Archive for 'Utility'

I Bet You Never Thought Your iPhone Would Parallel Park for You (Video)

I Bet You Never Thought Your iPhone Would Parallel Park for You (Video)

If you read this blog, you know that it is not often we write about the automotive industry. Well, this is a first. The Frankfurt Motor Show was this week and unlike past years, the mobile industry was absolutely everywhere. Bentley, for example, unveiled its in car entertainment system that integrates two iPads, two Apple wireless keyboards, one Mac mini, and an iPod touch as the heart of its entertainment system. As if owning a Bentley was not enough of a dream for me, the company had to go all geeky on me.

ContactsXL For iPhone Is A Decent Contacts App Alternative

ContactsXL For iPhone Is A Decent Contacts App Alternative

The default contacts app for iPhone isn’t bad at all, but it’s very straight forward. It shows you your contacts, and allows you to add more, call existing ones, or FaceTime them. However, ContactsXL 3 For iPhone is a viable replacement for it. Sure, it doesn’t quite have the best graphics. However, all the bells and whistles in it definitely make up for its cons. Keep on reading for our full thoughts on this app, priced at 99 cents.

Parkbud: A Refreshingly Beautiful Utility App (Video Review)

Parkbud: A Refreshingly Beautiful Utility App (Video Review)

Parking your car can be an extremely frustrating experience. If you have a both a bad memory and a messed up sense of direction such as myself, looking for your car among the hundreds of other vehicles is a reoccurring ordeal. ParkBud ($1.99) by Wunderstadt GmbH attempts to solve this problem by helping you find parking, remembering where you parked and reminding you how much time you have left on your meter. The app is very well built with beautiful graphics and a wonderfully intuitive design. Watch a review of the app after the break!

TweetBot For iPhone – The Latest Gorgeous Twitter App

TweetBot For iPhone – The Latest Gorgeous Twitter App

The Twitter For iPhone App is a solid twitter client, there’s no doubt about it, especially at the stellar price of free. However, we now have a noteworthy competitor by the name of TweetBot For iPhone. Although it’ll run you a good $1.99 (on sale!), the animations and graphics are gorgeous enough to definitely make it worth it. Keep on reading to see the true beauty of this application.

Onavo Saves You Money on iPhone Data and Raises $3 Million To Continue on Other Platforms

Onavo Saves You Money on iPhone Data and Raises $3 Million To Continue on Other Platforms

I think mobile apps can be categorized into three groups. There are apps that you download because someone recommended you do so, and after trying it out, you see no need for the app and you delete it. Then there are the nice apps that remain in the exclusive group of apps you keep installed on your device. You don’t use these apps very often, besides the occasional social setting in which you show off the new app you downloaded.

Spout For iPhone – A Gorgeous Way To Combine All Your Social Feeds

Spout For iPhone – A Gorgeous Way To Combine All Your Social Feeds

Let’s get a few things out in the open. I love Facebook. A lot. I also love Twitter. A lot. That said, I don’t always have time to check my pages as regularly I was would like when I am working a way on other projects. With the release of Spout, there’s is now a new and very creative way to read your feeds, and I believe I am not alone with this opinion. Spout displays the info you want in a very cool and stylish interface that allows someone like me to lean over and take a quick look without taking too much time away from the task at hand, for only 99 cents.

Fone Pro for iPhone Is The Ultimate Facebook Chatting Solution

Fone Pro for iPhone Is The Ultimate Facebook Chatting Solution

Not that long ago all the buzz about the next iPhone (at that time the iPhone 4) was how Facebook was going to be integrated into iOS. Well, that never happened. The official Facebook app has made advances in certain areas, like live Facebook chat from your phone and the ability to sync contacts from your Facebook friends list to your contact book. However, even with these nice attempts to unify iOS and Facebook, there is still a lot missing. What is truly needed for power iPhone and Facebook users like myself is an app that more closely resembles a Skype sort of interface that integrates Facebook. It may not be perfect but I believe I have found something close. Fone Pro For iPhone is a very neat app that allows you to chat and call your Facebook friends on your iOS device in a way that makes it both easy and effective, for 99 cents.

Meal Snap For iPhone – A Magical And Amazing Way To Watch Those Calories

Meal Snap For iPhone – A Magical And Amazing Way To Watch Those Calories

Let me start off this review by simply saying WOW! Very rarely does an app do something so cool, that even if I don’t necessarily care about what it does, I have to have it. Meal Snap is one of those apps. What is Meal Snap? Meal Snap allows you to simply take a picture of what you are about to eat and boom, the app gives you an estimated calorie count. Can you say awesome? Meal Snap is brought to you by the number one fitness brand in the App Store, Daily Burn, so you already it’s a superb app, at $2.99 it’s truly magical. You have to try it to believe it.

Charles Santoso For iPhone Is Definitely Outside Of The Box

Charles Santoso For iPhone Is Definitely Outside Of The Box

Different can be scary. This seems especially true in the world of iOS Apps. We have tons of Twitter, news and weather apps released on what seems like a daily basis. The quantity of iPhone Apps has multiplied over the years. Now, there’s pretty much an app for everything, so its hard to come across something truly new. If you want to get a little outside the box though, the Charles Santoso iPhone App may be just the thing for you. Charles Santoso is a Australian illustrator and concept artist who makes some really cool art that is perfect for your iPhone’s homescreen, for $2.99.

just.SelfTimer Review

just.SelfTimer Review

What attracted me to it was its beautiful icon, but soon I realized there was more. Relatively simple UI which is unique because many timer apps abandon the familiar interface of the default camera application in favor or something that leaves me fumbling to shoot a photo.