With the SDK available for the iPad, developers are coming up with some great designs for apps. Here are a few I’ve found so far. Let us know if you’ve seen any others!
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iPad App Previews
February 17, 2010 By 2 Comments
G5 Entertainment Releases Supermarket Management
February 17, 2010 By 1 Comment
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Available In: App Store |  |
Price: Free Lite Version or $2.99 |
G5 Entertainment, the developers of Supermarket Mania and Stand O’Food, have released a new application, Supermarket Management.
“Supermarket Management is a mile-a-minute time-management game, and follows Kate, a recent college graduate, as she builds her career in a grocery store. From keeping customers happy and shelves stocked, to hiring and supervising employees as a manager, Supermarket Management challenges players at every step. As Kate’s responsibilities increase from low-level tasks to managing multiple stores, Supermarket Management becomes more complex.
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Apple Opens YouTube Channel, Posts iPad Video and Keynote
January 30, 2010 By 3 Comments
Apple has finally opened what appears to be an official YouTube Channel. This means we can now embed any video that Apple release there, here on AIS. Here is the iPad video from Apple’s website and that was played at the end of the Keynote and the entire Keynote split into 4 videos:
Apple – iPad – Introducing the iPad
iPad (Tablet) Keynote Video Now Available on Apple.com
January 27, 2010 By 2 Comments
Today’s Keynote is now available on Apple’s website. Total run time is about an hour and a half.
ProSwitcher – Palm Pre-styled Application Switcher
January 24, 2010 By 10 Comments
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Available In: Cydia | |
Price: Free |
Backgrounder is a really great hack for the iPhone. It lets you keep an application running in the background even when you hit the home button to close it. This is great for apps like Pandora and other music apps or anything else you might want. The annoying part for me has always been moving around between those apps. Usually I just use the search to find them because I have so many pages of apps I don’t want to scroll around looking for them. One newer feature of backgrounder displays a badge on the icon of the apps running in the background so you know what’s still running. Now with all of that said, a new app helps streamline all of this called ProSwitcher.
This app has a ton of customization that I could talk about all day but I’ll tell you the main point and you can mess with settings. Basically what it does is when you activate it from one of it’s many ways, it zooms out of the app, kinda like the way multiple webpages display in Mobile Safari, and you can flick left and right through what’s running. It also triggers the app you’re currently in to run in the back ground. Here’s some screenshots and a quick video demo. The apps free so check it out and if there’s something you don’t like, make sure you check all the features and options ’cause a lot of it can be changed.
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Loren Brichter Explains How He Created Tweetie
January 23, 2010 By 4 Comments
I used to be a HUGE fan of Tweetie until Tweetie 2. Some of my favorite features were removed like the dark theme and I don’t really like the new retweet feature and the quote feature only lets you use “via” instead of “RT”. Anyway, this is a really kewl video from the developer speaking at Standford University back in May of 2009. It’s a kewl inside view to app developing and more support for why some apps should be paid and not free. Oh, and be prepared, it’s 30 minutes long.
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Redo – Task List You Can Reset
January 23, 2010 By 3 Comments
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Available In: App Store | |
Price: $1.99 or Free (Lite Version) |
I had been looking for a long time, when I found this app, for a task list app I could use for repeating tasks. This way I don’t have to write my list over again or uncheck every task. Once you check off everything, you tap the refresh button in the bottom left and it resets the list. You can also make more than one list. You can drag around lists to reorder them and individual items within the lists. This is a big feature for me too because if a task suddenly becomes high priority I can drag it to the top.
The icon for the app supports badges and the number represents how many tasks are left in the currently opened list as default. You can make it show only lists you favorite or all lists or none.
Overall, I like this app because of it’s simplicity. It just works. This applications is on my first page of my iPhone.
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Peephole: Twitter Image Browser
January 23, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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Available In: App Store | |
Price: $1.99 |
This is an awesome application if you are a tweeter :) It’s a quick way to access images that have been linked to in tweets. You can see images from trending topics, the public timeline, nearby users, your custom search terms, people you follow, and your favorites. Just select which group you want to see images from and you’ll see a screen full of thumbnails. There are some really nice filters you can place on the results like “remove duplicates” which works well when viewing trending topics. You can also remove retweets and @ replies. Once you tap on an image you see the image full screen with the avatar of the person who tweeted it and the first few lines of the tweet. You can scroll down for the full image, tap the picture to remove everything but the picture, and tap the avatar for more images tweeted by that user. One thing I think they could add here is the username before the tweet. Buttons across the bottom give you lots of features like emailing the photo, saving the image to your camera roll, replying, retweeting and following the user. You can also scroll back and forth through the pictures or hit the play button to see a slideshow. Finally there is a favorite button.
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Pants on the Ground Ringtone
January 21, 2010 By 3 Comments
If you watch American Idol you already know what I’m talking about. If not, check out the video below. The ringtone is available in Cydia from the modmyi source. Just search for “pants on the ground.” It took a few tries for me to get it to download but I did get it to work.
Twitterrific
January 20, 2010 By 1 Comment
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Available In: App Store | |
Price: Free or $4.99 |
This is one of my most used apps among all apps on my iPhone, even including the stock apps. It probably ranks up there with text messaging for me. I used to really love Tweetie until the update to Tweetie 2 where some of my favorite features were removed. So I started to look around and then I found Twitterrific. There is a free version that is ad supported so check it out first to see if you like it before buying.
So there’s a lot I like about this app and a few things I don’t. I’ll start with the good. First, it’s beautiful. There’s a pretty good reason for this and it’s because it’s designers are the iconfactory. They are first, an icon design company and now develop iPhone apps. They’ve designed icons for Microsoft Vista and XP, Xbox, Ubuntu, Red Hat Linux, Macromedia, and even Walmart.
But, apps don’t need to just look good, they need to work well. Twitterrific has a ton of features:
• Manage multiple accounts, searches & trends
• Unified timeline displays replies, direct messages, favorites & more
• Filter timeline for different tweet types instantly
• Easily view conversation threads between users
• Customizable visual themes & layout styles
• Powerful tweet actions such as RT, URL shortening, email, text compression & others
• Wide range of advanced settings
• Much, much more!
The app flows really well through menus and it’s very intuitive. It really is my favorite twitter app right now but I do have some things I’d like to see change or added.
• When tweeting and wanting to @reply someone there needs to be an easy way quickly enter in someone’s username but just typing the @ and the first couple letters of the username. Right now you have to scroll through the list of people.
• Right now when you search for something and then want to reply you have to choose what twitter account you want to use. The searches should be accessed from withing each account, not the main menu. That way you can create custom searches for each account and you’re not limited to 3 choices of accounts when responding.
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Motorcycle iPhone Installation
December 29, 2009 By 1 Comment
So, what could be better than an iPhone? An iPhone attached to a Ducati… This article shows you how to mount your iPhone to your motorcycle using the biologic™ BIKE Mount for iPhone and other parts for a total of $106.
Product Link (biologic™ BIKE Mount for iPhone) $59.99
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Friday Night Movie Night: Augmented Reality App for Orange Telecom
December 25, 2009 By 3 Comments
This isn’t a super productive application but it shows the possibilities.
An promotional augmented reality app by Ogmento. Developed to promote the iPhone launch by Orange Telecom Israel. Point your iphone to an Orange logo and watch a virtual iPhone appears hovering over the logo. Use finger gestures to turn the iphone around, zoom in or out – or even launch applications.
Friday Night Movie Night: Bing
December 18, 2009 By 12 Comments
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Available In: App Store | |
Price: Free |
Microsoft search on the iPhone. It seems ironic but the app isn’t too bad. Check out this video review from IntoMobile.com:
New iPhone Commercial: “12 Days of Christmas”
December 17, 2009 By 2 Comments
Apple has recently released a new commercial titled “12 Days of Christmas.” The commercial is based on the classic Christmas song The 12 Days of Christmas and features 12 Holiday applications. Below is the commercial and the list of the apps featured in the commercial.
- 12 cookies cooking: The Betty Crocker Mobile Cookbook (Free)
- 11 cards a’ sending: Postman ($2.99)
- 10 gifts for giving: My Christmas Gift List ($0.99)
- 9 songs for singing: TabToolkit ($9.99)
- 8 bells for ringing: Holiday Bells ($0.99)
- 7 slopes a’ skiing: Snow Reports ($1.99)
- 6 games for playing: Christmas Fever ($0.99)
- 5 gold rings: Anna Sheffield Jewelry (Free)
- 4 hot lattes: myStarbucks (Free)
- 3 flights home: Flight Search (Free)
- 2 feet of snow: Weather Pro ($3.99)
- And an app that can light up the tree: Schlage LiNK (Free but hardware required)
The app list comes via MacRumors.
