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If you’re the type who generally thinks that pushing buttons is overrated and tilting your device 180 degrees to record a voice note is *awesome*, then you’ll really like Today Voice Notes ($1.99). It’s based on almost the exact same interface as Today Todo ($3.99), a very nifty iPhone task task manager (reviewed here), and although I’m not a very big user of voice recorders on my iPhone, even I can appreciate this interesting take on the voice recording interface. There are two ways to start a recording within TodayNotes (as the app is called on the home screen): you can press the red dot on the sunflower hidden in the bottom-right corner of the screen…or you can just tilt the iPhone upside-down. The latter is a lot more fun to in practice, but it also makes a lot more sense, since it puts the microphone right at the top, facing you (provided you’re not using a headset). Another cool little touch is the way you can simply tilt the device right side up again to save the note, so you’ll never even have to touch the screen (eww touchscreens!). The interface in TodayNotes also tends to clean itself out every day, since it’s organized around the concepts of “Today” and “Yesterday”. Today is simply all of the notes you’ve made today, and Yesterday shows all of your past voice notes in chronological order. Switching between the two views is as simple as swiping on the sun (or moon) at the top of the screen. There are a few more nuances to TodayNotes, like the way you can enable a web server on your device for wireless note transferring and the fact that you can add text and pictures to each voice note, but I think the main strength of this app is how straightforward its main mechanic is, and it’s a surprising amount of fun simply flipping my iPhone around in my hand and having it automatically start recording… Read More

Browsing the App Store this weekend?  Here are ten new or updated apps for the iPhone and iPad worth taking a closer look at if you are: The demo of the demo shown at this week’s Apple event, Epic Citadel lets you wander around a virtual town and bask in the glory that is Epic’s Unreal Engine 3.  It’s not for the 3G or early iPod Touches though.  Free. Version 3.1 finally brings the official Twitter app to the iPad.  Existing users will only need to upgrade, but if you haven’t tried this already, hit the link above.  The interface is very clever and looks great, bringing tweets and the web together in one application.  Free. Another great looking action game from Gameloft.  Based around the Ultimate Spider-Man universe, there are 12 levels filled with familiar enemies which Spidey must fight off, using up to 20 different combination moves and his slow-motion Spider-Sense.  $6.99/£3.99. The latest in the Revenge series brings Katy Perry to the party, with six of her hit songs included in the price.  The gameplay will be familiar but just like their other themed titles, it’s filled with great graphics and various extras.  $4.99/£2.99. A monthly collection of four science fiction, fantasy and horror short stories.  The price may look high, but that’s because it includes six issues, working out at around $2 each.  The magazine also has news, reviews and interviews and is available for both the iPhone and the iPad for the same price.  $13.99/£7.99. Connected with Facebook Places, this game lets you create an avatar, greet your friends, check-in at locations and work on increasing your popularity score.  Free. As seen on the iPad, the dictionary and thesaurus app is now available on the iPhone and for a limited time, it’s $0.99.  $0.99/£0.59. An iPhone 4-only game with Retina Display-tuned graphics and a gyroscope-operated aiming system.  Lots of crazy weapons and equally crazy Battle Bears-style gameplay await.  $1.99/£1.19. The official iPhone app for the UK film magazine, with the latest reviews, a searchable archive of 8000 older reviews, a cinema finder and the latest magazine features too.  UK-Only £1.79. Catch the people who are leaping out of a burning building!  $0.99/£0.59. Read More

I keep sticking with the same combo as Frank. I use ToDo on iphone and ipad syncing to and thru Toodledo. I use Jott and email to feed ToDo. I also use Notebook (also from Appigo) as a note/data keeper/db. It integrates well with iPhone ToDo and Toodledo. Josh Gard I’ve been using Remember The Milk (Pro account) since last fall, after switching from Toodledo. For me to consider a task manager app, it must have a web interface and must be able to sync over the air. In addition, be able to send me push alerts to my iPhone on a per-task basis (ie. some recurring tasks I don’t need alerts for but I still track them on my task list, other important one-off tasks I want push alerts for). While Toodledo also met my requirements, the web interface felt complicated and stuffed with too many features that I simply had no use for. What I like about RTM the most is the clean, streamlined web interface. It reminds me of the Google UI, with plenty of white space, clean fonts, and easy to use UI elements. Creating tasks is as easy as typing into a single text box in plain english, such as “Need to pick up dry-cleaning on Friday at 6:30pm” and RTM will parse the text and pick out the date and time. Creating new tasks on the iPhone app is done the same way. I’ve looked at just about every task manager app for the iPhone platform, and while there are many very nice ones, many of them require a companion app to run on my Mac, and only sync over wifi when both the iPhone app and Mac app are running at the same time. I want access to my tasks from all my computers, but then also from the web so I can get to them from any other computer as well (which I occasionally need to do). For me, RTM offers the most useful and productive task management, providing me access to my tasks from any computer or mobile device I have access to, while keeping the feature-rich web interface clean and easy to use. One caveat, while RTM does provide free accounts, in order to use the iPhone app, you have to have a RTM Pro account which costs $25/year. While this may discourage some users, when you factor in the cost of other iPhone tasks Read More

There ‘s a lot to like about Today Todo Pro ‘s approach to task management, but one aspect that I neglected to mention in my review was how much effort is taken to get users caught up on updates. Sure, the App Store will show you a quick bullet point list of what has changed before you update an app ” but who really remembers all of that (unless you take a screenshot)? A fresh install of Today Todo Pro shows you a tutorial of the app in the form of a task list. You tick things off as you learn about them. Updates after that will also create quick lists to get you up to speed on all of the latest features ” and you can delete them once you ‘re done with them. This is definitely less a feature of the app than it is of the developer, but it’s still something to take note of: if an update includes significant changes to the UI, tell your users about it! Granted, this request is a bit strange coming from me since I rather enjoy the easter egg hunting process of rooting out undocumented new features, but any kind of splash screen or text box would likely be greatly appreciated by users who don ‘t know every nook and cranny of an app. Kudos to the folks at Spielhaus for all of those great little lists. Read More

Today Todo Pro has a bit of an awkward title, but it ‘s definitely one of the most interesting and unique task managers to hit the App Store thus far. After all, what other apps let you move from today to yesterday by literally swiping the noon day sun off of the screen? Today ToDo Pro (or TTP from here on out) actually features a very simple interface, but it ‘s so different than anything else out there that it can take a little while to get used to. The categories (lists) are hidden in a pull-down menu at the top of the screen. Lists are divided into default and Someday tasks by default, but you can add your own categories at any time. New tasks are created by tilting the device into landscape mode, and dates are picked by using a sliding bar instead of the (inferior) Apple date picker. You can also set the priority of a task by simply swiping along the top-right side of the screen. TTP features one of the best ‘new task ‘ dialogues I ‘ve ever seen ” every bit as good as the famous 2Do ‘s, if not better. The settings for new tasks are re-saved every time you bring the new task dialogue up, and it ‘s very easy to enter multiple tasks into one list because the dialogue box doesn ‘t go away until you tilt back to portrait (or press cancel). Tasks are displayed on the main portion of the screen and are completed by simply ticking off the circle on the left side (or via swipe-to-delete, if you ‘re feeling vicious). Ticking tasks off works well enough, but it somehow feels like it ‘s missing something. Completed tasks simply throw themselves to the bottom of the list without any extra animation, and it can actually be a little too easy to ‘complete ‘ the wrong task, or ‘complete ‘ a task without meaning to. [Fixed in latest version] Due dates for new tasks are set to the current date by default, but as you use TTP you ‘ll likely see tasks on one of the four metaphoric ‘day ‘ screens: yesterday (previous or overdue tasks), today, tomorrow (future tasks), and Someday (tasks without a due date). Switching between these views is as simple as swiping left or right on the sun or moon at the top of the screen. Read More

There are so many to-do apps out there that it really becomes difficult to decide which one is right for you. I have used many to-do applications on my iPhone and Today Todo is definitely one of the better ones I’ve seen. This one is more basic and is great for someone who doesn’t need or want all of the features and bloat that other complicated to-do apps have in them. There are only four main screens you need to deal with. You have your composition screen to type your notes, and then three screens to view your tasks: yesterday, today and tomorrow. To compose a new task, all you have to do is tilt your device ninety degrees to landscape mode. This will bring up the keyboard to start typing your tasks. Here, you can also choose a due date and priority level. While the date selection looks nice, it only allows up to thirty days later. This isn’t a huge limitation, but a limitation nonetheless. Tapping on one of three different colors chooses the priority level. When assigned, the entire task will be show in that color. So, if you have multiple priority levels, your main pages will become very colorful. When in portrait mode, you can view your tasks for yesterday, today and tomorrow, each one on a separate screen. You can access each screen by tapping on the sun or moon and swiping left or right. You may tap on any task to mark it as completed and it will move to the bottom of the list. Double tapping on any task will allow you to edit it. One unique feature of this application is that each new day will show an empty to-do list. So, if you had 5 tasks, regardless of completion, they will automatically move to the “yesterday” screen and the “today” screen will be blank. I guess the idea here is to begin each day with a clean slate. This feature can be turned off in the settings menu so that all tasks stay on the today page. Today Todo is absolutely a solid task manager with an intuitive UI and some unique features. Even though it’s not a full-featured application, lacking user customization and sync ability, it may be just right for the user who wants a simpler to-do app to help them stay organized. Visit Appolicious for more iPhone app reviews Read More

Hace poco salío a descarga en la AppStore una nueva aplicación de gestión de tareas. Se trata de Today Todo y hoy os vamos a comentar un poco cómo trabaja. La filosofía del desarrollador es permitir hacer lo máximo con el menor número de “clic” posibles. El aspecto gráfico, además de estar bastante conseguido es muy útil ya que dependiendo del fondo de pantalla que se nos muestre estaremos en las tareas presentes, pasadas o futuras. De esta forma, cada nuevo día con las tareas presentes esta representado por una escena soleada, si tenemos tareas pasadas, se almacenan en el paisaje nocturno y las futuras en un fondo espacial. Una manera muy original de mostar al usuario la lista de tareas pendientes. Además, como os hemos comentado antes, la aplicación esta diseñada para poner hacer todo de forma práctica y rápida, pudiendo crear una nueva tarea con sólo girar 90º el iPhone, editarlas haciendo doble “tap” o borrarlas con sólo deslizar el dedo sobre ellas. Cada día, las tareas pasadas se mueven directamente a la pantalla noctura del pasado. La agilidad con la que podemos manejar nuestras listas y además el aspecto visual tan cuidado la hacen una aplicación muy recomendable de probar. Podeis descargarla de forma gratuita ya que hay una versión básica en la AppStore y si os gusta siempre estareis a tiempo de actualizar a la versión Pro por 2,39€ Precio: 2,39€ Read More

As a child of the 80's, it was a big deal when my school was one of the few in my area that had a complete computer lab in the library with an Apple II for each student in the class. The catch? All the "games" available all had to do with math or typing. Spielhaus's MindRacer Duel [App Store] provides quite a bit of personal nostalgia, as you're forced to solve math problems on one of three difficulty settings to make your car travel down the race track. Playing on Easy is, as you would expect- quite easy. Expert mode provides math problems filled with parenthesis and negative numbers, which require a little more brain power to quickly figure out on the fly. MindRacer Duel can be played both single player and two player, and at the current price of free, there's not much reason to not pick this one up if you're looking to brush up your math skills, or have kids that need to learn their multiplication tables.   #11   Today, 05:52 PM Senior Member iPhone 4S, iOS 5.x Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Vienna, Austria Posts: 2,035   #7   12-18-2010, 11:55 AM Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 1,465 Thanks for the code, just left a review. This is really a fun game, and it looks and plays well on the iPad. I really like that the ninja stars will bounce and move around at different speeds, so you do need to be patient in determining where to slice. The added "steel" border areas also add to the challenge. Overall, this is a fun, easy to pick up & play game, that offers a nice variety of puzzles and repeated gameplay (especially if you don't get 3 stars on a puzzle!) Great game. Randomly came across this the other day in the AppStore and fell in love, surprised no one even commented on the thread, I didn't even see this thread back then. This is a true hidden gem, check it out if you love physics puzzlers. I reminds me of smoody, but different, more unique, it's wicked The only thing I'd change is make a button you press when you've finished the level cause sometimes it ends as soon as you use your last slice, when there's still bonus yellow pieces dropping so I end up missing out on that part of the Read More

06.03.09        App Score: 7/10    Limburger, cheddar, Monterey Jack…whatever types of fermented dairy products Nicolinux, the developers of had in mind, they have released their crazy little pick-up-and-play game in the App Store. Need For Cheese should get bonus points for the name alone and though Need For Cheese is a crazy little game that frustrated more than challenged me, the cuteness factor kind of makes up for it. Need For Cheese is a purely accelerometer based game that features a mouse and a bunch of insane cats. You control the mouse with tilt controls and the cats are the bad guys you avoid. Unlike similar games I’ve reviewed liked Dodgem, that have the same general premise, Need For Cheese has an addictive nature that stems more from aesthetics than game play. It simply has cute, but not too cute, sound effects and background music. At first, I was more taken with these aspects than the gameplay itself. Once I got over the initial “awwww…” factor, I gave Need For Cheese a few good goes. It’s hard. It was clearly carefully designed to be responsive to the tilt control and it is. I like the background grid, which almost serves as a guide, but there are a few things I think are missing. To begin with, Need For Cheese might not be just a survival game where you are trying to keep your mouse alive for the longest time, because it appears you are also trying to clear the level by filling up the cheese meter. Eating cheese while avoiding the crazy cats is kind of fun, but if you bump one cat, the game ends. It took me forever to last long enough to eat cheese to even fill the meter three-quarters of the way, and by that time I was starting to become agitated. I have no idea what happens if you fill the cheese meter; maybe it’s just there and the clock is the only real focus. It would be great if you could gradually advance through several difficulty levels rather than only selecting between three, though. I think with time and practice, Need For Cheese would become easier for me, but keep in mind that while I’m not great with the tilt control in a lot of games, I was playing Need For Cheese on “easy.” I can’t even begin to imagine trying to survive for more Read More