Recently I’ve been downloading a few photographic apps and trying them out, this is one of the best I’ve found. Hipstamatic is an app that, according to their website, “brings back the look, feel, unpredictable beauty, and fun of plastic toy cameras from the past.” How I’d describe it is pretty similar, but the final [...]

Word games, ya gotta love em. This one, Chicktionary, goes along the Scrabble theme of creating words out of a ‘rack’ of letters. There’s 2 games, timed and untimed. The timed is just that, create as many words as you can in 3 minutes and score max points, bigger points for bigger words. The second [...]

I was told about the dragon app one morning at a networking breakfast meeting and thought that seems like a good idea, I’ll download that and give it a go. The app is a speech to text dictation tool, whereby you dictate into the iphone and your speech is converted into copiable text. As an [...]

Stanza is pretty much like the Kindle app in that you can buy, store and read books on your iPhone. I was a tad dubious about this concept of book reading via the iPhone until I trialled it on holiday this year. I downloaded the Twilight series of books and found the app to be [...]

This game, from Clickgamer, is of the Worms ilk of puzzle come destruction games that’s über addictive. The dirty, rotten, thieving piggies have knicked the birds eggs and holed up ‘over the way’ in various buildings and constructions. The overtly mad birds must fling themselves from a catapult, kamikaze stylee, onto the pigs to destroy [...]

Slap Happy is a must for every iphone owning, Happy Tree Friends fan. The app puts your very own Happy Tree Friend, Cuddles, in your pocket for you to knock about, maim and ultimately kill in a gruesome accident. The graphics and sick humour are brilliantly realised. Watch your friends faces as, after they’ve said [...]

If you have Sky+ this app is a must, it’ll be the best £1.19 you’ve spent. What it basically does is, after setting up an online sky account, be able to remotely record anything on your Sky+box. So if you forget to record a program you can search for it in the app, hit record [...]

This paid for app (£1.79) is a very good example of what fun things can be done with the iphone. Basically, take a photo, preferably face-on of someone’s face and pop it into pr-made masks to make and ‘old’ version of the person. Here’s an example of one of the finished photos. Here’s a demo…

Newton’s Cradle is another one of those apps that’s pretty useless as far as functionality goes but it’s just great fun. What does it do? It replicates the old 70′s office toy by using real world physics and clash detection to make a very realistic Newton’s Cradle. Cool!! Ohhhhh and it makes good use of [...]

This app doesn’t really do much except roll a number of dice, that’s it, but it does this beautifully. The animation and real world crash detection is simply sublime. Just shake your iphone and watch the dice roll around and come to rest on your score. You can choose how many dice and from a [...]