“GUN CONCEALED” CONTAINS CONCEALED HANDGUN LAWS AND INFORMATION FOR ALL 50 STATES + DC.

This app is designed for both iPhone and iPad

• $2.99
• Category: Reference
• Updated: Oct 06, 2011
• Version: 2.5
• Size: 8.4 MB
• Language: English
• Seller: ReadMe Publications, Inc.
• © 2009 ReadMe Publications, Inc.

The GOAL of this program is to give you a quick reference to Concealed Carry information for each state and provide Internet hyperlinks to state laws for more detailed information and research (find the answer you are looking for).

The other goal is to keep you current and up to date with new data as laws and regulations change.

Gun Concealed is a complete, up to date application. It has the most robust content as the statistics below will show:

10 VIEWS PER STATE FOR A TOTAL OF 511 VIEWS

503 HYPERLINKS TO STATE WEB SITES

67 CHARTS OR GRAPHS

858 PAGES – MICROSOFT WORD

13,459 PARAGRAPHS

28,572 LINES 

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NASCAR News provides you with all the latest news from NASCAR, as welll as the official standings and full race info about the season. Driver news lets you pick your team via settings function, and we will only show you the news for your favorite driver.

Get the latest news from Yahoo Sports, ESPN, and NASCAR. The best way to stay updated, we cover more news sources than any app on the app store!

FEATURES:

INTERNET: Downloads the latest news and results from the internet, to keep youupdated to the minute.

OFFLINE: Stores all the stories on your iPhone, so you can read them anytime, even when there is no internet connection.

EMAIL:” email stories and links to your friends.

NEWS: Get the LATEST news, player updates and team standings.

This app requires internet access to function.

***An update is out to fix the ranking error***

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Twitterific: Works just like the desktop version of Twitterific (it gives you access to Twitter), and also uses the iPhone’s location-aware features to geotag your tweets. What it doesn’t do, like Twinkle, is give you a feed of Twitter users from around you. It does, however, let you attach photos to pics and let you know if your friends Tweet from a nearby location. Overall, pretty good. Ad-supported version is Free; Ad-free version is $10.

PhoneSaber: Lightsaber application similar to the one on Installer.app. Five choices of iPhone colors and slightly better accelerometer detection for better lightsaber sounds. Free.

Midomi: Song Recognition App that actually works well enough to know when it’s being Rickrolled. Free

iTunes Remote: Remote control your iTunes and iTV. It’s very, very good, and can even rate songs directly from the phone. Pretty much the perfect iTunes remote. Free.

NetNewsWire: Similar to the RSS Reader on the desktop, which we use daily, NNW on the iPhone lets you read RSS feeds. It doesn’t scale images like the web-based Mac RSS reader, so you’re going to have to do a bit of panning and scrolling. Other than that, no real complaints. It even syncs with your NNW online account so you can keep your desktop feeds and iPhone feeds the same (in terms of knowing what you already read). Free.

Google Mobile: Location aware searching with auto-suggest, contacts searching as well as local business search (typing in pizza gives you an option to search for pizza near you). Unfortunately, as Lifehacker pointed out, it only searches your contacts, not your calendar or email. One step at a time. Free.

Yelp: Pretty much exactly the same features as the online yelp.com portal, but in a readable format for your iPhone. Search for pizza places, coffee shops, bars or gas stations and you’ll be able to check out its hours, the location, the phone number and read reviews. You can drill down from the home screen to Restaurants, Bars, Coffee & Tea, Banks, Gas & Service Stations or Drugstores, or just type in whatever you want. Everyone should download it just to have. Free.

Facebook: Just like the iPhone-customized Facebook webpage, except crashier (crashed when I tried to view the friends list the first time). You can search your friends, do Facebook chat (nice), view your messages and do everything else you could do on the web-based portal. It just crashed when I tried to view my profile too. Free.

Pandora: Your standard internet radio—you pick an artist you like, it recommends similar songs which you then rate to hone its selections. Like always it’s better for well-known artists, but its explanation for why certain tracks were picked (“intricate melodic phrasing, a clear focus on recoding studio production, heartbreaking lyrics”) are priceless. Pandora claims CD-quality but several tracks sounded compressed. A plus is that streaming works well with very little lag even over EDGE. Album art comes in with that nice page effect; good thing, because that’s all you’ll be seeing since the app can’t play in the background. Free. – John Mahoney

IGN Reviews: Easily get IGN game reviews on the go, either by searching for the game title or browsing a list of recent reviews. If you don’t trust IGN for reviews, it’s not a huge help, but it does give you a decent idea of what’s good and what’s not if you’re at the game section of Best Buy looking for something to take home. Free.

Save Benjis: Think Pricegrabber or Google Products for the iPhone. Search for a particular product you want and it will throw up a list of prices from various retailers. Useful for going shopping and not knowing whether the TV you’re buying will be cheaper online (it usually will be).

Mixmeister: Allows users to perform scratches over the music in their playlist using one of ten available vinyl scratch sounds. I’m not a DJ, but it was easy to pick up and get a decent scratch going right away. Bottom line: it’s fun. Free. – Sean Fallon

MotionX-Poker: An addictive dice and poker game that shakes virtual dice by actually sampling your shake of the iPhone and simulating the roll. It’s the best original game for the iPhone yet. $5 – Brian Lam

Weight Track A weight log of how much you weigh every day that syncs w/ the website, but also gives you a history of your weight loss. Pretty much just a fancy alternative for a pen and pencil, but not bad if you’re trying to lose some weight. Comes with sluggish graphics and animations. Free.

AIM: It’s as solid as you’d expect, supporting away statuses, marking contacts as favorites so you can easily find them, groups, away messages and saved messages while you’re away from the app. Because background IM notifications won’t be here until September, you’ll have to go into the app to check whether or not you have new messages. Still, it’s good that you don’t lose any. Oh, and that really annoying traditional AIM sound is still here and is still super freaking annoying. Don’t see a way to turn that off. But there is a system option to sign off when you exit. Free.

MySpace Mobile: I have never used MySpace Mobile on another platform, but I can say that the version for the iPhone is very solid. It ran smooth and provided easy access to every option you could find on the regular site. It sure as hell won’t make me want to use MySpace again, but addicts who have an iPhone will undoubtedly be thrilled. Free. – Sean Fallon

Whrrl: Think Yelp, but more-map based and social networking-like. Go to your current location and you can see markers signifying places of restaurants or stores. Click on them to see reviews, write reviews, or place markers saying that you’ve been there, wanted to go there or that you’re there now. This could be cool if you have enough friends using it, but otherwise you’re playing around with strangers. Free.

Tiny Violin: A virtual “world’s smallest violin” to play to whiners. It plays two tunes which get old fast. Much like the idea itself. $1. – Brian Lam

Bejeweled 2:If you’re a fan of the Bejeweled game, you will love this iPhone version. There are two different game modes, Classic and Action. The only difference in between the two is Action mode has a time limit. Game play works as it should, you touch a jewel you want to move then touch the surrounding spot you want it to move to. There’s a Hint feature that will advise you to the best jewel to move. The game uses full use of the iPhone’s accelerometer, allowing play at any angle. The graphics and sound FX are great, and overall gameplay is smooth without any problems. $10. -Chris Mascari

Box Office: Very simple, incredibly useful—gives you a full list of movie showtimes sorted by name, your location (manual zipcode entry or GPS/celltower reading) or Rotten Tomato rating and kicks you to Fandango to buy tickets. So much better than hitting Google for showtimes in Safari. Free. -John Mahoney

Dial 0: A directory of service 800 numbers with instructions on how to reach a real person for each one, all of them I tried being some variation on “press 0 over and over again.” Kind of handy to have all the numbers you might need in one place, but not fantastic. Free. -John Mahoney

Band: Holy Crap this app is fun. There are five different instruments that all play in landscape mode: Rock Kit, Funky Drummer, Bassist, Grand Piano, and 12 Bar Blues. It’s able to record every instrument one track at a time, and each time a new instrument is recorded it replays what’s already been recorded. Basically you can make a complete musical masterpiece one instrument at a time. There’s even audience sounds for added ambiance. While it has the ability to save all your recordings, sadly there is no way to get those recordings off the iPhone. $10. -Chris Mascari

World 9: Start the app and put it in your pocket. As you run and jump it makes Super Mario brothers noises. Free and awesome. -Brian Lam

Shazam: Will also identify songs through the iPhone’s mic—doesn’t handle humming and singing as well as Midomi, but is tops at picking up ambient background music. -John Mahoney

AOL Radio: Features over 200 stations spanning more than 25 genres of music and over 150 local radio stations from across the US. You can bookmark favorite stations, artists and even link up to iTunes or AOL music when you find a song you like. All-in-all it works well. The sound quality is good, its easy to navigate and you can control the volume right in the app. It also stops playing when you remove your headphones. You can’t run it in the background, however. Free. -Sean Fallon

Sketches: The best drawing and photo mockery tool for the iPhone. You can choose different photo or solid or map backgrounds and drop various icons or draw on images and export them out. No text tool. A little slow but worth $8.-Brian Lam>

Comic Touch: Overlay text bubbles on images, and warp faces. Unlike the Sketches app, it has a text tool, but that’s it. $5.-Brian Lam>

Crazy Eye: Yeah, this is a program with 10 animations of different eyeballs (dragon, pirate, etc) that switch and move around. You’re supposed to hold it up to your face and it’s supposed to make you look like a monster or something. It gets old in about 1 minute and costs a buck. -Brian Lam

AP Mobile News Network: A great way to browse the wires for news, photos and videos (really reminds me in a way of the presentation on the Wii, sans the spinning globe sadly). Videos kick you to YouTube. But am I the only one that still remembers AP promising some kind of game-changing user-submitted news submission process at WWDC? That seems to be missing in this version, at least. Free. -John Mahoney

Mosquito: This is an audio/motion game, where you listen to a mosquito buzzing and when it gets close, you swat it by swinging your iPhone. Clever, but for $2, there isn’t enough pay off. -Brian Lam

Urbanspoon: If you’re hungry but don’t know where you want to eat, Urbanspoon makes finding a restaurant pretty fun. It’s like a slot machine, listing neighborhoods, cuisines and price ranges in the three columns. When you shake the iPhone, it spins the wheels, delivering a random restaurant to you. You can lock on any or all three of the columns to get something more specific if you want, and clicking the restaurant name brings you to more info about it. Could be fun if you aren’t the pre-planning type. Free. -Adam Frucci

Etch-a-Sketch: The Etch-a-Sketch game is essentially a doodling app, allowing you to draw free-form with your fingers on the touchscreen, changing the colors and other such things using the controls at the bottom. If you’re a purist, you can use the knobs, but that’s just as annoying as it is when you’re using the real thing. As you can see by my masterpiece above, doing it freehand lets you use separate lines and you can really make great stuff that you can then send to your friends/boss. Just like with a real Etch-a-Sketch, you erase simply by shaking. $4.99. -Adam Frucci

NY Times Viewer: Basically the same as the AP viewer—but seems a little more clunkily implemented (it’s slow, images don’t always load, crashed a few times during test). Not as much video. But still a nice way to grab news for reading offline. Free. -John Mahoney

Telegram: This is the only app I didn’t buy before writing a review. The $10 app promises to send voice messages between people on your friend list or email. I call it expensive visual email. -Brian Lam

iZen Garden: Ok, I lied, I didn’t review this either. Here’s a Zen rock garden game for $8. Last time I checked rocks and dirt were free, so fake rocks and dirt should also be free. -Brian Lam

Graffitio: This is supposedly a location aware app that allows you to leave virtual message boards according to your location. You can go to a restaurant and say, “the eggs are great!” and the next user. It’s free but I wasn’t impressed yet. -Brian Lam

South Park Imaginationland: Help Butters through Imaginationland by making him jump on mushrooms, collect rainbows, and fly. It’s even worse than it sounds; the controls suck and by the time I figured out how to play, I was already bored. Still, the sound effects are great and I love South Park, so let me know when there’s a Fingerbang game. $10. -Benny Goldman

Battle of Waterloo: This is a choose your own adventure text game. About the battle of Waterloo. “Join the Infantry!” or “Lie Down and Take Cover!” Either way, “Save Your $4 Bucks!” $4 -John Mahoney

Routsey San Francisco: Basically a Next Muni app for your iPhone. You select the SF Muni line you are interested in, and based off your location it will show you the closest stop with arrival times. For some reason the app displays the schedule for the closest stop only. So there is no way to check info for a stop you are not near. $3. -Chris Mascari

LifeGame: Based on Conway’s Game of Life, this must be the easiest game ever; simply press play, and it runs itself. Watch and be mesmerized as patterns of black dots form into… something. We’re still not quite sure what we’re watching, but it looks sweet, like a binary iTunes visualizer. Make and play your own patterns for extra fun. Free. -Benny Goldman

MPG: MPG lets you keep track of how often you fill up your tank and how much you’re spending on gas, just in case you somehow forgot. It’s slow as hell on the phone we’re testing it on, even though it’s a pretty simple, but that might just be because we’ve overloaded this poor iPhone with apps. When it does work, it lets you keep track of your MPG from tank to tank. If you’re working on hypermiling, you can find out just how efficient you’ve been since the last fillup and see how much you’ve cut back on your driving. $0.99 -Adam Frucci

Zen Pinball: Rollercoaster is a pretty straightforward pinball game. The graphics are nice, and it’s pretty smooth. Essentially, you tap the right side of the screen for the right bumper, the left side for the left bumper, and flick on the ball release to fire another ball. You can nudge the table by shaking the phone as well. It’s fun enough, but you’d be hard pressed to find this exciting for more than a few minutes. $4.99 -Adam Frucci

Bomberman Touch: The Legend of Mystic Bomb: The developers who totally nail traditional d-pad-plus-two-buttons controls for iPhone games will do everyone a favor—sadly, Bomberman hasn’t. Your thumb blocks your Bomberman more than it should. Plus after the first level anyway, gameplay is too slow—not nearly frantic enough to rival the classics. $8. -John Mahoney

Aqua Forest: This water moving game uses both the touchscreen and accelerometer of the iPhone for controls. With five different categories, Tilting, Touch, Drawing, Warm/Cold, and All Functions there are 50 different puzzles that require either tilting, touching or both. There is even a Free mode, where you can create your own little atmosphere of stuff like water, fire and ice, and then by tilting/shaking the iPhone you can mix it all up. -Chris Mascari

Mobile Flickr: Full-featured Flickr app, you can browse your photos by sets, tags, and more. Photo browsing is comparable to the iPhone’s built in browser, and you can even assign a picture to a contact. It was slow to take pics and save them, but uploading to Flickr over Wi-Fi was fast. The only problem? The picture was upside down on Flickr! $3. -Benny Goldman

Exposure: This app is just designed for looking at Flickr pics, and has no upload feature. It shows recent pictures taken by others near your location which is cool, but browsing was slow and it only shows one picture per line. Skip this app, it’s worth shelling out the $3 for Mobile Flickr, especially when Exposure Premium costs $10 and only removes an ad banner. Free. -Benny Goldman

CityTransit: The undisputed king of the NYC subway map apps. It’s the only one with the officially licensed maps, it’ll plot your nearest subway stations on a Google Map for easier navigation, includes service advisories, includes LIRR and Metro North as well as an antique map, looks beautiful—does it all. And at $2.99 it’s the cheapest—don’t touch the other two, especially the $15 one. $3. -John Mahoney

Alarm Free: Alarm Free is a pretty simple, and pretty stupid, app. Basically, it’s a picture of an alarm. If you shake your phone, the alarm goes off and makes an annoying noise. Touch the screen to make it stop. Apparently,

it’s designed as a self-defense program, and you’re supposed to hold it up to an attacker to scare them off. If you hold this up to an attacker, they will steal your iPhone, then probably give you an extra hard beating for assuming they were dumb enough to be scared by flashing lights on your phone. Free. -Adam Frucci

GuitarToolKit: A companion app for your guitar that has many different tuning pre-sets (it detects sound via your iPhone’s mic), standard tone generation, a metronome and chords. Tuning my bass guitar that I’ve been too lazy to tune for a year and a half was fast and easy, and the tone generation was useful to remember which note each string was supposed to be. Chords and metronome will be great when I get around to playing it again. $9.99 is about the price of a cheap tuner, but this is even better since you have your iPhone with you always.

Sudoku (The EA Version): There are an infinite amount of ways to make a Sudoku game, some of which are fast and easy, some of which are good and well thought out. This is definitely the latter. EA shows off its decades of game experience with slick menus, smooth animations, good touch sensitivity and even an opening intro. There’s even Japanesey background music to help you concentrate. The game itself has intuitive controls as well—intuitive for entering numbers that is. $7.99. Not too steep.

Scrabble: EA’s version of Scrabble supports playing against the computer or multiplayer, but only in the sense that you take your turn and pass the phone around. No wireless gaming, which is something we would have liked. Otherwise, there’s quite a bit of polish, including a slightly over-long intro movie and the ability to drag letters from your tray into the correct slot. You can play with a grand total of four friends, which is great since each one will be able to chip in $2.50 for this somewhat steep price. $9.99.

Bank of America Mobile Banking: Lets you access your account information to see recent statements, transfer money or find BoA locations. This sounds like it has great potential if it were developed al in the iPhone’s UI, but only the login procedure is. The bulk of the application is just their mobile banking web page, which looks really ugly, and doesn’t fit in with the iPhone’s UI style at all. It’s free, but we wouldn’t use this unless you really needed to see if some transfer came through while you’re outdoors. BoA needs to go back and re-do everything correctly.

YPMobile: Free Yellow Pages access app that can use your current location to find whatever it is you’re usually looking for in the Yellow Pages. Each entry has a star rating and its distance from you. You can also look up events, make a custom list of your own “plans”, or add a business to your favorites. It’s free and should be quite useful.

Enigmo: It’s the same physics-based game where you used various objects to deflect water and lasers from a starting point to an ending point that people have been playing on the Mac for years. The graphics aren’t great for the Mac, but they’re perfect for the iPhone. Everything runs smoothly and dragging objects around feels natural. You’ll have to do a bit of scrolling around because the screen isn’t quite as big as you’d like, but it’s definitely a fun game. $9.99.

Jared: A stupid yellow face that sings at you. Good thing this is free, because it gets old fast.

WeatherBug: It’s like the default Weather app, but trades slick brevity for ugliness. However, with that ugliness comes a whole lot more information, like the heat index, humidity, dew point, rain amount, wind speeds and wind direction. There’s also radar, which didn’t actually work for us for some reason, and cameras, which you can use to spy on the high schools and elementary schools that have weather cameras installed. Wait, this sounds kinda pervy. Do you really need all that information? Probably not. It’s free though, so if you’re some kind of curious monkey, here you go.

Currency: A quick currency converter that shows how much one amount (default s dollars) is in 9 other currencies of your choice. Easy to use and useful when either traveling or when you have to convert money for some reason. Free!

RotaryDialer: The idea is good—an old school rotary dialer that you use via touch—but the execution sucks. Where’s the noise that a rotary dialer makes??! Seriously? You’re going to make this app without that noise? Go back and do this again. Free, but disappointing.

Trism: A sliding puzzle game that’s slightly similar to Bejweled, but actually uses the iPhone’s acclerometer to detect which direction is down. This affects gameplay by changing which direction triangles fall when you’ve made a match. For $4.99, it’s a pretty sweet game.

Jott: It records voice memos and converts them into text notes. Swipe a task after you complete it, and it strikes through the words. I’m more likely to keep track of tasks now that I can speak them instead of tapping them in on the keyboard, but for Jott to be consistently useful they must improve speech recognition and recording length, add more of the features offered in their phone-based service, and send crossed out notes to the trash. Free. – Benny Goldman

GoLearn Fitness Plus: This fitness app combines trainer videos that gives you tips about exercising at the gym, running, hiking or cycling. Each workout comes with a demonstration so you know you’re doing it right, plus has a log tracker so you can enter in your reps or your miles/time for running and hiking. At $19.99, the “Plus” version incorporates all the other workouts of the four individual versions at half the total price. An hour with an actual fitness trainer like our Sean Fallon costs more than $19.99, and they won’t even show you what to do all the time or remember every set you’ve ever done. There’s also a home workout if you’re not really the gym-going type. Seriously, $19.99 is cheap for getting in shape and not dying early.

eBay: A basic looking but extremely well rounded eBay app for the iPhone. By signing in you have the usually My eBay options of displaying what is being watched, sold, etc. What makes this app amazing is its iPhone specific eBay item / page browser. Scrolling through listings is easy and loads fast. Once at an item age, the iPhone displays the most important information with links to bidding, buying, watching, description, and pictures. The pictures page has a gallery style display, which is very nice. Free. – Chris Mascari

PayPal: This app is pretty limited and doesn’t feel like a finished product. With only two real features, ability to check your PayPal balance or send money, this app is kinda useless. Free. – Chris Mascari

Expenses: Expenses by Nexonia is a free download, but it actually isn’t free. Super lame. You have to pay $10 a month to their subscription service, which isn’t worth it unless you’re really heavy into expenses for your company and they don’t already have a system in place, you can easily keep track of your expenses with the default notes application. $10 a month = no thanks.

Cro-Mag Rally: This game is pretty fun but definitely takes some time to get used to. It’s basically Mario Kart for the iPhone with a caveman theme. Steering uses the iPhone accelerometer and actually works well once you get the hang of it. There are 9 different race tracks and 11 different vehicles to drive, which combined with the superb graphics, makes this game a good time. $10.

CowToss: The self-proclaimed worst iPhone app ever, CowToss lets you bounce a static animation of a cow up and down on your screen. That’s it. Shamefully overpriced at $0.99, unless electronic irony is your thing. - Dan Nosowitz

iMilk: This little app uses the iPhone’s motion sensor to tell when the phone is being tipped, like a glass. So if you tip the phone forward, the “milk” inside will drain out pretty realistically. If you shake the phone, it’ll foam up like milk. A fun show off app but pricey at $2.99. - Dan Nosowitz

iPint: Just like iMilk, only with a more “mature” substance, a 3.5-inch tall glass of beer. Definitely worth the free download, though you must be 17 to order. - Dan Nosowitz

Crazy Mouth: Similar to Crazy Eye, but with animations of mouths like a robot and a cheerful whistler. The animations are a little more elaborate than Crazy Eye and a little more entertaining. Worth the $1 if you’ve got it to toss around. - Dan Nosowitz

Banner Free: Turns your phone into a scrolling LED-style banner. I can see this becoming annoying pretty quickly, when someone downloads it and only communicates with the outside world via scrolling banner. Still, it’s fun for now, and free. -Benny Goldman

Shakespeare: The complete works of Shakespeare condensed into a ~3MB app. Adjustable font size and easy to navigate menus are good, but I’d like to see search and highlighting capabilities. It’s free, which is a refreshing change from so many other public domain books that are going for $1 in the app store. -Benny Goldman

G-Park: G-Park uses the A-GPS to mark where your car is parked. When you want to return to the spot, press a button for turn-by-turn directions. If you constantly get lost in the parking lot, it’s worth the $1. -Benny Goldman

Mindwarp: “Duuude! Stare at this trippy swirly picture for 30 seconds and then, like, check out your hand! It’s insane!” Sorry, I ran out of whatever drug I needed for this a long time ago. $1 -Benny Goldman

Scribble: A simple drawing application with four colors and one brush size. Pictures can be saved to your photo library, but can’t be edited once you leave the app. Not the best sketching app we’ve seen, but it’s the most free. -Benny Goldman

Frisbee Golf: This game takes the only good part of playing disc golf—going outside, maybe drinking a beer—and ditches it. Too hard to aim, too much unnecessary 3D and not very fun. To the hippies that would buy this: You’re better off saving your money for what you normally spend it on. $3. -Benny Goldman

Loopt: A location based social network app that will display what your friends are doing and where they’re at. There are a slew of features like uploading pictures to show what you are doing and even integrated Yelp! reviews on the map. Overall the app works great and is pretty fun but will drain your battery like a motherfucker. Free. -Chris Mascari

Cube Runner: Cube runner follows the Monkey Ball style of using the accelerometer for tilt-based controls to navigate your…um…arrow through a drab-looking mess of cubes. It’s intuitive and fun, but once you get tired of chasing the high score, there’s little reason to go back to it. Free. -Adrian Covert

Tetris:Let’s be honest – Tetris isn’t exactly the most ambitious project for a company like EA Games. That’s probably why the company’s iPhone port is a little overdone. The basic gameplay functions are well thought out and the touch-focused controls are completely intuitive, though we’d be pretty disappointed to find any kind of learning curve for a Tetris game. EA obviously wanted to use a bit of the iPhone’s rendering capability, but the graphics are gaudy to the point of distraction. Anyone looking for a simple, clean port like Tris (from the jailbreak days. See you soon, Tris…) should probably pass, but if you need a fix now I guess you don’t have much of a choice. At $9.99 you can expect a decent competitor to pop up at a lower price point, if not for free. -John Herrman

Twitterific: Great implementation of the service – smooth menus, fast updates, can embed photos and locations in your tweets natively. And it looks great. Free with ads, $10 without. -John Mahoney

Twittelator: Gets the job done, but it’s buggy. Occasionally can’t connect to the server, and the interface is not nearly as polished as Twitterific. Free. -John Mahoney

Twittervision: Cool visualization of tweets from around the world in real time that matches the website of the same name. Also lets you track location-tagged tweets that are in your area and provides very basic updating. Fun, but use it with Twitterific, not instead of. Free. -John Mahoney

Mocha VNC Lite: Mocha is a VNC client that supports full QWERTY and safari-like zooming as well as landscape mode. Double click works, but right click doesn’t, but there is no official App store equivalent so this is your desktop remote client of choice. -Brian Lam

Twinkle: This Twitter app oneups Twitteriffic by not only showing who’s twittering, but where they’re doing it. Paired with a great UI, Twinkle is a winner. Free. -Matt Buchanan

Aurora Feint: Aurora Feint is a bastard mix of Bejewled, tilt controls and an RPG (laying the groundwork for an MMO). Sounds weird, but it’s pretty damn fun. -Benny Goldman

MealSplitter: MealSplitter is a tip and check splitting app to help you figure out who owes what at the end of a meal. Unfortunately, it evidently does a lousy job, unable to calculate separate meal prices correctly: one person’s expensive item will be split evenly among everybody. - submitted by Kenny Crochet

iRetrophone: Rotary phone UI for the iPhone. You enter numbers and hit call. Funny, great sound effects, but not worth $3.

NetSketch: Cool Bonjour-like collaborative drawing app for passing notes and crude anatomical sketches over Wi-Fi. $8

Where: Yet another geo device, this one linked to yelp, starbucks, zipcar, skymap and gasbuddy locations, each on different maps. It even has buddy beaconing, but I’d rather just use yelp and loopt for buddies. Bad news: Doesn’t always work. Good news: It’s free.

Crash Bandicoot: Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 3D is a Mario Kart-like 3D racer with Crash Bandicoot at the wheel instead of the chubby Brooklyn plumber. For $9.99, we expect better.

MLB’s At Bat: If you like baseball, buy MLB’s At Bat. It’s worth $5. Every game today, yesterday and tomorrow with a full inning-by-inning rundown and video highlights in a slick interface. On Wi-Fi, they load fast, and you can make out the back of a player’s jersey while it chugs at a solid framerate. On 3G, you’ll wish a pop fly knocked your eyes out. - Matt Buchanan

Send an email to Jason Chen, the author of this post, at jchen@gizmodo.com.

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But which travel apps are actually worth downloading?

Here’s a short list of some iPhone apps that I use or think are worth using. Please use the comments section at the end to tell us about  your most-used travel apps and why we should download them. After all, it’s easy to add apps because they sound fun and cool, but it can be a completely different experience to find ones that you return to again and again.

The staples

There are certain iPhone apps that I almost take for granted. Why? Because they are big brands in the travel or online industry, and I expect them to have a mobile presence as well. I consider them staples that travel-loving iPhone users probably already have. If you don’t have them, you should download them — especially since they’re free.

MapQuest | Free | This popular mapping tool helps you with directions, lets you save maps and routes on its website and access them from your phone, look for businesses and even get walking directions.

Skype | Free | Join Skype and call friends all around the world who are also on Skype. You can also call land lines and cellphones for a small charge.

Kayak | Free | This is the app version of the airfare- and hotel-search website you know and love. Book a reservation online or push a button to call the airline or hotel directly. Kayak also has a paid version ($1.99) that searches first- and business-class airfares.

Southwest | Free | We recently gathered reviews and tips from travelers who have already used the Southwest Airlines iPhone app. Book a flight, check in for your flight and get “push notifications” for Ding! deals.

Priceline | Free | Follow your favorite hotel negotiator from your phone. Score a last-minute hotel right when you need it — chop!

Travelocity | Free | Book travel, view your trips and itineraries, see hotels on an interactive map, check TSA security wait times, get deals by destination and more.

Hotels.com | Free | Search for hotels from your current location. It’s handy to have user reviews and hotel photos at your fingertips. One complaint: How about some updates?

Hertz and Avis | Free |  Hertz and Avis both have an iPhone app. If you use them regularly, why not add them to your mobile device?

Useful apps that I turn to again and again:

Yelp | Free | This app has suggested great restaurants where I’ve become a repeat diner. You also can use it to search for other services, such as gas stations, banks, bars and coffeehouses, to name a few.

Around Me | Free | This app is similar to Yelp, in that you can find both necessary and recreational services nearby, such as hospitals, banks, gas stations, movie theaters and hotels. I return to this app for gas stations because it once helped me find a place to refuel when my car was on empty and I wasn’t familiar with the area. Too easy!

Flight Track Live | $4.99 | I’ve downloaded app after app trying to find one that had a quick grasp of flight delays, and so far this one has come the closest. If you have other apps that you’ve used successfully to track a late flight carrying someone you were trying to pick up at the airport, please share that in the comments section.

TripIt | Free | If you use the website version of TripIt or are a frequent traveler,  let this app keep you organized with all your trip details in one place.

AAA Roadside| Free | No more fumbling around for a phone number when your car gets a flat, runs out of battery juice or unexpectedly breaks down. Just like the membership and service, this app is great to have around for that one time you need it most.

The Weather Channel Free | Great for business travelers and spouses of business travelers who help pack for the trips. I like the feature that allows you to store a variety of cities and just flip among them without having to reload the city the next time you want to check the weather. It even has traffic cams for select cities.

Taxi | $0.99 |  This app has come in handy for me, but you’ll find that it gets mixed reviews on iTunes. The biggest complaint is that it’s only for bigger U.S. cities.

Babelingo | $1.99 | This is a language translator with phrases and topics particularly useful for travelers. Even better, it doesn’t just teach you how to say something in a foreign language; it offers visual translations (shows the translations in type) that you can show to the person you’re trying to communicate with.

Pano | $2.99 | Take panoramic pics with your iPhone. Don’t worry if you get a phone call or need to stop; you can resume your photo.

Road Trip Fun | $0.99 | A great reminder of all the fun games you can play when you’re on a road trip. Remember I Spy and Slug-a-Bug?

Whizzer | $0.99 | Helps you find a bathroom. Great for moms who want to know where a baby-changing station is.

SodaSnap | Free | Take pictures of your travels and send them to your friends as e-cards.

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The survival of the Angry Birds is at stake. Dish out revenge on the green pigs who stole the Birds’ eggs. Use the unique destructive powers of the Angry Birds to lay waste to the pigs’ fortified castles. Angry Birds features hours of gameplay, challenging physics-based castle demolition, and lots of replay value. Each of the 240 levels requires logic, skill, and brute force to crush the enemy.

#1 IPHONE PAID APP in US, UK, Canada, Italy, Germany, Russia, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Singapore, Poland, France, Netherlands, Malta, Greece, Austria, Australia, Turkey, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Belgium, Norway, Hungary, Malaysia, Luxembourg, Portugal, Czech Republic, Spain, Ireland, Romania, New Zealand, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Nicaragua, Kazakhstan, Argentina, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Slovenia, Mauritius, Chile, Hong Kong, Pakistan, Taiwan, Colombia, Indonesia, Thailand, India, Kenya, Macedonia, Croatia, Macau, Paraguay, Peru, Armenia, Philippines, Vietnam, Jordan, Kuwait and Malta.
#1 IPHONE PAID GAME in more countries than we can count!

AVERAGE REVIEW SCORE for version 1.4.0 = 4.78 / 5.

“Lemme tell ya, these ain’t no ordinary finches we’re talkin’ about. These here are the Angry Birds, the ones that’s gonna kick you in the ‘nads. And they’re the ones on your side. They must be from Galapadapados, or sumptin’.” – Col. Angus, Bird Expert.

Protect wildlife or play Angry Birds!

Features 240 levels, leaderboards, achievements, Facebook and Twitter integration, and lots and lots of Angry Birds!

• $0.99
• Category:  Updated: Mar 17, 2011
• Current Version: 1.5.3
• 1.5.3
• Size: 18.8 MB
• Languages: English, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish
• Seller: Clickgamer Technologies Ltd
• © Rovio Mobile

Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later

Click Angry Bird below to view Iphone App Video of this game!

Click the Angry Birds FAQ Banner below to go to Angry Birds Support Info…

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If you like the game, you can upgrade to play all ten levels of Marathon, as well as the Flood Panic game mode, vocabulary tracking, and more achievements.

Click here to download from the App Store

Post Subject: This Review is for Tap Forms a new iPhone database app.

It’s available at the App Store in a Full version for $8.99 or a Lite version FREE!

Tap Forms Database
Organize your life with the most powerful iPhone™ database app yet. Use Tap Forms to securely keep track of your movies, books, recipes, inventory and more.

Your Life. Organized!

Tap Forms is the Cadillac of database apps.  Its compelling interface and user flexibility makes it perfect for storing any kind of information, whether ultra sensitive or non sensitive.  Users can use the included stock forms or create their own custom ones.

GPS location with integrated map view

Text

Numbers

Dates

Time

Date & Time

Contacts

Check marks

Notes

Photos

Audio voice memos

Website addresses

Email addresses

Phone numbers

Ratings

File Attachments

Keep track of your favorites

Use the built-in FTP and WebDAV servers to exchange data with your Mac or PC

Exchange files with Tap Forms right from your desktop's browser

Fast integrated search engine

Strong AES-256 bit encryption

Protect your data with iPhone-like passcode lock feature

Additional protection provided with lock-out mechanism to prevent repetitive unsuccessful passcode attempts. Locks access to Tap Forms for up to 2 hours.

Ready Made Forms:

• Passport information
• Security alarm codes
• Vehicle registration information
• Daily journal
• Drivers license
• Credit card numbers
• Loyalty card information
• Bank accounts
• Memberships
• Software serial numbers
• Online accounts access
• Home insurance
• Vehicle insurance
• Government health number
• Frequent flyer numbers
• Log book
• School homework tracker
• Investment account numbers
• Garage door passcode
• Important dates
• Audio dictation
• Locker combination
• Calling cards
• And more…

The Full version of TapForms is available for $8.99 in the App Store

Be sure to look at the bottom of the iTunes page for Tap Forms Lite iPhone database app.

It’s also available at the App Store! The Lite version is FREE!

Tap Forms Database Website Link

Testimonials & Reviews

• Twitter: @h8rnet: iPhone databases: Tap Forms is bettter than Bento in every conceivable way. Wish I didn’t drop the $5 on bento just to prove that to myself.
• iPhone App Examiner: Keeping personal information personal while secure and available
• AppVee.com: Tap Forms Database is an amazing application for the iPhone & iPod Touch that allows you to keep track of any type of data you deal with on a regular basis.
• Crazy Mike”s Apps: Wholly database, Tap Forms is powerful
• Touch My Apps: What I found was a versatile database program. It is a God-send for those, like me, who have a difficult time keep track of life and all the tiny bits of information that comes along with it. This one App takes the place of the multitude of scrap paper I have all over the place.
• AppStoreApps.com: The best part about this application is that it’s totally customizable. If you want a “form” with just audio notes, you can do this. . if you want one with just websites or just bank accounts/credit cards, you can do this as well.

The app’s premise is a simple one.  In the words of the ClickSpace Technologies developers, “Your Life.  Organized.”  Regardless of a user’s intent, Tap Forms Database is the ultimate organizational tool.  It takes care of all recorded data, eliminating the need for additional programs.

All sensitive information stored in Tap Forms Database is completely secure.  The app has a strong, government approved AES-256 bit encryption, a pass code PIN and an optional auto lock/lockout function.

Tap Forms Database is also used for more everyday things such as, tracking inventory, listing movies or keeping recipes handy.  This is what developers mean when they say that Tap Forms Database is versatile and perfect for any type of data storage.

Additional features, such as the recordable GPS positioning, website accessing from within the app, email, importing and exporting, provide a total flexibility to the Tap Forms Database.  Users can also record and attach audio files and even search and transfer Word and Excel files or PDF’s.

The Tap Forms Database is not only flexible and versatile; it is also rich in features:

* 25 stock forms
* Users can easily create custom forms
* 16 different data fields
* Integrated map view in location field; search for any location in the world
* Direct website accessing using a powerful search engine built into the app
* In app emailing of files
* Tell a Friend feature via email or Facebook
* Ultra secure encryption, PIN and optional auto lock/lockout function
* Take photos and post them to your Facebook account
* Adjust fonts
* Record and attach audio files
* Search and upload/download Word and Excel files or PDF’s
* Import and export to a computer via FTP or built-in WebDAV server

Features Include:

• Comes with over 25 forms ready to fill out!
• Create new forms or easily customize any of the built-in forms
• Store 16 different types of information:

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Make Inexpensive High Definition International Calls from iPhone Using Call Global!

• Crystal Clear Call Quality, this is not a VOIP iphone app… It’s Better!!!!
• Pay as You Go, No contracts or commitments
• Easiest Way to Call International
• Free $2.00 Balance with Free App Download

Call Global is not a VOIP iphone app; all calls are place over phone lines, just like your normal phone calls. So unlike applications like Skype or truphone or any other voip apps, Call Global can be used absolutely anywhere and all the phone calls are crystal clear.

Users will receive a free $2.00 balance with the free download! So not only are you getting the app for free, your first few international phone calls are free too!

Call Global Features:

Direct Call

Direct call allows users to make crystal clear calls to anywhere in the world. Users simply dial the international number into the keypad, or select one form their contacts, and are instantly connected anywhere in the world.

There are a few countries where direct call cannot be used. For a full list of these countries please check our website. If you live in one of these countries do not worry, because our other calling feature, World Call, can be used from any country in the world.

World Call

World Call is our calling feature that can be used from anywhere in the world. With World Call you simply enter in the phone number you are calling and then World Call calls both you and the person you are trying to call at the same time! So no one actually made the international call. No VOiP apps in the app store has any feature like this.

Call History

Call History tells users exactly how much each call cost, so they can easily track how much they are spending.

Create Virtual Numbers

Do you have a family member in Argentina or a business colleague in England? With the virtual number feature you can create a local phone number in countries all across the world that will ring directly to your phone.

So now your family in Argentina can dial a local Argentina phone number and connect directly to your cell phone anywhere in the world. And your family in Argentina will only pay for a local phone call.

Rate Finder

Are you unsure how much it will cost you to call your brother in France? Simply go to the rate finder and quickly the look up the cost.

Recharge Notification

Lets you know when your balance is low. So your balance never runs out during the middle of a call.

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Review is for Emoti for Facebook iPhone app.

It’s available at the App Store for $1.99!

New iPhone App, Emoti for Facebook is available on the iTunes App Store,  spread the word about this great app!

Make your Facebook status updates & wall posts more interesting & colorful with Emoti for iPhone. Simply select an Emoti emoticon, type your message and share it on your wall, or on a friends wall. Simple, easy, fun! 74 Emoti emoticons to choose from and even more coming soon. See them all on our website. Uses Facebook Connect to access your account and friends list. Posts with images are always more interesting than text alone. You’ll love it and so will your friends!

We really like the App and think it should be popular. There are 350 million Facebook users and Emoti gives you a chance for your message post to stand out with some really cool custom emoticons.

Email: ivy@nodconcept.com

Website address: www.nodconcept.com

Become a fan on Facebook | http://www.facebook.com/pages/nodconcept/

Follow us on Twitter | http://twitter.com/nodconcept/

Here’s a link to the App Store:

Category: Photography

• Seller: Version: 1.0 Seller: Kit A Yu
• Developer: Alvin Yu
• Version: © 2009 Alvin Yu
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• Released November 11, 2009

Let’s say you’re at a store and you want to ask your spouse which product they like better. You could turn on Knocking, “knock” on their phone, then they would get a message saying you want to share. Then you just turn your camera on the different products you’re looking at, and it shows up on their phone. Here are a couple other examples offered by Brian Meehan, co-founder of Point Heads Software, the Danbury, Conn., development studio that created Knocking: If you’re fishing, you could use Knocking to share the great view, or if you’re stuck in traffic you could use the app to show family or coworkers how bad things are on the highway.

I haven’t tried the application myself, but I have seen a live demo as well as a video, and both suggest the video quality is decent, if a little jerky, and is broadcast with only a few seconds’ delay. Neither fact undermines Knocking’s essential coolness.

Pointy Heads actually released a more limited version of the Knocking app in November, which focused on photo-sharing. The full version was rejected from the App Store due to some user interface features that Apple said fell afoul of its policies. (Meehan was a bit vague on the exact violation.)

It seems like this is becoming a common story among iPhone developers, but Meehan decided to take his concerns straight to the top — he sent an email to Apple chief executive Steve Jobs recounting his history as a lifelong Apple fan, and outlining his concerns with the decision, such as the fact that other apps live in the store seemed to offer the same feature that got Knocking rejected. Shortly afterward, Meehan said he got a call from Apple “upper management,” who said they were calling about his email to Jobs. A few more phone calls later and the app was approved without any revision from Point Heads.

“It was a great feeling to know that they are listening and they do care,” Meehan said.

Knocking is available as a free app for the first 50,000 users (here’s the iTunes link), and will then cost $2.99. Pointy Heads plans to demonstrate a version for Android phones at the Consumer Electronics Show next January.
Pointy Heads is self-funded.

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1Password Pro is one of the best password manager app for the iPhone. It sells for $7.99 and has been the publicized along with the release of 1Passoword 3 for Mac. (See demo video below)

FEATURE LIST (from iTunes)

• (pro) Special easy switching mode allows you to quickly copy-and-paste usernames and passwords to Mobile Safari.
• (pro) Support for copying multiple field values (for example, both username and password) from 1Password to Mobile Safari.
• (pro) Folders for better organization (in this version a desktop application required – sold separately)
• (pro) Features coming soon: Favorites, MobileMe/WebDAV syncing, and more.
• Securely store your website names and passwords so you never forget them again
• Save important information like credit cards and membership numbers
• Jot down other notes too sensitive for stickies or bar napkins
• Synchronize it all with 1Password for Mac via Wi-Fi (sold separately, available at http://1password.com)
• Automatically log into Web sites on iPhone and iPod touch to avoid remembering and typing usernames and passwords
• Hardware-accelerated AES encryption and Auto-Lock keep your data protected even if your iPhone is lost or stolen
• All cryptographic operations are performed using standard iPhone libraries to ensure there are no security gaps or backdoors
• Two-layer defense with Unlock Code and Master Password to combine security and convenience
• Data Backup & Restore option available on Mac, Windows and Linux.

Download it and give it a try. You will see for yourself it is worth the $7.99!

Availability: App Store [iTunes link]

price: $7.99

Best Camera allows you to creatively edit and share your iPhone images more simply than ever before. Developed by renowned photographer, Chase Jarvis, Best Camera provides a unique set of effects that can be applied at the touch of a button. Stack those effects. Mix them. Remix them. Virtually infinite creative possibility with your photos.

And what good is taking a picture if it is not easily shared? Best Camera allows you to share directly via Twitter, Facebook, email, and thebestcamera.com, a new online community that allows you to contribute to a living, breathing gallery of iPhone photography from around the globe. This is the only iPhone app on the market developed by a world-class photographer AND the only app that allows you to shoot, edit, and share your pictures easily through many channels.

With Best Camera you can get astonishing results with the tap of your finger on a single filter, OR stack multiple filters to create unique and more advanced effects for your pictures. You can even share that “recipe” with your friends. While other photo apps can be clumsy in styling your images like the pros, this app makes it simple and easy. Change your image to black and white, saturate your colors, create a cinematic look, brighten, darken, or apply a frame to your picture on the fly. There are 14 filters from which to choose. Four “signature” filters can be identified by the flags – they offer the slickest one-touch option for a filter. Further to the right on the dock, you’ll find an assortment of 10 additional filters that can act as one-touch filters, or are great “tools” to correct images that were poorly captured originally.

Through the course of developing this application, world renowned photographer Chase Jarvis put dozens of iphone photo apps to the test and none of them succeeding in effectively capturing and sharing images. And why use 2 or 3 applications to take and share pictures when you can do it in one? With the touch of one button, Best Camera shares any of your photos with the services that helps you stay in touch with your friends: Facebook, Twitter, email, or www.thebestcamera.com. By simply checking or unchecking a box, you can decide where you want share image and with whom. It is that easy.

Here’s your chance to view the live feed of images from thousands of other people using Best Camera app from around the world – direct to your phone. Draw inspiration from them, rate them with a thumbs up, and join this erupting worldwide community right from within this app. But don’t forget, this community isn’t just about watching, it’s about participating. With the click of a button when you “save and share” your images in the app you too can participate in this living, breathing gallery of photos from around the world. You can see the images pouring into the photostream and click on any image to see who shot the photo and what filters they used to create their “look”.

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OmniFocus Brings out the big guns when it comes to productivity. OmniFocus is a great GTD task management application. It’s a “port” (and I use that word loosely) from Omni Group’s popular desktop application of the same name. Though it’s on the pricier end of the available iPhone apps, the functionality offered can be accounted for.

Some developers just want to get a mobile version of their desktop application up at the App Store, but OmniFocus is one of the few that leverage the iPhone’s capabilities as distinct from the Mac with location-based task lists thanks to the iPhone’s GPS location services.

OmniFocus for the iPhone will sync and integrate with OmniFocus on the Mac if you’re running the latest version of the software. If your tasks are important to you, make sure to keep your data backed up, because I’ve read a review or two where an application crash caused complete data loss.

I have a question for you: what should you be doing right now? What could you be doing instead of reading my blog (the obvious answer of course is reading the blog!) or checking up on your RSS feeds? Don’t you have work to do, or some errands to run?

If you answered “yes” to any of the questions above, then you are a procrastinator like the rest of us. Welcome to life, where our list of “things to do” seems to grow bigger or left in hiding for day, then weeks, and months! How to combat our inherent laziness? Easy, try out some Get Things Done (GTD) aps for the iPhone!

Helping you Get Things Done: Things and OmniFocus

For the past couple of months I’ve had the pleasure to test out two major apps in the GTD arena, for both the Mac and iPhone. The two programs I’m talking about are Things and OmniFocus. I’m going to take a different approach in my experience with these two GTD apps.

Instead of going through the traditional review of documenting each feature, I’m going to describe my experience with them, a relative GTD newbie and recent Mac user. Just how do these two apps compare for the average person?

OmniFocus: The GTD Power User’s Best Friend

The first GTD app for my Mac/iPhone I tested out was OmniFocus. This program is professional-grade personal task management, and is extremely powerful.

OmniFocus lets you capture tasks from any app in OSX. Also, there is deep integration with syncing with iCal and Spotlight. You can even send yourself tasks via email.

When I first started up OmniFocus, I’ll be honest–it took me a while to get the whole “mantra”. After watching their basic introduction video, I slowly got the hang of what the whole concept was all about.

There are three concepts you need to drill into your brain:

Action – something you can physically do (in one step)
Project – goal achieved by more than one “action”
Context – physical requirement for an action (a place, an object, an activity, a state, or a person)

Now that you have this down, the main three steps in using OmniFocus involves the following “COD” mantra:

Capture, Organize, Do

After I watched the intro video I felt I was ready to put OmniFocus to work. It was easy enough to start dumping my ideas into the Inbox, then start organizing my “actions” into “projects” and assigning different “contexts” to them.

The learning curve with OmniFocus is a bit steep right out of the box if you’re not familiar with GTD and the “mantra” of COD. However, with practice, as with anything I started to get familiar with the app–but of course there is much more to come.

OmniFocus also lets you drag emails from Mail right into your tasks. This makes it incredible easy to reply to important emails and will save you time from searching in the future.

Click here to get OmnoFocus at the appstore.

Click here to get OmnoFocus pdf document.

OmniFocus iPhone App — How does it Compare?

I also had a chance to try out the the OmniFocus iPhone app. I was very impressed with the interface–it was identical to the desktop app. You can setup OmniFocus to sync using WEBDAV service through MobileMe.

However, that costs money. I was able to use the free services of SwissDisk to sync my OmniFocus database and keep every single change made on my iPhone/Desktop in unison. I will write a post on how to do this later.

You can also use your iPhone’s camera to take pictures and record audio too! This is a very useful feature if you don’t have time to jot down notes and want to save info for later.

Things: Simplicity in Its Design and Workflow

Straight out of the box, you will notice that Things is extremely simple and easy to use. There’s no guessing or tutorials needed like OmniFocus above. You enter tasks into a list and assign tags to what they are related to.

The layout of the app is Leopard-like, so it’s very easy to pick up where and how to place new tasks. The following categories are used to organize all your tasks in Things:

Inbox, Today, Next, Scheduled, Someday, Projects, Logbook

Things for the iPhone – Looks and Performs Like the Desktop Version

Things also can sync with iCal (OSX 10.5 required) and your iPhone. In order to sync the iPhone you will need to connect to a wireless network connection. I have yet to figure out how to sync Things over WEBDAV.

Things is extremely simple and straightforward to use. Its clean UI is beautiful and makes the app a joy to use. Definitely a bonus for people who don’t have the time to learn and explore the ins and outs of a program (yes, I’m talking to you, lazy!).

What Should You Buy? Things or OmniFocus?

I can’t tell you what one you should buy. I can however relay my experiences as a GTD-newbie using two of the best GTD programs available.

OmniFocus feels like it would be more useful in a corporate or business-like environment because it is extremely feature-rich and powerful. There are features and settings that I have yet to even explore. With this in mind, OmniFocus will require that the user take some time to learn and experiment to fully utilize the app.

What I did like was the ability to have have tasks within tasks in a heirarchy format, which was very useful for keeping tabs on the next step in big projects. The ability to have your OmniFocus sync over WEBDAV is a plus too.

Things on the other hand, was extremely easy to grasp and use right out of the box. The program’s UI is very Mac-centric so the transition is incredibly seamless if you’re looking to get started right away.

However, Things does not compare to OmniFocus in terms of being able to use your iPhone camera to snap a pic, or to record a voice note. I don’t see this as a shortfall though, because sometimes it is best to K.I.S.S. (keep it simple stupid).

The Best GTD App Revealed…

In all honesty though, I’m going to share a little secret with you. The ultimate GTD application is not available in stores. What I’m trying to say is that YOU are the one that can get things done!

These GTD apps are useless if you don’t use them and if you aren’t inclined to stay on top of dumping every task into the program, then you’re going to be back at square one. But, if you want to clear your mind and stay more organized, utilizing a GTD app like OmniFocus or Things can change the way your live your life.

Pricing

The final verdict is also the price. You need to strongly consider each program and the investment you will make to get a desktop client on your Mac, and similarly on your iPhone. Being able to use the iPhone version of each app compliments the desktop version and is absolutely essential.

Things for Mac – $49.99
Things for iPhone – $9.99
OmniFocus for Mac – $79.95
OmniFocus for iPhone – $19.99

How many times have you been staying at a hotel and you’ve forgotten your room number?

With My Room, you’ll never have to worry about forgetting your room number again.

Special Features:

• Store your room number with just a few clicks.
• Keep a running history of all the rooms you’ve stayed in.
• Keep track of which rooms your friends are staying in.
• Choose between four specially designed custom doors.

Click the App Store button below to get the App!

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Anyone can record video with an iPhone, but it takes a real Spielberg to make a movie. That’s the idea behind ReelDirector, an app for the iPhone and second-generation iPod touch that attempts to be a full-fledged movie creation tool where you add video clips and photos, and even record an audio snippet, set transitions between scenes, type in the movie credits, and render a final Quicktime movie.

Making “real” movies with ReelDirector is simple and quick, but the $8 tool from Nexvio is a little lacking in deep features.

Developer: NEXVIO INC.

Age rating: 4+

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LetsTans Introduction

LetsTans is a new visual puzzle containing 192 original challenges for your enjoyment. With three distinctive play modes, the app delivers a totally new puzzle experience of the captivating Tangram’s spirit and energy. It’s a pleasant blend of original and catchy shapes, bright Tangram pieces, and smooth play on your iPhone/iPod touch.

In the Replica mode, find and tap exactly seven different color tans to replicate each proposed white Tangram shape. Then, in the Arcade mode, trace and fully capture seven different color tans with shaped masks. Finally, the Classic mode will bring back your memories of attempting to fit the tans neatly within the borders of different Tangram shapes.
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Lite Version (Free)

v1.0, December 17, 2009

Full Version ($1.99)

v1.1, December 11, 2009

Slide-a-ma-jig is a sliding mix-n-match character creation activity with over 14 million possible combinations!!!   New character updates are being added every couple of weeks so that number just keeps growing!

The creator of  Slide-a-ma-jig, (Chuck Gamble), has gotten many letters from folks calling Slide-a-ma-jig the perfect “waiting-in-line” app for their kids.  Just what he made it for! Slide-a-ma-jig isn’t directly educational but it’s creator hopes it inspires creativity,  joy, and mild bewilderment…

Version: 1.0.5
Website: Lucky Radish Amusements

Remember your childhood mix-n-match books? Each page had a character sliced into strips, and you flipped the strips to combine them into zany new creations. (Obama’s head on Limbaugh’s belly? Stop the madness!) Slide-a-ma-jig reinvigorates that childhood magic with whimsical and wonderfully drawn figures, combined with a symphony of cartoon sound effects. Kids love it, and adults will find it hard to resist, too.

Change of scene: You control not only the foreground character but also the background. The app comes with 20 different scenes; tap the button at lower left to bring up a new photo backdrop from moonscapes to street scenes. The arrows in the top corners cycle through the app’s characters, fresh and ready for scrambling.

Monster mash: Slide-a-ma-jig comes with over 25 characters, each with five parts you can shuffle. Swap heads, bodies, legs, feet, and headgear to create over 14 million different creatures. Swipe the body part to slide, or shake your iPhone or iPod Touch to get a random combination. Drum stings and wacky sound effects accompany your every move.

A Review of Slide-a-ma-jig By Josh Clark of O’Reilly Best iPhone Apps

Thought I’d include a bit more info about Slide-a-ma-jig’s creator, Chuck Gamble. I discovered Slide-a-ma-jig after Chuck got in touch with me this summer to let me know about his creation, which he says he was inspired to create for his own kids:

In my own efforts to make my iPhone more useful I decided to create something for my daughters to play with. Slide-a-ma-jig was inspired by those old mix-n-match cards sets I had as a kid. As I started working up drawings I was reminded of what I DIDN’T like about those card sets… the characters were only divided into 3 parts and those parts didn’t always match up very well. So I worked really hard at improving that formula by dividing the characters into 5 parts and making sure the parts matched up as flawlessly as possible.…By the way… my daughters are actually in the game as the Herpetologist and the BubbleGum Wrangler.

Chuck’s an animator, designer, artist and, of course, iPhone programmer from Chippewa Falls, WI. You can find out more about his latest adventures (and his company Lucky Radish Studio) in this profile from a local magazine: C.huck’s Good Luck

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One of the biggest gripes we heard from iPhone developers during 2009 was that it took forever for their apps to make it through the iTunes App Store approval process. Often apps would be disapproved for seemingly illogical reasons after a long wait in the approval queue, it has been heard from more than one developer that had just given up.

iTunes Connect, the portal through which iPhone developers submit apps and check sales, was down between December 23 – 28, 2009. Since that time, there have been a number of positive emails received from iPhone devs that indicate that Apple has resolved to quit holding up apps in 2010.

How fast are some apps making it through the process? Take developer Aaron Douglas’s free Migraine Diary [iTunes Link]; he submitted it on December 28th at 9 PM CT and received notice of the approval a 4 PM CT on the 31st of December — that’s less than three days.

But that’s downright slow compared to what Yuri, a developer at Atomic Cactus, experienced:

I’m a developer behind Atomic Cactus, we have 3 games currently in the app store, and they all took approximately 2-3 weeks to get approved. Today at 4:00 am I submitted for approval our latest app, which isn’t exactly a “fart app” (it’s a pretty polished puzzle game with OpenFeint). As of 1:30 pm today, the app is in the app store.

That’s nine and a half hours, folks! This is a small sampling of the many emails we’ve received from developers since just after Christmas.

Whether this is due to a New Year’s resolution, competition from the Android platform, or a new back-end system for processing apps, it’s a welcome change for iPhone developers and users alike.

You can try out the demo app now [Free - iTunes link], with the real version coming late this year.

Catch our video walkthrough (drive through?), courtesy of On-Star’s Paul Pebbles, and pics galore, after the break, and don’t miss Android Central’s coverage of the equally awesome Droid version.

MotionX was leading the *outdoor* GPS apps sales in the past. They had great momentum with their app called MotionX GPS for outdoor sporting people, which loved their offering in the App Store and then they surprisingly released MotionX GPS Drive. Competing directly with big names like TomTom, Sygic, Navigon, iGO My way and Ndrive. They undercut the current model of paying one time for the maps of your choice, to the model of 30 day for free maps and paying for every month you need it with an “In App Purchase”, all to be downloaded and cached over 3G.

Now since some time has passed, MotionX did not stood still and developed the 2.0 edition which has the following great improvements.

MotionX made a cheap entry price in the store for only 2.99 dollars to begin with. The long term cost of this app is higher than the other competitors if you buy their maps every month, but for the people who once in a while need Turn-by-Turn Voice guided GPS Navigation this is the app to save money with. And they prove that there is a public for this model, they are leading the App Store since they have entered with MotionX GPS Drive, in the navigation section.

● New Night Mode maps! Option to use automatically based on time of day.
● Faster re-routing detection when you go off-course.
● Simulation mode added to the core application.
● Choose between iPod music fading or p…ausing during voice instructions.
● New re-route button in Get Directions mode makes manual re-routing fast & easy.
● Improved interface for entering Canadian addresses.
● Improved airport search.
● Gas station search improved.
● New map data available; clear your cache (Setup page) to utilize.
● Additional voice prompts added and timing of prompts has been improved.
● Initiate routing without a GPS signal.
● Various optimizations and bug fixes.

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With immediate access to the latest news, as well as blogs and podcasts, you never have to feel disconnected these days. In fact, in most cases you can customize exactly which headlines end up on your screen so you only get the news you’re interested in. Here are a few of our favorite ways to stay in the loop.

Update your blog

You’re out and about when you stumble upon something you absolutely need to tell the world. All you’ve got on you is your iPhone. No problem. While the device isn’t ideal for typing out lengthy rants, it’s easy enough to dash off a short blog post.

Although most major blog platforms let you post to your blog via e-mail (you may need to change your blog settings or add a plug-in to do this), you’re limited in what you can do. For example, you may not be able to send pictures via e-mail, your formatting options may be limited, and if you make a typo you won’t be able to edit the post without resorting to the Web interface. A better option is to use an app specifically designed for the task. For a full-featured blogging client that works with just about any service, try IllumineX’s iBlogger ($10). iBlogger displays your 11 most recent posts and lets you edit them or delete them entirely. It can even manage multiple blogs. When updating your blog, you can easily post pictures, add categories and tags to entries, and tag your post with your current location, thanks to the iPhone’s location services.

Listen to podcasts on demand

If you run out of new podcasts to listen to while you’re away from your computer, there’s no need to do without. While most Web sites don’t stream audio or video in iPhone-friendly formats, the iTunes Store application offers instant gratification. The app lets you not only download new podcasts, but stream them, so you don’t even have to wait for them to finish downloading before you start listening. Just open the application, select Search from the toolbar, and enter the name of the podcast. You can download a podcast just as you would a song, by tapping on the Free button and then on Download, or you can play any episode immediately by tapping on its title. The iPhone’s media player will open and start playing the podcast (both video and audio, though the former will take longer to load). You can pause playback or even scrub ahead, though it will take a moment to jump, so be patient.

Stream the radio

While the iPhone can store plenty of media, sometimes you want to listen to something you don’t have on your iPhone, such as the local news when you’re out of town.

The free NPR Addict app from Pass Time Software offers access to recently aired episodes of popular shows from National Public Radio stations, such as A Prairie Home Companion and All Things Considered. American Public Media’s free Public Radio Tuner, on the other hand, can use your location to stream live audio content from many different public radio affiliates.

If you prefer a music station, try Weather Underground’s $6 Wunder Radio, which lets you stream audio content from conventional radio and Internet sources.

Get your news fix

If you’re a news junkie, you probably already have an RSS reader that keeps track of your favorite news feeds and delivers the latest headlines to you. If not, we recommend NewsGator’s free NetNewsWire, which allows you to sync your feeds with the desktop version of NetNewsWire as well as download them for offline viewing.

While the iPhone is ideal for checking up on news when you’ve got a little downtime, you probably don’t want to sift through 5,000 news items every time you load up your reader. No problem. Create a subset of your feeds: the 10 or 12 that you really want to read (in NetNewsWire, you can delete feeds on the iPhone version of NetNewsWire without losing them in the desktop version). Most readers also let you mark headlines to come back to later. This feature is your best friend on the iPhone, as opening multiple links can often be time-consuming, and there’s usually a limit on how many Web pages you can have open at the same time. In NetNewsWire, for example, you can save a story to your clippings and have it show up on your Mac.

To reduce the amount of noise you have to filter through, consider foregoing (or supplementing) your RSS regimen with Marco Arment’s free Instapaper. It lets you mark stories of particular interest from your desktop’s Web browser and have them download to a companion iPhone app. (For multipage Web articles, save the print-friendly version, if one’s available, to make sure you get the whole piece and not just one page).

A 2-megapixel camera may not seem like much, but add Web access, a pocket-size Mac, and third-party apps to the mix, and that humble camera is now a personal assistant and digital video tool in one. The following are just a few of the ways you can expand the use of your camera.

See in the dark

The iPhone’s camera takes beautiful, crisp photos—as long as you’re outside on a sunny day. For the other 95 percent of the time, you’ll need to employ some photography kung fu to fight off blurry shots. The problem is that in low-light situations, even subtle hand movements can blur your image. Add to that the fact that on the iPhone you have to reach over and tap a small on-screen button to trigger your camera, and you have a recipe for bungled photos. For handheld shots, an app such as River Past’s $1 Night Camera can increase your chances of getting a steady shot. The program uses the iPhone’s accelerometer to determine when the camera is still enough to take the shot. It also lets you turn the entire screen into a shutter button-so you have an easier target-and lets you set a timer so you can prop up the iPhone and get in the shot yourself. In our tests, Night Camera gave us noticeably sharper photos in low light.

An even better way to get sharper photos is to prop your iPhone against something steady before you tap the camera button. If you’re willing to spend a little money, the $4 Batrest by Seskimo folds up to create a makeshift stand. When not in use, it collapses to the size of a credit card so you can carry it in your wallet. Seskimo also recently introduced the slightly larger $5 Crabble, which includes non-slip rubber pads that hold your iPhone more securely.

Take wider shots

If you’re having trouble getting the whole scene in the shot, try taking multiple images and stitching them together into a panorama. There are several iPhone apps that let you do this, but Helix Interactive’s $2 Panoramas offers a good blend of affordability and power. You can take as many shots of a scene as you’d like in any orientation, and then stitch them together by placing markers on each photo to identify items that should line up. Panoramas then does its best to blend the photos and adjust colors to give you a seamless image. The process is very forgiving, so you don’t have to worry about keeping your camera perfectly straight or lining up the shots flawlessly—good news for those of us who are in a hurry.

Get a personal shopper

Want a teapot just like the one your local cafe uses? You could go to Amazon.com and manually search through more than 4,000 entries in hopes of finding the right model. Or save yourself a lot of time by downloading the free Amazon Mobile to your iPhone. In addition to providing options for browsing the store’s stock and making purchases, the app offers a personal shopping feature called Amazon Remembers. Use the program to submit a photo of just about anything, and someone from Amazon will try to match it with something similar from the site. If the person finds it, you’ll get an update within the app showing the details (including user reviews), as well as options to purchase it or add it to your wish list.

Find your mobile photos fast

Has one of the photos on your Mac performed its own disappearing act? If you took it with your iPhone, there’s a quick way to track it down. In iPhoto, press command-option-N to create a new smart album, and set the menus to read: Camera Model is Apple iPhone . Or, to gather every iPhone-taken photo on your Mac, regardless of whether it’s in iPhoto, use the Finder to create a smart folder. From the Finder, press command-F. In the resulting window, select Other from the Kind menu, and then choose Device Model. Select Is from the second menu and type iPhone in the text field. Click on the Save button to save the search in the Search For section of the Finder sidebar.

Supercharge your photo browser

The iPhone’s built-in Photos app is a fine photo viewer, but it syncs with only one computer, it can’t show you other people’s photos, it can’t play videos taken with your digital camera, and the photos it stores take up precious room on your iPhone’s hard drive. To put some muscle behind your photo browsing, skip the Photos app and instead combine Flickr’s online photo sharing site with an app like Mobile Fotos by XK72 .

iPhoto ’09 makes uploading photos to Flickr as easy as adding them to a photo album. Once your photos are on Flickr, use the Mobile Fotos app to access them on your iPhone. In addition to being able to flick through your photo stream and rotate the screen just as you can in the Photos app, you can view videos posted to Flickr, explore photos of family and friends, leave comments on others’ photos, add photos to your Twitter feed, and even see photos taken in your vicinity. And because the photos are online, you won’t have to worry about syncing your latest shots or filling up your hard drive.

Track down a font

Hobo? Giddyup? Rabiohead? A lot of creative professionals are font obsessed. If you’re one of them, WhatTheFont by MyFonts is a handy addition to your iPhone. This free app helps you track down the font used for any text you encounter, whether it’s a movie poster, a box of cereal, or advertising copy in the morning newspaper. When you snap a photo of the text, WhatTheFont tries to detect the letters in the photo (you can correct it if it gets something wrong) and then matches the characters with the right font. In our tests, the program wasn’t always spot on, but it did always offer up at least a very close approximation.

Don’t forget the small stuff

Heading out to the store to shop for something in particular? Let your camera help you remember all the little details. There are numerous ways to put your camera to work including keeping track of different prices and designs as you shop, snapping the phone number for a window contractor from an ad in the paper, and reminding you want your kids are wearing when you stop at the playground on the way home. We have been told that users use their iPhone’s camera to remember where things are located, or to take an inventory of what’s in their suitcase before taking a trip, and to remember the location of certain favorite spots that were discovered on their last trip.

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