Pluto Pluto for the iPhone and iPod Touch Video Review

Pluto Pluto is a sound game/toy allowing you to create different beats by moving two (or three) balls on screen. As the balls bounce off of each other and the edges of the screen they create beats that can be saved into one of four presets. You can then play back those beats while creating more. Unfortunately, there's no way to export your creations, and frankly you might not even want to as you don't have as much control over the music in Pluto Pluto as in say something like Bebot.

Add some more options, and make it more of a full-fledged music creation tool and we'd be more interested. For now, you can probably pass on Pluto Pluto.

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Copy & Send for the iPhone and iPod Touch Video Review

While the app Copy & Send looks like it has many advanced features, the wordy and at times technical help file left us scratching our heads. So let's focus on the one key feature of the app we were able to use: the persistent, on-board clipboard. Essentially Copy & Send gives you a place to copy things you need to use multiple times on your phone. For example, you might have text for an email you have to send out periodically to multiple people, or an image to email to more than one person at more than one time. 

As you would assume from the name, you can send copied items via email, or paste them back into other apps any place you'd normally use the built-in clipboard. Again, for the more advanced user, there are what look like handy, cross-device options that we'd like to see laid out more clearly.

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BridgeBasher for the iPhone and iPod Touch Video Review

BridgeBasher allows you to fulfill your inner dream of being a structural engineer - provided that dream also involves monkeys.

This game/simulation allows you to build a bridge of your own choosing on a grid of dots, then test the strength of your new creation by seeing how many heavy balls the bridge design can hold, how many monkeys can hang from the joints, or how many giant words can roll over its deck before the bridge collapses. It doesn't quite have enough physics to be a true simulation, and there isn't much in the way of gameplay. BridgeBasher might be for the biggest bridge fanatics only.

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Armored Warfare for the iPhone and iPod Touch Video Review

Sometimes a game looks great in the screenshots, only to be a disappointment when you start to actually play it. That's the case with Armored Warfare. In the game you select three military vehicles and take turns volleying munitions over a lovely 3D landscape at a human or computer competitor.

The controls are not clearly explained, and graphics glitches from time to time can make it difficult to figure out just where your shot will end up. Additionally, currently priced at $1.99, it is too expensive for a game for these types of bugs and no networked play options.

Maybe in a few updates it will be the caliber of games you would expect from the screenshots, but it's not there now.

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Bird Strike for the iPhone and iPod Touch Video Review

How much fun can a game about a bird who can't fly be? Pretty entertaining, as it turns out. Bird Strike has you slinging a twitter-like bird off of an electric line, and into a world of rockets, umbrellas, and obstacles as you try to get him higher and higher, eventually reaching a UFO, of course!

The gameplay is similar to other apps but as is often the case with these apps, the polish, theming, and quirkiness sets this app apart. Every once in awhile, there's a game that combines great graphics, fun sound, and tilt control to form a wonderful iPhone game. Bird Strike is one of those games.

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