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LEGO Harry Potter available for iOS, but iPad requires 4.2

by David Quilty (Nov 20th, 2010)

Warner Bros. has released the game LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4, and it's available as a universal download from the App Store for US$4.99. Gameplay includes going inside Hogwarts castle, the most detailed LEGO game location ever; the game provides 40+ levels of play along with endless freeplay to ...

Count The Beats: A closer look at Amplitube 2.0 for iOS

by Matt Tinsley (Nov 20th, 2010)

A few weeks ago, IK Multimedia released Amplitube 2.0, the next iteration of its guitar effects and amplifier emulator app for iOS (don't forget, you need the external iRig piece of kit, too). It's only been about 5 months since version 1.0 came out, but when we got word that version 2.0 was in the ...

Yahoo! releases Sketch-a-Search for iPad, update for iPhone

by Michael Grothaus (Nov 19th, 2010)

Yahoo has released an iPad version of its popular iPhone Sketch-a-Search app. For those not familiar with the app, Sketch-a-Search lets users simply sketch a line around an area of the built-in Google map to find restaurants within the sketched area. The app on the iPhone is great, and it's ...

TGI Black Friday app helps you find Black Friday sales

by Michael Grothaus (Nov 18th, 2010)

Are you one of the millions of people who seem to lose their mind on Black Friday? Do you wait in line for hours before Walmart opens at 5AM just to get that generic LCD TV for $149? If so, there's a cool iPhone app for you. TGI Black Friday helps deal hunters navigate the bargain madness on the ...

App Review: Reiner Knizia's Kingdoms

by Sebastian Blanco (Nov 17th, 2010)

Once you've got the foundation in place, it's easy enough to redecorate your board game app. That's what the developers at Skotos Tech/RPGnet have figured out with their series of games that use the MobileEuroCard platform. These apps include Money, High Society, and now, Reiner Knizia's ...

App Review: Reiner Knizia's Ra

by Sebastian Blanco (Nov 13th, 2010)

Reiner Knizia's classic Egyptian-themed auction and tile-collecting game Ra is not an easy one to figure out. When playing around a table, you need to collect the right tiles, look over to see what other people are collecting, keep an eye on the status of the sun/bid tiles and, in general, ...

ARDefender augmented reality shoot-em-up hands-on

by Erica Sadun (Nov 9th, 2010)

ARDefender has been out for a couple of months but surprisingly it's fallen under the radar of a lot of iPhone users. Combining augmented reality technology with a basic aim-and-shoot, ARDefender allows you to transform your physical desktop or office floor into a battleground. It costs just a buck ...

Calvetica offers a better calendar app for iPhone

by Erica Sadun (Nov 9th, 2010)

Calvetica, for iPhone and iPod touch, offers the promise of a simple but powerful calendar app. There was a bit of a tussle yesterday in the TUAW back channels as a bunch of us watched the Calvetica product video on the developer's home page. I won, meaning I bought it first to write this review, ...

Manage complex medical conditions with iBiomed

by David Winograd (Nov 9th, 2010)

iBiomed is not for everyone. It's a niche app designed for detailed tracking of care management for patients with complex medical conditions, such as autism. Once set up (and that can be a bit daunting), a care-giver can take control of everything related to the care of a patient. iBiomed is totally ...

Viz brings mainstream manga to the iPad

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Nov 8th, 2010)

Viz Media, LLC introduced its first iPad app this past week, Viz Manga, and it's something that I've personally waited a long time to see. I've been a manga fan for years, ever since I saved my allowance as a teen to buy $18 copies of Ranma 1/2 in the mid-90s. A good section of my bookcase ...

Tango links your iOS devices for remote music control

by Mel Martin (Nov 8th, 2010)

The Tango Remote Music Player performs a neat trick and does it for free: it links any two iOS devices on a wireless network, allowing one to be a music source and the other to be a remote control. To get going, Tango needs to be on both devices. One device is set to play its on-board music; the ...

MeLLmo's Roambi delivers business intelligence on the go

by Michael Rose (Nov 4th, 2010)

When talking iPad with enterprise users, one of my favorite show-off apps for the iPad is MeLLmo's Roambi. It's a little hard to explain what it does, but once they see it in action, they know they want it. Roambi (free on the App Store, pro/enterprise plans available) gives you instant, easy ...

App Review: Neuroshima Hex is good, about to get a lot better *UPDATE

by Sebastian Blanco (Nov 3rd, 2010)

The new board game app that's based on the 2006 tabletop game Neuroshima Hex is a lot of things. For a cardboard hex-based game that's reproduced in your pocket, Neuroshima Hex is gorgeous. The artwork is wonderfully clear on a Retina Display, and the part-apocalyptic, part-1950s sci-fi style ...

App Review: Tantrix Strategy connects luck and strategy

by Sebastian Blanco (Oct 31st, 2010)

The beautiful Tantrix Strategy game app [US$2.99] is an example of why it's sometimes good to wait for the second or third version of an iPad app before plunking down your money in the App Store. We're reviewing Version 1.1 here, and it improves on the original with an AI opponent (three ...

Track election night on your iPad with the ABC News app

by Michael Grothaus (Oct 30th, 2010)

Growing up, election night in my house was always how I imagined the Super Bowl to be for most people. We huddled around the TV and excitedly watched the incoming results with hope and trepidation. But of course election night just isn't a silly game, and the final "score" literally affects ...