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Sfara Guardian Is a Feature-Rich Personal Safety App for iPhone

July 05, 2018 by RSS Feed

Reviewed by Sarah Hanlon

It’s an unfortunate truth, but you can never be too careful in today’s world. Personal safety is something that should be at the top of everyone’s list, no matter how old/young you are or where you live.

Sfara Guardian Personal Safety is an outstanding free app that makes it incredibly easy to turn your phone into an enhanced safety device. This is truly one app that everyone should have.

Concept and Functionality:

The goal of Sfara Guardian, by Driversiti, is to provide users with an overwhelming sense of safety by providing a wide variety of features that are easy to use.

In order to start using Sfara Guardian you’ll need to create an account and connect your phone number to the service. You’ll also need to enable location services (make sure it’s set to “Always On”) so the app will always have your GPS coordinates in case emergency services are called.

Once the app is set up, you’ll immediately feel safer. Finding your way around Sfara Guardian is a breeze, and I really love the fact that everything you need to access is one or two taps away.

From the main screen you can place an immediate call to emergency services, activate crash monitoring if you’re driving, or use the safety checkpoint feature and have the app ask for your pin at a specific time.

From automatic drive monitoring to the safety checkpoint tool, Sfara Guardian has all bases covered in case of emergency.

If you’re caring for older parents or grandparents who still drive, put this app on their iPhone and don’t take no for an answer!

The app even has a pending patent for “triple tap technology”, which allows you to discreetly contact emergency services while the safety checkpoint timer is running by patting your phone three times.

Features:

Sfara Guardian Personal Safety iPhone App

Though a few of the safety features in Sfara Guardian require a monthly subscription, you may find that it’s worth the price for peace of mind.

Free tools include roadside assistance, fake calling, a report card for driving habits, and quick access to a list of the closest emergency centers.

Services included in the monthly or annual subscription include crash monitoring, the checkpoint timer, and enhanced roadside assistance.

The primary reason for Sfara Guardian using a subscription-based platform is because the app connects you to real emergency personnel when something is wrong.

From what I understand, these professionals work as a middleman between you and local emergency services, and they’re trained to assess and handle emergency situations. Unfortunately I couldn’t test this for the review, but I would feel safe using the app myself.

Value:

Sfara Guardian is available to download from the App Store for free and is designed for iPhone. Subscription plans are $4.99 monthly or $59.99 annually, which is a very reasonable price if you rely on the app every day. There’s a 7 day trial period so you can take advantage of everything Sfara Guardian offers.

Overall, Sfara Guardian is a fantastic safety app that definitely gives you peace of mind. Whether you choose to stick with free features or commit to the full version, this is an app that’s worth a try.

Sfara Guardian Personal Safety requires iOS 10.0 or later and is compatible with iPhone.

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Sky Guide AR Helps You Enjoy and Learn About the Night Sky

July 05, 2018 by RSS Feed

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Two Hours to Live Is a Terrific Interactive Story with a Twist

July 05, 2018 by RSS Feed

Reviewed by Sarah Hanlon

I’m the first to say that I’m a huge fan of story apps. However, it can be difficult for developers to stand out from the crowd.

I’m happy to say Two Hours to Live is refreshingly creative. It’s a cool and unique app with an engrossing plot and fun extras.

Created by Joseph Burton, Two Hours to Live aims to bring readers directly into the story by making them think about what the main character is thinking or what his next move will be.

The twist? You have two hours to get through the story before the character is killed.

Concept and Functionality:

I definitely wasn’t kidding when I said Two Hours to Live is unique.

Personally I’ve never read a story that had a countdown timer, but I think the idea is really creative. The timer starts when you reach chapter 2 of 20.

What’s really cool, though, is that even though there is a two hour countdown the timer is not real time.

As the you go through the story you’re shown how much time the character has left in the story. But if you have not reached that point in the story the timer stops to give you time to catch up. This is done to accommodate people who read at different speeds.

I mentioned above that Two Hours to Live includes spontaneous questions regarding the main character. Most of these questions are simply guesses, but if you choose wrong you lose time and the character’s hour of death draws nearer.

It’s tough to talk about Two Hours to Live without giving the plot away, but I definitely like the story and the characters involved.

I also like that you can scroll through chapters instead of flipping pages – I think it makes reading it flow a bit better.

Features:

Two Hours to Live iPhone Game

If you happen to answer questions incorrectly or you fall behind on time, all is not lost. Two Hours to Live includes two word mini games to help you add time to the countdown – word search and word scramble.

One thing I do want to mention is to make sure you use the bookmark option frequently, or else your progress will be lost. You can resume where you left off right on the main menu.

Value:

Two Hours to Live is available to download from the App Store for free, but you need to disable ads via in-app purchase. The ads aren’t too terrible, but they do occasionally pop up when you’re scrolling through chapters, leading to accidental taps.

Overall, Two Hours to Live is a great interactive story app for iPhone. It features a great plot and original ideas that will keep you hooked.

Two Hours to Live requires iOS 9.0 or later and is compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

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8 Fabulous iPhone Kids Apps at Limited-Time Prices

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Super Chuckie Egg Review

July 02, 2018 by RSS Feed

For a generation of British school kids, Chuckie Egg has some incredibly positive associations. You see, its home was the BBC Micro, and the BBC Micro’s home was at school.

That meant most of us only ever played Chuckie Egg on that most glorious of occasions: the last day of term. For the rest of the year, the game sat silent and tantalizingly out of reach in its metal prison.

But rose-tinted spectacles are a dangerous thing. They are associated with numerous cases of crushing disappointment every single day as aging gamers dust off their fondly remembered vintage games only to discover that they are, and were always complete and utter garbage.

Can Chuckie Egg escape this fate?

Developed in the early 80s by a teenager called Nigel Alderton, Chuckie Egg sees you climbing ladders, navigating platforms, and avoiding enemies as you attempt to collect all of the eggs in each stage.

Super Chuckie Egg naturally embellishes on the original. It embellishes on last year’s Chuckie Egg 2017 as well, replacing the slow, deliberate, tricky gameplay of that remake with faster, easier, and more modern gameplay in which you race along collecting a string of eggs, the camera zooming in and out dynamically like in a Bourne film.

It contains 36 stages across the four seasons of the year, and five difficulty levels. Unusually, you can play any stage you like from the outset, and once you’ve completed the game you’ll get a chance to play the Title levels for additional kudos.

The Good

Super Chuckie Egg is a genuine update, and it feels much fresher than last year’s Chuckie Egg outing, with significantly improved graphics and gameplay.

As you work your way outwards from the center of the season clock the stages get more difficult, but even at ‘challenging’, they’re no harder than the early levels in Chuckie Egg 2017. This is a game that wants you to kick back and have a good time.

The tighter controls help, as do the zoomed-in graphics, which together give you a greater sense of control over little Harry, encouraging you to attempt more exciting and dynamic jumps.

Also, it’s just a lot more satisfying to collect long strings of eggs rather than individual eggs dotted around. The addition of silver eggs gives the game a bit of extra texture too since you can decide whether or not to clear up or just collect the golden eggs you need to complete the stage.

The Bad

While we enjoy the novel way the game lets you play pretty much every stage from the outset, 36 is a small number of levels in a modern platformer. Yes, you can play them all at five different difficulties, which materially affects how they play, but we would have liked to see more unique stages.

Likewise, while there’s no question that Super Chuckie Egg is a massive improvement on its far less ambitious predecessor, we feel more could have added to the franchise to bring it up to date.

For instance, there’s only one gameplay mode. Developer Downsideup Games has some experience experimenting with mini-game variations on Chuckie Egg with this year’s Chuckie Egg Pop!, so it’s a shame not to see more of that creativity here.

The verdict

Super Chuckie Egg is a major leap forward for the venerable franchise, taking a character from the prehistoric age of videogames and giving it a chance to shine in a polished, playable, fun platformer.

We’re only hoping that Downsideup Games can pull out even more stops for the next Chuckie Egg spin-off. With a few more modes and a little bit more ambition, little Harry might even find himself in the Premier League of platformers again.

8.0

OVERALL

Game Controls 8

Graphics 8

Sound/Music 8

Gameplay 8

Replayability 7.8

$1.99

Super Chuckie Egg

Downsideup Games

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