by on 07. Feb, 2012 in If you didn’t find enough reasons to download Where To? in the past, then the guys at FutureTap just gave you five good reasons why this is a must have app. According to their website ”Where To? allows to easily find the closest and best rated restaurants, shops and services. With 700+ categories, 2,400+ brands and 10 languages, users are empowered to find all they need, everywhere on the world, in their own language. With its slick, intuitive user interface including a top-notch Augmented Reality view Where To? won several awards and was recently named App of the Week by Apple and featured in iTunes Rewind among the best navigation apps in 2011.” Where To? 4.1 adds integration with navigation apps Sygic, Waze, Navfree, Navmii and the Germany based Navigon Urban, in addition to the already available Navigon MobileNavigator, TomTom, MotionX GPS drive and Maps app. Read More

I've looked at Where To? before and found it to be a handy, easy to use local guide when I'm looking for anything from Art Galleries to the Zoo. It has info on nearby food, shopping, health care and attractions. The latest version of this app has added improvements to the animations in augmented reality mode, a new direction indicator, and support for Google Earth. It has connectivity to the Motion X GPS program for directions in addition to the existing TomTom and Navigon apps. Where To? also adds store hours when provided by a business. I found that many entries had that information. There's no shortage of these local info apps, and I've always liked Around Me which has some similar capabilities but without the links to nav apps. I like the improvements in this version of the Where To? app. It is an 11 MB download, works in 10 Read More

I've looked at Where To? in the past, and found it a well thought out way to find points of interest in your vicinity. Another plus is that it integrates with the Navigon and TomTom apps so that you can send information for precise navigation. Now the app has added a new wrinkle: augmented reality. Basically that means, in either portrait or landscape mode, your camera will activate, and points of interest in categories that you select can be seen layered over the real-time image. The closer the location, the bigger the marker. Generally, I think augmented reality is overblown and not all that helpful, but the developers of Where To? have overcome some of the hazards of the feature and made it easier to use. When lots of labels appear very close together, you can zoom in and move them apart. Improvements have also been made to eliminate compass lag, Read More

Die Offline-Kartenanwendung ‘OffMaps‘, an dieser Stelle bereits mit zahlreichen Erwähnungen, findet sich seit der vergangenen Nacht als komplett neues Programm im App Store. Sein Entwickler empfiehlt, den ersten Teil nicht mehr zu kaufen, lässt zwecks (Re-)Download die Software derzeit jedoch noch in iTunes verweilen. Ebenfalls mitgedacht: Besitzer der Vorgängerversion profitieren bei einer erneuten 79 Cent-Investition indem sie drei kostenlose Städtekarten erhalten. Alle Neukunden bekommen zum Start zwei Download-Städte und können sich weitere Pakete nachkaufen. Die ‘Guide’-Flatrate kostet 5 Euro; kleinere Bundles mit drei Zusatz-Landkarten kosten 79 Cent. Die Inhalte basieren weiterhin auf dem Kartenmaterial von OpenStreetMap. Es gibt keine Unterschiede mehr zwischen den eigentlichen Plänen sowie den aufgesetzten Reiseführer-Informationen. Dessen Auswahlmenü erinnert ‘stark’ an das Drehrad-Layout der FutureTap App ‘Wohin? – GPS Points of Interest‘ (2.39 €; App Store-Link). Bei Bedarf lassen sich Wikipedia-Infos inklusive Fotos dazuschalten. Mit den nun wesentlich kompakteren Karten-Ausschnitten, die sich leider nicht mehr individuell bestimmen lassen, Read More

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Navigon continues to be very aggressive at making its navigation platform a continued top seller for the iPhone. Today, the company announced an open app interface called AppInteract, which is a simple script that embeds a link into any app to launch Navigon's MobileNavigator. At the same time, it transfers any selected address into turn-by-turn directions. "For example, if you find a restaurant in an app that has implemented our AppInteract interface, you can get turn-by-turn directions to a chosen place instantly," said Gerhard Mayr, vice-president worldwide mobile phones and new markets for Navigon. "Our aim is to provide elegant and easy to use navigation solutions, for our customers, as well as to the developer community." The technology has already been embedded in the Where To? app that I've reviewed previously. Now every developer who wants the technology can get easy access to it. It's clear Navigon wants to become a Read More

Ortwin Gentz kaufte im Herbst 2008 die Chartstürmer-Anwendung ‘Where to?’ (2.39 €; App Store-Link) für 70.000 US-Dollar aus den TapTapTap-Entwicklerhänden. Ein Jahr nach der Übernahme wirft der neue Eigentümer im Firmenweblog einen Blick zurück. Viel Ärger und Scherereien gab es bei der praktischen Übertragung des Programms in ein anderes Verkäuferkonto. Durch den Akquisition stand die Anwendung für zirka zwei Monate nicht zum Verkauf und musste sich während der App Store-Goldgräberstimmung in der dortigen Hackordnung wieder nach oben arbeiten. Als effektivste Werbemaßnahmen beziffert FutureTap, sein jetziger Inhaber a) Mundpropaganda, b) App Store-Bewertungen und c) (Blog-)Berichterstattung. Bezahlte Reklame-Einblendungen über Werbeanbieter wie AdMob der Facebook generierten nur marginale Verkäufe (“with Admob and Facebook offering the worst value in terms of ad dollars spent per sale”). Herausgestellt wird außerdem der positive Effekt von Lokalisierungen, die durch ihre Übersetzung in die jeweilige Sprache eine erhöhte Adaptionsrate genießen sollen. Read More

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This application could well become a little black book for us to refer to every time we need to go somewhere, because it helps us to find places to go to. FutureTap claims that Where To?  – GPS points of interest is like a ‘traditional GPS device built right into our iPhone.’ We shall see if the application lives up to that claim. The user interface is clean and friendly looking enough, and quite ingenuous too. The main interface opens up to display an old-fashioned dial-up phone interface, with the different categories making up the ‘numbers’ on it. There are eleven categories; Food & Drink, Entertainment, Travel & Transportation, Health & Medical, etc. Once we have chosen the category we are interested in simply by tapping on it, it takes us to a list of several sub categories again. For example, Food & Drink throws up options like Bakeries, Canadian, Ice Read More

In what appears to be a happy marriage, Where To? for the iPhone [iTunes link] now talks to the Navigon GPS app. You can select a category or search for a business and then transfer that information directly to the Navigon app for turn-by-turn directions. If you don't have Navigon, you get Google Maps directions instead. This is a nice update because the Navigon POI (points of interest) database is contained on the app, while Where To? relies on Google information. This way you get the best of both worlds, with up to date POI info that can easily be picked up the the Navigon app for a pretty seamless experience. While checking the app on a drive around town I found it quick and easy to find some specific places to shop. Restaurants are broken down into categories, including things like cuisine categories or other criteria like "all you can Read More

iTunes connect will be unavailable December 23 through the 29, likely to give their employees a proper winter vacation. Who knows they might be planning something for when they come back, but there are currently no rumors surfacing. Where To? – GPS points of interest uses Navigon’s API in their latest 2.5 update, to bring us one of the best location finders out there. App of the Day: FunMail Just type a text or facebook message and let Funmail’s Media Brain analyze your text. Funmail’s media library contains an ever growing collection of funny cartoons, edgy graphics and funny photos. Check it out for free now. Read More

8 Dec 2009 alle 21:42 Oggi, due importanti società come quella di NAVIGON con il suo MobileNavigator e FutureTap con l’applicazione “Dove?” hanno scelto di collaborare insieme per migliorare ulteriormente i due software tramite un supporto combinato. In altre parole, la nuova versione 2.5 di “Dove?” è ancora in grado di cercare i punti di interesse che vogliamo raggiungere ma in aggiunta può anche lanciare il MobileNavigator, impostando automaticamente le coordinate d’arrivo, in maniera tale da condurci fino a destinazione! La collaborazione e l’interazione tra due o più applicazioni a mio avviso è una cosa utile e piacevole per cui speriamo continuino a verificarsi dei casi di questo genere. Read More

Where To? [iTunes link] is a nice destination finder for the iPhone. The latest version is on sale on the App Store through today for US$0.99. Note: The iTunes store says it works on an iPod touch, but some people are reporting it won't install. It cleverly integrates maps, a web browser, and a tracking mode to show new points of interest as you move. You can share destinations that you find with email, SMS and the clipboard. You can also search any one of 600 categories or ask the app to surprise you with, for example, a restaurant recommendation. The app supports English, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. How did it work? Pretty well. It's nice to have all the tools you need in one app, although one of my favorite apps, AroundMe [iTunes link] integrates maps, but has no browser. AroundMe is free. It would be Read More

12 Aug 2009 alle 12:00 Voto Utenti: [ratings] è un utility disponibile in AppStore tramite la quale possiamo ricercare vari punti di interesse posti nelle vicinanze, basandoci sulla geolocalizzazione automatica. Dove? (Where To?) si presenta è dotata di un’ottima interfaccia che mostra in maniera circolare tutte le categorie dei vari punti di interesse (POI). Ecco le principali caratteristiche di Dove? (Where To?): Proprio ieri l’applicazione è stata aggiornata con nuove funzioni: la prima riguarda l’implementazione delle Mappe mentre la seconda consiste nel Browser interno così che l’utente potrà sempre rimanere all’interno dell’applicazione per consultare la mappa dei risultati o per dare uno sguardo ai corrispettivi siti internet. Insieme all’aggiornamento, FutureTap, presenta un incredibile offerta, infatti, Dove? (Where To?) è stata scontata a 0.79€ fino al 23 Agosto (successivamente tornerà al prezzo originario di 2.39€). ATTENZIONE: Tutti coloro che hanno acquistato l’applicazione prima del 23/06/09 dovranno PAGARE L’AGGIORNAMENTO al costo di 0.79€. A Read More

By Jeff Scott on August 10th, 2009 Civilization Revolution released, Where To? Updated, some new games and promos. While AT&T was quietly changing your contract in their favor, of course, we’ve been scouring the tubes for app store news. Civilization Revolution SId Meier’s Civilization Revolution comes to the iPhone. We teased the release of this game on Friday, and now it’s here (a day early). We first saw Civilization Revolution during WWDC. 2K Games came down to San Francisco to show it off to press under a strict embargo. What we saw then was impressive, but we couldn’t talk about it. This is actually the real thing. The real Civilization Revolution by the real Sid Meier. Civilization Revolution, for those unfamiliar, is a long play turn based strategy game and is the latest in a long line of games of this genre from Sid Meier. Released last year for the XBox Read More