haven get my itune gift card yet.... wait till i get some apps 1st ><

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Added on October 2, 2008, 7:44 pmName of App:LightSaber

Price: FREE

Compatibility to iPhone/iPod Touch: Both?


Your own personal description of this App: PhoneSaber that make Star War Lightsaber "wung" sound. It play dramatic Star War OST as well when you click on music button.




Pros: Good for Star War fans, it is enjoyable to swing here n there listen the lightsaber sound. Can exercise ur arms during those swing XD

Cons: I dunno yet, coz i kinda star war fans. like the swing sound~ but they shud have a blue lightsaber.... 3 red light saber is kinda boring =/

Personal User Rating: 7/10 (it's free n i dun expect it to do much better )

Conclusion: i like the "wung" sound. I duno bout ur guys, but it entertain me time to time. when i was boring alone and nothing to do, i will unleash my "Force" . i hope to "battle" ur guys one day with the Phone Saber

This post has been edited by CooLeRthings: Oct 2 2008, 07:45 PM

Name of App: WinRemote

Price: USD$1.99

Compatibility to iPhone/iPod Touch: Both

Your own personal description of this App: Turn your device into a remote by just entering your IP address!

Pros:
1. eliminates the need of having a wireless mouse and keyboard (and also those so-called dodgy infrared hoax etc)
2. doesn't require any messy setting up or installation. you can simply activate it without the need of going to the PC
3. contains both mouse and keyboard
4. the speed of the mouse cursor can be adjusted

Cons:
1. highly dependent on wifi router strength
2. the movement might be impended if the traffic is heavy (for example, if you are downloading a heavy load)
3. unless you have bionic eyes, you might have troubles looking for the mouse cursor and seeing what you have just typed on the monitor.
4. the genuine apple's remote app works slightly better than this (but of course that only works for itunes)
5. only for windows users. macs can opt this out (though there are other apps available catered to both mac and windows. however i purchased this because it has the highest review ratings at the time of acquisition)


Personal User Rating: 8.5/10

Conclusion: i would definitely recommend this app if you love watching movies from the bed (like i do)






initial set up by adjusting the acceleration and entering the IP address on your device.


the mouse...


the cat???

Name of App: oneConnect

Price: FREE

Compatibility to iPhone/iPod Touch: Both

Your own personal description of this App: Your all in one solution for yahoo messenger users and bonus for facebook, myspace etc users!

Pros:
1. incorporates a full feature of Y! messenger which includes sending sms, smileys, website links etc and most impressively SEND AND RECEIVES PICTURES in real time!
2. free of course
3. track previous conversation in landscape mode and with capability to customise avatars directly from your unit (see attached picture)
4. 360 degrees view rotation (see attached picture)
5. social networking integrated (which in my case, an overview summary of your facebook friends within one page without having the need to login to another app)
6. keeps an entire conversation history
7. informs you of online users, including those are idle.
8. neat, simple and organised

Cons:
1. laggy at times.
2. and as usual, cannot run in the backgroud (beejive will fix this at a hefty cost)
3. initial login can take quite time. i mean literally quite some time if the network is bad.
4. only available to yahoo users, i believe.

Personal User Rating: 8.8/10

Conclusion: this is a must for all yahoo messenger users! msn or live! users can just dream on i guess!


obligatory screen shot of the app icon on the springboard


hmmm... let's see how are my facebook peeps doing today... a lot of caucasian girls eh?


chat chat and more chatting with an attractive female acquaintance


wow! a landscape mode to view your chat history complete with complementing avatars? nice!


i have to admit that it's pretty weird to type with the home button on top!


need a link? no problem! oneconnect will sort that out nicely!


send and receive pictures in real time! wo hoo!




This post has been edited by nokia2003: Oct 9 2008, 07:33 PM

Name of App: Real Soccer 09

Price: $9.99

Compatibility to iPhone/iPod Touch: Both

Graphics - Overall this game has to be one of the best on the iphone and the ipod touch.

Teams - Wow! There are well over 75 teams to choose from including world teams, British cup teams, and American league teams. You can change the teams colors and uniforms and there are legendary teams as well, including a game loft team.

Controls - Very simple and easy to control. Much like the gba emulator you have a arrow pad that you can use (this one works a lot better), you have an a button and a b button and that is it. You tap be for a light pass or hold it to do a long, lob of a pass. You hold A to shoot long and hard and you tap it to lightly shoot. On defense you tap b to steal the ball and press a to do a slide tackle (careful though, yellow cards and red cards are given out if you hit the player XD). You can also twirl your finger on the screen to do a spin move. There are other combination's as well. For penalty kicks and corner kicks you tap b and point which direction you want it to go. On throw in's you select who you want to pass to and you thrust the ipod forward to throw it in.

Game Modes - There are several game modes you can do. First is exhibition where you just choose your team and choose the team you want to play against. There is cup where you play for the cup. League where you play 30 games and try to come out first, penalty kicks where you practice, well, penalty kicks, training for training and their is a trophies room.

Sound - the sound for this game is great. When you score a goal it is yelled out "GGOAAAALLLLL!!!!." I prefer to play with out the music because it takes a couple more milliseconds to load. You can listen to your own music as you play. "Prayer of a refugee" by Rise Against while playing soccer = amazing.

Loading - Fast. It takes no more then 2 seconds at a time to load. Thats all I will say.

Fun Factor - Fun, fun, fun, fun. I have had it for a while now and still play it when I'm bored. It is a lot of fun.

Over all - 9/10. My favorite game so far. A must "buy" for soccer fans and non-soccer fans a like.





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Name of App: a2z Pro



Price: FREE

Compatibility to iPhone/iPod Touch: Both

Your own personal description of this App: A tool that do all the conversion especially currency conversion.

Pros:
1. It's FREE.
2. User-friendly interface.
2. 154 currencies rate and live update of the rates from Yahoo (thru Wifi I supposed).
3. Able to download categories which is not included in the application.
4. Create your OWN categories for units that are not available in the database.
5. Upload and share your newly created category with other user.

Cons:
Hmm, I didn't manage to find any cons yet. LOL

Personal User Rating: 10/10

Conclusion: A very impressive FREE app.

Okey guy.. This my little review..

Name of App: Space Monkey
Link: Space Monkey in Itunes
Price: $0.99 only

Compatibility to iPhone/iPod Touch: Both Require Firmware 2.1

Your own personal description of this App: Spin The Monkey!

Pros:
1. Easy to control the monkey.
2. Graphic suberb, the monkey too cute maa.
3. This type of game, will make sure u wanna go to the next level and challenging also..
4. Woot.. cheap too.
5. Caution, u will be addict to this game. Im not responsible to ur pocket.. haha..
6. Fun.

Cons:
1. Sometime there are too many things to catch.. haha..
2. No lahh..

Personal User Rating: 10/10

Conclusion: SPIN THE MONKEY!

Picture:
Tada..


Here the menu


Introducing The Monkey Boy


Overspin Mode.. Vomit.. haha.. Luv this one


When U touch the battery.. Ouchh..


Ur Modus Operandi: Try To Collect things as many u can


That all folks..
Thanks for viewing
Will be updating next app...

Hi guys,

My first review. Hope to do more in the near future.


Name of App: TanZen

Price: USD $0.99

Compatibility to iPhone/iPod Touch: iPhone & iPod Touch

Your own personal description of this App: Great puzzle game where you juggle pieces into a predefined shape

Pros:
+ If you like puzzles you'll like this
+ Really tests your creativity to arrange the available blocks into pre-defined shapes
+ Pleasant interface with attractive colours
+ Short and easy learning curve
+ Many puzzles! Currently 315 an they frequently update

Cons:
- Spinning the pieces is sometimes difficult
- Once complete your "solution" can be seen thus its difficult to replay the map cause you can effectively see the answer
- Not much sound effects/ minimal sounds

Personal User Rating: 8/10

Conclusion: If you like puzzles I would highly recommend this game. Its really cheap for the number of puzzles and its easy to pickup the game if you have a limited time.











This post has been edited by MangO: Oct 25 2008, 02:59 AM

I thought everyone should know about this game. It is basically a tower defence game in which u need to destroy all the fieldrunners from passing through the gate at the other side. You have a few towers to choose from and also u r recommended to do a maze in order to make use the towers. The graphic is excellent, but unfortunately no sound yet, it will be available soon via updates.

These are screenshots taken from the game by me:

Name of App: Field runners

Price: $4.99

Compatibility to iPhone/iPod Touch: Yes

This is by far my favorite game for Iphone. Not because of sheer fun and gameplay but because it is so addictive. It is so simplistic and yet so much fun.

The basic point of the game is to buy weapons and upgrade then to get to the highest wave. The waves of attackers come in several shapes and sizes ranging from little grunt soldiers to tanks, robots and planes.

The only downside that i can think of is that there's no gameplay music to create more intensity to this game. All in all this is great game and great value for money.

BUT BEWARE GUYS IT'S HIGHLY ADDICTIVE!!!


Personal User Rating: 9/10



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Name of App: QwasiPad






Price: USD 2.99 now ( when i bought that time, it was USD0.99 only )

Compatibility to iPhone/iPod Touch: both iphone/ipod touch

Your own personal description of this App: A remote keyboard/mouse via wifi for ur PC/laptop/Workstation. PC/ Laptop/Workstation need to install their client software to run






Mouse in vertical mode (the mouse button can be enable or disable)



in horizon mode





Keyboard in vertical










in horizon










Pros: no lag, the mouse and keyboard responce as in real time. good for those that always do presentation, u not got a nice n smooth remote mouse.

Cons: only via wifi. sometime some button not working really well. need client on the remote PC

Personal User Rating: 7/10

Conclusion: the price when i bought tat time is consider cheap, so i feel kinda worth it to have this to play around.
now with the price USD 2.99, i not sure is it worth for ur guys any more =/


This post has been edited by CooLeRthings: Nov 4 2008, 04:19 PM

now that my exams are done, i can resume my pet project again

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Added on November 10, 2008, 6:26 pmName of App:Cameraman

Price: FREE

Compatibility to iPhone/iPod Touch: Both

Your own personal description of this App: An equivalent of WeSpot retrieved from the old installer or those dodgy spot the difference in the arcade centres

Pros:
1. free
2. tricky
3. professionally done
4. comes with a description of the picture
5. very responsive

Cons:
1. more levels are needed

Personal User Rating: 9.2/10

Conclusion: I personally adore this app as it has kept me entertained on numerous occasions. Hence I do recommend that you try this out whilst it is still free (or perhaps it will remain so)



an obligatory app icon shot


start up screen


my humble achievement


ooo... look at those white knickers moves; there is always something extra for all iPhone users


a short description to accompany the picture (as mentioned above)

This post has been edited by nokia2003: Nov 10 2008, 07:08 PM

Loot Wars

Loot Wars
Golgi
Category: Games
Price: $1.99
Released: Sep 29, 2008
Size: 4.9 MB
Seller: AARON ABEYTA



Application description Loot Wars is a multiplayer online item collection game. Players can scavenge, trade, or fight each other to win possession of a host of interesting items. Loot ranges from the fantastic Elven Dagger, fanciful Reading Glasses, awesome Stealth Fighter, everyday Laptop, to delicious Fish and Chips.

Loot Wars combines several simple systems together in a framework that rewards strategic thinking as well as bold risk taking.

The player progresses through the game via scavenging the land for useful items. Once a useful inventory is obtained, the player may choose to trade with others for items of interest or the more aggressive can use their items to wage combat against another and forcibly take items they desire.

Loot Wars is a lightweight homage to role-playing (RPG) and loot collection games such as World of Warcraft, Diablo, and Pokémon. Your addiction level is guaranteed to rise the more you play, and the social nature of the game strongly encourages interaction with friends.

Loot Wars is designed for the casual player and can be played in the free time between normal daily activities. However, hardcore players will find a deep system of interaction complete with leaderboards and stat tracking. Whenever you have time to kill – whether waiting in line for a movie, commuting to work, in the restroom, or simply need a quick break during school or work – Loot Wars is the perfect app!

Features
* Over 1,000 unique items available (more added regularly).
* Research over 40 unique configurations of each item.
* In-game interaction with other players.
* Community forum for game discussion.
* Uniquely tailored sounds and effects.
* Dozens of awards for your awesome achievements (more added regularly).
* Richly detailed breakdown of game statistics.
New in this version ★ Each player now has a duffel bag. The duffel bag allows you to hold items that you don't want other users to see or steal. You can access your duffel bag from the Home screen.

This post has been edited by emirzn: Nov 13 2008, 10:50 PM

NOTE: Before I start, this thread is just PERSONAL OPINION on games and applications I've tried. It's to help people who is yet to decide to pay for the game/application.

Reviews are only based on using my iPhone 2G firmware 2.1. If it doesn't work on your iTouch, don't blame me.

All screenshots are taken by myself.

I will try my best to give it the most detailed reviews regarding the game/application that I'm gonna review.

Let's keep the reviews going.

Infomation
Name : Guitar Rock Tour
Version : 1.0.1
Developer : Gameloft
Categorie : Music Game
Price : USD$ 7.99
Size : 167MB
Compatibility : Not compatible with iTouch
Requirements : FirmWare 2.0 and above
Languages : English, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Mandrin

Screenshots
Starting screen


Quick play menu


Loading screen


Guitar mode while in game


Drums mode while in game


Award screen


Option screen



Pros : Both guitar and drums gameplay in one, superb graphic and sound quality, well known songs, many languages to choose from even chinese, keeps you entertain for hours because you'll go on and on to unlock new songs.
Cons : Price, takes quite long to load (From main menu to game it takes about 20 seconds, from selecting songs to game takes about 10 seconds), stability (Crash twice on me. According to Apple, you'll need to reboot your phone before playing to avoid crashes), can't download new songs.

Songs avaliable
Rock you like a hurricane by Scorpions
You really got me by Kinks
Heart shaped box by Nirvana
Message in a bottle by Police
Walk idiot walk by The Hives
The river by Good Charlotte
What's my age again? by Blink128
Smoke on the water by DeepPurple
Beat it - Micheal Jackson
The great escape by Boys like Girls
In the shadow by The Rasmus
If everyone cared by Nickleback
Who knew by Pink
Under class hero by Sum41
Girlfriend by Avril Lavigne
Honest mistake by The Bravery
Banquet by Bloc Party

Ratings
Graphics : 4/5
Sound Quality : 4/5
Gameplay : 4/5
Value for money : 3/5
Overall ratings : 4/5

Personal thoughts : If you really like playing music games like TapTap Revenge/NIN, this game is for you. Even though the price is quite heavy compare to other similar games, what made me purchase this game is because of the song choice avaliable for the game itself. Unlike TapTap or other similar games, Guitar Rock Tour chooses hits that you hear time to time on the radio. Who doesn't knows Micheal Jackson's Beat it? Or YouTube most viewed video in history Avril Lavigne's Girlfriend? I bet everyone does! Superb graphics with really good sound quality makes the game even more interesting. Feels even better if you put your earphones on. Might be abit laggy after leaving your phone on for days but it can be easily solved after rebooting your phone. Personally, I do not have any regrets playing USD7.99 for this game.

Link to purchase : CLICK

Infomation
Name : Midnight Pool
Version : 1.0.0
Developer : Gameloft
Categorie : Pool game
Price : USD$ 4.99
Size : 72.1MB
Compatibility : Both iPhone and iPod Touch
Requirements : FirmWare 2.0 and above
Languages : English only

Screenshots
Game play menu


Type of rules


Gameplay (Challenger screen)


Gameplay (Changing area to pot ball)


Gameplay (Changing hight of cue to pot ball)


Gameplay (Challenge mode)


Option screen


Pros : Good graphics and sound quality, very costomizable in the term of looks (from players outfit to the looks of the cue), adjustable angle and hight of potting makes you feel like you're in control of everything on the table, 2 players option avaliable so you can play with your friends.
Cons : Price, gameplay too short (About 15 person to beat before winning the whole game)

Rules
8 ball US - Pot either strips or solid color balls till there is no choice of pick on the table. Lastly, pot black to wrap up the game.
8 ball UK - Same concept with 8 ball US except instead of strip and solid, its either red or yellow.
9 ball - Pot ball 1 to 9 according to the numbers.
Challenge - In other words, its called trick shot.

Ratings
Graphics : 4/5
Sound Quality : 3.5/5
Gameplay : 3.5/5
Value for money : 2/5
Overall ratings : 3.5/5

Personal thoughts : Personally, i think this is 1 of the best pool game ever laid my hands on. Graphics and sound quality is solid, very costomizable and I have full control of the game. 1 thing that I'm really not sattisfied about is the short gameplay in the arcade mode. It just kept me entertained for 2 hours before I realize I've finished the game and there goes my USD$4.99. It would be wonderful of they make the game longer. Or even better if they make it multiplayer where you can challenge your friends via bluetooth. With that, I guess it's worth every cent.

But if you're a huge fan of pool, do check this game out if you have an extra buck as it's quite pricy.

Link to purchase : CLICK

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This post has been edited by Baronic: Nov 15 2008, 03:37 PM

First time share, coz this game rocks

Name of App: TouchSports Tennis '09

Price:Usd $4.99

Compatibility to iPhone/iPod Touch: Both fw2.1

Your own personal description of this App:
1) First high 3D graphic impact touch screen tennis game.
2) Easy to control compare to other tiltz game
3) Best sports game so far (my opinion)

Pros: Easy pick n play game..visually attractive...price also reasonable...

Cons: Very short game and less character to choose..

Conclusion: Worth to buy, worth to try....for preview go to youtube ^^

Name of App: Fake Calls

Price: USD0.99

Compatibility to iPhone/iPod Touch: Both (but why would one need this app for an iPod touch???!!!)

Your own personal description of this App: Fake your way to a better excuse?

Pros:
1. self explanatory
2. it was free when i got it

Cons:
1. no ring tone selections
2. boring interface
3. expensive for a redundant app; there are better ones out in the app store
4. no picture/avatar selections
5. only available as "unknown"
6. can get pretty unresponsive as times

Personal User Rating: 1/10 (only because i got it free)

Conclusion: unless you do find extreme difficulties to excuse yourself from a tight situation, this app is a complete waste of time synchronisation/space (you know the drill)


an obligatory app icon shot


start up screen


standby...


and go!

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Added on November 16, 2008, 3:07 pmFYI, 10% of the proceeds from this app purchase, will be donated a charity organisation...

so make your own decision!

This post has been edited by nokia2003: Nov 16 2008, 03:07 PM

Name of App: iXpenseIt (Ver 2.0.1 at the time of review)

Price: US$4.99

Compatibility to iPhone/iPod Touch: Both

Your own personal description of this App:

I went and tried all the expense management softwares on the iTunes Store and found this to be the best in my opinion. I wanted an application that I could easily log down my daily expenses and have a simple summary of what I had spent so far in a given month according to a set budget. iXpenseIt does this and more which I'll go through using the screen shots below.



1. This is how the daily summary looks like. It tells you what you've spent in any given day and it also shows how you're doing in relation to your budget provided you actually have a budget. We will get to that in a bit.



2. The amount of information that you can key in to describe your expenditure is more than sufficient as you can see. The application also lets you take a photo of presumably a receipt to attach to this record via the camera icon in the top left hand corner. You can if you like add custom categories + sub categories to suit your lifestyle. For example I added Vice>Cigarettes.



3. Back to budget, iXpenseIt has 2 options to choose from which is the Simple Budget where you have a lump sum figure for all your expenses and the Detail Budget where you can do your budgeting according to the different areas of expenditure.



4. There are also very nicely done summary features where you can view reports of your expenses in bar charts, pie charts or just in simple text category view. This information can of course be exported in CSV or HTML format via email which is integrated directly into the app. There are future plans to include a companion program on Windows/Mac with Sync features and so on which I think will be a very useful tool.


Pros:

> Basically all the features I've listed above.
> Clean, tasteful, simple design yet sophisticated in features.
> Easy to use.
> Customizable to suit your liking in terms of expense categories, display options and default entry options.
> The development team is fantastic as I can see. They are active, respond to problems and fix them in new releases.
> Support is also seemingly good as most of the bugs or suggestions for the app are responded to promptly as you can see bby going to their website forum.


Cons:

> No password feature yet.
> Not able to fully calculate multiple currencies yet. For example if your default currency is Ringgit (MYR) key in an expense in USD while traveling, it is possible to do so but the USD recorded will not show up in your reports.
> Currently can only track single accounts. Multiple accounts seem quite a far bit away.
> Still a lot of bugs to be ironed out.


Personal User Rating: 9/10


Conclusion:

There's still a lot of bugs to be worked out here and there but these are pretty small bugs in general. You can actually track all these problems at iXpenseIt's website forum if you are interested. As I am quite a basic user without the need to have complicated spreadsheets and what not, I have not run into any problems at all except for the currency bug I mentioned earlier.

I would have given this app 8/10 but because the development team seems to be making significant improvements along the way, I am giving a 9/10 rating as I know this will become a superb app if it is not already. You can give the app a test run first by trying the iXpenseIt Lite version.

Highly recommended for those looking to keep track of their basic expenses/budget. Thumbs Up


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Additional Info:



My iPhone gets molested a lot by friends so I need to lock up my financial information. You can apply password protection to the iXpenseIt app (or any other app you want) by using the Lockdown app which you can find on Cydia if you have JB applied.

This post has been edited by wilsoncvt: Nov 19 2008, 02:02 AM

Name of App: Ocarina
Price:

Compatibility to iPhone/iPod Touch: require iphone 2.1 update

Your own personal description of this App: it's a digital carina!

Pros: it's fun! it's good for those with music talent and total noob!
maybe after u learn some nice song; can mpress ur love 1!



Cons: not that easy to be expert but pretty easy to learn !

Personal User Rating: 8/10

Conclusion: fun to play with ! learn abit music! it's cheap! and u can listen to other user!

Name of App: Strategic Assault

Price: US$1.99

Compatibility to iPhone/iPod Touch: Both

Your own personal description of this App:

This is probably the only playable real-time strategy (RTS) game available at the moment on the iTunes Store. A Google search does turn up with Agile Forces being another RTS on this platform but I can't seem to be able to find it.

Now I mentioned Strategic Assault to be a 'playable' RTS but it is by no means enjoying. This game will remind you of the pixelated warfare adventures of your yesteryears such as the original Dune and Command & Conquer but think of it as an even more stripped down version of both the latter legendary games.



In Strategic Assault, you only get to play against only one enemy opponent. Resources are collected by capturing strategic buildings. Basically you only have 3 varieties of building markers (separated by 3 colours) which are your base, the enemy's base and the strategic buildings. There are basic buildings and military units such as tanks that you can build throughout the game. Military units can be grouped together via one of the 3 menu view options; the other 2 being the Radar view and Build view as you can see in the screen shots below.



The game itself plays pretty smoothly and a somewhat effective 2 finger slide motion is used for navigating the terrain. There's even a catchy classic sounding midi music playing in the background but unfortunately thats pretty much all it has going for it.


Pros:

> Non buggy application. Game play is pretty smooth.
> Sticks to the basics of RTS which works 'basically' well for what it is.
> Catchy background music?


Cons:

> Old skool pixelated graphics. Hardly a good use of our beautiful screens.
> Lack of challenging game play.
> No multi-player capabilities.
> Uninspiring game play experience.
> Nothing new.


Personal User Rating: 2/10


Conclusion:

There are a lot of improvements that can be made to make Strategic Assault a fantastic game but for the moment RTS fans will be sorely disappointed with the lack of challenge, lack of visual stimuli, lack of multi-player capability and pretty much lack of everything. As Strategic Assault is an old game originally found on the Windows Mobile pre-iPhone era, we shouldn't expect much improvements anytime soon.

The iPhone version of Warfare Incorporated will be coming out soon as the next RTS but whether that will be anything to shout for is yet to be seen. As it is though, Strategic Assault is just not worth spending money on.

1 thumb up for being one of the only (probably the only) RTS available. 2 thumbs down for everything else.

This post has been edited by wilsoncvt: Nov 19 2008, 04:59 AM