Originally a Zoo Games’ title for the Nintendo Wii, Groovin’ Blocks is now available on the iPhone and iPod Touch for only $1.99/£1.19, and is appropriate for all ages. The game starts with addicting match-three gameplay and pours on the funk, challenging players to drop to the beat to maximize their combos. With stylish graphics,…
Settlers of Catan Available for iPhone
Catan – The First Island has found its way into the iTunes App Store, letting you trade clay, build roads, train soldiers, and do everything that made the Settlers of Catan board game a classic. Multiplayer is available, but involves handing off the phone rather than via Bluetooth. Still, even if you want to hone…
Picture: How does Garmin feel about Google’s free GPS Navigation application?
Google announced Google Maps Navigation earlier today, and it crouched on several people’s business models. Check out how Garmin, makers of dedicated turn by turn navigation devices, reacted: [Hat tip to @zpower, otherwise known as Chris Ziegler from Engadget Mobile]
Videos: Official: Google Maps Navigation; Google’s first turn by turn app, Android 2.0 only
Now we all use and love Google Maps, but turn by turn navigation has always been missing. With the Motorola Droid announcement today there was a mention of a new application: Google Maps Navigation, and as the name implies, it finally adds navigation capabilities to Google Maps, albeit with some limitations. It only works on…
Jan Ole Suhr, the man behind Gravity: “More than 90% of my revenue comes from my website”
While listening to All About Symbian podcast epsiode 154, one sound bite jumped out at me. At around 21 minutes and 20 seconds in, Rafe Blandford asked Jan Ole Suhr, the one man development shop who is best known for his Twitter client called Gravity, what is the revenue split from the Ovi Store, Handango,…
Absolute Fitness hits the Palm Catalog
Although we haven’t covered Absolute Fitness when it was released for the iPhone and Android, now’s the time to catch up as the application has been released in the Palm Catalog. You can probably figure out what Absolute Fitness does – it’s an advanced fitness diary app that allows users to log and manage their…
Shape Services’ GPSed gets another update
Shape Services has released an updated version (1.6) of its GPS-based real-time trip-tracking service/app – GPSed. Here’s what’s new: Support for iPhone 3GS’ built-in compass Ability to select any waypoint in recorded tracks – the application will show you the direction and distance to it. Altitude profile added Ability to select measurement units Ability to…
Quick System Tasks makes your Palm Pre more convenient, home-brew style
You’ve been secretly complaining about how tedious it can be to toggle some of the Palm Pre’s connectivity features. You’ve probably even told yourself that there was just nothing you could do to make it easier to access Data, Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth and Airplane modes. And, today, you stand corrected. Enter the latest home-brew webOS…
Use Google Voice to transcribe your non-Google voicemail
Google Voice just got a little more useful, even if you don’t have a clue as to what Google Voice actually does. Google has just released a new feature for Google Voice that allows anyone to take advantage of Google Voice’s voicemail transcription service. You may not be able to port your existing phone number…
iPhone Breaks 100,000 Approved Apps
A short month after announcing 85,000 apps in the iTunes store, recent metrics are hinting that Apple has approved over 100,000 applications for the iPhone (although only about 93,000 are currently available for download). All jokes about the proliferation of fart apps aside, the rate of growth and activity in the iPhone’s app market is…