Friday Night Movie Night: TimeLapse

This looks pretty sweet so I had to share it. This app lets you to timelapse photography with your iPhone. The downfall here is going to be battery life. Of course I would turn off all wireless, bluetooth, dim your screen, etc to get the best battery life when running apps like this. Check out the video to see results.

Friday Night Movie Night: Worms

It’s Friday Night Movie Night again so here’s some of the top iPhone videos from YouTube uploaded over the past week. Remember the game Worms? Well it’s coming to the iPhone. Here’s a nice lone 10 minute video of real gameplay:

Sync in a Blink and Free your Exchange account from GoogleSync!

Available In: App Store

Price: $4.99

I was on the bus to work when it occurred to me that I might be able to get my Exchange account back. You see, I have become very attached to Google calendar and more recently Google contacts. When GoogleSync was released, I was very excited to have the push capabilities of Calendar and Contacts. With ease, I set up and was able to push my calendar, along with my wife’s and our joint calendars. Although the initial sync of contacts was a bit frustrating (I relied on MS Outlook for a long time), I was pleased with the overall results. The one downside was the fact that GoogleSync used the Exchange Account, and the iPhone frustratingly only allows you to use one Exchange account. Thus, I was unable to link my work email to my iPhone and instead had to rely on a bookmark and a much more cumbersome web based interface. With the release of iPhone OS 3.0, CalDAV support was included, and after I read a bit more about this, the wheels started rolling. Read more

Seek ‘n Spell - 4th of July Week-End Sale

Available In: App Store

Price: Sale - $0.99

Seek ‘n Spell, a real-time GPS-based word building competition, is on sale this 4th of July week-end. You can download the app for just $0.99 instead of the normal $2.99. I say it is a prefect week-end to try out this sweet app. Seek ‘n Spell recently won “Best Use of Technology” award from the 2009 Come Out & Play Festival. If you haven’t heard of Seek ‘n Spell, check out the video demo below! Read more

More Features for Facebook 3.0 Update - Video Upload

Available In: App Store

Price: Free

Yesterday, Doug wrote about the Facebook 3.0 update and all the cool new features that it is going to have. Well, it seems the developer is still hard at work and if those new features weren’t enough, he has also integrated video upload ability into the 3.0 update. I have a feeling he has made a lot of iPhone 3GS users happy with the new feature. He also said, “Nothing like a few bazillion emails, tweets, and blog comments to motivate you to sneak in a few extra features at the last minute.” We don’t know what the “few extra features” are but, so far, he is off to a great start! Keep up the good work!

Run Pee Mobile - A “Must Have” For Any Moviegoer

Available In: App Store

Price: $0.99

I was sitting in our office last night and Doug starts telling me about this application called RunPee. I was like; “Oh great, what is that going to be about.” When he finished reading the description I seriously laughed out load…what a great app!

“RunPee is a must have app for every moviegoer with a bladder. Run Pee tells you which points in a movie you can safely “run” and “pee’ without missing a hugely important plot point.”

Yep, that’s right, it tells you the times in the movie that you can take a restroom break or hit-up the concession stand without missing anything important in the movie! The app lists all the movies that are currently in the theater (listed by Title or Date). In the main movie list, you get the movie’s title, the date it was released and the running time. From that list, you can then choose a specific movie…this is where it gets good! Read more

RotoPhoto - Easily Rotate Images in your Photo Albums

Available In: App Store

Price: $0.99

RotoPhoto is a simple yet useful application. Once installed, you are able to rotate any image that is in your Photo Albums. You are then able to save the image back into your Camera Roll.

To rotate an image; just open the application, load an image, use the arrow icon on the lower menu bar to rotate the image and then hit save.

The app worked perfectly and is extremely easy to use. If you are looking for this type of app…I would definitely check this one out. It is only $0.99 and it works great.

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Facebook 3.0 Update Coming Soon

Coming Soon: App Store

Price: Free

Keep your eyes on the update tab in the App Store! Facebook will be releasing an update to their iPhone app very soon! I have to admit I’m pretty excited about this. Right now, the app is very clunky not to mention the major bug of messages from groups in your inbox don’t show up. There’s lots to be excited about though. Here’s a list of upcoming features straight from the developer’s Facebook account: Read more

Brick Avoid - In the App Store

Available In: App Store

Price: $0.99

If you have been around the jailbreak scene for a little while, you are probably familiar with Brick Avoid. Well, Brick Avoid has been available in the App Store since early June. I always like it when jailbreak games hit the App Store!

The object of the game has not changed, you still want to avoid being hit by the bricks for as long as possible, however it does have a new look and some new features. The color scheme is now blue instead of orange and it has a nice moving sky background on the play screen instead of a plain orange screen. As for new features, you can see your time as you play and there is a Highscores option (which did not work in the jailbroke version of the game). Read more

Tweetie Update - Fixes Twitpocalypse Bugs

Available In: App Store

Price: $2.99

I don’t know about you guys but, I was totally stoked to see an update to Tweetie…in which Apple finally approved, two and half weeks after it was submitted (no surprise there!). Tweetie is my favorite Twitter application and it has been driving me crazy that the search has been broken since the dreaded Twitpocalypse. It seems that they have worked out all the Twitpocalypse bugs and Tweetie is back to functioning normally! YAY! The developer also says that there is a “news on the next “big” update coming soon.”

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TweetMic - Send Audio Tweets

Available In: App Store

Price: $0.99

We recently did a review of FaceMic, an application that allows you to record audio and then send it straight to your Facebook page (posting it on your “wall”). Well TweetMic is the same concept only via Twitter. It allows you to record audio and then send it as a tweet. Very cool.

TweetMic functions basically the same as FaceMic. When you first open it, you will need to go to the Setup option where you will enter your Twitter info. You can also change the default phrase under the Setup option. Read more

CardSnap - Converts Photo to Contact Info

Available In: App Store

Price: $9.99

I’m not a huge business card user. In fact, I carry a few of them mostly so I can throw them into a fishbowl in order to win a free lunch at a restaurant. However, I can imagine how useful it would be to have an application that would take business cards and effortlessly import their information into your contacts list. CardSnap attempts to address this by using a proprietary method similar to OCR but not really (or so says the app’s description).

Upon opening (and waiting for) CardSnap, you are given the option to use the camera to snap a picture of the business card. You can also load photos from your camera roll or from your photo library. However, since the main selling point is to use this application in real time, I wanted to focus on the camera option. After taking a picture, you can move and scale your picture before deciding to upload to the servers at CardSnap. Once you’re satisfied with your business card’s readability (this may take some time with the iPhone’s pitiful camera), you submit the card, and wait for a response. Other options in the application include a menu to review your submitted cards, an info screen that offers a user’s guide, and a settings screen that allows you to use groups with your contacts. Read more

SlideRules - Puzzle Game

Available In: App Store

Price: $1.99

Growing up, I used to love those little number puzzles that you’d get in “goody-bags” where you would try to position little plastic number pieces in the correct order on a plastic square. When I received the application SlideRules by AntHill Games, I initially thought that this game would be similar to those nostalgic games. After playing with the app, I learned that SlideRules actually offered more than just a one time opportunity to have fun. Read more

Friday Night Movie Night: Bye Bye Aquatica

I remember this game! Except it was called flOw. Apparently, a company called Ketara, rewrote the game from the ground up, called it Aquatica and put it in the App Store, without the permission of the original developer. They have since removed the app from the App Store and left this apology on their website:

Aquatica was an iPhone remake/fan version of the famous flOw game originally created by Jenova Chen of the ThatGameCompany fame. We deeply apologize for not properly crediting Jenova initially, and have already written him with a personal apology, as well. We also apologize to anyone we have upset and offended - please be assurred that we had no slightest intention of doing so. Our mistakes were caused by naivety, not malice, and we never meant to be disrepectful to anyone.

Because the game seemed to be upsetting so many, we have decided to remove it completely. We will also make sure nothing like this ever happens in the future - we understand our mistake, and will be working very hard to correct it and make amends.

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Word Tower - Think Tetris with Letters

Available In: App Store

Price: $0.99

Word Tower is like playing Tetris with letters. I love the developer’s description of the app - “What do you get when you mix up Scrabble, Boggle and Tetris and add the flipping, shaking and sliding that only the iPhone/iTouch can do? WORD TOWER!”

That is exactly what it is…you have to created words from the letters. You create words by dragging your finger over the letters that form a word. If you create a word, the letters will disappear however, you have to do it quickly because more letters are falling. The cool part is that you can “grab” the letters and move them around as they are falling so that you can strategically create more words.

As you move through the levels, new blocks are introduced. Some of the blocks give you additional points when used, some have to be used a certain number of times before they disappear…etc. The one that gets me is the snowflake. When a snowflake drops you have to shake your device, before it touches another letter, which then changes all your letters. So here you are building a strategy and along comes a snowflake and messes it all up!
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