iPhone Apps & Games

Crazy Daisy

Spin the daisies to match the colored petals and watch them pop in this fun color-matching arcade game. Touch the daisies to spin their heads, match the colored petals and aim for big petal combinations to score super bonuses like 'Daisy Chain' and 'Flower Power'.

Crazy Daisy has 3 play modes: Arcade - play against the clock to make the most petal matches before time runs out; Puzzle - take your time, plan your moves and maximize your score; and Endless - a relaxing game perfect for just passing the time.

Crazy Daisy has gorgeous garden-themed animations with slinky snails, buzzing bees, cute caterpillars and lots more! The game will save automatically when you exit and you can play your own music in the background with the sound effects on or off - just select Music 'Off' choose the music from your iPod, and play the game.

Westward

Based on the hit PC game by Sandlot Games, Westward is a fun real-time strategy game where you control the destiny of the Wild West by building thriving towns, exploring unchartered plains, dense forests and rocky canyons and guiding settlers to safety and success. Manage your resources and deal with environmental disasters like fire and drought, all while following the trail of the Mad Russian, a con artist extraordinaire, who must be brought to justice before he can cheat anyone else out of their life savings.

Westward includes an authentic music soundtrack, or you can turn it off and play your own music with the sound effects on or off.

Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus

The Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus is the first thesaurus to be developed by writers, for writers.

In addition to the more than 300,000 synonyms and 10,000 antonyms found in the thesaurus, each of our distinguished editorial board members has contributed frank, funny, thoughtful, and, most of all, word-wise mini-essays on words that they particularly love, hate, admire, or are just plain puzzled by.

Even more helpful for writers in search of the perfect word, this new thesaurus contains nearly two hundred word banks, collections of nouns to add exact detail to your writing. (Was it just bread, or was it chapatti, rye, dal, or pita?) Brand-new word spectrums show where your word falls in a line between two polar opposites (passable is three-quarters of the way from beautiful to ugly).

Other features include quick guides to easily confused words; helpful, real-world usage guidance to tricky sticking points of grammar and word choice; and careful, expert distinctions among awkward synonyms.

Features:

• 300,000 synonyms and 10,000 antonyms
• No wireless connection required
• Oxford editorial board member essays
• Search for entries by name or browse the entire word list
• View history of thesaurus views
• $ 24.99 represents a 40% discount from the $40 MSRP for the Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus hardcover version

"The best new array of synonyms around."--William Safire, The New York Times Magazine

"The only problem in consulting this book could be that the original purpose soon is lost while the reader becomes immersed in one fascinating passage after another." --Richmond Times Dispatch

"Written by writers for writers, this innovative thesaurus truly advances the time-honored word source."--American Libraries

"Perhaps the thesaurus's most fascinating feature is lengthy lists of words that link opposites--fat and thin, comic and tragic, interesting and boring. With this book close at hand, no one will call you the thesaurus's ultimate synonym for writer: a hack."--Village Voice

Hellfire

Hellfire is an exciting helicopter combat game that takes you on a worldwide tour of duty. Climb aboard your helicopter gunship and take on 16 missions of adrenaline-fuelled combat action in a global theater of war.

Game features include:

• Worldwide missions to complete, including multiple objectives per mission
• Choice of full Campaign or single Mission modes
• Choice of US or Soviet helicopters, both with realistic weapon loadouts and capabilities
• Varied gameplay with multiple levels of challenge
• Combination of accelerometer and touchscreen controls
• 3D terrain and enemies, along with high quality pre-rendered helicopter models
• Dynamic sound effects and music soundtrack, or switch them off and listen to your own music
• Tutorial mode to help you master the controls for your 'copter

Hellfire was created by Pazzazz Games, who developed GTS World Racing, and is recommended for players that enjoyed Blue Skies, Chopper, and X-Plane-Helicopter.

eXact

Enjoy hours of fun, brick-sliding action with eXact - a deceptively simple but highly addictive puzzle game!

Touch the colored bricks to slide them from the top, bottom, left and right to make matches of three. Use the bricks on the board to create blocks and make matches. Sounds easy? Plan your moves ahead to make the best matches and score bigger bonuses for larger groups. Use special blocks and power-ups to boost your score!

eXact has 3 play modes - Arcade, Strategy, and Timed - each with a different challenge to master, and 3 levels of difficulty. The game will save your progress automatically when you exit and you can play your own music in the background with sound effects on or off.

eXact is recommended for players who enjoy color-matching games like Trism.