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The Best Travel Guide Apps go Free for the next 4 days for iPhone, iPad (Mini) and iPod Touch

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The Best Travel Guide Apps go Free for the next 4 days for iPhone, iPad (Mini) and iPod Touch

mTrip, the company that builds my favorite travel app, has just announced that it will be discounting its travel apps to Free for a limited time. There are a set of travel apps that will be free each day over the next 4 days, so be sure to check back daily to get the travel apps for the cities you want. A little over a year ago, I had the privilege of traveling to Shanghai, China. There is an mTrip travel app for Shanghai and so I purchased it at the time for $4.99. I used the app every day. Continue Reading →

Automate simple tasks – IFTTT for iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad (mini)

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If you’re like me, then you’re one of those people that is always looking for ways to get things done faster all the while better maximizing your time. As a long time mac user I’ve frequently played around with the built in “Automator” tool that allows you to make simple scripts (or applications) that automate redundant tasks for you. While Automator isn’t available for iPhone, the new mobile application IFTTT (If This Then That – pronounced like gift without the “g”) allows you to build simple, yet powerful “recipes” as they call it that are both useful and help automate Continue Reading →

10 Premium Apps go Free to celebrate 5 Year App Store Anniversary

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10 Premium Apps go Free to celebrate 5 Year App Store Anniversary

On July 10, 2013, the Apple App Store will celebrate its 5 year anniversary. To celebrate this occasion, Apple has decided to give away 10 apps for Free! These are premium iPhone, iPad (Mini), and iPod Touch apps that normally cost anywhere from $.99 to $19.99 and are now FREE! 5 of the apps are what Apple calls “groundbreaking apps”. Then, there are 5 “landmark games” that Apple is giving away too. Even if you don’t need the apps right now, I suggest downloading them while they are free, then deleting them from your device. The purchases will be saved Continue Reading →

App Review: Sensorly for iPhone and iPad Cellular (Mini)

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This is a review of Sensorly, one of the best iOS apps for measuring cellular carriers’ signal strength on your iPhone or iPad (Mini). We’ve all been there. You grab your iPhone or iPad Cellular (Mini) to find the best restaurants nearby, the weather forecast, or information about an upcoming event and you realize that you’re outside your carrier’s data coverage area. If this happens frequently, you might be interested in discovering which carriers have better data coverage in your area. Or, you might just wish you could find your way to a nearby area where your carrier offers better Continue Reading →

App Review: Jetscanner for iPhone, iPad (Mini), and iPod Touch

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This is a video app review of Jetscanner. Jetscanner is a great tool for cutting down on office clutter. It creates PDFs of physical documents by turning your iPhone, iPad (Mini), and iPod Touch into a scanner. The app then allows you to upload your PDF to any of several different cloud storage services, including Dropbox, Evernote, and Microsoft Skydrive. UPDATE: Jetscanner is available on the App Store for $1.99. Check out the video review below:

Tutorial: Find My iPhone for iPhone, iPad (Mini), and iPod Touch

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This video tutorial explains how to use the Find My iPhone app, Apple’s solution for finding your lost  or stolen iPhone, iPad (mini), iPod Touch, or Mac. You can download Find My iPhone on the App Store for free. Check out the video tutorial below:

App Review – Yahoo! Weather for iPhone and iPod Touch

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This is a video review of the Yahoo! Weather app for iPhone and iPod Touch. This app combines a lot of useful weather information with great visual design, making it one of the best weather apps available on the App Store. You can find Yahoo! Weather on the app store for free. Access the video review below.  

Hotel Tonight for iPhone, iPad (mini) and iPod Touch

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Hotel Tonight for iPhone, iPad (mini) and iPod Touch. You check out of your hotel, throw the bags in the rental car or taxi and head out with just enough time to make it through traffic as you make you’re way to the airport when you’re greeted by a sea of brake lights. After over an hour of being stuck in traffic you miss your flight… great. Now what? Hotel Tonight is a unique app in that they have worked out contracts with many different hotel companies to help ensure you get the best deal possible… and when I say Continue Reading →

How to check your internet speed on iPhone, iPad (Mini), or iPod Touch

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How to check your internet speed on iPhone, iPad (Mini), or iPod Touch

This article will show you how to check your internet speed on iPhone, iPad (Mini), or iPod Touch. Internet speed is increasingly becoming more and more important. Most apps on your iOS Device use the internet in one way or another. Knowing the speed of your internet connection can be helpful when using your iPhone, iPad (Mini), or iPod Touch. Thankfully there is a great little free app called Speedtest. This app lets you quickly test the speed of your internet and then keeps track of each time you test the connection speed for future reference. You can use the Continue Reading →

How to use your iPhone, iPad (Mini), or iPod Touch as a Walkie-talkie

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How to use your iPhone or iPod Touch as a Walkie-talkie

Did you know you can use your iPhone or iPod Touch as a Walkie-talkie? It’s actually quite simple with an app called Voxer. The app is free and works globally as long as you have an internet connection. It also works between iOS and Android devices so that you can connect with all of your friends no matter what device they have. Here is a direct link to the app so you can try it out for yourself: Voxer Walkie-Talkie Here is the description from the developers: Voxer is “A truly live push-to-talk and multimedia messaging tool, without the restrictions Continue Reading →