Apps of the Week, February 26th, 2010
February 26th, 2010
In this edition of Apps of the Week, we torture our Facebook friends by pasting their heads into silly animated videos, locate the best food trucks in our area, better time our daily cat naps, and set up “wifeminders” to ensure we don’t end up on the couch tomorrow night.
SuperSpeech
Price: $0.99
Prepping for a big speech at work or school? Super Speech will not only help you time your presentation, but also give you lighted warnings when your time is winding down and keep track of how many times you mutter an “ah” with the “ah counter.” Saving your roommates and spouses the headache of listening to your speech about turtle reproduction over and over again with an app? A good idea.
Meet the Oscars
Price: FREE
Yep, it’s that time of year again. If you haven’t already heard, the Oscars ceremony is coming up soon, which means you probably won’t hear the end of that one guy who did that one crazy thing at that one part of the Oscars for quite a while to come. So cozy up with this app that lists the nominees and lets you check off which movies you’ve seen and check out the ones you haven’t on IMDB.com directly through the app. We hope you like it! We hope you really really like it!
FakeSpeare
Price: $0.99
The month of March is upon us, which means that April is coming up soon, which means, yep, you guessed it: The Bard’s birthday is impending! Okay, maybe you didn’t guess that, but now you know, William Shakespeare’s big birthday bash is on April 23, which kind of makes this new app relevant, we suppose. FakeSpeare lets you create fake plays with language of the Bard, so you can think of it as a Shakespearean ad libs, of sort. The app even plays old-time music as you create your play, so you can get the full experience. Well, minus the funny costumes and tights for men, of course.
iTouch My Friends
Price: $0.99
It’s a miracle this app made it through Apple’s sex app massacre with a name like “iTouch My Friends,” but we’re pretty glad it did. No, there isn’t really any sexy time in the app, but it does let you make videos and photos of your friends in some hilarious situations by cutting and pasting their photo onto a body, in a fairly impressive way. It looks much more realistic than other apps that do much of the same thing, and the results are pretty giggle-worthy. Share your creations via Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube, of course. Our favorite scenarios? The baby doing karate and making your friend throw a shoe at a teacher are pretty worthy of checking out.
Food Trucker
Price: $0.99
This EverythingiCafe writer is located in good ol’ Chicago, one of the greatest food towns on the planet. But one of the major things the Windy City has been missing? Food carts and food trucks. New York City reigns supreme for food stands, but many other cities have nice selections sprinkled throughout, so this app is perfect for those residents who like to keep track of their local food trucks. Get updates on closings and new food trucks popping up around you, and view what’s available on a map by your city. There are currently seven cities featured in the app, including Los Angeles, Portland, Austin, San Francisco, and New York City.
StayTunedIn
Price: $0.99
Sure, this is an incredibly simple TV listings app, but that’s why we like it. View TV listings for your favorite shows each week, getting updates and alerts for when new episodes are coming up. Many similar apps aren’t updated nearly enough, which is basically like handing over a dollar for a month of work when you expected at least a year’s worth. This app? So far, so good!
PixelEx
Price: $1.99
We’re beginning to wonder if and when digital cameras will become obsolete with the abundance of cameras available on phones, and especially with the increased improvement in quality on the iPhone camera. Case in point: all of the stellar photos and art some iPhone’rs are creating with their iPhone cameras. PixelEx is a cool app more for its content, as it collects some of the best art and photos created by users with their iPhones. Check out some of the galleries, which you can view by topics and other criteria.
GuidoFy
Price: $0.99
Sick of all the Jersey Shore hubbub yet? No? Good. We found this Guidofy app that was released this week, and it’s actually pretty legit. Turn yourself into a bonifide guido with some six-pack abs, ear bling, hats, and other “guido staples” in this photo editing app. We’re thinking a “guidetteme” app would be a little more difficult (spray tans? poofs?), but we’ll be eagerly anticipating one.
Camera Agent
Price: FREE
Class up your photos or make them a little extra special for someone with some cutesy and cool frames from Camera Agent. The frames aren’t quite works of art or anything, but for a free photo editing app, it’s a nice change of pace to at least have some decent and semi-cool ones. There are also other editing tools, including a photo timer, color effects, zoom, and lightness control.
Scribe Notes
Price: $3.99
Sure, you took a ton of photos on your trip to Colorado last summer. That’s great. But who’s going to want to look through them all if they’re disorganized and that one photo of you holding that thing isn’t explained or annotated? Scribe Notes is a slick app that lets you add details like notes or maps to photos you’ve taken and collect them together into batches and groups, then send them out via e-mail. Think of it as the most efficient scrapbooking app for your iPhone. The local Scrapbook Garden store is going to be a tad upset with this, we’re thinking.
The Nap App Free
Price: FREE
This writer enjoyed a nap of her own recently that went way over the 30 minutes she allotted for such a thing. The consequences weren’t good, and I wish I had had this app at the time. Easily set a timer for your nap in this app without fumbling around with your iPhone timer or alarm clocks. Go for the 20-minute cat nap or 60-minute grizzly nap, or set and save your own custom nap time. It may sound like a silly download, but when you’re in need of a nap and need a reliable alarm, you want to make things as simple as possible, which this app does pretty well.
Wife Minder
Price: $0.99
At first we thought this was an education app teaching unruly men how to “mind” their wives and do what they say. Much to our chagrin, we found out it’s a wife reminder app that helps guys keep track of important dates with the wife to remember. Well, this is actually a lot better than an app that teaches guys to mind their wives. Set reminders for yourself that are displayed by the red-yellow-green light system, warning you of when you’re getting close to D-Day. Make notes for different dates, too, i.e. shopping lists or last-minute ideas you need to jot down. Never again feel that familiar back pain from spending a night on the couch because you forgot the anniversay of the date that you first IM’d your now wife.
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