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Tag: iPad apps

5 Spooky Halloween iPhone Apps for Little Ghouls

October 25, 2010GeekMom6

Getting ready to celebrate iHalloween? There’s an app for that (several, actually). Here’s a nice crop of apps to please your little trick-or-treaters. Candy Catch is, well, a game where you catch candy. Simply tilt the phone left and right to catch candy in the trick-or-treater’s bucket. We bought Candy Catch last year, and it’s […]

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iPhone review: Trainyard’s Tricky Tracks Transcend Trivial Tribulations

October 22, 2010Jonathan H. Liu

I recently came across a relatively new iPhone/iPad app called Trainyard that is a work of art. Well, perhaps not literally a work of art, although the interface is not bad on the eyes — it’s a puzzle game with …

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Saving Private Sheep: Now Available for a Buck!

October 6, 2010Jonathan H. Liu

Remember Saving Private Sheep? It’s a little physics puzzler for the iPhone and iPad involving sheep, wolves and dynamite, and it’ll keep you busy for a while. While it’s no Angry Birds, it’s not a bad app, and now that …

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Fruit Ninja Updated for Game Center Multi-Player

September 18, 2010Jonathan H. Liu

Fruit Ninja, one of my favorite apps, has just gotten even better. If you’ve installed the latest iOS update on your iPhone or iPod touch, you probably noticed this new app that showed up called “Game Center.” It’s a way …

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Scott Pilgrim vs. Your Smartphone

August 20, 2010Jonathan H. Liu

You may have heard about this guy, Scott Pilgrim. It’s a series of comic books by Bryan Lee O’Malley that just concluded this summer, and it also happens to be a highly anticipated movie that opened last weekend … to …

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Pocket Creatures is Like a Skinner Box for Your Furry Friends

June 25, 2010Jonathan H. Liu

Need another virtual pet for your iPhone or iPad? Pocket Creatures by Tactile Entertainment is a quirky entry that gives you a little critter with a paw on its tail and a garden to wander around in. There’s the usual …

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Babylonian Twins Journey From the Amiga to the iPad

April 24, 2010Jonathan H. Liu

In software terms, Babylonian Twins is practically ancient. When it was first created, you (or maybe your parents) were finally playing Mortal Kombat on the Sega Genesis (or perhaps the bloodless version on the SNES). It was the age of …

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Ice Age for the iPhone—How Cool Is That?

April 9, 2010Jonathan H. Liu

If you have kids of a certain age, you’ve probably seen at least one (if not all three) of the Ice Age movies, and are familiar with Scrat, the prehistoric squirrel-thing on his single-minded quest for his acorn. It’s a …

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