This month we have to eat, sleep, writing, watching, shopping, and kill the zombies. Well, can man live by bread alone ...
We have tried to increase our fruit and veg intake with Munch 5-a-day (0.59 p), a simple food tracker, which lets you record when you give your body the needs, rather than the selvbetjeningsregelsæt.
Could not be simpler, really. Set your goals-between 1 and 12 (the British Government in recommends five a day, hence the name) and leave the app is running. Each time you eat a piece of fruit or veg, simply click on the appropriate icon to add it to your total (accompanied-natch-meet the experience the sounds).
Icon app includes a badge that counts, as you eat your daily quota, so it is easy to see how many items you've got left to meet your goals. (Hint: half a handful of raisins in the end of the day is an excellent way to top up your quota!) Inevitably, there is an element of the sharing of support for Twitter and Facebook, but quite frankly, we will keep our scores to us. At least for now.
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In the meantime, in search of some good shut-eye, we have been experimenting with Sleep Talk Recorder (0.59 p)-a fascinating little app that detects you while you sleep.
The trick is that the app is set to record only when it picks up sounds above a certain volume, and be able to turn off and disable itself in milliseconds-so instead of you wade through hours of useless silence, trying to find some phonetic action, it highlights only moments in the night when you make real noise. So ignore the occasional rustling as you scroll over and pull the covers the benefit for the retrieval of snorts and barks, snores and unconscious guffaws that characterizes itself a good night's sleep.
As the title suggests, is intended to catch the sleepers on their most vulnerable, are spreading the nightly prayers and letting their innermost secrets of the packing slip. In our experience, it has so far been mainly good to prove as one of us snores. See how this peaks and drinking troughs night is a very good indicator of how well you are sleeping. Navigating your nighttime noise is simple, and because every night is saved, you can quickly compare them We find it invaluable. as a way to see if our behaviour during the day affects the way we sleep at night. (Hint: it is not.)
The Internet has discouraged rather those of us who prefer to keep a paper Diary by making it so easy to register our thoughts and feelings online. As the million-or perhaps should be billion? -of blogs can testify, this has resulted in a magnificent power of verbal diarrhoea, where quality control comes a poor second to plain old words on the screen.
It is just one of the reasons we like to Momento (£ 1.79) so much, because it turns the entire paradigm on its head by recasting diary as something personal. So you record a daily journal, add pictures, tags for people (you can pop them straight in from your address book) places and locations and then-and only if you want to set up feeds-from your online life like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, last.FM, Digg and more, so updates from these services is automatically added to your Momento diary.
This is fantastic because it allows you to preserve your personal thoughts, personal, continue to update your various social networks, Web sites, as usual, but then integrate two in a comprehensive way, which only you can see. Momento is powerful, easy-to-use and has the kind of design chops, which deserves to make it one of the apps of the year. A keeper.
Since the Christmas holidays usually serve a banquet of dubious TV treats we have in planning our movie shown with the iPhone version of the Internet favorite, IMDb (free).
Sure, there are thousands of trailers on YouTube and other online sources, but nothing can match the naked film geekery of IMDb with his encyclopedic knowledge of movies past and present, famous and obscure-whether the busting box office records, or limping off the unheralded, straight to the video.
IMDb iPhone app gives you access to all cinematographic goodness IMDb has to offer including cast lists, production information, promotional material, such as still pictures and trailers, filmographies all those involved-and because it is all linked, it is a great way to find more good things from the people you like and avoid Drosses from people you don't.
By all means keep your TV Guide, but with this on your iPhone you are more likely to spend a few hours meets in the presence of Robert De Niro and Taxi Driver, rather than Barry Evans and Adventures of a Taxi Driver.
Here are some mathematics. There are now estimated to be around 300,000 apps in the App Store at the moment. Sorry, 300,001. Do 300,002. Our errors, 300,003, 4, 5, ... you get the idea. And, of course, many of these same apps not standing still-they will be regularly updated with bug fixes, new levels and functions, as well as support for other cool things as Apple updates from us.
Keep track of all these new apps can be a real headache, hence our interest in AppShopper (free), spying on in the warehouse and pushes new apps to your iPhone when they arrive. You can show apps using different filters (e.g. categories, whether they are paid for free, or simply display them, there have been updated or had a price change), so you can focus on What interests you while skipping everything else. You can also specify whether the app displays only the products for the iPhone, iPad, or only those that are working on both and by holding down the button ' News? ' active, you can keep tabs with the very latest apps as they appear.
Remember how much we enjoyed THE ID software games in the past, we have re-visiting our youth by playing a few rounds of Rage HD (£ 1.19), a first-person shooter in the old-fashioned sense: there is no strategy, just lots of running in confined spaces and plenty of bloodthirsty enemies to destroy.
Graphically, the game's a hoot. Very smooth, and when you got the hang, control nice and responsive also (it takes a while, a bit like when the shooter first introduced the idea that you could look up and down).
' plot ' is pure futuristic flannel. You. mutants. Bebølsesejendomme. Abandoned asylum. Guns. Rewards. Where Rage has attracted criticism is only to give three levels (even though each has different levels of difficulty), and for what has become known as an ' on-rails ' games-in other words, your character follows a pre-determined path through the game, rather than given free rein to wander around. This certainly changes the nature of the game and makes it more about precision (killing enemies, collecting supplies, win bonuses) than fast reactions and improvisation. Still, for this price you can afford to make up your own opinion.
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