Tag Archives: application

Elasticr iPhone App Giveaway

August 14, 2010Uncategorizedapp, apple, application, appstore, dlux, elasticr, free, giveaway, ipad, iPhone, ipod touch, itunesDavid

Hey guys, so we have a new giveaway for you all. This time it’s an iPhone application called Elasticr. It’s a really fun game and it’s a lot more addicting than it looks and we can give away 5 promo codes for the app.

To enter this giveaway, all you have to do is follow me on Twitter, @connerowen, and then in one week from now (August 15, 2010) I will send the winners a Direct Message with the promo code. In order for me to send a Direct Message, you have to be following me.

If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to leave a comment or email be at conner@techgeec.com.

Photoshop Mobile Gets a New Name and Goes Universal for All Devices

August 13, 2010Uncategorizedadobe, application, edit, express, free, images, ipad, iPhone, ipod touch, mobile, new, photoshop, picturesDavid

I just want to say first off I didn’t even know they were going to release this today. I was on my iPad and went to download the iPhone version of the app and BAM! There was a universal Photoshop app. So lets get into the review.

via AppAdvice:

Adobe has given their once iPhone-only Photoshop app a bit of an overhaul. Not only has it received a name change, going from Photoshop.com Mobile to the more appealing Adobe Photoshop Express, but it’s now a universal app that sports iPad-specific features.

Adobe Photoshop Express now allows iPad users to edit and upload their photos with ease. The optimized UI gives you the ability to apply effects, borders and artistic filters with only a few taps, crop, rotate, straighten or flip by simply dragging your finger, and just do so much more with your photos. Photos can be uploaded to Adobe’s own Photoshop.com to be shared, or you can take the Facebook route.

But this isn’t merely an expanded iPhone app clone, it contains features specific to the iPad as well, including:

• Support for portrait and landscape orientations
• Redesigned Online, Edit, and Upload workflows
• Ability to work on multiple photos in sequence from within a single workflow
• Redesigned Organizer view with simplified album sharing
• Updated icons and visuals that make it easier to navigate and use the Editor
• Ability to upload to Photoshop.com and Facebook simultaneously

It definitely isn’t a full-fledged Photoshop experience with layers and all, but it does the job while on the go.

Apparently the iPad version isn’t perfect, however, as some users are reporting issues when launching the app:

“We have received reports of some users having difficulty launching the application on an iPad in landscape orientation with certain productivity and printing applications installed. We are investigating these reports. In the interim, you can work around the problem by launching the application in a portrait orientation on the iPad. We are continuing to investigate and will post an update to address these issues as soon as possible.”

I have yet to experience the issue myself, but if you are unlucky enough to, just do as Adobe states and launch it in portrait mode for the time being.

Adobe Photoshop Express is available in the App Store for free.

[Over] Taska iPhone & iPad App Giveaway!

August 8, 2010Uncategorizedapp, apple, application, bitalpha, free, giveaway, ipad, iPhone, ipod touch, taskaDavid

The Giveaway is officially over! No more people can enter. I will be contacting the 6 winners on Twitter! Hope you won!

[stextbox id="grey"]Our Senior Editor, Conner, will always be doing application giveaways. Be sure to continue following him on Twitter (@ConnerOwen) to know when the next giveaway will be.[/stextbox]

Thanks to bitAlpha, the developers of Taska, they have sent 3 promo codes to TechGeec for Taska for iPhone and 3 more codes for Taska for iPad. So we will be giving these apps away starting now! This will be all based off of Twitter.

In order to enter, all you have to do is follow me, Conner, on Twitter. I’m @connerowen on Twitter and everyone who is following me is automatically entered into the giveaway. You don’t have to @reply me or DM me. All you have to do is follow me.

This is going to be a very random giveaway and there won’t be an end date so there’s no telling when I will send out the 6 codes. It could be tomorrow or in 2 weeks. I will use random.org to pick my followers randomly and once random.org picks the followers I will send you a Direct Message (DM) with the code (in order to receive the DM, you must be following me or else I can’t send you one). The first three people will get to choose if they want the iPad version or the iPhone version of the app, but one once the sets of codes are gone, you will get what’s left.

If you have any questions either leave a comment and me or David will get back to you, or email me at conner@techgeec.com.

[OVER] Defend Your Universe App Giveaway

July 29, 2010Uncategorizedapp, application, appstore, defend your universe, free, Game, giveaway, ipad, iPhone, ipod touch, itunes, promo code, theiphonefixDavid

UPDATE: We now have more promo codes to giveaway! We still have the three promo codes for the iPhone/iPod touch version and we now have an additional 23 promo codes for the iPad version!

TheiPhoneFix, developer of the iPhone/iPod touch and iPad game, Defend Your Universe, was kind enough to provide TechGeec with three (3) promo codes to get his application, Defend Your Universe, for free. This giveaway will only be open for one week. After that, the developer will release a new update for the application which will provide better graphics. We will have more promo codes to give away once the update is released as these three promo codes that we currently have can only be used to redeem the current version of the app.

Defend Your Universe Description: Earth’s in trouble, what will you do? do you have the skills to keep it from falling into the hands of aliens????? In Defend Your Universe your job is to destroy enemy ships that are headed towards Earth, or at least for as long as you can. But, you also have defenses, as time goes by you will build up shields to protect you against aliens

All you have to do in this game is tap the ship to destroy it, or as time goes by, you may find swiping works just as well, what ever your method see how long you can last while trying to defend your planet in Defend Your Universe.

How to Enter the Giveaway:

1. Leave a comment on this post. Your comment must begin with “#DYU” and then you may write your comment.

Ex.: “#DYU I want to win!”

2. Your comment MUST contain either your YouTube account name or your Twitter username. This is so that if you win, we have a way to contact you. If you’re leaving your YouTube account name, becign it with “YT: “, if it’s your Twitter username, begin it with “@”.

Ex.: “#DYU I want to win! @TechGeec”
“#DYU I want to win! YT: iPT2gGeec”

That’s it! That’s all you have to do to enter the giveaway – just leave a comment. In one week, on August 5, 2010, we’ll announce the winner here on TechGeec in a new post. The three winners will be listed there and we will contact the winners and give them a promo code for Defend Your Universe.

Doodle Kart App Review

March 31, 2010Uncategorizedapp, app store, apple, application, appstore, car, doodle, doodle kart, Game, iPhone, ipod, ipod touch, j2sighte, jerry lee, new, race, racingDavid

 Name: Doodle Kart
Category: Games
Homepage: Jerry Lee
Rating:
Version: 1.0
Size: 46.4 MB
Price: $0.99

Doodle games, with graphics that appear to have been hand drawn, are hot. Lima Sky’s Doodle Jump, for example, is currently sitting in third place in the best-selling apps column.

Among the latest of these games is Doodle Kart from j2sighte, a novel top-down racing game that pits cleverly crafted racers against each other on a graph paper background. j2sighte says Doodle Kart was inspired by Sauce Digital’s Nano Rally, a similar game also with hand-drawn graphics.

There are five stages with 25 unique tracks in all, providing for hours of track time. To begin , you’ll choose between single race and championship modes. In single mode, you have the option of going solo or playing against a CPU opponent.
In Championship mode, you have the option of taking it easy, normal, hard or nightmare.

After choosing one of three cars, you can select settings for speed, acceleration, handling, weight and items, actually weapons, such as pencils and rockets and other power ups. You control the car using a gas and brake pedals in the lower right corner.

You have two options for steering your car: touch and tilt. Touch is accomplished using right/left arrows. If you opt for Doodle Kart’s tilt control you’ll find there are three settings (low, medium and high). I found maneuvering the course using tilt control to be difficult, so I decided to stick with the right/left arrow touch controls.

I don’t know, maybe it’s just me, but I initially found the car difficult to control, even on it’s lowest settings. It took a few hours of playing before I started to feel comfortable. I finally settled on setting my speed and acceleration to about the halfway mark and handling cranked all the way up. You’ll want to experiment with these settings because they make quite a bit of difference.

Doodle Kart features a number of other options. There’s the usual music and soundtrack on/off switches, portrait or landscape mode, tilt control on/off and item or weapon.

This app also has leader boards, forums, chat and other functions derived from the increasingly popular OpenFeint social networking platform.

iTunes 9.0

August 9, 2009Uncategorized0, 10, 10.5, 8, 8.5, 9, air, app, apple, application, blu-ray, blue, book, classic, computer, disc, facebook, hd, imac, ipod, itunes, leopard, mac, media, mp3, music, myspace, new, os, pc, player, snow, tiwtter, touch, video, vista, vlc, windows, wmp, wwdc, x, xpDavid

According to Boy Genius Report, iTunes 9.0 will have the following features:

Blu-ray support
Application Management – You will be able to visually manage your apps and rearrange them
Social Networking - Integration with Twitter, Facebook, and Last.fm

These are some great features but as of now, they are still just rumors. I do find, however, that the social networking feature is not needed all that much considering iTunes is still just a media player, much like WMP (Windows Media Player) or VLC media player. I do think that the integration of Blu-ray support is a very nice add-on. Because the are still not officially confirmed, we still do not know if this is true. Though if it is, I am curious if it would work on all computers or only on computers that have Blu-ray disc readers. The reason I point this out is because I doubt that if a certain computer does not have the hardware to read Blu-ray discs, what would make software on this computer capable of doing so?

There is no confirmed release date but it is believed to be released sometime near September when the new iPod Touch third generation will be announced (possibly).