iPhone reference apps

iBartender iPhone app Review

Description:

The iBartender iPhone app is a great resource to have at all time to know what kinds of drinks are available at a bar setting.  You can browse or search for all kinds of drinks and then email them to friends or save them to your favorites for future reference.

Features:

• This is the ultimate guide on drinks you could get from the bar.  Read up on this app and next time you go to the bar you can impress all your friends with your extensive knowledge
• You will find recipes and ingredients of all of the most popular mixed drinks that are available at any bar.  You will also find an all inclusive guide on cocktail drinks too
• As you are going through this reference app you will likely happen upon certain drinks that look especially delicious or interesting.  When you find these drinks you have the ability to email these recipes to your friends or buddies who might be interested in them
• There is a good search function available that is very easy to use.  You can search for drinks either by their names or by the ingredients that are used to make them
• If you want the app to bring up a random drink mix then all you have to do is just shake your phone and a random drink will be brought up.  This is a great way to introduce yourself to new drinks
• The interface is unique and simple.  You will find that it is easy to navigate through and it is smooth in all of its transitions
• The app also offers free upgrades in the future for when more drinks and features are added.  This is nice to know since new drinks are being created all the time
• There is a favorites section where you can save all of your favorite recipes and concoctions.  This way when you go to the bar you can remember which drinks that you wanted to try

Conclusion:

If you love specialized drinks then you will love this app.  Not only will it help introduce you to new drinks that you have never heard of before, it can also help you to become a regular bartender yourself.  Learn all the ingredients and recipes of the drinks so that you can make them yourself.

Voted 4 stars by those people that have used this reference app.  This iPhone application can be downloaded for $0.99 off of the online store.

Chordmaster iPhone app Review

Description:

Have you ever wanted to learn how to play the guitar without having to go and buy expensive lessons from somebody else?  Well with the Chordmaste iPhone app you can do just that.  This little reference app was developed by the popular Planet Waves and is a sub-section of D’Addario.  This is the ultimate app for anyone that wants to learn how to play the guitar. This app has over seven thousand different chords that you can choose from and you can see all of their different variations and where they go on the fret board.  You can see the virtual fretboard and get a good idea of how to play each song.  Not only that you can strum each chord to hear what it actually sounds like.  This is a good way to pick your different chord progressions so that you can create your own songs.

Features:

• This little reference app allows you to see and access over 7000 different guitar chords.  All seven thousand of these chords can be found in the library and you can learn every single one of them if you like
• On each of the chords you will be able to see all of the notes that are involved as well as where each finger is supposed to go in order to create that same sound on you own guitar
• The visuals are easy to navigate through and you will notice that all of the different chords are located on a virtual fretboard
• Aside from seeing all of the notes and the places where all of your fingers are supposed to go, you can also see all of the chords on different fretboard positions.  This offers a complete view on all of the chords and their variations
• Once you have found a chord that you like and you want to hear what it sounds like, all you have to do is to strum the strings with your fingers and you will be able to play the chord on the phone and hear what it sounds like
• Whether you are right or left handed  you can get diagrams that display both kinds of chords.  This makes it a great app for anybody that wants to learn how to play the guitar

Conclusion:

The Chordmaster app is a great reference for anybody that is serious about learning how to play the guitar.  All you need to do is to take some time to listen to the chords and learn where your fingers go and you can be a guitar master in no time.

Voted 4 stars by iPhone app users and currently costs $1.99 to download off of the online store.

Quotationary iPhone App Review

Description:

Do you give public speeches often or have to give a presentation to a group of people often?  If so, its well known that quotes are a great way to get people’s attention and help them to  listen to what you have to say.  For some reason people love quotes by famous people, and you can have a plethora of quotes at your disposal with the help of Quotationary for the iPhone and iPod touch.  This app is great and easy to use, and will make you sound like a master of famous quotes.

The app has a dictionary of over 32,000 famous quotes that are inspirational from thousands of different authors.  This is a great reference for any student, writer, scholar, and trivia fan that wants to throw out some seriously famous quotes to the people they know.  The application includes on button search.  This makes it easy to search an author or category of quote such as business or funeral to know what type of quote to share.  Full text search is also available so that you can find that perfect quote you are searching for.  You can easily mark a quote as a favorite and refer to it later.

Features:

• over 32,000 quotes
• who said that trivia game built into the app to test your knowledge
• trivia stats
• different levels for trivia game
• powerful search
• listing of quotes grouped by author
• favorites
• email quotes
• search google and wikipedia by author without leaving the app
• have quotes read to you with the sound synthesis option

The ability to have the quotes read back to you have been greatly improved and the sounds of the voice that speaks has also been improved greatly to not make it sound so robotic sounding.  This is truly a very useful app that anybody can use who has to prepare a speech, research paper, or presentation to a class or work environment.  If you need a good quote to grab people’s attention with, this is the easiest way to do it as the app is able to be accessed right through your phone.  This is also great for quotes that need to be given on the spot like at a funeral, a dinner occasion, or other business meeting that was not previously planned for.

Conclusion:

This app costs $1.99 and has been given a 3 1/2 out of 5 star rating by other iPhone users  who have downloaded and used this app.

iSpeak Spanish iPhone App Review

Description:

Have you ever been on a vacation in a place that speaks another language than you do?  This can be really cool, and really frustrating.  Doing simple things like asking for directions can be very hard as you don’t know how to speak the language.  Also not being able to communicate can put you in a dangerous spot as you won’t be able to find places and be able to take care of yourself in an emergency situation. Well this situation and frustration doesn’t have to happen to you with the new iSpeak Spanish app for the iPhone.  If you are going to a place that speaks Spanish, you will now be able to  communicate with them with ease.

This app is designed at taking mobile translators to a new level of capability and quality.  The app is not merely a text translator, but it uses high quality text recognition so you can literally speak into the phone and it will translate it into Spanish for you.  This is very quick and easy as other translators make you type it all in English. this is frustrating when talking to a person because they have to wait an eternity for you to type in everything before they can understand what you are trying to say. The app works great with no compression and no internet connection is needed to use it.  With the push of a button you can get anything in english into the Spanish language to make your life much easier.

Features:

• the user interface is very easy to read
• you can either type in what you want translated or you can talk into the phone and the app will recognize your speech and translate it automatically for you
• this makes translation easier than ever as you can just talk into the phone and get the translation you want in seconds
• there are also other apps in many other languages so you can translate into other languages besides just Spanish.

As you can see, this app solves an every day problem.  If you need to speak to someone who speaks Spanish, you now can without having taken a single Spanish class.  This makes communication much easier between different cultures and makes life much easier in sticky situations.

Conclusion:

This app costs $1.99 and has been given a 3 1/2 out of 5 star rating by other iPhone users who have used this app and who have given their own customer ratings.

Mw2 Ultimate Utility iPhone App Review

Description:

This app is the best reference app for the game called Warfare.  Did you know that the TAR-21 does the most damage per second of any assault rifle?  You would if you had this app to reference to to make sure that you are getting the most out of the weapons you have selected in the game.  You would also find out that Pave Low has 3,000 health points, or that bombs dropped by a precision air strike have 43ft radius.

The app is very simple, but very effective in helping you play Mw2 with better precision and with more efficiency.  This is what you need to give you the edge when playing other online or locally.  The  developer made this app to give you a list of titles and emblems, help you to play better, to help you improve your k/d ratio, and to give you all the information you need on the titles, guns, emblems, maps, perks, kill streaks, and more.

The app has just recently been updated to offer better icons, better navigation through the interface, and has been cleaned up graphically to be more presentable and easier to read.  There were some typo fixes that were also made in the new app to give it a more professional feel.

Features:

• the app gives you a list of titles and emblems for MW2
• helps you to improve your K/D ratio
• helps you to learn about titles, guns, emblems, maps, perks, kill streaks, and much more

If you love MW2, this is the app for you.  Just like any serious gamer, the way to get the advantage over the other players is to understand the game frontwards and backwards.  This will help you take out the competition with ease while also seriously improving your score to post to the global leader boards to show the rest of the world how great you are!  Stop holding yourself back and start really learning how to play MW2 like the pros do.  Most people just play for fun, but with this app, you can learn how to play to win and just destroy people left and right while you see your score just go up and up without end.  If you want the edge in this game, this is definitely the app to get!

Conclusion:

This app for the iPhone costs $2.99 and has been given a 4 out of 5 star rating by users everywhere who have used it!