Netflix iPhone App in the Making?
March 5, 2010 – 5:48 am | No Comment

Netflix streaming app for the iPhone soon?
Popular movie streaming entity on the Internet, Netflix.com may be looking to expand its reaches to the mobile world and release its very own iPhone app in the near …

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Best Social Networking iPhone Apps You Should Download
March 10, 2010 – 1:52 pm | No Comment

Best Social Networking iPhone Apps You Should Download

Undeniably, the iPhone is one of the most powerful social networking tool. Some use it to stay in touch with friends via IM, some use it to blog on the go while some choose to share snapshots with friends. Regardless how or why you use your iPhone, I am sure you would benefit from this list of 20 of the best social networking apps for the Apple iPhone.

Twitter

  • Twittelator is one of the most comprehensive Twitter apps for the iPhones I’ve ever seen. It’s bursting at the seams with pleasing features including theme personalization, Tweet location search and full landscape mode.
  • I’ve been a fan of Tweetdeck for ages because it works so beautifully on my laptop, so why shouldn’t it do the same for me on my iPhone? The multiple panels are here to stay!
  • Another cool Twitter app for iPhone AND the iPod Touch is Twitter3D. Besides it’s pleasing 3D interface, it also features the most sought-after landscape browser in a Twitter app.
  • You’re never too busy to type out your Tweets, because now you can get the job done with TweetMic! What this great app does is  allows you to create Tweetcasts, which are audio recordings of your Tweets, and then publish them to Twitter!
  • LaTwit is a nifty microblogging tool for iPhone users – lightweight and yet packed with great features.


Facebook

  • The first choice is the official choice – the one and only original iPhone Facebook app, for FREE!
  • Touted as the most advanced Facebook sync engine for the iPhone, MyPhone+ for Facebook synchronizes between a visual contact list with your Facebook account, ensuring complete seamlessness.
  • Got photos you want to upload to Facebook? Now you can do so tireless with Facebook Pixster, including a witty caption that describes your pictures!
  • The Top Friends app lets you use Facebook Connect and labels your best friends as well, your best friends so that you can pretty much do anything to them, be it SuperPoke, scribble on their wall or SMS them.

Youtube

  • MyVideos lets you search, watch and store your favorite Youtube vids onto your iPhone without going through the hassle of extracting the vids manually.
  • Feeling very random on a particular day? Let Youtube Select for iPhone conjure up a list of the best videos for you. The videos are both of high quality and entertaining – promising you hours of fun watching videos you never knew existed on Youtube!
  • Aspiring video makers will love Tubey. This app lets you create videos and uploads directly to your Youtube or Facebook account so that you can immediately share your videos with your friends. Creating a video with apt background music and custom images cannot get any easier than this!
  • Face Melter Pro lets you have a bit of fun with images on your iPhone – tweak it anyway you like or distort your friends’ pictures, you’ll all have a laugh about it later once you create your own videos and upload it to Youtube.
  • MXTube is a no-frills app that lets you schedule your Youtube downloads and save favorite videos on  your iPhone. Lightweight, but nifty.


Flickr

  • Flickit lets you effortlessly upload photos to your Flickr account so that you can spend more time tagging and editing your pictures as well as assign sets for the hundreds, and possibly thousands of photos in your photostream!
  • Cooliris iPhone app features an awesome 3D wall that lets you search and browse Flickr photos to your heart’s content.
  • Uploading photos to Flickr via Flickup saves you time and effort. An added convenience allows you to post short links to Twitter – now that’s what I call multi-tasking!
  • NakedTouch is yet another pleasing app . A powerful photo editing tool, you can spend countless hours editing your photos to perfection and then upload them to Flickr.

Chat and misc. blogging apps

  • IM+ is the ultimate chat app for iPhone and iPod Touch users. All the main chat programs can be accessed via this no-nonsense app for a very low price
  • Nothing beats PicPosterous when it comes to posting photos to the Internet. With one single app, you can post your pictures AND blog about it anywhere, be it Twitter, Youtube, Picasa, Tumblr or Wordpress.


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Xachi Pets Add One More Reason to Own an iPhone
March 9, 2010 – 1:57 pm | No Comment
Xachi Pets Add One More Reason to Own an iPhone

Why do people buy iPhones? Is it because of the uber cool gadget that can do everything from amusing you with their many wondrous apps to getting you pregnant and saving your life during an …

Apple Weeds Out iPhone Apps That Copies Web Content
March 8, 2010 – 3:14 pm | No Comment
Apple Weeds Out iPhone Apps That Copies Web Content

Previously, Apple threw out some 5,000-odd iPhone apps out of the window because they were too risque and naughty in nature. Now they are rejecting iPhone apps that has “minimum user functionality”. According to TechCrunch, …

TigerText – The iPhone App That Tiger Woods Wish He Had
March 4, 2010 – 1:41 pm | No Comment
TigerText – The iPhone App That Tiger Woods Wish He Had

Cover your tracks
The world is still reeling over Tiger Woods’ string of adulterous affairs. So it’s no wonder that those very same people are the ones who are not very happy over the release of …

3 Useful Shortcuts for Your iPhone
March 3, 2010 – 12:34 pm | No Comment

Shortcuts are really handy to have when you want to save time and work, or play, efficiently. There are plenty of shortcuts for the iPhone that many have yet to discover. Here are some to …

3 iPhone Apps for a Better You
March 2, 2010 – 12:35 pm | No Comment
3 iPhone Apps for a Better You

1. Sleep Cycle Alarm Clock
“I only sleep 4-5 hours a day… 6 if my little one lets me!” I said. My friend found it mind-boggling how one can sleep so little and wake up straight …

New Opportunities for Drawing/Painting Apps on Apple’s iPad
March 1, 2010 – 12:42 pm | No Comment
New Opportunities for Drawing/Painting Apps on Apple’s iPad

The future is now… in the iPad
I remember the time when smartphones were unheard of. During that time, iPhones didn’t exist. We didn’t have apps to play with, and certainly there isn’t an App Store …

Is Apple Practicing Double Standards?
February 26, 2010 – 10:08 am | No Comment
Is Apple Practicing Double Standards?

Why Apple removed 5000-odd “offensive’ apps
In view of the recent purging of overtly sexy apps, Apple has come under fire for practicing double standards because not all adult-oriented iPhone apps were removed from their App …

Apple’s App Store – Unrivalled?
February 24, 2010 – 11:30 am | No Comment
Apple’s App Store – Unrivalled?

No one really knows how huge Apple’s App Store is until we see the figures right smack in our faces. Recently analytics expert Distimo revealed shocking figures that I suspect most of us already know …

Apple Says NO to iPhone Apps with Sexual Content
February 23, 2010 – 1:48 am | One Comment
Apple Says NO to iPhone Apps with Sexual Content

Apple goes “clean”
Twitter and the rest of the online community is abuzz with Apple deciding to purge sexual content from the App Store. If you’re looking to download that “sexy” iPhone app you’ve had your …

A Trip to the Moon with Official NASA iPhone App
February 22, 2010 – 3:24 pm | No Comment
A Trip to the Moon with Official NASA iPhone App

Fancy a trip to the moon? No, you don’t need to pay exorbitantly to be on board the Virgin Galactic’s plane for a suborbital flight, because all you need is your trusty Apple iPhone – …