If you’re a fan of Lucas Arts and Sierra Games adventure games like Grim Fandango, The Dig, Monkey Island, or King’s Quest, you’ll dig this fun game from Replay Games, Inc. Fester Mudd: Curse of the Gold, Episode 1 is a spot-on tribute to the gaming days of yore, with hilarious writing, painterly-yet-pixelly artwork, and some quirky puzzles to solve with various items needing to be used with various other items.

It’s also by the guys who are working on the upcoming Leisure Suit Larry remake for iOS, so you know it’s gonna be good.

Fester Mudd: Curse of the Gold is set in the wild west, and will continue for three full episodes. Episode one, which is available now for a measly $0.99 in the App store, puts you in the role of the titular Mudd, searching for your long-lost treasure-seeking brother who has somehow gotten lost in his own travels. Mudd is a coward, lazy, and dimwitted who will need to outshine all of those things to solve the puzzles and find his brother, meeting a host of wacky characters and goofy situations along the way.

Fester Mudd: Curse of the Gold, Episode 1 is a universal app, letting you play on your iPad or iPhone with the same purchase. It will also save your game via iCloud, letting you pick up on one device where you left off on the other. It’s got all the fun you remember from the classic adventure games, with an original soundtrack, a cliffhanger ending like an old western serial drama, and a ton of jokes and gags that the team is well known for.

With a pedigree like the one at Replay Games, this one’s a no-brainer. Head on over to the App Store right now and slap your dollar on the saloon table. Grab yourself a copy of this love letter to the classic gaming genre of the 90s, brought to the most popular devices of the 2010s.

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This post was written by Rob LeFebvre from Cult of Mac.
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OpenStreetMap is a project that makes and distributes free map data for the world, letting anyone use the data for free, without any legal or technical restrictions.

Startup skobbler uses this global mapping data to create its own set of location-aware mobile apps, like ForeverMap 2, an app that has been on Android for a while now, and which is now available on the App Store for your iOS device.

ForeverMap 2 is a hybrid on and offline mapping app that can be used whether you are connected to the network via WiFi or cellular network or not. The maps, which include the entire globe, will be available to you everywhere, regardless of signal. You can download complete country maps via WiFi before you head out, and that data will be available to you anywhere, any time.

You simply purchase the app for $0.99, and you’ll never have to pay for extra map packs or anything else. Having the maps along with you makes sure you’ll never have to worry about data roaming charges when traveling, either.

Skobbler calls their mapping technology NGX, which the developer claims not only look cool, but move, zoom, and rotate easily, with no blurry displays or blank map tiles. There are night, outdoor, and other map styles to try out, as well as route planning for cars, pedestrians, and cyclists, even though this is not a navigation app.

If offline functionality and free maps of the entire globe is important to you, ForeverMap 2 seems like a pretty good deal for a dollar. It’s available in the app store now.

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Via: Skobbler

This post was written by Rob LeFebvre from Cult of Mac.
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SpeakingPhoto is a new social photography app that lets you connect in real-time with anyone you like, using photos and recorded audio to share your special moments. Competing with Vine, Snapchat, and Digisocial, SpeakingPhoto aims to be a nicer place to be; instead of the party-atmosphere of the latter two apps, this one wants to let you record and archive the “memories, notes, and stories behind milestone moments in your personal and professional lives.”

Pretty heady stuff for a photo sharing app, right?

Instead of Vine’s six seconds of video, SpeakingPhoto has you record your voice and ambient audio and pair it with a still photo. You can share these mixed media messages on Facebook, via YouTube, to email, or to SpeakingPhoto’s own curated Gallery on the web. You can also string up to five narrated photos together to tell a story or record an entire event, using either photos in your Camera Roll or taking new ones as you go.

The team isn’t interested in growing a new social network like other photo sharing apps, but rather wants to help communities of parents, families, working groups, and colleagues share information-rich moments and ideas with both image and sound. The inspiration for the app came from seeing families watch a multi-media art presentation of the kids in a kindergarten class, and the emotional connection to the work that resulted.

“SpeakingPhoto grew out of a desire to capture the sweet and fleeting sound of children’s voices – something home videos tend to diminish,” said CEO Dawn Davis in a statement. “From there, we realized that capturing stories, and the emotions behind them, was extremely meaningful. It quickly became apparent that this App can be used in many creative, fun and compelling ways, by people all over the world.”

There are three separate versions of the SpeakingPhoto app, from a free Lite version, an iPhone version for $0.99, and an iPad version for $2.99.

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This post was written by Rob LeFebvre from Cult of Mac.
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Kids. Can’t live with them, can’t manage their allowance.

I don’t know if you have kids or not, but one of the more difficult things to keep track of, at least for me, is their allowance. Yeah, you might say, just write it down on a piece of paper or something. While that may seem to have merit, it rarely works out in my family. Let’s say my son gets $5 every two weeks for allowance. That’s a $5 bill I need to have each and every week.

Honestly? It never works out that way. So we tried using a calendar, on which I created a repeating event, set for every two weeks, figuring we could just count it up when he needed something. Well, that didn’t really work out, either. We’d be at a store, and he’d want something, and it’d be some non-multiple of five, and we’d try to remember to write it down, and so on.

Suffice it to say that I am doing a poor job at helping my kid keep track of his allowance, and an equally poor job of prepping him for real life money management.

So imagine my joy when I saw Allowance Manager for iOS, a Universal app that basically does what we need: tracks allowance on the iPhone or iPad. Win!

Created by a father, Dan Meador, with a similar issue, Allowance Manager lets kids and parents work together to keep track of what each child has been given for allowance, as well as any extra gift cash for birthdays or holidays. It also syncs up to the Allowance Manager website, for some seriously cloud-based money management for the whole darn family.

“Just log into our secure AllowanceManager.com website or open up our iPhone / iPad app and just a few minutes a week, parents can set and track their children’s allowance,” said Meador, in a statement. “It really makes it easy for parents to track and remember what money they’re giving their kids while empowering their kids to learn the value of money – why not get a computer to do most of the work for you?”

I can’t wait to get this into my own kids’ hands, as they move from dependent little ones to more and more independent pre-teens and teenagers. The more I can help them manage their own money now, the better off they’ll be in the future when they have to do it for real.

“We want to help make managing your family allowance simple and fun,” said Meador, “while at the same time helping kids learn how to correctly use money. The problem is learning how to be good with money is a skill that can only be done with practice. You cannot learn to ski by reading a book on skiing.”

True enough, I think, to warrant trying out this free app right now.

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This post was written by Rob LeFebvre from Cult of Mac.
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How many times have you seen a trailer for an upcoming movie and thought, “That looks interesting. I’ll have to see that!” Then it hits the theaters, goes to DVD, and you forget about it until it shows up in the Walmart bin months later.

Since I reviewed the original version of TodoMovies last summer, I’ve continued to use the app to keep track of movies I want to watch. Today TodoMovies 2 was released in the App Store with some great feature additions. This is the iPhone app every movie lover needs.

TodoMovies lets you add upcoming or previously released movies to your watch list. The app can send you a push notification when a movie you want to watch hits theaters. Version 2.0 lets you customize when you get the notification and add a custom note.

The developers behind TodoMovies have addresses most of the app’s early problems with today’s “blockbuster” update. Discovery has been made easier by allowing you to browse by upcoming, in theaters, or genre. The TodoMovies team has also started hand-picking great movies to feature.

That brings me to the best new feature: improved ratings support. When you view the details for a movie, an overall TodoMovies 5-star rating is displayed. That rating is based on a collection of scores from Rotten Tomatoes, Netflix, and TheMoviedb.org. Swipe from right to left to drill down and see ratings from each source. Rotten Tomatoes ratings are even divided by critics and general audience.

There are some supplemental features in this update that really enhance the overall experience. You can now browse movie photos and view all related content in the iTunes Store (soundtracks, iBooks, games, etc.). iCloud syncing has also been added to keep your to-watch list in sync between iOS devices.

TodoMovies 2 is available in the App Store now for $1.99.

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This post was written by Alex Heath from Cult of Mac.
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