrenching curves. It’s important that you have a firm grasp on you roller coasters speed to both maximize your points and time, but to also ensure you don’t fly off the track and crash.

What’s new with New York 3D Rollercoaster Rush:

New York City Backdrop
40 all New Career tracks + 40 all new challenge races
New ways to crash your cart – including breakable tracks
Face friends face to face with bluetooth multiplayer mode

Additional Features:

Career Mode – Keep your carts intact through huge loop the loops, chasm jumps and more!
Challenge Races – race for the best time without flying off the tracks!
Score big with insane stunts like – Extreme Air, Crushing G’s and more!
Expertly crafted tracks with realistic coaster physics
Fun and easy iPhone and iPod Touch controls: tilt or touch to go faster or slower– your choice!
Play your own songs for the soundtrack to rock New York City!

New York 3D Roller Coaster Rush is a must have app to have on hand for your iPhone or iPod Touch. It’s fun, quick, challenging and offers many tracks and several game modes for variety. In case you need at taste before you make the purchase there also is a FREE version available as well with 3 tracks.

Summertime

Ryan Johnson — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 03:28:35 +0000

Summer, summer, summer time, Summertime! I don’t know about you, but I absolutely hate daylight savings time (DST)! Why? Because I ALWAYS forget it. It’s no sweat in the fall when you gain an hours sleep, but in the spring when you lose an hour; pure hatred!

Well, one thing’s for sure, this year daylight savings time won’t be as traumatic thanks to Summertime! Summertime, an app created by Oliver Drobnik (A.K.A – Dr. Touch), is your anywhere anytime DST calculator. No matter where you live in the world, all you have to do is fire this bad-boy up and it tells you exactly how many days, hours, and minutes until the next DST switch! It even gives you helpful hints like “You can sleep an hour longer”.

Summertime isn’t jam-packed with fancy bells and whistles. It does all of it’s voodoo magic behind the scenes. Each time you open the app it taps into the iPhone’s ginormous internal timezone database and figures out whether or not DST applies where you live, and if it does when it takes place. Whether you live in the U.S. or in Europe, Summertime knows all of the magic dates. And, for the persistent mom inside all of us, Summertime has an email feature built right in so you can send all of your friends and family a reminder of the upcoming time switch! Think about it. You’ll be a hero! Ok, ok…that might be a stretch.

Alright, so what do you get when you download Summertime. Well as mentioned, you basically get one-touch access to the exact day/time/minute of the next DST switch, and the ability to send reminder emails. Yeah…I know it’s not something that you”ll use everyday, but I guess it serves it’s purpose twice a year. We definitely think this app would be best positioned as a free app instead of a paid. However, if a few more gizmo’s were added to it we think it’d do just fine as a paid app.

So, you might be wondering what gizmo’s we think would take it up a notch. Well, we’d love to have the ability to change timezones from within the app, so if you’ve got friends and family on other continents, you can more easily send them a reminder. The way Summertime works currently is you can only send reminders for the timezone that your iPhone is set to. Another feature that would really spice it up would be the ability to schedule reminders. If you could setup in advance your email distro list, select their time zone, and auto send reminders when the time is right, this app would rock! Nonetheless, Summertime does exactly what it says it does, and it does it very well. No issues, no bugs, just super quick access to current info for the next upcoming DST. If you’re looking for a DST reminder then download Summertime today!

"Round" Drinking App Goes Worldwide! Order Rounds of Drinks In Style with "Round"!

Ryan Johnson — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:49:21 +0000

October 20, 2009

Today, P-Edge media and Nakko released the international version of their “Round” app for iPhone and iPod touch platforms.

Already a success in the Netherlands and Belgium, P-Edge media and Nakko have now published the app for international use!

Who hasn’t been there?

You’re in a crowded bar of pub and are trying to order some drinks. It’s frustrating because no matter how hard you try the bartender doesn’t notice you. When it’s finally your turn to order, it’s so loud that they have a hard time understanding your order.

Well, stop the madness now and get “Round”! With Round, you can ask your friends for their preferred drink and in one tap can show your order to the bartender! Orders display in VERY BIG PRINT on both iPhone and iPod Touch!

See “Round” in action

App’s Key Features:
★ Helps you create a list of your favorite drinks
★ You can add your own drinks and cocktails to your list
★ You can get rid of any drinks that you’ll never order
★ Easy to use + and – buttons to quickly add and remove # of drinks you’ve had
★ Ability to show a bartender (from across the bar) what you want to order
★ Catchy sound effects that you can turn on/off

With “Round” ordering your drinks will become easier & faster!

Additional uses:

★ You’re at a party or a club and a bunch of people are ask you to get them a drink. You can quickly add them to a list so you can remember what everyone wants!

Never miss another Round… By Nakko and P-Edge media.

AVAILABLE NOW WORLDWIDE, PRICED $0.99 / €0.79
Supports English, German, Dutch languages.

More information on the “Round” app:
http://www.p-edge.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=86&lang=english

Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CGnL4cIW2M&feature=player_embedded

My Sports Picks – Football 09

Ryan Johnson — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:46:40 +0000

If the only thing you focus on during football season is picking winners for your office pool then it’s time for you to check out My Sports Picks – Football 09. This handy little sports app is jam packed with everything you need to quickly and conveniently make your weekly NCAA and NFL football picks. It’s organized and intuitive interface makes it easy to view live odds and lines, to make, organize, and email your picks, and to manage your money, pending wagers, and daily and season profits, all without ever leaving the app! Total domination of you office pool and pick-em league awaits you!

Getting started, with My Sports Picks – Football 09 is easy. When the app first opens you’ll be prompted to create an account. Don’t sweat it though. It’s super easy. All you have to do is enter an email address, create a password, and BAM your ready to rock. Each time you open the app it automatically updates with the latest content. The first thing you see when the app opens is a list of all of the current weeks games, match ups, favorites, the line, the over/under, and the money line. To make your picks simply touch the game/match up and the screen intuitively slides over and displays in list form the line, money line, and total over and total under. Make your pick, enter the amount of your wager and save it. You’re pick is saved to your history, is flagged as a winner or loser depending on the games outcome, and is automatically accounted for over time. With as little as one touch you can view your entire season history and determine if you’re a money making, football picking stud, or a big fat LOOOSER!

In addition to its rather comprehensive list of features, My Sports Picks – Football 09also provides you with up-to-date football scores, including a possession indicator so you always know which team has the ball. Aside from actually making the picks for you, this app has just about everything any football pool enthusiast or sports betting aficionado would require. Think about it…an app on your phone that provides you with everything you need to make pics, monitor your progress day-by-day and over the course of the entire season, full history for all of you wagers, auto flagging of wins and losses and money earned/owed, and the ability to email your picks to friends. It’s football picking heaven in the palm of your hand!

iForum

Ryan Johnson — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 02:20:54 +0000

Let’s talk about Mac baby, let’s talk iPhone 3G, let’s talk about all the good things and the bad things that Mac brings….Let’s talk about Mac….Let’s-talk-about-Mac! Okay okay, you’re probably wondering what the heck that was all about. Well it was all about iForum, a handy little app that connects you directly to the original online Mac user community Info-Mac. It’s there that you can discuss a wide variety of Apple related topics with Mac, iPhone and iPod users from all over the world!

iForum functions exactly like a traditional online forum. The only difference is that it’s optimized for the iPhone. Like most forums, Info-Mac requires you to register. Thankfully iForum has the registration feature built right in so whether you’re a new user or a regular you’ll be able to access it in just seconds. The interface is quite plain, but it is extremely easy to use and has everything that you need in order to follow threads, post new topics, add responses, search for old posts, vote in polls, and more. You can even see pictures, YouTube videos, and lists of file attachments. Using iForum is literally as full featured as participating in a forum from a computer, only a million times better because you can access it anytime, anywhere from your iPhone.

Let’s face it, we’ve all hit points where we needed help with something related to our Mac, iPhone, or iPod. Info-Mac is widely known for being a great resource for getting answers to anything and everything Mac related. Why limit yourself to a computer when you don’t have to. iForum puts the knowledge of an uber Mac Genius into the palm of your hand!

ustwo™ launches first “48 hour app”

Ryan Johnson — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:51:25 +0000

ustwo™ launches the .™ (the dot™) – the world’s first “48 hour app”

~ ustwo™ has created .™, the world’s first ’48 hour app’. Concept. Design. Development. Marketing concept. All produced in the space of 48 hours ~

ustwo™ – the creators of the hugely successful Steppin’™ and MouthOff™ - has just announced the launch of its latest app - the .™ (the dot™) – a simple game of survival!

Over the last 5 years ustwo™ has been heads down with client projects. Over-delivering UI based solutions that ultimately benefit everyone but ustwo™! Realising this ustwo™ has committed around £150k into the App area, building a quality iFocussed™ team focusing on the one and only: iApps™.

The beauty of iApps™ is that ustwo™ can control all parts of the projects in the studio. It controls the process, the budget, and the direction. The main issue ustwo™ faced was that apps were taking too long to make, with frustration mounting by not being able to talk about fresh apps, so it set itself a simple task – to create something cool, something addictive, something that showcases quick thinking.

The goal was for ustwo™ to produce an app in a two day period. Bottom line is that it had to go to Apple on the 48th hour. The .™ was born!

Simple, great design is key to the .™. You are the white dot struggling to survive. Your goal is to eat all the blue dots possible – preventing you from shrinking to nonexistence. You must avoid the red triangles at all costs. These will make you shrink edging closer to certain doom. Last as long as you can.

The key skill in this project was being able to say NO to the extras that ustwo™ wanted, but couldn’t be done in the time. The goal was to cover the development costs and break even – so 5750 downloads will be needed at 59p after Apple takes its cut. ustwo™ will then update the app with new features. In this case it’s the reverse Kostner©, ‘if you buy it, we will build’.

After being packaged and delivered to Apple, ustwo™ started to market .™, asking the question ‘have you seen the .™?’ via a Flickr group (http://www.flickr.com/groups/haveyouseenthe_dot). Although the campaign engagement was on a small scale, it began to build interest, allowing ustwo™ a forum to slowly drip feed news about what the app was whilst releasing 3 teaser videos mixed in between the photos. Also a very special 3D video was released, with a music track produced by ustwo™: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbWuSka5baI

.™ is 1/6 of a suite of forthcoming apps from ustwo™, called 48hApps. Each of the apps is created in a 48 hour time period, and each is about simple, stunning design and simple, addictive game play. Collect all 6 games to complete the set. They are ‘cool’ectable™. The . ™ is on sale for $0.99 AND it might be the most addictive game in the long time.

ustwo™ has created a demo site so you can try the .™ for free - but just so you know – the full game uses the iPhone’s accelerometer – which adds another dimension to the game! So check it out - http://iphone.ustwo.co.uk/iphone/games/dot/

ABOUT USTWO

ustwo™, the studio of dreams, is a digital design studio based in London and Malmö. We make beautiful, user-friendly interfaces and user experiences for mobile, product, the web and more. With a family of talented individuals we offer our clients the very best in interface design and production to help make products smile.

For more information please +44 (0) 20 7613 0433

iDeals

Ryan Johnson — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:38:41 +0000

If you’re a compulsive shopper and always looking for a bargain then you might just like iDeals. iDeals is a shopping app that provides you with anytime, anywhere access to the same deals listed on DODTracker.com. iDeals essentially aggregates deals from other popular shopping sites and deal-of-the-day sites like Woot!, Daily Steals, Deadly Deal, Buy.com, EB Game, and many more. The app functions much like a typical affiliate shopping site on the web, you can link directly to the merchant site though the app to complete your purchase. From the apps main menu you can choose between All Deals, One-a-Day Sites, Computers & Electronics, Sports & Apparel, Music & Entertainment, Home & Kitchen, and Miscellaneous. Regardless of which one you choose the app quickly updates the screen with a constant influx of items to choose from.

App Plusses:

Imports deals very quickly. We were impressed by how smoothly it ran.
It’s free!

App Minusses:

The purchase process lacks luster. The app links to affiliate sites so you’re viewing a web page optimized for a computer from within the app instead of pages and forms that are optimized for the iPhone. We think this is a major deterrent for completing purchases from within the app.
The affiliate sites we saw within the app while shopping looked less than trust worthy. Many of the product and sales pages looked plain and slapped together, images used to display products were of low resolution, some of which were too small to adequately view on an iPhone or iPod touch.
No price comparisons. It’s difficult to tell whether or not you’re actually getting a deal without exiting the app to perform your own price comparisons.
Items are displayed in what appears to be a random order. Users should have the ability to filter through the selection so they can view by item type, brand, etc.
Full of ads.

Free MacBook Give Away!

Ryan Johnson — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:58:26 +0000

AZOMOB is giving away a MacBook to help promote their new DUDE. app. There are two ways to win:

1. Via Twitter: Follow @AZOMOB and tweet –> “#winDudeMB @AZOMOB is giving away a $999 MacBook to celebrate launching the iPhone app “dude” www.tiny.cc/dudeappstore”

2. Via YouTube: Post your own “dudism” to http://tiny.cc/dudeV2 …meaning act out a scene that requires you to say “dude” such as “Dude, what’s that smell…” (hand to nose, eyes squinted and watery because the smell is so fowl.”