Apps that Reach the Million-Dollar Mark

From $.99 to $89.99, iPhone Apps can make you rich, if you have to skills to program thousand of lines of code. With over 2 BILLION downloads, and just reaching the 100,000 app mark, there is no stopping the App Store. With all that money flying around, what are the top grossing apps you may ask yourself.

These weeks’ Business Week reports on several apps that have hit the million dollar mark. With the amount of revenue coming in for these apps, you have probably contributed to one or more of these hitting the million-dollar mark. If you haven’t tried any of these, then you should try them to see what all the hype is about.

ragdoll7. Ragdoll Blaster $950,000 by: Backflip Studios
Ragdoll Blaster combines the fun of firing ragdolls from cannons with the challenge of a puzzle game… while simulating real physics. You simply touch the screen to aim and fir your ragdoll at the increasingly more difficult targets.

flick6. Flick Fishing – $1 Million By: Freeverse
Cast the line with a flick of your wrist. With a skillful combination of bait, location, and technique you’ll hook a fish — now you just need to reel it in! Reel carefully to avoid snapping the line and losing your fish.

rollercoaster5. Roller-Coaster Rush – $1.1 Million By: Digital Chocolate
Step on the brakes and take a ride with Rollercoaster Rush, an award-winning and highly addictive game. Take on over 70 different action-paced roller coaster tracks located all over the world including the United States, France and Australia.

tpain4. I Am T-Pain – $1.1 Million By: Smule
Ever wonder how your own voice sounds Auto-Tuned? I AM T-Pain gives you Auto-Tune in the palm of your hand, using the same audio technology T-Pain himself uses in the studio to record his music.

ocarina3. Ocarina – $1.3 Million By: Smule
Sensitive to your breath, touch and movements, Ocarina is more versatile then an actual Flue. Blow air into your mic to create music, touch combination of holes to play notes, tilt to change vibrato rate and depth.

fast2. F.A.S.T. – $1.8 Million By: Social Gaming Network
Take to the skies in F.A.S.T. – Fleet Air Superiority Training. Dogfight online with your friends or against perfect strangers, via WiFi and Bluetooth. Increase you rating by beating other pilots and unlock new planes.

And the Number 1 Grossing App, so far, is:
enigmo1. Enigmo – $2.5 Million By: Pangea Software
Enigmo is a 3D puzzle game where you can direct animated streams of flowing liquid so that the droplets get to their destination. Water, oil and Lava fall from Droppers and bounce around the walls of the puzzle. You move rotate various types of bumpers, sliders, accelerators and sponges in order to divert the flow of water.

How To Make Your iPhone Ringer Louder

Perhaps one of the most aggravating aspects of having a cell phone is when you miss a telephone call. There are many reasons why you can miss a phone call, however, when you miss a very important call due to your ringer’s low volume, this is extremely aggravating. If you own an iPhone, than you may have missed many phone calls due to the low ringer volume, which is very surprising. When you have a cell phone as high-tech as the iPhone, than you expect it to be able to properly notify you when you have a phone call, however, due to the iPhone’s lower than normal ringer volume many people are missing phone calls. But what can you do about the iPhone’s low ringer volume?

Many people who have an iPhone think that the reason why the ringer volume is so low is because of the iPhone’s small speakers. And this makes sense because the smaller the speakers are, the lower the volume, right? While this may seem to be a great reason why the iPhone’s volume is so low, it may not be the actual cause. The main cause for a ringer volume that is extremely low may be due to the actual audio levels in your phone. Many people have found that with their iPhone, the stock ringers have such a low volume. In order to fix this, you may have to find new ringtones other than those that are already on your iPhone.

The main cause for the ringtones being so quite is the fact that they are made of a low frequency. Thus, if you want to be able to have a louder ringtone, than you will need to find a ringtone that is made of a higher frequency. This may sound difficult, but you can find a higher frequency ringtone by simply turning to your computer. If you are a MAC owner, than you will be able to go into the application Garage Band and find a new ringtone within this location. Perhaps the best ringtone from Garage Band is the “Cell Phone Ringing” sound clip.

However, putting a new ringtone onto your iPhone requires a little work on your part. In order to put this clip onto your iPhone, than you will need to run iFunstastic, which is for individuals that have an Intel-MAC, or if you are using a Windows PC than you will want to run the application iPhone RingTone Maker by Cucusoft (the best on the market). These applications will install the ringtones from your computer to your iPhone, thus giving you the ability to have a ringtone that is clearly audible.

The key to having a successful ringtone is picking one that is naturally loud by default. This will increase the sound volume that is being release, and thus you will never miss another phone call because you didn’t hear it. When you have an iPhone, you want to enjoy every aspect of it, however, if the volume of the iPhone is lower than desired, than you will not be able to enjoy your iPhone to its fullest.

NBA Slam Dunks the iPhone

The NBA is the first major sport to be broadcast to the iPhone with the new NBA League Pass Mobile. This is your ticket to the most LIVE NBA basketball action available 24-7 throughout the 2009-2010 seasons. The NBA League Pass Mobile is the OFFICIAL APP from the NBA that allows you to watch LIVE games and saved games via your iPhone.

You will never miss a game with NBA League Pass Mobile. You can use your Wi-Fi or 3G connection up to 48 hours after the game. If your team isn’t local you must have this app.

The NBA League Pass Mobile also allows you to view stats, see scoreboards, and get highlight video. This is the must have app for 2009. You can see the full season for only $39.99, which is dirt cheap compared to Dish Networks League Pass for just under $200.

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If you love the NBA, you should get this today to take full advantage of the complete season.

Here is what some people are saying about NBA League Pass Mobile:

RobertV –“Awesome. I can’t believe how good this looks. I get to watch almost the entire season of my beloved Bulls for forty bucks! This rules for me because I don’t live in Chicago any more and there’s no blackout for the displaced fan. I’ve watched only 1 game so far but love this app already

C1KK – “Amazing value at only $39.99, works great over wifi and even 3G, would be nice if there was an audio only option, but even without it it’s still the best app I’ve purchased

Shunter94 – “The ability to watch practically every game live makes this app worth the $40 price tag. Add to that the replays, highlight reels and schedules and you get a very nice app. The only thing preventing a 5-star rating is the local blackouts. The app would be even more valuable If you were able to watch absolutely every game.

Get the NBA League Pass Mobile today for only $39.99!!!

Best iPhone Applications for College Students

As a college student, you need to have several things in order to keep your sanity.  For one, you have to have a good study schedule, next you need to be able to communicate with your friends and family, which is why so many students have the iPhone.  However, one of the most important aspects about having an iPhone and being a college student, is the fact that you can apply certain applications that will help you both in your academic life, as well as in your social life.  With the iPhone consistently coming out with new applications, you are able to find some that are entertainment and helpful.

Perhaps one of the coolest applications for a college student who always wants to have a good time is the iBartender iPhone application.  This amazing application allows you to find and make over 40,000 various alcoholic drinks.  However, what really makes this application so unique is the fact that it allows you to choose your drinks based on what you want to put in them.  Have you ever been with friends, and someone says they want to drink Tequila, but they don’t know how to make very many different types of drinks with it.

Well, with the iBartender application, you can choose Tequila, and then you are able to choose what you want to mix it with and an entire list of various drinks featuring the two ingredients you want pop up on your screen.  This is perfect for holiday party ideas, spur-of-the-moment get together with friends, or just a great companion when you go bar hopping.  You will never have to wonder what you’re going to drink that night.

Another great application is a far cry from the above one; however, it serves an equally important role in the life of a college student.  Whether you are majoring in physical science or criminal justice, you will have to take math courses.  And if you are like most people, than you have to have a calculator when you enter these dreaded classes.  However, instead of having to carry your iPhone and a huge calculator, you are able to carry just your iPhone when it has the SCI-15C installed.  This scientific and programming calculator will give you access to many different types of equations.  Whether you need this calculator for Algebra, Trigonometric functions or even with standard math problems, this application can handle anything mathematical you throw at it. This amazing app is based on the world-renowned HP 15C RPN high-end scientific programmable calculator.

Which is what makes this application perfect for a wide variety of college students, because it doesn’t matter if you are working on a hexadecimal problem, or you can’t remember what the square root of 164 is, you are able to use this calculator with ease and precision.  Also, the main reason why so many people love this application is because it eliminates the need for a bulky scientific calculator, in most cases, and it allows you to carry only your iPhone.  When you’re in college, you have enough to worry about, so why not let your iPhone SCI-15C take care of the math for you?

How the iPhone is Advancing Health Care

Memorial Hermann Healthcare System has the busiest trauma center in the country, which depends on the latest technology to streamline its services. With thousands of doctors, nurses, and administrators, how do they all deliver better patient care?

You guessed it, with their iPhone!!!

Since the iPhone has built in support for Microsoft Exchange, it works perfectly with Memorial Hermann’s technological infrastructure. With the ability to remotely wipe and put passcode protection on the iPhone, keeps patients’ records secure and confidential.

In an interview with David Bradshaw, Memorial Hermann’s Chief Information, Planning and Marketing Officer, he states that “Health care is a real-time business. We need anywhere, anytime computing, and the iPhone is the best platform for the applications we’re choosing.”

With Outlook on the iPhone, accepting meetings, looking at email and attachments, downloading spreadsheets is all integrated, like having the client on the iPhone.

With hundreds of medical apps accessible, the iPhone becomes a pocket reference for everything from diagnostic tools to anatomical charts. This also allows clinicians the freedom to create their own workflow applications to streamline their day.

One of the most popular medical apps is AirStrip OB, which enables obstetricians to monitor the different stages of labor even when they’re not patient-side. Doctors can get real time data at the touch of a button with the iPhone. Like many other medical apps, Airstrip OB has a secure connection to a HIPAA compliant authentication, which many mobile devices can’t offer.

With secure remote access to patients and other clinical data, the iPhone is making its way in hospitals as a must have device. If you are in the medical field, and own an iPhone, you should see what apps are available.

Here are a few:

Lexi-Complete: Detailed information on drugs, drug interactions, diagnosis, disease management, patient education, and more.

The Bantam Medical Dictionary: Fifth edition of the Bantam Medical Dictionary

The Muscle System Pro: basic to advanced levels of muscles and muscle groups

MJ debuts on the iPhone w/ THIS IS IT

Michael Jackson’s THIS IS IT is going to be a blockbuster hit because it’s MJ. This new film will offer Jackson fans and music lovers rare behind the scenes look at the life of the pop star as he developed, created, and rehearsed for all of his sold out concerts. This film is drawn from over 100 hundred hours never before seen footage. In raw and candid detail THIS IS T, captures the singer, dance, filmmaker, and creative genius as he creates and perfects his final show.

iPhone owner can now own part of this epic film by getting the music from Michael Jackson’s THIS IS IT. There are 3 different options for MJ fans: the full THIS IS IT album which give 21 songs including the single and an extra bonus; 6 selections from THIS IS IT, which includes “This is it” plus an orchestral version; or you can get the “This is it” ringtone for your iPhone.

Michael Jackson’s This Is It is the concert film featuring Michael Jackson as he prepares for a series of comeback concerts scheduled for London’s The O2 area. The soundtrack includes MJ classics, demos, the previously unheard “This is it”, and more.  Download Now

The EP features a selection of music from the soundtrack of Michael Jackson’s This is it, all of it previously unreleased. It boasts demos of three classic MJ hits, two versions of the new song “This is it”, and the spoken word “Planet Earth”.  Download Now

You can also get the “This is it” official ringtone for you iPhone. Once you have purchased your ringtone you can go to Settings -> Sounds -> Ringtone, and select “This is it” for your default ringtone. *** This Ringtone need the free iPhone 3.1 Software Upgrade to work.

If you are an MJ fan then you need to have this album. It is released today to go along with the movie opening tonight. Be one of the first to get the new soundtrack.

iPhone Camera Causes Security Concern

With more and more businesses switching over to the iPhone, it is becoming a security risk for some organizations. Many government institutions and top level agencies will not allow cameras in their facilities due to security concerns.  Since the iPhone has the built in camera, many employees and visitors to the facilities can not take their iPhone with them. If you don’t leave it in your car, you have to leave it at the security counter.

There have been some reports where people have left with the wrong iPhone. How’s that for a security concern…

If you want to use your iPhone in one of these institutions, you need to have your camera removed. To remove your camera is a difficult process, no matter what they may tell you on YouTube.com, and you can and probably will ruin your iPhone.  There are few and far companies that specialize in such removals. You can check your local classified ads for some John Doe who removes the camera in his apartment, but I wouldn’t trust that.

At iPhone Download World, we have found and recommend Mission Repair for iPhone camera removal. All of their Technicians are Apple Certified and will remove the camera, and reassemble the iPhone within 24 hours. They will also pack and send you your iPhone camera back to you with your camera-less iPhone.

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FancyStacker – Reviewed

Another Topple this is not. The closest I think it comes to is Stacked. The BIG difference though is that while you are given an ordered set of shapes to drop and balance, the order in which they appear is not necessarily the proper way to complete the level. For instance in one of the earlier levels you get a triangle and then a long plank. But the only way to get them to balance is to get the long plank UNDER the triangle – so you have to drop the triangle from high on the screen, get the plank and quickly drop that one so that the triangle lands on it – reversing the order.

Then there is a level with balls rolling down a ramp and a spinny thing at the end. Now to prevent the little balls from falling down you need to get one of the last shapes offered on the spinny thing before all the little balls. So as you can see the game takes quite a bit more planning and manipulation than the other stacking type games.



Graphics: 3/5; Sounds: 5/5
The graphics are of the line drawing that have become popular of late. I am not sure why some of the check marks are sideways or even tilted or bent. In fact though I know WHY there are exclamation points that turn to check marks I am not sure that is needed. It actually makes me a bit nervous that I did the wrong thing and its warning me that I dropped the block in the wrong place! The colors are a bit muted and sometimes makes the objects look a little blurry (maybe just my eyes though). The music (new in this release) is soothing and suits a game of this nature.

Gameplay: 4/5
There are walkthroughs of the first ten levels which can be considered a help guide. It shows that sometimes the order of the shapes are not the ideal order to solving the puzzle. All in all, the difficulty ramps up rather quickly in the 40 levels. That’s not such a bad thing for a game with only 40 levels though. It will detract those that are more comfortable with the easier difficulties. Not quite sure that someone who knows their ability on this kind of game lies in the easy to medium range would want to take a chance on a game with only 40 levels knowing they might only get through half or less. I would rather see more levels spread across the difficulties.

Controls: 5/5
Controlling the pieces is all done by touch and I found them to be very precise and tight. That is a big plus since you rely so much on precision and timing in this game.

Overall: 4/5
When all is said and done, this is an excellent physics stacker that is quite unlike the other stackers on the market. This one involves timing and precision and thinking ahead with the pieces you have available. With some fine tuning on the graphics (the clarity and the exclamation points) this will be an excellent alternative. Adding some easier and mid-level difficulties will also open this up to the more casual gamer who likes to just drop and stack – but with the timing twist.

Great job at creating this Phoenix Reanimation and wonderful to see you involved in the fine tuning of this game. 

reviewed by  New England Gamer

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Storm 8 Takes over iPhone

Vampires, Zombies, Mobsters, and Racers, Oh My…

These have been taking over the iPhone over the past few months. Storm 8 has released 8 exciting and addicting games. These games include World War, iMobsters, Racing Live, Vampires, Kingdoms, Zombies, Rockstars, and Ninjas Live.

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World War it’s the year 2010. A nuclear war has broken out. Most countries in the world have fought and many have been vanquished. 5 countries have emerged as the major superpowers in the devastating war. Which one will you be?

Start as a general defending your base from the enemy and fight to become the dominant military presence in the world as you march your way to victory.

iMobsters – Become the head mob boss and rule New York City. Run dangerous missions, expand and install your mob throughout the city, and take out rival mobsters in this action-packed crime game.

Start as a petty thief and rise to become the Mafia Don by bringing others into your mob and spreading your influence throughout the city. Fight other mobsters in the most immersive massively multiplayer game ever!

Racing Live Welcome to the exciting world of street racing. Race your opponents throughout the city, collect a sweet set of cars, build a loyal crew to assist you in races, and do exciting street jobs in this fast paced racing game.

Start as a novice street racer and work your way up to become the king of the roads in the Racing Live world! Show off your racing skills with the best cars and performance upgrades.

Vampires Live Enter the world of darkness and mystique, where vampires live in the urban underworld and control the city from behind the shadows. Build your clan with fellow vampires and defend your control of the city from the ravenous zombie hordes.

In the darkness under a starry sky, you awake to find a whole new world around you. The night, previously scary and mysterious, now seems familiar and comforting. The vampire who turned you is trying to get you to join his underground vampire clan. You, however, have other plans…

Kingdoms Live Enter a world of castles and magic, where ruthless tyrants rule the lands with an iron fist. Build an army to fight these villains and anyone else who would bring darkness to the land. Collect powerful weapons, armor, and spells, and purchase valuable lands, and soon this kingdom may be yours to rule.

Zombies Live On a dark night, in a cold morgue, you arise. Not quite dead, but far less than human, you hunger for knowledge about who you were and how you became this way.

But the fiercest hunger in your being is for flesh. And, lucky for you, the morgue attendants are coming to check on you.

Start as a lowly zombie, freshly undead and turn yourself into the most powerful crypt lord by bringing in other zombies into your horde and wreaking havoc throughout the city in Zombies Live.

Rockstars Live All the world’s a stage. Bring the best people into your band, practice during the day, and rock the clubs and concerts at night in this wild music game.

Start out practicing in your garage and work your way up to become a Rock Legend in the Rockstars Live world! Show off your skills with the best guitars, amps and percussion instruments.

Ninjas Live Darkness has descended upon the city. Evil forces have invaded every sector of society. As a ninja in the shadows, you maybe the world’s greatest hope, or its gravest threat. Assemble your clan, for the time of the ninja has returned.

Start as a student of the ninja arts and fight your way up to become the most legendary ninja in the Ninjas Live world!

These are the most addicting and free iPhone games I have played to date. I find myself checking these games many times throughout the day. The coolest part of the Storm 8 games is you can add people to your team.

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WordPress for the iPhone

Some of you blog owners may have tried or are considering the wordpress app for your iPhone. It is a very basic blogging app that allows you to add posts, pages, and approve comments from anywhere. This can be very convenient for bloggers on the go, but the spelling handycapped blogger will really miss the spell check function.

The one feature I like best is the ability to approve comments where ever you are. I will get an email about new comments and now all I have to do is log on to the app to approve.

Unless you are really proficient with typing on the iPhone, I wouldn’t suggest this app for any long posts.

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