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Jul 29th 2010 at 4:00PM How about USING YOUR BRAIN. It could do with a little exercise beyond telling your fingers which icons to press. While I haven't had much opportunity to use it - most of our group eats have been rather rugby-like in figuring out how to split a check - it seemed, at least at a glance, to work well. Plus, great name and icon. Best app name ever! Did you mean to say this "If you CAN"T quickly split a bill, or split a bill fairly (say some guy ordered a bottle of champagne just for himself), then the calculator isn't for you."? Or did you mean to say "CAN". Or maybe change the "isn't" to "is". Auto-start ad videos = never coming back to this website again. That was my mistake, I'm very sorry. It has been fixed. Fair enough. Nice work on the quick fix. I kind of hope this app doesn't use Bistromathics to calculate the tip. Wait, scratch that. I kind of hope it does! Perhaps an SEP field generator is available as an in-app purchase... dude, you've set this to auto-start..... not cool! wow... auto-play advert videos. a few more of those and I guess I'll be looking elsewhere for news. Sorry, that was a mistake. Now fixed. TUAW (or The Unofficial Apple Weblog) is a website devoted to tips, reviews, news, analysis and opinion on everything Apple. © 2011 AOL Inc. All Rights Reserved. We value our readership, especially when we receive tips which help us write compelling content. Use this form to send us a tip. Note: Some fields are required. Read More

This Friday, we look at a coloring app, a soccer game, and some other interesting titles from this week's releases. Fridays at 148apps mean a new Friday Five post, and here we are! Below are five apps that we’ve chosen to highlight from the past week’s releases. Some are silly, or functional, or simply fun, but we hope that all of them are interesting. Color&Draw Remember coloring books? Color&Draw takes that experience and attempts to translate it to the iPhone’s screen. You can draw on a blank screen and use it as a sketch app, or pick from the 50 included outlines, including various animals and cute things. Color&Draw even lets kids open up an existing photo and doodle on it. (Want to give Uncle Joe a mustache / wacky eyebrows / devil horns? No problem!) The limited color palette and the absence of a “paint bucket” filler option help bring Color&Draw even closer to the classic crayons-and-paper coloring books we all loved so. The app’s interface is clean and it appears well-designed, but naturally its best feature is the delight of the kids using it. $1.99 iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad Released: 2010-03-20 :: Category: Education Pocket Creatures Pocket Creatures starts you with an egg and lets you raise your own adorable cartoon critter. In this 3D sim, you spend your time caring for and interacting with your creature. Don’t be fooled, however; your creature isn’t normal, as it can do things like summon lightning. How you interact impacts its personality: make it sweet or mischievous, devilish or gentle. The various achievements unlock costumes for your creature, from Ninja to Viking to Gladiator. In short? It’s a little 3D garden with you and your pet, and plenty of playthings to torment. (Exploding anteaters, anyone?) $4.99 Released: 2010-05-15 :: Category: Games Bistromath Splitting a check in a restaurant isn’t easy—a seemingly endless litany of complications can turn a simple division problem into a mind-numbing headache. Bistromath is an app that aims to eliminate that exact problem. Normally I’m not a fan of “tip calculator” apps and the like, but Bistromath goes much further. You can enter each item individually, then specify who pays for it, even assigning an item to be split between multiple people. Bistromath also calculates the sales tax and tip, and takes care of tricky division (like dividing 10 by 3). Whether Read More