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What App Riddles the iPhone?

Posted by: RJ Huneke on Feb 4, 2010 | No Comments

Read the answer to many intriguing questions in the free “Riddles” application for the iPhone. Hours of intelligent and, at times hilarious, fun can be perused with swipes on the screen.
“A certain crime is punishable if attempted but not punishable if committed. What is it? –babblingbrooke
“Answer: suicide.”
This composition of millions of riddles [...]

Euro’s to Dollars with GlobeConvert App

Posted by: RJ Huneke on Jan 12, 2010 | 1 Comment

When the rental Lamborghini’s speedometer is in kilometers, how fast is 130 kilometers/hour really? How do does one convert dollars into rupees on the fly? Well just open up the “GlobeConvert” App and see it all instantaneously!
The car soaring along on the German highway, with no speed limit, is only doing 81 mph [...]

Weather Channel App Wows

Posted by: RJ Huneke on Jan 5, 2010 | 2 Comments

The iPhone comes with an excellent weather application preinstalled, so why should one want more?
In the movie “Back to the Future Part 2,” Doc Brown complains about the 21st century’s mail, but not the weather service. He knows to the minute when the rain is going to stop, and it can now be [...]

Photographers Rejoice as Gorillacam Comes to the iPhone

Posted by: RJ Huneke on Jan 1, 2010 | No Comments

Could the iPhone’s camera use a timer, or rapid-fire picture taking, or an auto-save function? Well the free “Gorillacam” App addresses this and more!

As remarkably clear as the iPhone’s camera takes pictures, could it use an upgrade? The innovators of the Gorillapod, the infamous flexible camera tripod, say yes, and they have brought [...]

Battle Bears – Get into iPhone’s Bear Wars Game

Posted by: RJ Huneke on Dec 26, 2009 | No Comments

Stranded behind enemy lines the player must hold off the swarming attacks of the Huggable Bears’ battalions! The cute pink devils look to hug Oliver, the player/Teddy Bear, to death.

The “Battle Bears” game is on sale for 99 cents, for the holidays, and a free version is also available to start repelling the menacing [...]

IMPULSIVE Review of Awful “Bouncedown” App

Posted by: RJ Huneke on Dec 22, 2009 | 3 Comments

The #1 Top Downloaded Free application in the Apple Store is “Bouncedown,” and I wish that this fact had not inspired me to acquire the horrid game for this piece.

There could be prejudice here, as the player testing the “Bouncedown” App is absolutely awful at the simple, but clunky game for the iPhone’s touch screen. [...]

“WHAC-A-MOLE: Whacky Xmas” App Review

Posted by: RJ Huneke on Dec 19, 2009 | No Comments

As the snow drifts reach five feet standing, the carolers remain horribly out of tune and the line at the post office wraps around the building as if it were a bright green gift box, there are still things about the holiday season meant to cheer people up: “WHAC-A-MOLE!”

In the St. Nick of time, [...]

Find Anything with “bing” the App? An IMPULSIVE Review

Posted by: RJ Huneke on Dec 18, 2009 | No Comments

Just say, “New York City,” and a “Google Maps” look-a-like map with directions will show up on the iPhone screen. The “bing” App is a free organized information provider, from Microsoft, with a fun voice feature.

For the Long Island bagel connoisseurs out there simply say, “bagels.” All of the local bagel shops, that [...]

Adult swim presents the “Amateur Surgeon Christmas Edition” App

Posted by: RJ Huneke on Dec 12, 2009 | No Comments

A mid-air collision results in a reindeer being sucked into Dr. Alan Probe’s private jet’s engine, causing a bloody mess at the North Pole! The surgeon’s services are needed to scalpel his way to Santa, or else there will be no Christmas!

The ingenious makers at the adult swim games division have come up with [...]

“Beautiful Boobs” is the 2nd Most Downloaded Free App

Posted by: RJ Huneke on Dec 8, 2009 | 2 Comments

Well they really do have an App for everything on the iPhone! Never mind how I found the “Beautiful Boobs” application, which has become a staple of the Top Ten Free Downloads in the Apple Store, just believe me when I tell you that I found it…
Traversing this simple application one finds that there [...]

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