Apps iPhone Reviews

HexaLex iPhone App Review

Description:

If you love scrabble and like twists on classic games. Hexalex is for you.  This is the world’s first hexagonal crossword game.  Hexalex takes the classic, easy to learn but hard to master game and adds a new feature and dimension to it to create more fun.  This game tiles let you play the words in three directions instead of  two.  Worlds interact in surprising ways, but have no fear, thanks to the innovative instand feedback system, tutorial, and detailed built in help, you will get the hang of this game in no time!

If you love word games and puzzles, this is a great game to download and buy as it is simple to learn, provides a long time to play the game, and is quite addictive when it comes to playing it over and over.  Most games dont’ have re playability factor, but this game definitely has the reproducibility and the addictiveness that you want it to have. If you love the old game of scrabble, you have got to experience this new twist on a classic game that makes it better and much more fun to play.

Features:

• new shuffle match, get connected with a random online opponent
• play and chat with friends online, 2-4 players, with push notifications when it is your turn
• play in the plane or on the subway, your moves will be sent the next time you get an internet connection
• four computer opponents for single player gaming
• over 30 medals to earn by making great plays and beating your opponents
• optional facebook connect lets you find friends and share achievements with them
• all the tools demanding the crossword games love, including tile shuffle, dictionary search, and a 2 letter word list
• innovative instand feedback system helps you play like a pro
• track your stats and records in each game and over your career
• IOS 4 ready
• hi res icon for iphone 4 retina display
• for ipad users, you can optionally disable autozoom to make life a bit easier

This game is the ultimate word puzzle game and will keep you entertained for a long time.  If you love games that keep you coming back, this game has everything you are looking for as it is fun, addictive, and keeps your mind going a million miles an hour to get the results you are looking for.

Conclusion:

This game costs $1.99 and has been given a 4 out of 5 star rating.

Blancspot iPhone App Review

Description:

If you are a news junkie, you probably use the internet and your iphone to look for news throughout the day.  Well now there is a great new app that makes it easier than ever to have all the news you want in one centralized location on your iphone.  The app is called Blancspot and it is one of the best apps out there for news and keeping your news organized.  The problem with other news apps is that you get news you really don’t want.  With this app you can set your parameters and tell it what kind of news you want to know about and what kind of news you really just don’t care about.  With this ability, you can makes sure that you spend your time reading the news that matters to you and really will help make a difference in your day to day tasks.

The app has a very clean interface that puts all of the news as pictures on a main page to show you what you need to do and what type of news feeds you should be looking at.  Simple tap the story you want to  read about and it will pull up with ease.  The app looks great and has a fun image based category list that shows you top stories and helps you to be in the know.

Features:

• image centric news experience, see what you want to read
• share news stories with your friends via email, facebook, and twitter
• Live twitter feed related to the news events as they unfold
• save news stories to view later or keep up with the live conversation directly related to the news event
• see what your friends are reading int he friends activity channel
• suggest new stories to your friends and have them show up in the Suggested channels so that they can see the stories you want them to see with ease.

No matter what kind of news you like to read, this app can make it easy to get to it and find it without too much issue.  Having the ability to find and use the news on these channels can make your life much easier and also give you the education and reading enjoyment that you are looking for to get out of the news you read.

Conclusion:

This app costs $2.99 and has been given a 3 out of 5 star rating by other iphone users.

Zombie Flick iPhone App Review

Description:

If you love zombies and love to kill them, you can now have this love established right from your iphone with the new Zombie Flick app.  This app takes place during the 70’s when an incurable virus spreads throughout the mainland America.  With no food or guns inhand, it is up to you as a lone survivor to make the dead masses feel the pain.  Use nothing but every day objects to flick, dismember, and decapitiate the zombies that come at you in order to survive.  Wrapped up in an atmospheric cinematic styel, this came will provide the bloody challenge that you crave when wanting to destroy zombies.

This game has a very I AM LEGEND feel to it and is very fun as you can’t use the traditional weapons that exist in most traditional zombie games.  If you want to dish out the pain, you need to make sure that you use the objects around you to stay alive while also dismember some serious zombies that will want to try to kill you.  The game is fast paces and keeps you on edge as you are always trying to figure out what to do next to get around the hoarde.

Features:

• 4 survival modes, easy to x rated
• threes stunning 3d environments, which are absolutely optimized for the iphone 4
• visceral slow-mo for truly gory moments with money shots
• dozens of unusual weapons from frisbees and vinyl records to lava lamps and ukuleles
• loads of zombie types
• intuitive and easy to flick mechanic
• incredible 3d visuals complete with dismemberment, decapitation, and gallons of blood to meet your zombie killing fetish
• integrated achievements and leaderboards so you can see how you stack up to the competition
• open feint support so you can show your friends how you are doing and see if they can beat your high scores that you will end up posting online.

This game offers fun and a unique way to kill zombies while keeping it fast paced and entertaining.  If you love zombie games, this one is for you as you will be able to truly make a dent in the zombie population and keep them from overtaking you if you play your cards right.  Join the fight and play this game today!

Conclusion:

This app costs $1.99 and has been given a 4 out of 5 star rating by other players that have downloaded this app and played if for hours on end.

Splice iPhone App Review

Description:

Have you ever wanted to have the ability to edit and create a video from start to finish right from your own iphone?  Well now you can  as there is an app that has the power and the raw computing strength to do this in an easy to do manner.  The app is called Splice, and it is one of the most comprehensive video editing apps available for the iphone.  The app puts you in total control, which allows you to assemble video clips, music, photos, visual effects, text, audio mixing, and creative expression along with exacting synchronization of sound effects and voice overs.  Your only limit is your imagination.

Video editing is an art that can be learned as you splice up video, add music, and special effects.  This app lets you do all of that quite easily and takes out alot of the guess work when editing.  If you love videos and want to upload videos that are edited to you tube, it has never been easier with this app to do this.  Once the video is done, you have several different upload options to put the video on to several different mediums that will allow you to show it off to the world.

Features:

• control and mix for multiple tracks of audio
• intuitive and easy to use scrub and time line
• precise synchronization of sound effects and a narration track
• available on the iphone 4 and 3gs running the new ios 4 system
• Simple, easy to use, drop and drag features for assembling video clips and photos
• ability to add music from itunes or other music sources.
• preloaded with music and sound effects, visual effects, transitions and text
• This app lets you never miss another opportunity to make a fun video based around the events that you experience with others and by yourself.

If you love editing video, or want to get into editing video, this is the app for you!  This app creates and easy to learn playing field for anyone with an iphone to learn how to edit video and make videos that work well for people.  Editing video is super fun and you will be amazed to see how much creativity you have when it comes to putting  a video piece together with music and a story line to make it fun and exciting.

Conclusion:

This app costs $1.99 and has been given a 4 out of 5 star rating by other iphone users.

Items iPhone App Review

Description:

We have all gone to the store looking for something specific, get distracted, and leave the store without the stuff we even went to the store in the first place.  Well now you can make sure you get the stuff you planned on getting at the store with a new app called Items.  Items is a great app that is a shopping list that lets you put items on a list that you can check off with the tap of the finger as you put the items in your shopping cart.  Adding items is also easy as there is a database that has several grocery items that you can put on the list.  If the item you are looking for is not on the list, you can simply tap in the item into the list and it will create a check box that you can check off when you get that item at the store.

This app is truly for the scatterbrained people, which we all are at times.  With this app you will be able to make more effective grocery runs and get the things that you really need and make it easier on everyone when you go to the store and stop forgetting essential items that are easily forgotten or skipped over.

Features:

• The app is simple and has an elegant interface which is simple to get through and use
• There is an overview list of all the items that you can buy
• Lists for every shop that you can think of
• Displays count of items still to buy so you can see a running total of the things you have checked off your list
• Sorting the lists is possible in an alphabetical way
• You can add new items very quickly
• Frequently used items
• instant search results
• tap less often
• large database of name suggestions
• Completely localized in Both English and German
• Language of item suggestions independence from system settings.

As you can see, this is a comprehensive shopping cart list app that will help you to get the items that you really need.  The app has a countdown so you can have a good idea as to what is left to buy and let you have a better idea of what you have spent so far on the items you have in your cart.

Conclusion:

This app costs $.99 cents and has been given a 4 out of 5 star rating.

Find Jobs iPhone App Review

Description:

With the economy in bad shape, and the housing market tanking all around us.  It is important to understand that the biggest problem with the whole economy is the lack of jobs that are available.  Well the truth of the matter is that there are jobs around, but the hard part is finding them and getting your name in before a million people apply for the same job.  Well there is an app that can really help you if you are in need of a job or want to switch things up in your life.  The app is called Find Jobs and it is powered by Manpower.  This app literally gives you the ability to look for jobs right from the palm of your hand.  You can even apply for the job right from your iphone!  This is great because if you are on the go, you will be able to apply for jobs as they come up and that way you can rest assured knowing that you were one of the first people to apply for the position before a ton of other people applied for it.

The app can also be set to notify you when new jobs are posted if you are looking for jobs in a certain job category.  this is great because it can save you time and help you to pounce on the new jobs before they get too saturated with applications.

Features:

• If you are looking into finding a new job, or if you want a change of scenery, this new app is a great way to help you find the job you have been looking for.
• The app is powered by Man power and is constantly updated with new jobs that allow you to apply right from the convenience of your iphone
• The app will also notify you as new jobs come into play and as new jobs are available in the categories you specify.
• If you want the most convenient way to find jobs, you need this app on your iphone!

This app is fantastic as you can search for jobs within a certain radius or distance from where you currently live to find jobs that will be nice and close.  The job descriptions are given and the app couldn’t be any easier to use!

Conclusion:

This app is FREE and has been given a 4 out of 5 star rating by other iphone users who have downloaded and used this app.

Katy Perry Revenge iPhone App Review

Description:

We all know the song california gurls by Katy Perry as it has been blasting the radio waves all summer long.  Katy Perry has truly emerged as a top notch artists when it comes to pop icons.  She is cute, has great sounding music, and the music sticks in your head.  Well if you are a fan of Katy Perry and want to really experience her music in a new way, you need to get Katy Perry Revenge for the iphone, ipod touch, or the ipad.  This game uses the popular engine of Tap Tap revenge which has been out for the ipod for a while.  This game is basically a version of rock band or guitar hero right on your iphone.  Little bubbles come down the screen and you have to tap them in order to hear the strong beats of the music and make it sound normal.

The songs from this app can be imported into Tap Tap revenge with ease, but this app includes the smash hits of Katy Perry which include: I kissed a girl, Hot n cold, california gurls, waking up in vegas, teenage dream, and much more!  The app also gives you access to the exclusive VIP Katy Perry chat room in which you can connect with other fans, check out special collections of glamorous Katy Perry Pix, and enjoy additional extra content.

Features:

• Katy Perry Revenge is a musical type game that is based off of the wildly popular Tap Tap revenge franchise
• The way to play the game is simple as the bubbles come down the screen and you are to tap them in time to make sure the music that is playing continues to flow and play uninterrupted.
• The app also gives you exclusive Katy Perry content and allows you to join the special VIP chat room to be able to get additional content, pictures, and more of Katy Perry
• The songs from this app can be imported into Tap Tap revenge without any hiccups as you can add these songs to your large song collection on Tap Tap revenge.

If you love music and love katy perry, this is a great app to get as you can rock out to her songs with ease and have a fun time getting to know Katy Perry in a new way.

Conclusion:

This game costs $4.99 and has been given a 4 out of 5 star rating.