“…in essence, if you like to play Farmville and are looking for some more farming action on your iPhone – iFarm is your game. Plus you can’t go wrong, it’s free.”

Sure, it’s a spin-off, but a pretty decent one. The game is more complex than I expected and was pretty fun. It could use some tuning up though.

This game is the equivalent to a console game “button-smasher” (like Devil May Cry or Jade Empire). Since it’s for the iPhone I’ll call it a “screen-smasher”, it does require some thinking though.

Kevin’s “Utility of the Week” – Week 5

I’m shocked that I’ve been posting these picks for five weeks already. For this week, my utility of the week is the IMDB app – Movie Genie.

Movie Genie is basically just an interface to IMDB (Internet Movie Database). It allows you to search movies and actors and provides you with a ton of details about them. Movie Genie is a well developed and fast app that interfaces with IMDB perfect. The developer promises a lot of features in the feature, but the app is great as-is. Check out the review here.

If you’d like to suggest a utility for my “utility of the week”, visit my thread on our forum here. And below is a list of previous Utility of the Week picks:

Week 1 – Groups
Week 2 – Put Things Off
Week 3 – Stick It
Week 4 – Air Mouse Pro

Movie Genie

Our Rating: :: APPLAUSE TO THE DEVELOPER :: Read Our Full Review >>

Category: Reference
Released: 2009-06-16
Price: $1.99 ON SALE: $0.99

Are you someone who is all about movies and TV shows and are constantly checking IMDB on your iPhone? Movie Genie is what I’ve been waiting for – an iPhone app for IMDB.

If you’re looking for a unique game with accelerometer controls, give this a look. But expect some control issues.

This is far from the quality shooter experience that I received from Isotope, but any app selling for $0.99 is worth a try if you like the genre.

Kevin’s “Utility of the Week” – Week 4

For week four of my Utility of the Week picks I decided to pick an app that’s already been out for a while but happened to go on a huge sale this week – Air Mouse Pro.

Air Mouse Pro is an accelerometer-controller (or touchpad-like) mouse for your computer. After downloading the app and the computer software that goes along with it, Air Mouse Pro can become your mouse, your keyboard, or even an app similar to Remote (to control your media).

Air Mouse Pro is on sale for $1.99. It went on sale on June 12th and I’ve heard that it will only be on sale for a week, so get it by June 19th!

If you’d like to suggest a utility for my “utility of the week”, visit my thread on our forum, here. And below is a list of previous Utility of the Week picks:
Week 1 – Groups
Week 2 – Put Things Off
Week 3 – Stick It

Air Mouse Pro (Remote / Trackpad)

Our Rating: :: Recommended :: Read Our Full Review >>

Category: Utilities
Released: 2008-09-15
Price: $1.99

Isotope probably has more content than any other shooter and is one of the most addicting iPhone games that I’ve ever played.

Kevin’s “Utility of the Week” – Week 3

This is week three of my weekly choice of a utility (or non-game) that will help turn your iPhone into the perfect pocket companion. My week one and two choices were Groups and Put Things Off, check out the links to read their reviews and the following links for the Utility of the Week posts: Week 1, Week 2. This week my choice is Stick It, similar to last week’s choice of Put Things Off, Stick It is also a sort of to do or task management app but can be used in addition to a to do app instead of replacing one.

Stick It allows you to create sticky notes as your wallpaper. This can be useful in all sorts of ways and the choice is completely up to the user. Some specific ways I have used it so far is as a shopping list, my day’s plans, and simply as decoration. Once you’ve created your wallpaper of sticky notes it becomes the quickest way to give yourself reminders… simply bring up the locked screen whenever you’d like to check your notes.

Check out my review of Stick It here. It’s currently on sale for $0.99. Suggest an app for my Utility of the Week award at our forum here.

Stick It - Sticky Notes for iPhone

Our Rating: :: USEFUL :: Read Our Full Review >>

Category: Utilities
Released: 2009-05-28
Price: $1.99

Everyone loves their to do app. But did you ever wish you had a quicker option? Something right up front that takes almost no time at all to check, maybe something on your wallpaper? Stick It lets you create notes to place as your wallpaper.

After over 15 years of being one of the coolest PC/Mac mystery-puzzle games, the original Myst comes to the iPhone – not a stripped down version of the game, but the full game!

If you don’t want to read the review, fine. I wouldn’t either… just don’t buy this game!

Kevin’s “Utility of the Week” – Week 2

If you didn’t catch my post last week, I’m going to be picking one non-game app a week that turns my iPhone into a device that helps with everyday life. Last week my choice was Groups, check out the post here.

My pick for this week is Put Things Off, the to do app by Pocket Jam. This is a basic and sort of stripped down version of a to do app – making it incredibly simple and amazing speedy. For $2.99, I would suggest this app for any iPhone user who wants a to do app without complexity. It’s still a debate, but I will probably use this app instead of Things (my review on that is coming eventually) once the developer adds tags to Put Things Off (which he told me was coming eventually).

Check out the review of Put Things Off here. And suggest an app for next week’s utility here!

Put Things Off

Our Rating: :: SPEEDY :: Read Our Full Review >>

Category: Productivity
Released: 2009-06-05
Price: $2.99

If you’re looking for complexity and options in a To Do app, Put Things Off probably isn’t the direction you want to go. But if speed and simplicity interests you, Put Things off has got plenty of both.

Is this one of the full-featured games that us gamers are looking for? Maybe not quite. But it’s still one of the best games I’ve played on the iPhone so far. Get away from life and control someone elses.

I think everyone can use some budgeting help in economic times like these. I used Balance for a long time, but I needed something more complex. PocketMoney was that solution.

Flight Control Lands A Huge Update

The once #1 paid application in the App Store just came out with it’s 1.2 update today and I have to applaud it in every way, this is what an update should be.

Firemint has added two more airfields to play on with a total of five new aircrafts with that go along with these levels. Both levels add a new spin on the game. The “beachside resort” contains the red plane, the larger red plane, and the helicopters from the previous level but with the addition of a yellow seaplane that lands in a water-runway. This level has two helicopter pads and throws a lot more helicopters at you, changes the game quite a bit.

The “aircraft carrier” level contains all new planes: two different red planes (one of which is
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Pocket God Update, Episode 18: Surf’s Up

Pocket God’s developers, Bolt Creative, came out with an update again sometime yesterday, staying close to their update a week average. This week was the ability to create a huge tsunami to sink the island. You simply swipe your finger over the ocean a few times (exactly how you would swipe your finger over the clouds to change the weather) and the huge wave comes and wipes out the village. But that isn’t all. This takes you to an underwater area where your Oogs are still living, but holding their breath. In the bottom left corner is a statue of some kind of creature with it’s mouth open and a spear sticking out. This turned out to be a spear gun. If you line up your pygmies right and press the statue, the spear will shoot out, impale the Oog and yank it back into the statues mouth – cool update guys!

Pocket God

Our Rating: :: A GOD AMONG APPS :: Read Our Full Review >>

Category: Entertainment / Adventure
Released: 2009-01-09
Price: $0.99

I’ve played Fieldrunners, TapDefense, and a few other iPhone TDs as well as being an extremely experienced Warcraft 3 TD player. Listen to my TD advice, The Creeps! is a grade-A game.

Kevin’s “Utility of the Week”

Games are great, but when you have a device as complex as the iPhone you want it to do a little more than just play games. I have a very specific goal for my iPhone – use it to help streamline everything that I do on a day to day basis. For anyone joining me in this quest to make the iPhone simplify your life, I will be posting an app every week that I have deemed worthy of everyday use. This app can be a utility, a productivity app, an education app, a finance app, etc – anything that’s not a game or entertainment app. You can make suggestions for the “Utility of the Week” thread on our forum.

My pick this week is “Groups”, developed by Guided Ways Technologies (check out the review). For $2.99, you’ll receive the most perfect contact organization companion in the app store. This app has replaced the Contacts app on my dock, and is now sitting beside Phone, Mail, and Text. Congratulations Groups! You are officially the first non-native application to earn a spot on my dock.

Groups: Drag & Drop Contacts Management, Group Email, Smart

Our Rating: :: REPLACED MY 'CONTACTS' :: Read Our Full Review >>

Category: Productivity
Released: 2009-02-08
Price: $4.99

Here’s my advice on this one: If you want a shopping list, try out the free version… but it’s hard to even suggest that. For something to catalog your media (DVDs, Books, etc), do NOT waste money on this app.

Maybe contact organizing isn’t as exciting as Pocket God, but I’m about as excited as I can get about contacts with Groups.

Listen…you simply can’t own an iPhone without Pocket God. Even if you’re the weirdest person alive and hate the game, show your friends and you’ll be a god of humor.

ProCreative Golf 09 is a beautiful app with an interface that’s just as great. But with the high price of $14.99 and the lack of a course editor, it might be better to check out some of the other golf apps.

GolfCard is the perfect companion for any casual or professional golfer. It’s a little pricey at $7.99, but is worth it for it’s stat-keeping, integration with Oobgolf.com, and course editor.