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The Geekiest Mobile Apps

May 20th, 2013

Guest Contributor

Geeks delight in building their brains, showing their smarts and immersing themselves in the topics they love most. Many app creators make accomplishing the last of these tasks easier with geek-approved applications. By downloading these apps, you can easily engage in one of their favorite hobbies: being nerdy. If you are a card-carrying nerd, try out one of these apps on your tablet the next time you are in a Wi-Fi hotspot. If you’re a smartphone owner, explore the apps anywhere. Owners of T-Mobile cell phones in particular can geek out to the max if they have the company’s new unlimited data plan, making their exploration of all things cerebral as affordable as it is satisfying.

1. Comics App

This app, created by comic powerhouse Comixology, offers you easy access to your favorite reading materials. It provides access to more than 30,000 comic books, allowing you to binge on this classically nerdy reading material, according to Time Magazine. App users can even access comic books they have purchased on the app. This handy feature will allow you to keep the actual comic safely tucked away and explore it digitally.

2. Star Trek PADD

Are you accessing “Star Trek” content digitally? If the answer is no, you are missing out on a wealth of engaging information and doing a poor job of fulfilling your nerd duties. This app, according to CIO, includes information on everything from cast members to ships and on-show technologies. To truly get your Trek on, peruse the app while watching an episode of the show.

3. Internet Movie Database

If you subsist on a regular diet of movies, not satisfied with viewing the films alone, but instead feeling an unending compulsion to know everything about each film, the IMDb app will be your new best friend. This app allows you to search a movie—any movie, no matter how obscure—and access a wealth of information about it and its stars. If you are the type of nerd who loves to write, you can also take advantage of the user review feature and publish reviews of the films you have viewed.

4. Doctor Who: The Mazes of Time

Immerse yourself in the world of “Doctor Who” and build your brain at the same time. In this maze game, you can act as the Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond to keep the world safe from the Daleks. Addictive and engaging, this app will have you hooked, so you better hope you have that unlimited cell phone plan.

5. DMC Speedometer (Flux Capacitor)

If you never quite got over that desire to take a trip in the DeLorean from “Back to the Future,” this app may at least somewhat quench your desire to do so. The app brings the now infamous 88MPH speedo that sits on top of the dash on the DMC straight to your iPhone for the first time! (which any fan worth their salt knows as the device that allows for time travel) and it’s not just a mock-up but a Fully Functional Highly Accurate Speedometer that uses your iPhone built-in GPS receiver to display your current speed.

Being geeky is easier than ever. With a wide array of apps at your fingertips, you can make yourself the most in-the-know person about your favorite nerdtacular topics. Load some of these apps onto your mobile device and get studying. If you don’t, you may be bested by some of your aspiring-geek friends.

“The best iPhone apps and the best iPad apps are reviewed by TheiPhoneAppReview.com”

Guest Contributor: Patricia Tucker

Pat is a tech writer from Toledo, Ohio.

Willy Wattwurm is a Fun and Challenging New Game for Children

May 20th, 2013

Sarah Hanlon

Price: $0.99
Rating:
Willy Wattwurm: Written iPad Game Review

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Reviewed by Sarah Hanlon

Even though the iPhone and iPad are considered to be technological powerhouses, some households refer to them as the primary sources of entertainment for youngsters. Why wouldn’t they? These devices are easy to manipulate, and it’s impossible to overlook the sheer number of great educational apps and games that are available to download.

Willy Wattwurm, developed by Bianca Ackermann, is a brand-new children’s game for iPad and iPhone. A challenging variation of Frogger, this game is perfect for children both young and old.

Concept and Gameplay:

Young children will love playing Willy Wattwurm thanks to the simplicity of the game. Everything is visual, and no reading skills are required. This means the tiniest toddler can easily manipulate Willy Wattwurm. The goal of the game is to guide Willy across the beach to his sand castle home while dodging crabs and other obstacles and collecting stars. Each time you bump into a crab or seagull, Willy loses a life.

As far as graphics and sound effects, Willy Wattwurm features what looks to be like hand drawn scenery. While this might or might not appeal to everyone, I personally like the drawings. Sound effects are great, too, and definitely will keep children entertained.

As you progress through through the game, you can unlock new characters and difficulty levels as rewards. I found Willy Wattwurm to be a little challenging from the start, and youngsters might get agitated when they first start playing. However, the game definitely isn’t impossible to play and I imagine the added difficulty levels will provide a challenge for young ones who feel the game is too easy. Read more »

Implode 3D HD: It’s an Explosion You Can Love

May 20th, 2013

Luke Patrick

Price: $1.99
Rating:
Implode 3D HD: Written & Video iPad App Review

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Reviewed by Luke Patrick

Here at the iPhone App Review, we really like any game that can test our mettle, provide us with a unique experience, and leave us feeling more satisfied than a millionaire on the week-end. With that in mind, we’ve got a brand new puzzler with a twist to throw your direction. It’s called Implode 3D HD, from Renatus Media LLC, and it offers perhaps one of the more inventive ideas we’ve seen in a while. It’s a blast to play—if you’ll pardon the pun—and if you’re looking for a new challenge to play with in the queue, you need only to slide on down below the break to find our full review.

Concept and Gameplay

If you couldn’t tell from the title, the concept behind Implode 3D HD is explosive in nature—literally! The game has you placing charges on various structural objects, then firing them off to demolish everything in the area. If you do it successfully, you’ll clear the level and move onto the next arrangement, and the next challenge. In a lot of ways, it’s like playing Jenga, though some of the rules are different: You’ll want to get rid of the stack, but you’ll still need to place your explosives expertly.

As the game progresses, it gives you more and more chances to express your mental versatility. Most notably, the game gives you objects that you’re not allowed to crush. This adds a fresh element of adventure to the title. If you mess up, you’ll fail the level. And no one likes failure, do they?

Overall, Implode 3D HD provides us with a refreshingly inventive and complex gaming mechanic that holds itself well across the 80 (yes, you saw that correctly) levels that are included here.

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Birthday Calendar Pal: Remember Facebook Birthdays with Ease

May 19th, 2013

Sarah Hanlon

Price: $0.99
Rating:
Birthday Calendar Pal: Written iPhone App Review

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Reviewed by Sarah Hanlon

Remembering birthdays of relatives is hard enough to do, so what happens when you have hundreds of Facebook friends? While there are many apps that allow you to be notified of birthdays, it’s time to become the ultimate Facebook birthday wisher!

Birthday Calendar Pal, developed by 321AppLabs, is a new and useful way to keep track of birthdays and send custom cards and greetings to your friends. Never wish someone an awkward belated happy birthday again!

Concept and Functionality:

Birthday Calendar Pal seeks to eliminate the risk of missing a birthday by connecting with your Facebook account and giving you easy access to birthday information.

In order to use the app properly, you need to not only allow Facebook access your information, but you also need to give the app permission to send posts to your friends on your behalf. Once you’ve successfully connected Birthday Calendar Pal to Facebook, you’re able to quickly and easily see upcoming birthdays.

Birthday Calendar Pal offers two ways to view upcoming birthdays. You can choose to view birthdays the classic calendar way or in list format. While this is purely personal preference, I’d have to say that viewing birthdays in a list format would be more efficient for users who have many friends. You’re able to see birthdays months in advance, plus you know which friends will be celebrating without having to tap individual days on the calendar.

Features:

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Reviewed by Sarah Hanlon

Of all the cool things Birthday Calendar Pal can do, I’d have to say that sending greetings to friends directly within the app has to be the coolest feature. After all, do you really want to be one of those friends who writes a typical “Happy Birthday!”, or do you want to quickly and easily send your friend something meaningful and personalized?

You can even choose to send a greeting via text message. There are hundreds of greetings to choose from, and all of them are sorted by category see you can easily find what you’re looking for. You can choose from short poems to jokes and even world languages. After all, how many people can say they were wished a happy birthday in Bulgarian?

Value:

Birthday Calendar Pal is available to download from the App Store for $0.99. If you enjoy keeping track of birthdays and you’re looking for a cool new way to do so, I definitely recommend downloading Birthday Calendar Pal!

Birthday Calendar Pal is compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. A small expedite fee was paid to speed up the publication of this review.

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Achieve Your Goals in Record Time with Time Optimizer

May 19th, 2013

globalwhirl

Price: Free
Rating:
Time Optimizer: Written iPad App Review

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Reviewed by Michael Naber

Time Optimizer, from BogushTech LLC, is an app for the iPad. The point of Time Optimizer is in the title. The app helps you to optimize, or make better use of your time. Time Optimizer is built to help motivate you to achieve your goals and live a more fruitful and efficient life. The iPad application comes with an array of useful features that can help improve efficiency and effectiveness in your daily life. The application has an excellent design that us streamlined and easy to use. I’ll explain this more below but the main thing is that Time Optimizer has the potential to save you hours every month so you can stop checking your task and actually do them.

Features

The features of Time Optimizer are pretty cool. You can customize key areas, create multiple reminders for task, set modern date and time entry, use the planning time calculator, and more. These features combine into an excellent application that can be very useful and functional. The planning time calculator is especially cool because it can help you plan out your day in terms of hours. The app has an excellent interface, four modules, six key areas, three goal types, six task types, and a lot more. I would be really tedious to list all of the specific features, but if you get the app you will see how functional it is.

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Time Optimizer iPad App Review

Design

The design of Time Optimizer is about average. It could use some more color, but then again, that might hinder the functionality of the app. The app’s goal is to be easy to use, not look good. One of the best things about the design of the app is that it nearly eliminates the need for pop-ups. The app mainly uses a right panel if it needs to give you more information or have you enter an action. This is a new design shift away from traditional apps that have a pop-up requesting you to enter more information.

Overall Value

In all, the entire interface works but it could use a few added touches. Hopefully as the developers make more updates the design and functionality will improve even further. Overall Time Optimizer is a promising way to help you keep track of your daily task and events. It has a decent and functional interface that gets the job done and saves time in the process. If you have an iPad, I would check out this app right away. The developer also states that an iPhone version will be available very soon.

Time Optimizer

Time Optimizer – is compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 5.1 or later. A small expedite fee was paid to speed up the publication of this review.

The iPhone app reviews rating:

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Easily Flow From Week to Week with weekflow

May 18th, 2013

globalwhirl

Price: $0.99
Rating:
weekflow: Written iPhone App Review

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Reviewed by Michael Naber

Weekflow is an app for the iPhone and iPod Touch from allthirds. The point of weekflow is to help you organize your calendars, appointments, and events in one easy to use format. The real power behind weekflow comes from it’s gestures. Weekflow has intuitive gestures incorporated that not only make it easier to use, but more fun to use as well. The application also comes with a clean interface that is geared to be functional and get things done. I’ll go into this more below below, but the important thing is that weekflow has the potential to make you more efficient and effective during the day.

Features

Weekflow has some really useful features that make it a great app to have. Some of the top features are a unique ‘weekflow’ view with an infinite stream of weeks, a ‘week peek’ overview, three different color modes, natural language input and the first calendar app to offer the possibility to create events with unclear dates. These features combine to give you an excellent and functional iPhone application. I really like the week peek overview, which gives you a brief glance at your next week. It can save a few seconds each time you check your calendar, but it really adds up. Another feature is that the app is in English and German. So if you speak a bit of German, or want to challenge yourself with a new language, give the German option a shot!

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weekflow iPhone App Review

Design

The design of weekflow is actually pretty good. I imagined a drab looking user interface, but instead, I discovered weekflow is actually really cool. While the gestures could be both a feature and a design element, I choose to put it in the design part of the review because it makes up the design. Everything in the app is designed to work with gestures. With weekflow, tapping is a thing of the past. Gestures seem to dominate the interface, and that is what makes weekflow unique. The overall interface of weekflow is clean, crisp, and functional, and I would highly recommend checking out the app.

Overall Value

Overall the application has great use of gestures, a variety of useful functions, and an excellent design. It’s an all around app that can be a great way to plan your events and better organize yourself. Right now the app is 50% off, so it would be a great time to check it out on the store. In total, it seems like a great app, and I would definitely take a look at it.

weekflow

weekflow – iPhone app requires iOS 6.0 or later and is compatible with iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. A small expedite fee was paid to speed up the publication of this review.

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