Galcon Fusion- Awesome Game !!

Galcon is a must. Conquer the Galaxy like never before! Superb multi-touch interface. Online realtime multiplayer. A game MADE for the iPad.


Galcon Fusion is an awesome high-paced multi-player galactic arcade-strategy game. Send swarms of ships to defeat enemy planets and conquer the universe!


Winner of the 2009 Independent Game Festival Mobile Innovation in Mobile Game Design Award.


- Beautiful new HD graphics

- Multi-player, team games, and solo missions

- Achievements and detailed rankings

- 8 single player games including Stealth and Assassin

- Online games with up to 12 players

- Play against PC, Mac, and Linux users


Pro

• Addictive Multiplayer game that challenges your brain & reflexes to conquer the galaxy! What not to love? 
• This game also available on desktop! That means the multiplayer is always crowded!  

Con

• There are no clear FAQ or Guide to play other modes of single player game except for “Classic” mode.
• All the units are the same triangle shape, except for differences of color, different shape maybe?

Category: Games, RTS
Type: Separate App 
Price for iPhone: $1.99

Price for iPad: $1.99

What’s On Air – Online Radio !

What’s On Air. Tune up with your favorite music.

Are you a music addict? Can’t wait for your favorite song or band to appear on air? Don’t wait a second longer!

What’s On Air app is an advanced radio player in a palm of your hand. It keeps you up-to-date with your favorite music by detecting what songs and bands are on air. Get access to thousands of internet radio stations (local and international) and take control over them!

With What’s On Air radio streams will play your preferred music only! What’s On Air finds your favorite songs and bands that are currently on air, displaying only those that are about to be played or have just started. Look for your favorite music by search keys, radio stream music genre or list of artists on air. Shake your device in order to listen to the found tracks one after another.

Can’t wait no more? Activate the Instant Boost to get an extremely fast and immediate response for your searches. Missing some info about the found song? Unlock tons of data about played song or band (Full discography, Youtube videos, Wikipedia articles etc.)

Get access to your favorite music now with What’s On Air!

FEATURES
✓ Enter up to 20 search keys to find artists and songs
✓ Radar alert every time the desired song is played
✓ Once-a-minute refreshing list of bands and songs on air
✓ Instant Boost guarantees extremely fast app performance
✓ Shake the device to listen to found tracks one after another
✓ Album art of the playing song is displayed
✓ Browse through tons of info about your favorite bands (discography,wikipedia, youtube, myspace, imbd, iTunes etc) or buy them directly from iTunes
✓ Create the list of your favorite radio stations
✓ Access to the radio websites
✓ Browse through the history of listened tracks with album art
✓ Multitasking (listen to the chosen radio stream or band outside the app)
✓ Browse through the list of radio stations (local and international) by music genre
✓ Optimized user friendly interface

***Instant Boost is CPU consuming. Activate it when you need really it.

Pros

1. You can find individual artist that’s playing live in the radio? WOW!! Coolness
2. A great chill out app, relax & listen
3. Able to see what’s the song name of what’s playing NOW…WOW!!
4. Kaboom! Can even buy the song from iTunes!

Cons

1. The radar alert may disrupt your music listening pleasure, maybe a visual alert may be better? not sure
2. If by shaking it goes to the next song that is found, it means this app cannot be a jogging companion app
3. Sometimes the album art doesn’t appear but it’s not really serious
4. Is there any Chinese internet radio?Hmm Singapore’s? If have it will be perfect!

Overall, this internet radio application is one leap above other similar apps due to it’s variety of innovative & convenient features hence making this app one of the must have for music lovers.

This almost gave those music on demand streaming app something to be afraid of.

Category: Music
Type: iPhone/iPodTouch Only 

Price for iPhone: $0.99

WhatsApp Messenger

WhatsApp is a direct iPhone-2-iPhone messenger chat application. WhatsApp allows you to carry on a conversation in real time with your contacts without having to pay for SMS.

In addition to chat there is a “Status” feature, thanks to which you and your friends will always know what’s up and how to best get in touch.

And with iPhone Push Notifications, WhatsApp can even let you know when your contact’s status changes and what they are up to.

WhatsApp only works among users who have the application, so after you download WhatsApp, make sure to use the “Tell a Friend” feature to share this App with the friends and contacts in your address book.

WhatsApp on iPhone now supports Facebook Connect. Share your mobile status with your Facebook friends and Address Book contacts!

Pros

• Able to use Status functionality of WhatsApp to inform your contacts about your mobile availability
• WhatsApp automatically works with your existing iPhone Contacts. There is no hassle of adding friends, creating accounts, or memorizing PINs and login names.
• No sign up is necessary! Simply download WhatsApp to your iPhone or BlackBerry device and it will automatically work. 
• Super fast text sending user interface with fantastic wallpaper customization support!

Cons

• Not able to use this app as social networking tool as it’s hard to give mobile numbers to strangers as you can’t block SMS advertising Spam from overseas.

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Category: Social Networking
Type: iPhone/iPodTouch Only

Price for iPhone: $0.99

Slideshow Builder-Create iPhone Slideshow

Slideshow Builder is a unique application that allows user to create professional looking slideshows with multiple beautifully rendered transition effects, this application can easily design professional wedding montage or even just a simple photo slideshow with custom transition effects & music!

You can even add captions to individual photographs to describe the event gracefully, there is a option to password protect your slideshows so that they will remain “private” in situation that you lost your phone or borrow your friends to play with your iPhone or iPod Touch

Features

• Build slideshows with photos from your photo albums or camera roll.
• Protect your slideshows with secure passcode
• Upload multiple tracks of your own music over WIFI to accompany your slideshows
• Choose from a selection of 11 beautifully rendered slide transition effects.
• More!

Ideas on how you use this application

1. When you need a nightstand with your sleeping music and beautiful photos
2. When you need a impressive animated photoframe slideshow to wow your guest with their past photos taken together
3. When  you want to your photos and recap your past journeys or travels with your love ones
4. Make a collection of dancing people & a dance sound track and allow the slide show to follow the tempo of the song.
5. You just want to see a collection of nice photos while your iPhone or iPod Touch is charging on the docking bay

Whatever the uses, this appilication is simple enough to use and fast enough to generate really cool slide shows. I do initially question why the need to transfer music via WIFI instead of using the MP3 directly from the iPod Library but I found out that Apple have  restriction  due to copyright infringement problems hence does not allow that feature to be implemented.

The only competition this application have is the iPhone’s basic slide show feature (photo) which does not comes with only 5 types of transition effects and don’t come with music.

I feel that this application cleverly mimic the Apple macbook’s screensaver making it perfect for any mac fans to own.

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Category: Photography
Company: BitWink Ltd
Type: iPhone/iPodTouch Only

Price for iPhone: $1.99

Crazy Snowboard

Crazy Snowboard is an extreme sports game application made by Ezone which features great graphics, smooth gameplay and awesome stunts.

First off, the graphics are breathtaking though not perfect but it definitely packs in the feel of snowboarding. The game uses 4 parts of the screen area where you can choose to input different stunts and execute them by touching and holding to the screen areas. The grab camera is a superb feature which slows down the air time and allows the player to execute their stunts easier and definitely way cooler. The slow motion also allows you to capture cool stunts screenshots easier.

The game comes with missions where you will overcome to earn points to unlock stunts etc. You can also change your appearance and your snowboard. Furthermore you can listen to your iPod playlist in the background, making it a more exciting ride down the slope. The game is constantly being updated from the feedbacks of players and had recently added online ranking and global highscores

Graphics – 4.5/5

Sound – 4/5

Gameplay – 4/5

Features – 4.5/5

Overall – 4.25/5

 The price of the game had just risen to $4.99 because of the new update but nevertheless its an awesome app if you are into extreme sports, especially snowboarding.

Category: Games
Company: Ezone.com © Ezone PTY LTD
Type: Universal App

Price for iPhone: $0.99

 

Price for iPad: $0.99

Puzzle Quest HD 2.0.2

Puzzle Quest HD is the full Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords game (chapters 1, 2 and 3) in one glorious package optimized for the iPad.

Play the whole quest from beginning to end in beautiful full-screen HD!

Pros

1. 3 chapters in One package!! Puzzle Quest fans rejoice! This will occupy your time for a LONG LONG TIME!
2. Excellent high resolution graphics
3. Same addictive game play!
4. The music is almost nostalgic for old fans and I never get tired of it!
5. Deep role playing elements with everything covered! Upgrade skills, magic, weapons, armor, citadel, followers, deep plots, missions, rumors and more!

Cons

1. Some buttons are still too small for comfort, takes a while to hit the “spot” at the buttons in the inventory
2. Other companies like Namco had copied the puzzle quest with better features like multiplayer via Gamecenter or WIFI/Bluetooth why can this version cannot do the same?
3. Yes, another time travel app…your boss will hate this app unless it’s he/she is the one playing! LOL once you play…time will fly!

Category: Games, Puzzle
Company: TransGaming Inc
Type: Separate App

Price for iPad: $4.99

Little Mozart

Learning music is now easy and fun. With help from the Little Mozart and his friends, you can create the most varied music, even if you have not yet any music knowledge/theory. Become a composer with the help of the Little Mozart.

Available in English and Portuguese.

Features

Little Mozart uses an innovative system, allowing you to compose tonal musics easily and intuitively. Chosing notes and their rhythmic durations can be conditioned by the application so that your music becomes perfect and nice to be heard.

Instruments

In the band stand you can choose one of the following instruments for Mozart to play:

• Piano;
• Violin;
• English flute;
• Trumpet.

You can also choose some percussion instruments for Mozart’s friends play along with your music’s:

• Wood box;
• Triangle;
• Tambourine;
• DJ plate.

Music Notation

Little Mozart allow you to choose from three different sets, facilitate the reading:

• Invento Musical music graphic notation;
• Conventional notation with the colors from music graphic;
• Conventional notation.

Education

Music teachers and other teaching professionals, can create melodies to support musical exercises and songs.

• English flute exercises;
• Small melodies to be played by the students using different instruments, having for accompaniment the percussion instruments from Little Mozart.
• Vocal intonation exercises;
• To create melodic dictation;
• Identify rhythmic patterns from the percussion instruments;
• Identify the timbre of the instruments;
• Create songs having has reference patterns rhythms associated to the syllabic metric (the syllabic/rhythm construction is not supported by the application).

Category: Education
Company: Cnotinfor
Type: Universal App

Price for iPhone: $1.99

Galaxy On Fire 2

Featuring a living galaxy with over 20 inhabited solar systems and 100 space stations, Galaxy on Fire 2 allows you to travel using hyperspace and wormholes to visit the far reaches of this fully 3D, war-torn galaxy.

Follow the rich and engrossing storyline for over 10-hours of action-packed gameplay, or head off at any time on an interplanetary journey of your own design; mining asteroids, trading ore and supplies, taking on mercenary missions, working as a pirate and manufacturing new weapons and equipment.

Buy and customize more than 30 different types of space ship to aid you in a variety of heart-pounding missions, including escorting convoys under pirate attack, capturing intergalactic criminals, rescuing alien VIPs, transporting valuable goods between systems, commanding mercenaries on dangerous tactical assignment, and recovering alien technology from distant parts of the galaxy.

FEATURES
• A huge galaxy with over 20 solar systems and beautifully rendered planets
• 100 unique 3D space stations and more than 30 customizable space ships
• Unique reputation and diplomacy system
• Story-based, mission-based and free gameplay
• Complex trading system with over 170 different commodities of all kinds
• High quality visuals and music, full voice acting (English) and 3D sound
• Action Freeze™: 3D screenshot tool to save screenshots from any perspective and upload them to Facebook™
• Game Centre and OpenFeint integration of leader boards, achievements and saved games
• High resolution support for retina display

iPAD FEATURES
• Additional high resolution textures
• Customisable controls
• Adapted Interface

Pros

1. Stunning 3D graphics that you can gawk at for months, stopped and go back again
2. Captivating story very very similar to privateers in the past & yes the upgrading and trading 
3. Feeling of accomplishing something great after a long while playing
4. Feeling you are back in PC gaming in the 90s but with better graphics!

Cons

1. The last time I played, the story is pretty standard and the twist is nice but a little too short…in fact I purposely take on missions to drag the story longer! 
2. The freedom is vast & wide, sometimes you get a little lonely in there…a little too lonely…as there are no multi-player options. OH MAN if this is MMO! It will be sweet!
3. After the 500th kills of similar missions…you get kinda you know bored…that’s after the story ended you know? How about custom missions? Hmm
4. Find your son having bigger biceps not because he had been training ….but he had been playing on this game…for far too long!!

Category: Games, Flying
Company: FISHLABS
Type: Universal App

Price for iPhone: $9.99