Most smart phones already have got a weather widget. But if you fancy something a bit different, try out the Yahoo Weather app for Android. It comes with some decent upgrades and features that you would love. Typical of Yahoo widgets and apps, the Yahoo Weather Android app comes free of cost for its users.
How Yahoo Weather App Works?
Yahoo Weather has joined hands with The Weather Channel for weather information from around the globe, and Flickr to leave you with a visual impact. So, when you download and install Yahoo Weather app – which is a breeze – it will detect where you are and present you with the current weather information of your location. Further, you can assign different locations – up to ten of them – whose weather conditions you would like to know. This could be the places you travel to quite frequently.
Yahoo Weather Android application presents the weather details in a pretty standard fashion, but fills the background with beautiful pictures from the Project Weather group on Flickr. This is a Yahoo group, set up by Yahoo to let people submit their weather pictures for inclusion. Thanks to Yahoo patrons around the world, now the group has a decent collection of weather photos from around the globe. The best part is that you’ll get to see a new picture every time you glance at the app for some weather info.
Clicking/tapping on the background will move the weather info aside, and you can marvel at the photo. If you want a better view of the photo, click on the link provided alongside, which takes you to Flickr. There is a widget available too; but the images are a bit small. This too will provide a background image consistent with the application.
If to point out a downside, not many cities are supported. So, if you have Birmingham as your location, you might still get a photo of London. Hope things will improve as more photos get uploaded to Project Weather group.
Conclusion
Yahoo Weather app for Android delivers results. And in combination with Flickr, it provides a rather nice presentation of weather information on your screen, without boring you with the same image always. If you want a weather app with a difference, Yahoo Weather application is the one for you. Verdict: Good one to have in your phone.
ICE (In Case of Emergency) app would come handy in the event of an emergency. In the app, you can list your emergency contacts along with your medications, conditions, blood type, allergies, and insurance provider details so that the medical person attending to you during an emergency could locate your medical information/conditions easily, alongside the emergency contact numbers, in one place. The ICE app icon will be prominently displayed on the top right corner of your iPhone home screen for easy access. ICE iPhone app is a free application.
How iPhone ICE App Works?
ICE iPhone app basically makes it easy for you to enter whatever medical information that you would want paramedics to know in the event of a medical emergency, including your photo. Many of the input fields in the app are text fields, so that they can enter whatever little info you’d like. On launching ICE, your ICE information is summarized on the screen. The said information includes your name and photo, primary emergency contact, medical condition/organ donor info, and allergy information. The emergency contact can be dialed directly from the screen in one touch.
Setting up ICE app for iPhone is easy. In the set up page, enter your email ID and 4-digit passcode. One is required to enter the passcode before they could make any edits to saved info. In the following ‘My Info’ section, enter your personal information and vital statistics, alongside uploading your photo from one of your albums. Emergency contacts are entered in the ‘My Contacts’ section, followed by medical conditions/history in ‘My Medical’ section. Finally, allergy info is entered in ‘My Allergies’ section. Once you finished with these details, you’ll have an option to send an email to those people who you’ve added as your emergency contacts. If you wish, you can review the details, and make further edits/changes if required, but after keying in the passcode correctly.
The user interface of ICE is very user friendly. Populating the details is a cake walk.
Final Thoughts
The idea of ICE iPhone application is just terrific. It lets you store your vital medical information, including contact number and insurance details, in one place for easy access to first responders in the event of an emergency. And it works fine. Verdict: A must have medical application to have in your iPhone.
Contract Killer Zombies is a 3D freemium super cool game from Glue for iPhone. In this sequel to ‘Contract Killer’, you job is to protect your companion Evelyn and her company, as they are attacked by swarms of hungry, brain-gobbling zombies, by shooting them down using a variety of weapons. The Contract Killer Zombies app for iPhone is a free game application that can be downloaded from iTunes.
How Contract Killer Zombies iPhone app Works?
The Contract Killer Zombies game app for iPhone is all about controlling the shooter on a wheel chair – you – through a series of missions in a city infested with the undead. Your main task is to assist survivors during escape attempts or their effort to find supplies. You’ll have Evelyn in company, and although she’s capable of holding her own, in the course of the mission, there’ll be circumstances in which she’ll be in trouble, and you got to help her out. Missions are displayed on an aerial map, which gives you a better idea of the scale of the settlement and the impact of chaos inflicted on it by the zombies.
More money and experience is on offer on each level. You will need the former to buy more sophisticated weapons as you go up the levels. You can find the weapon stores on the map. You can use two weapons per level. You swipe on the screen to aim the weapon, and tap on the bottom right of the screen to shoot at the target. The ammunition is virtually unlimited, though the time it takes to reload your weapon matters. However, you’re required to make in-app purchases of weapons to clear certain levels.
The graphics of Contract Killer Zombies application is excellent; the post-apocalyptic environment is superbly recreated, whereas the sound effects add a realistic feel to the whole shooting action.
Conclusion
Contract Killer Zombies iPhone app is a gory yet engrossing game for people of all age. On the downside, the missions might get repetitive over time; some variety would have been welcome. The innate focus on forcing players to spend on in-app purchases may also be a turn off for some. But if you are an avid gamer, the quality Contract Killer Zombies brings to the table makes it worth paying for in-app purchases. However, it is the player choice. Contract Killer Zombies app can be downloaded for free from iTunes App Store.
Now you can connect to your FTP server, edit the PHP code of your website that you’re developing, or simply any of those wonderful things that Codeanywhere does, right from your Android device using Codeanywhere application. Technically speaking, Codeanywhere app for Android is code editor and FTP client for Android. The app automatically syncs with your Codeanywhere account, and as in its web service, lets you add multiple FTP/SFTP servers, browse through and edit the added servers’ files/ folders, download/edit any PHP, HTML, JavaScript, CSS and XML files on the go. Codeanywhere app for Android is free of cost.
How Codeanywhere Android App Works?
Android Codeanywhere app is useful for those who own website(s), and quite frequently find the need to edit/make changes to the said site, while being away from their PCs.
Once you login to the app, you can add as many FTP or SFTP servers from the home screen by tapping Menu and clicking ‘Add Server’. Once the server is added, you can go through the files, rearrange, alter/rename permissions for the files/folders, create new text files, download/edit existing files, or upload new files from your SD card. Files opened for editing appears in separate tabs. It remains opened unless explicitly closed by the user from Opened tabs screen. The advantage of such an arrangement is that you can pick up right from where you’ve left off, every time you log in.
In order to close an opened file, navigate to the ‘Opened Tabs’ screen, and hold down on the tab and click ‘Close tab’ from the context menu that appears henceforth.
Conclusion
Codeanywhere app for Android lets you make edits/changes to your code, files anytime anywhere from your Android device. Since it auto-syncs with your web account, you can pick up from where you have let off, once you login from your PC. The user interface is easy to use, and with a 3.5’ screen typing won’t be a struggle either. While Codeanywhere Android application can’t be a substitute for a full fledged code editor, it works reasonably well to solve your coding needs when you’re away from your PC, and you got to do something urgent on your website. Verdict: A handy app to have, if you want to be near to your code all the time.
Tenses are the course in mastering English grammatical tenses. With Grammar Express: Tenses Lite App for iPhone, You can learn the grammar rules, study the examples and then test their understanding by taking quiz and at the end of each quiz the user is presented with test summary and explanation for each test question.
Features of Grammar Express Tenses Lite App
- You can choose number of questions you would like in each test.
- Shows test results in HTML for mat.
- E-mail yourself the test results and track your progress.
- There is a new module called “Progress Meter” which keeps track of how you are performing in a particular topic or mock test.
- You can choose your own timer settings.
- You need to just shake your iPhone to skip a question.
- There are some cool sound effects and you can turn them off if desired.
- You can choose your own zoom factor for your question graphics.
- There are special algorithms that randomize questions every time you take a test.
Best Education App for iPhone
Grammar Express Tenses Lite iPhone app can help you to improve your understanding of tenses and make use of correct form of verb. Customer timer setting can assist you to improve response times under exam time constraints. You can grammar rules by topic as questions are sorted by topic. It also tells you the areas that each topic covers. A summary of the practice test is presented at the end of each test. It shows you the time you took, the score, which questions you answered correctly and where you were wrong and the results can be mailed. Grammar Express: Tenses Lite iPhone application records your progress as you start giving practice tests. It shows a beautiful bar chart so that you can track your weak areas and give more focus on them. It is very easy to use and the slick user interface allows you to choose from possible answers. The app is very interactive and needs minimum user input.
Conclusion
Research suggests that kids and adults learn most quickly when playing learning games with real-time error-feedback. Grammar Express: Tenses Lite App for iPhone provides learners with an opportunity to improve strategies for grammar success.
NinJump app for iPhone is a brilliant slice of freebie fun and is becoming one of the favorite iPhone applications. NinJump is a new arcade game where arcade games suck you in and help you feel like you are part of the story and game.
Features of NinJump iPhone App
- It has a simple single tap display.
- Ninjas can be controlled by you.
- Killer squirrels that will bite you to death and make you lose your firm grip on the wall.
- Great looking graphics with special artwork and animations to help you to get into the game as a whole.
- Awesome bonuses that you can collect to give you special powers and abilities.
- Original sound and music to get your emotionally into the game.
- Open Feint leader boards so you can see your posted score and see how it stacks up to the competition.
- NinJump game application is optimized for iPhone 4 and the retina display.
- Challenge a friend via email so you can get the job done.
- Fast app switching
- Post scores on Face book or Twitter so that you can try and play your friends and beat their high scores.
Game Positives
NinJump iPhone game app is quite simple as the game is a 2d vertical scroller in which you are a ninja climbing up the wall. With a single tap you can jump from one wall to the next, knocking obstacles from the air as you do. The game has great looking graphics and a really fun way to control the character. The artwork and animations are fun and colorful and they will entertain you for many days to come. NinJump game has got a replayability value and has all the sharing extras that we have come to love like Open Feint, Face book, Twitter and email.
Conclusion
Though NinJump is a free app it is not particularly unique as it has slight twist on other endless climbers. NinJump game application is a great addition to the iPhone, and should be a must download for any serious arcade gamer.
Greedy Spiders app for Android is an addictive and fun game application where you got to save flies/bugs trapped in spider’s web. The game involves you, the player, attempting to outsmart the spider wisely rather than outrunning it. An ad-free version of Greedy Spiders game app can be downloaded for free from the Android Market Place.
The Game
Greedy Spiders, in some ways, looks like the spider version of Angry Birds. Here, instead of shooting birds, you should be blocking spiders from eating other bugs by cutting/removing or burning one strand of web at a time so as to prevent the spider(s) from reaching up to the bugs.
To start with, Greedy Spiders game appears rather simple. But it is not so in reality. Even in the first levels, for most players, it’ll take more than one round before they eventually clear the level. As you play couple of times, you’ll realize that Greedy Spiders is also a game of strategy wherein every move you make is crucial to the bug’s survival. You need to devise your moves cleverly so as to slow down the spider.
As you go up the levels, the game adds more number of insects to be saved, on more complicated webs, with the spider now got multiple ‘routes’ to maneuver its way towards the insects. It is worth mentioning at this point that some of the levels are frustratingly difficult. The graphics of Greedy Spiders Android app is awesome. Sound effects add to the overall pomp of the game.
Final Thoughts
Greedy Spider Android game app is riveting, when you play it for the first time. It takes some amount of planning to get through the different levels. More often than not, you’ll end up playing each level multiple times before you eventually pass the same. If you’re someone who does not get bored as difficulty levels increase in a game, this one certainly qualifies to find a place in your game repertoire. The free version of Greedy Spiders is ad supported. If you want it ad-free, prepare to spend a modest $0.9 at the Android Market.
The Oregon Trail was always one of the few games that kids actually liked to play in school and now with this unique and fun game brought to the iPhone, the fun never has to end. The Oregon Trail has gotten a huge facelift in the iPhone version with the application not only trying to appeal to its followers but also to a new generation of kids.
Features of Oregon Trail iPhone App
- Oregon Trail app for iPhone has all of the decision making and problem solving fun of the original game.
- You can select members of your party, choose your departure date and purchase supplies.
- It has historical references through real locations and famous characters from the past, plus historic facts.
- Oregon Trail game app has 8 skilled mini games including 2 accelerometer based challenges.
- Random events faced by real pioneers’ increases the challenge.
- Side missions add more excitement to your journey
- Refreshed with modern colored graphics in a cartoonish style.
- You can post your achievements through Facebook on your wall.
Game Positives
The side quests added an extra bit of fun and adventure to Oregon Trail game app. At the end of each segment you get a loading screen that is wealth of information, letting you know if you are behind the schedule. Just like the original, the controls are really easy to learn and use. On bottom you have four choices-fast, medium, slow and stop. This version of app though is slightly less of the learning tool than the original version, the points are all there and what really matters is that it gets kids interested in learning about this part of history.
Conclusion
Oregon Trail app for iPhone is a definite try, with those numerous side quests, 8 mini games and tons of options to play. This is a great iPhone game app which is constantly being updated and improved and so is always getting better.
Capturing and sharing the inner most creative genius has never been easier. iBrainstorm app is the first multi device collaboration tool from mastermind and just with a flick of finger; iBrainstorm has set the bar and has redefined the very nature of collaboration.
Features of iBrainstorm App
Share your sessions by connecting up to four iPhones to your iPad.
Draw, Erase and Zoom.
Email your session to everyone in your team.
How iBrainstorm App Works
iBrainstorm turns an iPad screen into a drawing surface and you can use your finger as a black dry erase felt tip pen to make notes, draw or scribble down whatever you want on the screen. To erase any portion of what you have drawn, just tap an eraser button at the top of the screen and your finger switches from marker to eraser. Tapping another button at the top right of the screen erases everything in one blow. By tapping the plus button on the top left of your screen, you can add post-it notes to your canvas. If you hold a finger down on a post-it note, a keyboard appears, allowing you to type on that note. A color palette on the top of the keyboard lets you change the color of the post-it.
Advantages
iBrainstorm app is used to connect to a running session of iBrainstorm on the iPad. It gives up to 4 people the ability to create ideas on their iPhones and flick them over to the iPad making the iBrainstorm process engaging and fun. The app is shared with UX community and is quickly elevated to an integral part of normal User Experience Design Process. iBrainstorm is a free application and is describes as a “creative collaborative tool”. iBrainstorm lets you collaborate in other ways by allowing you to email any image you create during a brainstorming session. Colleagues can look over your work and send back suggestions, but they can’t modify the image you send them.
Disadvantages
iBrainstorm app won’t allow you to change the size of your felt-tip pen, or post-it note font sizes, making it hard for multiple people to see everything on the screen without having to crowd around it.
Conclusion
iBrainstorm application works as advertised and the ability to send contributions from an iPhones to an iPad during brainstorming sessions certainly impresses.
Hipmunk has launched their flight search and booking application for Android. The app provides flight search details in a visual timeline, let you book a flight either entirely through the app or finish the booking later using a code online, have multiple booking options alongside saved searches. And the best part is that Hipmunk app for Android sorts flights by ‘agony’, which takes into consideration the duration of the flight, how many stops it make in between, and also, yes, price of ticket. Hipmunk is a free download.
How Hipmunk Android App Works?
Hipmunk app for Android has a user friendly enough interface. You won’t have any troubles to pick the airport and date of flying from the user screen. Once given search, and results displayed, you’re given four views over a visual timeline, based on Agony (the duration), Price, Depart Times, and Arrival Times. Even though the idea of Hipmunk application was to have you, the user, switch between the different options and arrive at the best choice. But it is here things get trickier; there is no explicit indication as to how to book the tickets. Clicking on the displayed options simply expands them. In practice, the flights are selected by clicking on the price tag. Most likely, you’ll tap around for sometime before hitting the bulls-eye.
Once you select a flight, you can book it through Orbitz or Airfare.com. Hipmunk Android app also gives you an option, wherein you’ll be issued a code that lets you book your flight on your PC through hipmunk.com. This comes handy if you don’t wish to go through the entire booking process in your mobile phone.
Hipmunk only works with Android OS versions 2.2 or higher. If you use Éclair or the ones before that, please excuse. Given the pace at which Android OS versions are released, it would have been better had Hipmunk app had backward compatibility. But then this is one of the inherent drawbacks of Android.
Conclusion
Hipmunk app for Android is easy to use, and surprisingly attractive. It works fine all the time, and offers what it promises. Hopefully, it’ll also help you save money and lots of time. However, few more options such as car hire/hotels would have been made it better. Verdict: A handy booking app to have in your device.
