NBA JAM

** JAM WITH A FRIEND IN LOCAL MULTIPLAYER! BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! ** Rock your iPad with all the over-the-top, high-flying, 2-on-2 arcade basketball action just like you remember it – and like you’ve never seen before! Go to the hole. Go strong. Go for the monster jam. KABOOM!

Yes, Sir! NBA JAM brings down the house!

HEAT UP ON iPAD

Jam with all 30 NBA teams and your favorite NBA stars! Unlock legends from the classic arcade era like Scottie Pippen, Dennis Rodman, Dr. J, Scott Skiles, Karl Malone, Detlef Schrempf, and Danny Manning – plus some secret players you can only get on iOS. Open up outrageous cheats, too. And if you can’t wait to go big, all the unlocks are available for instant purchase and download in the JAM store!

PLAY NOW! PLAY CLASSIC! PLAY HEAD-TO-HEAD AGAINST A FRIEND!

3 modes of play let you ball the way you want:

• Play Now – Select a team and jump right into the ballgame

• Classic Campaign – Defeat all other teams to win the championship, and unlock legends, hidden players and cheats

• Local Multiplayer – Go big head 2 big head against a friend on iPad or iPhone/iPod touch via local WiFi and Bluetooth

Also select from two different control schemes (D-Pad and gesture-based) and take advantage of the outstanding versatility of your device. Is it the shoes?

YOU’RE ON FIRE!

If you’re from the Old School, you’ll feel the ‘90s nostalgia while you play the hottest new arcade sports game on the App Store. Featuring the voice of Tim Kitzrow (the original NBA JAM play-by-play announcer), you’ll hear all the classic catchphrases plus a few new ones recorded just for this game. This JAM is all about “boomshakalaka”¬– and beyond!

Cons

1. Why can’t they add full multiplayer online and like other game uses gamecenter to automatch players?
2. I haven’t hear “Boom Shakalaka in a while…hmm haha maybe I’m a bad player
3. Such expensive apps still want us to BUY in-app purchase! Wah expensive ++

Category: Games

Type: Separate App 

Price for iPhone: $4.99

 

Price for iPad: $9.99

PhotoComic !!

Capture the right moments and be creative with PhotoComic! Create your own comic strip and share with your friends.

With various bubbles, layouts and action words you can create what ever you want with PhotoComic.

Start by selecting a layout, then add photos to each frame. PhotoComic is easy to use and discover. Each added bubble body and tail is movable. Interaction with every object is possible by double-tapping.

You can share your creations with your friends via email, facebook or twitter.

Pros

1. Can quickly create professional looking comic strips easily using your everyday photographs!
2. Simple & user friendly user-interface making this a relatively hassle free story board or comic maker.
3. Sharing is simple.

Cons

1. You cannot save your work in the application as page 1, page 2, page 3 hence cannot go back & edit old work after creating a new comic page making it hard to change your comic strip plots or make any amendments if you are planning to make a full comic book
2. There’s insufficient action icons to choose from, best if there’s a customizable action icons will be a nice update in the future.
3. Hmm no emotion icons?
4. Is there a way to share finished comic strips in a social way within the app, that means to see your friend’s comic strips if you follow that person like Instagram app and make it so that you can view a full comic book instead of a single photo
5. Any other way to make the photograph looks like comic, some other comic apps can do that but if can do it within this app will save the hassle to edit the photo in other apps first

Overall, this app does what it’s supposed to do and able to quickly whip out a nice page of comic strips as long you know your plot & have the right photographs but more can be improve on it.

Category: Photography

Type: Separate App 

Price for iPhone: $1.99

 

Price for iPad: $1.99

Hitpad – See what’s up!

Hitpad is the easiest and quickest way to see what’s going on today. Five minutes with Hitpad is like spending an hour browsing around.

What it does?

Hitpad delivers bite-size information snippets about the most important and worth-knowing topics of the day, highlighting why they are important and may be of interest, so you become current in no time and with very little effort.

Hitpad eliminates the need to read many sources and sift through social media streams that are often full with reverb and noise. As you use Hitpad, it learns your interests in order to deliver you the most important information snippets in the areas that you care about.

Hitpad Features:

• Discover the topics people talk about, in a range of categories, at any given time in a beautiful and engaging interface.

• Get a sweet & short summary highlighting why a topic is important today and may be of interest

• Get an aggregated view for any topic that includes news stories, tweets, videos, images and web results with rich website previews in one place

• Free Search let’s you find information about any search term and enjoy the same beautiful, rich, visual interface.

• Easily share items of interest on Twitter & Facebook with your followers and friends

• Save items for later reading using Instapaper

• Email articles to your friends from within the application

• Copy an item to the clipboard and paste it into another application

• View trending topics and items in both portrait and landscape orientations

Cons

1. Too much US Focus trends that are not related to other countries’ trends, if you are in other country other then USA it’s not so interesting.
2. As many trends are “marketed” trends by using bots, how do we know if the trends topic are REALLY what we human like to see?
3. The trends seems to be “filtered”, what about those popular news blogs out there?
4. Some USA videos from youtube cannot be accessed by other countries, putting those videos on your Hitpad can only hurt users from other countries. Kindly detect where we are then filter those videos away thanks
5. The reason why other news apps like “flipboard” uses social network like facebook or twitter to display news is because the news will be Vetted by our friends (living nearby) previously enough to share hence higher INTEREST level or entertainment value.

Overall, this app has the potential to teach google a thing or 2 on how to display their search results however like many socialist country in China…the results are too US centric and cannot keep international viewers interested for long.

Category: News

Type: iPad Only 

Price for iPad: Free

Tap The Frog HD

Meet the greenest frogs ever in small but awesome speed test game! Explore bunch of addictive mini games! Achieve perfection in a race with your friends on Game Center! Also try to get all badges, yeah!

Tap The Frog is a reaction test game based on popular flash game “Click The Frog” with more than 1,000,000 people enjoyed it. Enhanced iOS version contains additional mini games and Game Center competition.

Pros

- Pack of unique, fun and tricky reaction mini games.

- Badges achievement system for pro players.

- Danger! Highly addictive gameplay!

- Great fun guaranteed!

- More mini games to come…

Cons

• There are too little mini games
• Many games is using tapping on the screen to win…I wonder if the screen can handle it haha but I believe each i-device can handle the stress 

Overall, it’s a well made game with simple yet entertaining mini games that may help kids improve on their speed & even intelligence! Hmm

Category: Games, Arcade

Type: Separate App 

Price for iPhone: Free

 

Price for iPad: $0.99

Birzzle Cute Drag & Drop Puzzle Game!!

A new brand of Drag n Drop block puzzle game lining up the same type of birds and making it disappear by the use of fingertip. Provides optimized system which sustains better flexibility and simplicity of movements in touch control than prior puzzle games on the market; in return, provides a quick action arcade puzzle anyone can enjoy.

Birzzle is a very simple game which anyone can enjoy. Simply gather the birds on the touch pad with your fingers and blow it up. After a few levels and shortened time, Birzzle birds will speed up more and more. You’ll need faster finger movements!! Feel the pleasure of chain reactions caused by the use of special items which is created by gathering birds in an extreme situation.

※ Two different Game Types

Birzzle can be played in two ways, both full of cute Birzzle birds experience. The in which players align the birds in a speedy action puzzle, and the in which player survives within a set time while breaking the ice. One can only understand the two different addictive game play by actually playing the game.

(Caution) If you want unlock Ice break mode, you need play over 21 levels of Classic Mode.

※ Game play

1) Your touch screen will slowly be filled with cute and adorable birds which can be moved within the range.

2) Birzzle birds can be blown up by gathering up by 3 or more.

3) More random birds will drop from the upper screen, but you will be able to blow up the block of birds in time if you are fast enough.

4) More birds can be added onto the assembled birds just before blowing up and more birds assembled will create a stronger power bird.

5) The Power Bird created in this way can be used to unlock the locked away birds or create a chain reaction which is definitely a refreshing sensation.

※ Game specific features

* An easy, addictive gameplay

* Easy and flexible Drag n Drop control, optimized to the owner’s touch screen

* A new brand of block puzzle game different from prior block games on market

* Game Center supported for world ranking system

* Global leaderboard accessible within game

* Retina display supported for a clean and flashy screen display

* Prior generation of iPhone and iPod touch will also show a clean display

* Cute and addictive sound effects and background music

Cons

1. The speed is soooooooo fast! LOL it’s so fast that it’s amazing how people can beat the level 21 to unlock the “Ice Breaker” mode.
2. Why not a universal app? I bought the wrong version…instead of the iPad version I gotten the iPhone version which is fine but WHY separate into two different apps?

Overall this app is very well made & deserve it’s popularity, there are free lite version in iTunes too.

Category: Games, Puzzle

Type: Separate App 

Price for iPhone: $0.99
 

Price for iPad: $1.99

ShowYou – SocialNetwork your videos!

Want a Flipboard type of video feeds where videos are shared only by your friends in your SocialNetwork & contacts?

Presenting ShowYou, and no it’s not a vulgar LOL!! It’s a new Universal iOS application to pull all the video links from your social network into a neatly tiled video wall with nice thumbnails!!

Features include:

- The Showyou Grid, a customizable and awesomely fun-to-use 2D grid of nearly 1000 videos

- The Showyou Feed, where you can watch and talk about videos with your friends on Showyou

- Find and follow your friends on Showyou, or invite them to get the app

- Customize your Grid by inviting your friends, connecting to all your social networks, and following other Showyou members

- When you see a video you love, share it on Showyou or your other social networks with a tap (Facebook, Twitter)

- Tell your friends when you like a video they have shared by “thanking” them

- Get notified when your friends thank you for sharing a video, or comment on a video you shared

- Share videos you see while browsing the web — just send an e-mail to share@showyou.com

- Showyou is made for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch

Pros

1. All the videos are pulled from your social network which means they are already vetted by real human or created by them which probably something you will want to see.
2. No need browse through youtube misleading popular videos which many paid for traffic from click-ads network
3. Enjoy a leisurely coffee at somewhere nice and be entertained by ShowYou without hassle of seeking thousands of random videos that are not necessary nice.
4. I can’t find any duplicate videos shared by multiple friends which is really great!

Cons

1. There are no category to filter the videos, I like to have the option to create category channels and view “Comedy Channel Video wall” and my category will be sent to other ShowYou users
2. There’s no bookmark option?
3. I want to highlight or checked videos that I had already watched so that I can avoid them or watch them again next time.
4. I felt the urge to see other people’s comments which pull me out of the application, anyway to pull comments as well? 

Overall, this application is a MUST HAVE so click on the link below and GET IT! 

Category: Social Networking

Type: Universal App 

Price for iPhone: Free

 

Price for iPad: Free

Viber – Free iPhone to iPhone Calls!

Viber is an iPhone application that lets you make free phone calls and send free text messages to other iPhone users that have Viber installed. When you use Viber, your phone calls to any other Viber user are free, and the sound quality is much better than a regular call.

You can call any Viber user, anywhere in the world, for free and now also text them. All Viber features are 100% FREE and do not require any additional “in application” purchase.

* COMPLETELY FREE AND WITH NO ADS: Viber and all Viber features are absolutely free and do not require any additional “in application” purchase. Once you and your friends install the free Viber application, you can use it to talk and also text as much as you want. Just makes sure all your friends get Viber! All you need is an Internet connection: 3G or Wi-Fi where available. On top of that, Viber doesn’t contain any annoying ads.

* NO INTERNATIONAL CHARGES: It doesn’t matter where you or your friends are, be it on the same network or in a totally different country. You can talk for as much as you want, for free. Just make sure your friends have Viber too.

* NO USERNAMES, PASSWORDS OR REGISTRATION: You know your friend’s phone number, so why bother with yet another username and password? Viber uses your phone number as your “identity” and lets you make free Viber phone calls to any of your friends that have Viber – using THEIR phone number.

* NO NEED TO ADD BUDDIES: Unlike applications like Skype, Windows Live Messenger or Fring where you need to “add buddies” and have them approve you, Viber behaves just like a phone. Just like you do not need to “add” someone in order to call them, you do not need to add your friends in order to call them on Viber. If you know their phone number, then you know their Viber number, and you’re ready to go!

* DON’T KILL YOUR VIBER: To make sure you always get incoming calls/messages notifications, I strongly recommend you to keep Viber running in the background. This does not drain your battery or use up memory and improves your Viber experience.

* SOUND QUALITY: Viber uses state of the art technology in order to make sure the sound quality you get is much better than GSM or a regular phone call.

* IPOD TOUCH and IPAD support is almost here!

* MUCH MORE COMING: Viber team are hard at work bringing many more features to your Viber phone. More ringtones (and custom ones), wallpapers, location based services and more are all coming soon to Viber!

Pros

1. Yes when you are in area with strong internet connection, this application works like magic
2. There’s even messenger included? wow!
3. Very user friendly

Cons

1. When you are using 3G connection at very bad signal location, don’t bother using voice call…try the messenger instead you won’t lose more hair over it.
2. Does other smart phones support viber? …I think Andriod getting a beta version of Viber hence…may improve over time.
3. There’s no video calling where skype & fring is touting their services but obviously video calls can also suffer when using 3G or lower connection.
4. TalkBox & Cloudtalk provided voice recording instead of live call which may be much better alternative when connection speed is bad maybe the developer can “add into” the next update?

Overall, as a free application this app just changed your iPhone or Android (Coming) into a VOIP landlines for free and when you are in strong WIFI connection keep this app running at the background and you will be able to use it just like a land line for your friends to call you FREE of charge.

Category: Social Networking

Type: iPhone/iPodTouch Only 

Price for iPhone: Free