iPhone Application Watch: Air Hockey, Gesture, Word Party Lite, OmniTuner, Enjoy Sudoku Daily Free, Midway, Pole Position: Remix
Air Hockey
At the risk of yanking the iPhone out of your opponent's hands, Air Hockey is a neat application which simulates those great little tables in the arcades.
Of course, you're using the relatively small screen of the iPhone, but the game features large mallets, realistic sounds, and subsequent versions should feature a "Pro" 1 player mode and improved responses. £0.59.
Gesture
Create digital paintings from your photos with Gesture, which translates the iPhone's movements into paint strokes using sampled colours from the photo. £2.99.
Word Party Lite
Word Party Lite is a game along the lines of Taboo, which gets teams to say the correct word based on clues, without using the taboo words.
OmniTuner
I'm thinking of picking up OmniTuner for my wife, whose last guitar tuner decided to go off pitch. This app can be used to tune any instrument, but is particularly aimed at guitarists and bassists.
It features multiple guitar tunings, easy-to-use handsfree interface, optional non-standard frequencies, LED and pitch meters, and a fretboard for tuning other stringed instruments including banjo, mandolin, and ukulele.
Really not bad for £2.99 if you've already got an iPhone.
Enjoy Sudoku Daily Free
There are a lot of Sudoku puzzle applications available for the App Store, but this one appears to be one of the better ones, and it's free. Enjoy Sudoku Daily Free features a large, high contrast board, a hints system that claims to make you a better player, advanced techniques at higher levels, saves game when switching apps, board highlighting, automatic or manual pencil marks, and more.
Midway
Midway is designed to calculate a fairly central place to meet based upon the locations of people being invited to an event. Select from restaurants, hotels, cinemas, and so on. £1.19.
Pole Position: Remix
Namco's Pole Position: Remix is a take on the original 80s arcade game, featuring some interesting on screen controls.
It's interesting to see how different driving games utilise the touchscreen and accelerometer to achieve steering and breaking. Namco has gone purely for using the screen, whereas something like GTS World Racing purely uses the accelerometer.
If you fancy some nostalgic racing game play, the £5.99 price tag may not bother you.
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