This is fantastic news! I had been review a lot of the classic games that have been coming to the iPhone, and often wondered when the heck is that darling Q*Bert gonna find its way there too. I can’t wait to try it. Looks like it’s been submitted to the app store and they are just waiting for approval.
It has been approved and is now available for download… 
I’m off to grab a copy!!
I have been a fan of pinball since I can remember being tall enough to reach the table (from a chair). There is something so fantastic about the sound and dynamics of this game. The un-predictable nature and the idea that maybe somehow if I hit the ball in a certain way at a certain speed I have control over it is magical. I came across this fantastic article through a contact, and I was so pleased to see a tast of some of it’s origins and to read about this wonderful innovator Steve.
I had a friend, I’ll never forget her “Misty”, who was the main reason I was late for most of my time at Junior High School. She had a pinball machine in her basement, and when her parents left for work, we unlocked the front door of the machine and rigged the change collector se we could play as many games as possible for no money. It was bliss, even with all the detentions I ended up having!! Hope you enjoy this article as much as I did…
Original article here: pinball innovator steve kordek
pinball innovator steve kordek
Sally’s Spa $0.99 / £0.59 on sale at the moment. Publisher: Games Cafe
Link for the FREE version, with limited levels.
This is a time management game that is up there with the best of them. If you like the pressures of trying to satisfy all your customers and make a profit then this is a great game to play. And NO it is not just for girls, maybe you aren’t up for the challenge~
Sally has been on our devices before in the previous hit Sally’s Salon. That game earned her a deserved following. In addition to that, because the game was on other platforms, notably the DS, (but you can also play it on your computer) she seems unstoppable, which I’m happy about!
So, some good things about Sally’s Salon…
First look at the game you can see how games like these, from big developers, are so polished with their graphics. It is a slick interface, with very user intuitive controls. Sally herself is a real cutie and it was fun to be her in the salon.
The placement of the items in the game, with the waiting chairs at the back and then you move around the screen in an anti-clockwise way really makes great use of the screen size. The game packs a lot of things into that little screen yet manages to not look cramped or disorganized. A real credit to the developers.
MUSIC
Shazam FREE Developer: Shazam Entertanment Limited
Ocarina $0.99 Developer: Smule, Chuck Inc.
Well well well girls, who actually baked those cookies or is that as secret as your apps seem to be this time round?
This week they are looking at music as the category and they are convinced that they have some great apps for you. Hattie talks you through Shazam, which is a great way to find out what the heck is the name of ‘that’ song. While Christine takes you through the delights that is Ocarina. This app is $0.99 and she is ’singing’ it’s praises.
I think at one point she is almost off the couch with excitement over it! It’s getting heated in here folks~
CREDITS: This weeks episode was…
Filming/sound/photography by Nick Schneider
Styling / Hair / Make up and clothing sourced by Kate Swindells
Original Music / composition / performance Rob Lavers (the music is created by performing a musical score, then removing all the notes so you are left with the gaps and breaths – featured on our teasers – genius)
Other production bits were by the obsessive Christine Morris and of course starred the wonderful Hattie Medd.
Thanks to: @MartinSFP @bootooyou @sizemore and @ernmander
Hope you enjoyed the show and we look forward to seeing you in 2 weeks time…. hmmmm what ever do we have for you next?
Oops, not again, the girls seem to be enjoying the apps too much and have once again ran to 7 minutes of chat! Hope you will find the apps and ‘one more byte’ interesting as this week has a surprise in store.
Another face makes an appearance (two more in fact if we count Snoopy). Ric Morton is on hand (Via Skype) to offer you top 3 tips for iPhone development. If you wondered where to start and needed motivation this could be the episode for you.
Get that all important app made and send it to the girls, so they have even more apps to dress through!
~ hope you enjoy
This episode sees some country gents (our gals) getting comfortable on the couch, as they look into the entertainment category for iPhone apps.
Hattie picked the free app LCube Lite. Christine features the Touch Poet app that lets you use modern words fed straight fromDigg (and other sources) and mixes them with the words of Shakespeare, E. A. Poe, Kipling and other Wordsworth. For only $0.99 you can write some fun poems and send them out using Twitter (or email)!
CREDITS: This weeks episode was…
Filming/sound/photography by Nick Schneider
Styling / Hair / Make up / clothing sourced by Kate Swindells
Original Music / composition / performance Rob Lavers (the music is created by performing a musical score, then removing all the notes so you are left with the gaps and breaths – featured on our teasers – genius)
Other production bits were by the obsessive Christine Morris and of course starred the wonderful Hattie Medd.
Coffee image used in one more byte was sourced from Flicker (Alex-S).
Hope you enjoyed the show and we look forward to seeing you in 2 weeks time, for what might be called our hungriest show to date!
ENTERTAINMENT
LCube Lite FREE Developer: CoolMoon Corp.
LCube $0.99 Developer: CoolMoon Corp.
Touch Poet $0.99 Developer: Morgan Brown Consultancy Ltd.
Touch Poet Lite FREE Developer: Morgan Brown Consultancy Ltd.
Do you already use these apps? Do you have a different favorite that you think the world should know about?
The Brighter Marketing Bible for Small Businesses – Siobhan Lees and Joanne Morley (Debbie Jenkins Editor) £14.97 from Amazon
I came across this book through a Twitter contact @Joanne_Morley.
I had read Joanne’s tweets over a period of time and I found myself going to the blog and reading the advice and posts there regularly. They were full of information, but more importantly, it was useful information!
Then a tweet came through about the launch of the book ‘The Brighter Marketing Bible”. When I saw that I asked her if I could read a copy to review it. This was actually for two reasons.
1- On Twitter I am finding a community of people who help and support each other in their work and interests, and I want to pay back this community with offering my own help and support out to them.
2 – The book looked fantastic and I really wanted to read it!
I did asked Joanne why this book was written and she described it as
“Regarding why we wrote the book, we just wanted to make marketing simple and easy to understand for SMEs and small businesses and give them the practical guidance they need.”
Which describes what it does really well. There is information in the book at the start so you can read about them more in depth,explaining their backgrounds and where they are coming from. (more…)
Excited to be a part of the 148Apps.com team, my first review (for an application called Trailers) just got posted. Feel free to check it out. Or just browse 148Apps for all reviews on iPhone applications. They also have current application news and let you know when something on sale. ~
Mmmmmm I love iPhone applications, just as much as coffee…
Developer: Mustache
Price: £1.79
Version Reviewed: 1.2
iPhone integration rating 4/5
User Interface rating 5/5
Reuse / Replay value 4/5
I don’t need to tell you about the explosion of Twitter users at the moment. Some people are now using Twitter as an alternative to Google. What Summizer is great at is helping you get through all the ‘chatter’ to find the information you want, and present it in an easy to understand order. (you can search or just browse)
Since the first version of this application was released they have listened to what their audience has asked for and added some very useful features.
This includes the ability to reply to users and the all important ability to ReTweet! The refreshed searches highlight the new found tweets in that search which is great and you can also launch the links in Safari with the inclusion of a button to the application. (more…)
Developer: Naan Studio (also makers of Twitterfox the plugin for Firefox)
Price: FREE
Version Reviewed: 1.4
iPhone integration rating 5/5
User Interface rating 5/5
Reuse / Replay value 5/5
TwitterFon is a simple, clean, easy to use, and super fast Twitter client for your iPhone and iPod Touch.
A week has passed and I have been using TwitterFon exclusively. Unfortunately this statement is not true (well not to start with). I found myself throughout the start of the week, reverting to a different application on several occasions. However – Something happened mid-week. (more…)
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All images from Voice and Void, curated by Thomas Trummer, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (sep 16 2007 – Feb 24 2008). (ABOVE:) Christian Marclay, Double Doors (The Electric Chair), 2006. Private Collection. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York.
At the Slade School of Art on Wednesday lunchtime, Simon Morris – writer, performer and publisher of Information as Material - was launching The Voice and Nothing More, a short festival of workshops, an exhibition and performances exploring the voice in contemporary art.
Befitting his role as scene setter, Morris read a text that seemed to outline different properties of the voice. I heard sections on laughing, crying, and female orgasm. Several times he screamed mightily into the microphone. I say “seemed” because Morris shared the stage with the saxophonist Rob Lavers. Lavers used the saxophone as an extension of voice, or maybe his voice was an extension of the saxophone. He breathed, growled, shouted, blowed raspberries, hissed and much more. Sometimes voice alone, othertimes into the saxophone mouthpiece, which was sometimes joined to the instrument strung around his neck, sometimes not.
Other times the microphone was inside the bell of the sax. It expanded voice and instrument both. Oftentimes it seemed to expand beyond both. It lasted maybe twenty minutes – Morris talked of feeling, in this context, it should be the length of an academic presentation – prompting the fantastic thought of a panel session comprising three such pieces! It was a fantastic way to theoretically explore the subject of the voice whilst fully inhabiting its physicality and potential.
Twitter, founded by Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams was launched in July 2006. It is a social networking (and micro-blogging service) that allows users to post latest updates. Each update (or Tweet as its termed) is limited by 140 characters and can be posted these ways: web form, programs specifically designed to interact with Twitter, text message, or instant message. Some interesting user number information can be found at TechCrunch. Additionally this recent post found on Digg stated that “Micro-blogging service Twitter is gaining 5,000 to 10,000 new accounts a day and most of its users have joined this year (2008).” The full story on Psysorg can be read HERE.
When talking with friends and getting current information through Twitter, I find myself using several programs because they seem to have one or two features that I like. This is annoying. I want one application that meets all the requirements. Is this really to much to ask? I decided to make a list of things that I would like in the program, and then I am going to go through the list & map it out against what the program does.
I will use each program for one week, during that week it will have the epic honour of going onto my Phone bar (see picture).
During that week I will not be using any other application. After that week I am going to post my review and opinions and then test the next application. Currently all the applications that I have planned to test are FREE from iTunes store.
There is only one paid for application, but this may change as my challenge continues. (I am really hoping one already installed will do the trick!) (more…)
Developer: F2M2 Inc.
Price: FREE
Version Reviewed: 1.22
iPhone integration rating 4/5
User Interface rating 5/5
Reuse / Replay value 4/5
SodaSnap uses either an existing photo from your Photo Library or one taken with the iPhone camera. It then sends the image in a ‘virtual postcard’ to family and friends. (well, whoever you want to, to be more accurate.) (more…)
Visited a lotta great links this week so I thought I’d write a post with a listing of them.
The first one is about Microsoft’s new ‘notebook’ called ThumbTack basically a great tool for researchers (Mashable has a great article about it and the others, link above). Currently Google Notebook seems to be at the top of the list, and there is EverNote and UberNote too (a long list of others) Along with that is the information that Microsoft Office will be preparing web versions of their software. This article from the BBC explains the move.
This is great - Canadian filmmaker will be putting a camera in his eye, what an amazing idea! “Rob Spence looks you straight in the eye when he talks. So it’s a little unnerving to imagine that soon one of his hazel-green eyes will have a tiny wireless video camera in it that records your every move. ” from Wired Blog.
Eyeborg from WIRED (eyeborg.blogger.com)
Turning virtual drinks into real ones Also from Mashable <—- review & information
This next link was in a @ryancarson tweet, basically an open community for mobile application developers. This link specifically to a great place to create widgets.
AwayFind basically acts as a web filter. It is so you can choose which emails are vital and that you do want looking at quickly. Could be a good solution if your the type of user who has alot of email to get through and just needs it prioritizing. Describe as “The online equivalent of having an administrative assistant screen your mail and only bother you for the important things.” by Web Worker Daily
This is Microvision, purely cause I want one! (little projector that you can use with your iPhone)
And lastly, this Patent released “revealing research that Apple had done in 2007 on many topics encompassing future versions of Mac OS X. The most intriguing is a series of patent applications which describe a “Multidimensional” user interface. Apple has essentially been working on true 3D desktop environments. ” from Macrumors
Apple patent application
That last link, to the Apple Patent I had to include as it appeared yesterday, and just this week I had started the beta for BumpTop, so pretty topical. (which is worth a look at, also watch amazing demonstration by Anand Agarawala at TED.
Ok, those are the links, that does seem to be a pretty huge list, but I loved them all for different reasons and thought they were worth a mention.
~ Hey – if you have any great links you’ve come across this week please post them for me, I’d love to check them out!
I had long long ago abandoned my Delicious account, and I’m not sure why. The idea of having bookmarks follow you wherever you go can only be a good thing. Of course, I find myself bookmarking pages that I don’t necessarily ever go back to. That may be the problem. (more…)