They’ve already used plants. Now it’s time to use the children.

Don’t tell me you still haven’t downloaded this wonderful freebie tower defense game. Kids vs Zombies is a pretty straightforward defense game with a fun thematic twist: kids. You control three kids — each with his own special role: sharpshooter, area of effect (demolitions), and close combat specialist to cater to varied situations of the zombie apocalypse.
Download it now. It’s free!

If you think about it, it’s not really expensive. Jamie Oliver has 50 new 20-minute recipes all tucked into your iPhone. I’ve been looking for a handy cookbook for grilled stuff and after searching the bookstore it really just dawned on me that it makes tons more sense to buy eCookBooks, especially those that have step by step videos and and photos. Jamie Oliver is one of the better ones and it is priced decently.

You can grab the application here. [iTunes store Link]

The only thing that sucks balls is the fact that a notepad app like this should have been stock material for the iPhone. There have been numerous occasions when I would have wanted to jot down notes without the need of the virtual keypad, and Pocket Whiteboard is exactly what we’re looking for.

You’ll soon find yourself out of space when you start doodling: you can change the color of your marker, replay your work stroke by stroke and save your art in raw format.

We can all learn a thing or two from Pepsi. The problem with big brands is that they’re so ubiquitous, you really don’t know how else to promote them with below the line campaigns. Take this latest fiasco — Pepsi had recently apologized for an iPhone app that “provided phone users with chat-up lines for “getting lucky” with 24 different types of women – including foreign exchange students and college girls.” (source)

The app objectifies women allowing you to stereotype them into different “categories” and flaunt the news to your friends through Twitter and other social media sites.
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#pepsifail.

It’s out! Although in beta. BlackBerry is sure stepping up, not to be left behind by Nokia and Apple. The BlackBerry Widget Packager 1.0 Beta allows developers to pack all their developing goodness into a little widget which they can export.

There’s a conference for this — on November 9-12, RIM will be holding a session for developers who want to develop apps for the Blackberry platform. You can also proceed here for more details.
The developer tool can be found here.

This week, HP unveiled their new line of four wireless “Magic Frame” printers for the consumer market in Asia. In tandem with this, they’ve also released an iPhone application that allows you to directly print photos from your iPhone or iPod touch. Neat right? Well, the app was released in December of 2008 so it really has been a while! This is the perfect app (perfect as it is the ONLY app that will work in tandem with an HP wireless printer) for printing photos from your iPhone / iPod touch via WiFi.
You can download the application here for free. …read more

Have you ever thought these two applications were the same? In most Nokia phones today, Active Notes magically replaced the Notes app. Other people have confused the two — and in reality both apps still do exist. Active Notes is usually available in Eseries phones. Other phones, like the N86 doez not have this app and relies solely on Notes.

Active Notes allows you to add some multimedia functionality to your note taking. Active Notes is sorta like the HTML version of the regular notes application allowing you to port multimedia into your computer when you sync. There’s a great deal …read more

For those of you who have been fans of Nokia and never looked back, you may have noticed a little application called “Switch” under the Tools folder. This has been an offering that came with some of the latter phones in ‘08. The Switch app lets you synchronize data between two Nokia phones via Bluetooth or data. For instance, if you have a new Nokia phone (an N86 pictured here), you can transfer all your data from your previous Nokia phone (the Nokia E71) simply by running Switch. It will ask you what type of data do you need transferred, …read more

if you’re from the Philippines, you should be familiar with Click the City: a one stop shop for movie schedules, restaurant reviews and shopping guides.. Well, if you got yourself an iPhone or iPod touch, they’re there as well.

The app makes its debut at USD$3.99, which IMHO is steep for something you can access on the Internet for free. Here’s to hoping that they do something about the price. Maybe this has something to do with the location-based-services of the iPhone. We’ll see.
[App store link]

My dad was addicted to Snood. So was I. It was like family bonding time before Facebook came with Farm Town. Snood was a classic. It was simple, elegant and highly addicting and its now on the iPhone / iPod touch. What makes Snood more interesting is its gearing towards social media: you can opt in for a 2 player mode that connects to Facebook to challenge your friends. There’s also a WiFi challenge mode. Overall, a brilliant time waster. I just bought it.

There are games that you pay for from the iTunes store that end up being forgotten, but …read more