I first found MouthOff from this blog post on making a Robot mask using this iPhone app. Its a cardboard box with a moving digital robot mouth! So I had to try it, and then I showed it to my kids, and they love it! I have an iPod Touch and it doesn’t work on that because there is no microphone, so if they want to play games they always ask for the iPhone first so they can play MouthOff. It’s a lot of fun, and fun to show people who are new to the iPhone (like Labyrinth).
If you have a newer Mac with an iSight built-in you may have played around with PhotoBooth, an application that takes pictures with the built-in camera and does funny things to the picture (like swirl it, give you a big chin or forehead, etc.).
OldBooth is a new iPhone app that lets you take a picture of yourself, a friend, or even use an existing photo, and then fit the face onto some classic looking portraits from the 60s, 70s, and 80s. You can choose between portraits of men and women, and even put a man’s face on a woman’s portrait!
OldBooth is designed beautifully, and without even reading directions you can figure out how to put your face on there. After you take the picture (or choose one) you can move it around, rotate it, zoom it in/out, and change the brightness to match the skin of the portrait template. It is a lot of fun, and one of those apps that you can show to people without an iPhone to help entice them to its technical prowess.
The developers plan on adding even more portrait templates, which will make this iPhone app even more fun! Well worth the $2.99!
I’ve looked for movie showtimes in many ways in my life. Hunt down the section in the newspaper, find the phone book and call the theater, or wade through Google and try to find the theater you want and pray they have a home page. Now I just click Showtimes on my iPhone, and I instantly have the showtimes for the closest theater! For a free app, this app is super useful!
The app is well designed and easy to navigate. It uses your location automatically to show theaters close to you, or you can set it for any location. You can watch movie trailers and never leave the app (and even take screenshots of them, which I was surprised to find out). List movies by popularity, ratings, or newest.
Showtimes is definitely worthy of a spot on your iPhone, it will certainly come in handy! Plus its free!
Ahoy! thar! Arrrgh! One of the most beloved made up holidays in the tech world is “Talk Like a Pirate Day” where you can talk like a pirate in all of your communications, and the rest of us won’t think anything about it. You can use a Pirate Translator if that helps! To celebrate, I thought it would be fun to mention the Pirate iPhone Apps available, there are some fun ones! The must have is the Pocket Pirate, and its free!
I was skeptical at first, thinking this was just one of those dumb 99 cent apps. But no, Koi Pond is actually a pretty cool app for the iPhone and iPod Touch, and one that will certainly keep me (and the kids) entertained.
The interaction with the Koi fish includes several features. First, you can scare them off by disrupting the waters, by far the best part (who doesn’t like scaring away animals?). On the opposite end of the spectrum, if you keep your finger in one place long enough, they’ll actually congregate at your finger and do something (do Koi like to eat fingers?). Give your iPhone or iPod Touch a good shake to feed the Koi. Grab the water lillies with your finger and move them around however you want to arrange them too. You can even customize the sounds.
Definitely a great job in getting objects to respond to the touch interface (both the water and the fish). The app will remember your settings even after you close out of the app.
Is it worth 99 cents? I think so, it’s one of those apps that is great for showing friends how cool your iPhone is too. If you’re visual like me, watch the video below to get a feel for the app.
Last night I was laying down in bed while my wife was brushing her teeth. I set my alarm to go running at 6 AM and then glanced at the iPhunny app (free download)Â I had downloaded a few days ago. I tried it out, and 10 minutes later I was still laughing!
Slide your finger left or right to go in order, or go up and down to get a random joke. The app and its jokes are provided by Giglish.com and most of the jokes come from late night shows like Jay Leno, Conan O’Brien, David Letterman, etc.
