Car Cricket Century iPhone Game

I came across a very cool little locally developed iOS game today called Car Cricket Century (Free/$0.99iTunes links) from some great chaps up in Jozi. You may have heard of some of these guys; Mike Stopforth, Richard Mulholland, Don Packett, Trevor Mey and Kyle Burnett who have all put their brainy heads together and formed AppAssains and came up with this awesome little app.

The app based on a childhood game called Car Cricket, in which you would score a point every time you saw a specific type of car or colour of a car. The app makes is awesomely simple to keep tabs on who is winning. You can also choose to download the free version which has a couple of ads floating around, or buy the ad-free version at $0.99, and of course support our local app makers :)

The app has a really awesome UI, and very simple to use. I reckon I would like to see perhaps a bluetooth option to allow the players to all play against each other in the car and maybe even integration with Game Centre allowing me to play against friends.

I can’t wait to try this one out with my kids next time we in the car. Should keep them quiet for a few hours ;) Also, can’t wait to see what these chaps come up with next…should be pretty interesting :P

Frames Stop Motion iPhone app

I came across a very cool iPhone app the other day called “Frames ($2.99)” which is made by the guys who brought us the Glif iPhone tripod stand. Frames is a stop motion and time-lapse app which lets you capture photos according to time/manual and then exports them to a video.

Yes, there are loads of apps that do this on the app store, but Frames is by far the best I have seen and used. The price of the app comes in a bit higher than normal at $2.99, but it’s well well worth it ! Once you have taken all your images, the video is exported as a 720p HD video, which makes the whole thing that much sweeter :)

The app is really simple to use, and gives you a variety of options to select from. From the app store description:

Frames is a simple and powerful app for making time-lapse and stop motion movies in 720p HD. The interface is intuitive and delightful.

Time-lapse and stop motion movies are both created by taking a sequence of still images and playing them back at a certain speed. Frames makes this process easy, and fun!

Features:
- Capture and export in 720p HD quality.
- Manual or Automatic shutter settings for making stop motion or time-lapse movies.
- Exposure and Focus lock
- Onion Skin
- Grid
- Frames Per Second adjustments
- Ability to add frames to a preexisting project.
- Use either the front or back camera.

Here is a video I captured a bit earlier. Images were taken 1 second apart and exported at 12 frames per second. Very cool !!