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MyStatusMonkey Organizes Your Social Networking Posts
MyStatusMonkey Organizes Your Social Networking Posts is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website
Price: $.99 Score: 9/10 By Nancy Jones
The iPhone has made keeping up with your social media contacts easier than ever. You can, one at a time, open the apps for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Tuenti, Bebo and iWikiPhone and post whenever you want. That’s not difficult, right? However, it gets even easier. With MyStatusMonkey, developed by iwikiphone.com, you can update all of your accounts at once, all from the one app. Cyber communication just took a leap forward.
Developed with input from the user community, this app has an appealing (no pun intended) icon of a happy monkey face. When you open MyStatusMonkey you see a text box and are ready to start typing. However, before you can send out any messages, you need to go to the settings screen and click “connect” for each of your social networks and enter your sign-on information and passwords. Then, whenever you want to send a message, the app has the information it needs to sign on, and post messages.
Prompts appear as you type your message to show how many characters you have left. The font is very legible. Once you finish typing, you just click, “update status” and the screen changes to the icons for the various social network sites. The icons shimmy as the updates go out. The message, Success! Everything is done!” is your confirmation that your latest inspirational thoughts are live and ready for comments from your friends and followers. You can then go back to the main screen and create another message.
Most iPhone app reviews require long explanations and examples devoted to how to use each feature. This app has two screens – settings and update status. Clearly, the user community that helped develop this app provided excellent feedback to the developer. There is no need for a FAQ page because the app has one function and does it well. You will find one screen devoted to iWikiphone. It is equivalent to an “about” screen on the internet.
My only suggestion for improvement is to add a screen or functionality that allows you to go to the social media sites within this app so you can see your postings.
Some apps end up in the wilderness of my iPhone screens. MyStatusMonkey will stay in the active category. It is so easy to post a message and I can see I will be posting more often. That, I believe, is the purpose of social media, to encourage us to communicate with each other. On all counts, the app is a success. Any app that saves me time is an app that I must have. Is making your life easier worth 99 cents? My answer is yes.
MyStatusMonkey is compatible with iPhone, iPad touch or iPad and requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later. A small expedite fee was paid by the developer to speed up the publication of this review.
Capture, Keep and Share Your Memories with ScrAPPbook
Capture, Keep and Share Your Memories with ScrAPPbook is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website
Price: $0.99 Score: 10/10 By Nancy Jones
Attention scrap-booking fans – Buy this app. Well, now that was simple wasn’t it? If you like scrap-booking and you want to create them on the go with your iPhone then this is the app for you. If you have only a minor interest in scrap-booking, but want to create cool frames around your photos, then this app is for you too. ScrAPPbook, developed by iWikiphone.com, is easy to use, has plenty of features and was developed with feedback (or crowd sourced to use the technical lingo) from the iWikiphone community.
To call this app full featured is accurate, but a huge understatement. You can create multiple books and share them through email (it turns the book into a PDF) or upload a scrapbook directly to your Facebook page. You can pull pictures from your photo library, take photos, record audio or take videos to enhance the scrapbook. You can have one photo or multiple ones per page. You can move them around. You can choose different themes. You can GEO code the photos to show where you were when you took the photo. You can, of course, add pages to your scrapbook. You can sort your scrapbooks by date or by name.
Let me walk you through creating a scrapbook. Step 1 is click “new scrappbook.” Step 2 is to choose a theme. You can chose a music theme, a summer theme, a graphic theme (vaguely architectural – graph paper look), sand/beach theme or a golf theme. After you choose a theme, you will be asked to name your scrapbook. The name you choose will appear on a book cover. For the sports theme it looks like a notebook with X’s and O’s in the background. You can add a photo to the cover. You can take a photo with your iPhone or select one from your photo library.
One you have completed your cover, you click “done” and “add a page” and you are on to Step 3 – assembling your book. As you add photos, they will be framed to match the theme you chose in the beginning. In the sports mode you can choose a baseball, soccer (football for non-Americans), golf or football (American-style this time) frame. Each “theme” allows you multiple picture frame choices. I chose the sports theme and started adding sports photos to my scrapbook. I added an audio clip to one photo. I could also create a caption or if I was at a sporting event, add crowd video along with my picture. If you didn’t think to take any video during your event you could even add video later to explain what was going on when the photo was taken.
You can keep creating pages and customizing the pages by adding notes, signs and thought bubbles. As you finish your pages, you can tap done and move on to add a new page, delete a page, edit the cover or share the book. Through the settings option you can choose to save audio or video on your camera roll and show or not show tips. Within the app, you can click “guided tour” and you will be taken to a YouTube video. You can easily go back to “home” at any time by touching the home icon on the top left hand corner of the screen. In addition, you can get tips (if the feature is enabled) as you go along by tapping the “tips” tab on the middle right side of the screen.
Just imagine yourself going on a vacation and capturing the whole trip as it happens, complete with video and maps (through GEO tracking) and then when you come home you can post it immediately on Facebook. You could take photos of your child’s soccer game, birthday party or school play. Honestly, the uses are endless. Whether you are 20 something and you want to take photos of a night out with your friends, parents who want to capture and share their family experiences or grandparents who want to capture memories there is something here for you. Wait, I just thought about another way to use this app. This could be a way to capture your parents’ memories about old photos. You could scan in the photo and then either audio or video tape someone talking about the photos. What an awesome way to archive old photos.
Okay, I started this review out with the words, “buy this app,” so clearly I am hooked. Does it have any downsides? You could feel it is too constraining to create a scrapbook as you live your life. Actually, I agree with that sentiment. For my review I took photos and assembled the books in the peace and quiet of my home. However, I did miss audio and video opportunities. I think the images are a little small on the iPhone screen, but that doesn’t stop me from liking ScrAPPbook. I don’t have an iPad, but I can only imagine that this app would rock on that platform. I look forward to more themes. Maybe a classic old photo album style with the black photo corners?
I can see myself using this app for years to come. I keep thinking up new ideas. I would love to hear from the seasoned scrapbook fanatics. Tell me what you think of this app and how you have used it.
ScrAPPbook is compatible with iPhone, iPad touch or iPad and requires iPhone OS 3.1 or later. A small fee was paid by the developer to expedite the publication of this review.
Hermes: The Rx For Tracking Medical Information
Hermes: The Rx For Tracking Medical Information is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website
Price: $1.99 Score: 9/10 By Lara Vukelich
Keeping track of personal medical information is not only convenient, but could be life saving. Hermes by Neville Boundreaux is an app that will save your medical history and other pertinent information in one easy to reference place. You can create a profile for each member of your family – even your pets.
Adding a new contact is quick and easy; tapping the “Add” icon brings up a page where you can enter name, birth date, blood type and emergency contacts. The app even lets you pick an avatar from a gallery to represent each person.
Along the bottom of the screen runs a toolbar where you can enter various medical details for each individual family member profile. There are tabs dedicated to allergies, prescriptions, conditions and doctors. Specific allergies can be selected from a drop down menu, or you can enter one in manually, and in either case the app allows you to mark the seriousness from low to severe. Prescription and condition information can be entered manually and include such details as prescription dosage and which side of the family a condition stems from.
Lastly, the tab for doctors’ information allows you to enter the name, address, and phone number for all physicians seen by a family member. Once you’ve entered an address, Hermes allows you to pull up a Google map showing directions from your current location. There is also a “Call” icon next to the phone number entry that will quickly dial the physician’s number for you.
In the future, the app creators may want to improve Hermes by adding a password protection feature; perhaps a login screen. In the event that your phone gets lost or stolen this app would give someone access to very personal data, and that might make some users uncomfortable.
Hermes not only makes it simple to keep track of various contact and dosage information that may get misplaced or forgotten, but it saves important information in one place that might be hard to recall in the chaos of an emergency. In the case of an accident or other medical emergency, this app gives users quick access to crucial facts about blood type and allergies that could save someone’s life.
Hermes is compatible with iPhone and iPod Touch and requires iPhone OS 3.1.2 or later.
Tell Your Real Life Stories With BeingMeSucks
Tell Your Real Life Stories With BeingMeSucks is a post from: Best Iphone App Review Website
Price: Free Score: 10/10 By Nancy Jones
Is it self-help, poetry or lies? Whatever it is, BeingMeSucks, developed by Edward Chen, captivates you. With the same winning concept as Texts From Last Night and FMyLife, this app allows you to share your frustrations and disappointments while seeking agreement that being you does indeed suck. Did you do something embarrassing? Having problems with your marriage? On the other hand, have you been hit with a series of financial problems?
You can enjoy the catharsis of getting a problem out in the open (anonymously) and the validation of having others acknowledge your hurt and frustration. As the person whose life sucks, all you do is create a profile and then you are ready to post a short blog (less than 350 characters) letting people know why you deserve sympathy.
As the voyeur, sorry, I mean observer you read the stories and give them a thumbs up, “Yes, being you sucks,” comment on the story or you can share the stories with friends through Facebook or Twitter. One recent blogger wrote, “I got turned down for a job by a freakin’ postcard in the mail.” You sympathize immediately. I am willing to bet that has happened to a lot of people. Sometimes the stories evoke sympathy, sometimes they make you laugh and sometimes you say, “no way had that happened.” Whatever your reaction, new stories are loaded at the rate of a couple an hour. I expect this rate to increase as more and more people download this app.
You will find stories about work, love, money, embarrassment, health, family and the favorite catch-all, miscellaneous. Whatever part of your life that sucks – there is a category for you. Some stories are the beginning of an interesting story and you want to know what happens next. Some are happy or sweet. I am not sure if I think they are missing the point or if they serve as an antidote to all the pain and frustration of the other stories.
Social networking has become an integral part of our lives. This app gives us another venue to share our fears and troubles and get needed validation from others. BeingMeSucks may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but it delivers what it promises – an outlet for those in pain and an opportunity to feel a little better about your life.
BeingMeSucks is compatible with iPhone and iPod Touch and requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later. It is not suitable for children 12 or under due to mature themes.
