Fieldrunners
In the iPhone game "Fieldrunners" you are a battlefield general tasked with stopping wave upon wave of tiny soldiers and their invading army. These little soldiers--the "fieldrunners"--run from one side of the battlefield--your screen--to the other. The goal is to stop them; doing so is the fun part.
Read more...Wordsworth for iPhone
WordsWorth is a linguistic game for the iPhone in which you string letters together to make words. In WordsWorth, the object of the game is to create words from lettered tiles on the game board. Words can be anywhere from as short as three letters to as long as you can make them. The longer the word, the more points you receive. As you accumulate points, you advance through each of the game's 30 levels. Gameplay is straightforward and addictive.
Read more...Evernote — a Virtual Shoebox for Your Mac
Take a look at your desk or work space. Do you see little yellow sticky notes everywhere? Do you have "while you were out" slips on your desk? Do you have a bunch of receipts and notes that you need to file way? If you're like most people, you probably have at least some of these things on your desk at work. If you need to get organized, the free, cross-platform note-taking application Evernote could be your first step on the road toward sanity recovery.
Read more...AppFresh — Automatic Updates for Your Software
As a Mac user, do you ever have trouble keeping all of the applications on your Mac updated? I know I do. I'm always opening this program or that program and finding a dialog box prompting me to download the latest version. I want to use the program right away and not worry about updating to a new version. I wish I didn't have to worry about updating software. Appfresh, a new utility still in beta from German developer metaquark, aims to solve that problem. So, does it work?
Read more...Chess Pro for the iPhone
Chess is arguably the most popular board game in the entire world. Its appeal spans cultures, genders and ages. It comes as no surprise, then, to learn that iPhone developers have been releasing chess games for the platform since the App Store debuted last July. Chess Pro is the latest entry in an already crowded iPhone chess library. So, is Chess Pro worth your time or should you continue your search for an iPhone chess game elsewhere?
Read more...Frenzic for your iPhone
Editor's Note: Yes, you see right. We are also doing iPhone applications now. Thanks to our new writer Brendan Wilhide. This is the first of many iPhone reviews yet to come. I hope you enjoy them. If you want us to review a specific application, please let us know via the contact form.
Puzzle games and the iPhone are an almost perfect match. Puzzle games offer a quick distraction with fun, simple gameplay and iPhone owners love to kill time with a quick gaming session while waiting in line at the bank or riding in a car on a long trip. Yet despite the proliferation of puzzle games for the iPhone, it's becoming more and more difficult to tell the good games from the average ones.
Frenzic is a fast and frantic puzzle game for the iPhone. The game takes only moments to learn how to play and the game boasts some surprising features. Is Frenzic just another puzzle game or is it something more?
Read more...MacJournal
Mariner Software's MacJournal is designed for writers, bloggers and diarists. It's a program with a simple focus: to make writing easy. Designer Dan Schimpf has released five versions of MacJournal since 2001 and won the coveted Apple Design Award for Best Student Product in 2002.
MacJournal is regularly touted as world's most popular journaling software for the Macintosh and it seems to be the most used. What gives?
Read more...TweetDeck — Twitter for Professionals
If you're a Twitter power user, TweetDeck is a must have application on your hard drive. Created by London-based developer Iain Dodsworth, TweetDeck extends the functionality of Twitter and even expands it in entirely new directions.
The TweetDeck website describes the program's purpose as "[aiming] to evolve the existing functionality of Twitter by taking an abundance of information i.e twitter feeds, and breaking it down into more manageable bite sized pieces." TweetDeck does that, and more.
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