Features
This app provides any college football enthusiast with real-time scores for all FBS and FCS conferences, as well as the Top 25 School games. It also has schedules, news stories, and standings for these games.
Mission Accomplished
College Football Scoreboard has score information on the games and schools you’d want to keep a track of.
Room to improve
Although this app has useful information and is updated in real-time, it falls short when it comes to its user interface which is barely useable. It’s also not clear why there is no in-app purchase to remove the intruding advertisement banner at the bottom.
Conclusion
If you need an app that will help you keep track of college football games and news, but don’t mind a poorly designed interface, then this app will do it for free.
Gameplay
In this game you move a hoop left and right with your finger in order to hoop all the falling fruits through it. Missed fruits will take away a life (you start with three lives), while hooped fruits will rise the score by a point.
As you play you’ll earn coins which can be used to purchase other fruit variety in the game as well as boosts and perks. Coins can also be purchased with an in-app purchase. Gamers that want to earn extra coins without purchasing them can also earn 300 coins for liking the developer’s page on Facebook or 1000 coins for inviting their Facebook friends to try out the game.
The basic game only comes with the classic mode which lets you keep playing until you run out of lives, but if you purchase the full game for $.99 then you can also play the arcade mode and endless mode.
Some other things you can buy in the game through the “fruit mart” includes super fruits which will give you a boost when you hoop them, power ups, and better hoops.
Mission Accomplished
This game is definitely entertaining. The developers got the game mechanics down right to a science and it’s apparent: this game never gets old.
Room to improve
It would be cool if this game had a multiplayer feature over wifi or the internet, but that might be asking too much from the developers.
Conclusion
If you like arcade games then chances are that you’re going to love Fruit Hoops Free. Also since the game is free, it gives you a chance to try it out before purchasing any upgrades or the full version.
Features
Nearbuy is an app that lets shoppers keep track of the ir favorite brands and whether they are offering a discount or not. Unfortunately however, the app only keeps track of deals in UAE malls.
Mission Accomplished
Nearbuy keeps track of offers and when they end but it also lets users comment on the offers, save them, and share them. Users can also add an offer by providing the mall which they saw it at, brand name, start and end date of the offer, as well as a photo of the offer or brand.
Room to improve
This app could be a hit if only it allowed for tracking offers in different countries other than UAE.
Conclusion
If you live in UAE then Nearbuy is a must-have app for smart and effective shopping.
Features
This app may be the worst resource for dad’s in the history of media creation. It comes with two sections, one is the “big man’s guide” which is a poorly written guide on how giving birth feels like and other pregnancy information, and the other section is a “big man’s toolkit.”
To put things in perspective so that it’s clear how terrible this app is, the “tool kit” consists of only two tools: an “emergency pub finder” which basically just pulls up bars and other eating venues, and a “announce your newborn” feature which lets you take a photo and upload it to Facebook. Yes dads, apparently all you need in your “big man’s tool kit” to help your wife through her pregnancy is a pub for “when it’s getting to be a little too much” and a quick way to upload a photo of the darn newborn once it’s out and about.
In the Big Man’s Guide to Pregnancy Plan (which is seemingly an incorrect way to refer to a “Big Man’s Guide to A Pregnancy Plan”) there’s a part that reads as follows:
Stage 2- Delivery Phase:
Like an NFL snap. A Final surge as the ball collects at the back of the scrum.
There you go. That should sum up how valuable this app is to dads and the wives of the dads that would be insane enough to spend $.99 on this app.
Conclusion
Do not get this app. If anything, report it to iTunes for being a complete and utter waste of money.
Features
This app is as simple as it gets: it’s a TV app that lets you watch over 100 HD channels ranging from traveling and sports to dramas and music. While browsing the channel list, you can continue to watch your channel at the top of your device.
The other great thing about this app is that there’s a schedule built into each channel, so while you’re browsing the channels you can see what is actually playing, as well as what will be playing in the future. Browsing the channels is quick and effective, you can do it by category or by just browsing all of them at once.
Mission Accomplished
In addition to the channels having flawless video and audio feeds, the user interface of the app is also very streamlined. Not to mention that sharing channels in this app is a breeze with the share button.
Room to improve
It would be really cool if there was a rewind feature in this app which would let you rewind a channel 30-60 seconds back in time. If you’re watching a fight for example it would be helpful to backtrack and see what just happened again.
Conclusion
For people looking to watch TV on their iDevices, this is the best way to do it. Obviously the channels aren’t HBO or anything like that, but they are quite entertaining and great for people that are on the go. It might not make as much sense for watching music videos, because you can always use YouTube for that, but when it comes to live fights and other TV channels, this is the app to go with.
Gameplay
This game is a story about a prince who is kidnapped, and his princess who goes looking to save him. Tapping on the screen advances the commentary or narration forward, and eventually you’ll get to quizzes, labyrinths, brain-teasers, and other challenges.
It’s not quite clear if this game is appropriate for young children though. iTunes rates Cerasis Quests for nine year olds and above for its “infrequent” mild horror and fear themes. I could see this rating coming from the “abduction” of the prince, but I don’t think many parents would want their 9-13 year olds playing this game. For starters, it seems like the graphics are a bit sexual. For example, there’s some amplified focus on the main character princess’s body.
9-12 year olds would also become quite frustrated with this game/story. The first quiz you take as a player in this game is very difficult and requires a lot of retakes. There isn’t enough time to even read any of the quiz questions, let alone answer them. So by the time you get to the third question, you have to keep restarting the quiz and getting the first and second question right just so you get a chance or two to read the third question. By the time you’ve done this dozens of times to complete just one quiz, it gets very old and very frustrating. There’s no feeling of reward with this game/story either, so it’s not clear why a child or adult would put themselves through such frustration.
Furthermore, when tapping on the screen to advance to the next character’s commentary, it takes quite a while for their comment bubble and character graphics to appear. Things would go along a bit quicker if these animations were sped up or at least removed.
Mission Accomplished
I must admit that the story itself can get interesting. The annoying quizzes and other breaks in the app however ruin it all. I would enjoy Cerasis Quest much better, as I’m sure others would, if there were no quizzes or breaks to be had.
Room to improve
Characters should have updated facial expressions and postures when they speak, and when alternating between different characters and their commentary bubbles. During one conversation between the princess and an otter-sort of animal, neither the princess or animal’s expressions or posture changed after 8-10 lines of commentary.
Conclusion
If you’re bored and want to follow through a very confusing but interesting story-line, sprinkled with annoying quizzes and other sort of tests, then this is the right game for you.
Features
Back2School Word Search is somewhat of a directory of vocabulary words in a range of subjects such as math and geography. It is also somewhat of a word search. Not to mention that it is somewhat unhelpful for a student or non-student, and that it is not very educational at all.
The app is split into two different sections: class puzzles (word searches) and the “study hall.” In the word searches you merely swipe on words that you find in the word board from the word bank in the bottom. Everything is timed, and if you beat certain timed goals you will achieve one of the few “challenges” that the app keeps track of.
You can also navigate to the “Study Hall” which lets you pick a subject to “study” vocab words from. English, Math, Science, Geography, and a few other subjects are available. In the English subject, there’s a name such as “Shelley” in the listing which can be tapped on. Once Shelley is tapped on, then its definition comes up which is “Mary Shelley (1797 – 1851) – she was a British author best known for her novel, ‘Frankenstein’.” There’s also words like “draft” in the English subject which is defined as “a first or preliminary form of any writing, subject to revision, copying, etc.”
Room to improve
This app is not very useful at all. Students can’t add their own vocab terms to their desired subjects, which would be highly necessary considering that the terms the app comes with are random or too basic. Furthermore, the interface of the app is very unappealing. Not to mention that doing cross words without learning the definition of words has no educational value what-so-ever.
Conclusion
Do not download Back2School Word Search for any reason. It is free but offers in-app purchases ranging from $.99 to $4.99 that give you coins and no advertisments. The coins can be used to purchase puzzles in other subject areas, but is highly not advised considering there’s no return on investment with this “educational” app.
Features
SpiderPig is an extensive communication app which allows people to message each other, send photos, voice message, group chat, and share location information. The app’s description page states that it is the “genuine real-time GPS messenger,” which is doesn’t clearly state what the app is or why GPS information is necessary.
Fundamentally it sounds great to have all of your friend’s locations available while chatting with them (should they choose to share it), but when you think about this feature it doesn’t seem so helpful after all. Should you need to meet with a friend, you can just ask them over text message where they’re at. Also, it’s much quicker to ask your friend where they’re at than to have all of your friends download SpiderPig and enable location sharing everytime you want to meet them.
And if SpiderPig isn’t meant for using your friend’s location to meet up with them, than the question would be “what is it meant for?” Is SpiderPig an app that just plots the location of friends on a map because it looks cool? If that’s the case, than it would be quite a worrisome software mission. Whereas apps like Whatsapp and Skype are successful and useful to people because they make communicating easy and free over WiFi, apps like SpiderPig are confusing and not clearly beneficial.
In the chat listing for example that displays all ongoing chats with friends, you can see exactly how far they are from you in terms of miles or kilometers. It’s not quite clear why such information would be helpful. Maybe it is to some friends.
Mission Accomplished
The user interface of this app is really great. The chat design is clean and modern, even the colors are bright and every part of the app looks elegant. The GPS “spider” lined graphics also look cool when you use the app to see how far away your friends are from you. And the GPS information is all accurate.
Room to improve
As mentioned above, the app functions very well but it’s not clear if it has a good purpose or solves a problem friends may have while communicating. As it stands, iOS has its own location sharing feature as well as voice messaging, WiFi messaging, and group chats. That makes this app not very useful, and more like a duplication of iOS features rather than a useful add-on.
Conclusion
Using iMessage and the built-in location sharing features of iOS makes more sense than downloading this app and inviting all of your friends over to it. Unless you invite your friends to it, you won’t be able to see their locations. Also, since the app doesn’t provide much value, it’s unlikely that most people would keep the app on their phone. This means that even after inviting friends to the app, it’s unlikely they will continue using it.
Features
Using this app you can browse photos that are grouped together by location, events, countries, cities, or venues. The idea is that you can browse live events around you by seeing photos of what’s happening, but the app isn’t that popular yet so not a lot of events are available for viewing in just about anywhere in the world.
The app pulls information from Instagram based on tags, so if there’s a concert for example then the app will show photos from that concert based on what people are posting on Instagram. This means that the app as a whole is flawed. Like and comments from Instagram don’t get pulled through to Scope, instead, new likes and comments within Scope get added to the image.
If you want to post photos at an event or venue, you can do it straight through Scope. The ending result then is a lot of Instagram photos mixed in with the in-app photos that are being posted.
Mission Accomplished
Scope has some interesting features to it like being able to create a geofence around an event, such as a party, that someone may host to capture any photos that people upload in that area under a certain event name. It’s not quite clear if people at that event would have to post photos through Scope or whether they would still get pulled from Instagram if they are within the defined geofence.
Room to improve
Instead of piggy-backing on Instagram’s photo database, this app would be much better off if it had its own user-base.
Conclusion
If you’re looking to find certain photos of an event you can easily do so by searching for the name of the event on Instagram. After all, that’s all this app is doing anyways. The idea behind Scope is great but the way it is implemented is quite limited and not effective for discovering or sharing photos/events at all. Without a large user base this app will never be able to connect people.
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