Free Iphone Applications

Outside : iPhone Application

Outside is a weather app which is new in the weather apps category. Outside helps you to customize all your notification. You can set the app to notify you its cold when the temperature falls below certain degree and hot when it rises above certain degrees. You can also set UV notification. You can also customize any sound which will play and a message will appear on your screen for any particular notification. This type of timed notification is very useful as it makes it easier to check weather when you wake up or any time during day time.

There are only four notification and the apps are limited to only one geographical location. The apps don’t have current weather information and gives forecasts for only one location. The Outsides push notifications are very bare boned which can be concluded as nearly useless. The subscription model is quite simple and would have been much better if the push notifications had been more useful and plentiful. During the purchase you will get 30 days of notification for free and after that you have to subscribe for another 90 days for $1 or 300 days for $2. if you don’t subscribe for further notification the app will work as it is but you wont get any further notifications.

Self Image : iPhone Application

The iPhone’s camera is on the back of the device which makes it difficult to take a self portrait on it. Debacle Software launched Self image app which is very simple and plain to use.

You have to launch the app and select if you need to capture one or two people. Then you can turn the phone around so that you get the camera lens pointed towards you. Then the self image will detect your face and make the iPhone vibrate three times and then snap the picture. Then the Self Image app will save the photo onto your camera roll and all is done. But then this app doesn’t capture video and as iPhone doesn’t have built in flash the pictures taken on a dimly lit bar or crowded concert venue do not usually turn out well. But then this problem is due to the phone not the app.

PatternMusic : iPhone Application

Pattern Music from Richard Lawler is an music app for iPhone which is priced around $2. This app helps you in creating simple songs which consists mainly of repeating audio blips. But then it has good collection of instruments and you can easily create patterns that will make it more than an experiment tool.

Patter Music may seem confusing initially but then after few browses it reveals a fairly light feature set. On the main screen you can see the icon which represents a voice or an instrument and if you give it a closer look you can see that the icon for drum does look like drum. To play any song you have to click on a play button at the bottom of the screen. Pattern Music basically works in landscape mode and you can fast forward and rewind any song you want to. There are icons displayed with which you can raise volume of each instrument in your mix. Each instrument has series of blips. There are 64 notes per pattern and 4 octaves.

The pattern Music does lack in advanced features like exporting. You can not export your song. But is good enough for those who have casual interest in music and is a fun app as it can help create crazy looping patterns and mix them together.

Snood : iPhone Application

Electronic Arts launched a match three puzzle game called Snood. This colourful game has graced multiple platforms and has become one of the successful casual games. This game has been launched in iPhone with new modes and features.

The Snood has a distinctive looks which includes a winking tomato head dude and a skull face with a missing tooth. The seven different types of Snood have distinct look, name and personality. The main aim in this game is to group together at least three of the same kind of faces; when you do this they will pop off the screen. You have to fire each Snood out of cannon and see which one you have to fire and check what snood is on deck which will help you form a strategy. Complexity is added to the game by adding ability to bounce Snoods off the wall. Then there is a classic mode in the game which will allow you to unlock other difficulty settings. It has settings for switching the Snoods look from the updated cool look to traditional icons. There is option to load game whenever you leave it in between any game.
The game’s menu is bit disappointing as it is not much navigable and the lay out is confusing after you hit the play button.

Ingenious : iPhone Application

Developer United Soft Media Verlag launched a puzzle game Ingenious and the name suits too as you have to be genius to master this game. This game is quite challenging and addictive but difficult to master it. This tile based game may remind one of Dominoes but the focus on color matching indicates it to be puzzle game.

This game is based on the previous versions of board games and computer games. This game can be played on an octagonal game board which you have to fill with tiles made up of two small octagons with colorful shapes on them. When the game starts there are single tile in each corner of the board. And you have to make longest chain of single color possible. More you play more sense the tutorial makes. But while playing you cannot concentrate on just one color it will drag your points down. After each turn the game will replenish your tiles and if there are no tiles in the lowest color then it will offer you a whole new set of tiles.

There are three modes of the game that is single game, tournament and solitaire. The single game will give you options to choose difficulty and sets time. You can play with either the computer or a friend. The tournament is versatile which has lots of unlock able content. You can begin with beginner and end in Genius. Solitaire is very simple and you can practice in this mode with no opponent.

Pocket Reference for Iphone

Pocket Reference by Medl Mobile’s is best investment for those who help others when they have a question about anything. This app contains everything that anyone wants to know about.

Pocket Reference uses various websites to create a mini encyclopedia on iPhone or iPod touch. You have any query let it be on white pages, yellow pages, area codes zip codes you will get a list of websites for searching all these. And then if you are not sure which category your question fall under you can very well use the search bar. The Pocket Reference also indicates which websites are cell phones friendly so that you can pick one that will suit your iPhone best.

But then there is one disadvantage that it doesn’t work when the iPod is running. For instance your music gets cut out if you look through the app. it would have been good if Pocket Reference would work uninterrupted. This app will help you save lots of amount of time you would other wise spend fumbling on Google Search.

Dawn of the Dead for Iphone

Dawn of the Dead for iPhone when opened you can see Buy the Film link on the home screen which will take you to the user right to the iTunes store.

There are five tiny levels in the campaign mode which you can complete in straight ten minutes. It’s similar to movie where the player has to fight his or her way through a mall filled with several zombies who would try to bite. In this game you have to take as many zombies as you can before they devour you. The control and AI is not much good which hampers the game play badly. The undead zombies just follow the player around. The guns provided are useless as player can’t take proper aim in it.

You can find three character types which play exactly same and has little resemblance to the characters in the movie. You can unlock five gun types and five melee weapons but none of them are nay fun to use. And all in all there are two types of zombies one type can be killed with just one hit with shovel and others can be killed by two hits. After the campaign mode there is challenge mode. The challenge mode has the same levels but with different goals. The game doesn’t have multiplayer option.

Street fighter coming to iPhone

The game street fighter will have characters from across Street Fighter universe which will include famous characters from early entries of the series and few newly introduced ones too.

Street Fighters is a purists game that depends on balanced characters, a deep combat system and responsive controls. A lot of effort is being made on the control system. It will feature a robust control system. The game will have virtual Dpad interface and a visual pad interface which will help players to reposition the buttons and d pad wherever they see it. For optimal experience players can configure the transparency of the controls. With the help of Bluetooth more than one player can participate in the game. Till now Wi-Fi or online player is not known. For those who are new to the game a new Dojo practice mode will help players know the combat system. So after practicing the player can try to beat the single player campaign or try their hands against live opponents in multiplayer. This multiplayer option makes the game true to the series arcade roots.

RSSpeaker : iPhone Application

Altum Design Studios launched a new app RSSpeaker which combines the technology of custom RSS feeds and using the software from Acapela translates text to speech. This results in your iPhone or iPod touch into a personal news anchor. The RSSpeaker’s interface is very simple. You have a list and you just need to tab the plus button to add feeds. Adding feeds from the New York Times, CNN, and The Daily Beast were easy but SFGate and The Washington Post were unverifiable.

When you save the feeds all you have to do is press play to convert it to speech from text. The RSSpeaker picks only the head lines and short blurbs that can be found on the sites homepage. You can read faster that one paragraph description than listen to it. This app can be made to use while you are driving or your eyes are engaged somewhere. But then you don’t get the full stories on RSSpeaker which is a major flaw. Then the pleasant female voice sounds bit robotic even if you can speed up her so that she matches the cadence of a regular person. She may sometime sound like a monotone NPR broadcaster reading hard news.

The weather Channel : iPhone Application

The Weather Channel 2.75 promises to take your weather experience to the very next level with the in motion radar maps, traffic cams with improved graphics and many more other features. The weather Channel app gives timely information and all the information are accurate as any other forecast outlets.

You can get location based conditions and forecast through Weather Channel. The Weather Channel provides basic weather information like temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, wind speed and direction. The forecasts offered by Weather Channel are much more extensive and thorough. It gives hour by hour forecasts up to ten hours and has both a 36 hour and 10 day forecast. Its radar overlays a still frame of current radar information over Google Maps but you can zoom in and out. The Weather Channel provides local, national and international video forecasts. You can save multiple locations for quick searching and has severe weather alerts. The alerts and forecasts can be shared via e-mail. You can even store and nickname your favourite locations.

The Weather Channel is more than just the temperature and forecasts. You can keep track of weather alerts and see radar images for multiple locations. You can always get prepared for any kind of weather and make your decision.