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iOS Free App Review: Max Injury Lite

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010 | Author: OWC Chris S., OWC Michael, and OWC Grant

Each week the OWC Blog Staff picks a free iOS application to review. This week, we’re taking a look at Max Injury Lite from Box Shaped Games.

App Store Description

Max Injury is a simple and addictive game everyone can enjoy!

Meet Max, the state of the art Crash Test Dummy. Equipped with the latest in ultra-sensitive impact sensors, he is the ultimate tool for physical Punishment. Push, pull, fling, and throw Max in 16 exciting, mayhem filled levels that are guaranteed to never play the same way twice!

The harder Max hits, the the higher your score. The more objects Max hits, the higher you score. You get the idea.

Put Max to the ultimate test and rack up those damage points and compare your score with testers all around the world!

The game features:

  • Advanced 3D Physics system gives Max the most realistic ragdoll motion.
  • Elaborate injury score keeping and bonus system makes Max Injury fun and addictive.
  • Multiple costumes to dress Max in!
  • 16 Levels of addictive mayhem!
  • Paste Photo of your friends onto Max’s face + Save the screen!
  • Online Global Hi-Score. Can you be the world’s toughest tester?
  • OpenFeint Support

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Weekly Free iPhone/iPod Touch App – Tap Tap Revenge 3

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010 | Author: OWC Chris S., OWC Michael, OWC Mike H., and OWC Grant

Every week, the OWC Blog staff picks a free app for the iPhone/iPod Touch to try out and review. This week’s app is Tap Tap Revenge 3 by Tapulous.

App Description

TAP ALONG TO SOME OF THE BIGGEST BANDS IN THE WORLD INCLUDING KE$HA, BLACK EYED PEAS, METALLICA, AFI AND SMASHING PUMPKINS. With over 100 free songs and 100 premium bundles, why pay $7 for other music rhythm games when you can get the original and most downloaded music game on the iPhone and iPod touch for FREE.

BUT DON”T JUST TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT …..

“Absolutely marvelous.” 148Apps

“Pure awesomeness.” Gizmodo

“Tapulous is becoming a marketing force in the music industry.” BusinessWeek

“Does this game deliver a gaming experience that continues on with the amazing experience we have come to expect from Tapulous? In my opinion, YES!” iPhone Reviews 2.0

“Tapulous pretty much has the market covered in terms of getting great music playable on the iPhone.” TUAW

In several head-to-head reviews the FREE Tap Tap Revenge 3 has won over the paid Rockband ($6.99) hands-down. NO WONDER IT IS A 4.5 STAR GAME!

AMAZINGLY DEEP PLAYLIST ……

Take a deep breath and read this (partial) playlist. 30 Seconds to Mars. A Prefect Circle. AFI. Airborne Toxic Event. All-American Rejects. Angels & Airwaves. Asher Roth. Ben Harper. Blink-182. Bush. Coldplay. The Crystal Method. Dashboard Confessional. David Guetta. Depeche Mode. Duran Duran. Elton John. Evanescence. Fall Out Boy. Fat Boy Slim. Flyleaf. Foo Fighters. George Thorogood, Godsmack. Gwen Stefani. Hinder. The Hives. Ingrid Michaelson. JET. Jackson 5. Jane’s Addiction. Jimmy Eats World. Kaiser Chiefs. Ke$ha. Keane. Keith Urban. The Killers. Korn. LCD Soundsystem. LMFAO. Lady Antebellum. Lady Gaga. Lifehouse. Lily Allen. Lynyrd Skynyrd. Marilyn Manson. Maroon 5. Megadeath. Michael Franti. Motorhead. New Kids on the Block. Nine Inch Nails. No Doubt. Ok Go. OneRepublic. Owl City. Papa Roach. Phoenix. The Prodigy. Queens of the Stone Age. Rascal Flatts. Rise Against. Robbie Williams. Rush. Shwayze. Silversun Pickups. Smash Mouth. Smashing Pumpkins. Snow Patrol. Social Distortion. Spoon. Steppenwolf. Steve Miller Band. Sublime. Sum 41. The Temper Trap. Thievery Corporation. Thriving Ivory. Tiësto. Vampire Weekend. War. Weezer. Wolfmother. Yeah Yeah Yeahs. EVERY WEEK, WE FEATURE A NEW HIT TRACK FOR FREE DOWNLOAD IN THE GAME.

MORE THAN JUST A MUSIC GAME ……

- The funnest live chat system on the iPhone with hundreds of thousands of users. Connect with friends and meet people who share your musical interests
- A fun and addictive online game with insane weapon action
- A complete avatar system so you can show off your rocker persona
- Frequent contests where we give away signed artist guitars, signed albums and other prizes

This app is for users 13 and over.

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iOS App Review: Stanza

Wednesday, June 9th, 2010 | Author: OWC Chris S.

Each week, the OWC Blog Staff picks a free iOS App to check out and review. This week’s selection is the Stanza book reader by Lexcycle.

Description

Read books on your iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad! Lexcycle Stanza brings the digital book revolution to your pocket with a reading interface that is unrivaled in its clarity and ease of use. With over 4 million downloads around the world, Stanza has become an iPhone phenomenon, and is featured as one of the top three Apple favorites in their “App Store Turns 1″ celebration.

Purchase popular new books from a selection of over 50,000 contemporary titles available in various partner stores, or choose from an additional 50,000 free classics and recent original works available from Project Gutenberg, Feedbooks, and many other sources. Store and categorize hundreds of books in the organizer, and transfer your own ePub, eReader, PDF, Comic Book Archive (CBR & CBZ), and DjVu books from your Mac or PC to Stanza by dragging & dropping the files into the “File Sharing” section of the “Apps” tab of your device in iTunes.

Your entire summer reading, your class syllabus for the whole year, all the reference material you will ever need: all at your fingertips. Literally.

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iPod/iPhone App Reviews: VehiCal

Wednesday, May 12th, 2010 | Author: OWC Chris S., OWC Mike H., and OWC Michael

Each week, the OWC Blog staff pick a free application from the iTunes App Store to review. This week’s iPhone/iPod Touch app is VehiCal by Red Cube.

App Description:

VehiCal makes it easy to record and manage vehicle mileage and expenses for personal and business use. Track fuel consumption information, including fuel economy, gas prices, and pump totals, as well as vehicle expenses with customizable lists such as repairs, highway tolls, and parking costs. This provides you with comprehensive information of your vehicle’s operational costs and can help you keep tabs on fuel efficiency and keeping your vehicle well maintained. VehiCal’s flexible calculations give you a controlled view of your vehicles fuel consumption which is increasingly important as fuel costs continue to rise.

Maximize potential tax reductions by keeping convenient records of business and personal trip mileage with customizable categories and notes. Email yourself and your accountant selected entries of your choosing based on date, type, cost, etc. in HTML or CSV (text) formats. The CSV format option can be used in all spreadsheet applications while the HTML format option provides a rich table of your selected data.

VehiCal’s interactive lists allow you to sort data by touching column headers and select which entries to include in your calculations by using the calculation bar. Sort and select entries by specific dates or categories giving you a touchable spread sheet in the palm of your hand. Track fuel economy information on pump entries of your choosing so that results aren’t skewed if you forget to input an entry. Supports all relevant unit conversions in real time so unit settings can be changed on the fly. Experience VehiCal’s innovative design today!

FEATURES

  • Supports multiple vehicles
  • Calculates: fuel economy, average gas price, total gas cost, vehicle expenses, trip distances, and more….
  • Features interactive tables where specific entries can be selected, grouped, and sorted for flexible calculations
  • Email selected data entries in HTML or CSV (spreadsheet) formats
  • Supports all relevant units and fuel economy standards (MPG, L/100km, km/L, km/Gallon; US & Imperial)
  • Change units in real time when traveling to different regional areas
  • Take photos or use saved pictures of your vehicle for customization
  • See a summary view of your vehicle’s stats while scrolling through multiple vehicles

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Using Skype to Bridge the Gap

Thursday, May 6th, 2010 | Author: OWC Alan

How do you close the gap between a Grandmother and her Granddaughter?

How do you close the gap between the Chicago suburbs and the west coast of Florida?

In a word: Skype

My Mom is a snowbird. For those of you unfamiliar with the term, a snowbird typically is a person of retired age who splits their time between their hometown in the northern regions of our country and some place nice and warm. When the snow flies, so do they!

She loves to travel and golf, but she misses my daughter. Enter the new craze sweeping retirement communities; some of her friends in Florida have been using Skype for a while. One day, my mom said to me, “We’re getting a new computer with a camera built in so we can Skype.” *

Wha?

My mom has to call me twice a day to figure out how to work my TV when she is home watching my daughter. You mean to tell me this lady is going to learn how to Skype?! Article Continues…

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iPod/iPhone App Reviews: Distant Suns (Lite)

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010 | Author: OWC Chris S., OWC Michael, and OWC Mike H.

As we’ve mentioned a couple of times here on the OWC Blog, astronomy and space travel have a firm place in the history of OWC. With that in mind, it was kind of a natural choice for this week’s Free App Review: Distant Suns (Lite).

App Store Description:

Sporting a database of thousands of stars, nebula and galaxies, Distant Suns has earned the reputation of both having one of the most realistic displays of the night sky, while being one of the easiest to use astronomy programs available for the most casual sky watcher and serious telescope jockey alike.

Here’s what people said about the original Distant Suns:

  • 5 Stars from ituneappreview.com
  • 5 Stars in iphoneapplicationlist.com
  • 4 Stars from AppVee.co

Features include:

  • Best tech support in this and parallel universes
  • Thousands of pinpoint stars scintillating like diamond dust in the palm of your hand (but not nearly as scratchy)
  • Realistic ghostly band of the Milky Way
  • All 88 constellations with articles on their mythology
  • All 9 planets (yes, we feel that little Pluto got a bad rap so in the Distant Suns universe it is still a planet)
  • Sun and Moon
  • GPS aware
  • What’s Up? Gives a quick snapshot overview of where all of the important stuff is
  • Easy one-handed operation.
  • Point and Identify mode reveals the hidden data for each of the stars, planets and deep-sky wonders
  • Planetary data and information
  • IM the author with astronomical questions. And he may answer if he’s not napping. AIM Handle: lazyastronomer. Also on Twitter at distantsuns.

What does the full version have that this doesn’t?

  • The ability to change date/time and accelerate time to study the heavenly motions
  • Over 130,000 stars, down to magnitude 10
  • Mythical figures for all constellations
  • The ability to fine tune the star’s sizes and images from simple to stunning
  • Be able to filter out dimmer stars to match your local sky
  • Compass support for iPhone 3GS users, just aim the phone at the sky and see what you’re looking at.
  • Augmented Reality: displays the stars on top of your phones video image
  • Nightvision mode keeps your eyes dark-adapted when outside at night
  • Smoothly slews to each object when selected
  • Limits the current-event alert to one showing.
  • Additional landscape images
  • Third toolbar for ease of navigation
  • Extra in-depth data about each object

The Universe just got, well…uh…”smaller.”

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iPod/iPhone App Reviews: Chain Rxn Free

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010 | Author: OWC Chris S., OWC Grant, and OWC Michael

Each week, the OWC Blog staff pick a free application from the iTunes App Store to review. This week’s iPhone/iPod Touch app is Chain Rxn Free by Zwigglers.

Description

Chain Rxn is a simple but addictive game where you try to create the longest chain of explosions with just one tap!

Touch the iPhone screen to start an explosion that causes a chain reaction when it comes into contact with other balls.

There are 12 levels to complete. When you are done, you can upload your scores to Facebook and compete against your friends to obtain the highest scores. Article Continues…

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iPod/iPhone App Reviews: Touch Mouse

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010 | Author: OWC Chris S., OWC Mike H., and OWC Michael

This week’s free iPhone/iPod App to review: Touch Mouse by Logitech.

App’s Description:

Touch Mouse by Logitech turns your iPhone or iPod touch into a wireless trackpad and keyboard for your computer.

Do you connect your computer to your TV? Touch Mouse is the perfect solution for when you want to stay in control from the comfort of your couch. Point, click, scroll and type in any application—on a Mac or a PC.

Touch Mouse works over Wi-Fi, so you can use it anywhere in the house. And to make typing easier, text is displayed on the screen of your iPhone or iPod touch as you type, so you can see what you’re doing without having to continually look up and down.

FEATURES

  • Multi-touch trackpad with option for two or three buttons
  • Two-finger scrolling
  • Keyboard with modifier keys
  • On-screen text display while typing
  • Show or hide the keyboard at any time
  • Trackpad and keyboard are available in landscape and portrait modes

IMPORTANT

To make Touch Mouse work, you will need to download the Touch Mouse Server software from www.logitech.com/touchmouse and install it on your Mac or PC. This software enables the Touch Mouse app on your iPhone or iPod touch to find your computer and communicate with it.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

  • Mac with OS X 10.5 or higher
  • PC with Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 7
  • Computer and iPhone or iPod touch must be connected to the same Wi-Fi network
  • Touch Mouse Server software must be installed and running on the computer you want to control

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