Urbanspoon for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad Now Available
Figuring out where to eat dinner can be a major hassle. Especially if you’re with a group of people with differing tastes. So, what if you could just pick a neighborhood and price range in any given city, wave a magic wand and make restaurant suggestions appear? Well, you kind of can, actually. It’s the Urbanspoon App.
The Urbanspoon App lets you pick your parameters and then shake the iPhone to come up with a random selection. It looks basically like a slot machine and is almost more fun because you don’t lose any money just by playing. Of course, you can also browse for restaurants by neighborhood, price range, or cuisine type if you’re not into the game. Check out the App in the App store.
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Meebo iPhone App to Chat With Friends on AIM, Gtalk, Yahoo, MSN
Meebo is integrated, all-in-one instant messaging that connects you with your friends everywhere. Meebo supports all the major IM networks: AOL / AIM, Yahoo!, Windows Live Messenger, Gmail / Google Talk, Facebook, MySpace, and 100+ other networks!
Reliability / Connectivity
- Push notifications even when the app is closed
- Stay connected as you move from Edge to 3G to WiFi
- Meebo’s proven multi-network access protocols
- Automatically reconnect if you lose coverage so you don’t miss a message
Access / Integration
- Searchable, synchronized chat history on your iPhone and meebo.com
- Get Meebo on the web, your desktop, or your iPhone
- Tap any links to open the built-in browser
- Advanced chat session management lets you go seamlessly back and forth between Meebo on the iPhone and meebo.com
Chat features
- Swipe to switch between multiple conversations
- Rotate for landscape mode and a wider keyboard.
- Message preview from the Chats List
- Full Meebo emoticon support
- Push notifications
- Searchable Chat History
- Sort chats by most recent or full view
- Support for all the major IM networks, and many more
Account features
- Buddylist search as you type
- View profile info, status messages, and buddy icons
- Add/Remove individual buddies
- Add/Remove network accounts
- Open and close buddy groups in your Buddy List
- Set custom status messages
- Sign on/off individual accounts
- Set presence to Available/Invisible/Away for individual accounts, or all at once
Name: Meebo | Download from: App Store | Price: Free
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iPhone App Review: RedLaser 2.2
RedLaser is an application for the iPhone that scans the barcode of a product and then searches for that product and it’s prices.
Features:
* Scans UPC, EAN, and UPC-E (NEW) barcodes!
* Finds prices using Google Product Search, and Amazon (NEW)Email a list of products
* Send barcodes as email attachment (NEW) — Great for inventory!
* Search ANY website using a custom URL (How-To coming soon, NEW!)
* Automatic search localization for USD, EUR, and GBP, as well as Amazon (.com/.co.uk/.de/.co.jp/.fr/.ca/.cn) autoselection (NEW!)
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Tap Tap Revenge iPhone application
Tapulous has issued an update to their Tap Tap Revenge rhythm game which includes working push notifications, despite the fact that iPhone OS 3.0 isn’t officially available for two more days.
It certainly isn’t the most creative use of background notifications (the messages only pop up when you’re challenged by another player), and we’re already wondering how, when all kinds of apps have this capability, the iPhone’s exceedingly simple notification system will scale at some point.
OS 3.0 users can give the free app a try now, but keep in mind that we’ll probably see more than a few push-equipped apps rolling out in the next few days, as we’d imagine Apple will want to have a few high-profile 3.0-capable downloads available at launch to show off the new capability.
We’ll report new apps that use this as they’re released/updated.
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It certainly isn’t the most creative use of background notifications (the messages only pop up when you’re challenged by another player), and we’re already wondering how, when all kinds of apps have this capability, the iPhone’s exceedingly simple notification system will scale at some point.
OS 3.0 users can give the free app a try now, but keep in mind that we’ll probably see more than a few push-equipped apps rolling out in the next few days, as we’d imagine Apple will want to have a few high-profile 3.0-capable downloads available at launch to show off the new capability.
We’ll report new apps that use this as they’re released/updated.
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Telegraph F1 App for the iPhone
The ultimate Formula 1 App, from the UK’s leading quality newspaper website, Telegraph.co.uk.
Stay up-to-date with the latest F1 news, race weekend build-up, real-time qualifying and race stats and results, live in-race telemetry data, plus track guides, driver profiles, championship standings and more.
Whether you’re at the Grand Prix, watching from home or online, or out and about (being dragged round the shops, at an inconveniently scheduled wedding or on holiday with the in-laws), the Telegraph F1 App is THE essential Formula 1 companion for enthusuiasts and part-time race fans alike.
Despite Brawn GP and Jenson Button’s march on the 2009/10 title, this is the most exciting start to an F1 season for years with a host of drivers making it onto the podium already. Stay up-to-date with the latest F1 news as McLaren, Ferrari, Renault and co try to claw back to the top of the championship tables.
Download the Telegraph F1 App now and you’ll never miss a lap.
Features:
Up to the minute F1 news
Video content, track overview and more
Race Overview
Track information
Live race tracker
F1 news on Twitter
Starting Grid information
Race results
Team information
Drivers and Constructors information
Post info directly to your Facebook profile
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Stay up-to-date with the latest F1 news, race weekend build-up, real-time qualifying and race stats and results, live in-race telemetry data, plus track guides, driver profiles, championship standings and more.
Whether you’re at the Grand Prix, watching from home or online, or out and about (being dragged round the shops, at an inconveniently scheduled wedding or on holiday with the in-laws), the Telegraph F1 App is THE essential Formula 1 companion for enthusuiasts and part-time race fans alike.
Despite Brawn GP and Jenson Button’s march on the 2009/10 title, this is the most exciting start to an F1 season for years with a host of drivers making it onto the podium already. Stay up-to-date with the latest F1 news as McLaren, Ferrari, Renault and co try to claw back to the top of the championship tables.
Download the Telegraph F1 App now and you’ll never miss a lap.
Features:
Up to the minute F1 news
Video content, track overview and more
Race Overview
Track information
Live race tracker
F1 news on Twitter
Starting Grid information
Race results
Team information
Drivers and Constructors information
Post info directly to your Facebook profile
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Star Defense Strategic Tower Placement Video
The Star Defense release date has to be drawing near, we can feel it. We have been getting fed a regular dose of screenshots and gameplay videos for some time now, but we still have no official release date for this highly anticipated tower defense game. To tide you over for just a little while longer, ngmoco has released a brand new Star Defense strategic tower placement video.
The latest Star Defense gameplay video embedded below shows players how to strategically place towers to successfully defend against waves of the incoming S’rath aliens. The video is narrated by ngmoco’s Mary Jane Irwin.
Hopefully the next time we have something to say about Star Defense, it will include a release date and price. Cross your fingers!
Labels: Hack iphone, iphone App
Hit The Streets Of New York In TaxiDrive
We have seen a recent surge of big, time consuming games for the iPhone like The Sims 3 and Return to Mysterious Island. They are great games in their own right, but the iPhone is a mobile device after all and sometimes we just want to play a quick casual game while on-the-go. Conveniently, Steffen from syncRage has informed us about their new casual game TaxiDrive that should help you waste some of those extra seconds you may have.
TaxiDrive is a simple casual game that requires you to hit the streets of New York in your taxi cab in an attempt to generate as much income as possible. The game uses a top-down perspective to help you easily navigate the streets. You must head to all corners of the city to pick up and then drop off your passengers. TaxiDrive allows you to control your taxi two different ways: one being a tap and drag method that allows you to control the path of your taxi instantly, and the other is a single tap control that chooses the best route for you. You will have to constantly alter the path of your taxi to avoid the traffic because as the game progresses, the traffic picks up.
TaxiDrive features three unlockable maps with demanding challenges, the ability to gain more taxis to extend the game by wracking up cash, and a local high score list. The developers intend on issuing an update very soon that will add more maps.
TaxiDrive is available in the App Store for the introductory price of $.99.
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TaxiDrive is a simple casual game that requires you to hit the streets of New York in your taxi cab in an attempt to generate as much income as possible. The game uses a top-down perspective to help you easily navigate the streets. You must head to all corners of the city to pick up and then drop off your passengers. TaxiDrive allows you to control your taxi two different ways: one being a tap and drag method that allows you to control the path of your taxi instantly, and the other is a single tap control that chooses the best route for you. You will have to constantly alter the path of your taxi to avoid the traffic because as the game progresses, the traffic picks up.
TaxiDrive features three unlockable maps with demanding challenges, the ability to gain more taxis to extend the game by wracking up cash, and a local high score list. The developers intend on issuing an update very soon that will add more maps.
TaxiDrive is available in the App Store for the introductory price of $.99.
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Kindle for iPhone 1.1 released
If you are into the whole e-book thing and have been annoyed at the few glitches in the iPhone version of the software, go and download the latest update. It’s definitely worth it for those folks.
Here’s the list of changes, taken from the product page:
• Read in portrait or landscape mode
• Pinch to zoom images in books
• Select alternate background and text colors to improve
reading comfort in low light conditions.
• Tap on either side of the screen or flick to turn pages
Many of these were the primary complaints about the original app, especially the ability to read in landscape mode (how could they not include that?).
Great list of additions, and the update is free in the App Store right now. It sounds as if reading e-books on your iPhone just got easier.
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Here’s the list of changes, taken from the product page:
• Read in portrait or landscape mode
• Pinch to zoom images in books
• Select alternate background and text colors to improve
reading comfort in low light conditions.
• Tap on either side of the screen or flick to turn pages
Many of these were the primary complaints about the original app, especially the ability to read in landscape mode (how could they not include that?).
Great list of additions, and the update is free in the App Store right now. It sounds as if reading e-books on your iPhone just got easier.
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Documents To Go for iPhone Submitted for App Store Approval
Good news for all those still looking for an ‘Office suite’ type app for the iPhone, and don’t care for QuickOffice: Documents To Go – a very popular solution in this category on the Palm platform for awhile now and one that many have been waiting to see come to the iPhone who use it for document writing/editing, has now been submitted to the Apple for approval – and Dataviz (who make it) hope it will be out in a few days or so. Knowing Apple, it could be a week, but let’s hope not.
Up to now, there’s only been one office suite app available for the iPhone – Quickoffice – and thus far it has not got rave reviews from many users, and it is priced at a rather high price (for the App Store) of $19.99.
Dataviz has not yet revealed what the price for Documents To Go (DTG) will be, but hopefully they’ll launch it at a lower price than Quickoffice. They could capture this market for themselves, assuming they’re smart enough to price it competitively.
You can follow them on Twitter here:
http://twitter.com/DataVizInc
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Up to now, there’s only been one office suite app available for the iPhone – Quickoffice – and thus far it has not got rave reviews from many users, and it is priced at a rather high price (for the App Store) of $19.99.
Dataviz has not yet revealed what the price for Documents To Go (DTG) will be, but hopefully they’ll launch it at a lower price than Quickoffice. They could capture this market for themselves, assuming they’re smart enough to price it competitively.
You can follow them on Twitter here:
http://twitter.com/DataVizInc
Labels: iphone App
Quickoffice Word and Excel Office Suite For The iPhone Now Available
If you are interested in an app for the iPhone/Touch that can edit both Microsoft Word and Excel documents along with file sharing and content management capabilities, Quickoffice is now available via the App Store for $20.
This is basically an abridged version of Office for the iPhone, which could useful for a variety of applications: editing documents, typing out new ones, and doing Excel sheets without dragging open a laptop. Will include copy/paste functionality too. Great for on the go presentations.
Comments on various forums think the price is too high, but hey, people were clamoring for this functionality months ago, so compared to the full on version of Office, $20 is a bargain, it seems. But the bar seems to have been set rather low for App Store pricing it seems, and many have said they’d rather piece together various free apps to do this sort of work. To each their own, we suppose.
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This is basically an abridged version of Office for the iPhone, which could useful for a variety of applications: editing documents, typing out new ones, and doing Excel sheets without dragging open a laptop. Will include copy/paste functionality too. Great for on the go presentations.
Comments on various forums think the price is too high, but hey, people were clamoring for this functionality months ago, so compared to the full on version of Office, $20 is a bargain, it seems. But the bar seems to have been set rather low for App Store pricing it seems, and many have said they’d rather piece together various free apps to do this sort of work. To each their own, we suppose.
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Labels: iphone App, Quickoffice
iPhone app helps you develop iPhone apps
f you have a great idea to build an iPhone app but don’t have coding skills at all, don’t worry, there’s an app to help you.
Thanks to MEDL Mobile’s AppIncubator, you can be an iPhone developer instantly and get paid for your innovation and creativity.
Quoting from the app itself:
“Using the simple interface, you can submit your ideas directly to the incubator.
If it passes a series of tests and reviews, we’ll pay one of our development teams to build it. Then we’ll promote and market the application. And we’ll share the profits with you. We make our decisions based upon five factors: Originality. Functionality. Simplicity. Revenue Opportunity. And Fun.”
It’s the first of its kind that we know of, and its in the App Store for free.
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Thanks to MEDL Mobile’s AppIncubator, you can be an iPhone developer instantly and get paid for your innovation and creativity.
Quoting from the app itself:
“Using the simple interface, you can submit your ideas directly to the incubator.
If it passes a series of tests and reviews, we’ll pay one of our development teams to build it. Then we’ll promote and market the application. And we’ll share the profits with you. We make our decisions based upon five factors: Originality. Functionality. Simplicity. Revenue Opportunity. And Fun.”
It’s the first of its kind that we know of, and its in the App Store for free.
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Airfoil Speakers Touch streams audio to iPhone, iPod touch
Rogue Amoeba is known in the Mac community for Airfoil, the $25 Mac and PC application that allows any audio to be streamed from a host computer to an AirPort Express or Apple TV. It was an innovation at the time that was much celebrated.
Rogue Amoeba has now announced the release of Airfoil Speakers Touch, which allows audio to be streamed from a host directly to an iPhone or iPod touch. While Airfoil Speakers Touch is a free application, it does still of course require the full version of Airfoil running on the host computer in order to function properly.
Here’s more about the app from the creators:
“With Airfoil Speakers Touch, you can send any audio from your Mac or PC, straight to your iPhone or iPod Touch! Just connect your device to your local Wifi network, then open up Airfoil on your Mac or Windows machine, and start transmitting. You’ll be able to send audio from iTunes, RealPlayer, and even web-based sources like Pandora and Last.fm. Now, if your Mac or Windows machine can play it, you can hear it on your iPhone or iPod Touch!”
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Rogue Amoeba has now announced the release of Airfoil Speakers Touch, which allows audio to be streamed from a host directly to an iPhone or iPod touch. While Airfoil Speakers Touch is a free application, it does still of course require the full version of Airfoil running on the host computer in order to function properly.
Here’s more about the app from the creators:
“With Airfoil Speakers Touch, you can send any audio from your Mac or PC, straight to your iPhone or iPod Touch! Just connect your device to your local Wifi network, then open up Airfoil on your Mac or Windows machine, and start transmitting. You’ll be able to send audio from iTunes, RealPlayer, and even web-based sources like Pandora and Last.fm. Now, if your Mac or Windows machine can play it, you can hear it on your iPhone or iPod Touch!”
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Is Hulu coming to the iphone / Touch?
Blog Silicon Alley Insider is reporting that a dedicated Hulu application is indeed on its way. An iPhone app should be here in just a few months.
Hulu has been busy denying the rumors that an iPhone version of Hulu was coming. SAI says the application will work over Wi-Fi and AT&T’s 3G network, meaning that users will be able to view programming anywhere with a fast data connection. The upcoming iPhone OS 3.0 software update, which lets developers bake streaming media into their applications. For Hulu, this means that the advertising could be stuck into the mobile stream and that users would be able to watch videos without leaving the application.
Users of Hulu can watch ad-supported, full-length television shows and movies on their personal computers for free, instead of paying Apple to download a copy for offline viewing. If such an app were available on the iPhone, it would also offer portable TV and movie watching, something not yet offered in Apple’s own mobile iTunes app, which is limited to video podcasts.
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Hulu has been busy denying the rumors that an iPhone version of Hulu was coming. SAI says the application will work over Wi-Fi and AT&T’s 3G network, meaning that users will be able to view programming anywhere with a fast data connection. The upcoming iPhone OS 3.0 software update, which lets developers bake streaming media into their applications. For Hulu, this means that the advertising could be stuck into the mobile stream and that users would be able to watch videos without leaving the application.
Users of Hulu can watch ad-supported, full-length television shows and movies on their personal computers for free, instead of paying Apple to download a copy for offline viewing. If such an app were available on the iPhone, it would also offer portable TV and movie watching, something not yet offered in Apple’s own mobile iTunes app, which is limited to video podcasts.
Labels: iphone App
ProPrompter for iPhone - the ultimate mobile teleprompter
Teleprompters are one of those systems that’s seeded in old, expensive video traditions, mandating superfluous equipment to achieve something absurdly simple to do in 2009. The ProPrompter agrees with this philosophy.
Using the aluminum ProPrompter Wing, an iPhone or iPod touch can be mounted to any tripod to work alongside small to midsized camcorders for a teleprompter system that’s readable from 15 feet away. The $99 (introductory price) system is coupled a free software available in the App Store.
Of course, as the company is catering to the pro video crowd, there’s also a ProPrompter ProMag rig that features a more studio-traditional setup including an anti-reflection hood and beam splitting glass. That’ll run you $695 (introductory). Well, not you. I mean somebody with a lot of money to spend on big-time teleprompter equipment.
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Using the aluminum ProPrompter Wing, an iPhone or iPod touch can be mounted to any tripod to work alongside small to midsized camcorders for a teleprompter system that’s readable from 15 feet away. The $99 (introductory price) system is coupled a free software available in the App Store.
Of course, as the company is catering to the pro video crowd, there’s also a ProPrompter ProMag rig that features a more studio-traditional setup including an anti-reflection hood and beam splitting glass. That’ll run you $695 (introductory). Well, not you. I mean somebody with a lot of money to spend on big-time teleprompter equipment.
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Trend Micro Launches Free Web Browsing Security Application on Apple App Store
Trend Micro announced its Trend Smart Surfing application is now available on the Apple App Store. Trend Smart Surfing is an Internet browsing tool that uses Trend Micro’s Web reputation technology, a component of the Trend Micro Smart Protection Network, to block users of iPhone and iPod touch from unintentionally visiting Web sites that may contain malicious content designed to steal confidential information and personal data.
The Trend Micro Smart Protection Network is a cloud-client infrastructure that checks the security of more than five billion URL, email, and file queries daily, providing customers with real-time protection against web threats.
Key Features of Smart Surfing include:
* In-depth browser security powered by the Trend Micro Smart Protection Network that blocks access to malicious web pages.
* Color-coded search results that make it easy to identify harmful web pages.
* Three protection strength levels that users can modify according to their needs.
* Able to support browsing of multiple web pages at the same time.
Trend Smart Surfing is available for free from Apple’s App Store on iPhone and iPod touch
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The Trend Micro Smart Protection Network is a cloud-client infrastructure that checks the security of more than five billion URL, email, and file queries daily, providing customers with real-time protection against web threats.
Key Features of Smart Surfing include:
* In-depth browser security powered by the Trend Micro Smart Protection Network that blocks access to malicious web pages.
* Color-coded search results that make it easy to identify harmful web pages.
* Three protection strength levels that users can modify according to their needs.
* Able to support browsing of multiple web pages at the same time.
Trend Smart Surfing is available for free from Apple’s App Store on iPhone and iPod touch
Labels: iPhone, iphone App
Nerdy App of the Day: Star Trek Phaser
Apparently there’s a new Star Trek film due to be released soon. I’m not a huge fan, but this app caught my eye as being kinda cool – Star Trek Phaser.
I guess the hype and promotion train for the new movie will be gaining momentum soon, and we’ll see more App Store entries soon.
In the meantime, despite not being a big Star Trek fan personally, I thought this one looked like fun. I’ve seen Star Trek and know what a phaser sounds like – so I thought I’d give it a shot, especially as it’s free.
It does more than just show a phaser on its screen and make some authentic sounding phaser firing noises - it also lets you play shooting games. You can go one player against the machine, so to speak, or two player if you have friends within the same WiFi network, and submit your high scores and see where you stand amongst your global phaser-blasting peers.
Whether or not you’re a major Star Trek fan, if you’re even vaguely familiar with the show or movies and what a phaser sounds like, this is a pretty good free novelty app.
You can find Star Trek Phaser in the App Store now, and it’s a free app.
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I guess the hype and promotion train for the new movie will be gaining momentum soon, and we’ll see more App Store entries soon.
In the meantime, despite not being a big Star Trek fan personally, I thought this one looked like fun. I’ve seen Star Trek and know what a phaser sounds like – so I thought I’d give it a shot, especially as it’s free.
It does more than just show a phaser on its screen and make some authentic sounding phaser firing noises - it also lets you play shooting games. You can go one player against the machine, so to speak, or two player if you have friends within the same WiFi network, and submit your high scores and see where you stand amongst your global phaser-blasting peers.
Whether or not you’re a major Star Trek fan, if you’re even vaguely familiar with the show or movies and what a phaser sounds like, this is a pretty good free novelty app.
You can find Star Trek Phaser in the App Store now, and it’s a free app.
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