Now, I can't see how this app works yet because it's crashing as soon as I open it. This happened before with a previous release and I'm pretty sure it's because my iPhone is jailbroken. I've tried rebooting, reinstalling and doing as some have suggested, removing and re-adding my login info under the settings app. Still not working.

One last rant... I do not like the new icon. I'm just going to create my own winterboard theme for it and put the old one back. Yay for jailbreaking!
   

Changes

Gowalla 3 has been re-imagined from the ground up!

THINGS WE MADE NEW

+ New, Faster Check In: With a single tap, Gowalla intelligently predicts which spot you’re at based on your history. Start typing a message while your phone is locating you.

+ Share your check-ins with Facebook Places, Twitter, Foursquare and Tumblr.

+ Connect your Facebook and Foursquare accounts to see what all your friends are up to in one place!

+ Notes: Leave a personal message—anything from “Don’t forget the bottle of wine” to “The queso will make you glad to be alive”—for a friend. They’ll receive it the next time they check in at that location.

+ Add and browse Highlights for your city, like Best Cup, Family Night and My Happy Place.

+ Bookmark a spot to remember nearby favorites and faraway dreams.

+ Flag a Spot to report problems or closed locations while you’re on the go.

+ All-new drop-dead gorgeous design. We’ve re-imagined Gowalla and made it more beautiful and easy to use than ever.

THINGS WE MADE BETTER

+ Upload a photo from your Photo Library
+ Creating a Spot is easier and more accurate, with smart searching for possible duplicates.
+ Browsing friends is much improved, including the ability to search any friends list.

Take it for a spin, tell your friends, and let us know what you think on Twitter (@gowalla).

ScreenShots

Available In: App Store

Price: Free

Announcement from Gowalla.com

Over the last 6 months we’ve been working on something very, very special.

Without further ado, I’m stoked to announce Gowalla 3, the most significant update to the service we’ve ever released—both in terms of design and utility. But before I dive into the specifics of new features, let’s dive straight into the feature that is sure to be the most talked about.

Gowalla is now the easiest and best way to keep up with your friends across services with a combined activity tab that merges the whereabouts of your Gowalla, Facebook and Foursquare friends. Additionally, Gowalla now supports checking in on both Facebook Places and Foursquare in addition to sharing with both Twitter and Tumblr.

In fact, we’ve made checking in at your favorite places even easier with a new, faster check-in interface. We debated calling this “quick” or “express” check in, but it doesn’t really need a gimmicky name. We just made it better. Simply tap the Check In button that is universally present in the tab bar and based on your previous history and current location, we’ll auto-fill where we think you are. We get it right about 80 percent of the time. In the cases where our best guess was a little off, it’s super easy to select the correct location with a couple quick taps. Then you can quickly and easily share where you are with your friends on Gowalla, Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare and Tumblr.

Of course, one of the things we hear often from our community is how much they love the Gowalla experience—which is certainly evidenced by our recent announcement with Disney Parks—but they want to keep up with their friends on Foursquare and Facebook Places as well. We decided that this was a problem we could solve.

Today you can now connect both your Facebook and Foursquare accounts in order to keep up with friends across multiple services. We’ve combined them all into a single, connected activity feed with all your friends, regardless of the service they checked in on.

In addition to adding your friends’ Facebook and Foursquare check-ins to your activity feed, we’ve also made it easier to preview the photos your friends are taking with Gowalla on the fly. It’s a lot more fun.

Of course, we’ve added several new and improved features to Gowalla 3 as well.

You’ll notice that our Highlights feature is now baked into Spots pages on the iPhone. You can view the Highlights that have been added to a spot in addition to adding your own. And in addition to our own Highlights, you can even read tips from Foursquare if they’re present at that location.

Next, we’ve added a fantastic new feature called Bookmarks. You can use a bookmark to flag a favorite spot — or perhaps just a spot you wish to visit in the future. You can quickly pull back up your bookmarked spots from the Spots tab. We even use bookmarks to help us determine where you are when you use the improved check in feature. We think you’ll find this very handy.

Finally, I’d like to tell you about my favorite feature. It’s called Notes.

With Gowalla 3 you can leave a Note for a specific friend (or for yourself) at any location. They’ll receive it the next time they check in there. Use it to leave a menu recommendation (the queso will make you feel alive!), to welcome someone to your city, as a reminder for yourself (don’t forget the bottle of wine) or even to leave a love note for someone special.

You can leave a Note at any spot from the mobile app and also from the web as well.

This is just the highlight reel of what you’ll find in Gowalla 3. A refreshing design, better spot creation and management tools, and improved friend management features are also neatly tucked into this update.

You can download Gowalla 3 for iPhone today at iTunes. Gowalla 3 for Android, iPad and Blackberry are coming soon!

Gowalla

- Design: A fresh new experience that is more flexible, readable and usable than ever
- Photos: Upload a photo after checking in, browse photos from friends and see photos taken at a spot.
- Checkin Commenting: When a friend checks in someplace awesome, tell them what you think!
- Multiple checkin messages: Skipped typing a checkin message? Come back and add one.
- Hot Spots: Discover the most popular spots nearby
- Browse your friends… and friends of friends.
- Browse friends’ bookmarked spots and created trips.
- More ways to get in touch with Facebook, Twitter and web links for friends.
- Spot details (when available): address, phone number, Twitter name, Facebook page, website

Price: Free

foursquare

- Brand new look and feel!
- Faster, more efficient checkin and shout flow
- “Places” view now supports categories
- Easily see a history of places you’ve been
- Pull-to-refresh

Price: Free

Loopt

-Friend Map has its own tab thanks to your feedback (got more feedback? e-mail feedback@loopt.com)
-Loopt Pulse is even better at helping you plan your next move with new Events info from Metromix, ZVents, and SonicLiving
-Listen to music clips from concert Events and RSVP to see who else is going on Facebook!
-Search for Events and Places by date and distance around you, your friends, or specific places
-Share button on Events and Places to share them with friends

Price: Free

There has been another release for MCallShow. I tend to keep an eye on the updates for this application because in the past it has never worked quite right for me so, I like to check out the updates to see if things have improved. MCallShow is an application which gives you more detailed location based information about incoming and outgoing calls. It seems that the user interface has not drastically changed however, the database for the application has changed. It used to be when you opened the app, it would automatically find your local Country. Now it seems that you need to actually install the database for your Country. The current Country databases include, Australia, China, England, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Spain and Thailand. There website says that there is also a database for the USA/Canada but, I did not see that is Cydia.

So, once you install MCallShow, you will also need to install the databases that you would need. Also, in the previous version when you would try to purchase the application is would say $0.00 well now it seems that the full version of the application is $4.99 USD. I personally do not see a huge need for this application but, maybe it is extremely useful for people in other Countries or people who do a lot of business with other Countries…you guys will have to let me know. Check out the screenshots below.

iWant is an application that allows you to look up venues that are near your current location. When you open the application, it will locate your current location. You will then get a screen with 12 icons. There is also a Settings icon and Map icon on the lower part of the screen. The Map option will show the results on a map instead of in a list. In the Setting, you have the option to adjust the search radius from less than a mile to five miles, the ability to sort your search by Rating (based on a five star rating) or Distance and the ability to change the Restaurant filter so that it only searches for a certain type of restaurant near you instead of all restaurants. Once you have all the Settings the way you would like them, select the Done option in the lower left corner.

Now all you have to do is select one of the icons and it will bring up a list of those venues that are with-in 5 miles (that is the distance I chose in the Settings) of your current location. Following is a list of what each icon represents from left to right; Restaurants, Bars, Cafes, Grocery Stores, Drug Stores, Clothing Stores, Movies, Hotels, Department Stores, Banks, Gas Stations and Car Rentals. When you select one of the venues, you will get a list of relevant findings. The list will display the Venue’s Title, Address and Star Rating. If you select one of the options, it will also give you the Phone number (which you can select and call), a map of the location of the venue and reviews of the venue. You can also select the Map option in the lower right corner and it will put the venue on the map. However, the map shows your current location and then displays little red arrows showing which way you need to move the map in order to find the venue on the map. It can be a little tricky to navigate. The map really needs the ability to zoom in and out…that would help a ton.

iWant seems to have a decent list of venues. The only thing missing is Coffee Shops. The Coffee Shops around me to not show up in the Restaurants or Cafes list. This application is all about personal preference. Obviously you can search for most of these things using Google Maps however, if you prefer to see the results in a list view…this might be the application for you.

Click HERE to download iWant via the App Store.

When you first open NavizonGPS, after installing it, you will need to set-up an account. You will get a pop-up with the options to select Ok to set-up an account or to select Cancel if you already have an account. If you select Ok, it will open a browser in which you can register for an account. After you have created your account, you can go back to the application on your SpringBoard. This time when you open the application, select Cancel. This will bring you to the main menu.

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You will want to select the Account button in the upper right corner. Here you can enter your username and password. Once you have everything entered, select Done in the upper left corner. This will bring you to the main menu.

The Navizon Bar Plugin for Maps option will add a custom Navizon tool bar to your Google Maps. The tool bar allows you to launch the Navizon application by selecting the tool icon, search for your Buddies by selects the icon with two people on it and start the GPS (moving location) by selecting the Play icon. The GPS option will update your location every 15 seconds. To pause the moving location options, tap the pause icon. The Navizon tool bar will show up in Google Maps all the time, not just when launching Google Maps from Navizon. You can minimize the tool bar by tapping on the very right of it. To maximize it, tap it again.

The Tracking for Buddies and Alerts Option allows you to appear visible to your buddies. Which means, if you turn Appear Visible on, and one of your buddies selects search for buddies on their iPhone, you will show up in Google Maps on their iPhone. Only people you have approved as buddies are able to view your location and only when you have that option turned on. It is the same if you search for buddies on your iPhone, it will only display the location of your buddies who currently have Appear Visible turned on.

The Locate-by-SMS is a very cool feature. When enabled, it allows you to send a text to your iPhone that contains a keyword and it will send a text back with the current location of your iPhone. To set it up, you will need to turn Locate-by-SMS on and then you will need to enter a keyword into the Keyword section. You do not want it to by a common word because if someone sends you a text with that word in it, it would send them back a text with your current location in it. So, you want it to be a keyword you would only uses with the purpose of finding your iPhone. This is a great feature for if you have lost your iPhone or if you iPhone has been stolen or even to check up on your kids!! See Demo Video below.

Once you have everything set-up in the menu, you can select Locate Me Now. Every time you open Navizon, it will automatically Locate your current position. You can stop it by selecting the Cancel option in the upper right corner of the launch page. You can also have it automatically bring you to the Directions feature in Google Maps by selecting the Directions option in the lower left corner. It will locate current position and put those coordinates in the start field and you can then enter where you would like the directions to end. There is also one more option on the Locate Me Now launch page and that is Buddies. If you select Buddies it the lower left corner, it will locate your current location in Google Maps as well as all your Buddies.

Back in the main menu of the application, you can set-up your full account and get a lot more information by selecting the Account option and then the Manage Account on the Web option. NavizonGPS is available through the Ste Packaging source.

Demo Video of Locate-by-SMS feature:

1. Go to this url. This will bring you to a screen where you can sign into your Facebook account. It will then open the main page for the iPhoneLocator Facebook app. To add the application to your Facebook page, select Add Application. You can choose the options you want and select Add iPhone Locater. Once you select Add iPhone Locator, it will open the iPhoneLocator Set-up page. You will see, “Setting up your iPhone…” In this section, they will give you a private Repository URL (you will not want to give this to anyone).

2. Add the Repository url they give you into your Sources in Installer (just add it like you would any other source…see the f.a.q page for instructions on how to add a source to Installer). Once you have entered the source, it will add a source titled Facebook Packages under the Other Sources heading. Note: make sure you enter the source exactly the same as how they have it…make sure your iPhone does not auto-capitalize the word iPhone in the source url.

2. Go into the Installer and select the Facebook Category. Inside the Facebook Category, you will see the iPhoneLocator app. (You could also go into All Packages and search for iPhoneLocator)

3. Install iPhoneLocator. You will get a few pop-ups during the install process (see screenshots below). Also, this is a code app it does not put an icon on your SpringBoard!

4. After it is done installing…restart your iPhone.

5. Wait for app to show up on Facebook. This could take anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour (or longer) to show up on Facebook. It took about 20 minutes for mine to show up. You can check on the progress by refreshing the Home page of the iPhoneLocator application in Facebook. When it has been added, it will no longer show the set-up page but instead, it will show a map with your iPhone’s most recent location.

6. While you wait…you can go into the iPhoneLocator app in Facebook and click on Settings and set up your Settings how you would like them. You have the option to change the Location Privacy (Private, Friends Only or Public), Update Interval (15 mins, 30, 45 or an hour), Time Zone (Pacific, Mountain, Central or Eastern), Location Method (WiFi – Skyhook or Tower – Google), Accuracy (1/8 mile, 1/4 mile, 1/2 mile, 1 mile or 2 miles), Canvas Zoom (0-18) and Profile Zoom (0-18)

7. Let me know in the comments how it goes for you. Below is the live feed from Doug’s Facebook. Enjoy!