Little Help Please

Similar to fart apps, there are a ton of Self-Help apps for the iPhone. Everything from quit smoking – to lose weight … From stop snoring – to improve self esteem and many more. Guess developers figured out it’s fairly easy to leverage a person’s shortcomings to make a buck … but we digress. Anyways, if you have a deficiency, the iPhone is your savior and can help fix it. And really, nothing is impossible to overcome with the iPhone – as we proved by our recent report – the iPhone can help prevent balding.

drunk444 So a nifty little self-help app caught our eye … myBadHabits from BeblowSquared. The purpose of myBadHabits is to visually monitor your progress at eliminating bad habits. The user enters their bad habit (or habits for the really jacked up) and every day, updates the app with their daily result. The app then displays a very nice progress chart tracking the number of days you are bad habit free. Especially motivating is the green and red status bars – if the user is “slipping”, a red status bar is displayed as a constant reminder that you are a loser.

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Overall, a sound concept and we’ve seen it enough to become believers … the iPhone can help solve any problem life delivers. And it seems like the folks at BeblowSquared are believers as well … just look at these claims …

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Whoa … time out … rewind … “Do you drink too much and wake up on your front lawn?” … huh? Ok – the iPhone may be able to prevent hair loss … but keeping it real … if you are in the habit of waking up on your front lawn after being completely obliterated from alcohol – well my friend, you have some serious issues that no iPhone will be able to fix. Better to save the buck ninety nine and put it towards checking yourself into the Betty Ford Clinic.

robbing11 Ok, next item … “Do you borrow money from your kids to support your gambling habit” … huh? We don’t care Apple approves … there will never be an app that will help you overcome your gambling addiction if it’s to the point where you are stealing from their kids. Try this … google “gambling addiction” and click on the first result entitled “Gamblers Anonymous” … the rest is up to you.

But here’s the kicker – so obviously myBadHabits attempts to help people kick whatever destructive habit they may have. Fair enough – props to BeblowSquared for the effort. But when you touch the Information button within the app, a screen appears of other apps available for purchase from BeblowSquared. And the first option for purchase, the myParlay app – an app that assists you in sports betting. Uh – ok … BeblowSquared might want to mix in a Beer Efficiency app which helps you get drunk as quickly as possible. LOL … indeed … myParlay and Beer Efficiency, the perfect complimentary apps to myBadHabits!

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April 10, 2009 | Filed Under Lifestyle | 1 Comment 

Just Gimme A Beer

stevebeer We’re beginning to think this whole iPhone thing is way overrated. Think about your life before the iPhone – pretty simple and straightforward. No tip calculator apps – thus no sweating over the exact amount of a gratuity to the penny. No hail a taxi app – just stick out your arm and flag down a cab. No suntan turn over app – just roll over whenever. No split up multiple expenses over a group of people app – you’d just come up with a ballpark figure and be done with it.

But the iPhone has changed all that … and in our opinion … making people more anal, obnoxious and idiotic.

Take for example the age old practice of drinking beer and getting drunk. Pretty easy, right? Step 1 – go to store. Step 2 – buy beer. Step 3 – open beer. Step 4 – drink beer. Repeat steps 3 and 4 until smashed. Simple enough, agreed. But NO … the iPhone has even screwed that up. Enter the latest “jack up your life” app – Beer Efficiency from Inner Four.

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What is this Beer Efficiency app? Well it’s a bit confusing to us mere mortals since the geeks really geeked it up … but we think we get the gist of it. Through a way too involved mathematical formula, Beer Efficiency calculates the amount of beer you must consume to get intoxicated the quickest and cheapest while consuming the fewest calories.

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So like the app says … “This all gets confusing pretty quickly. So we made it simple. Just enter a beer you normally drink and how much of it you drink to reach a state of inebriation. Then enter the available beers and their prices and will determine which beer is best for saving money or watching your calories and will tell you how much of that particular beer you need to drink to reach a state of inebriation.”

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WTF? This is nuts … when has getting drunk become so freaking complicated, calculated and science-like? Oh yeah, since the introduction of the iPhone … see what we’re saying … way overrated.

geekbeer1 Here’s some beer advice, it’s free and no iPhone required: want Cheap Beer? – drink Lucky Lager or Pabst Blue Ribbon … want Low Calorie beer? – drink a Light beer, they’re all about the same, 100 calories per 12 ounce serving … want Get Drunk Quick and Cheap beer? – drink Mickey’s or Olde English 800. See how simple … why complicate matters with that damn iPhone?

And on a final note, per Beer Efficiency … “The goal of this app is to help you to realize that not all beer has the same alcohol content and that you should be extremely careful not to become intoxicated on one brand of beer when you are used to how another brand affects you” … HUH? Whatever bro … key word = EFFICIENCY … get drunk as quickly and cheaply as possible … blah, blah, blah.

April 9, 2009 | Filed Under Entertainment | 27 Comments 

For Your Confident Life

iPhoneHair Ok folks … step right up … gather around … listen carefully … because boy have we got an absolutely amazing app for you! It’s one of a kind – it’s an original – it will leave you wondering how you ever lived life without it. This featured app is for everyone – for man and woman. A ground breaking app my friends and we are so excited to present it to you.

Let’s start with a simple question … do you have hair? Most of you will answer “Yes”. Another question … do you want to keep your hair? Most of you will answer “Yes”. So it’s been established … most of you have hair and want to keep it. Marvelous! Then what you need to do is immediately purchase the HAIR CLINIC app by Sociag Project. What is this HAIR CLINIC app you ask? Well friends, it’s The World’s First Mobile Hair Clinic System which will help protect your hair for a confident life. Yes … protect your hair for a confident life with HAIR CLINIC … for man and woman!

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Now stop laughing! … Stop it! … Stop it right now! HAIR CLINIC works! Most hair problems such as alopecia and hair loss result from insufficient nutrition of hair roots that is caused by the circulation disorder of the blood around hair roots. HAIR CLINIC generates various types of inaudible high and low frequencies to promote blood circulation around hair roots and as a result, hair roots can receive normal nutrition … thus avoiding hair loss.

PoopHair With HAIR CLINIC, you’re on your way to a life of healthy and abundant hair … and it’s easy. Just follow the simple three step … Step 1: launch app, press the Cleaning button, hold iPhone to your head for 3 minutes to clean pores … Step 2: press the Massaging button, hold iPhone to your head for 4 minutes to promote blood circulation … Step 3: press the Improving button, hold iPhone to your head for 3 minutes to improve function of hair roots. And that’s it … simply hold your iPhone to your head for 10 minutes a day and you will have healthy and abundant hair.

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And here’s the best part! How much would you pay for healthy and abundant hair? $100? $75? $50? Nope, none of those prices … you don’t even have to pay $25 … get this – HAIR CLINIC can be yours for less than $10! Yes – you heard it right … only $8.99 for the HAIR CLINIC app … Your Choice Changes Your Life! Only $8.99 for the amazing HAIR CLINIC app … don’t be a fool – buy it now … a small price to pay for YOUR CONFIDENT LIFE!

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April 8, 2009 | Filed Under Health, Uncategorized | 36 Comments 

Cheap Bastards

Camping3 Tally Up is a nifty little calculator the enables the user to divide multiple expenses over a group of people – so that each individual pays the proper amount and no one gets the shaft. The developer claims he wrote this app in response to a real life camping trip he attended … 12 people went on the trip, 7 people drank beer, 11 people ate breakfast and 10 people ate dinner … with Tally Up, simply enter the data and the app will spit out, down to the penny, the correct amount each individual owes. In conclusion, the developer states that a 45 minute problem on his real life camping trip can now be reduced to 3 minutes.

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Camping2 Wow! Honestly, we’d think twice about ever going on a camping trip again with the guy who whips out his iPhone and starts punching in numbers into Tally Up. So accuracy is not down to the penny – who cares – what’s a few dollars amongst friends? And these 12 folks sat there for 45 minutes, crunching numbers, trying to figure out who owes what and what’s the fair share? LOL! Cheap bastards. We can imagine the bickering back and forth over the dollar amounts. Didn’t anyone figure their time and effort were better spent making another beer run? Sounds like one heck of a group … be sure to throw us an invite to next year’s trip … we’re am so there!

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April 7, 2009 | Filed Under Finance | 9 Comments 

Citi Mobile App

By demand, KRAPPS will periodically review “legit” apps thru a network of guest authors.

Title: Citi Mobile
Category: Finance
Guest Author: John

What is KRAPPS? Well, I don’t know that I can define it, but I know it when I see it. And the U.S. Banking industry is definitely KRAPPS. Think about it: anyone who bought a fart app may embarrass a few of the more stodgy types, and end up poorer by $0.99, but at least they get some sophomoric laughter out of the deal. But the U.S. banking industry has cost taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars, put thousands of people out of work, and made thousands more homeless, without providing even a chuckle!

724680 Citibank has received over $20 Billion and counting of bailout money. And what do we get for our money? Well, an iPhone app, for one! Called Citi Mobile, the app is (mercifully) free. A pleasant “Citi” logo marks their app, and when you run it for the first time, you have to register your iPhone via text message. You also have to enter your PIN every time you run the application. These basic security measures are, of course, necessary. Unfortunately, there’s nothing in the app to prevent you from entering your PIN on the “Notes” app so you won’t forget it.

I don’t use many financial apps on my iPhone, mainly because all of my money is tied up in groceries. I have used the Paypal app and I’ve used the mobile web site for another bank. After you enter your PIN to log into the Citibank app, you get a list of your open accounts. I have one savings account and two credit card accounts (I opened up the savings account because they had a deal where 1% of everything I buy on the credit cards gets credited to the savings account, even if I pay my bill off every month!). The last 3 digits of each account number is shown, not the full account number, again for security. You also see the balance of each of the accounts, and you can select “Recent Activity” and “Search Activity” for the savings account. The activity functions are very useful features, and I’m not sure why they’re not available for the credit cards. It would be very nice to be able to check up and see exactly how much that sleazy retailer charged to your credit card while you’re on the way out the door. The activity is available from their web site, and the iPhone app has it for the savings account, so why not for the credit cards?

In addition to looking up your accounts, there are buttons for Payments, Transfers, Locations, and Services. While I don’t use my Citi account for bill paying, I see how it would be useful to have it available on the iPhone. I could see using the Bill Pay or Transfer features if you’re out and about and suddenly remember that you forgot to pay a bill or cover your checking account. The Locations function is nice, in that it uses the GPS to find ATMs and branches in your area (you can also enter a Zip Code or address if you don’t want to use the current location). The Services button allows you to change the app settings or easily call their Customer Service.

All in all, it’s a quite useful app and worth it if you have a Citi account, and while I don’t think that I’d choose them as my bank because of the app, some people might. I just wish the app said “I bailed out Citibank for $20 Billion and all I got was this lousy iPhone app.”

April 5, 2009 | Filed Under anti-KRAPPS, Finance, Guest Authors | 9 Comments 

Belowscape App

By demand, KRAPPS will periodically review “legit” apps thru a network of guest authors.

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Title: Belowscape
Category: Games
Guest Author: Dennis

Minimalism is a beautiful thing. In the iPhone game world, minimal games can work brilliantly. Belowscape, from 10tons, is one of these minimal games. It is a Geometry Wars type game where you navigate your triangle space ship while shooting the various shapes that appear.

Simple as that. Minimalism.

There are no power ups, no bosses, no bombs. Just try to rack up your score for as long as you can with 3 lives. No overly-complicated soundtrack in the background. Just sounds of you shooting stuff and the sound the enemies exploding as they die. Simple and smooth menu navigation that will eventually lead you to either the “Survival” or “Rush” modes.

What impressed me about the game were the options for the control system – they are customizable! You can pick from either touching the target, tilting the device, or using either a left or right joystick (and you can choose to use any of these schemes for navigation or shooting!!) This makes for many different combinations of control configurations to choose from. And to satisfy your competitive nature, there is a online Global Scoreboard where you can see how you rank against others players worldwide.

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So if you’re looking for the beauty of minimalism and something easy to play (thus avoiding a high difficulty curve that will leave you wanting to chuck your iphone/ipod at the wall), Belowscape is the game for you. Click here to purchase Belowscape for $2.99.

antikrappssealv2gif EDITOR’S NOTE: We love minimalism … it truly is a form of beautiful art. There is enough chaos in everyone’s daily life that sometimes it’s therapeutic just to chill and enjoy and straight forward shoot ‘em up arcade game. Top that off with very cool customizable user controls … well that easily makes Belowscape 100% anti-KRAPPS Certified.

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April 4, 2009 | Filed Under anti-KRAPPS, Games, Guest Authors | 14 Comments 

Bugz App

By demand, KRAPPS will periodically review “legit” apps thru a network of guest authors.

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Title: Bugz
Category: Games
Guest Author: Carolynn

With new platforms for gaming, comes new genres of games to play. I don’t know if any one has named this new genre yet, so I’m going to. And here it is: Chain Reaction Games. I have reviewed one of these type of games already and that was Sneezies. Now, we have another game to add to that list and it’s called Bugz from Didev Studios.

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Bugz is a great mix of skill and luck. The goal of the game is to pop as many Bugz as you can. When you touch a Bug, it pops creating a circle of color that gets larger and then smaller. When other Bugz touch this circle of color, they will pop as well creating a chain reaction. When you start each level, you are given a goal number of Bugz to pop. In higher levels there are enemy Bugz that you have to pop as well as a certain number of regular Bugz. Also, there are flower obstacles that get in the way of the bugz and slow them down. These obstacles can make the game more difficult when you are trying to get those hard to pop enemy Bugz.

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What’s great about Bugz? It’s got a lot to offer players. 102 levels of gameplay should keep you busy for quite a while. If you have other people who like to use your iDevice, they can store their game on the multiple profiles that are included. That solves a lot of problems when you have various people wanting their own game. For the competitive, there is a Global Scoreboard so you can compare your bug popping skills with the rest of the world. The custom made in game soundtrack is fun and easy to listen to. You have the option to play your own iPod music as well. The graphics are good with no slow downs or freezeups.

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My overall impression of Bugz: A fun game that will have you popping bugz for days on end. There’s lots of levels to keep you interested and enemies add a new twist to the new Chain Reaction genre. Addictive and challenging gameplay is always a winner in my book. And this game has both. Just don’t get too frustrated and throw your iDevice when you can’t meet the goal on those higher levels. Click here to to Bugz from the App Store for the low low price of 99 cents.

antikrappssealv2gif EDITOR’S NOTE: Haaaa! Carolyn is brilliant! She/We coin the phrase … Chain Reaction games …. haaaa! … so remember, you heard on KRAPPS first – we’ll see which posers attempt to steal our claim … haaaa! And of course, Bugz … for 99 cents, you can’t go wrong. Give it a whirl and experience for yourself this 100% anti-KRAPPS Certified app.

FREE Bugz To KRAPPS Viewers!
Didev Studios was kind enough to provide 5 codes which will allow KRAPPS viewers to download Bugz for FREE. Simple be one of the first 5 viewers to leave a comment at the end of this article stating >> What Bugs You >> and we will email you the download code.

April 3, 2009 | Filed Under anti-KRAPPS, Games, Guest Authors | 16 Comments 

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