Tag Archives: iPhone novelty apps
Into Back to the Future Style Time Traveling? Yes, There’s an App for That
Flux Capacitor is a new app for the iPhone (and iPad) that appears to have just a single purpose, but a rather handy one to have in your hands: time travel. The Flux Capacitor is what made time travel possible in Back to the Future, one of the most brilliantly …
Rescue Cleaner – Novelty App Supporting Animal Rescue Organizations
Rescue Cleaner is yet another iPhone novelty app. An app that offers you a small selection of dogs, cats (and one ferret) to ‘clean your screen ‘ for you. You choose your cleaner and see them cleaning off bits of dirt in a full screen view. It ‘s not an …
The Onion Launches an iPhone App
If you count The Onion as one of your top sources of news (and laughter), then today is a happy day. The day the Onion Microfiche Headline Reader app hit the iPhone App Store. I ‘ve only had the app for a short while, but it has already provided me …
Novelty iPhone Apps: Spider
This isn ‘t normally the sort of app I ‘d find interesting, but this one drew my interest for some reason. It ‘s just called Spider, and it does pretty much just what you might expect from it. It simulates a spider moving round your iPhone ‘s screen. The app …
Discounted iPhone Apps: Arggh – Pirate Radar Is Free for a Limited Time
I ‘ve never got into the whole pirates / ninjas / talk like a pirate things much “ so hope you ‘ll forgive the cheesy post title. I know lots of folks do get a big kick out of all things pirate-related though “ so I thought I ‘d share …
Novelty iPhone Apps: iNap@Work Should’ve Starred In Office Space
This app would have fit perfectly into the movie ‘Office Space ‘ if iPhones would ‘ve been around when it was made. It ‘s called iNap@Work and it ‘s a classic slacker app if ever there was one. I can just picture Peter running this app at his desk. Here …
Novelty iPhone Apps: Shut Up
I recently posted about the superb Death Cab for Cutie iPhone app – the one that made me think *every* band should have an app just like it. Shut Up is an app from the same developer – Jeremy Schoenherr at Our Beautiful Faces – which is just a little …
Juvenile iPhone Apps: That’s What She Said
The creators of the new That’s What She Said app for the iPhone refer to this as ‘the most versatile joke on earth’. If the guys on ‘The Office’ (and me and some of my friends) are anything to go by, they may well be right. And the TWSS app …
Novelty Apps – Need a Guard Dog for Your iPhone?
iGuardDog is a new novelty iPhone application that offers to protect your iPhone for you when you have to set it down somewhere. Are you tired of your co-workers, friends, family and significant others picking up your iPhone every time you lay it down and wasting your battery playing games? …
iPhone Novelty Apps: Meeting Ender
Meeting Ender – or Meeting Ender Time Is Money to use its full name – is an iPhone ‘novelty’ app (my definition, not any sort of official label in the App Store) that promises to help you ‘get out on time’ when you’re in a meeting that runs over. If …