Developer: Screenlife, LLC
Category: Games
Price: £0.59
Fancy yourself as a bit of a movie buff? Then this movie trivia quiz app will put you through your paces!
For years Screenlife Games have been producing interactive movie quizzes for DVD and games consoles, so it’s no surprise that this app is slick to look at, rich in content and fun to play. You can tell you’re getting value for …
Developer: WebArtisan
Category: Photography
Price: £0.59
If you need a rest from shooting the bad guys or trying to beat your high score then here’s an app that will help you chill out for a bit. Boldly go and launch Galactic FX. You’ll find yourself floating in outer space, instantly soothed by delicate ambient chords. By tapping on the screen you can produce particles of plasma from your fingertips and …
Developer: Vito Technology
Category: Education
Price: £2.99
This amazing app puts a Planetarium in the palm of your hand.
By holding your iPhone 3GS up against the night sky you’ll see a computer generated map of the heavens. As you pan the iPhone the star map pans in real time, thanks to the app’s Star Spotter function, which links to the 3GS’s compass.
As you scan the heavens, …
Developer: Nexvio Inc.
Category: Photography
Price: £2.99
The iPhone 3GS enables you to record video, but it only lets you trim a clip’s start and end points before mailing it off to a mate.
You need to download your footage into your computer and use software like iMovie to edit raw clips into a more professional looking programme. Thanks to ReelDirector you can turn the iPhone into an edit suite and churn out polished programmes while away from you desktop …
Developer: Undercover Scientist software
Category: Medical
Price: £0.59
At first glance this app looks like a gimmick, but it works!
Pop your headphones in, set the Mode to Heartbeat and place the iPhone’s mic directly against your bare chest (it won’t work through clothing). Your heartbeat will come through surprisingly clearly, especially if you change the mode to Heartbeat pure to filter out higher frequency sounds. You’ll see a …
Developer: SKJM, LLC
Category: Entertainment
Price: £0.59
These days you can’t go anywhere without being spotted and followed by CCTV cameras. Big Brother is indeed watching you. This app puts you behind the lens of dozens of public web cameras, so you can wander the world through your iPhone’s screen and spy on other folk!
iSpy’s interface is crammed with pages of web-cam thumbnails, which you can flick through. Each thumbnail is labelled, so you know where the …
Developer: Vanilla Breeze
Category: Entertainment
Price: £0.59
Most grown men owned a toy gun when they were a lad. However they’d now get funny looks if they still packed a plastic pistol. Luckily this slick looking app can safely satisfy trigger-happy urges thanks to an arsenal of animated guns.
Choose your weapon by flicking through an armoury of 13 guns, from an ancient flintlock to a rapid-fire machine gun. Each …
Developer: Medical
Category: WebArtisan
Price: £2.39
This app may not get much of a score on the Fun rating, but that’s because it’s designed to inform rather than entertain.
If you look at the ingredients on the packaging of many food products you’ll notice that they are crammed with E numbers. These food additives may seem meaningless to us, but some of them could have a detrimental effect on your …
Developer: OOO Gameprom
Category: Games
Price: £0.59
We’ve got to start this review with a warning. This game is addictive, so you may find yourself sneaking pinball breaks whenever you can.
Some pinball games can be frustrating to play on the iPhone. By displaying the whole table they make the ball difficult to see, making it harder to get involved in the game.
Wild West Pinball 2.0 lets you view …
Developer: Layar B.V.
Category: Navigation
Price: Free
Layar is an iPhone 3GS app that’s designed to help you find local points of interest (P.O.I.).
If you’re in strange town and fancy a break, type ‘coffee’ into the search field and hold the iPhone up in front of you. By using Layar’s Reality View you’ll see the locations of local coffee shops floating over your iPhone’s live video feed. As you …
