Tam Hanna, CEO of mobile developer Tamoggemon explains that, “At Tamoggemon, we think that every phone must have a proper calculator pre-installed. As manufacturers have not been willing to assist us in this endeavor, we now take the matters into our own hands.” TouchCalc is now free and comes with the following features: Algebraic data input [...]
News in brief
CoPilot for iPhone is currently on special offer at £19.99 — pick it up right now and save yourself £6 Edgar Allan Poe fan? You can now get his complete works for £0.69 on iPad. Includes over 150 original works with writings sorted by category. The same company, 288 Vroom, is also publishing the 48 original Sherlock [...]
Put a Commodore 64 in your iPhone today (no tapes needed)
I never had a Commodore 64 computer. Instead I hopped across the road to my friend’s house to play it now and again. I remember being mesmerised by the annoying tape sounds and the alternating screen colours that played whilst the computer ‘loaded’ the game. But the utter joy of being able to race a [...]
Dumb Blonde Test: Are you smarter than a dumb blonde?
At my school, we didn’t really do dumb blonde jokes. It was all about Essex girls. The term ‘Essex’ can, of course, be interchanged with any particular locale you’d like to choose. One of the more memorable jokes that I recall was this one: Q: What do you call an Essex girl with half a [...]
Use your iPhone & iKNIX to control your home’s lighting, blinds and heating
I’m British which means although we have a relatively nice standard of living, hardly anyone has cool stuff in their house. It just isn’t done. We don’t, as a rule, have air conditioning. We just open the window. Because it’s invariably cold or cool outside. We rarely have integrated entertainment systems that stretch across the [...]
Scrooge offers a whole movie in a single app
I’ve noticed this rather interesting trend: Application developers are including whole movies in a single application. I’ve picked out this one, Scrooge, as an example. It’s a 1935 film directed by Henry Edwards featuring Seymour Hicks as the infamous Ebenezer Scrooge. This, according to the developer, was the first sound version of the Charles Dickens [...]
Grindr brings 500,000 men to your BlackBerry
We don’t discriminate here at The Application Review — apart from the idiots who still carry their phones in belt holsters — and thus we are delighted to bring you news that Grindr is now live on BlackBerry. There is considerable cash to be had serving niche audiences and Grindr are doing a stunning job [...]
Phonelocator Periodic is flying off the shelves
It’s time for a virtual tip of the hat to the chaps at Birkett Enterprise, the people behind Phonelocator Periodic. It’s a terrifically simple application that sits in the background of your Nokia (well, any Symbian device) and reports the device location to your private account on the Phonelocator website every 30 minutes. You can [...]
Vlingo lets your voice do the heavy lifting
Back to the BlackBerry platform, I’ve been having a look at Vlingo for BlackBerry recently. The service basically voice-enables your device (iPhone, Nokia and Windows Mobile too). Provided you have an open mind — that is, you aren’t too stuck in your click-click-click ways, you may well find Vlingo a breath of fresh air. It [...]
