App Reviews

Word Order is exactly what it claims to be; you need to rearrange a series of jumbled refrigerator magnets into the correct order before the timer runs out.

Developed by Swedish group AppForMore, Word Order, which also comes in Swedish, is an iPhone/iPod touch app divided into five categories: Quotes, History, Sports, Odd Facts and Sort. The quote section asks the user to decipher a quote from known ...

If you haven’t heard of The Sims, you could have been living under a rock. Since 2000, users have been creating their own second, virtual life on their computers, and now iPad and iPhone users have the opportunity to take The Sims with them wherever they go.

And the best part is, it’s free.
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Arrow Words is a crossword-style app from Britain that’s a great little time-waster with the ability to exercise your brain at the same time. I say ‘crossword-style’ because, unlike the crosswords we’re used to, the grids don’t have true symmetrical chequerboard patterns. ...

In Australia, we’re quite fortunate to have unit pricing shown in our supermarkets. It makes comparing similar items in different-sized containers simple by bringing all costs down (or up) to a price-per-100g level. ...

In the mad rush to read everything electronically, there is a certain quality and charm that has been left behind in the pages of ’real’ books. Fierce Grey Mouse HD, a children’s storybook app for iPad, regains some of that beauty lost. ...

“How many roads must a man walk down before you can call him Amanda?” That was the moment I fell in love with the Lonely Planet Offline Translator. Probably not for the reason Lonely Planet would have hoped, though. But let’s start at the beginning. ...

If you’re a fan of the FIFA franchise on full-sized gaming consoles, you’ll find FIFA 12 on the iPad device different, even a little disappointing. The capabilities are not the same, and you’re playing on a touch screen – but apart from this it’s great to have FIFA 12 on the iPad and on the go. ...

It seems as if the odds are stacked against Swampy the alligator in Disney’s Where’s My Water ($0.99); stuck in a maze-like sewer with limited access to water, all Swampy wants to do is take a bath and scrub himself clean.

Your quest is to dig around the obstructing pipes and create tunnels for the water to flow straight to Swampy by completing a series of physics-based puzzle games.
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When going for a walk, or even for a drive, it's often nice to keep a log of where you've been. Utilising the GPS technology in the iPhone, GPS Tracks can record a trail of your location, speed and altitude.

The app runs in the background, so just lock the screen and leave the iPhone in your pocket – GPS Tracks does the rest.

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