Fair warning is due. If you’re not into this type of simulation games, you’ll be a bit disappointed by what you can actually do in it. There’s no adventure, there’s no fantasy and (despite what you might have wondered after seeing the title), there’s no sex involved in My Virtual Girlfriend. All this is not to say that some gaming enthusiasts amongst you will not definitely enjoy this release.

I’ve reviewed similar games in the past (see MyGirl), but they lacked the depth that My Virtual Girlfriend provides. There’s a big variety of interactions you have at your disposal. It’s not really a full-fledged Role Playing Game, but it does follow along these lines.

The first step you have to do in My Virtual Girlfriend is tell the app a little something about you. Pick your name there Don Juan and rate yourself when it comes to [...]

The two geniuses behind Str8ts and 1 to 25 have already set the bar very high for the iPhone puzzle game industry. It was kind of unexpected to see that they would be the ones to raise it even higher with another neat puzzle for your mobile delight. The game is called Caveman Test and I would dare say it raises new expectations from future puzzles that would be published in the AppStore in the year to come.

Caveman Test, while not an original concept, stands as the innovative brother of “Sticks and Stones.” This age-old game, prehistoric one might say, appears to be what cavemen where playing after a long day hunting. All they needed was sticks and stones, and of course a clever mind. Cave paintings and wear marks tend to confirm that theory that these homo sapiens were the first puzzle inventors, while the rest is [...]

My6sense is not your usual RSS reader though. While it doesn’t aim to compete with the already established Byline or NetNewsWire, my6sense actually does a pretty good job at replacing them altogether. The difficulty with any RSS reader is that it pulls information from all your subscriptions and gives them to you chronologically. And that’s fine if you only need to manage a few subscriptions, but add up to a few dozen of them, and you’re so buried by the information and you can’t make any sense of it anyway. And this is where my6sense comes in, and sorts through your feeds pulling out content that aligns best with your interests. Digital intuition at its best.

No, my6sense is not a mind reader, nor are you actually downloading a crystal ball. The way it works is by making use of what you are reading on a [...]

I was a bit in the dark about Alice.com and since I don’t live in the US, I didn’t have much of a chance to try this service out. So as a disclaimer to this review, I don’t live in the US and I don’t use the services provided by Alice.com. I did however try out their new iPhone app, and will recommend it wholeheartedly.

Just to recap a bit, Alice.com is an online retail platform that’s aimed at linking manufacturers of household items like tooth brushes, toilet paper or trash bags to consumers directly. You can set up an account (free of charge) on Alice.com, and you can select the products you use the most. Alice will keep you organized and present you with discount coupons whenever they will come up for your products. The service offers free shipping on top of prices that are 20 to 30% lower than what you’d be [...]

I personally like World War II depictions in cinema and literature, and it came as no surprise why I enjoyed the iBomber experience on my iPhone. This iPhone game put me right there in the action, and although I liked FPS games more, my role as a Word War II bomber suited me just fine thanks to the easy controls and fast-paced game play. iBomber is one iPhone game you’re bound to pick up and forget to put down.

You can control your bomber using only your iPhone’s touch screen and the accelerometer. There are no virtual sticks or directional pads, no complicated key combinations. Just drop bombs like you’ve got a whole bag of them from Santa. And actually you do. In iBomber you can’t run out of ammo, which is a cool thing, and one less detail to worry about. iBomber is focused on you experience in-game, and were it not [...]

Avid crossword puzzle addicts ahoy! Dictionary.com launched a new iPhone app that’s meant to give you a helping hand in solving those crosswords that have your head spinning. Crossword Solver Agent X Word uses Dictionary.com’s proprietary technology and semantic search to give you real-time answers and hits to your crossword. They claim to have reach over two million crossword hints and puzzles that are updated daily, but what’s really catchy about it is that the iPhone app will collect clues that people are searching for everyday, therefore understanding trends and recognizing current events.

I’m not sure exactly how it works, or rather why it works as it does. When you launch the app, you’re greeted by Agent X Word, and you have to feed him clues and he’ll give you answers. A clue is defined as the [...]

The AppStore just got their own MythBusters and Braniacs as Cramzy launched a video-based iPhone app that teaches you some really cool experiments you can do in your own home with very little cost to your wallet. The app released just last week includes 14 experiments along with step-by-step instructions that are designed to teach users more about physics and chemistry.

The good thing about these experiments is that you won’t put the house on fire and you don’t have to be a regular Einstein to do it. Most of the experiments use household appliances or items you can buy at your local store. The developers of course warn against hazards and will provide you with important safety precautions for each experiment you want to do.

When you open up the app, you get a list of the 14 experiments on the right hand side [...]