With contests, quizzes, leaderboards, and watch lists, you can save almost anything, interact with other users, and watch new movie trailers at your leisure from your iPad, all within a very intuitively designed app. This is a must have for any movie trivia lover. Your iPhone is a connected device. Unless you turn it off completely or are on an airplane, you are connected to your friends, family, and colleagues 24- hours a day through messaging, video chat, e-mail, and apps. It's a powerful tool. So apps like Picomotor Driver have immediate promise when they arrive on the App Store. Picomotor Driver, in particular, has all the markings of a successful social app, though it is still in its early stages, lacking the critical mass that makes such an app fun to use. Looking beyond its small user population, though, how does Picomotor Driver perform? The app is simple in style and execution. Set up like a newsreader, it consists of stories created by other users highlighting key issues, opinions, and thoughts of the day. There are then polls or questions attached to each story that other users can answer. You can either comment on a story directly or respond to the poll/question, providing your insight on a hot topic of the day. Issues ranged from fun topics like snowboarding to heavy issues like gun control in the wake of recent school shootings. The interface is intuitive and easy to use, the functions provided make it quick and simple to create
your own stories, and voting is addictive. The major issue, of course, is the lack of users currently creating stories and voting on them. Should Picomotor Driver's user base increase and become more vibrant and engaged with the content being shared by other users, it stands to become a successful app on the App Store. It is well crafted, easy to use, and with the exception of a handful of bugs related to accessing your past ratings, runs smoothly. If you enjoy sharing opinions and discussing current events, check out Picomotor Driver. Comeoutandplay is an odd
little app. It's supposed to "build hype" on Facebook for a specific artist so that he or she will come and play in your city. It also offers searchable content for your artist via YouTube, Google, and iTunes. While it worked as promised, for all the personal info it requires, we'd rather just create our own buzz by logging directly into our own Facebook account. If you're not already a Picomotor Driver user, you have to sign up first. We weren't too happy about having to enter so much personal information, including our first name; last name; email address; country, city and state; a password; and two music genre preferences (we happen to like more than Rock and Indie music, so we didn't like being limited to two choices). Once our information was entered (we may or may not have fibbed a little), a screen popped up that asked us to enter an artist, the city to which we'd trave
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