Archive for the ‘app store’ Category

Posted on May 5, 2010 - by Wayne Sutton

9 location-based iPhone applications you may have never heard of

As you all know location-based applications have taken off since 2010. Some old one such as Brightkite, Loopt and Whrrl continue to grow their user base and evolve while some of the newer location-based application who are barely over a year old such as My Town, Gowalla and Foursquare continue to catch all the headlines from the popular tech blogs. Regardless
location-based applications are hot and just wait until you see more of the augmented reality apps to be released.

A few months ago I did a survey asking readers to vote on their favorite location-based application out of 17 different apps. Since then a few more have launched and some continue to fly under the radar.

Here’s a list of 9 location-based iPhone applications you may have never heard of.

1. Flock

2. GraffitiGeo

3. Nulaz

4. Stalqer

5. Wikitude

6. Friendsaroundme

7. Rally Up

8. CauseWorld

9. GeoLorean

Update from Brett:

10. Pegshot

You may or may not have heard of these 9 location-based applications but if you have, out of the 9 which one is your favorite or the one you use the most?

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Posted on May 4, 2010 - by Wayne Sutton

New G-Whizz iPad app, a better way of multitasking all of your @google apps?

Tonight while looking at the app store to see if there has been a Googlewave app for the iPad released I came across an app called G-Whizz ( http://www.gwhizzapp.com ). G-Whizz doesn’t solve my Googlewave iPad problems but it does solve another one. It prevents auto refreshing a Google sites when opening new windows between other Google sites.

G-Whizz also provides a clean list of all of the Google services to switch between along with the ability to customize quick access icons locations. Besides the multitasking feature G-Whizz is very much like the official Google iPad and it unlike Google’s free app G-Whizz cost $2.99.

About G-Whizz from http://www.gwhizzapp.com
G-Whizz! brings all of your favorite Google mobile websites to one convenient app. After the initial load of each site, you can effortlessly switch between tabs to quickly check your Gmail, read some stories in Reader, or edit your documents in Docs.

Features include:
Support for iPhone AND iPad!

18 of your favorite Google mobile sites (see below)!

For Gmail, a convenient unread badge keeps you informed if you mail arrives while you’re browsing another site.

For Reader, stories load in a pop-up window. After you finish, simply dismiss the window and you’re back to your reading list!

For Reader external links, content can be displayed in a mobile-friendly format or optionally with original formatting.

Email links are detected from within the app and a pop-up window (with appropriate fields filled-out) allows you to send your message without leaving the app!

Tapping links to other Google services will be detected and automatically take you to the appropriate tab!

Ability to use your Google Apps account! Just enable this option and enter your email address in Settings to use Gmail, Calendar and Docs for your domain. For the other Google apps, log in with your favorite gmail.com address and use them simultaneously Google Apps account!

I decided to give G-Whizz a try and here are a few screenshots of the app.

If you’re using G-Whizz or another browser multitasking app for the iPad let me know what you think about it in the comments.

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Posted on April 28, 2010 - by Wayne Sutton

Is this the future of magazine publishing? Web Designer iPad app subscription model & store.

Someone recently told me that magazines are doing well despite the overall print industry going down profit wise. I’m not sure about that but as more touchscreen and mobile devices are being created magazines are launching apps / magazine book stores as a way to be profitable digitally. For example Web Designer magazine has launched a “book store” like app for the iPad.

The app looks very similar to the iBooks app and comes with the current month of the magazine for free. You have the option to buy magazines by the month or a 6 or 12 month subscription.

The app looks great and still have the magazine style to it but is somewhat slow when trying to flip pages. But that could be that I’m still getting used to it.

Do you think this is the future of print monetization? Should other print publications follow this model?

*Disclaimer: this is not a sponsored post.

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Posted on April 23, 2010 - by Wayne Sutton

iPad app review: App Notifications goes 2.0 & why it's my most used & favorite iPhone/iPad app

I get the feeling that if you ask many iPhone or iPad users what is there favorite app you’ll hear a range of apps being games or books or entertainment apps. For me it’s simple app called App Notifications (@appnotification on Twitter). So what does App Notifications do? Well, it does a lot but to keep it simple, it pushes custom content to my iPhone and now my iPad in real-time as it’s created/published. The content can range from RSS feeds, email, Twitter searches and more. I first started using App Notifications a few months ago on my iPhone and fell in love with it as it keeps me updated when tech news and other information have been published and in today’s time sensitive world having news pushed to you vs you have to go out and find it can save you some time. Also making you look smart at the same time by being current on what’s happening on the blogosphere. But remember you have to set up filters, add your feeds and that App Notifications just delivers the content to your device.

App Notifications is not free and does have subscription model for alerts but depending on your industry it’s worth it as you can also use it as a twitter keyword monitoring app. Hey, good service cost.

Recently App Notifications released App Notifications 2.0 for the iPad and iPhone and it work/looks great.

Here’s the pitch from http://www.appnotifications.com

What is the purpose of your application?
Push is an iPhone App that acts as a client for the Apple Push Notification Service. We support push from RSS feeds, Google Voice, Facebook, Twitter, Email, 3rd party with a standard API. We even include a REST API. We also support multiple devices syncing if you own more than one iPhone/iPod Touch device.

We also have a full featured website available at 4push.com (use a desktop browser) where you can read your notifications, change your settings and more.

App Notifications is an iPhone app that acts as a client for the Apple Push Notification Service.
Use our ready-made Twitter, GMail, Google Voice, and RSS notification services to instantly receive new tweets, search results, emails, RSS feeds, or create your own custom notifications with our simple REST API.

If your looking for similar apps, you may want to try Notifo made by NC friend/developer @Jazzychad. Both are great apps either way.

*Disclaimer this is not a sponsored post and they did not ask me to blog about their apps.

What is your favorite iPhone and/or iPad app?

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Posted on April 21, 2010 - by Wayne Sutton

Top 4 Twitter apps for the iPad. Which one do you use?

If you do a search for tweets in the app store on the iPad you’ll find over four tabs of Twitter related apps. Some you’re familiar with and others I feel like are just trying to get your $2.99 or $0.99 by tagging their app with the word tweet and throwing up a makeshift twitter bird icon.

When the iPad first launched two twitter apps that are highly used among iPhone users were available such as Twitterrific and Tweetdeck. Soon to follow was Twittelator and I have never used Tweetings before but now they have released an iPad version of their Twitter app as well. Here’s a list of my top 4 Twitter apps for the iPad.

Twitterrific

Tweetdeck

Twittelator

Tweetings

As for my favorite Twitter iPad app I’m using Twitterrific as I found some of the other three to be slow. It will be interesting to see how well these apps and some of the other Twitter Apps do after Tweetie is updated for the iPad aka Twitter for the iPad is released.

If you have an iPad what Twitter app are you using?

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