HopStop app for iPhone is a great travel application to own; it gives detailed public transit, walking, taxi, and biking directions in dozens of cities throughout the US, Canada, and Europe. So whether you take a cab, or prefer a bus, whether you opt to walk, the app could take you wherever you wish to go and how you want to get there. HopStop iPhone app can be downloaded free of cost from iTunes App Store.

How HopStop iPhone App Works?

HopStop app for iPhone is customized for 62 cities as of today. Most of these cities never sleep, so does your HopStop app. To start with, enter your current location, or let the app find it using iPhone’s inbuilt GPS facility. Similarly, enter your designation, and the app will provide concise directions on how you can get there. Also, it will give information as to how much it will cost to get there, time taken, and contact info of transportation providers whom you might need enroute. In order to call any provider, just tap on the number. In fact, you can even view wheelchair accessible and stroller friendly routes.

The interesting part of iPhone HopStop app is that you have options wherein you may specify how you are planning to take the trip. I.e. whether you plan to travel by bus/car or you want subway only or you prefer walking or cycling to your destination or a mix of all these means. If you prefer walking, there is an option wherein you can choose between ‘more walking’ and ‘less walking’, and the app will get you the directions results accordingly. Apart from directions, HopStop application also provides info such as transit map, street map, and an option to save your trips.

The app provides real time access to newly added cities. In other words, you don’t have to keep downloading new versions of the app. It happens automatically. Last but not the least, HopStop has an uncluttered and easy to read user interface.

Final Thoughts

HopStop app for iPhone comes handy, if you use public transportation a lot while traveling. It helps you to get around public transit systems in big cities such as NY and London easily, saving much time and money in the process. You can save your current and favorite routes means you don’t get lost on your way back. Verdict: An indispensable app for iPhone for travelers.

Scan Pages app for iPhone virtually turns your smartphone into a pocket scanner. Using this app, you could turn captured images into PDF documents. Executives and managers might find this app quite useful as they deal with lots of documents every day. Scan Pages iPhone app can be downloaded for free from iTunes.

How Scan Pages iPhone App Works?

Scan Pages app makes use of your iPhone’s camera to scan documents, forms, whiteboards, magazines, signs, product labels etc. The app’s advance image processing technology organizes and cleans your mobile images and lets you combine them in a PDF file and store in Google Docs, Evernote, Dropbox or share it with your peers via E-mail. And you could do this without even registering your app anywhere.

Using Scan Pages iPhone application, you can annotate and organize mobile images, make PDF from multiple images, and combine multiple images before sharing it via email, Google Docs, Evernote, or DropBox.

In order to add pages using iPhone Scan Pages app, press the lens button to click a picture of the object you want to be scanned. Now select the document borders by moving the yellow dots as required, and tap on the “clean-up” button to make the document image appear as if it had come out of a real document scanner. At this point, you just can’t but praise the effectiveness of the app’s underlying image processing technology for making this possible without any apparent glitch. If you wish, you can add notes, click ‘done’ to finish, and tap on ‘share’ to share the doc via multiple means. Further, you have the option to pick one or more page images at a time to share.

You cannot control or change the clean up parameters of Scan Pages application. But that should not be a worry as the app delivers near perfect results all the time.

The user interface is clean and well laid out. You won’t have any trouble finding your docs anytime.

Final Thoughts

Scan Pages app for iPhone from Ricoh Innovations, Inc. outperforms its competition in terms of its utility, performance, and efficiency. In fact, it is surprising that the app comes free of cost, given the many features it comes packed with. The app certainly empowers one to ditch their office scanners, if it is a matter of scanning scan 1-2 pages of document, which can now be accomplished from the desk itself, from your iPhone. Verdict: A must have if your job profile demands lots of scanned docs.

There are lots of slashing and chopping games available in iTunes. But iSlash app for iPhone stands out in the way it keeps you engaged, even though the game play and rules are quite simple to grasp. iSlash iPhone app is a quick reaction game wherein you attempt to chop away at shapes on your iPhone screen, in an attempt to reduce it to a certain % of its original size. However, it is not about chopping away at will. While doing so, you have to avoid the moving ninja stars that have to be kept together always. If your finger touches the stars, it is the end of the game. iPhone iSlash game app comes with a price tag of $0.99.

How to play iSlash Game App?

In iSlash game app for iPhone, you chop away a shaped block with the intent to reduce its size. On top of the iPhone screen is a bamboo stick with a red tie attached to it. As you chop away at the shape, the length of the bamboo stick reduces, and you have to keep on chopping until the red tie is reached. But as you are supposed to keep an eye on the moving ninja stars, chopping won’t come that easy as it appears. It limits where you can cut on the shape at a given time. If you happen to cut down the stars, the level restarts immediately.

Slashing is easy; just swipe your finger on the screen to enter and exit the shape, without slashing the stars. The game continues until the required % of the shape is slashed. The game has about 140 puzzles to solve. So, that is lots of challenges to keep you engaged whenever you feel bored in your work.

From iSlash app, you can connect to Game Centre and OpenFeint. You’ll have access to leader boards, and compete with other players online: another reason why you won’t mind having iSlash in your iPhone.

The graphics part of iSlash Game application is good, so is the overall quality aspect of the game. The user interface is very well laid out. The game play is also noticeably good, as the game changes subtly as the player moves up the levels to keep their interest up.

Final Thoughts

iSlash app for iPhone has in it what is required to keep you interested throughout the game play. It is simple, intuitive, and engaging all at once. You won’t regret to have bought this game for your iPhone; highly recommended.

The world we live-in is always rumoured of many Legends, Myths and Tales. We either try to seek the truth or we start follow the myth and pass them on to others. Now there is iPhone application available known as “Myths and Facts” which brings the truth out. For the first time the user will be amazed and surprised to know about the facts for hundreds of myths. Myths and Facts iPhone App is developed by Dmitriy Glebenok which gives explanation for each myth or fact. The app is priced at just $0.99 and can be downloaded from iTunes website.

About this application which is divided into five sections:

1) Myths Quiz – This is a scientific and entertaining function on this application that either confirms or disproves about 21st Century’s most interesting myths. This also includes explanation for each myth. The user can test their knowledge in the quiz mode where they can answer about the myth by choosing true or false options to the myth.

2) Did you know? – In this section there is collective database of facts which are funny and interesting. There are about 10,000 such facts on this section with a friendly interface which the user can conveniently browse. The topics are well arranged in alphabetic order to find them easily.

3) Famous First – This section of the application will give the information on famous inventors, achievers, explorers, developers etc. Also on the first incidents and the facts, Inventions, Items and Events etc. There is huge collective database providing the information.

4) On this Day In History – This section of the application will give the knowledge of the historic event that occurred on the same date. There is collective database about 10,000 events for each month.

5) Famous Birthdays – Again provides the date-of-birth of famous people born. There is huge database and user can find the birth date of their same.

One downside of this app being reviewed frequently is about the grammar and spelling mistakes. This needs to be corrected as this app is primarily for reading.

Conclusion

There are many features of Myths and Facts iPhone App such as Myth encyclopedia which gives a detailed explanation on every myth. There are about 30 topics for user to choose from (Computer, Animal, Food Facts, Cars, Money, Sports, and Weather). The updates on this application are done several times in a month. The user can add the new feature and facts any time. Myths and Facts App for iPhone does not need Internet connection and can also be accessed in offline mode.

Elder Sign Omens app for iPhone is an interesting game application, with a steep learning curve. It is also worth mentioning that it is rather easier to play the game and understand the rules in the process than explaining it in plain text to someone. Anyways, here is an attempt to tell the readers what Elder Sign Omens iPhone app is all about.

The Gameplay

Here is the premise: Azathoth, one of Lovecraft’s Great Old Ones, is showing signs of awakening. If it rises from its slumber that would basically be the end of the world. Your job is to choose from 16 investigators to form a team of 1 to 4 members, each with their own strength and weaknesses (for e.g. some with more stamina while some has sanity), to stop this from happening. Each investigator takes turn to explore the museum, where the action happens, attempting to overcome the many hurdles therein.

Once you enter the museum, you’ll face with a selection of missions/encounters. Each encounter is solved by conjuring a series of glyph icons by means of rolling the dice, and seeing if it matches the symbols required to defeat the nameless horror you face in the museum. If the investigator succeeds, you’ll win rewards such as equipment, clue tokens, and occasionally, the rare Elder Signs needed to seal the gateway. By using equipment or special abilities, extra dice can be won if required.

On the other hand, if the investigator fails to generate the required icons, they can try again after sacrificing a die. However this leads to a spiral of diminishing returns, if no results are obtained again. Once all dies are gone, you suffer a penalty (in the form of stamina or sanity damage), alongside accelerating the Doom Track, the time left before Azathoth awakens spelling doom to the world. The graphics is good, so are the sound effects.

On the downside, as mentioned, Elder Sign Omens game can be overwhelming at times for a beginner, but there is no tutorial or documentation to help you out if you get stuck. Video tutorial helps, but it is not comprehensive.

Conclusion

Elder Sign Omens app for iPhone is a game that is part strategy and part luck. In fact, it inclines towards the luck factor more; if you don’t manage to get the signs on the dice, there is little you can do. On top of the luck element, how you pick the investigator, how you keep him and his abilities alive, and pick the missions you think you can finish – the strategy – that makes or breaks the game. Verdict: A must have if you complex games is your forte, and you don’t mind spending few bucks to purchase a license.

Extreme Road Trip was originally released as a web browser game which is now available to download for iPhone. It is a balancing game which is very simple to play. Extreme Road Trip iPhone game app became very popular among the user and went to charts in terms downloads. This is very addictive fun game which is based on physics which gives pleasure to the user. Music is extremely good from SoulEyes. Intense aerial stunts with flips and wheeling’s. There are six different cars to choose from, also each cars has different characteristics. iPhone Extreme Road Trip game application can be played on any iOS device.

How to Play Extreme Road Trip Game

On the main menu page of the game the options appear, there is guide that shows how to play the game, language setting which can be changed to player preference, adjust audio setting etc. If it is free version, which is downloaded then only one car that can be selected known as FRAT. Rest of the cars is locked and small fee needs to be paid to get the other cars. The properties of the cars differs based on its performance like cars that can do more spins or cars that are more balanced etc.

Start of game, the car always is on the move and needs to be driven as far as possible without crashing. The car can be balanced by tilting the phone according to the movement and can do wheelie on each set of tyres by tilting the iPhone. When the car goes over a jump, need spin and perform stunts which would build nitro bar. This allows the car to go more faster on the next jump even higher to perform stunts. While performing the spins need to be careful not to crash. If the car lands on its wheel on jump the player gets an extra boost to car which will help the player in covering more distance. There are two buttons on the screen which helps the players to perform the spins in the air.

Conclusion

The goal for player is to cover maximum distance as possible. There is only limited amount of petrol in tank and once it runs out, the game is over. The players achievement is ranked with distance covered. Extreme Road Trip app for iPhone is a very simple game and the player can get the hang of the game with no-time at all.

Penultimate app for iPhone is a quick, touch based notes taking tool that allows creating multiple notebooks with limitless pages. An emphasis is placed on your input rather than its customizability. Developers Cocoa Box aim to bridge the gap with Penultimate, the touch based notes application.

Features of Penultimate iPhone App

• It has an amazing ink and paper.
• It keeps all thoughts in separate, together.
• It has got very serious software.
• It sends single page images or full notebooks in PDF format to anyone.

Advantages

The Penultimate iPhone app is essential, easy to use and beautiful. It stands with core productivity and every detail of the user interface has been designed and refined to be simple and intuitive and so no complicated or cluttered settings. When you first open your Penultimate you will find a welcome notebook that will walk you through all of the major features. You can scribble and whizz through your pages and notebooks in no time. The handwriting and drawing looks spectacular in bold gel ink. Three different photo realistic paper styles are included along with a magically effective eraser tool that is always the right size. Visit the paper Shop in the app to see the latest convenient collections available for download. Penultimate app for iPhone can manage as many notebooks as you can create, each with infinite number of pages.

You can browse quickly through all pages or insert, delete, duplicate and reorder them. Penultimate is a powerful application. It has a superior inking technology that produces pen strokes that you might think look better than real. iPhone Penultimate application also features undo/redo buttons, as well as a handy wrist protection feature to ensure that your wrists aren’t mistaken for finger tips. It is as simple as it sounds to use, focusing on drawing and design rather than customization and options.

Disadvantages

Some minor flaws include the option to have tools at the top or bottom of the page and we have to scroll every time you want to change tools or the options within the pen tool. In addition to this notebooks can be exported via email in PDF format, but cannot be imported.

Penultimate app for iPhone is great for those who are interested in getting things down quickly and plainly. Nevertheless, Penultimate is easy to use and looks great. It is fast and simple.

Yearly helps you to remember annual (or yearly) events such as birthdays and anniversaries. The app, instead of relying on iPhone’s native calendar app, uses the data associated with the contacts in your address book. Yearly iPhone app can be downloaded from the iTunes Store for $0.99/year.

How Yearly iPhone App Works?

Before delving into the feature of iPhone Yearly app, it is worth mentioning that the app got one of the beautiful user interfaces. The visuals are just pixel perfect, like the MoneyBook and ListBook apps from the same developer.

On the main screen, the events will be displayed in the chronological order. That is, you’ll see the name of the person (with photo if there is any), date, type of event, and the number of days remains until the said date. If you swipe on any entry, you’ll get three options: SMS, email and call. You can choose any one of these options to send a quick message across. Further, tapping on an entry takes you to the Detail screen, wherein you can view information (or you can enter these info when you create/edit a contact in Yearly) such as the name, photo, how long you’ve been together or how old they will be, zodiac sign, event type, and all other contact information. There is also Notes filed where you can enter other information related to the person such as his/her hobbies, dress size etc.

Another notable feature of Yearly iPhone application is the option to have push notifications (up to 14 days before the D-day). On the downside, you can’t select individual contacts to have push notifications. It is all or none. Another downside is that you can’t create an event (or delete duplicates) from within the Yearly app.

The Gestures options permit you to customize the phone numbers/addresses that you wish to prioritize for shortcut feature. Further, by swiping left to right anywhere on the screen takes you back to the previous screen, which seems to be a very handy feature.

Conclusion

Yearly app for iPhone is a very useful application. But its biggest downside is that the app relies solely on the address book for data. If it had used calendar information, it would have been much more effective on any given day. The all-or-nothing take on notifications is also a downer. Flaws apart, Yearly is an impressive iPhone app that is worth its price tag. Hopefully, its shortcomings will be ironed out in the later versions.

Riptide GP is an exciting watercraft racing game where you get to race in futuristic courses. The game is complete with all kinds of stunts to make it all an interesting experience to the players. The game makes use of realistic water physics, and highly detailed graphics that looks great in motion. In Riptide GP app for iPhone, there are 12 different raceways, and six jet skis to unlock. Further, there are five different grand prix, and three different difficulty levels, which in fact form the heart of the game. Riptide GP iPhone app costs $2.99.

How Riptide GP iPhone Game App works

Riptide GP game app looks impressive on newer devices – such as iPhone 4S and iPad 2 – rather than the original iPad because the waves move/change in real time in newer devices whereas it is flat and unexciting in older gadgets. And for an avid gamer, it will certainly look like a mash up of Wave Race 64 and Wipeout.

The graphics is impressive (if you got an equally potent screen); the waves look realistic and the courses innovative. The sound is pumping electronic music while you can’t miss the gleaming lights shining from all direction.

Your primary control is tilting the screen. The acceleration is automatic, even though you can do it manually as well. The auto-acceleration feature helps you to free your thumb to perform some tricks to refill your boost meter. Riptide GP iPhone game got six tracks (and six more when they’re reversed), and you can compete in one of three different speeds: 250cc, 500cc, and 1000cc. If to warn you, the first one is dull. But for beginners, it helps to get used to the racing, the tracks, and the maneuvers. Once you settle in, you won’t do 250cc most likely. And you can’t miss the arcade-style game experience with Riptide GP, wherein you will feel both fast as well as out of control at times.

The main downside with Riptide GP app for iPhone is the lack of action. There are only five other racers on the screen at any given time. Most times, you’ll have only one racer on the screen, and that kills the excitement a lot.

Conclusion

Riptide GP app for iPhone is entertaining. But avid gamers will also feel that it has come short in terms of execution. The small number of vehicles/tracks and lack of any sense of progression dents the excitement much as one plays it for some time. Verdict: A bit costly for the game experience it offers.

GoodPlayer app is a handy iOS application that lets users view a variety of video formats in their iPhones, without having to convert them to MP4 files. GoodPlayer app for iPhone comes as a worthy replacement to the now dumped out VLC app, but with more features and yes, a slightly higher price tag at $2.99 per license.

How GoodPlayer iPhone App Works?

GoodPlayer iPhone application plays the common video formats such as AVI, WMV and MPG, alongside few more, some of which, I’ve never heard of to be honest. If you want to know which are those, here is an incomplete list of file types supported by the application: AVI, Xvid, Divx, DAT, FLV, WMV, VOB, MKV, MP4, RM, AC3, m4v,m4r,m4a , dv,eac3,f4v, RMVB, HTTP, FTP, RTSP, MMS, SMB, MMST, MMSH, UPnP RTP, and UDP.

To start with, the first step is to load the videos to the app. This can be done directly via iTunes or using WiFi through a Web URL/FTP portal. In fact, GoodPlayer is potent enough to draw media from other sources as well. There is a globe icon on the bottom-right of the main screen that gives you multiple options to do so, including Downloader & Browser, Input Direct Streaming URL, WebDAV Client etc. Swipe fingers up/down on playing, to change the subtitle or turn off subtitle on the fly, while swiping fingers left/right on playing changes the audio track on the fly (media files with multiple audio tracks).

GoodPlayer app’s settings selection deserves credit. In the app, you can adjust subtitles, toggle plug-ins, change UI appearance, and adjust playback characteristics alongside managing audio/video settings.

However, GoodPlayer app for iPhone seems to have some troubles playing large-sized high definition video files. But then it is still better than how VLC performed with similar-sized video files.

Conclusion

GoodPlayer iPhone mobile app offers what it promises. It is easy to use, reliable, robust, and comes with added features and options than its erstwhile competitor, VLC for iPhone. Even though it stutters a bit while playing large video files, the app does well in handling a multitude of video formats. Even though GoodPlayer is not a free app unlike VLC, the app is still a worthy buy, given the utility it brings to the table.

PS: GoodPlayer iPhone app only works with iOS 3.2 and above, and in iPhones 3GS and iPhone4.