Android – Iphone – Applications

Samurai: Way of the Warrior is an impressive sword fighting iPhone game from Mad Finger Games, with original comic style graphics, smooth game play, powerful sound effects and music, and a great story line.

Your character is a skillful sword fighting samurai in the ancient Japan during chaotic times of war, Daisuke Shimada who is wandering around and has no fear, nor shortage of confidence in his ability to overpower any opponent. He must eventually defeat the evil Daimyo Hattoro who spreads terror and fear around the country. The plot is reveled little by little throughout the game using comic style storytelling and speech bubbles, which is really quite well done. The drama thickens, involving a beautiful girl who Daisuke meets, and promises to help her out.

Now for the technical details: To move the character is very simple and natural, and is almost like pulling him in the direction you want him to move by dragging you finger on the screen in a path. The maps are 3D cartoons, with your view coming in from the top over the clouds, but the camera angles change during play to make more exciting action. Samurai allows you to discover various routes giving you options to reach the final boss in each level. Visit several unique environments in the Japan in a feudal 16th century setting. To slash your opponents you swipe the iPhone screen in various strokes and watch Daisuke slice and dice his enemies into pieces.

There is a decent amount of blood and gore in this game combined with gruesome painstaking screams as your enemies are decapitated or chopped in half. You are able to improve you skills by unlocking new moves as you go on. A Dojo mode, lets you fight in area sparing enemies in the rounds. Samurai is an original iPhone fighting game with a deep storyline, detailed graphics, and lifelike gameplay and should be well received by fans of Ninja Gaiden, Devil May Cry or Heavenly Sword.

Here is a video demo of the Samurai app on the iPhone

This 3rd Party App is available at the Apple iTunes AppStore. Browse the full list of all AppStore apps filed under the AppStore category.

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HOTARU from Fieldsystem is a beatifully designed relaxing iPhone app that is designed to help you relax, be calm and give you peace of mind. Featuring a night view of the moon, a grass pond with running water and crickets in the background, and lots of fireflies. The fireflies are delicate and responde to touch, sound and wind. So if you make noise, blow into the iPhone or try to touch the fireflies, they run away.

So if you want to get into your zen moment and forget about all your day to day chores, pop open the Hotaru app and escape to this enchanted looking brook where there are various visual and audio stimuli to help you relax and enjoy the sound of the stream and the insects…until the fireflies come to you. The Dance of the Fireflies is suppoed to bring you peace of mind. Your iPhone can become a loud and stressful and place at times, with all the fighting games and harsh sounding games. So if you’re looking for a meditation type app for your iPhone, consider Hotaru as one of your top options.

Here is a video demo of the Hotaru app on the iPhone

This 3rd Party App is available at the Apple iTunes AppStore. Browse the full list of all AppStore apps filed under the AppStore category.

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We’ve seen a Wall-E PC case mod, but this is the first time I’ve seen a papercraft Wall-E. TotoroYamada created this papercraft Wall-E robot to check his e-mail every few seconds and dance around when a new message comes in.

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Dotgo is a website that allows you to receive content from text messages by sending SMS short-codes. Dotgo users send shortcodes and the name of the website that they’re interested in an SMS. Then they will receive a text message back with information. For example if you text GASBUDDY with the zip code to Dotgo’s phone number, you will get a list of nearby gas stations.

Dotgo users can also opt-in to receive text messages from regular messages such as stock quotes and game scores. The service is free for users and publishers that want an alternative for setting up their own short codes which normally runs for $2,000 per month. Dotgo plans to make money by selling analytics and debugging services.

Dotgo is a project by Scientific Media which is a New York venture firm. Scientific Media has been funded by family and friends. Scientific Media also received $700,000 in grants from the National Science Foundation. Dotgo launched at DEMO.

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Palm, Inc. (NASDAQ:PALM) had filed a complaint with The USB Implementers Forum because Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) blocked them from the Palm Pre being able to connect to iTunes. Rather than the USB-IF becoming sympathetic for Palm, the company has decided to scold them instead. According to the USB-IF Apple has the right to protect their software.

When the Palm Pre was first released, they claimed one of their features was the ability to sync with iTunes. The Palm Pre did this by tricking iTunes into thinking it was an iPod. In an update to iTunes, Apple blocked the Pre from having the ability to sync with the software. Palm found loopholes to the update and kept on tricking iTunes. Clearly this did not make the USB-IF was not too thrilled by this approach.

According to the Associated Press, the USB-IF sent a letter to both Palm and Apple. Palm was warned that if they update their software further to crack iTunes syncing abilities, it would be considered a USB-IF rules violation.

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