Date archive for July, 2009
Contest Fridays: Week 4 (6)
7/10/09 •
It is that time of the week again and the fourth AppStruck Contest Friday is awaiting your entries. We will run this contest every Friday and give away two $25 iTunes gift cards. All you have to do is, 1. Leave a comment on this post with the name of your favorite iPhone/iPod touch app ... Read More
Xpandaballs (0)
7/10/09 •
I have to admit, when I first opened the iPhone app Xpandaballs, I was a little less than thrilled with its uninteresting graphical interface and it’s old-school Asteroids like physics engine. However, after fiddling around with it, and getting adjusted to playing the game for what it is, a puzzle, it really started to grow ... Read More
iRecycle (0)
7/09/09 •
“Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” This maxim has been pounded into the minds of our collective youth for the past few decades. Recycling is the “R” that has definitely caught on the best, it being government-mandated since some time in the 1970s. Today, there are many curbside recycling programs (8,660 as of 2007, according to the EPA*), ... Read More
Speed Bones MD (0)
7/09/09 •
I still recall vividly a day in second grade when my class had show and tell. Some of my peers proudly displayed stuffed animals of utmost importance, some brought those fuzzy, colorful caterpillars founds all over the New England countryside, and some showed off a new toy in their collection. On that particular day of ... Read More
Epicurious (1)
7/08/09 •
Nothing comes so easily, and so readily to my senses, as baking. I rarely buy cookbooks, opting instead to study their glossy laminated pages when in bookstores, skimming briefly over the ingredients and then letting my eyes linger, heavily, on images of chocolate and fruit and airy whipped creams to store in my memory bank ... Read More
Symptom MD (1)
7/08/09 •
My childhood was different from most of my friends’ because I was raised having a Physician for a father. Having a doctor in the family made all those childhood rashes and fevers and runny noses go by without a hitch, with dad’s calm and unwavering at-home care, when many other parents would have been in ... Read More
Midomi Ultra (3)
7/07/09 •
For Shazam lovers out there, however magical Shazam may be, there is a bigger, badder, and a whole lot more expensive competitor in its game of musical guessing. Developer Melodis introduces Midomi Ultra, a music identifying iPhone app that uses its own Sound2Sound Search Science to identify a “flexible fingerprint” of your music search with ... Read More
Contest Fridays Week 3 Winners (0)
7/06/09 •
The third AppStruck Contest Friday received submissions from both the website and Twitter. After going through the submissions, Jackie and I found Toki Tori submitted by Cody via Twitter and Midomi Ultra picked by Rosh the most interesting of the bunch to review. Congratulations Cody and Rosh. Thank you for participating and let us do it ... Read More
Toki Tori (0)
7/06/09 •
For those of you still bearing war-ridden hands of thumb blister aftermath from years of Gameboy playing, you might just recognize the happy-go-lucky yellow bird waddling around onscreen in this happy app. You probably also remember that Toki Tori had originated on the Gameboy Color nearly a decade ago, originally with Capcom as its developer. ... Read More
Howcast (0)
7/03/09 •
Ever wonder how to prevent yourself from being mugged? Or how to grill the perfect steak? Perhaps how to handle a picky eater or how to maintain a good relationship when your partner is unemployed? You might think it strange to lump together so many pressing and yet wholly different questions in one stream of ... Read More
