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Don’t let the name fool you: Mazonaut is about mazes, not delicious mazzoball soup. After you recover from that initial disappointment, Mazonaut is a fun and fast-paced game for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch.

The object of the game is to guide the Mazonaut through a never-ending, neon maze that’s straight out of TRON. And, yes, the maze literally never ends. The maps are randomly generated when the game begins, and so the action can go on until the player ultimately, and inevitably, dies. It’s less frustrating than it sounds. Just as in Doodle Jump, another never-ending action game, the object is to beat your personal best.(…)
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According to its developers, Barrel is a jailbreak tweak that adds a 3D “cube” effect to your icon pages. The description surely fits the bill and doesn’t disappoint, but the price may prove to be a stumbling block.

Take a look inside as I take a video glimpse at this latest Jailbreak App. Then you can decide for yourself if this visual tweak is worth departing with your hard earned cash… Read More

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One of the things I really dislike when updating my iPhone to a newer iOS and jailbreaking it, is reinstalling all my jailbreak apps, one by one. This is a long and tedious job, especially if like me, you have a bunch of tweaks and jailbreak apps.

There is now an easy solution to backup all your jailbreak apps, tweaks, and themes, so you can update your iPhone, jailbreak, and reinstall those apps in no time. Here is how it works… Read More

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Developer: Jens Damgen
Price: $2.99
Version Reviewed: 2.95
Device Reviewed On: iPhone 4

iPhone Integration Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
User Interface Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Re-use Value Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

Overall Rating: 3.67 out of 5 stars

There are a lot of photography apps on the App Store but I’m pretty confident that ProCamera is my new favourite. It offers an awful lot of features in order to enhance the iPhone’s camera to the next level.

At first it looks a little scary, which is understandable when you consider the wealth of options. A click click of the user manual, though, and all makes perfect sense. It’s then apparent just how much you can do with the app. At its simplest, you can set ProCamera to anti-shake, instantly aiding anyone with a shaky hand or who happens to be in a less than ideal location for sudden jolts. Besides this though there are options to set the zoom to full-res zoom, thus enabling the app to offset the camera’s hardware. ensuring that using the full zoom produces a better photo than the regular camera app normally does. It’s not a magic solution. Using the maximum zoom still isn’t as perfect as a ‘real’ camera but using the zoom to halfway works quite well, certainly more so than using the Camera app.

Expert mode offers the ability to set exposure times and focus which you can lock in separately – a particularly vital feature for wannabe photographers. You can also adjust the white balance and colour temperature thus getting your photo just how you want it. Brightness, contrast and black and white settings can also be set just how you want.

Besides the still photographic tools at your disposal, you can also record video through the app which saves the effort of switching back to the built in camera app just for this one feature.

ProCamera also likes to educate, offering a tips and tricks section which teaches you such useful concepts as the rules of thirds and other bits and pieces that you wouldn’t think of normally. Also, as the name suggests, ProCamera includes Geotagging facilities which is certainly handy if you want to keep track of where and when you took your photos.

ProCamera offers a lot for the price. It offers both an excellent app for taking photos and videos, and a good app for editing these images directly. The photography market is competitive on the App Store but this is certainly worth a look.

[ ProCamera + GeoTagging Review is a post from 148Apps ]

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Sometimes you come across a concept in a game and you wonder why no one tried it before. The makers of Virus Strike clearly looked at what works so well – namely Tetris, Bejewelled and Flight Control – and combined the three. It’s a risky maneuver when you bear in mind that each of those games are so successful because of their simplicity. Combining them runs the risk of overcomplicating matters. Admittedly Virus Strike does take a little while to ‘click,’ but when it does, it’s good fun.

A flood of germs come down the screen, just like the blocks from Tetris, and you have to direct them in the appropriate direction. You do this via drawing lines on the screen thus creating a ramp or barrier effect which then diverts the germ in the right direction. All very Flight Control like then. Finally, the Bejewelled element comes in the form of matching the colours together. Every now and then, an antibody appears which you must direct to the relevant group of colours, thus wiping them out and gaining points.

At first it feels a little awkward to remember to draw the lines. Perhaps stupidly I found myself initially a little overwhelmed by being thrown in the deep end. While there is a video tutorial available, it would have been nice if there’d been a tutorial level to participate in. Despite this though, Virus Strike is good fun once you get the hang of it and realise that physics do play a part here. For example, if you tilt the screen, the viruses react as they come flying down the screen.

Virus Strike is never going to be the deepest of games. This is clearly a game to drop in and out of when you fancy some quick puzzle fun. It offers that in abundance though. If you fancy something a bit different from the usual Bejewelled method of matching gems, Virus Strike is well worth a shot.

[ Virus Strike Review is a post from 148Apps ]

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