When you try to get your mind to relax, what do you do? Go and lose yourself in sports, read a book or watch a movie?
What if you can’t do that but still want some focus? What do you think of? That last beach vacation with the waves gently rolling to the shore — or maybe that summer day with the birds singing and the gras rustling in a light breeze?
Everyone will think of something different and yet everyone yearns for that perfect moment of serenity. Now you can have that anytime, whether you’re in your crowded office or in your living room at home. With Serenity for iPhone, sounds and beautiful videos will take your mind on a vacation far far away.
If there is one category of games that’s entertaining to young and old alike, it’s puzzle games. Unlike the name indicates, today’s puzzle games are far removed from their former analog counterparts. It’s not about matching tiles which each other anymore to reveal an image or form a shape — puzzle games come in all sorts of variations and styles.
But at the core you always have to solve a mystery: find something hidden, no matter if it’s an object to spot among a thick forest or a shape that will materialize once you align dots the right way. Pictorial HD falls into the latter category. It might not be the most challenging game you’ll ever play, but it certainly is one of the more beautiful and relaxing ones. Let’s take a closer look …
If there is one area which has been revolutionized by the invention of the iPhone (and iPad) it has been photography and photo manipulation. It’s just that easy to snap a photo and share it with your friends, since you carry your iPhone with you almost all the time.
Percolator, a universal app, adds a new dimension to post-processing your images. It’s a mosaic app, but it’s also much more than that. We’ll take a closer look right after the break.
Have you ever build something with your own hands? As a kid, have you build castles and houses out of sand, wood or lego pieces? And as an adult, have you aspired to take your craftsmanship to new heights?
Who says you can’t? With Tower Bloxx Deluxe 3D you can build towers into the sky and beyond, start against your friends and if you’re really ambitious, build your own city — if you have what it takes.
Has it ever happened to you? The sudden realization that a family member, good friend or colleague had their birthday and you missed it? Needless to say, embarrassment and groveling ensues to make it up. After all, most of us wouldn’t be too happy either if someone we cared about forgot our special day.
From now on, there’s a way of never forgetting a birthday again: Meet Yearly, the beautiful birthday reminder app that will let you know in time when to prepare for celebrations.
There are hundreds, if not thousands of task management apps out there, waiting to help you manage your routines. Usually those apps specialize in one particular aspect of task management, may that be a strict interpretation of the GTD methodology or a great integration with social sharing services.
The new kid on the block tries to excel at everything. TaskFlow brings task management together with reminders, timers and notes. So, instead of using multiple apps to manage your busy life, you only need one. We’ll take a look on how well TaskFlow manages to accomplish that goal after the break.
There are few categories as rich in apps as the Photography category in the iTunes App Store. The improving image quality of the iPhone’s — and more recently the iPod Touch’s — camera has led many people to replace their point & shoots with their iDevice.
While the camera can produce fairly nice images with the right lighting and a good motif, image editing can give the shots an almost professional touch. Whether it’s for editing on the fly to share among social networks or for semi-professional purposes when no “real” computer is available, Snapseed for the iPhone strives to offer a unique and complete experience. We take an in-depth look at the app and if its promise holds true right after the break.
Some of you will remember the time before the Internet and smartphones. Back when there was no GPS, you had just a plain old map to coordinate your trip. You planned ahead, you marked your stations by drawing them with a pencil and you probably sat for hours afterwards to match photos to a certain stop.
Thanks to the wonders of GPS, the iPhone and some really ingenious programmers, you can now use one app to track your entire journey, complete with live positioning, photos and notes. Meet Trip Journal, a travel diary for the iPhone.
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Have you ever looked at HDR photos, wishing you could produce the same fantastic images? But there’s no way you could make those kind of pictures with your iPhone’s camera, and you know that because the HDR functionality built into the Camera app just isn’t that great. What if there was a way to take truly mind blowing HDR images with your iPhone, just by using a different app?
Well there is, and one of them is iCameraHDR. This app takes your iPhone’s built-in camera and kicks it up to 11, producing some pretty stunning pictures in the process. Let’s delve into what the app does after the break.
With our increasingly busy lives it becomes increasingly difficult to keep track of all the little tasks. Simply writing it down as a task doesn’t help if we don’t remember to look at our note or task management app.
This is where Notificant comes in. The cloud-based app, which has been received enthusiastically on the Mac as well, gives you a nudge at the right moment. Wherever you are.
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