School’s out and it’s time for a break from work. Curious which are the absolute best apps and games to take with you on your much deserved summer vacation? Odds are you’ll want to share your adventures, brush up on local attractions, and stay connected while you’re having fun. Luckily there are tons of apps available in the App Store that makes organizing and sharing your vacation from your iPhone super simple. Whether you want informational apps for your own use or social apps to share, we’ve got you covered. Read on for TiPb’s top 10 most recommended, most must-have summer vacation apps to get your started. For regular everyday check-ins, I typically use Foursquare. But for trips, Gowalla wins hands down. It acts as somewhat of a “digital passport”. They offer stamps and pins for completing trips and checking in at certain places (similar to Foursquare badges). You can also Read More

By Leanna Lofte, Friday, Jun 3, 2011 | Every day, TiPb gets flooded with announcements for new and updated iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad apps and games. So every day we pick just a few of the most interesting, the most notable, and simply the most awesome to share with you! Gowalla: Now with an enhanced activity feed, a streamlined UI for adding photos, an option to automatically connect with Facebook friends, and more! [Free - iTunes link] Photogene for iPad: Now with localized effects (like masking), a collage maker, compare mode, Picasa support, and more! [$2.99 - iTunes link] Waterlogged: Now you can share your progress on Twitter, premium users can backup their data, and add negative amounts for activities that mean you should drink more water. [Free, with in-app purchases iTunes link] Week Calendar: See all your appointments for the week in one neatly organized overview. Update to 3.1 Read More

Careful watchers of the top charts on the App Store have noticed an interesting trend over the weekend with various apps inexplicably substantially changing position. Previously (and possibly still currently) Apple seemed to use the number of downloads an app had to form both the top free and paid lists. While this method might have made sense originally, gaming these download-only lists has turned into a remarkably profitable enterprise for those that have apps with a large install base which also have a way to push users into downloading other apps. If you've played a freemium game lately that offered some kind of benefit for downloading a completely different game, chances are the developer behind the title you're being incentivized into downloading paid the original developer a bucket full of money for that promotion. For both developers it's a win/win situation, one (often) gets a fat stack of cash while the Read More

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By Leanna Lofte, Wednesday, Mar 2, 2011 | Every day, TiPb gets flooded with announcements for new and updated iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad apps and games. So every day we pick just a few of the most interesting, the most notable, and simply the most awesome to share with you! Gowalla: Update 3.1 allows the ability to check-in and upload a photo at the same time and more! [Free - iTunes link] Super Slobber Dog: This game is “like a Saturday morning cartoon mixed with pong and brick breaker.” [$1.99 - iTunes link] MAKEaDEAL: This app enables shoppers to make their own personalized deals on local merchandise with 85 National Retailers to save money. [$2.99 - iTunes link] Motion Doctor: This iPad app contains 60 professionally shot videos that showcase the proper form for various physical therapy exercises. [$14.99 - iTunes link] BrowserCam: Discretely take photos while browsing the web Read More

By Leanna Lofte, Sunday, Feb 20, 2011 | Every week a few of us from team TiPb will bring you our current favorite, most fun and useful App Store apps, WebApps, jailbreak apps, even the occasional accessory, web site, or desktop app if the mood strikes us. As long as they’re iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch related, they’re fair game. To see what we picked, and to tell us your pick, follow on after the break! Do you listen to or watch podcasts? Do you want a choice of storing them on your device (when you want), or streaming (if you want)? Do you want to be able to search from thousands of podcasts by name or genre? Do you want it all? Then you need Mediafly. Download the free Mediafly player, and set up a free account online. It is from your online account that you will choose what podcasts Read More

Posted 01/21/2011 at 2:30pm | by Florence Ion Here at Mac|Life headquarters, we believe that sharing is caring. That's right: every bit of news that we could possibly want our colleagues to be privy to, we shout it out loud from the industrial-sized soapboxes stashed away under our desks. And when we can't physically make proclamations here at the office, we do so with our Macs and iOS devices on the go. In this edition of Free App Friday, we're featuring three apps that'll help you get the word out about whatever it is you've got going on, and keep you in the know about your neighbor's agenda, too. If you're a fan of independent music and homemade dance mixes, SoundCloud is a pretty nifty music service that gives you access to a ton of shared music. The desktop application is available in the Mac App Store and enables you to Read More

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Just a quick update: Gowalla has released update 3.0.1 which has fixed the crashing problem on devices running WinterBoard, a jailbreak app that lets you customize the look of your iPhone. Of course it doesn’t say that in the despcription but I tested it and it’s working now. I’m on an iPhone 4, jailbroken running WinterBoard. The update also includes speed, efficiency, text and design improvements. 3.0.1 includes bug fixes and improvements to the just-released Gowalla 3. - fixed issues with creating a new spot - improved the initial launch experience - improved the speed and efficiency of location updates - other text and design improvements Read More

Apple has compiled a list called their 2010 Rewind. In it, they have named the top Apps of the year, and gathered them all up into one page so that they can easily be found. Let’s take a look at their top Apps in each category. On this list, you will find Apple’s best apps of 2010. Everything from best iPhone games of 2010 to best educational apps of 2010. Note that these are not our picks (though many of our favorites did make the list) but it’s a compilation of Apple’s favorite Apps of the 2010. Let’s take a look at Apple’s iTunes 2010 rewind: Shoot, Edit, Share – Best of iPhone Camera Utility Apps of 2010 1) Hipstamatic – 99 cents      2) Path – Free 3) Instagram – Free 4) Pocketbooth – 99 cents 5) iMovie – $4.99      6) Splice – Video Editor – 99 cents 7) Read More

By Chad Garrett, Thursday, Dec 9, 2010 | Gowalla version 3 in now available in the App Store. This is the most significant update Gowalla has released for iPhone. So what are some of the new features? For starters there is a completely new interface. At fist, I found it a little confusing, but I can navigate OK now. Beyond the interface overhaul, the most exciting new feature has to be notes. You can leave notes for your friends at a location. So, the next time they check in at your favorite restaurant, they will be notified that a note was left for them. The notes feature is cool, but I would have liked to have seen it taken a step further and have public notes. As it is, you can add a Highlight, one of Gowalla’s newer features that was previously available on the Web. Another new feature is the Read More

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It would appear as if the Gowalla iPhone app has gotten quite a bit more useful for those looking to check-in to multiple location based services at the same time. The latest update for the Gowalla app brings the version up to 3.0 and is described as being “re-imagined from the ground up.” In reality, they have added a bunch of new features, of which probably the most interesting is the ability to connect your Foursquare and Facebook accounts. In addition you can also now share your location check-ins on Twitter, Foursquare, Facebook Places and Tumblr. Other new features include; And in addition, several items including image uploads, Spot creation and browsing friends have all been improved. Read More

This past March, I came home from SXSW with a problem. The so-called “location war” hadn’t yielded one check-in service to rule them all. In fact, several new ones popped up just at that conference alone. Check-in fatigue set in. Since then, the problem has only gotten worse. Now Facebook has launched itself right smack dab in the middle of the location space with Places. And others like Yelp are still pushing hard there. It’s getting even more out of control. I’m about ready to declare check-in bankruptcy. Or I was, until Gowalla decided to do something bold. The location-based service has decided to fundamentally altered their app to allow you to check-in to not only their service, but also into Facebook’s and even Foursquare’s as well. Yes, they’ve just become compatible with their chief rivals. Gowalla 3.0, launching today for the iPhone, is the biggest change the service has undergone Read More

(CNN) -- Seth Priebatsch was at a burrito joint in Boston recently when a message popped up on his smartphone from an app called SCVNGR. If he opened the foil on the burrito ever so carefully and turned the wrapper into a piece of origami art -- and if he uploaded a picture of his creation to the app, the note said, then he would earn points toward a free burrito. Priebatsch thought: That might be fun. "I made a really weak origami crane, because I'm no origami artist myself," he said, but "it got me closer to unlocking a free burrito, which was cool." SCVNGR, which Priebatsch helped create, is one of the latest apps to build on top of the idea of a "check-in," that emerging term some tech-savvy people use to describe the act of using a GPS-enabled smartphone to share their whereabouts with friends. Increasingly, app developers Read More

Late Wednesday evening, Facebook added a location check-in feature to their hugely popular iPhone app. “Places” is the official title, and the social media kingpin is expected to be the eventual champion of such (GPS) location based utilities. Similar applications allow you to publicly announce your whereabouts, with Gowalla and Foursquare among the most popular. At least they were. The Washington Post is among the seemingly endless sources that report once a user “Checks In”, their location is broadcasted on both their personal and public feed. Security adjustments can be made within your profile to change just how known your want your movements to be. This seems certain to be a dagger to Foursquare and company, but Facebook’s approach doesn’t have the add-ons that other apps have. In Foursquare, you’re awarded various badges and even mayorships based on the frequency and uniqueness of your visits. Places seems to simply announce your position Read More

Editor’s note: This guest post is written by Alex Ahlund, the former CEO and founder of AppVee and AndroidApps, which were acquired by mobile application directory Appolicious. About this time last year, he gave us his picks of the best iPhone apps of 2009 up until then, so we thought we’d make it an annual tradition. I’ve been involved in the iPhone app industry since it first began in 2008 and I have to say that it has come a long way. I’ve seen it grow from a meager launch of 500 applications in the App Store to currently over 225,000. In only two years, the industry has matured at hyperspeed. It spawned an entire ecosystem to support it from a multitude of news and editorial resources to developer engines, promotional services and ancillary niches. With over five billion app downloads and a billion dollars at stake, it’s no surprise that Read More

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By Allyson Kazmucha, Wednesday, Jul 7, 2010 | 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! Bing is relatively new to the search game, but it’s definitely holding it’s own. As far as search engines go, I’m a fan of how Bing is organized and how it now interacts with your social networks. Bing is now updated for iOS4 support (mainly multitasking). There was no talk of support for the retina display Read More

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Google announced a new feature this week that lists apps in mobile search results. When searching for an app by name from your iPhone (it works with Android too, naturally), the top result is a link to the app's home in the App Store. In addition to the link, you get information like rating, publisher and price. That's the idea, at least. I got limited results in my own testing. "Shazam Download" produced the expected result, but searching for Twitterrific didn't. I tried adding "download," "app," "iPhone," and other qualifiers to no avail. Likewise, searching "Bank of America App" worked, but variations on "Gowalla" did not. Google notes that "The mobile app results will only be returned when relevant, well-rated apps are found," but who knows what that actually means. This feature is limited to the USA for now, but Google promises that it's in the works for other countries. [Via Read More

By Chad Garrett, Tuesday, May 11, 2010 | Gowalla for iPhone is a social app from some fine folks in Austin, TX that allows you to check-in to locations, see where your friends are checking-in, collect items and complete trips. For those of you not familiar with the whole “check-in” craze, the idea is you travel around town, land at a “spot” such as the movie theater, gas station or restaurant, and then tap the Check-in button. When you do this a couple things happen: You can… There are some great social aspects to Gowalla, but let’s first talk about items. After installing Gowalla on the iPhone, you receive three items. You can keep and cheris these items in a vault, never to be used, or you can swap for other items at Spots when you check in. You are also randomly given items when you check into locations. I found Read More

Últimamente, se han puesto de moda las redes sociales de localización para móviles, en los que tenemos que ir haciendo “check-ins” en los lugares donde vamos, para ir ganando medallas y saber donde están nuestro amigos. Actualmente, los más usados son y , ambos con aplicación nativa para el iPhone, ambos bastante parecidos pero con ciertas diferencias. En ambos casos, podemos dejar comentarios en los lugares donde vamos, pero en Gowala, además, podemos subir una foto del lugar. Los premios que ganamos al ir acumulando “check-ins” son diferentes, en foursquare son medallas y en Gowalla son objetos cotidianos, como un juego de maletas o una guitarra. El diseño de Gowalla está muy cuidado, siendo muy intuitivo y más bonito que en Foursquare. Las aplicaciones de iPhone son bastante parecidas, permitiéndonos ver las últimas localizaciones de nuestros amigos, hacer “check-ins” y publicarlos en twitter o facebook , añadir amigos, hacer comentarios, ver Read More

Risikokapitalgeber Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) verdoppelt zwecks anstehender iPad-Veröffentlichung seinen iFund und investiert jetzt $200 Millionen US-Dollar in App Store-Entwicklungsprojekte. Der iFund war im März 2008 mit $100 Millionen US-Dollar gestartet. Großspurig hieß es zur damaligen Zeit, dass man mit einer solchen Finanzierung “ein Duzend Amazons.com oder vier Googles” starten könnte. Exakt zwei Jahre nach dieser Ankündigung ist von den kleinen Finanzspritzen an unabhängige Entwickler nicht viel zu sehen. KPCB zieht trotzdem ein mehr als positives Fazit. Der iFund hat sich 14 (!) Firmen gewidmet und erwartet daraus Umsätze von $100 Millionen Dollar im laufenden Geschäftsjahr 2010. Spielentwickler Ngmoco (Rolando II, Eliminate Pro, We Rule, etc.) und das kalifornische Start-Up Gogii (textPlus) Inc sind zweifelsohne erfolgreiche Exemplare. Die einen zeichnen sich durch gute Spiele aus, die anderen durch einen kostenfreien SMS-Service. Ansonsten alles düster im iFund-Land. Hat schon einmal jemand von gehört? Deren Anwendungen ‘Hottest Apps’, ‘Slime Ball Lite’ Read More

Everyone watching or reading this review knows that social media has a large presence on the internet and in most ways has become the way we find news or things that interest us. With services like Facebook, Foursquare, Twitter, and more, there are hundreds of ways to find places, news, friends and other interesting things. Gowalla is yet another service looking to change the way we use our community and wants to give users an experience that makes it fun to visit new areas. If any of you are familar with the service called Foursquare, you will immediately recognize the premise of this app. After creating an account, users will then "Check In" to different locations they visit throughout their weeknights and weekends. Checking in to a location will earn different stamps for a users passport. Various trips can also be completed that have been created for users. These trips have Read More

Amybeth Hale is a Talent Attraction Manager with AT&T’s Interactive Staffing team. She uses social technology to help drive awareness of job opportunities as well as interact with candidates. Connect with her on Twitter at @researchgoddess. As conference season is upon us (including SXSW, of course), I began thinking about all the things one might need to survive and stay connected with a busy schedule of travel and networking. Personally, I’m headed to San Diego to attend both SourceCon and the ERE Spring Expo. Then I remembered that I’m the proud owner of an iPhone, and that almost everything I’ll need to make it through is easily accessible and at the tip of my fingers. Here are some of the apps which I believe will help you navigate, stay connected, and meet new friends when you attend a conference. If you’re the ultimate procrastinator and you haven’t yet booked a hotel, Read More

Agile Web Solutions, das Team hinter 1Password, zeigt weitere Mockups der zukünftigen iPad-Version. Die Standardausführung von 1Password (App Store-Link) für das iPhone steht dieser Tage kostenlos im App Store. Photoshop Disasters entdeckt ‘Unregelmäßigkeiten’ in den Fotomontagen des iPhones, die Apple in seiner hier abgebildeten Form immer noch verwendet. Wem geht das Licht als erstes auf? Wer findet den Fehler? 9to5mac gräbt neue Plist-Einträge aus dem kürzlich aktualisierten iPhone 3.2 Beta 4 SDK. Die Dateien sollen sich im ‘Gesten’-Ordner befinden und mit den Bezeichnungen ’3Tap.plist’ sowie ‘LongPress.plist’ auf zukünftige Hand- und Fingerbewegungen hindeuten. Google Voice, hierzulande immer noch kein Thema, erhält mit VoiceCentral eine Webanwendung, die sich lokal auf den Homescreen ablegen lässt. Entgegen der offiziellen Web-Benutzung kommt ein größeres Spektrum an Gesten zum Einsatz, sowie ein verbessertes Caching-System zur beschleunigten Navigation. Als Jailbreak-Anwendung hatten wir Ende Januar GV Mobile im großen Google Voice-Überblick vorgestellt. Eine offizielle Google-Anwendung hat es seit dem Read More

Regular readers will know my love for all things location. In particular, these check-in location-based services fascinate me, mainly because I see them as a bridge between social networks as we’ve known it, and actual social interaction in the real world. Foursquare has been my app of choice over the past year (it launched almost exactly a year ago at SXSW). But the latest version of Gowalla has me thinking about switching sides. At the very least, I’ll be using both at all times now. Gowalla version 2.0 for the iPhone just hit the App Store today. With it, you’ll notice a few different things. First and foremost, the overall look has been updated from a sort of Army green, to a more subtle light green that is much easier on the eyes. More significantly, the toolbar has been reworked so that now social activity is front and center when you Read More

We talked about Loopt‘s update first thing this morning and yet, surprisingly, its update still hasn’t actually hit the App Store yet allowing Gowalla and Foursquare to beat them to the punch. Gowalla v2.0 first and foremost features a new design that is said to be more readable and usable than ever.  You are also now allowed to upload photos after checking in and browse photos from friends, and checkins can now be commented on.  Speaking of checkins, you are now able to come back and add checkin messages for instances where you have skipped typing a checkin message because you just didn’t have enough time. Other Gowalla 2.0 features include: Gowalla‘s competition, Foursquare, also received a bit of a facelift today in v1.7, featuring quite a bit more color and a lot less black.  But unlike Gowalla, the rest of Foursquare‘s additions are fairly minimal, only including faster and more Read More

There's a growing battle lately on the App Store over "check-in" apps -- Foursquare, Gowalla, and MyTown have all seen big gains in users lately (and a few other contenders have been roaming the periphery), and it looks like we're starting to see some innovation in the mix. Gowalla recently updated their free app [iTunes link], and introduced a new feature called Shared Trips. These are more or less tours (or a line of check-ins at different places around a given city), but they can feature all kinds of things: a set of bars, interesting buildings to see, the old bookstore/coffeeshop run, or any other ideas Gowalla users have. Trips can be shared and rated, and you'll be able to browse through the most popular trips and even earn badges in the app for creating or going on a popular trip. The new version also adds bookmarks, which will let you Read More

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Leena Rao currently works as a writer for TechCrunch. She recently finished graduate school at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where she studied business journalism and videography. From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was... → Learn More Chorus, the recently launched iPhone app that helps you discover other apps, is revealing the most recommended apps from their community. Developed by envIO Networks, Chorus is sort of like a mobile social network based around the apps that your friends have downloaded and lets you tap into your existing social networks, such as Facebook and Twitter, to share with your friends. The app features real-time feeds from your designated friends (those who have also downloaded Chorus and whom you have friended) displaying the apps they are downloading, and Read More

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For some time now, it has seemed like Foursquare was the only game in town. I mean “game” literally, as of the major location-based services, Foursquare seemed to be the only one really emphasizing gaming elements. But now Gowalla is starting to emphasize it more. To be fair, Gowalla has had a sort of sub-game based around the dropping and picking up of items (basically, virtual goods) since the beginning. But in the latest build of its iPhone app which hit the App Store today, version 1.3, there are some new gaming aspects. The first is that items now have histories attached to them. This allows you to see who has had an item before you in a city. Looking over some of my items now, it’s actually pretty interesting to see that I know some people who have some of them before me. While at first the idea behind including Read More

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Foursquare is the location-based iPhone app getting a lot of love in the press (and from VCs) these days. And while there is no shortage of location social networking apps in the App Store, Foursquare works well on the platform because it’s based on the active checking-in to venues, which is perfect since the iPhone doesn’t allow apps to run in the background (though Loopt has a workaround). While Brightkite has also long been in this space, it’s been a while since any new viable competitors have come along. But we recently got two more: Gowalla and Going. Going Going, which is an app made by AOL’s Going.com site, has one great feature going (see what I did there) for it. When you check in to a place you can set a “How is it right now?” slider to tell your friends either “Don’t Come”, “Eh”, or “Get Here Now” (or Read More

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