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VeriSign’s VIP Access App Doubles Your Security

Michael Alexander — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 21:00:25 +0000

VIP Access - If you worry about an unauthorized person accessing your PayPal, eBay or similarly sensitive account where your security is paramount, download VeriSign’s free VIP Access app.

The way hackers often get into sensitive accounts is by exploiting weak passwords. They know many people use passwords that are too short, or consist of pet names, birth dates and other easy-to-crack passwords. You would be surprised just how many people use “sex,” for their password, for example.

What VIP Access does is to add an additional layer of security that makes it nearly impossible for someone other than you to get into your account. (...)
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Convert: Answers In The Palm Of Your Hand

Keith Lewis — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 01:30:30 +0000

Convert (Unit Converter by PBF) – One thing I’ve learned over the years is that there are several categories of possessions. The two that come to mind today are the possessions of others that I would love to own and those that I own but seldom use — but when I do use them nothing else will do.

Convert (Unit Converter by PBF) is an iPhone app by Polar Bear Farm Ltd that helps to condense the latter. I don’t know how many times throughout a year that I’ll need to know how to convert miles to nautical miles or need to know that 45 radians is the equivalent of 2,578.31 degrees but with Convert handy I know I will be able to solve such dilemmas.

Convert is a unit converter that allows you a selection of a wide range of categories and units from which to chose. Your choices include Angle, Area, Currency, Length, Mass, Power, Pressure, Speed, Temperature, Time and Volume.(...)
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StockAdvisor Brings Serious Stock Analysis

Derek Walter — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:00:05 +0000

StockAdvisor by Tradeoffnews is an app for those who want control over their stock trading. At $19.99, it is not for the faint of heart. But it has some pretty powerful tools that make it worth considering if you plan some serious stock trading.

Mastering StockAdvisor takes a bit of time, but it can definitely be done with some patience and playing around with the features. What separates StockAdvisor from the Apple Stocks app or the other third party apps is the rapid availability of trading information.

There is a page that rates news tips on whether your portfolio contains any good buys or stocks to dump. The information is pulled from sites such as The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Forbes, the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq. (...)
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proSEO Reveals the Inner Workings of Web Pages

Michael Alexander — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 02:30:17 +0000

If you make it your business to understand how well Web pages are optimized for search engines, proSEO is a good way to go for iPhone users. This handy app from Infinidigm enables to look at a Web page’s keywords, tags, HTML and other important attributes that factor into a site’s search engine ranking.

Enter the URL of the Web page you wish to analyze into the app’s browser and bookmark it if you plan to revisit it. After the Web page loads, tap the Analyze button and proSEO does the heavy lifting.

You can analyze a page by selecting one of four options: Source Analysis, Body Text Analysis, Anchors and Link Text and Images and Alt Text. Tap, say, Body Text Analysis and you’ll see the all the text that appear on your chosen Web page, the page’s word count and its stop word ratio.

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Mail2Group: One App to Mail Them All

Michael Alexander — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 01:00:42 +0000

If you often need to send emails to more than a few people in your contacts list at the same time, then Javid Alimohideen’s Mail2Group fills a gaping hole between iPhone Mail and Contacts.

Mail2Group is an adjunct to the iPhone’s native email app. You can organize your contacts into groups and manage your groups in a variety of ways. With Mail2Group you can send an email message to everyone in the group, send email messages to only some people in the group, and you can decide to use the same or other content in the subject line for the same group.

You can sort your groups alphabetically, copy them to form new groups and set “copy” and “blind copy” to the people in the contacts that comprise the group.(...)
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GottaDash Lets You Customize Fake Calls

Anna Axster — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:30:08 +0000

GottaDash-Premium Fake Caller is the fake call app by developer Chillingo Ltd. GottaDash offers simple and easy-to-use functions and unlike some other fake-call apps like Wingman or Exit Strategy, GottaDash lets you customize your calls with several selections.

You simply select from seven different ringtones (including a vibrate option), choose how long the ring should last, and finally set the timer for when the fake-call is supposed to come in. Additionally GottaDash lets you choose from seven different wallpapers. Both wallpapers and the length of the ring have to be selected in the iPhone’s system settings. (...)
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iSpreadsheet: An iPhone Excel app for number crunchers

Derek Walter — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:00:15 +0000

Editing documents has been one of the major holes in the iPhone experience. While the e-mail and other apps give a solid performance in letting one view and send files, the ability to manipulate them has been lacking.

Enter iSpreadsheet, the first app that allows you to actually create and save spreadsheets. It is a solid concept — giving users the ability to keep track of business expenditures, household expenses, or other types of data. There are some very clever functions that make good use of the iPhone’s touch interface.(...)
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beamME Sends Contact Info to Anyone, not Just iPhone Users

Derek Walter — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 23:30:28 +0000

The beamMe app is a fast, easy way to share your contact information with a friend or colleague. It is an offering from rmbrME, which promotes the app as a way to boost your sales and connections through the quick ability to share your contact.

It is easy to set up your information and then either text or e-mail your vCard. The receiver simply goes online to download it into their address book. In fact it is so seamless, it leaves one wanting for the ability to do the same with the other contacts in their list.

Another strength of beamME is that you can share information with anyone — you don’t have to be connected to the same network or have the app running on both phones, unlike some other apps.

Check out beamME in action on YouTube:

app_name: beamME
rating: 8/10

Fliq is a Great Concept, but Not Seamless Just Yet

Derek Walter — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 22:00:35 +0000

The strength of Fliq lies in its relative ease-of-use for transferring contacts and photos. Plus it is free, unlike the paid version of Handshake. With just a couple of taps you can send out photos from your collection along with your contact information.

Once you open the program, you get a list of others who are running Fliq. This also means getting those you want to share things with to also download Fliq… and be near you …and have the app open when you want to share something.

While Fliq has some conveniences, sometimes it may be easier to do things old-fashioned ways: e-mail or text.

app_name: Fliq
rating: 7/10

Handshake Shares Contact Info — With Other Handshake Users

Derek Walter — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 20:30:41 +0000

In business the handshake often comes with a business card. The makers of the Handshake app hope to put the entire process on your iPhone. The app — there is a free and paid version — gives you the ability to send contact information (yours or someone from your contact list) or photos. You must, however, both be using handshake to make the transfer (you can view a Handshake YouTube demo).

It works pretty seamlessly, but the necessity of the other user having the app makes it limiting. It would work best if you and a group of friends or colleagues all agreed to use the app. Then it would make contact and photo sharing a rapid, painless process.

app_name: Handshake
rating: 7/10