As a former World of Warcraft (WoW) gamer, we found ourselves intrigued when Order & Chaos (O&C) was announced for iOS. Gameloft titles are known for cloning gameplay, art, and themes from blockbuster titles, and O&C is no different. The title offers to do one thing that no one else hasn’t, however, and that’s delivering [...]
Ben Brooks wrote a solid review of various weather apps for the iPhone, which is quite handy considering how populated this app category is. Marco Arment’s comment on the weather app spectrum is perfect: The problem here is similar to any other general app category with a lot of potential for customer dissatisfaction, like to-do [...]
For most people, customizing an iPad involves simply changing its wallpaper, and this means relying on photos they’ve taken themselves, or what they’ve found online. Unfortunately, this means that a really great wallpaper image requires keen photography skill, else a lot of web-browsing to find just the right picture. UltimateWalls by indie developer BLUE BOX [...]
Michael Gartenberg clarifies Steve Jobs’ statement that the iPad is a post-PC device by pointing out that whether the iPad is tethered or not is missing the point: The iPad and other devices are not here to displace the PC (by which I mean all personal computers, whether they’re Macs or PCs running Windows). In [...]
One of the most basic features tablet computing can brag about is ability to emulate paper. That is, writing and drawing on a screen. Yet, the iPad doesn’t ship with an application that allows customers to do this, which is rather curious considering how expected such a capability is. Even Windows, for example, has a [...]