Okay people, I need your help on this one. Somebody please tell me how Powwownow makes money? The popular conferencing service is now available through this free app. Hurry up and download it before they realize they can’t make it up in volume sales!
In all seriousness, what you get when you download the Powwownow app is conference calling on your iPhone done right. As expected, you can get together with other callers smoothly and without glitches. But Powwownow gets the fine points right as well: it integrates with your e-mail/phone list, it figures out where you are via GPS and uses your location to pick the best call-in number, it automatically dials it for you, and it generates a pin for you and even remembers it.
You can join conferences or create your own, complete with its own title and description line. You can use your contacts to generate an invite list. You can even see what time of day your conference will be for all attendees. If those 9 a.m. eastern time meetings aren’t appreciated in Boston, trust me, your web guy in Long Beach will hate them. Powwownow knows this, and lets you know you’re doing it at the conference set-up phase. (…) Read the rest of Powwownow: Phone Conferencing The Way it Was Meant to Be
Okay people, I need your help on this one. Somebody please tell me how Powwownow makes money? The popular conferencing service is now available through this free app. Hurry up and download it before they realize they can’t make it up in volume sales!
In all seriousness, what you get when you download the Powwownow app is conference calling on your iPhone done right. As expected, you can get together with other callers smoothly and without glitches. But Powwownow gets the fine points right as well: it integrates with your e-mail/phone list, it figures out where you are via GPS and uses your location to pick the best call-in number, it automatically dials it for you, and it generates a pin for you and even remembers it.
You can join conferences or create your own, complete with its own title and description line. You can use your contacts to generate an invite list. You can even see what time of day your conference will be for all attendees. If those 9 a.m. eastern time meetings aren’t appreciated in Boston, trust me, your web guy in Long Beach will hate them. Powwownow knows this, and lets you know you’re doing it at the conference set-up phase. (…) Read the rest of Powwownow: Phone Conferencing The Way it Was Meant to Be
Yap is a new application available in the App Store that will turn your iPhone voicemails into a readable text. If you think listening to voicemails is a waste of time (I do), then Yap will be the perfect companion for you.
Google Voice already offers the option of receiving transcribed voicemails but not everybody has a Google Voice account. Yap is available in the App Store for free. Give it a try.
Do you love your iPhone so much that you’d want to take it with you in the grave when you pass away? Famous actor Tony Curtis died last Wednesday and was buried earlier today in Las Vegas with a few of his favorite personal items, including his iPhone.
According to MSNBC, “Actor Tony Curtis was buried Monday with a melange of his favorite possessions — a Stetson hat, an Armani scarf, driving gloves, an iPhone and a copy of his favorite novel”. Now that’s love for the iPhone!
Developer: Gameloft
Price: $6.99
Version Reviewed: 1.0.0
Device Reviewed On: iPod Touch
Graphics / Sound Rating: 2.75 out of 5 stars
Game Controls Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Gameplay Rating: 3.25 out of 5 stars
Replay Value Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Given the recent scandal facing Tiger Woods, it would seem to be the perfect time for an upstart new golf franchise to come knock the Tiger Woods PGA Tour series down a peg or two. Gameloft fancied Real Golf 2011 to be just that game, but this one comes up short of the flag and finishes the hole with a disappointing bogey.
The premise of the game is solid and the gameplay is pretty straightforward: take one of your favorite real-life golfers, put them on actual courses and then use simple swiping motions to knock the ball from tee to green. The game boasts an impressive roster of PGA and LPGA pros such as Jim Furyk, Justin Rose, Natalie Gulbis and Annika Sorenstam, as well as great courses like the much-revered Bethpage Black. Unfortunately, the game can’t get every great golfer and venue, but there’s still a respectable number of pros considering that this isn’t quite a world-renowned franchise.
Swinging the club is as simple as picking your target and then swiping your finger up the side of the swing for your takeaway and then back down again for the follow-through. For the most part it works rather well and the game is pretty forgiving about mishits and overswings. At least that’s the case until you get around the green.
Putting is another world entirely and it’s in this aspect that the game starts to fall apart. The swing mechanic that holds up for drivers and irons is insufficient for putting, as it doesn’t allow for even nearly the degree of precision necessary to accurately wield the flatstick. While the game gives you a suggested power for your putts it’s almost always wrong, leading to rockets that shoot a mile past the hole or feeble putts that barely move a blade of grass. On top of all this the breaks in the green are incredibly difficult to read and the title’s two locked perspectives for examining angles is disjointed and jarring. Many decent rounds will fall apart due to the shoddy putting mechanics.
Another big negative is that the game is downright ugly, with blocky, jagged character models and drab, lifeless courses. Nuances of the actual sport like Jim Furyk’s unique driving stroke or Sergio Garcia’s limb-contorting green reads are lost on identical character models skinned so they somewhat resemble the pro you selected. On the courses themselves it’s often difficult to distinguish fairways from rough or, more importantly, rough from out-of-bounds. Thus what seems like a shot played directly into a safe lie will many times wind up in deep grass or worse.
This app is serviceable if you need some sort of golf game on your mobile device but can’t bring yourself to support anything associated with Tiger Woods. Otherwise, spend your cash on EA’s superior game, you’ll be glad you did.
Okay people, I need your help on this one. Somebody please tell me how Powwownow makes money? The popular conferencing service is now available through this free app. Hurry up and download it before they realize they can’t make it up in volume sales!
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