Macworld Reviews and First Looks

Review: Byline for iPhone

Subway commuters and frequent flyers will rejoice at Byline’s convenience in the absence of connectivity, as the newsreader app syncs with Google’s RSS reader and lets you read your favorite feeds offline.

Review: South Park: Imaginationland for iPhoneThis game, based on the Emmy-winning episode of the long-running TV series, is enjoyable fun, but there’s a hit or miss factor. South Park fans may love the game while others will probably look elsewhere for their fill of fun.
Review: Vicinity for iPhoneThe latest app to exploit the location features on your iPhone or iPod touch to find nearby services, amenities, and businesses, Vicinity’s utility is limited by a restricted range and shoddy sources.

Latest Reviews and First Looks

Review: Byline for iPhone Subway commuters and frequent flyers will rejoice at Byline’s convenience in the absence of connectivity, as the newsreader app syncs with Google’s RSS reader and lets you read your favorite feeds offline.
Review: South Park: Imaginationland for iPhone This game, based on the Emmy-winning episode of the long-running TV series, is enjoyable fun, but there’s a hit or miss factor. South Park fans may love the game while others will probably look elsewhere for their fill of fun.
Review: Vicinity for iPhone The latest app to exploit the location features on your iPhone or iPod touch to find nearby services, amenities, and businesses, Vicinity’s utility is limited by a restricted range and shoddy sources.
Review: ESPN Cameraman for iPhone In ESPN Cameraman, you’ve got to find five differences between two similar images of sporting events supplied by the self-proclaimed Worldwide Leader in Sports. It’s a fun—though all-too-repetitive—casual game for the iPhone and iPod touch.
Review: Fring for iPhone Fring integrates your buddy lists from various chat and communication platforms into one interface; it also brings Voice over IP to the iPhone and iPod touch. It’s a good app, with a few notable drawbacks that are barriers to greatness.
Review: Focal XS iPod/computer speaker system Focal's XS is high-performance audio system that works with both iPods and your computer's digital-audio signal. Although it's expensive, you're paying for that flexibility as well as an attractive, iMac-matching design.
Review: Take A Note for the iPhone Take A Note’s ease of use and a gorgeous interface makes it a truly worthy note-taking app for the iPhone or iPod touch.
Review: BBCReader for iPhone Because of flaws in the way stories are loaded and presented, the BBCReader for the iPhone and iPod touch offers a second-rate way to read news from a first-rate media outlet.
Review: Geneforge 5: Overthrow The final installment in Spiderweb Software’s Geneforge RPG saga features an enriched story line, open-ended gameplay, and multiple endings, but lacks graphical sophistication.
Review: Rolando for iPhone Strong graphics, clever sound effects, and reliance upon the iPhone’s unique features make this side-scrolling action game from Ngmoco an ideal app for your iPhone or iPod touch.
Review: iPhone games for small kids An iPhone or iPod touch is a great tool for keeping the young ones amused when you’re running errands, so it makes sense to invest in a few kid-friendly games. Jeff Merron looks at three, with Disney Fairies Fly soaring above the other options.
Baseline 1.4.2 Baseline makes it easy to see not only what's taking up space on your hard drive, but also what's changed.
Review: A trio of iPhone GTD apps With the latest book from Getting Things Done author David Allen hitting stores Tuesday, we look at three lower-cost apps that offer to boost your productivity the GTD way—CheckOff, GTD 2 Min Timer, and Habits.
Review: Google Earth for iPhone There’s an undeniable coolness to this mobile version of Google’s 3-D mapping tool. But in getting the app from the desktop to your iPhone, Google had to impose limitations that ultimately make this mobile app less useful than its desktop counterpart.
Review: iPhone Wikipedia apps Scott McNulty reviews three paid Wikipedia clients for the iPhone and iPod touch. Wikipanion Plus is the most feature-rich and best-designed Wiki search app of the bunch. The low cost WikiPDA will appeal to people who want to look things up quickly. And Look Up: Encyclopedia For Your Pocket falls somewhere in the middle.
Review: Television for iPhone Television does serve a useful purpose as a reasonably well-organized clearinghouse for TV news. But it suffers from some limitations that show just how far developers have to go before getting video on the iPhone and iPod touch right.
Review: iHunt for iPhone iHunt is a simple shooting game that features three distinct shooting experiences: deer, pheasant and clay pigeons. It uses the iPhone’s built-in accelerometer to adjust your sights, and touchscreen buttons provide the ability to change your view and fire.
Review: OpenMind 2.0 Matchware’s OpenMind 2.0 is a powerful mind mapping application that’s very flexible and versatile, yet simple to use.
Review: Altec Lansing Moondance Glow The Altec Lansing Moondance Glow is a slick-looking iPod-compatible alarm clock with a good number of features, but its controls value style over usability.
Promising Prospect: Choosy Choosy lets you choose, on the fly, the browser to use to open links.