Bungee Ball – Pumpkin Smash:
Smashing pumpkins does not have to result in some poor kid in tears as they wake to find their hard work destroyed. In fact, it can be even more fun when you are slinging a spiked ball tethered to a bungee cord around. We reviewed Bungee Ball on our sister site ThePortableGamer, but now it looks like the developers have added a fun Halloween twist to the mix. Ninety levels will keep you destroying pumpkins all weekend!
iPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Released: 2010-09-14 :: Category: Games / Puzzle
iPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Released: 2010-09-03 :: Category: Games / Puzzle
MatchPOP:
Breakout those match three skills as you are going to need them for this fun Halloween inspired game of matching. Four game modes offer up plenty to do if you have just a minute to play, or you can dedicate an hour to this addiction. Match ghosts, pumpkins, candy, and more Halloween icons with twitch reactions as you do not even have to wait for cleared spaces to fill with new blocks. Bonus: for those of you that just cannot wait for the fat man in the red suit, there is even a Christmas theme to get you ready for sleigh bells.
iPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Released: 2010-10-11 :: Category: Games / Puzzle
iPad Only App – Designed for the iPad
Released: 2010-10-16 :: Category: Games / Puzzle
Paper Ninja Halloween:
Even Ninjas want to be gussied up in costumes to celebrate the Halloween festivities. To bad for them, you are here to hack and slash their paper asses back to the dark corners from which they spawned. Be quick though, as split second decisions have to be made in order to rack up high scores and killer combos. Simple fun everyone can enjoy while warming up in the car between ringing doorbells.
iPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Released: 2010-10-23 :: Category: Games / Arcade
iPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
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Released: 2010-07-22 :: Category: Games / Arcade
Home Gene-Splicing Kit
Have you ever wondered what your mortal enemy would look like if you had the ability to mutate them into a sheep? Wonder no more as the Home Gene-Splicing Kit will allow you to combine your worst enemies’ genes with said sheep. Do all of this while you laugh in your best demonic voice. Well, maybe it is not that good, but you can take photos of just about anything with a face and mutate it in a million different ways. Then share your beloved gene-spliced creations with the world without fear of moral retort!
iPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
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Released: 2010-09-09 :: Category: Photography
iPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Released: 2010-09-10 :: Category: Photography
R.L. Stine’s Haunted House of Sound
Have you ever wondered what a good book would be like with some interesting sound clips? Maybe you even make your own sounds while you read. Those dreams are about to be answered with five R.L. Stine stories. You can choose from 150 preloaded sounds, or make your own if you cannot find just the right sound for the story. Add these sounds to the story of your choice to make it hilarious, goofy, or just downright frightening. Then share your work with friends and start making your next masterpiece.
iPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Released: 2009-10-07 :: Category: Entertainment / Family
Dracula: The Official Stoker Family Edition for iPad
Just because it is Halloween, why not throw in one extra app for you to enjoy? This is no rehashing of the same old Dracula story, just reprinted with new font and a pretty new cover. Over 600 illustrations and 300 pages of abridged text add to the reading experience. As your eyes devour the story, new images, audio, and films are revealed. Some of these goodies have never seen the light of day for the general public. Dracula fans will find plenty to salivate over this great app.
iPad Only App – Designed for the iPad
Released: 2010-10-20 :: Category: Books
[ Five, Or Six, For Friday: Week of October 29, 2010 is a post from 148Apps ]
Supermodel and actress Kim Kardashian has passed 5 million Twitter followers on her @KimKardashian account. She reached the milestone this past Monday while she was glued to her laptop. “I couldn’t believe it when it happened. Its such a mind blowing feeling to know so many of you are out there reading my tweets,” said Kim on her blog. Kim has another reason to celebrate: She and her sister Kourtney just signed on for a new reality series called Kourtney and Kim Take New York, starting January 2011. [Us Magazine]
We’ve talked about discoverability multiple times over at our sister site, 148Apps.biz. In a world of 250,000+ apps, it’s of huge concern for app developers. That’s one of the reasons we decided to be a media sponsor for DiscoveryBeat 2010 being held in San Francisco. Put on by VentureBeat, this 1 day conference on October 18th brings together a bunch of experts to talk about the problem and possible solutions.
Read the full article over on 148Apps.biz.
[ DiscoveryBeat Coming to San Francisco October 18th is a post from 148Apps ]
Price: $1.99
Version Reviewed: 1.2.0
Device Reviewed On: iPad
iPad Integration Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
User Interface Rating: 3.9 out of 5 stars
Re-use Value Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Overall Rating: 3.97 out of 5 stars
There is one great thing about Safari on the iPad for Facebook users – the main website actually works very well on the iPad, without much need for a separate app. Well, if you’re mostly just a lurker who only posts the occasional thing, Facebook via Safari works great. If you’re the type who needs to upload photos, hide or delete posts, or if you need more organization of the features in your Facebook user experience, Social for the iPad is here for you.
Social for the iPad is largely just a wrapper for the Facebook website in app form. All the information appears in similar layout to the website, the only main difference being a different font and some larger buttons. One of the issues remedied by the app is that the main website’s hover over buttons don’t work on iOS Safari devices, so these buttons are now persistent, meaning you can delete your own posts, or hide posts from your main news feed. Tired of seeing your sister constantly post about her Mafia zombies’ crops and can’t wait to get back to a computer to hide them? Fret no longer, good sir or madam.
Social for the iPad does a great job making the Facebook experience on the iPad more complete. It doesn’t alter the experience of using the web site, it only supplements it and gives you handy options to view your messages, notifications, and to make a group of your favorite people to quickly access. As well, when you add someone to your favorites, a prompt comes up with a button that confirms you’ve added them to your favorites, with a button that says “Yay!” to close the box. I appreciate little interface touches like this.
Social for the iPad being largely a wrapper has its problems – often times when you want to pull up something like a profile, a blank page will pop up, and you have to refresh. An issue with the main news feeds not appearing on devices on iOS 3.2.0 was fixed in a recent update, but pages not appearing properly still occurs. Also, this app largely only exists due to the deficiencies of not just Mobile Safari, but Facebook as well: they haven’t updated their web application for iPad compatibility, either. If at least one of these issues gets addressed, and I’m betting on the latter happening first, then Social for the iPad might struggle to have any reason to exist at all.
But until then, the Facebookers of the world need a way to properly use Facebook on their iPad and Social for the iPad goes a long way towards making that experience far more tolerable for the moment. While it needs some work on the technical backend, this is a good choice for iPad Facebook users who need to access a wider set of Facebook features.
[ Social for the iPad Review is a post from 148Apps ]