Archive for October 6th, 2009

Review: Minigore for iPhone

The gameplay in this 3-D shoot-em-up is a little limited. But the impressive details of Minigore make up for lacking features.

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Review: iPhone audiobook apps

iLibrary +audio and Audiobooks have clear bottom-line advantages and trade-offs. The former app lets you read books as well as listen to them, while the latter offers a huge selection

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Review: Acoustic Guitar for iPhone

This guitar app does some nice things within the confines of the iPhone’s limitations. But as decent as it is, Acoustic Guitar is no substitute for the real thing.

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Finally Flash Animation on the iPhone, well kind of

Adobe took a new strategy to put Flash animations on the iPhone , with the release later this year of Flash Pro CS5 Beta, Adobe will enable any Flash developer to create an iPhone application (.ipa file) and then the developer could send it to Apple for approval. So it is definitely for Flash games on the iPhone, unfortunately, no Safari plugin to be able to see flash animations on web pages.

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Yell.com App Now Available for iPhone and iPod Touch

UK directory services provider Yell announced its Yell.com App for iPhone and iPod touch. The new app is available for free from the App Store. iPhone users can also choose a particular area to search, or be automatically positioned in their current location using the iPhone’s GPS functionality, helping them to quickly find more than two million UK local businesses.

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TUAW Interview: Andrew Lacy of Tapulous on Tap Tap Revenge 3

Filed under: Gaming , Software , Features , iTunes , iPhone , App Store , iPod touch , Music By the time you read this, Tap Tap Revenge 3 should have made its way to the App Store. The latest version of the rhythm game/music platform for the iPhone and iPod touch is a huge release for Tapulous — from the series’ humble beginnings as a pre-App Store bit of code to the more recent incarnations of artist-specific music collections , Tapulous has taken Tap Tap a long way in the still short history of this gaming platform. And now they’re trying to go even farther: they’ve introduced in-app purchases to the game (you can find a full list of songs available now as in-app purchases inside the interview below), and they’ve added in social features, from customizable avatars to in-game chat and score sharing.

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