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.
AppMiner by Bitrino provides a great way to find Apps. The tabs at the bottom provide easy access to new, sale, top rated, search, and ones you have marked for watching. In new, sale, and top rated you can browse by the usual Apple Appstore categories like All, Arcade, Business, etc. and then subdivide by all, free, and paid. Nothing spectacular there. Where AppMiner shines for me is as a native app that allows you to watch it for price drops to price points you want in $1.o0 increments down to free.
Its clean, simple interface is responsive and provides, where available from the Appstore, the first screen shot image and a link to photobrowser-like viewing of the rest of the images. I give it a huge endorsement not only because it is the best way I have found to discover new apps but it fuels my App Zealotry! AppMiner crushes the Appstore and readily beats Yappler and AppShoper for me. Also of note, AppMiner has a web version that is great too. When I read or hear of an interesting App, I flip to this app and mark it for watch, usually for free but sometimes for any price drop.
For an additional view on AppMiner, see the review at Just Another iPhone Blog. PatrickJ does a good job of comparing it to BargainBin, another Appstore browser/app tracker.
Ninjas by Storm8 provides yet another variant on the Mob, Vampire, Band, you-name-it, multiplayer game that seems to be coming out weekly by Storm8. For the most part, these game all play the same. In spite of that, I find myself attracted not only to Ninjas but also to Zombies, Vampires, and iMobsters. Sure, I’ve tried all the other games they push like crack if you play any one of their games by offering free loyalty points or gear. You can, of course, buy loyalty points as well.
So what is Ninjas? You are a ninja who works his or her way up the ranks. It has the usual set of missions, attacks, and equipment panels entitled “Missions”, “Attack”, and “Dojo.” Home and Recruit screens round out the main panels. Like most of these games, there is a basic strategy of build up as much income and cash as you can before adding allies or at least before adding expensive equipment. The real break Ninjas makes with the other games of this kind are in the “Clients” aka income. Instead of just buying more of a given client at an ever increasing cost per unit income, you have a limited number of slots to fill with clients. You can then upgrade or drop any client. Dropping gives a partial refund of cash spent. This is a novel approach that still has me trying to optimize my strategy.
Bottom Line: I find these whole series of games enjoyable. At the price of Free, it is hard to beat.
Footnote: Storm8 was previously harvesting phone numbers from users without their knowledge. This appears to have changed with a recent update. Interesting post at iPhone Home focused on Storm8′s apps. This blog also rates a wide variey of iphone applications for data leaks and apps that do not share user data.
Recent Comments