PocketTouch was originally a very famous app that was available to those that had jailbroken their iPhones or iPod touch but now it is finally out officially in the App store.When PocketTouch originally came out, at the time it was the only available third party music controller, but the only thing that kept people back from using it is the fact that you had to jailbreak your iPhone or iPod touch to use it, no more do you have to do so!

So what does PocketTouch do? Its basically an alternative music controller for your iPhone or iPod touch. It allows you to go through and play your music using an awesome new interface which is controlled by simple gestures. It is excellent for when your working because with a single swipe you can pause music,change the track without having to press a tiny pause or forward button on the screen.The developers even claim that it was them that caused Apple to add additional features to the iPhone/iPod touch, which is true to some extent. For example the “Shake to Shuffle” feature was never in the original firmware but PocketTouch had it.

One thing about PocketTouch which is an annoyance is that the “iPod” feature has to be running for PocketTouch to function at all, if its not on PocketTouch just shows a blank screen,the developers claim this is due to Apple not allowing them to run apps in the background. Tapping the “i” icon at the top right opens the settings menu of PocketTouch, which has descriptions of each of the options clearly written.

PocketTouch also has a plethora of visual music themes, some of them being: AlbumArt, Bluebird, NightGarden, PTWinterNightSky, and PocketTouch. Each theme displays a different visual animation based on acoustics of the music, which i really enjoy.As a music controller app PocketTouch is way better than any other app i have tried the gestures themselves are the best part of it, you can easily shuffle through songs while your iPhone or iPod Touch is in your pocket, no more do you need to take it out and change track.

Gestures are pretty easy, here they are in a nutshell:

• Swipe to the right – Next Track
• Swipe to the left – Start of current track
• Two swipes to the left – Previous track
• Double-tap – Pause or resume playback
• Swipe up – Volume up
• Swipe down – Volume down

If you don’t like the default gestures you can chage them by going into the “Gestures” option when clicking the “i” icon. You can also enable taps which basically allows you to double tap the screen, which would in effect pause the current track that is playing. A feature which is somewhat hidden is that if you want to scroll through all your songs in the manner of the regular iPod interface you can do so by double tapping the black bar at the top which brings up your entire song list. The developers need to highlight this feature a bit better since at its current stage it almost looks like an easter egg. All in all i would recommend anyone that uses their iPhone/iPod touch for listening to music to get this app.

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Cartoon Wars is an arcade themed game for the iPhone and the iPod touch, that has elements of both the Tower Defense and Real-time Strategy genres. You can control either enemy side, standing at either points of the field. After which they go to war, which is the main aim of this game. You control your line of defense and the enemy controls theirs. Your objective is to defeat the enemy by firing the canon that is in your possession, and also serving out your troops to defeat your opponent. You are basically “The Cartoons” and the enemies are trying to take down your faction known as “The Cartoon Empire”, your enemies are the more colorful and evil creatures. As the game progresses you gain gold, which can be utilized to upgrade your soldiers.

Controls in Cartoon Wars are pretty easy. At the bottom of the screen of your iPhone or iPod touch  you have your array of soldiers, which can vary depending on cost, their effect and the power they have. Also on the screen is your castle, cannon and your “Mana Booster”. These are all essential elements of the game. Your cannon is an additional weapon that can be used to kill the monsters that are sent by the enemy towards your castle. The yellow switch that can be seen at the bottom right is what is used to fire the cannon mentioned above.

The graphics of the game are pretty unpar with other iPhone/iPod touch games that are out there. The graphics are a bit cartoony as the name of the game implies, but in my opinion they are a bit too much so. When playing the game one can easily notice that the graphics are a bit sketchy, somewhat pixelated and the blood explosions that occur from time to time make the experience a bit worse. But i suppose that the low level graphics actually help the game play because the game just has so much going on that I imagine improved graphics would just lag the game to high hell making it unplayable, nonetheless graphics are a matter of personal opinion and not everyone might have the same one.

The audio effects of the game is where i was disappointed a bit. The music has a somewhat medieval theme to it which does suit the game quite well but has horrible implementation. While playing you can notice skipping of the audio from time to time, as if there is just one audio file that is being looped over and over again. The good thing though is that you can play your own music during the game, simply by tapping the home button twice.

The game is pretty fun and addictive while you get gold and do your upgrades but once you get to the point where you have upgraded everything the game literally becomes boring so much so that its no fun playing it anymore. I haven’t once launched the game since I had done all the upgrades, but for its price point of $0.99 its not too bad

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