Software

Tic Tac Dino Clash is exactly as it sounds--a dinosaur-themed version of tic tac toe, but where it could have enhanced the game it merely replicates it and the results are passable at best. The basic mechanics of the game are intact, but the menus, setup, and general interface are all messy and hard to navigate, while playing against the computer borders on pointless.

Most reading this know the goal of tic tac toe--match three in a row on a 3x3 grid. Tic Tac Dino Clash allows you to choose between playing a human or computer opponent, and you can … Read more

The Bible: Free Book for Kids is a good app, with solid production values and fun, colorful presentation of classic stories; but it is often bogged down by its trial limitations. With too many ads and upgrade buttons onscreen, combined with often confusing menus and options, it could easily become a frustrating experience for the young children it is designed to entertain.

The Bible: Free Book for Kids presents many major stories of the Bible in colorful, narrated, and animated vignettes that can be played, read aloud, or narrated by the app. This provides a number of ways by which … Read more

Storyboards captures the intuitive ease of touch screen controls and uses them effectively to create a robust storyboarding tool for the iPad. With hand drawing features, clip art, and easy to create and manipulate storyboard panels, this is a very useful app for prospective and active filmmakers, alike.

Storyboards breaks down each level of the storyboarding process carefully to make organization a snap. Tap the opening page to create a new storyboard, and then create a new Drawing. On any drawing, you can draw by hand or you can drag and drop one of dozens of different pieces of clip … Read more

Statistique is a very basic app, providing real time information about how your iOS device is running with no additional options or tools. That is not a bad thing, especially since the app never promises to provide any more than this, but it does limit the uses of the app and the number of people who will initially need it.

Statistique is basically a memory manager. Open it and it will show you the real time statistics for how much memory is available, how much is being used, and how much is active. This helps you to uncover how many … Read more

Square FX solves a problem many people have when uploading pictures to Instagram--the fact that their pictures are generally cropped to fit the square frame. While this doesn't affect all photos, it can have a negative impact on quite a few, and Square FX allows you to resize, refit, and avoid cropping images before they go to Instagram, albeit with limited additional features.

While Square FX does everything it promises quite well, it lacks enough features to make the trial truly useful as a supplement to Instagram. When you first open the app, you can choose an image and … Read more

Spin the Bottle - Party Games is a faithful digital rendition of the classic party game, combining a fairly accurate spinning bottle mechanic with a series of revealing questions. While options for changing questions or the spin mechanic are missing, the basic interface looks and feels like classic Spin the Bottle, perfect for anyone without an empty bottle on hand.

To use Spin the Bottle: Party Games, you place two fingers on the screen and twist them. The harder you twist, the faster the bottle spins. It will then stop on one of the four colored quadrants. While this is … Read more

PictoShare is not a social sharing tool; rather it streamlines sharing images between your device and that of another iOS device owner. It works well, finding devices with the same app on a wireless network and allowing you to share them with a couple taps onscreen, but it does little more than the already built-in PhotoStreaming or one of the many other apps that will share more than just images.

When you open PictoShare, you can choose an album and then any specific images that you want to share, and choose a device on the network to which you are … Read more

Photo Reflect combines a number of popular filters into a single interface to help you create varying levels of reflection in your images. The result is an effective photo filtering app that falls short in other areas, such as sharing and additional editing tools. For those who want finer control over the reflections added to their images, it is a useful app; but for many others, it is a single function app that likely won't be opened too often.

The app opens directly to the editing screen where you can take a photo or choose an existing one from … Read more

Photo Floof doesn't attempt to do much but manages to make the process of creating thematic images so quick and easy that it's a must have for anyone that regularly adds borders to images or makes their own cards. The interface is smooth and responsive, the themes are varied and attractive, and the quick-saves is a nice touch so you can make these images extremely fast.

Photo Floof is designed to drop your images into frames with themes like underwater exploration, birthday celebrations, and other holidays. There are numerous themes to choose from, and they all slide out … Read more