Lifelike Craigslist ★★★★★ ($.99 / App Store) for the iPhone and iPad is the perfect Craigslist app. There is an enormous amount of Craigslist apps (free and paid) that range from crap to great, Lifelike Craigslist is exceptional. If your a frequent Craigslister, you must get this app. It is fully functional like the website but with even more features and usability. The app looks incredible on the iPhone and even better on the iPad. In fact its so good that you will dismiss the actual Craigslist website altogether.
Type n Walk ★★☆☆☆ ($.99 / App Store) for the iPhone is a text writing app designed specifically for typing while walking. A few minutes in a crowded city will reveal how many people walk dangerously with their head down looking at their smartphone typing away. Type n Walk in theory should alleviate this modern epidemic by having a transparent canvas - it looks like your looking through the camera while typing so you can see your path in front of you. It can compose and send SMS, emails and Tweets or simply copy the text to paste for later use. Two major missing elements keep this from being a 4 star app; the keyboard itself is completely opaque and there is no landscape mode.
Gangstar Rio: City of Saints ★★★★☆ ($6.99 / App Store) for the iPhone and iPad is the third and most recent GTA clone game from Gameloft. This time you play in a Rio de Janeiro, Brazil sand box - a free roaming world. The graphics have been heavily upgraded from the previous versions but the streets still feel empty. Driving mechanics have improved but still needs work. There are 60 official missions to complete with much more random events. Discovering Rio joy riding doing nothing alone could be worth most people’s money. Even with the impending release of the legendary Grand Theft Auto 3 for iOS, Gangstar Rio is an excellent game - even if only to satisfy the itch of the real GTA.
EPOCH ★★★★☆ ($5.99 / App Store) for the iPhone and iPad is a post-apocalyptic robot combat game strictly with cover shooting. Despite the fact that EPOCH is an on-rails game, the action is superbly intense and heavy. The cover-system is perhaps the best in all iOS games to date. There is a decent level of replay value as each mission earns you income to earn upgrades and weapons. Even the story is interesting and well done. Powered by the UnrealEngine like Infinity Blade, the graphics are stunning and run incredibly well.
Finger Focus ★★★★☆ ($.99 / App Store) for the iPhone is an image editing app with a very specific function; focus and blur. Blurring out the background or certain elements of a photo or focusing on objects tend to significantly enhance photos. Usually this could only be done with expensive cameras - not mobile phones. Finger Focus makes it exceedingly easy to accomplish great blur and focus effects just by touching / rubbing the wanted parts just like Color Splash. Other features include contrast, brightness and saturation controls.
AirCassette ★★★★★ ($1.99 / App Store) for the iPhone and iPod Touch is a music player that looks, works and thinks its an old fashioned cassette tape player. Combining the most current music technology(digital) with one from 2 generations ago(tape) is a match made in heaven. AirCassette basically mimics how tapes work right before your eyes. The app uses your device’s CoverFlow and MP3 details to show up on each “tape” in hand written fonts as well as the actual mechanic movements. This is one cool retro app!
