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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.
Review: i.TV for iPhone
Featuring both movie and TV listings—not to mention the ability to manage Netflix queues and set TiVo recordings—i.TV may be the only entertainment app you’ll need to carry with you on your iPhone or iPod touch.
Review: Critter Crunch for iPhone
Some games succeed because the developer has focused on creating something simple and fun. Critter Crunch, a Space Invaders-like take on the puzzle game, is one of those offerings.
Review: RemoteTap for iPhone
RemoteTap lets you remotely control a Mac using your iPhone or iPod touch on a wireless network. It also works over the 3G network, but you’ll need to take extra precautions to keep your data safe.
Review: Billings 3
The latest version of Marketcircle’s productivity application continues to give small business users an easy and elegant way to track time and create beautiful, fully customizable estimates, invoices, and statements.
Highbrow 1.0.1
Highbrow makes it easier to switch between Web browsers; it even lets you choose which browser to use for each URL.
Review: Units for iPhone
The free Units app helps you convert measurements using a plain but useful interface.
Review: Radioshift Touch for iPhone
Rogue Amoeba’s Radioshift Touch offers greater stability but far fewer streams than the competition.
MacCase Flight Jacket
If you're a fan of the rugged look, MacCase's Premium Leather Flight Jacket is a unique and cleverly-designed bag.
Review: Freedom Run for iPhone
This goofy game is good-natured fun for kids and adults of all political stripes.
Review: Pirates of the Caribbean Online
Games with movie tie-ins have a reputation of being bad. Chris Holt is unable to lay many accolades upon the abysmal Pirates of the Caribbean MMORPG—but it’s rare you get a game that is as deep as it is poorly realized.