News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
The Iconfactory and Artis Software have announced the release of Frenzic for the iPhone and iPod touch. It costs $5.99.The Iconfactory and Artis Software have announced the release of Frenzic for the iPhone and iPod touch. It costs $5.99. Based on a game already available for Mac OS X, Frenzic is a fast-paced action puzzle game in which you must fill circles with wedge-shaped pieces of varying colours. If you complete certain circles you’ll earn power-ups; you can also earn extra points by completing circle with the same colour wedges. The game starts slow and gets faster quickly; you ca...
The Iconfactory and Artis Software have announced the release of Frenzic for the iPhone and iPod touch. It costs $5.99.
The concept of a “tower defense” game isn’t particularly new: It’s where you build defensive structures to prevent successive hordes of invaders from attacking your territory. But Subatomic Studios has refined the genre for the iPhone in Fieldrunners, and the result is a truly handheld console-quality experience.
Third-party applications for the iPhone and iPod touch have increasingly become part of Apple's promotional push on behalf of its mobile devices. When an ad for the iPhone or touch comes on the TV, it’s just as likely to focus on some App Store offering as it is the device on which you’d run it.
The first version of Google Mobile App was strong on searches, but weak when it came to Google’s peripheral applications. Not that Google’s search supremacy was ever in doubt, but with the recent introduction of voice search, the updated Google Mobile App is a quantum leap beyond its predecessor. The secondary Google products are still poorly implemented here, but you will be too absorbed with the voice search too care.
As soon as I gave Google’s updated Google Mobile app for the iPhone (iTunes link) a trial run today, the first thing that struck me was how well Google had implemented the new voice recognition feature, both in terms of its user interface and in how well it worked.
One of my favorite things about the iPhone and the App Store is the plethora of inexpensive time-killers available. For just a dollar or two—and oftentimes for free—I can download an entertaining game that will keep me occupied while waiting in line or taking the train to the office. For the past month or so, my favourite such diversion has been the logic game Marple. According to its developer, Marple was inspired by the Palm OS game Hercule, although Marple takes advantage of the iPhone’s touchscreen to offer far better graphics and a better interface.
Google Tuesday said it plans to archive as many as 10 million photos from Life Magazine's archives dating back to the 1750s—many which have never been published before.G...
Myvu has announced that its Crystal video goggles now work with the iPhone. The Crystal glasses require a new cable which costs $US24.95.
