What it is: iPlay Music, a Mountain View, CA company, produces music learning software and operates a web-based store in the iTunes mold that just launched an innovative Chords for iTunes app that gives musicians an easy way to synchronize music in an iTunes library with a Quicktime video showing the chords to play along [...]

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Digital Praise has brought in an interesting game for the iPhone and iPod Touch users. Dubbed as Dance Praise, the latest game is focused on Contemporary Christian music with perfect mix.

If you are an iPhone and iPod Touch users, then I have got good news for you! MSNBC and Zumobi have developed a new application for you.

Filed under: Gaming, Odds and ends, Freeware, iPhone, App Store, iPod touch

Normally we’d just send out a tweet about this (that’s usually what we do with free app deals, so if you’re not one of the almost 40,000 people following us yet, you definitely should be), but this is a good one, and it’s a holiday, so we wanted to make sure you knew. Sega is feeling particularly generous this weekend, so they’re giving away free copies of their Columns Deluxe, a port of the old Genesis game, for the iPhone. The game is a pretty straightforward port — it doesn’t have any extras, and the accelerometer controls are a little tacked on from what we hear, but if you like the puzzler gameplay of Columns, and you should, it’s a fun one to pull up for a few minutes at a time.

Plus, it’s free — from July 3rd to Monday, July 6th, Sega says it’ll be on sale for the low price of nothing at all. Sounds good to us — sit back, put a few brats and burgers on the grill, grab a Corona (and lime, of course), and enjoy some old-school dropping block gameplay for no money at all.

TUAWSega giving away Columns on iPhone for free all this weekend originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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What is it? SnapWords is a game by Magnetism Studios that is meant to be played by lots of people

Filed under: Software, iPhone, App Store, Road Tested

Like my colleague Mel Martin, I’ve had a serious GPS jones for quite a while. When I was in much better shape, I rode the local trails on a mountain bike with a Garmin eTrex Summit. It didn’t have any maps, nor did I really need any for what I was doing. My next GPS receiver was a Garmin GPSmap 60cs that I used for geocaching. It had a nice color screen and some limited maps, but really didn’t do a very good job of helping me find my way around town.

The third GPS unit was another Garmin, and in this case it was my first real “navigator.” I still have it; it’s the Garmin nüvi 660, which is an awesome little unit that can help you find your way around the US or Europe (depending on the model you purchase), act as an MP3 player, or even work as a fairly serviceable hands-free unit for Bluetooth phones.

I’ve used mine with my iPhones since way back in 2007, and have enjoyed hearing the amplified voices of callers blasting out of the nüvi.

It’s best capability, of course, is as a navigator. In this post, I’m going to compare the AT&T Navigator app [App Store] and service with the nüvi, and give you my take on how this free app works. Mel already filled you in on some of the details in his earlier post; we agreed that I’d give you the road test perspective.

Continue reading Road Tested: AT&T Navigator for iPhone

TUAWRoad Tested: AT&T Navigator for iPhone originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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