Review: iStoryboards for iPhone

Posted on November 9, 2010 by John Brandon.
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iStoryboards for iPhone This app for planning out how your video projects will look lacks features and suffers from numerous performance issues.

Review: Momento for iPhone

Posted on June 9, 2010 by John Brandon.
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If you want to jot down notes about your day to help remember them later, this journaling app is a good solution with a great interface.

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Review: SuperGlued for iPhone

Posted on March 3, 2010 by John Brandon.
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When it comes to an app that can find a concert, let you share your thoughts with other concert-goers (through Twitter), and search based on your location, SuperGlued shows a lot of promise. But the app didn't always work quite right in our tests.

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Review: Snood for iPhone

Posted on February 26, 2010 by John Brandon.
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Snood might not hold your attention for too long, but it’s great for a quick five-minute session, has memorable graphics, and puts a character-driven spin on the "match-three" genre.

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Review: PatternMusic for iPhone

Posted on February 24, 2010 by John Brandon.
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This music app may not satisfy some serious musicians, but PatternMusic still provides an engaging experience for creating your own sounds and loops.

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Review: Song Sift for iPhone

Posted on February 3, 2010 by John Brandon.
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This single-funciton app allows you to streamline your music by filtering out artists and albums with a limited number of songs. Song Sift isn't a powerful app, but it's good at what it does.

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Review: Air for iPhone

Posted on January 18, 2010 by John Brandon.
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This generative music app isn't for serious music-making, but it does provide compelling ambient music in the style of Brian Eno.

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Review: ReelDirector for iPhone

Posted on January 6, 2010 by John Brandon.
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Pros may find the features in this movie-editing app lacking for their needs. But when it comes to basic movie-making, ReelDirector provides a great feature set.

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Review: Air hockey games for iPhone

Posted on December 7, 2009 by John Brandon.
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We pit a trio of mobile air hockey games against one another in a head-to-head-to-head challenge. In the end, the realistic puck movements in Acceleroto's Air Hockey put it over the top.

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Review: The Secret of Monkey Island for iPhone

Posted on November 10, 2009 by John Brandon.
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Whether you embrace this iPhone version of the classic adventure game depends on how you feel about adventure games in general and Monkey Island in particular. If you love both, this game will feel like discovering pirate treasure. If you're not a fan, you'll find this occasionally dull pirate's life is not for you.

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Review: SketchBook Mobile for iPhone

Posted on November 6, 2009 by John Brandon.
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Autodesk's app is one of the better painting and drawing apps on the iPhone. It's the rare app that appeals to both novices and professionals.

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Review: 9 The Mobile Game for iPhone

Posted on November 5, 2009 by John Brandon.
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The animated motion picture 9 may have come and gone from theaters, but its iPhone game remains. Unfortunately, this platform game misses the mark because of simple gameplay and weak graphics.

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Review: Battery Go for iPhone

Posted on November 3, 2009 by John Brandon.
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This app won't tell you exactly how much battery life you have left on your iPhone or iPod touch, but then it doesn't claim to do that. Rather, Battery Go gives you a pretty good estimate for how much juice you'll need to perform tasks on your mobile device. Large icons and a slider make this simple app easy to use.

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Review: JR Hexatone Pro for iPhone

Posted on October 13, 2009 by John Brandon.
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Using this music-making app can be a challenge at first, especially given the real estate available on the iPhone's screen. But once you learn JR Hexatone Pro, it is actually one of the best music apps available at the App Store.

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How the iPhone works

Posted on October 9, 2009 by John Brandon.
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John Brandon breaks down the science behind the iPhone's sensors.

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iSurf for iPhone

Posted on October 2, 2009 by John Brandon.
Categories: Uncategorized.
Gameplay is weak, the graphics aren't compelling, and the use of the iPhone's built-in accelerometer are poor in this surfing game. And that's a shame because iSurf should deliver more fun than it actually does.

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Review: Hitchcock for iPhone

Posted on September 24, 2009 by John Brandon.
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This unique app allows you to do storyboarding -- plotting out what happens in each shot of a video or film shoot. It's a remarkably powerful mobile app -- and very valuable to creative pros -- though Hitchcock has its limitations.

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Review: DocScanner for iPhone

Posted on September 3, 2009 by John Brandon.
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This app aims to capture documents just like a flatbed scanner would. The results are fine, but you could pull off the same feat using the iPhone's built-in camera.

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Review: iFax for iPhone

Posted on August 27, 2009 by John Brandon.
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When nothing else will do except a hard copy of your signature, this faxing app comes in handy. While it has some limitations, iFax works reliably enough that you may be able to ditch that desktop fax machine.

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Review: FourTrack for iPhone

Posted on August 20, 2009 by John Brandon.
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Sonoma Wire Works' FourTrack is an amazing iPhone app for musicians, songwriters, or anyone who likes to record audio.

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