Favourite iPhone Apps from the Astraware Team!
We've recently started to create games for the iPhone and iPod touch and many of you have given us great feedback and told us what you like. As a few of us in the Astraware team have also chosen iPhones and are enjoying the App Store too, we thought we'd share some of our favorites with you.
Sunita: DVD Dashboard - a fab simple app. I have a huge catalogue of DVDs and it is great to have them at hand and it is easily updated. I can also email the list to anybody that wishes to borrow my DVDs, no more scrappy notebooks full of my scribbled DVD titles!
Kieren: Shazam - My biggest curse when listening to music on the radio is being unable to identify it. All too often the presenter will tell you what it is (which you ignore), and halfway through the track you think "This is rather good, what is it?"...and you don't hear it again, or miss the name again next time because you don't know what to listen out for. Shazam solves that problem, identifying the track for you, and storing it in a list to later perusal. It's quick (about 20 seconds all told), and has been accurate every time so far. Its only weakness is that it is best suited to identifying original tracks - it won't always manage to work its magic on a hummed tune.
Alison: Koi Pond - a lovely restful Koi carp pond in the palm of your hand. You can feed the fish by shaking the iPhone like a pack of fish food, swish the water about or just watch the fish swimming, all the while accompanied by some lovely sound effects like birds chirping and frogs croaking. There's not a lot of point to it - it's just very relaxing.
Kirsten: Moop - It's a very silly noise maker, but it is useful for when you can't quite find the words to express your feelings. It also keeps the kids amused!
As for me: I like Showtimes because it gives the cinema listings for the closest cinemas to us, in a really easy to use format, and even links seamlessly through to the trailers. Makes it nice and quick to decide what we're going to go and watch!
I also like Guitar Toolkit because the tuner is really good, and it has a nice easy chord reference. No need to carry round a separate electronic tuner now!