iPhone App Zealot

Disclaimer: MockApp‘s download policy forced me to do a review. I downloaded it.  Per Dotan Saguy‘s licensing aggreement, I wrote this post.

I Like it. If I Could break my free-app addiction for long enough and simultaneously avoid coffee, I would use this to mock-up an App. MockApp provides two clean files and simple instructions for mocking up an iPhone UI. Using either Keynote or PowerPoint (OK, works fine in OpenOffice. Friends don’t let friends do PowerPoint!) If you have aspirations of writing an app, this is a great start. It allows you to put it in front of people, do useability testing, and subcontract the dev work if you don’t know or don’t have the patience to learn Cocoa, etc to make your own from scratch.

Samurai delivers gore and soothing music. It dropped to $0.99 on Saturday and will be on sale for a week. I have only completed a few levels, and I really enjoy it. Like other reviewers, I too find it a little repetitive, but the combo moves keep coming and the bodies keep piling around my noble Ronin. Then again, what games on the iPhone aren’t at least a little repetitive? It is novel, well drawn, and does a good job for a scroller at providing a nice 3D feel. For a buck$1.99, it gets my vote.

If you want to try it out, the lite version can be found on iTunes: Samurai Lite

If you can’t be bothered to try the lite verion, here is a YouTube video of gameplay: Samurai iPhone App Game Play

Update 20 Oct ’09: The sale is over. The price is to $1.99. It is still a great, unique game for that price. While free games good games are best, keeping a developer in business making innovative, fun games is good karma too. Check out the lite version. If you like it, make the devs day at Mad Finger Games and cough up the $1.99.

Not going to belabor it. We’ve all seen it. We’ve all wondered why it took so long. Go to The Unoffical Apple Weblog (TUAW) for some screen editing tips. They also have an a free app that is a feed from their Blog. Either click the icon to the left or this link to TUAW on iTunes.