The nominations are in, and the poll is ready to go! The TUAW Best of 2011 awards are all about you -- the readers -- and what you think is the cream of the crop of Apple or third-party products and software. To vote, select one entry from the top nominations made by readers. We'll be announcing the winner in just a few days. Vote early and often! TUAW is asking for your votes for the best iPhone navigation app of 2011. The readers have spoken, and the nominees for best iPhone navigation app are (in no particular order) Motion X GPS Drive (US$0.99), Navigon ($29.99 for Navigon USA), the popular and free crowdsourced nav app Waze, and TomTom ($39.99 for TomTom USA). All of these apps have one thing in common -- they provide point-to-point navigation to points of interest. Another app that uses the iPhone's GPS capabilities but doesn't Read More

Traveler's Quest is an oldie but a goodie in the App Store -- it's a GPS-based treasure hunting map that will send you searching around your own area for virtual treasure with a game layer on top of it. It's simple to play and learn, but there's an addictive quality to hunting down and finding a certain location with your iPhone's GPS that will keep you playing while out and about, whether you're wandering around a vacation spot this summer or just exploring your own neighborhood. The app just got updated to version 3.0 as well, and the new version adds a whole list of interface improvements, along with a "Message in a Bottle" feature (allowing you to leave virtual messages along with any treasure you happen to claim -- kind of like virtual geocaching, and very fun) and some new Game Center achievements to chase after. Great app -- Traveler's Read More

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Traveler’s Quest, by Kitty Code, is a very interesting app that brings the virtual world into the real world – through virtual treasure hunting.  I’ve been a player of this game since about January, and can’t go a day without checking on this app.  The play of this game is quite simple:  You detect treasure using the Treasure Detector or go into the Store in the app and “buy” treasure maps for hidden treasures with Gold (the game’s currency). Then you find virtual treasures hidden throughout cities using the in-game map and GPS locations.  The closer you get to the treasure, the more bonus gold you get. The minimum distance to be able to “dig” the treasure is 1 Mile. The cool part about the app is, you don’t only get to FIND treasure, you also get to bury it.  You get a certain amount of gold per day your buried Read More

Some time ago I reviewed Geocaching – an app for enthusiasts of the likewise named sport. Geocaching is an activity centered around finding caches hidden by other enthusiasts. Participants use hints and the GPS coordinates to uncover the loot. This is a wonderfull hobby which even deserves to be named a sport. At the same time it has its limitations. The most important of which is: caches have to have been hidden by someone in the first place. And in some parts of the world it’s quite difficult to come across them. But now there is way for them to enjoy almost the same experience with virtual geocaching – Traveler’s Quest. The basic idea of Traveller’s Quest is the same as in geocaching – finding stuff hidden by other people. But all of this is done using augmented reality. That is – though the maps are real, the treasures buried are Read More

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