Wordsworth for iPhone
WordsWorth is a linguistic game for the iPhone in which you string letters together to make words. In WordsWorth, the object of the game is to create words from lettered tiles on the game board. Words can be anywhere from as short as three letters to as long as you can make them. The longer the word, the more points you receive. As you accumulate points, you advance through each of the game's 30 levels. Gameplay is straightforward and addictive.
Read more...Evernote — a Virtual Shoebox for Your Mac
Take a look at your desk or work space. Do you see little yellow sticky notes everywhere? Do you have "while you were out" slips on your desk? Do you have a bunch of receipts and notes that you need to file way? If you're like most people, you probably have at least some of these things on your desk at work. If you need to get organized, the free, cross-platform note-taking application Evernote could be your first step on the road toward sanity recovery.
Read more...Chess Pro for the iPhone
Chess is arguably the most popular board game in the entire world. Its appeal spans cultures, genders and ages. It comes as no surprise, then, to learn that iPhone developers have been releasing chess games for the platform since the App Store debuted last July. Chess Pro is the latest entry in an already crowded iPhone chess library. So, is Chess Pro worth your time or should you continue your search for an iPhone chess game elsewhere?
Read more...iVolume
Recently I cleaned up our household's iTunes library. I merged two, more or less, similar libraries, cleaned out duplicates, assigned cover art, checked the tags and I used a little tool called iVolume to level out the volume of my entire library. Now I am able to listen to random tracks without constantly adjusting the volume just because the individual levels of the tracks are way off.
Read more...Frenzic for your iPhone
Editor's Note: Yes, you see right. We are also doing iPhone applications now. Thanks to our new writer Brendan Wilhide. This is the first of many iPhone reviews yet to come. I hope you enjoy them. If you want us to review a specific application, please let us know via the contact form.
Puzzle games and the iPhone are an almost perfect match. Puzzle games offer a quick distraction with fun, simple gameplay and iPhone owners love to kill time with a quick gaming session while waiting in line at the bank or riding in a car on a long trip. Yet despite the proliferation of puzzle games for the iPhone, it's becoming more and more difficult to tell the good games from the average ones.
Frenzic is a fast and frantic puzzle game for the iPhone. The game takes only moments to learn how to play and the game boasts some surprising features. Is Frenzic just another puzzle game or is it something more?
Read more...MacJournal
Mariner Software's MacJournal is designed for writers, bloggers and diarists. It's a program with a simple focus: to make writing easy. Designer Dan Schimpf has released five versions of MacJournal since 2001 and won the coveted Apple Design Award for Best Student Product in 2002.
MacJournal is regularly touted as world's most popular journaling software for the Macintosh and it seems to be the most used. What gives?
Read more...MacCleanse — Ajax for Your System
If you are like me, you like your system to be lean and mean. Empty the Trash right after throwing something in. Keeping folders in order, cleaning out unnecessary baggage when you get the chance. Well, I do that all the time. Deleting applications with AppZapper, slimming my software with xSlimmer. You could say, that I have a very clean system. Still, when I tried out MacCleanse from Koingo Software, I managed to get nearly 1GB of my precious drive space back. Not too shabby.
Read more...1Password — Password Management Made Easy
Today I am going to talk about a little application that is very dear to me. In fact I use it several dozen times a day. So please excuse me, if I sound less objective, because I have a little man crush on 1Password by Agile Web Solutions.
So… 1Password. As the name already tells you, it is a password manager. You know, it manages your dozens of passwords. You do have different passwords for all your accounts, right? If not, it is time you start now. In this day and age it is vital, that your accounts are reasonably well protected of hackers and phishers.
Read more...MacPilot
As I have written in a previous post, several developers agreed to help me out when I launched the blog. They provided me with giveaway licenses for several of their popular products. One of these developers is Koingo Software. They have a whole array of different products, which we will be looking at in the coming weeks. The first application I want to talk about today is called MacPilot.
Read more...LittleSnapper — a New Toy on the Block
Are you the sort of guy who likes to keep images in order? Maybe it would be good to have a nice way to organize websites and screenshots? Despair not! LittleSnapper by Realmac Software has been created for exactly this purpose.
Maybe you have used Skitch
before or just did plain old screenshots
via Grab.app, Preview.app or shortcuts. LittleSnapper does the
same and more. It offers a convenient way to organize your precious
screenshots. With an interface quite similar to iPhoto, you can
create plain folders, Smart Folders and Collections. Of course,
LittleSnitch LittleSnapper also offers tags and conveniently
saves the URL when creating snapshots from a web page. In fact,
LittleSnitch LittleSnapper works quite well when creating
web snaps (as they are called by Realmac Software) and even comes
with its own web service that let's you easily share your images
with the world.