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TapTilt, the iPhone Magazine App You’ve Been Waiting For

Brian — Fri, 07 May 2010 21:48:16 +0000

Today, I wanted to bring attention to a brand new iPhone Magazine app, TapTilt, now available at the iTunes App Store. TapTilt is your on phone iPhone Magazine App, that highlights the very best iPhone apps. TapTilt explores various categories of iPhone apps, while providing tips, in-depth reviews and just plain fun and useful stuff you’ll love.

Browsing through the App Store can be a bit overwhelming. There are just too many dang apps? How do you find the best? TapTilt does all the work for you. I personally love this app and am proud to say I’m one of the contributing writers (Take Me Out to the Ball Game).

TapTilt ($1.99) is currently rated an average of 5 stars, with 10 reviews.

In this very first edition, you’ll find the following high quality and engaging content;

Take Me Out to the Ball Game – Yours truly reviews 5 of the absolute best Baseball iPhone Apps to take with you to the ballpark. This is my top 5 out of over 100 I’ve tested out.

Art & the iPhone - Author Kyllea Kerg explores the Brushes app, showing you the magic of this beautiful app. This app is just so cool!

Green Thumb Apps – Author Lynda Andrews-Barry presents the most useful Green apps. She chose the best out of more than 80 apps she screened and you’re going to love her work and these great apps.

Weekly Game Reviews – This week, All-in-1 Gamebox gets a very entertaining video review. You have to see this video!

Weekly Music Review – Kanye West’s Vampire Weekend is featured in this month’s TapTilt edition.

Cartoon – Wait til you see the “Social Media Meet-up” cartoon. I’d fit right in with my iPad in hand.

iMazing – Did you know the iPhone can save lives, help the autistic, drive cars and even save relationships? Author Angela Soric brings you iMazing, a focus feature on all the strange apps and interesting ways you can use your iPhone.

Need more? Additional sections of this awesome magazine include iPhoneography, Travel, Tips and Tricks and Wallpaper of the Week.

Here’s the full description from the App Store

“TapTilt — The magazine, evolved.

This isn’t a print magazine converted to digital text. TapTilt is the first publication written specifically for users of the iPhone and iPod Touch and designed to take full advantage of the multimedia capabilities of the devices. Published on Sideway’s M3 platform, it explores topics and conveys information in ways that other magazines can’t.

This inaugural issue features articles on baseball, gardening, and a fingerpainting app that’s been used to make New Yorker covers, all told through the most appropriate medium — text, video, audio. In addition, the issue includes regular columns on travel, iPhone photography, tips on getting the most out of your device, and more.

TapTilt is a monthly publication, but new music and game reviews, as well as free wallpapers and ringtones, will be updated weekly.

You’ve entered the age of digital multimedia. Wouldn’t you like something to read while you’re here?”

Please do check out the new magazine app and let me know what you think. You can also follow TapTilt on Facebook.

How to Grab Screencaps With Your iPhone or iPod Touch

Brian — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:00:31 +0000

While the iTunes Application Store has an app for just about anything, if you want to get screencaps of your device, no app is necessary. It’s simple to do, but surprisingly few know about this built in functionality.

iPhone – Hold in the Home button and press the Sleep button

iPod Touch – Hold in the Home button and press the Lock button

Once you execute these steps, you’ll see a white flash. This white flash is your device taking a picture of your screen. The pictures are then saved in your Photos. You can e-mail these screencaps to yourself for use on your computer. I also browsed the iPhone Applications and found few screencap applications. With this built in functionality, an application really isn’t necessary.

5 Elite iPhone Music Apps – Stream Radio, Find that Tune, Personalize & More

Brian — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:25:30 +0000

The iPhone has revolutionized the way we talk, listen to music, watch movies and tv shows and even take pictures. With the iPhone and iPod Touch, we’re always connected. Thanks to the iTunes App Store, we can transform our iPhones into just about anything we want. Though the App Store is extensive, you can be overwhelmed with the number of Apps to choose from. The available iPhone Music Apps are solid, but which are the best? It’s all subjective, but I wanted to share 5 of my favorite iPhone Music Apps. You can use these Apps to get streaming radio, identify a song, create a personalized radio station and even transform your iPhone into a flute. Enjoy!

Pandora Radio 2.0.2 (FREE) 3.5 Stars, 96,628 ratings, 3811 reviews, .5MB

Free personalized radio you can stream from your iPhone. Simply type in the name of an artist or song and Pandora creates a personalized radio station. This App is also integrated with the web version of Pandora Radio, so you can use your already existing account.

Wunder Radio 1.8 ($6.99) 4 Stars, 917 ratings, 153 reviews, 4.3MB

Listen to over 30,000 radio stations on your iPhone or iPod Touch. Play your favorite local stations, listen to live sports commentary, search for stations by genre, use GPS to generate a list of local stations, send Tweets to your favorite DJs and radio stations and more.

Midomi Music Identifier and Search 2.2 (Ultra) ($4.99) 3.5 Stars, 913 ratings, 117 reviews, 1.3MB

Listen to songs and identify them by holding your iPhone up to the speaker and find the name of the song in 5 seconds. You can also sing or hum a tune and Midomi can identify the song, along with top songs and similar artists. You can also purchase the song on iTunes, search for lyrics or share it with a friend.

Ocarina 1.3.1 ($0.99) 3.5 Stars, 5102 ratings, 172 reviews, 2.6MB

This App turns your iPhone or iPod Touch into a flute. It’s sensitive to your breath, touch and movements. Just blow air into your Microphone to create music, touch combinations of holes to play notes, tilt to change vibrato rate and depth & more.

Shazam 1.7 (FREE) 4 Stars, 32922 ratings, 1737 reviews, 0.6MB

Identify music, buy them and share them with a friend. Use tags, view your tags on a map, tweet your tags and much more.

What do you think about the Music Apps listed above? Any favorites I missed? As always, your feedback is appreciated.

10 Best FREE Twitter iPhone Apps & iPod Touch Apps

Brian — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:54:23 +0000

If you visit the iPhone App Store, you’ll notice there are countless iPhone Apps and iPod Touch Apps. It’s nice that they have the App store completely loaded with Apps for anything and everything, but the problem is that there are far too many Applications. I wanted to use this posting to sort through the SuperWalmart of Apps and toss the crap and pull out the very best of the Free Twitter Applications. In no particular order, here’s my top 10.

TweetDeck for iPhone – 3.5 Stars, 12,430 Ratings

“Create groups, search Twitter, manage multiple accounts and easily post your tweets or share photos, links and much more. Plus sync your existing TweetDeck columns between your desktop and iPone.”

Twitterrific – 3.5 Stars, 4214 Ratings

“Manage multiple accounts, searches & trends, unified timeline displays replies, direct messages, favorites & more. Filter timelines for different tweet types instantly. Easily view conversation threads between users. Customizable visual themes & layout styles. Powerful tweet actions such as RT, URL shortening, email, text compression & others.”

12Cast – 3.5 Stars, 111 Ratings

“The most popular video platform on Twitter…easy, fun way to share quick videos with your Twitter friends…No special 12seconds account is needed, just your Twitter account.”

TwitterFon – 3.5 Stars, 2177 Ratings

“Easy to do common Twitter tasks such as viewing your friends, messages, replies and favorites. TwitterFon has a powerful tweet-authoring screen that lets you write tweets, take photos, record video and update your current location…You can search Twitter, view trending topics and find user profiles easily from the search tab.”

VR+ Voice for Twitter/Facebook/Blogger/MySpace – Lite - 3 Stars, 282 Ratings

“VR+ is a very quick and simple way to send people a voice mail without having to call them on the phone…On-the-fly conversation to MP3 ensures the recordings can be played on any Mac, PC or mobile. Let your friends in Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and Blogger hear what you have to say.”

Blueberry Browser (Web Browser with Twitter) – 4 Stars, 8 Ratings

This browser is made for Twitter users…hides your web pages history…supports Twitter SearchBar…supports Open in Safari…supports Twitter Actions…supports @ Mentions.

TwitVid – 3.5 Stars, 95 Ratings

“TwitVid lets you tweet videos directly from your iPhone 3GS…Select or Record a Video, Insert a Tweet, Click Post and let your video upload. A link to your video, along with your tweet, will automatically be posted to your Twitter account.”

Snap2Twitter – 3 Stars, 22 Ratings

“Use Snap2Twitter to instantly take a photo with your iPhone, or use an existing picture on your iPhone or iPod Touch, optionally add some text and upload it as a tweet to Twitter.”

Zensify - 3 Stars, 78 Ratings

“View all your social networks in one timeline (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, Digg, Delicious, Photobucket, 12seconds). Find trends in your social graph. Update Twitter and Facebook at the same time. Upload and share mobile photos with your friends via Twitter and Facebook.”

GhettoTweets – Mayne – 3.5 Stars, 151 Ratings

“Send tweets in gangsta slang automatically. Automatically converts your friends tweets into gangsta slang. Quick ReTweet in gangsta. Quick reply in gangsta.

My personal favorites are TweetDeck and Twitteriffic. I hated to add GhettoTweets to the list, but for what it is, it works quite well. What do you think of the list? Which Free Twitter iPhone Applications would have made your list?