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Pay to Add Contacts to Your Phone with Contact Hero
Pay to Add Contacts to Your Phone with Contact Hero is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website
Price: $2.99 Score: 5/10 By Lara Vukelich
According to iTunes, Contact Hero is an app that aids in business and personal networking. While this app by Spacemonkey Mike does have some potential concerning the former, it doesn’t do much that your iPhone can’t do already.
When the app opens you are greeted by a screen with four entry fields: name, email, phone and mobile carrier. Once you’ve filled out the entry fields and added a contact, tapping on a Facebook icon will take you to facebook.com where a search will be conducted for the name you’ve entered. Tapping on the wheel in the upper left corner of the main screen opens a new screen that has two tabs: contacts and settings.
The settings screen in Contact Hero allows you to turn an automatic email feature on or off. When it’s on, an email will be sent to each new contact added to the app. You can alter the subject line and content of the email that will be sent. Similarly, an SMS message can be sent out automatically to each contact; the message will include the same subject and content that goes out via email. The SMS feature can also be disabled.
At first I thought that the app’s contacts would be separate from your regular iPhone contacts and I saw a potential benefit. It seemed that if a user wanted to keep his or her business networking contacts in seperate location, this app could do just that. It turned out to be only partially true. When you open Contact Hero you will only see the last 100 contacts you’ve entered in the app. However, when you open your default iPhone contact list the contacts have been added there as well. If you have a large amount of business networking contacts, they may start to clutter your iPhone contacts.
The main benefit I see the app offering is the automatic email and SMS message feature. If you are at a networking event and want to quickly send out your details to each new potential client or customer, I think having your phone send out an email reminding them of your website and phone number might come in handy. You could, of course, do this manually but Contact Hero would save you a few minutes. Doing the same for personal contacts might constitute coming on a little strong, but I guess that’s up to you.
I imagine future updates will increase the amount of information saved in the app, and perhaps the contacts can be confined to the app so they don’t clutter your other contact list. It definitely has the potential to be improved. As of today, whether or not the app is worth purchasing really boils down to whether or not you think that automatic emails are worth the $3 price tag.
Contact Hero is compatible with iPhone and iPod Touch and requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later
HappenOn
HappenOn is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website
Every day, you pass by friends you haven’t met. HappenOn unlocks new
interactions by letting you know when you are near someone with a
shared interest. At a business convention, on the bus, at a bar, in a
coffee shop, HappenOn passively reaches out and connects with those
around you using Bluetooth. Add a photo, a tagline, some interests,
and we’ll do the rest.
HappenOn is hyperlocal and works within a range of a few hundred feet.
If you encounter someone of interest, you can meet them immediately.
You won’t need to create an account, and you won’t need an internet
connection. HappenOn works with both the iPhone and the iPod Touch.
Tell your friends. Let’s happen!
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.
Myallo HotList
Who’s the hottest person you know? Where’s the hottest place to go? Where’s everyone hanging out right now? Myallo HotList shows who’s hot and where, moment by moment, in a way no other app can!
Add your friends and favorite places, and set a “Basic Hotness” for each. HotList continually computes a “Current Hotness” based on your setting, their proximity to you and to each other, their relevance to things you specify, and other factors.
Is everyone gathering at the Mall? That makes the Mall hotter. Is Joe in town? That makes him hotter. Or is he hanging out with that not-so-hot person – that cools him down.
HotList knows your location and optionally sends it to Twitter. It also tracks your friends locations, if they sent theirs to Twitter. As you and they move about, hotness is recalculated and people and places bubble up and down the list dynamically.
If friends gather together, they get hotter. If they go to a hot place, they get hotter and so does the place. Know what’s hot right now, at a glance!
See the locations of people and places as “blips” on the HotList Radar map. Blips move as they and you do. Check their distance and direction, invoke the Maps app for directions from your location to theirs at a touch. See their latest Twitter status message. Have the Radar automatically show the current hottest person or place.
HotList can also automatically discover additional hot Places via Yelp. Nearby places are optionally added to the list, and hotness is calculated based on proximity, online reviews people have written on yelp.com, and other factors. As you move about, distant places disappear and new nearby ones are discovered.
Also, enter Things (topics) and your level of interest in them, and HotList will consider it when calculating hotness. For example, if you add a Thing for “Great” and another for “Italian”, and reviews of a Place mention “Great Italian food”, the hotness of that place will rise.
See what’s hot and where, moment by moment, with Myallo HotList!