InsanelyGreat iPhone apps
Magnetism Studios, the guys behind Insanely Great Tees, have just launched four iPhone apps, which they are dubbing "Magnet Apps."Two of the apps are $4.99 and two are $2.99.
Here are the details:
Tile Sudoku ($4.99)
Sudoku is a popular puzzle game choice for iPhone devs, but Tile Sudoku has a neat little twist. Instead of selecting a number from a list, you drag numbered tiles to the correct space on the Sudoku grid. If you make a mistake, you can move the tile to the correct space or back to the tile bar. I haven't used any of the Sudoku iPhone apps yet (I have played some of the web-based versions), but this seems to make a lot of ergonomic sense.
You can buy it from the App Store here.
Mr. Shuffle ($2.99)
It's Mr. Potato Head on the iPhone! Mr. Shuffle lets you create funny faces out of cartoon parts. You can then add speech bubbles or captions to customize the images further. While all that is cool, the most fun part is probably the feature that lets you add elements to pictures you take of your friends from the iPhone camera.
You can buy it from the App Store here.
City Transit ($2.99)
Everytime I visit New York City, I dread having to carry around a transit map guide like a tourist. And even then, you never really know where the closest station is to your location or if there has been some sort of service change. City Transit aims to change all that. For $2.99, you get officially licensed MTA subway maps, a GPS-based station finder to find the nearest station (and it is integrated with Maps so you can get walking directions too) and service advisories from the MTA website, so that you know can quickly out about any line changes.
Magnetism has designed City Transit to have an expandable architecture and in the future you should be able to download maps for buses and commuter rail lines. This really looks like the perfect app for anyone who commutes to NYC.
You can buy it from the App Store here.
File Magnet ($4.99)
File Magnet, which right now will only work in conjunction with Macs running Leopard, is a way to transfer files to and from your Mac from your iPhone or iPod Touch over Wi-Fi and then view them. It supports PDF, DOC, TXT, RTF, RTFD, HTML, PNG, TIF, JPEG. GIF and iPhone compatible movies and audio files. Support for Excel and iWork files is coming soon. So instead of having to e-mail yourself PDF files, you can just load the File Magnet Uploader on your Mac and send it directly to your iPhone.
It does require Wi-Fi to transfer files back and forth, and is not compatible with Windows.
You can buy it from the App Store here.
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There's a great review of the Where and AOL Radio apps on Valet magazine.
July 13 2008 at 10:31 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThe url is:
http://www.valetmag.com/the-mix/071408.php/
FileMagnet is worth every penny to me as I can now play back the sound from movies over my car stereo system. When the iPod is plugged in to the Alpine it overrides the Music and Videos apps with an 'Accessory Connected' screen, but using FileMagnet I am able to play movies without Videos.app.
July 13 2008 at 6:10 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI find this city transit app insane.
Hasn't anyone ever seen http://isubwaymaps.com/ ? It's been around for a while, is free and supports most major cities, and works off the photo library on your ipod/iphone.
wake me when hopstop makes an iphone app.
Theres this game Numba, it is so fricken amazing.
July 11 2008 at 10:22 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyDoes anybody knows if you can send an attachment file uploaded by FileManagement??? if i can do that im buying it right away.
July 11 2008 at 10:21 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyMan... No free Klondike Solitaire?
Which solitaire is worth paying for, then? There are about seven of them available!!!
SplashID is definitely my favorite iPhone app. Certainly one of the more practical apps out there, having all my login information easily available and secure is really nice. SplashMoney and SplashShopper are also highly recommended.
July 11 2008 at 5:42 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyDoes anyone know if you buy apps and use them on a original iPhone if they will transfer when you switch to a 3G iPhone?
July 11 2008 at 4:38 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyYour iTunes account keeps track of which apps you have purchased, and allows you to freely re-download them should you delete them off your iTunes and/or iPhone. I'm pretty sure this extends to getting a new G3 iPhone as well, so long as it uses the same iTunes account.
July 21 2008 at 10:01 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replyi want Quinn for iPhone.
free pretty tetris goodness. just that and i'll be happy.
I've decided after several hours of iPhone ownership that Citytransit is the greatest app in the history of ever ever ever! I'm especially impressed that it has the service advisories too. Now I can unsubscribe from the MTA's email lists.
July 11 2008 at 4:30 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyHot Apps on TUAW
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