Just in time for the holidays! Crazy Pumpkin is a fun little app from eZone.com which creates a simple Jack-o-lantern face on your iPhone screen. Swipe across the features to change the eyes, nose and mouth. Shake it to produce a scary sound and change the colors. Normally $.99, free for who knows how long.
Minutes of fun for the kids!
Check out these free apps! Useful and/or fun!
Apple recently took away the new apps link in the iTunes App Store, which I how I generally browsed for new and exciting apps to buy. I was unhappy.
A friend of mine referred me to AppShopper.com. And I am blown. a. way.
This is what browsing newly added apps should be all about. Very simple clean interface. It’s easy to sort by paid or free apps (or even which apps have had price changes!), by catagory, by all or new apps. It doesn’t have everything; it would be great if it included a simple search by keyword function (if you’re looking for a specific app you’re better off going straight to iTunes), but it has enough to replace what was lost in the App Store and then some.
Find an app you like? Click on the link and it will take you directly to the App Store to purchase or download it. Want to see all of the apps that have dropped their price to “Free?” Easy! click on the “Free” and “Price Change” button, and AppShooper.com will sort through the apps and display all the recently free apps. All of these searches can be easily changed into an RSS feed to which you can subscribe and get daily updates of exactly what you’re looking for in the app store.
The only other small gripe I have is accessing it on the iPhone. It’s not set to a fixed width (though it looks like it should be). So it slides around some when scrolling around on Mobile Safari. Other than that small thing, which would be a trifle to fix, it’s awesome to use on the iPhone as well.
AppShopper.com is well worth your time (and pocketbook) to check out. Kudos to Normalkid, LLC for this service.
Comet Cowboy is an awesome app to break out when you want to play a game that’s impossible to lose. It’s just plain fun to lasso those asteroids floating around in space and pull them in.
The free version offers 4 levels of play. Check it out, and if you enjoy it, shell out the $3.99 for 30+ levels.
Apple has issued a recall for all 3G power adapters shipped with the 3G iPhone and sold separately. So if you have one of this little suckers, You should visit the 3G power adapter exchange web page and order a new one. You can also exchange them at your local Apple Store beginning October 10.
The adapter prongs are at risk for breaking off and getting stuck in outlets, creating an electric hazard. Apple urges owners to stop using the adapters immediately.
A “We’re sorry were were gone and glad to be back” gift perhaps? NBC is offering free HD episodes of some of their more popular show’s. Mostly the 2007-08 season premiere episdodes. If you’re interested to see what kind of HD quality the iTunes TV store is offering, here’s a pain-free way of doing it.
An added Bonus: When you download the HD version of the show, iTunes also automatically downloads an iPhone/touch/iPod optimized version of the show.
Caveat: You must have iTunes 8 and the latest version of Quicktime (7.5.5) to enjoy the HD TV eps in iTunes.
Thanks to AppleTV Junkie for the heads up!!
FINALLY. Some iPhone apps for those of us who don’t regularly dabble in the black arts, but need to inflict revenge occasionally.
Usually the art of Voodoo takes years of study, chanting and human sacrifices to learn. Now all it takes is a couple of bucks for the YouDo Voodoo app. And you don’t even need a lock of your enemy’s hair to bring them pain. All you need is a finger.
The app will make the appropriate noises when you spear their torso or appendages. Or head, if you’re into the skull-piercing thing.
This app is lacking a few things. For example, I would like to be able to actually spear a picture of my enemy, rather than a generic doll. It also lacks the authentic ritual of a real voodoo ceremony. And it doesn’t work for real. But hey! It’s cathartic.
If you really need a customizable voodoo doll, try iVoodoo. You can use a camera roll picture to give your doll the likeness of your tortured victim. It also supports 5 dolls at once, and has specific pins for stratigic suffering, or blessing if you choose. But it’s also a whole dollar more, setting you back $3. All around it’s a more comprehensive voodoo app, but lacks the flair of YouDo Voodoo. But, on the positive side, iVoodoo doesn’t really do anything but make you feel better either.
Warning: These apps to be used while enemy is operating heavy machinery or driving. Hey, you don’t want to hurt someone else by mistake!!
Go git ‘em!!
The first things that I’d like to do are windsprints. 
If I were about 50 pounds lighter. Which is one of my goals for which this app may help me achieve.
When I first clicked on UltraTimer I was intending to use it as a “Crap-App of the Day” choice, because hey, who needs a separate timer when one is provided already on the iPhone? But when I delved into it, I was actually intrigued, then excited about the simple thing it can do, and does pretty well.
UltraTimer is the perfect app for setting up timed exercise routines. Basically what this allows is setting up a series of timed intervals.
Not only is it good for exercise, it’s good for other things, especially if you’re anal about how you take breaks. 
For example if you sit at your computer all day, you can set it for say, 55 minutes on, 5 minutes out of the chair, ect, until noon, then set an hour lunch break. Then resume. And never have to stop the timer.
It has a variety of sounds to set as alerts and alarms. Some are high intensity buzzers and bells, and others are low key and chimes and relaxing sounds.
I was skeptical of this because of course during activities I’ll want to use my iPod to play “Eye of the Tiger” when I train for my comeback fight against Clubber Lang. I thought since UltraTimer needed to play sounds, it wouldn’t be able to play the iPod.. that it would take over all the sound as other apps do. Not so! I can listen and use this app at the same time. Awesome.
The only thing I can see is that this app could use a little face lift. It has a pretty plain looking interface. But that’s picking nits. For what it does, UltraTimer doesn’t need fancy. Just utility.
I’m not even aware of a separate piece of hardware that will do what this does, so this seems like a bargain to me at $3. UltraTimer comes a long way from it’s place on the “Crap-App” short list to receiving a hearty thumbs-up from me.
Stitcher.com is a website which operates similarly to Pandora or Last.fm, except where those services find music that you might want to hear, Stitcher provides news and talk.
Now there’s a Stitcher app for the iPhone or touch.
Just choose from a variety of categories or sources as your starting point. At random Stitcher will play something. If you like it, thumbs up and Stitcher stores that listening preference. Thumbs down, and it will block that particular show and give a lower priority to playing shows like it. Love what you’re hearing? Tapping the star will add it to your favorites. Hate it? Skip it and move on. If you’re looking to listen to something very specific, there’s a search function.
As you listen more and more, Stitcher strings together your favorites and what it guesses might be your favorites. Truthfully, I haven’t listened enough to test if it really works well. But I love the concept, and since I’m an info junkie, I’ll be trying this out. Both on the iPhone with the free Stitcher app, and on the web from my computer where I’m sitting all day.
Check it out!
App News via Google Recently Added Apps
