App Review – Ramp Champ 1.0.1

Hello again,

As you can see from the badge above, now I’m going to review a very amazing game, Ramp Champ. At first, I was noticing a lot of commotion with some of my Twitter friends before it came out, and I didn’t understand it. Now that I have it, I understand! It may not be is not an easy game, but hey! harder is better! I’m just saying that, if it’s not a challenge, how can it be fun?! Just look at Flight Control! It’s one of the most challenging games, yet it was in the top 10 paid apps for months! And it wouldn’t surprise me if Ramp Champ did too.

The point of this game is to throw balls in the ramp and hit the different objects that are in front, just like in the fairs! The UI is simply amazing, but I wouldn’t expect any worse from The Iconfactory. It comes bundles with four different stages: Clown Town, Breakwater Bay, SpaceSwarm, and The Icon Garden.

Each one of this has it’s own different targets to shoot at, and its own three different goals. Each stage has this goals, and this makes the game amazing, because this goals are very difficult to obtain! Also, after each game, which consists of a 9 ball round, you get 1 ticket for each 500 points that you score during the game (each target ranges from about 250 – 1000 points). Now, you might be wondering, why do you want those tickets? Well, with those tickets you can buy prizes! They have many awesome prizes for you to choose from, so make sure to keep playing so you can buy them all!

They also were awesome enough to let you purchase two extra stages! I’m sorry, but I was not able to buy any of those as I have only left.. haha. But I’m sure they are better than the ones that come bundles with the game!

Overall it is definitely a hard game, as it is not easy to send the ball exactly where you need it to go, but play it for a minute or two and you’ll be completely hooked! It is really a MUST get game!!

To finish, here are some more pics and at the very end you can find more info and a link to the app (in the icon)

Thanks a lot for reading! Any suggestions? Do you think I missed something in the review? Feel free to contact me!

Thanks again

manolo

Ramp Champ – $1.99 + $0.99 each extra (optional) stage

First app review – Birdfeed 1.0

This is going to be my first app review ever :) I hope I don’t miss any good or bad things about this app.

Well, first of all, I wanna start by giving you a link to the app (click the icon)

Birdfeed — $4.99 in the iTunes App Store

Okay, I really think this is a very nice app, it’s very complete and very nice polished, specially for being version 1.0. But at the same time, it does have some cons…

I will start with the cons:

-First and most important (for most of you) as of v 1.0 it has no landscape keyboard.

-Another problem that I’ve had several times is that I wrote some text for the tweet, took a pic and when it uploaded, it deleted all my written text and wrote the link for the pic…

-It does not have support, like other apps, to view a profile picture or Twitpic in full screen.

-The application’s settings are in the Settings app, not in Birdfeed itself.

-A bug I found is that if a user has 10k or more followers / following / updates, it shows up as zero

Now with the good stuff:

-It is very fast.

-Supports multiple accounts.

-It saves up to 500 tweets of the timeline for you read even if you have no internet.

-For what I’ve seen, pretty much full featured.

This is what you’ll see in your account general view:

As you can see, it has Search & View user (just type in any user, and it will show the user) besides what you would expect (timeline, mentions, DMs, etc)

This is how your timeline will look like (Mentions show up in color orange):

At the very top of the timeline you have the load newer button, and every time you tap it, it makes a “bookmark” that shows up between the tweet at the top and the first new tweet, so you know where and at what time you last refreshed. (I just noticed that in this screen shot you cant see the avatars, I took the pic before my slow internet loaded them up lol)

Another very nice feature is that when you go all the way to the bottom of your timeline it will automatically load up older tweets, without the need to tap anything. (just below @iTouchiPodz’s tweet you can see the “bookmark” I was talking about before)

You may be asking yourself, how do I reply to a tweet? Well to do so, just tap on the tweet you want to reply or you want to RT and you’ll see what you see to the left of this text. Tap Reply/Favorite/Forward to do what you wanna do (Fw = RT, email or post link to tweet)

To make a new tweet, just tap in the to left corner (chat bubble) and you’ll see something like the pic to the right. Tap the trash can  to erase the whole tweet, tap the camera to upload a picture (chose or take a new one) and in the center, you see the character counter.

Finally, I wanna show you the way you see the user’s profile. To do so, either use the “View User” feature, or tap an account’s pic in a tweet. What you’ll be able to do here is:

-Send a DM

-See his/her recent tweets

-See his/her favorite tweets

-Search @[username]

-Follow/Unfollow

-Services, what services is, is a couple of links to some pages:

—Twitter.com (goes to twitter.com/[username])

—Favrd (is not currently working for me, not even their website favrd so I don’t know what it does)

—Follow Cost,(shows you his/her follow cost, go to followcost for more info)

—DoesFollow (shows you if that user follows you or not)

I will not give a rating, I just give you the good things and bad things of the app and you decide if it’s worth or not the $4.99 for you (if you don’t like this method, let me know)

Hope you liked my review and it was useful for to know if it’s worth the money or not for you, if I missed something, please let me know in a comment below :)

manolo

PS. Special thanks to Pashyn (@pashyn) because I used her in the screenshots :P go follow her in Twitter, and sub to her in YouTube