App Store Apps

GetGlue for iPhone/iPad - app review

By Allyson Kazmucha, Tuesday, Sep 14, 2010 a 2:16 pm

GetGlue for iPhone and iPad [iTunes Link] are social networking sites where you can let your friends know what you're watching, reading, playing, or thinking about. Similar to FourSquare and Gowalla, you check in to show your friends what you're up to. You can also leave reviews on pretty much everything and people can then like your comments or let you know if they find them helpful. As you check into things, you can earn stickers for your favorite items. You can also choose to have those stickers mailed to you once you collect 7. Click through for more screenshots and another video featuring the iPad version!

120,000,000 iOS devices sold, 250,000 apps, 6.5 billion downloads - by the numbers

By Rene Ritchie, Wednesday, Sep 1, 2010 a 11:42 pm

As usual, Steve Jobs began his Apple music event keynote today by giving a breakdown of iOS devices sold to date -- 120,000,000. It took them from June 2007 to June 2010 to reach 100,000,000 and only 3 months to add another 20,000,000 on top of that. Jobs also said they're activating new devices at a rate of 230,000 a day.

Clearcam for iPhone Promo Code Giveaway!

By Allyson Kazmucha, Monday, Aug 30, 2010 a 4:37 pm

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We reviewed Clearcam for iPhone last week, and this week, the developer was nice enough to share some promo codes with us to give out to you guys! Since our review, the developer released an update to the app that fixed some of the issues I had, such as some shots coming out a bit blurry for an unknown reason. He's also added a few tweaks that have made the overall image quality even better!

What do you have to do to get your hands on a code you ask? Simply leave a comment below, that's it. We'll pick a handful of you at random on Friday to win some codes. Remember! To win a code, you must leave a comment with a VALID e-mail address. If I can't send you an e-mail at the account you left the comment with, another comment will be selected.

UPDATE: Give-away is over, winners after the break!

And don't forget, we also do giveaways on Twitter from time to time randomly, so if you haven't already, follow us on Twitter for chances to win other promo codes as well!

TiPb - @TiPb

Rene - @ReneRitchie

Jeremy - @jfsikora

Georgia - @GeorgiaTiPb

Leanna - @llofte

Ally - @iMuggle

The developers of Clearcam are also on Twitter, so give them a follow as well!

@occipital

@twoteethtech

Chaos Rings for iPad now available, all Square Enix games on sale

By Leanna Lofte, Thursday, Aug 12, 2010 a 3:37 pm

Chaos Rings fans rejoice! The big hit by Square Enix is now available for iPad. Users have been enjoying the iPhone version for some time now, but the new iPad version supports 1024x768px HD resolutions so you can experience beautiful graphics, detailed backgrounds, intricate character expressions, and intense battle scenes on the iPad's large screen. The RPG features

Regarding Apple including 3rd party app screens in 1st part app patent filings

By Rene Ritchie, Friday, Aug 6, 2010 a 8:41 am

Apple has begun filing patent applications for 1st party (i.e. Apple produced) iOS apps that include screen drawings of well known 3rd party (i.e. independently produced by developers for the App Store) apps.

Is Apple trying to steal the hard work and shatter the good will of App Store developers? Is Apple merely showing how App Store apps could hook into future Apple apps/hubs? Is it something in between?

Let's take a look after the break...

[Venomous Porridge, Thanks Dev for the tip!]

Tweetings for iPhone - App Review and Giveaway!

By Allyson Kazmucha, Friday, Jul 9, 2010 a 8:56 pm

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Tweetings for iPhone is a full featured Twitter client complete with push notifications. Last week we looked at the iPad version of Tweetings, so this week we'll look at the iPhone version. In many ways, it's very similar. The layout is extremely similar and it also offers things such as push notifications. The iPhone version also adds themes into the mix as well.

It's definitely a worthy contender against the big guys like Twitter for iPhone (formerly Tweetie) and Twitteriffic. Read on for screens, a feature run down, and how you can win a copy of Tweetings for iPhone from TiPb!

iOS 4 app updates: Bing, CoPilot, Gowalla, Waze, Osfoora

By Allyson Kazmucha, Wednesday, Jul 7, 2010 a 11:44 am

As you all know, we've been watching the App Store for iOS4 compatible updates. We've found a few we think are worthy of a postup, and as normal, if you guys find anything especially awesome, feel free to leave it in a comment or send it to me in an e-mail (ally (dot) kazmucha (at) tipb (dot) com) and if we think it's awesome too, we'll include it in our next roundup!

Hit the jump to see what we found lurking in the App Store this time!

FarmVille for iPhone - app review

By Leanna Lofte, Saturday, Jul 3, 2010 a 12:00 pm

FarmVille is a widely popular real-time farm simulation game created by Zynga. It was originally created as a flash game for Facebook and eventually became available at farmville.com. Players can now farm on go with the most recent version of FarmVille on the iPhone.

Tweetings for iPad - app review and giveaway!

By Allyson Kazmucha, Friday, Jul 2, 2010 a 11:38 am

Tweetings for iPad is a relatively new Twitter client. It comes not only for iPad, but iPhone and Mac as well (we'll look at the iPhone version next time). Tweetings is all around a very full featured Twitter client. It has everything from unread tweet management, geolocation tagging, now playing, nearby tweets, and even push notifications.

Tweetings has also recently been updated to support iOS 4 and iPhone 4. The update also fixed a couple bugs including one that really irked me -- scrolling. It only did it with certain themes but it was irritating nonetheless. The problem seems to have disappeared since the update.

Read on for a breakdown, pics, and how you can win a free copy of Tweetings for iPad!

iMovie for iPhone 4 - app review

By Leanna Lofte, Friday, Jun 25, 2010 a 11:43 am

iMovie for iPhone 4 is a video editing application designed by Apple. iMovie is also the name of the video editing software included in iLife, which is bundled with every Mac. iMovie is only available for iPhone 4. (Don't be sad, it needs the extra RAM and Apple A4 processing power).

As with most Apple products, iMovie is very easy to use and is fairly intuitive. If a tap doesn't do what you want, a double tap will. iMovie can be used in either portrait or landscape, but landscape seems more natural for me.