Free Iphone Applications

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.

Aeroweather : iPhone Application

Aeroweather gives you current and precise weather conditions i.e. METAR as well as weather forecasts i.e. TAF. All these are used by pilots for their flight preparations. You have choice to choose worldwide airport weather stations from the built in data base by giving name or ICAO code or Based on the current location. The data shown will be in its original format or fully decoded into easy understandable texts.

In Aviation Weather Widget you can get additional information like sunrise and sunset, location and elevation, time zone and daylight saving adjustment. It also displays all times in GMT or in station’s local time. It also supports US and metric units. You can get temperatures displayed in Fahrenheit when you switch off show original units. It can display and add nearby stations. The information received is accurate and gives more information than nay other weather apps. Though it doesn’t do long term forecasts yet it can show weather of all the stations you have in it instantly. You can get picture of the weather all around your place. It would have been nice if it had drilled down on some symbols and give better explanation of the acronyms for the non pilots.

Snow Report : iPhone application

The latest version of Snow Report by The North Face has everything you would need for the next trip you planned to the mountains. This new version has all new features like you can get access to snow conditions including 24, 48 and 72 hour snow totals for all your favourite resorts and top 10 resorts globally. You can tweet directly from the app and spread word with resort specific twitter feed. You can get to the spot with the help of locate function and then you can use the trail map which will allow you to check out the lay of the land. The best part is that you get to link the resort site and get all details about the forecasts from Weather Underground or you can find North Face store near you.

You can get all international resort information with avalanche advisory. Image gallery lets you save the pictures of weather conditions of the locations you want. You can get 5 day forecasts which will include the day’s high and lows and even the wind speed. You can select, save and arrange your favourite resort and then push notification alerts will alert you whenever your favourite resort gets snow.

Grocery Pal : iPhone Application

Grocery pal helps you learn more about in store specials and promotion while you make the list. After downloading the app you need to enter your zip code and then the Grocery Pal will provide you with a list of local super markets. After adding few stores you can browse their promotions by categories. You can build your list based on what’s on sale. Browsing through discounted food is easy and you can see the details of the food too and add those to your shopping list.
Grocery Pal doesn’t work well when you assemble your shopping list from scratch. Once you select one item and after saving if you go for promotions available for that item, you have to again go to the grocery list and tap on the price comparison by stores tab. But then you will get all the pricing information for foods that are presently on sale in your grocery circulars.

Sometimes the Grocery Pal doesn’t find foods that are available at your area stores at a discounted price. This caused due to poor labeling which isn’t entirely apps problem. The Grocery Pal searches only on the title field.

iWeather Complete Pro : iPhone Application

iWeather complete pro by myfirstiPhone app provides all the information one needs to know about weather. It packs a lot of information into its home screen. It displays current conditions like temperature, wind speed, wind direction, humidity, dew point, and even time of sunrise and sunset. You can view three days forecasts on the bottom of the screen. The tab buttons will give details of the today’s hourly outlook, average high and low temperatures, and you can view projected time of sunrise and sunset for next nine days. You can get all the weather information for the next nine days. You can view day time forecast which is default but then on clicking on a tiny arrow you can view both day and night forecast.

The iWeather Complete Pro presents information very clearly so that you can scan easily to do your planning easily. You can easily bookmark number of cities and towns which you would like to access quickly. Whenever you bookmark a new place the App pops u a question screen which asks if you want the location as your default. You also have option to edit the bookmarked places. Unfortunately you cannot change the order of the list which places the locations as you have bookmarked them. But the important missing component is the radar images.

AutoPark : iPhone Application

AutoPark developed by FrolicWare is made to improve ones experience of parking car. You have to just tap to know how much time is left on the meter, and where you have parked with lots of other information.

When you use AutoPark you will see a parking meter which is the apps primary interface. You have to tap on the coin slot or the time remaining field to enter the time to put on the meter. You can scroll through meter times in just five minutes and then you can tap on the shortcut buttons for parking between 3o minutes to 2 hours duration. If you want to park in the new flanged prepaid machine then you can switch from timer to clock mode.

If sometimes you forget where you left your car AutoPark can help you. You have to tap a button to recognize your spots location which will be then marked on a ma. You can even tap in the level, color, or spot number if you have parked in the garage. This app has push notification feature it will notify you when your meter is running out. It has a heart stopping sound which will alert you no matter what are you doing. There is choice to control the volume but then the quiet wailing alarm is enough to make you jump.

SpinArt : iPhone Application

Spin Art, one of the favorite games has been brought to iPhone by the developer Brian Smith. Spin Art is just like its original version minus the messy paint and cutting of the perfectly sized paper squares just to fit on the spinner. There are many other apps that are available but this one is just like the original and comes with a discounted price too.

You can start with a blank canvas with choice of your color or you can choose photo from your iPhone library which has six control buttons with an extensive color palette. You have to select spin button and move finger in a circle on the screen which will make things going. Then you have to select one of the thicknesses of the paint splatter and choose color, and touch the screen. You have to repeat these steps until you have finished. You can add shine to the work by selecting glitter. You can save the picture to your library or simply join the Spin Art group on Flickr to show off. This app is well suited for the adults as well as the kids.

PhotoSpeak : iPhone Application

PhotoSpeak from MotionPotrait takes a still photo and adds your voice and some animation which looks like as the photo is speaking. PhotoSpeak is a simple app where you just need select a photo with a face and crop it such that it fits. The best photo would be a straight tight shot with your eyes open and mouth closed. After selecting the photo you can upload the photo to the MotionPotrait’s servers. In next minute the photo would return to its animated form. Then you would see that the eyes blink and the head turns from one side to other.

You have choice to record a number of your own audio tracks which can be then added to the animated images. Then when you combine the audio and animated photo your image seems to come to life. The latest version of PhotoSpeak enables you to upload the final edited photo to you tube and then you can email notices to whoever you want to. But the quality of the product gets deteriorated a bit. The PhotoSpeak also has an added feature where you can add a hairdo and sunglasses to the image. Thus the PhotoSpeak is very simple and fun concept.