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    App Store Racers Battle for First Place

    Posted 07/17/2008 at 10:19am | by Rick Broida
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    The iTunes App Store launched with not one, but three racers vying for the winner's circle that is your iPhone/iPod touch Home Screen. We pit Wingnuts Moto Racer, Cro-Mag Rally and Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 3D against each other and learn that accelerometer-based steering doesn't always equal an innovative gaming experience. 

    Check out the road race for your iPhone/iPod touch after the jump.

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    Neverwinter Nights 2

    Posted 07/17/2008 at 2:12am | by Zack Stern
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    Forget About Sleeping

    Wizards, elves, dwarfs: If it’s not Tolkien, it’s probably Dungeons & Dragons. Underneath the Neverwinter Nights 2 videogame interface, the ghost of Gary Gygax rolls d20s to determine your success. These tested underpinnings and an almost paralyzing range of choices make Neverwinter Nights 2 an entertaining journey. Unfortunately, regular glitches and weak graphics keep the game from excellence.

    Check out the entire review after the jump.

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    SportsTap

    Posted 07/16/2008 at 9:19pm | by Michael Simon
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    If you’re like us, your iPhone bookmarks folder is filled with sites that provide an array of live sports score updates --- MLB.com, NBA.com, NFL.com, Scores Pro, ESPN, et al. Being a sports fan is a full-time business, and iPhone has made it easy to keep on top of our game, whether on the road, at work or at the beach.

     

    And now, thanks to a little-known Web app-turned standalone native app, it’s easier than ever.

     

    Check out the entire review after the jump.

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    Wingnuts Moto Racer

    Posted 07/16/2008 at 4:47pm | by Rick Broida
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    Feeling the need for speed? Find another game. Wingnuts Moto Racer will bore you to tears if it doesn’t frustrate you silly first. If that sounds harsh, it’s only because competing racers like Cro-Mag Rally and Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 3D offer better graphics, more varied gameplay, and fewer interface problems.

    Check out the full review after the jump. 

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    Enemy Territory: Quake Wars

    Posted 07/16/2008 at 2:06pm | by Zack Stern
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    Video game: Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
    Missile lock? That sounds like a bad thing, right? Teamwork and online multiplayer spice up this first-person shooter.

    Giant walker robots blast rockets at your teammates. Enemy turrets rotate and rattle off machine-gun fire. A Star Wars laser beam—à la Reagan, not Lucas—etches a line toward opposing forces. Enemy Territory: Quake Wars is a futuristic first-person shooter that shares little with other hits named Quake. Instead of having you run down cramped hallways engaging in solo bouts against demons, Quake Wars requires teamwork and coordination to control objectives and win rounds. It’s a refreshing change, and few Mac shooters give the same sense of collaboration.

    Check out the entire review after the jump.

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    eReader

    Posted 07/16/2008 at 1:21pm | by Roberto Baldwin
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    Read on the run with eReader. The app is free; the books will cost you.

    When boredom strikes, nothing beats a good book at your side. eReader makes it possible, turning any iPhone or iPod touch into the next best thing since the Amazon Kindle. Granted, it doesn’t endow your device with all the Kindle’s features, but it does make reading on the run as easy as swiping your finger.

    Check out the entire review after the jump.

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    The 30 Best Mac Apps You’ve Never Heard Of

    Posted 07/16/2008 at 9:59am | by cyoung
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    Would it surprise you to learn that the coolest Mac software out there wasn’t created by Adobe, Microsoft, or even Apple? We expose the most useful but least-well-known apps you should be running on your Mac to get more done, have more fun, and make more of the time you spend in front of the computer.

    When it comes to software, using a Mac is an exercise in irony. On the one hand, Apple famously includes 90 percent of the software most users need right out of the box. On the flip side, no other platform enjoys such a thriving, clever community of third-party software developers. Everybody knows about the Mac desktop heavyweights—Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Office for Mac, and so on—but we wanted to uncover the best unsung creations from lesser-known developers. Some of these apps offer low-cost or free alternatives to Mac system defaults like Mail or iChat. Others improve system applications by tweaking existing features. And still more expand the boundaries of the Desktop by adding wholly new capabilities. So find a comfortable chair. You’ve got some downloading to do.

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    MLB at Bat

    Posted 07/15/2008 at 11:50am | by Michael Simon
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    Batter up

     

    For baseball junkies who absolutely need to be on top of the latest scores, standings and stats at all times, the iPhone is a godsend. Second only to ESPN MVP, the iPhone puts every ball and strike into the palm of your hand, thanks to a very decent mobile MLB site that provides a speedy blow-by-blow rundown of every pitch.

     

    But the stakes have been raised with MLB.com At Bat. Through a simple, sleek interface, MLB boils down its stat-intensive WAP site to a quick-reference scoreboard that provides an up-to-the minute rundown of base-runners, pitch count, hits, errors and runs for every game across the league. What’s lost in the box score, however, is gained through in-game video updates, 30- to 60-second clips uploaded from MLB.com within moments of the live highlight.

     

    Check out the full review after the jump.

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    iAlertU

    Posted 07/15/2008 at 10:53am | by Jason Whong
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    Interface of iAlertU interface

    Surround it with sirens

    SlappingTurtle Software’s iAlertU is a software-based alarm system for your Mac. When tripped, it blares very loud sound effects that mimic a car alarm. The screen also flashes at regular intervals, simulating a car’s flashing headlights. And you can arm and disarm the software using your Mac’s remote control.

    Check out ther rest of the review after the jump.

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    Super Monkey Ball

    Posted 07/14/2008 at 10:49am | by Zack Stern
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    Super Monkey Ball screenshot
    Monkeys have infested our iPhones.

    Put a monkey in a ball, put the ball in a maze, and put the maze in your iPhone or iPod touch. Very little of that concept makes rational sense, but Super Monkey Ball’s absurd style and simple premise work well together. You’ll gently tilt the iPhone to steer one of four monkey characters around obstacles and through a circular goal. The 110 mazes vary in complexity, but nearly all of them seem fair, even when challenging. The novelty of rolling the character by tilting the phone might wear off quickly, but the surprisingly agile game will hold your interest beyond the fad.

    Check out the entire review after the jump.

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