Today it’s Thursday and it’s time for our weekly free app reviews. Each Thursday, AppleLunch will provide you with reviews of free apps from the App Store to separate the wheat from the chaff. Today, we will bring back foghorns to sport events and then take a look at ourselves. No, actually we won’t do the last part, but at least we’ll try. Oh dear god, how naive are we?
iHorn
iHorn is a free application, developed by DS Enterprise and was released in April 2009.
iHorn is not an application with many bright features. In fact, all you can do is to make a noise, but this can actually make a lot of fun, but it requires imagination.
Just consider this situation: You are sitting in your living room, watching a boring soccer game, and you have visits from your friends. After 80 minutes without scoring, all your friends are almost fallen asleep, and then you pick up your iPhone from your pocket. There is nothing strange about picking an iPhone up from your pocket, unless you don’t have an iPhone, but you pick up your iPhone from your pocket and navigates to iHorn, turns up the volume to maximum, and then blows the horn. THAT would make any soccer game more interesting, and you will get attention from your friends, and depending on their mood they’ll find you funny…… or maybe just annoying, but at least you’ll have fun with the situation.
iHorn can be used in any kinds of situation (unless you have used it so much, that your battery is empty) and it comes with 7 different horns (V2.32) and if you don’t want your horn to run out of air, you can activate the “unlimited air” function, and blow until you fall asleep.
It is the meaning of this application that if you shake your iPhone when you’re empty of air it should fill itself up, but I have now shaken my iPhone for a minute and not the tinniest piece of air has come into my horn, and it disappoints me. Another negative point, is the conspicuous banner at the top of the screen, that keeps changing every 10 seconds, and if you tap them you’ll get another screen.
iHorn is easy to use, and all you have to do if you want to give someone a turn, is to tap the top of the horn, and besides it’s a simple application, it can actually make a lot of fun in the right moments.
4/5 STARS
Get the app from iTunes App Store
Mirror Mirror
According to the developers, this picture is a mirror. Oh dear god I look gray today.
Well, to be honest I had no big expectations to this application, which is created by U.S. Robot and Mechanical Men, Inc.
The application is supposed to make a mirror out of your iPhone display, but if U.S. Robot and Mechanical Men, Inc. succeeded creating such an app, they would be at least billionaires.
When you open the application, you’ll be shown a light gray screen with a banner at the top. If you expect more from this application, you’ll get disappointed. We’ll, you can switch the background color to dark gray, white or black, but none of the opportunities gives a you mirror. The best mirror on the iPhone is at the back, the small Apple logo exactly.
The Mirror Mirror application offers you four different colors, as I told you before, and now I’ll give you the best color of them all, and the winner is………… The “lock” button. Yes, if you turn off the display, you’ll get the best mirror. My guess is that it is created as a navigation application trial, which they’ve provided with an AdMob banner to generate some money on iPhone user’s simplicity.
This application scores the lowest possible rating, which is one star. While reviewing this application, I considered reforming the rating system to contain much lower rating than one star, but I will not let this application influence AppleLunch. It’s simply not worth it. Sorry, U.S. Robot and Mechanical Men, Inc., but you just managed to make my day worse.
1/5 STARS
Get the app from iTunes App Store (No seriously, don’t!)
