...Für Umrechnungen gibt's ne tolle iPhone App: "Convertbot" http://bit.ly/cUOgKp... Read More

...— The Amazing Unit Converter for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store http://ff.im/-hmD0z... Read More

There are plenty of jaw-droppingly cool iPhone apps, and we’ve assembled a few of them here on JAiB today. These aren’t necessarily the apps you’ll use every day, and they might not even be your favourites, but each of these apps is almost certain to elicit a “whaaaaat, did you just do that on your iPhone?!” from anyone you show them to. Google Maps, Street view ($200 – well, I’m just referencing the price of your iPhone) Let’s start the list off nice and easy. This is something amazing that the iPhone can do by default, and I’ve used it a few times to remember the name of a restaurant I ate at, when all I knew was which street I was on. Street view on the Google Maps app is almost unreal in how easy it makes “walking” down a street from the comfort of your couch a reality. Bump Read More

15 Jan 2010 alle 15:00 Produttore: Tapbots | Download Link: AppStore | Prezzo: 0,79€ Come vi avevamo anticipato è stato rilasciato l’aggiornamento per Convertbot, una delle applicazioni per iPhone meglio realizzate dal punto di vista grafico, che permette di convertire qualsiasi tipo di unità di misura, che arriva alla versione 1.5. Questo aggiornamento introduce numerose novità accompagnate da miglioramenti grafici, vediamo i dettagli: Grazie Fra per la segnalazione Read More

wow, I melded the Pastebot and Evernote logos - how clever. Post-CES coverage is coming out now, and Gear Diary and Cult of Mac have some good stories to share. Dan Cohen of Gear Diary is a full-on Evernote evangelist, and he got a chance to speak with Phil Libon, CEO of Evernote last week. His interview talks about how the company has come this far (over two million users!) and where they’re going next. You can check that out here. Craig Grannell of Cult of Mac also conducted an interview (although this one probably isn’t CES-related) with Paul Haddad and Mark Jardine, the two halves of iPhone app development team, Tapbots. They’re the makers of some of my favourite iPhone apps: Convertbot and Pastebot. The interview discusses how they came to be, the inspiration behind the “bot” theme of each app, and what they’ve got planned for 2010. Definitely worth Read More

4 Jan 2010 alle 21:42 Produttore: Tapbots | Download Link: AppStore | Prezzo: 0,79€ Sta per essere rilasciato un nuovo aggiornamento per Convertbot, una delle applicazioni per iPhone meglio realizzate dal punto di vista grafico, che permette di convertire qualsiasi tipo di unità di misura. In questo aggiornamento saranno introdotte numerose novità accompagnate da miglioramenti grafici. Ecco alcune delle funzionalità che verranno aggiunte: Inoltre, gli sviluppatori aggiungono una piccola nota affermando che il prezzo del software, a causa delle grandi novità introdotte, verrà aumentato ad 1.59€. Quindi, se siete interessati all’acquisto, vi consigliamo di comprare ora l’applicazione al prezzo di 0.79€ così da avere gratis l’aggiornamento alla nuova versione. L’aggiornamento è stato inviato pochi giorni fa ad Apple e dovrebbe essere rilasciato nei prossimi giorni. Read More

Posted 12/16/2009 at 6:46am | by J.R. Bookwalter There are over 100,000 applications in Apple’s popular App Store -- but how many of those could be called truly useful or innovative? Tapbots can stake claim to at least one of them with their just-released Pastebot. On the surface, Pastebot is a clipboard manager for the iPhone and iPod touch. Copy something you want to save, run Pastebot and it automatically gets imported for you to access later. If that’s where its functionality ended, it wouldn’t be much different from a few other similar apps already in the App Store, and maybe not even worth the $1.99 price of admission. Pastebot goes beyond simple clipboard management by letting you send your clippings via e-mail as well as saving your edited images back to your photo library. OK, that’s pretty cool… but what if we told you Pastebot also has the magic ability Read More

A coding firm in India was recently exposed for falsifying their resume, claiming to have coded several popular apps in the App Store that they had nothing to do with in order to gain clients. The story starts with TapBots CEO, Paul Haddad, being asked if their popular app, ConvertBot [App Store, $0.99] was coded by Trucid. Of course, it was coded by TapBots LLC. A confused Paul Haddad decided to email Trucid pretending to be an interested client, asking for a list of apps they had made. As suspected, he was given a list of 14 popular apps they had allegedly made, but were known to be coded by other companies, including ConvertBot. When they confronted them about claiming credit for apps they hadn’t made, they confessed, though the CEO said he didn’t know it was happening, and allegedly “talked to” the employee responsible, saying he was grateful for the Read More

...1.4.2 released - very impressive convert tool - changelog: diverse bugfixes - download: http://is.gd/4JWQS #iPhone... Read More

...@chr1spy: Convertbot 1.4.2 erschienen - vielseitiges Umrechnungstool - Changelog: diverse Bugfixes - Download: http://is.gd/4JWQS #iPhone... Read More

...1.4.2 erschienen - vielseitiges Umrechnungstool - Changelog: diverse Bugfixes - Download: http://is.gd/4JWQS #iPhone... Read More

25 Sep 2009 alle 01:10 iSpazio App Updates è il nostro nuovo servizio nel quale raccoglieremo periodicamente tutti gli aggiornamenti minori delle applicazioni AppStore all’interno di un solo articolo. E’ un modo più pratico per informarvi della risoluzione dei problemi e per mostrarvi i vari changelog in italiano. Durante il corso della giornata, questo elenco potrebbe arricchirsi di altre applicazioni e di conseguenza aggiorneremo il titolo dell’articolo indicando il numero di applicazioni che trovate all’interno. Vi consigliamo quindi di  consultarlo più volte oppure seguire l’evoluzione tramite Feed RSS: . . . . Durante la giornata verranno aggiunte nuove applicazioni a questa lista. Grazie Pelou, deelay, FRAtello91 e LainX per le segnalazioni Read More

Das Onlinebanking-Programm iControl, nicht zu verwechseln mit der gleichnamigen Fernbedienungs-App, reiht sich in die derzeit noch stark unterbesetzte Sparte für Kontoführungs-Anwendungen ein. Mit gelungener Optik und der Möglichkeit verschlüsselt seine Tan-Nummern für Überweisungen vorzuhalten, ist iControl (derzeit) seinen Konkurrenzprodukten einen Schritt voraus. Des Weiteren finde ich sehr genehm, das sich abgeschlossene Buchungen über ein WiFi-Netz vom PC sowohl importieren als auch exportieren lassen. Gute Spiele, aktuell ein wenig günstiger. Rockstar Games gelang am Montag mit der überraschenden iPhone-Ankündigung für Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, ein kleiner PR-Erfolg, der sicherlich auch der PSP-Oktoberveröffentlichung gut tut. Auf dem Nintendo DS wurde der Titel um seinen Protagonisten Huang Lee hochgelobt und auch in unserem Haus viel gespielt. Wie sich die präzise Stylus-Steuerung des Nintendo-Handheld auf das iPhone übertragen lässt, bleibt abzuwarten. In der Vergangenheit zeigte sich, das GTA-Adaptionen wie Car Jack Streets (2.39 €; App Store-Link) oder Payback (3.99 €; App Store-Link) noch nicht das Read More

Like I said last night, I think Convert is so cool that I’ve replaced my old converter (Convertbot) and my calculator (Calculator, tee hee) with it. Developer tap tap tap has made one of those user interfaces that makes you wonder what the heck you were doing before it came along. All the action in Convert takes place on one screen: tap  and scroll along the left-most roller  to select one of the 15 conversion categories, select what you’d like to convert to and from, and then tap out the measurements in the keypad below. If you’re looking to free up some space on your first iPhone home page, I’d suggest replacing the default calculator app with Convert, since the last “converter” within the app is actually a basic calculator. There’s no landscape scientific mode, but it works! The app loads up in about two seconds and switching categories takes about Read More

An update to Tapbots’ handy iPhone and iPod touch conversion app, Convertbot, has been rejected because the icon they had been using for “Time” too closely resembles Apple’s own built-in “Recent” icon. It’s understandable that Apple doesn’t want to confuse their users with icons that resemble each other but serve different purposes, although I doubt many users would be confused in this specific instance.  The bigger issues here are the blatant inconsistencies and lack of communication. The only way for Tapbots to find out what is an acceptable replacement icon is to resubmit the app.  Apple doesn’t provide any guidelines for what would be an acceptable replacement, so precious time must be wasted in order to find out, and the app could still possibly be rejected if they didn’t guess correctly.  The other issue is that this same “Time” icon was included in the very first release of the app, which Read More

By Rene Ritchie, Thursday, Aug 27, 2009 | Convertbot [$0.99 - iTunes link] has seen their latest update, version 1.4 for iPhone (and iPod touch), rejected by at least 2 of Apple’s 40+ App Store reviewers because the icon they’re using for “Time” (the same icon they’ve been using since 1.0, mind you) is nigh-identical to Apple’s built in “Recent” icon, and that was enough to raise that troublesome “user confusion” flag at iTunes HQ. They’re going to try and find a different yet equally minimalist icon, and we’re going to start counting down to a letter from either Phil Schiller or the FCC… Sigh. Read More

TapTap heeft een video gemaakt waarin ze laten zien welke stappen ze doorlopen hebben om de applicatie Convert vorm te geven zoals hij in de App Store staat. Convert is een iPhone-applicatie waarmee je gemakkelijk waardes kan omrekenen. Er is vooral aandacht besteed aan gebruiksgemak en een vriendelijk design. De applicatie heeft nagenoeg dezelfde functionaliteiten als Convertbot (€ 0,79): een applicatie die ook geroemd wordt om zijn mooie design. De video is van Vimeo (en dus niet op de iPhone te bekijken): Omdat Convert pas in de App Store staat geeft TapTapTap 1 gelimiteerde MacBook Pro weg t.w.v. $5999 (Uit een oplage van 10). Enige wat je moet doen is hun Twitter-account volgen en een speciaal Twitter-bericht tweeten. Meer informatie is te lezen op de Tweetblast-pagina van TapTapTap. Read More

Convertbot, from Tapbots, is an excellent converter app for the iPhone, with a gorgeous interface, intuitive control elements, and cute sound effects. It features a useful range of the most commonly converted measurements. Using Convertbot, you can convert currency, speeds, time, data storage sizes, and more! More than 440 types of units are included. While not an app that’s likely to get a lot of use, for those times you do need to convert something, Convertbot makes it fun! And the best part? Though normally priced at $.99, Convertbot is now available, for a limited time, for free! Grab it now while it’s on sale, and then when the time comes that you need to convert your dollars into euros or miles into kilometers or whatever, you’ll have one of the nicest looking converter apps available. Get Convertbot on the iTunes App Store here. Read More

If for some crazy reason you still don’t have a unit converter app for your iPhone or iPod touch, or if you despise your current unit converter, we have some great news for you.  Convertbot by Tapbots is a solid unit converter with a fantastic user interface that is now available in the App Store for free, but only for a limited time. Convertbot is able to convert currency, length, mass, time, and much more.  It now features over 440 different types of units.  It is also able to convert mixed units so you won’t have to convert anything in your head before entering it into the app.  The real treat is Convertbot‘s user interface.  It is so unique and easy to use that it was even nominated in our AppAwards for Most Innovative User Interface category. Convertbot is normally priced at $.99, but it is now free for a very Read More

Seguimos con las aplicaciones gratuitas, esta vez os anunciamos que Converbot, una de las mejores aplicaciones para convertir unidades, se puede encontrar de manera gratuita en la App Store. Tampoco sabemos hasta cuando seguirá así, así que aprovechad a descargarla cuanto antes. Disponible: App Store Precio: Gratis Read More

Une brève pour indiquer que le logiciel Convertbot est proposé gratuitement pour une durée limitée. Il s'agit d'un utilitaire de conversion gérant de très nombreuses unités (longueur, vitesse, data, monnaie, etc ...) qui a des avis plutôt positifs sur l'AppStore. Merci à Toxy et Nico Read More

By Rene Ritchie, Friday, Aug 14, 2009 | Apps for Less is Jeremy’s turf, but we just got a few extra, time-sensitive tips we wanted to share with you for the weekend, so please bear with my less than Bad Ash fill-in attempt. First up is ConvertBot [iTunes link], which is now totally FREE for a limited time. Next up, ID software has a sale going in honor of QuakeCon 2009, discounting Doom Resurrection [iTunes link] to $2.99 and Wolfenstein Classic [iTunes link] to $0.99 from now until Sunday. (Thanks Pete for the head’s up!) If you see any other great weekend deals, let us know in the comments, or send them Jeremy’s way any time for inclusion in a future Apps for Less! Read More

Obwohl der Einheiten- und Währungsumrechner ‘Convertbot’ (App Store-Link) mit seinem kostenlosen Promo-Tag heute wohl zum größten App Store-Gesprächsthema avanciert, schleicht sich zusätzlich Streamer (App Store-Link) in das Apple Programm-Verzeichnis. Kostenlos, aus dem Hause ZodTTD, verarbeitet die 12MB-Anwendung jegliche Radio- und TV-Streams aus dem Internetz. Alles was sich über RTSP, MMS, HTTP, Shoutcast oder Icecast durch die Leitung quetscht, wird dargestellt. Die Benutzeroberfläche ist grausam banal. Für Videos wird leider kein Breitbildformat angeboten. AdMob-Werbung drängelt sich konstant in den Stream-Vordergrund. Wer jedoch einen kostenlosen ‘Allrounder’ für ‘offizielle’ und ‘inoffizielle’ Media-Quellen sucht, dem es egal ist ob mit und ohne WiFi-Netz Daten geschaufelt werden, lässt es auf einen Versuch ankommen. Read More

By now you have probably checked out most of the winners in each category from our first annual AppAwards, but now it is time for you to have a chance at winning some of these great apps.  We will be posting a series of short articles highlighting some of our favorite categories while also giving you a chance to win the app that won in that category.  First up, Most Innovative User Interface. The nominees for Most Innovative User Interface were: And the winner in this category was… Ocarina! Now we want to hear what you have to say about how the voting turned out.  Did you vote for Ocarina?  If so, why?  Tell us how you really feel!  By commenting, you will be entered for a chance to win a download code for Smule’s Ocarina.  The winner will be chosen randomly at the end of the day today (end of Read More

On Monday, June 22 Apple announced that six million customers downloaded the new iPhone OS 3.0 during its first five days of availability, which sounds like a lot but there are so many variables to take into account.  So what exactly is the adoption rate at this point, and should anyone be concerned? iPhone OS 3.0 has now been officially available for one week.  During the WWDC keynote, Apple announced that there were 4o+ million iPhone OS capable devices in the wild, which obviously includes the iPhone and iPod touch.  Of those 40+ million devices, six million have the new OS installed, which is about a 15 percent adoption rate.  It has already been a couple of days since the figures were announced, and you must also take into account that some of those 40+ million devices may not be in use anymore, so there are a lot of variables missing Read More

Am letzten Wochenende verkündete Apple (stolz) in einer Pressemitteilung, dass bereits über sechs Millionen Firmware 3.0-Updates heruntergeladen wurden. Nach lediglich fünf Tagen ist dies (zurecht) eine beeindruckende Adaptions-Rate. Doch nicht alleine die Server-Statistiken von Apple sollten in diesem Zusammenhang beachtet werden. Die Verfügbarkeit der ‘Gold Master’-Firmware, 1.5 Wochen vor dem offiziellen Downloadstart über iTunes, bestückt bestimmt auch das ein oder andere, bislang nicht-erfasste, iPhone. Tapbots, das Entwickler-Team hinter der stilsicheren Convertbot-App (0.79 €; App Store-Link), zeigt anhand seiner Anwendung die Migrationsrate auf iPhone-Firmware 3.0. Dabei sollen 75-Prozent derjenigen, die Convertbot verwenden, bereits auf Firmware 3.0 aktualisiert haben. Dies wird gemessen durch eine HTTP-Anfrage wenn das Programm gestartet wird. Daher noch einmal kurz der Hinweis bevor wir uns den Zahlen zuwenden: Gemessen wurden lediglich ‘Käufer’ der Convertbot-Anwendung, die das Programm innerhalb der letzten fünf Tage mindestens einmal gestartet haben. Ein interessanter Fakt springt gleich zu Beginn ins Auge. Nachdem die finale Gold Read More

By Jeremy Sikora, Thursday, May 21, 2009 | In today’s Apps For Less we found a few very worthy deals that you should definitely take advantage of. First up we have a gem of a game from Gameloft — you might have heard it? — [iTunes Link]. You should know that it is one to pick up, especially at it’s new low price of $5.99 (down from $9.99!) Not a bad deal at all. The fate of the Holy Land depends on you… Plunge into this direct prequel to the critically acclaimed game title, Assassin’s Creed™, offering rich gameplay and a well-balanced mix of stealth, chaotic action, and riddle-solving exploration in the midst of fully 3D-rendered historical environments of the Crusades’ Middle East This next game also comes to us from Gameloft, . [iTunes Link] You can now pick this one up for $.99! Great deal for an action packed, quality Read More

Kleine Verwirrung im mobilen App Store… Der sehr empfehlenswerte Einheiten- und Währungsumrechner Convertbot ist im Moment kostengünstig für 0.79 € im App Store (Link) zu erwerben. Während ‘The Sims 3′ ungeplant als Download eine Woche vor Verkaufsstart ins Internet tröpfelt, macht sich auch der kleine iPhone-Bruder bemerkbar. Ein erster EA-Trailer für das ‘Spiel mit Zusatz-Inhalten‘ erreichte das Netz. Wer auf experimentell Tonkunst steht, versucht sich mit mehreren Teilnehmern an ‘Bacterial Orchestra’ (kostenlos; App Store-Link). Das Programm verkauft sich als selbstorganisierender Musik-Organismus, der Klänge aus der Umgebung aufsaugt, durch verschiedenste Software-Filter jagt und am Ende versucht ein rhythmisches Geräusch-Ereignis zu fabrizieren. Die Entwickler organisieren in meiner ehemaligen Erasmus-Stadt Uppsala (Schweden) dazu am 06. Juni ein großes ‘Bacterial Orchestra’-Treffen. Alle iPhone- und iPodTouch-Besitzer sind herzlichst eingeladen aktiv teilzunehmen. Eminem – aka Slim Shady – himself verkündet via Twitter, dass sein neues Album ‘Relapse’ werbetechnisch mit einem iPhone-Spiel unterstützt wird. Musikalisch war es in Read More

By Rene Ritchie, Tuesday, Apr 21, 2009 | Tapbots, one of the most consistently innovative user experience-oriented development houses on the iPhone platform, just let us know they’ve updated their latest app, Convertbot (see our review), to version 1.1. Convertbot is for those who not only want to get things done, but who want to enjoy doing them. This update adds user-selectable enabling/disabling of categories/units as well as a TON (standard or metric! Convert to your choice!) of new categories/units and new currencies. What’s more, they’ve released Convertbot Mini as a Lite-as-in-FREE version of the app that gives you the same great UI, albeit without as many different units and categories (hey, it’s free and the full version is a steal at the introductory price!) Convertbot 1.1 ($0.99 – iTunes link) and Convertbot Mini (Free – iTunes link) are both available now. Read More

I haven't had much use for Tapbots' Weightbot, even though I actually am currently watching my weight, but I really appreciate the look and feel of the program -- it's one of the most polished apps on the App Store. And Convertbot is no different -- while the actual situations where I need to convert units are pretty few and far between, the app is just so intuitive and polished that you look for ways to use it, from the stylistic user interface to the little beeps and clinks that make the buttons feel as tactile as they can on the iPhone's touchscreen. And now there's even more opportunities to use the app: with the newest version 1.1, out now in the App Store, you can convert more than 100 different units, everything from angles to lengths to cooking volumes to even speed, time, and work (I can't remember the last Read More

By Matt Sawyers, Sunday, Apr 19, 2009 | ConvertBot is by Tapbots – the developers of WeightBot and for those of you that love the way the application operates, this one will not let you down. This is probably the sleekest conversion application I have seen with its cool animations and sounds. However, the only issues I ran into – it takes longer than I thought the program should take to load. At first I believed that it was the app itself checking an Internet connection to update the currency conversions, but when I put my iPhone in Airplane mode, it took just as long. But it is a good thing to note that even though the currencies could not update, the program is still usable. The sleek interface is what really makes this app so nice. This has to be the coolest working Conversion app for the iPhone. The “wheel” Read More