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App Mix: Simplify Music, Hollywood Hangman, Truphone, Modulo
By Charles Starrett
Contributing Editor
Published: Wednesday, April 29, 2009
News Categories: Apps + Games
Simplify Media has released Simplify Music 2.0, its latest application for the iPhone and iPod touch. Simplify Music works in concert with a free application on users’ home computers to stream their music to their device. Features in the new software include the ability to search for artist, album, and title across all shared libraries, tag favorite music, create on-the-fly playlists, and scrub forward and backward through audio files. Simplify Music is available now from the App Store and is currently priced at $3; the price will increase to $6 on May 14.
LimeLife has released its new Hollywood Hangman game for the iPhone and iPod touch. Based on the classic word game, Hollywood Hangman features 1,500 puzzles spread across four trivia categories—celebrity, movie, TV, and music—along with single, pass n’ play, and Wi-Fi multiplayer modes, three different music tracks, 10 different Hollywood-inspired backgrounds, and the ability for users to create their own puzzles. LimeLife’s Hollywood Hangman sells for $1; a free Lite version is also available.
Truphone has launched version 3.0 of its Truphone application for the iPhone. Truphone is a VoIP app which supports calling through Skype, Google Talk, and Truphone. Improvements in version 3.0 include superior voice call quality, a new instant messaging tool with support for Skype, MSN Messenger, AIM, Yahoo! Messenger and Google Talk, and real-time account management. Truphone 3.0 for the iPhone is available as a free download from the App Store.
Electric TopHat has introduced its new Modulo puzzle game for the iPhone and iPod touch. In Modulo, players bust rotate a set of colored cogs until they are all facing in the same direction. It features 180 different levels, all of which are accessible from the start of the game. Modulo is available now and sells for $2; a free Lite version is also available.
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This article fails to mention that Simplify is not providing a free update to existing users. Instead, everyone has to buy the new version to get new features. None of the other apps I’ve purchased have operated like this and it shows Simplify has no appreciation for all the users that made their app into one of the best selling apps.
Posted by kevin on April 29, 2009 at 11:49 AM (PST)
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I find the Simplify update to be incredibly sleazy. It is shameful to require a paid upgrade for such simple GUI features. I got the app when it was free, but I have hardly used it. After this, however, I will delete it and leave them an appropriate review.
Posted by Jiji on April 29, 2009 at 12:06 PM (PST)