Saturday, June 18, 2011

Dino Rush iPhone App Review!

On App Store for $0.99. For more detailed summary: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dino-rush/id396101698?mt=8

Dino Rush is a fun adventure game where the game player simply taps the screen to jump up and move forward, leading Dundy the dinosaur through obstacles, power-ups, and most importantly, fruits, all while maintaining it's energy. The energy bar, located at the bottom of the game screen, indicates the level of energy. Once you lose all of your energy, the game is over.

Here is the video review for Dino Rush:

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Google Voice iPhone App Review!

Hey! So this is pretty exciting, getting the first Appcessed iPhone App review out there! Now I've been one of the first users of Google Voice (ever!), while it was still available only by invitation. Therefore, this means that I'm a pretty loyal Google Voice-er. When I got my iPhone 4 on Verizon, one of the first apps I downloaded was the Google Voice app. During the first few days, I was pretty happy with it as it performed all functions I needed - which was basically texting people since I don't have a text messaging plan. However, later on, I realized the app started freezing and crashing on a regular basis. In the video below, I probably shot four or five separate reviews and took the best clips out of each and strung them into a video. In those four or five times I used the app, it probably crashed/froze on me at least five times (three of those times are shown in the video). However, I found a work-around from the constant crashing, which is that to use it's free SMS/texting service without the app constantly crashing, go on your Google Voice account homepage (on the computer, preferably) and to tweak the settings there (no biggie, pretty easy stuff). Next to your name on the top right corner, locate the settings icon and click it. A small drop-down menu should open and click "Voice settings". Under Settings after the page loads, click the Voicemail & Text tab. Here, find the Voicemail Notifications section and check the box next to "Email the message to: [youremailaddress@email.com]". If your email address isn't already in the drop down menu, click "Add a new email address" and fill out the form that you are prompted to do. Done! Now you've setup a link between your Google Voice and email. That way, when your friends text/leave a voicemail, it'll send directly to your email where you can tap "Reply" and reply to your friends via text. The only problem here is that you can't start a new conversation with someone you've never texted before from Google Voice. In this situation, you'll either need to go on the Google Voice website and type in the number or try to use the Google Voice app.

Here's the video! I hope you enjoy it.