Learn to Play Guitar with Miso Music

2010 Miso Music won Tech Crunch Disrupt’s People’s Choice Award, and was featured earlier this year in Billboard.com’s article, “App Developers = Tomorrow’s Rock Stars.” Now Miso Media’s award-winning Miso Music app for iPad is officially out of beta with the release of Miso Music 2.0.

The app teaches users how to play songs on the guitar, bass, banjo, and ‘ukulele using Miso Media’s patented scrolling tablature system which not only shows users strumming and fingering, but also gives real time feedback with scrolling tablature as the correct notes are played.  

Think Guitar Hero with real notes, real instruments, and real learning.  Miso Music has a real instrument mode for those who already own an instrument as well as a virtual instrument mode that turns the iPad into the instrument of your choice.

Features include:

-Polyphonic pitch detection that recognizes notes played

-180 songs (and counting) ranging from pop to classical

-Distribution deals with Sony/ATV and Universal Music Publishing Group

-Dozens of virtual instruments made in partnership with Fender, CF Martin & Co., KoAloha ‘Ukulele, and Deering Banjo

-Simple and Pro instrument tuner modes

-Streamlined play screen with intuitive functionality

-Tutorials for virtual instrument and real instrument modes

Miso Music is currently available for iPad, with iPhone and Android versions in the works.  The base app is free and includes a selection of songs and virtual instruments, and is free in the Apple App Store for a limited time.  Additional songs and virtual instruments may be purchased in-app for $.99 to $1.99.

To view Miso Music demo video:

http://www.misomedia.com/storage/Miso_Music_Demo2011.mov

Category: Music

Type: iPad Only 

Price for iPad: Free 

IntelliVocab for Business

Business Communication is the first Artificial Intelligent engine combining the research from MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and MIT Web Semantics Labs to personalize the learning experience of English vocabulary for competitive exams.

More you practice, more it learns about you. It uses latest machine learning algorithms and web semantic techniques to collapse billions of possibilities into comprehensible probabilistic profile information, in real-time.

Category: Business

Type: iPhone/iPodTouch Only 

Price for iPhone: $0.99

War Grimoire HD – Tower Defense

Welcome to the world of magic, mystery and unlimited adventure.

Waves of monsters are marching into your territory and it’s time to stop them.

Your sword alone is not strong enough to get rid of the invaders. Hire units with unique abilities to repel the enemy waves by dragging them into battle field and use 60 kinds of weapons at your disposal. You can upgrade your weapons and increase the firepower with the money and treasury chests left by the monsters. Prepare for an epic fight with special BOSS that has an ability to recover HP of monsters and even destroy your soldiers!

Features:

-Beautifully animated cartoon intro and step by step in-game guide

-60 kinds of upgradeable weapons to equip your soldiers

-30 visually stunning environments to explore with different monster combination

-6 relaxing unlockable mini-games: get new weapons by winning a mini game

-High definition 3D graphics and spectacular rendering effects

-Online worldwide leader boards with OpenFeint and Game Center

-Original music soundtracks and high quality sound effects

Plan your defense wisely, destroy the monsters’ horde and win the war!

Pros

1. This game is an improved version of the popular “fieldrunner” tower defense game with obstacles structures to be integrated into your strategy
2. The overall graphics & opening video sequence are very nicely done with a sense of “polished” feel
3. Able to replay past levels to increase “EP” to upgrade your units & weapons.

Cons

1. The navigation is a little user unfriendly but still able to navigate with a little trial & error
2. The game description should have mention the game type as “tower defense” or “TD” so that it won’t mislead people to think it’s some kind of RPG
3. Replaying past levels to get “EP” to upgrade so to win future levels tend to be repetitive & feels like “grinding” in RPG

Overall, this game is entertaining and if you uses the structures in the game to lengthen the enemy path correctly…it can be pretty easy however due to the fact your weapons & unit upgrades tree are only available when you upgrade out of the game with “EP” makes it slightly harder to kill higher bosses levels.

Knowing that your only solution are either go play those mini games to unlock new weapons or go grind past levels that you already know the trick to winning.

I hope the developer can lower down the price even though the price now is at 50% discount as there are too many other similar tower defense game around but cheaper on the wallet.

Category: Games, Tower Defence

Type: Separate App 

Price for iPhone: $1.99 

 

Price for iPad: $2.99 

Fruit Blast – Shoot Monkey’s Fruits!!

MONKEY GOES MANIC


You play to destroy pieces of fruit being hurled at you by a sinister monkey. Fight off his blitzkrieg and show him who’s boss with an arsenal of powerful weapons. It’s easy at first, but be careful—every hit he lands covers part of your screen with mangled fruit pulp, making it hard to see what he throws next.

IMMERSIVE GAME-PLAY


Defend against the attack with tilt-to-aim accelerometer controls and fully adjustable sensitivity. Pay attention to your ammo clip—if you forget to reload, you’ll get crushed into pulp. Sometimes the monkey will show you some mercy by throwing you a squeegee to clean your screen. Nab every squeegee you can—you’ll need them.

OVERPOWER THE PRIMATE


Choose new weapons from a fully stocked armory. Buy guns with larger clips, faster fire rates, greater accuracy and more destructive force. This hateful hominid packs more than one kind of produce, so you’ll need to upgrade your firepower to keep him from blending you into a smoothie.

MICRO-TRANSACTIONS BUY BIGGER ACTION


The more fruit you shoot, the more seeds you earn. Save up seeds to unlock new weapons and stages, or purchase seeds using your iTunes account. The more seeds you’ve got to spend, the bigger guns you can buy. The bigger your guns are, the better the game gets.

Pros

1. More family friendly shooter for teens 
2. Challenging game play, best challenge your friend beside you to complete that stage!
3. User friendly interface

Cons

1. Slightly buggy for the iOS 5 beta version.
2. There’s no iPad version or Universal version which I believe can be done easily 
3. Slightly repetitive and need some creative changes to make the game play more addictive.

Overall, it’s still entertaining however my suggestion to the developer is to add something that you can interact with others like a multiplayer co-op game play or even better multiplayer challenge to see who shoot down more fruits before both side ends.

Category: Games, Shooter

Type: iPhone/iPodTouch Only 

Price for iPhone: $0.99 

Dress the Monkey – Fashion Monkey (Free!)

A new free game Dress the Monkey – Fashion Monkey for iOS can be described in three simple words. It’s a great mix of fun, fashion and fantasy. 

Dressing up is one of the most favorite activities of women of all age. Every little girl loves raiding her mother’s closet for high heels and sequined dresses to parade around the house as though on a runway. This is where Dress the Monkey, a game created to bring fun and develop users’ creativity, imagination and fashion taste in a playful manner – comes in handy.

Features:

1. Make up an unusual outfit for one of the four adorable characters: Rebel, Princess, Sage, and Granny
2. Be in control of just about every aspect of a model’s look, including hair style, eyes and skin color, and even mood of your virtual friend!
3. Take advantage of the large collection of different accessories: hats, wigs, scarves, bows, glasses and more!
4. Choose fancy backgrounds for your monkey: Sunny Jungles, Icy Forest, and more!
5. Share your monkey via email, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr or save it as wallpaper!
6. Find additional “packs” of accessories and backgrounds that are available through the built-in store!

Check it out yourself! It’s time to be creative!

Category: Games

Type: iPhone/iPodTouch Only 

Price for iPhone: Free 

A.I.R Defense HD for iPad !!

Are you able to protect Earth from massive “alien” attack? Using the futuristic iPad you can! LOL play this game by A.I.R Defense and control multiple aircraft using Line drawing combined with castle defense type of game play.

Use a variety of defensive fortifications quick fingers and even quicker thinking to keep the Pentagon in one piece during the massive alien invasion.

MASS DESTRUCTION

Rain destruction down on the Alien hordes using a variety of attacks. Not to mention some huge super powered weapons!

VARIETY OF MODES

Choose from the story driven campaign mode or see how long you can last in the challenging Endless Mode!

TONS OF ALIENS

The enemies come in all shapes and sizes, including epic bosses. It’s up to you to stop them any way you can!

Cons

1. The game play is a little too challenging for me as “Airport Mania” or “Flight Control” type of game is a little frustrating to play instead of entertaining
2. Sometimes if you are unable to gather enough money in the first few waves of enemies, you know you can’t make it in the last wave
3. It’s not enjoyable when many things are based on how you can focus in multiple things at once time…which may be humanly challenging lol

Well, it’s very challenging & it’s cheap…some may love it because of that.

Category: Games, Castle Defense

Type: Separate App 

Price for iPhone: $0.99 

 

Price for iPad: $0.99 

Army of Darkness Defense HD

In this tug-of-war, casual defense game based on the MGM classic movie, you play Ash, the time-traveling, evil-fighting, S-Mart sales clerk as you defend Lord Arthur’s castle and the Necronomicon from the oncoming hordes of evil undead.

Of course, you can’t do it alone! Call upon multitudes of allies including Lord Arthur, Duke Henry the Red, the Wiseman, and many more to help you in your quest to defend the unholy book and use it to return to your own time.

ARMY OF DARKNESS: DEFENSE takes the witty charm of the cult classic movie and combines it with gorgeous graphics and innovative casual gameplay that is certain to entertain any mobile gamer. So, remember the magic words and make sure your shoelace is tied, because this is going to be an epic battle!

Features include:

-Bruce Campbell as Ash Williams

-Beautiful, fully animated graphics

-A wide variety of allies to summon including swordsmen, armored knights, archers, and more

-50 initial waves and an unlockable endless wave

-Awards and leaderboards via Game Center

-More than 100 hilarious quotes from the movie

-Countless hoards of deadites

-Originally composed music score

-Tons of special abilities including the boomstick, the chainsaw, the ’88 deathcoaster and many more spells

-All of your favorite characters including Arthur, Henry, Sheila, the Wiseman, Evil Ash, and many more!

Cons

1. You cannot replay individual past levels unless you keep on dying, well…keep dying!! HAHAHA
2. There’s no multiplayer game mode
3. Resetting the game does not carry back all the gold & upgrades meaning start from ZERO Hmm

Overall, this game is addictive until you finished 50th wave & unlocked the endless mode which the fun factor decreases.

There must be a way to further enhance this game, my idea is to add multiplayer to the game and allow players to control the undead hoard!

Give players a fixed amount of Gold for them to select what upgrades they want or give fixed types of upgrades & troops for both sides and let game center auto match users to play each other!

However, that will mean either this app remains free forever & lower the coins earned in-game or make a special power up only available for in-app purchase.

Category: Games, Castle Defense

Type: Separate App 

Price for iPhone: Free 

 

Price for iPad: Free