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Poker Dealer Button Free

Darren — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 20:57:17 +0000

Poker is big business these days, and if you’re a decent player there is big money to be made from the game.

But if you are like most of us, who only play for buttons it is still a fun game that gets the pulse racing.

Poker Dealer Button Free is the first release from iPhone developers Pixelapps. It’s a simple app that helps players track the time per round together with the small and big blind amounts. It also tracks the number of rounds that have been played.

Peter Dickson, he of X-Factor voiceover fame, provides the commentary, a nice touch for an otherwise simple, but useful, free app.

iTunes 12 Days of Christmas Returns

MaFt — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 18:00:23 +0000

Tunes have released their latest app for this years 12 Days of Christmas promotion. Last year they gave away free apps, free games, free music, free music videos and even a free movie!

Get the app now and get PUSH alerts from Boxing Day informing you of each days freebie.

O2 Join the ‘How Many Minutes Left’ Club (Albeit Badly)

MaFt — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 08:06:22 +0000

Following on from our comparative review of ‘Mobile Allowance’ and ‘Mobile Minutes Tracker’ (see previous posts here and here) O2 have now released their ‘My O2′ app. According to their AppStore description it allows users to see their remaining minutes and texts and their tariff, bolt-ons and calling plan prices. Those with a Pay Monthly contract can view recent charges (e.g. premium texts and roaming charges) and view bill summaries and payment dates.

This is all very nice in theory. In practise, however, it is somewhat different…

My personal experience is not good – it simply won’t log in and returns a ‘Network Unavailable’ error. I could believe that a free app released by O2 would maybe cause some server overload but both ‘Mobile Allowance’ and ‘Mobile Minutes Tracker’ connected to the (same) server without any issues. I’m not the only one with problems either, if the AppStore reviews are anything to go by. One in every three of the reviews gives the same error as I received. Maybe it’s an OS3.1 issue, or maybe it’s because I have 2 account numbers with O2 (see previous comparative review) but both the other apps handle these fine.

Our recommendation? Don’t be so cheap and go grab Mobile Allowance for a mere 59p! IT – JUST – WORKS!!