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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear app now available

by Michael Grothaus (Oct 29th, 2010)

MTV Networks has released the official Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear app for this Saturday's Jon Stewart rally and Stephen Colbert march. The app features a map of the rally site, Facebook, Twitter, and Foursquare integration, a portal to upload photos to the official rally photostream, news ...

Cosmic Discoveries is a great free demo for your iPhone

by Mel Martin (Oct 28th, 2010)

Every so often I see a free app that is just dying to be used as an iPhone demonstration. The candidate for today is the American Museum of Natural History app called Cosmic Discoveries. When you open the app, you see an image of Saturn. It's a bit crinkly, so you dive in for a closer look, dragging ...

App Review: Claim Denied!

by Michael Grothaus (Oct 22nd, 2010)

Ever wanted to have the horrible job of denying people health care so you can make your company more money? Me neither, but I'm a fan of tower defense games and got a kick out of the satire presented in Claim Denied! when a reader brought it to my attention. Claim Denied! puts the player in ...

App Review: Kingsburg (née Kinsburg) rolls strategy and frustrating your opponents into one fun game

by Sebastian Blanco (Oct 19th, 2010)

In September, a board game app based on the 2007 game Kingsburg took the gaming community by surprise. We often hear about upcoming board game ports way in advance of their release, but Kingsburg appeared so suddenly on the App Store [for US$4.99] that someone submitted it as Kinsburg, which made ...

Rock around the Dock Clock

by Steven Sande (Oct 18th, 2010)

Remember my roundup of iPad clock apps a little over a month ago? Well, there was one app that I left out, but shouldn't have -- Dock Clock (US$1.99). There were a lot of readers who pointed out the app to me, so I decided to take a look. Created by developer Dariusz Halko, Dock Clock is an iPad ...

Noteshelf: handwritten iPad notes that really work

by Steven Sande (Oct 18th, 2010)

Noteshelf (US$4.99) from FluidTouch.biz is a fresh new iPad notebook app for handwritten notes that addresses most of the issues I've had with similar apps in the past. In fact, Noteshelf is so usable that I just deleted a couple of other apps that I was using to capture handwritten notes. Here's ...