Scene It? Horror:
In celebration of the impending celebration of candy, cavities, ghosts, vampires, and other horrors, why not test your horror movie knowledge as well. Scene It? Horror pits your knowledge of great movies like 28 Days Later, American Psycho, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and a massive amount more. No cheating is allowed for you movie fanatics. That means no using IMDB or loading up the movie to get the answers.

$1.99

Scene It? Horror

iPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Released: 2010-10-11 :: Category: Games / Trivia

$4.99

Scene It? Horror HD

iPad Only App – Designed for the iPad
Released: 2010-10-11 :: Category: Games / Trivia

SpongeBob Marbles & Slides:
Head to Bikini Bottom to help the gang with their lack of slides. Use your fingers to draw slides to aid SpongeBob, and gang, reach the Krusty Krab in hopes of defeating Plankton. Bonuses come to those who can solve the puzzles quickly and skillfully. Hey, there is no shame in having fun with a squirrel in an astronaut suit.

$2.99

SpongeBob Marbles & Slides

iPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Released: 2010-10-08 :: Category: Games / Kids

$4.99

SpongeBob Marbles & Slides HD

iPad Only App – Designed for the iPad
Released: 2010-10-07 :: Category: Games / Kids

Mad Office HD:
Mad Office HD is a game about a real life situation….sneaking out of work uncaught by the boss man. Those who perform combos and take greater risks are awarded more points, and the crown of super slacker. Simple controls, fun visuals, and an interesting concept are sure to add up for a good time of sneaking off to do some fishing.

$1.99

Mad Office HD

iPad Only App – Designed for the iPad
Released: 2010-10-09 :: Category: Games / Family

Instagram:
You have photos and you want to share them with the world. Instagram will now only allow you to easily share photos, but it will also allow you to add a bit of a personal touch to them as well. Apply over a dozen filters to your photos, post as many photos as you like, share with friends, check in to Foursquare, and connect to a variety of social networks. This just might be the easiest way of sharing photos created to date.

FREE!

Instagram

iPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Released: 2010-10-06 :: Category: Photography

TED:
TED brings you engaging chats with remarkable people. Everyone from tech gurus to music legends are here waiting for your attention. You can even explore the entire TEDTalks library for that obscure clip you have long missed. TED now even includes more iPad love with the new iPad edition.

FREE!

TED

iPad Only App – Designed for the iPad
Released: 2010-10-14 :: Category: Education

FREE!

TED Mobile

iPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Released: 2009-02-11 :: Category: Education

[ Five For Friday: Week of October 15, 2010 is a post from 148Apps ]

Well, maybe not an official trailer… but wow. MuscleNerd was right, GeoHot does have some devoted fans. Maybe he should keep trying to make it in the music industry after all…

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Facebook’s founding president and co-founder of Napster Sean Parker has donated $100,000 to the initiative for legalizing marijuana in California. Parker is a venture capitalist for the Founders Fund and is one of the founders of the Causes Facebook application.

Parker is portrayed by Justin Timberlake in the movie “The Social Network.” Parker joins Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz for the legalizing marijuana in California cause, who donated $50,000 himself.

[LA Times]

CineXPlayer is a major step forward in iPad video playback. Apple’s video codec support is heavily limited in its playback capabilities, rendering .avi files useless without conversion. With CineXPlayer, no conversion or transcoding is necessary.

Getting started is a simplistic, painless process – everything is done through iTunes. Add in the media that you want through the “Applications” tab in iTunes, sync and play. Presently, the application plays files with the Xvid codec, a highly popular codec found on most .avi files. Unfortunately, file formats like .mkv (used for HD content) and AC3 (Dolby Digital) are not yet supported, although the latter is coming soon. Through VLC’s application we know that it is possible to implement these file formats, meaning an update to CineXPlayer to provide more playback capability is not an out-of-this-world possibility.

CineXPlayer’s interface is clean and uncluttered. Two menu bars provide instructions on how to hide a new movie and seek help (top), as well the ability to clear all resume points on videos and mute the volume (bottom). Most of the screen is taken up by a library of your added movies in list format with their name provided. To delete movies, Apple’s standard swipe-to-right feature has been implemented. I feel that the interface could be improved, particularly with the implementation of watched/unwatched markers and a different library viewing style. For example, VLC has implemented a bookshelf style approach that works well, providing a screenshot preview of the content at hand. Nonetheless, the clean theme works well in this application.

When watching video, the interface is equally minimalist. A menu bar along the top provides a time-scroll bar coupled with dual upward / downward time counters, allowing you to navigate to any particular second in the movie with no guessing involved. Furthermore, additional tools allow you to view the content full screen with no dead space (usually at the cost of removing some sides of the video), play / pause and move video back to the start. There is only a temporarilyy visible watermark on the video that disappears after a few seconds of inactivity, meaning you can enjoy all of your content without any distractions elsewhere on the screen.

Through testing in iOS 4.2, I discovered that CineXPlayer already has AirPlay support integrated, the tool developed by Apple that allows you to stream audio to another source. AirPlay will become available to general public with the release of iOS 4.2 in November.

Overall, I am surprised that Apple allowed CineXPlayer into the App Store, given its strict video playback rules. For those who wish to enjoy any Xvid media on their iPad, CineXPlayer suits nicely and is a welcome addition to any iPad. There’s even an iPhone version to go with it. Subtitles are due to come in a future release of CineXPlayer, with a preview available below:

[ CineXPlayer Review is a post from 148Apps ]

This is Sally’s Salon, which is a Time Management or Plate-spinning game that has an iPad version known as Sally’s Salon Luxury Edition.

I got a chance to play at while at a party for CTIA Fall 2010 while meeting with a representative from GameHouse. It involved me playing Sally, and serving several customers at once. Each of them required a shampoo, cut, blow-dry, and then payment. If they were served immediately, they were happy. You didn’t want to leave them waiting.

The game is pretty popular on the iPhone, especially among women. The iPad version has a two-player mode which allows the players to work the same along in cooperation with each other, but more points are awarded to the one who works harder.

There is about 25 levels to this game, which has recently come onto the iPad for $4.99.