Review

5 Awesome iPhone Task Manager Apps

After positive feedback on my last roundup, I've decided to start a weekly (possibly bi-weekly) list of "5 Awesome iPhone ___________ Apps" articles. To reiterate from last week, the 5 apps I will mention in this list are not jailbreak apps, so everyone can use them.

Each of these apps are fantastic task managers for your iPhone. They have their own fortes and negatives, but, in my opinion, they're all deserving of the word "awesome." Hope you enjoy...

App Review: Vacation Mogul

Vacation Mogul by Alawar Entertainment is a time management simulation building game for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. In the beginning of the game you learn that you must save up money to reclaim a house that your disappeared sister used to own, but is in danger of being taken by your uncle’s greedy lawyer. However because you are short on cash, you have to complete missions and save enough money to buy your sister’s house.

Each mission has goals in which you must build hotels, recreational facilities and achieve a certain weekly cash flow to pass the mission. Example of the goals would be like building 2 hotels with a weekly income of $10,000. These goals slowly become more difficult as you progress through the story, but there is no time limit for missions, so you can go as fast or as slow as you want...

App Review: Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter

Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter developed by Tatem Games is a first person hunting simulation game that puts you in the shoes of a dinosaur hunter. The game throws you into 5 different locations and made me feel like the Australian hunter that thought he was the king but eventually got viciously eaten from either Jurassic Park 2 or 3 (does anybody remember?).

Your goal is to hunt down dinosaurs with a choice of 6 different weapons that most hunters’ use like the rifle, bow & arrow and shotgun. With these weapons at your disposal, you will be hunting all types of familiar dinosaurs such as the Stegosaurus, Velociraptor and of course, the big mama of them all, the T-Rex...

App Review: Ninjump

Backflip Studios (Paper Toss and Ragdoll Blaster) has done it again and created a amazing free game called Ninjump. This is a survival action game in which you run up against 2 sides of a building, achieving power-ups while dodging and avoiding obstacles.

Your goal is to not die and obtain the highest score possible. For those familiar with survival games than you should feel familiar with the concept, if not then I just explained it to you...

App Review: Medieval

Medieval, created by Briskmobile, is a castle defense game in which you must force the opposition to say “uncle!” by either blowing their castle to kingdom come, completely slaughtering their oncoming troops or by stealing their flag.

You control a huge bow on top of your castle and you must shoot arrows at the advancing forces. The enemy will come at you with everything they have: knights, soldiers, balloons, catapults and etc. You have to defend against them with your bow and army...

AppSwitch, the Ultimate System Utility for Your iPhone

Apple doesn't like for users to be able to see what's "under the hood." OS X and iOS are very design and aesthetically driven. Apparently, Apple feels that "viewing processes" is an archaic feature. There is no real way in iOS to get a bird's eye view of everything that's running on your phone.

There are, however, some of us out there who would like to know things like which processes are running and the current distribution of system memory. Luckily, App Switch, by XCool Apps, is here to remedy our need for total control...

App Review: Slice it!

Slice it! , created by Com2uS, is a game that initially stirred up my attention by the iTunes App Store ratings. The current version has 106 ratings at 5 stars with 9045 ratings at 4.5 stars. Those are some pretty impressive stats aren't they?

I can't remember the last time I saw an app with ratings this high and would love some recommendations of other games with these kinds of ratings!

Anyways, Slice it! is a puzzle game that puts your Geometry skills to the test. I must admit, in High school I hated Geometry and barely did enough to get by, but don't worry! You won't be doing any Pi x Radius calculations but you will find yourself planning ahead and visualizing your strategy to achieve the most amount of stars possible...

App Review: Eat It!

Created by Dragon Team Interactive, Eat it! is an insanely simple game which features cute characters and equally matching charming music.

The concept is pretty straightforward and easy to pick up. You must feed lions or monkeys, the appropriate food they need. The lions will be eating meat and the monkeys will be eating fruit. That’s basically the game in a nutshell...

App Review: Super Mega Worm

A quick look at ‘Super Mega Worm’ may make you think that this was a ported game from the old-school Nintendo. A closer look at Developer’s website (Deceased Pixel), reveals that their whole concept is developing retro games.

With some of the amazing iPhone games coming out these days, I hope you guys aren’t turned off by retro graphics because with ‘Super Mega Worm’ it offers loads of gratuitous bloody fun in old-skool style!

App Review: Take Five

I love it when a simple app idea is executed beautifully. Take Five, by the Iconfactory, is no exception. The idea is simple. Take Five is intended to solve a problem that occurs often for certain types of people. When I say "certain types of people," I mean forgetful ones (aren't we all to some degree). The app does one thing and one thing well; it controls a timer for your music.

The scenario that Iconfactory uses on the Take Five site is a scenario that most of us have probably been through. You're listening to your music while you're doing work, you are either interrupted or distracted, then you eventually return to your work and forget to turn your music back on. Hours later you realize you've been listening to silence. That sounds like a pretty trivial problem, right? Well, it seems to me that the most frustrating problems in life are the repetitive and trivial ones. Take Five plans on fixing at least one of those problems...

Review: Camera All in One

Camera All in One is a new app for the iPhone by Joypiece software. Camera All in One gives you so many more functions for your iPhone camera that the stock camera app does not.

Ever wanted your iPhone camera to have Face Detection or Anti-shake? Well now it can with this great app. Other features include Voice shutter, Self timer, Countdown shutter, continuous shutter and soft flash for night time picture taking... 

App Review + Giveaway: Protector – The Planes [Sponsored]

Protector: The Planes is the fifth incarnation of the game in the series. The series first showed its face face in 2008 with Protector. Since its first release the PC version has been played over 50 million times on the PC and Protector 4 is ranked in the top 25 best games at Kongregate (over 30,000 flash games). So being the 5th down the line, but first on the iPhone, iPod and iPad (iOS 3.1.3 or later) it's already got an excellent track record.

What is it?

For those of you who've never heard of the series, it's a medieval and fantasy

based tower defense game with great emphasis on upgrades (outside of the level) and strategic placement of the units. In short, it's a medieval/fantasy RPG style tower defense game. I've got to tell you, this thing's huge. With 32 maps, 40 enemy types and 20 hours of game play, hope you have some sick days left from work, this game is gonna take a while to finish.