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Pinterest …ed in knowing what all the fuss is about ladies?

jmcclain0129 — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 21:14:44 +0000

Apparently Pinterest is every woman’s dream!

Before we even delve into the review of this app you should know we made it a point to have one of our male associates review it. The thinking being the longer we could keep the women staffers in the dark the better as this platform seems to be so engrossing to the female persuasion all else stops. This would be very detrimental to us as the women in our lives run everything in the first place so we can’t imagine what would happen if they knew Pinterest was in the house. Now the cats out of the bag.

Pinterest wisdom well spoken

With that said the app delivers just like the platform. It rolls everything up in a nice tight bundle and smells better than the scented potpourri in the halls. This is not just another platform hoping to jump on the social media bandwagon, Pinterest has hit the ground running and is currently the fastest growing social media in history. It appears to be a combination of both Twitter, Instagram and Tumblr. In a sense that users are able to view pictures in a scrapbook format neatly categorized according to their preferred niche areas.

Some pins to admire

Essentially, this means users can pin up their interests for other users to view. Thus the name of the app, Pinterest.

To join Pinterest, users have to obtain an invite from an existing member. Unfortunately at the time of this review, an invite was not granted and so this review will focus on the aspects that are available for all to see.

Great for showing off the gowns

Think of Pinterest as a message board similar to the many different niche forums scattered across the internet. Replace the threads within with posts similar to that of Instagram, and sort them in a format similar to Tumblr’s scrapbook design. After that, add in Twitter’s timeline method of presentation and you have Pinterest.

Pinterest Home sweet home

Despite being a social network, there really is not much social interaction on this app. Pinterest serves more as a marketing tool, drawing viewers and audiences to products whether intended or not. As a relatively young site compared to the heavyweights in the industry, the success and appeal of Pinterest remains to be seen. In the meantime, why not give it a go and see how you like it for yourself?

Pros:

Very organized layout for presenting images.
Simplistic design means no complex buttons or tabs to navigate through
Twitter and Facebook integration

Cons:

Invite-only

Rating is a strong 5

Freaky Jump App Review ricochets off the doodle jump bounce game

jmcclain0129 — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 23:53:31 +0000

Freaky Jump

Yet another app riding on the success of Doodle Jump’s bouncing game system, Freaky Jump injects some new concepts that hardly come across as creative but breathes fresh life into the genre.

Screen SHot | Game Action | Freaky Jump

To start off, Freaky Jump follows the same concept of bouncing off platforms and advancing to the top. However, the difference lies in the fact that Freaky Jump does not consist of one infinitely long level where your objective is to get a high score. Instead, you are required to reach a certain height before moving on to the next level. In short, stages and levels replace a free jump mode.

Screen Shot | Freaky Jump | Game Action

Add-ons such as propeller caps and rockets are also present in Freaky Jump. However, a magnet is also available to further boost high scores. Springs found in Doodle Jump and other similar games can also be found in Freaky Jump, giving a slight boost to gamers. However, unlike in Doodle Jump, players are unable to shoot projectiles in Freaky Jump.

Screen Shot | Game Play

Freaky Jump requires players to complete all the stages in one “world” before moving on to the next. While the concept of levels and stages in a traditionally open-mode genre is rather fresh, it soon becomes stale for levels are virtually identical to each other with the obvious reshuffling of tile placements being what sets them apart. With the completion of each level, stars are given based on the points accumulated, but they hardly do anything to bolster game progress.

Achievements are also available for fanatics, but that is hardly anything to fuss or rave about. It is insignificant as it does not contribute much to actual game play.

Pros:

Level system instead of infinite mode.
Slightly different from run of the mill jumping games.

Cons:

Levels are not very varied. Only background and slight platform changes.
Not much incentive to continue playing the game (e.g. unlockable content)

Proboards App Review Reveals Exactly What Makes A Great Utility App

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

ProBoards

Screen SHot | Categories

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.

Screen Shot | Post Previews

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.

Screen Shot | About Page

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.

Screen SHot | Settings

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.

Aniversia App Review pits animals against aliens to save the planet.

jmcclain0129 — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:04:31 +0000

In Aniversia by Trinaum, you take control of animals that are rendered in a very cute and cuddly style. Do not be deceived though, for these animals are to be used in an all out battle between alien invaders that threaten the safety of the planet. The animals appear to be a cross between a hedgehog’s rear and a random animal’s head. Examples include a dog, a bull, and a porcupine.

Screen Shot | Landing Page

It takes awhile to understand what this app is all about. With an extremely vague tutorial that only explains the controls, it was quite a struggle to comprehend the app. No explanation was given on the objective(s) of the stages and everything was rather confusing.

ScreenShot | In App Tutorial Screens

In the game, your objective is to take out the enemies scattered across the level map. You may use the surrounding objects to your advantage, such as smashing through debris or mounting cannons to assault your rivals. Items scattered around respond well to impact with a great physics mechanism. You can smash, crush, or simply push the crates, tires and other things aside. In each level, you are given control of two animals that you can toggle between with the touch of a button. Use them to your advantage and take the opposition out.

Screen SHot | Game Action

The game controls are simple but yet difficult to master. A tiny touchpad allows for movement, while a button above it allows you to toggle between characters. Two buttons on the right side allow for attacks and blocks. However, it is hardly responsive as attacks to awhile before they responded to taps and the movement button was too small to slide around with.

Screen Shot | Game Action | On The Hunt

With the cutesy graphics and novel game play design, Aniversia appeals to children but not older players. Things like graphics can be improved upon as some stages seemed to be more of an eyesore. A better tutorial would be good too. The game shows potential but there is much to improve on.

Pros:

Cute graphics.
Unique game-play system.
Cool comics style introduction.
Physics mechanism for interacting with surroundings.

Cons:

Color scheme.
Lack of a good tutorial.
Not very responsive controls.

FREE Promo Codes for the Hilarious Poo Log iPhone App!

Ryan Johnson — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:11:34 +0000

What’s your poo telling you? Well, you have no idea unless you’ve got Poo Log! Poo Log is a hilarious app for iPhone that helps you keep a diary of your poo’s (day/time, length of time, type of poo, notes, etc.), play trivia games to test your poo knowledge, and view graphs of how your poo’s fair over time (Read our review)! It’s based on the best selling book “What’s your poo telling you?” by Josh Richman and Anish Sheth MD. Poo Log has received notable recognition, is flying off of the shelves, and is currently featured on Amazon!

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Poo Log

Ryan Johnson — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:59:50 +0000

Everyday each of us spend a little private time dropping a deuce….some more than others. On a good day you pass on a monster mister clean that smells good (to you), gives you a poorific head tingle, requires little to no wipeage, and with any luck it might even break the surface! On a bad day you might be executing frequent courtesy flushes, while performing your best impression of a New

Years Eve fireworks show. Why such extremes? Could it be that our poo is telling us something? Well, with the help of the poolicious Poo Log app for iPhone, you can finally learn what your poo is telling you!

Poo Log, created by AvatarLabs, is based on the best selling book “What’s Your Poo Telling You?”, and is full of poo-centric features that’re sure to bring out the poo lover in all of us. Crammed inside the app are a built in journal, timer, a clever mix of poo humor, tidbits of poo trivia, and driblets of real poo-based medical information. It even tracks and graphs your poo so you can see how your bowl movements vary over time! It’s poopified theme, pooptastic humor, and brain satisfying poo trivia ensure that your next poo, no matter what kind it is, will be an enjoyable experience.

The moment Poo Log opens it’s built in poo timer starts ticking. It quietly and unasummingly counts down the time it takes for you to ”doo” the deed! If you want, you can stop and start the timer at any time just by touching it. It’s up to you what you want to do from here. You can press the POO LOG button and review your history of poos by month and day, you can press the POO PASTIMES button and test out your poo trivia and medical knowledge, or you can check out the POO GRAPH and view your latest poo trends.

Personally I recommend going straight to POO PASTIMES. I found the questions both humerous and fairly challenging. I was also rather suprised with the depth of trivia questions. I’m not sure how many total are in the app, but I played for 24 minutes straight and didn’t see the same question twice. No matter which option you select, make sure that when you’re done with your dirty business you press the NEW POO button. It’s there that the date, time, duration, total score, and description of your poo experience are captured. Classify your poo by selecting from descriptions such as Delivery: Epidural please!, Couple of pushes, no grunts, and Smooth like butter, baby. You can even add notes if you’d like to remember a little something special from your recent blooper!

What can I say? Poo Log is a pretty unique and interesting little app. If you fancy yourself a discerning poo-er you’ll certainly enjoy it. We didn’t experience any bugs or issues while testing. The only thing we noticed was one measly little typo in one of the POO PASTIMES answers. False was spelled “Flase”. If you’ve been looking for something unique to help pass the time while on the pooper, why not get something that’ll help you learn what your poo is telling you! Go pinch yourself off your very own Poo Log from the App Store today!

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!

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Ryan Johnson — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:02:07 +0000

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"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

iChowdown

Ryan Johnson — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:25:43 +0000

Those hideous and disgusting characters from the Mr. Dumb series are back, and this time they’re chewing with their mouth’s wide open! That’s right, iChowdown, the newest app in the Mr. Dumb series of apps, gives an all new meaning to the term “terrible table manners”. In iChowdown, Mr. Dumb finds himself extremely hungry and goes in search of an all you can eat buffet. He finds a cheap one and so begins his quest to eat everything in the restaurant. It’s your job to order food from the chef, make Mr. Dumb chew, drink, and digest his food. You’re working against the clock so you’ve got to be quick and efficient if you want to advance to the next level!

iChowdown is as equally challenging as it is repulsive! Mr. Dumb chomps when he eats, burps when he drinks, and sweats when he nibbles something spicy. In order to earn points you’ve got to successfully digest all your food without spitting it up. Sounds simple enough right? Wrong! It’s actually pretty tough. For one, you’re working against the clock. On top of that you’ve got to order food, open and close Mr. Dumb’s mouth to make him chew, move the food around to make sure it stays in his mouth, run your finger around obstacles within his stomach so he can digest his food, pop bubbles in his mouth after he drinks Coke so he doesn’t choke on his bubbles, put fires out in his mouth when he eats spicy food, and slap him in the face if he starts to choke on his food and pass out! If you fail at any of these tasks Mr. Dumb pukes up all of his food and you lose your points!

iChowdown, amidst all of it’s disgustingness is actually a pretty fun game. It’s pretty robust in that it has 3 continents for you to conquer, each one with 5 challenging levels. There’s a large menu of food items to choose from, that is if you earn enough bonus points to purchase them. That’s right, once you get good at the game you start to collect bonus points that you can cash in for better food.

iChowdown is a perfect game for every red blooded, teen-aged dude that’s into being gross, burping, farting, chewing with their mouth open, and ignoring their parents. One thing’s for sure this certainly isn’t an app that mom will approve of! If this sounds a lot like you then what the heck are you waiting for! Go download iChowdown immediately!

Mr. Dumb – Go Down