GPSed – Track Your Trips
I really liked this app. It allows you to plot a trip using the iPhone’s built in GPS and save the information for use later. When you are actually taking the trip, whether driving, walking or flying, it shows you your average speed, top speed and distance traveled as well as how long it takes you to complete each step of the journey. This is helpful for keeping track of mileage if you need reimbursement for work and for finding out how long a trip actually takes instead of relying on estimates from mapping programs.
The only flaw I found isn’t really with the app but with how the iPhone handles background processes. If your phone times out and goes to sleep, the app pauses until you power it back on. This causes your speeds to become skewed and report wrong, since the app won’t know the program stopped and will instead catch up by immediately adding the new miles traveled when it kicks back in.
Since the phone timed out while I was driving and then kicked back on a couple minutes later, the app assumed I jumped 10 miles in two seconds and gave me an insanely high travel speed of over 120 miles per hour (which is not even possible in my little car). Aside from this little hiccup, the app works as promised and was very helpful.
The app doesn’t have much in the way of graphics or sound. It’s just an allover simple design. It also doesn’t provide maps, just odometer, time and speed statistics.
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Pocket God
March 2, 2009 by WilliamL
Filed under Entertainment, Featured
I had mixed impressions of Pocket Gods at first because it isn’t a game it’s a entertainment app but has the fell of playing a game. The graphics are just ok nothing to write home about while the audio isn’t bad, some sort of tropical Island Music. In this app you are playing God to primitive islanders, you rule and can create new life and take life away just as quickly.
Once you start the app click on the question mark in the upper right corner this is basic instructions on what to do. Now I’m sure you have noticed that there is only one islander to add more up to six at time click the plus sign in the upper left corner and islander will start dropping down on to your island. After you add islanders you can begin to rule, you can feed the coconuts, you can flicking them in to the water to drown or flick them in to the volcano which gets closer to exploding each time you get one in and on the third islander in the volcano bursts shooting hot lava on your islanders back on the island, you can pick them up and drop them, poke them, drop the rock on them, hit them with lightning, feed them to the shark everything and vengeful god would do.
Along with being mean to my islanders I can change day to dusk and than night which will cause my islanders to sleep i also can make it a clear sky or cloudy with lightning, by shaking my iphone it causes a earth quake and by tilting side to side the islanders will slide in that direction and in to the water. I’ve pretty much described how the app works and the features of Pocket God for the iPhone, Now you can become the Powerful God Of The Island.
Even though my at first I wasn’t sure about Pocket Gods in the past 4 days while testing for this review I have grown fond of this app all thought there is no real purpose to what you do in this app it is fun and addicting. Despite the lack of quality graphics I still found it to be a joy, I played it for several hours over the four days I tested it for the review and have 9 times since for entertainment and to show friend and get there insight on this app. Overall I would recommend this app for $0.99 to everyone, and I shared it with 5 of my friends and all but one was on board with my thoughts.
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