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Kinetik for iPhone – Review

kinetik-iphone-app-feature Category: Reference Price: free TiP Rating: 4/5 stars Release Date: Updated October 5, 2011 Version: 1.10 Seller: Idear Labs, Inc. Rated: 4+ Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later. Link to app App Store Description: Kinetik is an easy way to share the apps you love. Stay up to date on the latest apps, get... Read more »

Cam’s Top 5: Apps for iPad

Cam's Top 5 Like I mention in last week's iPhone app top 5, it's not easy choosing 5 apps from a store of thousands. You have to challenge yourself, think carefully, and decide which are most useful, most used, most entertaining, and which ones delight you more than others. From fantastic games, to wonderful interactive books, I've chosen a few which - if deleted from my iPad -... Read more »

Yahoo! AppSpot for iPhone – Review

Yahoo AppSpot icon Category: Reference Price: Free TiP Rating: 3/5 Release Date: Updated July 6, 2011 Current Version: 1.0.1 Seller: Yahoo! Rated: 4+ Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.0 or later. Link to app App Store Description: Finding apps you'll love just got easier. Download Yahoo! AppSpot and get personalized app... Read more »

Google Search app for iPhone updates – new UI

Google Search The Google Mobile app may have been one of the most popular free reference apps in the App Store, but that didn't mean it was always the most user friendly. Now Google has scrapped the name, and completely altered the user interface. Enter - Google Search app. The updated app has new gesture controls, allowing you to swipe across the screen in order to change the... Read more »

Augmented Reality on iPad 2 – coming soon

Screen shot 2011-03-16 at 17.00.21 AR, or augmented reality has become pretty popular on the iPhone since its launch in 2007. It's basically a technology which uses the camera on your device to add in its own interpretation of your world. This can be changing your living room in to a football stadium, or having aliens flying around your street. As of yet its not quite there on the iPad 2, but it... Read more »

Ancestry – iPad app review

Ancestry – iPad app review Category: Reference Price: FREE TiP Rating: 4/5 stars Release Date: 01/30/2011 Version: 2.0 Seller: Ancestry.com Rated: 4+ Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, requires iOS 3.1or later. App Store Description: This updated app for iPhone®, iPod® Touch or iPad® gives you an even better way to take your... Read more »

Have you tried Google Goggles yet?

Have you tried Google Goggles yet? Fan of the Google Mobile app? Having all your Google services accessible from one place is handy, and that speech feature's really cool. And the application got yet another neat feature this month — Google Goggles. In case you haven't taken it for a spin yet, Google Goggles works like an augmented-reality browser, letting you conduct searches using visuals.... Read more »

Mall Maps Deluxe: don’t get lost while shopping this holiday season

Mall Maps Deluxe: don’t get lost while shopping this holiday season It's still Black Friday, for a little while at least, and there's still a lot of shopping to do in preparation for the upcoming festivities, nobody wants the added stress of getting lost in a mall. Luckily, there is an app for that. Mall Maps Deluxe is an app released to help you find your way around malls. Sure, it's been available for a while, but could be crucial... Read more »

VID — TiP iPhone App Review: WhatTheFont

VID — TiP iPhone App Review: WhatTheFont Font nerds will dig this one: Alex takes WhatTheFont iPhone app for a spin. If you're a graphic designer, web designer or font creator, this is a must-have. But for the rest of us, is it a cool tool or a waste of homescreen space? You be the... Read more »

Google Mobile iPhone app pushes it real good

Google Mobile iPhone app pushes it real good The Google-Apple relationship may be strained, but it’s like a co-dependent couplehood: Like it or not, both companies can’t quite quit each other. And this, friends, is good news for us users. Google has tweaked its Google Mobile iPhone app to support push notifications for its Calendar and Gmail services. That means you can get actual notifications on your... Read more »