App Reviews for iPhone and iPad Devices

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MyNetDiary is a Great Calorie Counter - but costs 9 dollars a month!


The "health and fitness" area of the AppStore is filled with extremely bad calorie counter apps (such as "Absolute Fitness" — which should be totally avoided). With the self-proclaimed tagline "Serious Weight Loss Comes to the iPhone", MyNetDiary promises more and delivers. First of all, this is a combo webapp/iPhone app - a formula i [...]

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Posted 09.07.08 in | Similar iPhone apps: , ,

Apple Screen of Death


I was getting the Apple Screen of Death repeatedly on my phone last night, so I had to do a complete restore. This morning I was confronted with this: Nice way to start a Saturday.

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Posted 09.06.08 in Uncategorized | Similar iPhone apps: ,

Appcraver Update: New Editors' Picks Section


Lots of changes at Appcraver. We're proud to present our new updated Editors' Picks tab. In this area of the site, we'll showcase apps that we think are particularily worthy -- things that we think you should at least try out and probably will want to keep in your iPhone's permanent collection. We're also working [...]

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Posted 09.05.08 in |

Shovel is Digg for the iPhone


Shovel is an app that lists the top stories from the Digg news service on your iPhone. It is run by a seperate company (not Digg itself), which makes it somewhat likely Digg will shut it down somewhere in the near future. After all, why should shovel earn a dollar per download for what is [...]

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Posted 09.05.08 in | Similar iPhone apps: ,

Talking Phrasebooks make for Great Travel Companions


Spanish to English Talking Phrasebook app icon

The Talking Phrasebooks apps from UK application developer Coolgorilla offer basic phrases and dictionaries in six languages (Spanish, French, German, Italian, Greek and Portuguese) with over 350,000 downloads so far and Spanish being the most popular language. Although competitors iLingo (benchmark product of application developer Talking Panda) and Lonely Planet both offer phrasebooks in a [...]

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Posted 09.05.08 in , | Similar iPhone apps: ,

Interview with Tony Chen from Elite Web Central


We caught up yesterday with Tony Chen from Elite Web Central over email. Tony is the developer of Daily Wallpaper, a web application for the iPhone. AppCraver: When did you start developing web applications for the iPhone? Tony Chen: Our site was launched about a month ago, and our first web application, "Daily Wallpaper" was [...]

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Posted 09.04.08 in | Similar iPhone apps: ,