Reviews written by psylichon

This app does one thing and it does it right. Conversion. But the many varieties of conversion are key here:


Area
Currency
Energy
Temperature
Time
Length
Weight
Speed
Pressure
Volume
Data Storage
Volumetric Flow


Tapping any section will give you a page with multiple data entry points for the various units you can convert to. These units are customizable per section (for example, you can toggle on or off specific countries in the "currency" section). Type in any unit, and the others appear. Currency rate updates are automatic and the last update time will be displayed.

There's even a built-in ruler. Bonus!

All in all, a lot of bang for your buck.

I'm loving this app. This could save you lots of time bouncing around to various web pages to get all this information.

Main categories include:

News
Sports
Weather
Finance
Entertainment
Movies
Travel
Horoscopes

Assist


There are also many sub-categories, including an excellent "strange news" section. Location-based services are customizable for your area, and everything loads up quickly and the format is clean.

Nothing really bad to say about this app, especially for the price! Definitely worth grabbing.

I do not recommend this application. I bought this as a cheaper alternative to Pianist, but the quality is nowhere near as good. It's quite difficult to play, and the sounds are awful.

There is a free piano-only version that is worth getting just for fun, but it still doesn't sound like a real piano (they're not real samples like Pianist uses). The other instruments that come with the "Plus" version are basically unplayable due to distortion and horrible audio artifacts. That and they don't sound anything like what they purport to be. It would be amusing if it were free, but it's not.

So yeah, I would avoid this one and go with either the more expensive Pianist or the free version of Pocket Piano.

Grab this one while it's still free, folks (Until the 22nd, I believe)! This has quickly become one of my favorite utilities.

Air Sharing allows you to use your iPhone as a web hard drive via wifi. The included help file gives easy instructions for setting up your OSX or Windows desktop. Barring any non-standard router configurations you may have, setup takes less than a minute, and then you're dragging and dropping files from/to the computer and iPhone. It's really quite simple.

The best part, though, is the built-in media and document viewers. Basically anything you can play or view on an iPhone is fair game here... documents, audio, video, PDF's, JPG's, etc. There are several handy uses for this:

Play an audio file on your phone without syncing it through iTunes first.

"Hide" media that you don't want showing up in your iPod

Transfer and view full-resolution images on the iPhone with iTunes "optimization" and compression.


I'm sure you can think of other uses, but for these three alone, I would pay the full price for this. But if you hurry, you don't have to!

Sure, "More Cowbell" is fun, but it's pretty limited. This app will give you 22 percussion instruments to play:

* claves
* cowbell
* crash cymbal
* cymbal bell
* drum sticks
* egg shakers
* gong
* hand clap
* hi hat closed
* hi hat open
* hi hat stomp
* maracas
* ride cymbal
* rim shot
* rim tap
* sleigh bells
* snare drum
* tambourine
* triangle
* tube shaker
* vibraslap
* woodblock


The sound samples are clear and crisp and, most importantly, actually playable! There's 8 levels of volume for each instrument, accessible by tapping lower or higher on the screen. And you can even use the accelerometer to play! Shake the phone and the maracas and egg shakers take on a new life. It's a bit harder to control the volume this way, but it does seem speed-sensitive, so you can get a little groove going on...

Overall I think this app is a lot of fun. Might not be worth it for the casual iPhone musician, but I love it. If they threw in a sequencer of some sort so you could program a full groove, then the price of admission would be a no-brainer. As is, for percussion geeks only ;)

I'm a sucker for any bowling game, so keep this in mind. Apparently, they've dropped the price to $2.99, which seems pretty good to me. Its control is perhaps not as nuanced as some would hope, but it is quite challenging. I don't bowl strikes and spares nearly as easily as I do on my Wii :) Two-player mode is nice, though an internet challenger option would be killer. Maybe in an update...

3-language support and decent sound FX round out a pretty good package for $3. Bowling fans should check it out.