There are times when our team simply doesn’t want to write reviews, and so we do what any reasonable writing group does in this situation: we throw a hat into the middle of the room and ask team members to quickly discuss the latest iPhone app they’ve installed. These are not reviews or news posts, but something more like a JAiB App Journal that’s being made public.
Brandon S
This one is going to be short. My latest app install was Navy Patrol Coastal Defense, because it was free (kudos to the devs who are doing this free app a day program), but sadly it lasted less than five minutes, for two reasons. The first being the splash screens (there were 3 of them) lasted over 30 seconds on a 3GS. I’m a quick gamer, 2-3 minutes at a time. I don’t want to waste that much time on splash screens for a developer. Second, I got less than 10 seconds into my first game and it crashed when I hit a button. Kiss of death. I understand apps crash – hell the one I’m coding right now has had it’s fair share in development, but with a huge strike against it already in the load time, the crash in the first game was enough to send me straight for the ‘x’ on my homescreen.
Diego
Foobi. It is a food tracker. It doesn’t count calories but instead you select a kind of food, like vegetables or grain.
The UI is gorgeous — one of the best I’ve ever seen. If you rotate in landscape mode you can see what kinds of food
you’ve eaten this week so far, so you can adjust your eating habits.
It’s also customizable: you can add whatever food
you want, useful for people like me that do not have an “american diet” but “european”, the foods we eat are quite different.
Patrick
Slowmo – lets you create slow motion or speeded up videos on the iPhone 3GS. You can create new ones transformed in these ways, or change you existing videos. It’s super easy to use, with just a slider to set how much to slow it down / speed it up and some quick settings for if you want to apply similar treatment to voice or leave it alone. Let’s you save your new creations to the Camera Roll or email them to friends. Very nice little $0.99 app.
Thomas
My latest installed app is technically Bowtie, but it’s already been covered on the site, so I’ll go with I Am T-Pain. This purchased was mainly inspired by the hilarious Auto Tuning video on Vimeo, and I thought it would be awesome to do something similar with just my iPhone and the living room speaker set. It turns out that even heavy auto-tuning can’t keep me from sounding like a dying whale, but I was actually surprised to find that you can re-record any song in your iTunes library with your own vocal stylings layered atop like a cherry (or like a fish head, if you sing like me). I caught the app while it was on sale for $0.99, and although I don’t pull it out very often, it’s definitely a great app to break out when friends come over.
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