Distimo, a young Dutch company that is entering the slowly but surely saturating market of mobile application distribution and monitoring services, has just released an interesting report about Apple’s App Store. It contains some noteworthy findings about iPhone app pricing and the significant influence prices have on ranking.
Eventually, Distimo aims to release market-wide data on all… → Read More
Oregon-based Dark Horse Comics has finally made its way onto a mobile platform with the its first iPhone App today. With the upcoming release of Terminator Salvation, Dark Horse has pulled out a classic from the archives for its first foray with The Terminator. It was originally published in 1998 and the entire four-part series of The Terminator: Death Valley is available now for $0.99 each. Other… → Read More
With everyone complaining and wishing for turn-by-turn GPS directions on the iPhone, it looks like one app flew under the radar. Called G-Map, this application originally got bad ratings with most users saying that it didn’t work. Well they fixed it and released a 1.2 version that now gets 3 to 5 stars. → Read More
Tokyo-based Ubiquitous Entertainment has developed iShodo, a calligraphy application for the iPhone.
Japanese calligraphy in particular takes years and years to master and is widely considered as a form of art. I wrote “CrunchGear” in Japanese on my own iPhone using iShodo and you can see the result in the picture below (believe me, my handwriting is bad – even in Japanese). → Read More
I don’t get this app, but I’m sure the many people the makers filmed in Las Vegas understand it perfectly. Apparently you “gently compose” that is translated into wind sounds and transmitted around the world. In this way you share love, fear, and joy with millions of strangers around the world. → Read More
Tokyo-based BBSS, a 100% subsidiary of Japanese telecommunications giant SoftBank, has created an app for the iPhone that translates spoken Japanese into either English or Chinese [JP]. → Read More
CGlue, a small software company based in Fukushima prefecture in Northern Japan, has released two rather unusual (and very Japanese) iPhone apps in the last few days: a Geisha simulator and a bamboo flute simulation. → Read More
I wouldn’t imagine any engineer or mad scientist would ditch his/her HP or TI to do calculations on their iPhone, but I could be wrong. What do you think? Check out what the PCalc has to offer first then voice your opinions. * Two layouts – a simple vertical one for everyday tasks, then rotate the calculator for full power when needed. * An RPN mode with one button access to the stack. → Read More
Is anyone else experiencing dropped calls and other such annoyances? I find random apps crashing until I restart the bugger, but that’s become an extreme annoyance. Too bad September is a long time away. “This is a known iPhone bug that is being fixed in the next software update in September.“ → Read More
I’m not the most avid Live player and my friends can attest to that. I’m just not very fond of getting my arse handed to me by 12-year-old girls. However, I do like to see what others are playing and how good they are, so I may actually download one of friends list apps through iTunes. You see, Microsoft requires that all apps pertaining to Xbox Live be free. So you filthy developers out there… → Read More
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