Date archive for September, 2009
Nirvino (0)
9/30/09 •
Nirvino has reached the coveted #1 spot on iTunes for it’s category. Nirvino is a wine app (which pairs nicely with many food apps) that brings you over one million wine descriptions, pictures, and ratings. Whether you are in a restaurant looking at an $800 bottle of Cabernet, or in the grocery store looking at ... Read More
Wisen Up (0)
9/30/09 •
I’m one for ever expanding knowledge, bits of trivia, and factoids from all around. Perhaps this is why I’m such a huge fan of games like Trivial Pursuit, Cranium, Scrabble, and other games that rely on a vast compendium of otherwise seemingly useless knowledge (I certainly do not think any knowledge is useless, more just ... Read More
AstroRaider (0)
9/29/09 •
If, like me, you were born sometime in the 80s, there’s a good chance you used to play Asteroids on your computer. It was gaming greatness for a time, and it still carries a nostalgic simplicity for the times you just want to mindlessly shoot up simplistic graphics with funny, synthesized sounds with a few ... Read More
Puzzle Paint (4)
9/29/09 •
Puzzle Paint is an iPod Touch and iPhone app with a challenging new gameplay. There have been plenty of block based games, but Puzzle Paint is different because as the challenge progresses, you have to keep track of multiple color balls responding to the same controls. Not only does this provide logistical difficulty, but you ... Read More
Developer Interview Series: Karim Maassen of the Fabrik (0)
9/28/09 •
We at Appstruck like reviewing iPhone apps. In fact, we love it. Getting down to the nitty gritty, laying it bare, showcasing the best and most interesting for our readers, so they don’t have to plow through deep space just to find a decent app. Really, researching applications is tedious, but great. But, let’s not ... Read More
The Quick Brown Fox (2)
9/25/09 •
I attended an incredibly small, private, middle school called Carden in Stockton, California, a place of magnificently ugly pleated skirts and polo shirts of the green, yellow, white and navy blue variety, like the Flag of Gabon had it also black, and classes of 12 students or less. We had no science labs, computer labs, ... Read More
Too Cool Spanish (0)
9/24/09 •
“Hola” “Como Estas” “Muy Bien, y tu?” The first simple phrases taught in beginning Spanish courses are often ones of a simple greeting, a how are you, and an optimistic reply with conversational repartee. For those with no background in Spanish, these phrases are often fumbled from the mouth, with the awkward pronunciations of a ... Read More
Scramble 2 (0)
9/23/09 •
I love word games. I can’t get enough of them. Scrabble and Text Twist online are two stand-bys of mine, the first going back to childhood, and the second stemming from High School. But other than just solving anagrams in my head – when on road trips, boring my friends to death, finding most people, ... Read More
Tattoo Mania (0)
9/22/09 •
Ever wonder what it’s like to be a Tattoo artist? To prod and poke people with needles and inject them with all colors under the sun, as they make the occasional, involuntary jerk from pain or shock or both, or a small sigh, waiting for your artistry to be done. I admit I’ve held a ... Read More
iLOCi2 (3)
9/21/09 •
Let’s say I have a friend, one that shows up for his own football game 2 hours late, and possesses such charismatic bravado and unabashed, steely-eyed confidence that his coach still lets him play, miffed yes, with pulsing veins at his temples and a ruddy, spotted face flecked with saliva, but with the corner of ... Read More
