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MyWorld – iPhone App Review
MyWorld – iPhone App Review is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website
Version 1.4.1
Review – “Tag, Sync, Share and GeoTag your Albums”
App developer: TamDev Productions
Website: http://tamdev.net/
MyWorld is an App which allows you to store and share your Photos by location. Using integrated GPS location you can set an album to a particular destination and upload photos directly to your Facebook or Flickr account albums.
It sounds pretty simple, and it is, but this App is a phenomenal convenience for organizing photos from any special occasion by location. You start by opening a new Album – you can either select a location on the Map or have the App find your location directly. Within your Album you can add photos, audio or video (depending on your device) and have all of the media in one simple folder for that particular location or event.
Where this App really shines in the integration with Sharing and Social Media. Firstly, Bump is integrated into both the Map view as well as the album sharing page – so you can easily Bump your albums to another MyWorld iPhone user. Couldn’t be easier. However, if you want to simply post your pics via Facebook, Twitter or Flickr – that’s available too. You add the authorizations within each album and every time you update your album, it’ll update the social media site of your choice, or you can send specific media items individually! I tried my own with Flickr and was impressed that it uploaded quickly, creating a specific set within my photofeed for this Album.
Something else you might not expect but is a very smart inclusion is the ability to Email the media directly or also including a KML (Google Earth) File. Or, if you want to keep it simple you can copy and send the Google Maps shortcut URL created for your album, also listed on the sharing screen.
Finally you can maintain a list of the people who are either in the photos, or were with you at the time by including them directly from your iPhone Contact List or manually entering them.
The only drawback I could find while I was testing out the App is that to add the media to each album you have to add one photo at a time – which can be bothersome if you’re create the album after the event. I was trying to group together a bunch of photos I had taken about a year ago but gave up after the fifth or sixth because it was taking so long. If there is an option to import many photos into the album at once, I did not find it, and hopefully if this isn’t an feature now, it will be included soon.
This App could have many uses – not only as an organization for events and places. If you’re interested in keeping track of the location of where your photos were taken for whatever reason, you should seriously consider getting MyWorld. It’s well designed and full of sharing features that you might not find on other Photo Album Apps.
~ChantelleJoy
Tweet Me: @ChantelleJoytwt
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GetGlue – iPhone App Review
Osfoora HD, for Twitter
Osfoora HD, for Twitter is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website
Developer: Said M. Marouf
Price: PRICE
Version Reviewed: 1.0.1
Device Reviewed On: iPad
Price: PRICE
Version Reviewed: 1.0.1
Device Reviewed On: iPad
iPad Integration Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
User Interface Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Re-use Value Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Rating: 3.7 out of 5 stars
The relationship between Twitter users and their apps has always been strange. What one user finds absolutely brilliant and perfect is horribly incompetent design to another. Osfoora HD is a new app for the iPad to try to hook iPad Twitter users, and it comes packed with powerful features, but it is only for users looking for a particular type of Twitter experience.
Osfoora HD lets you do everything that you’d expect from a modern Twitter app. You can view your timeline, replies, direct messages, lists, and search. When tweeting, you can add pictures, videos, geotag your tweets, shorten links, and even tweet songs from your library. These are all features that top-flight Twitter apps have had, and Osfoora HD’s inclusion of them even in its initial release is impressive considering other apps have had trouble re-incorporating features from their iPhone equivalents.
Osfoora HD not only comes packed with powerful tweeting features, but the interface handles beautifully, incorporating standard UI functions and doing them all in an incredible smooth and easy to use manner. As well, everything looks fantastic on the iPad screen, from user icons to just the crisp display of text.
The problem with Osfoora HD is that it really only takes advantage of the iPad in that it displays everything in a large font. Otherwise, this is basically just an iPhone Twitter client blown up to iPad resolution, even coming down to a similar number of tweets as iPhone apps display. It feels like a waste of screen space to present such a limited amount of information. It all looks nice, but the iPad is such an expansive device, with so much resolution and screen space, that to limit users to only display a small portion of one timeline seems almost criminal. This may be great for casual users, but advanced users may be feeling a bit claustrophobic only seeing a few tweets in their timeline at a time.
Osfoora HD is just a contradiction. It comes packed with a laundry list of advanced features that power users would expect from an advanced Twitter app, but then it shows itself to be more of a casual user-focused app to check up on a few people, or for advanced users who only like to check the most recent happenings in their stream. For users who like the kind of information overload that other apps can give them, Osfoora HD may be worth a pass. However, Osfoora HD’s got everything it needs to be a really great app with all its tweeting features, it’s just a question of what your needs are from viewing tweets, and if only viewing short batches a time is your preference, then Osfoora HD is a great choice of app, and is technically sound to boot.
[ Osfoora HD, for Twitter is a post from 148Apps ]
SimplyTweet Review
SimplyTweet Review is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website
Developer: MotionObj
Price: $4.99
Version Reviewed: 3.1.1
Price: $4.99
Version Reviewed: 3.1.1
iPhone Integration Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
User Interface Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Re-use / Replay Value Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Overall Rating: 4.67 out of 5 stars
Twitter users tend to be a fairly hardcore bunch, especially when it comes to what they expect from a mobile Twitter app. Happily, SimplyTweet comes chock-full of features. The user interface is simple enough for casual users, but it also comes loaded with enough options that even power users should find themselves satisfied. I know that many Twitter users are rabid about their apps, and Twitter (formerly Tweetie) and others have diehard fans, but SimplyTweet can easily stand up to the pros.
And if you don’t know what Twitter is? This isn’t an app for you. Moving on.
SimplyTweet’s main interface features a single-screen view with five buttons along the bottom. By default, these are set to Friends, Mentions, Messages (DMs), Search, and More; tapping More brings up the other options, such as Lists, My Profile, and Favorites. Happily, you can edit which icons appear on the main screen—so I can have my Lists as one of the main options, for example. The view itself is very basic, showing recent tweets appropriate to that category along with the Twitter user’s icon, name, and a timestamp. It’s a Twitter app—and, naturally, it works!
The real value in SimplyTweet comes with all the features. You have nifty interface features like swipe-to-reply and full landscape support. Then there are the push notifications, support for multiple accounts, Instapaper and Read It Later support, photo search, the ability to save multiple drafts…you name it, SimplyTweet has incorporated it. Best of all, the interface remains largely uncluttered. I could go on about the myriad features, but the bottom line is that SimplyTweet can easily accommodate almost any power user, all while presenting tons of information in an elegant manner. Just look at how it handles tweets with pictures incorporated.
Like I said before, I know that Twitter users can be very picky about their apps, but even if you swear by Twitterific or Tweetie (ahem, Twitter for iPhone), SimplyTweet is worth checking out. If you don’t yet have a dedicated Twitter app, it’s an even easier buy. I encountered no crash problems, the push notifications worked promptly, and the app as a whole is elegantly designed. SimplyTweet’s 3.1 update brings it up to the ranks of premium Twitter clients for the iPhone.
[ SimplyTweet Review is a post from 148Apps ]
TweetTime for iPad – iPad App Review
TweetTime for iPad – iPad App Review is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website
TweetTime for iPad ($2.99)
Version 1.2
Review – “A great Twitter app for the iPad that gives you many of the advanced options that you’re missing!”
I love Twitter. I love to talk and contribute my random 140 character comments out to the world. Following me on Twitter can sometimes become an extreme sport. With that being said, having a nice Twitter app on my iPad was one of my top priorities.
TweetTime for iPad is developed by Dong-Wook Kim and is a great Twitter client. It offers many of the advanced features that users like myself want to have within their reach. At the same time, the app is very clean, eye appealing, and easy to navigate.
First of all, the app is written with a dark theme, which is a very popular request among Twitter app users. It of course works in both portrait and landscape modes. Portrait mode presents your timeline across the screen while rotating it into landscape not only shows your timeline but it also includes quick links to items such as Home, Mentions, Messages, Trends, and so on (see the screenshot below).
Clicking on a tweet will open it up into a new mini-window, which gives you options such as seeing a user’s profile, marking as a favorite, sending a DM, replying, and retweeting (although it is the old style retweeting). You can continue to drill down into the different links for even more options. When you want to send a new tweet you have the option to add in media from your photo library, URL shortening, and adding in your current location.
In addition, TweetTime for iPad has built in many of the nice Twitterfeatures such as list support (both your lists and lists you subscribe to), current Trends (which can be seen by current, daily, or weekly), multiple account support, and many other great additions.
Here is a listing of the features included in this version of TweetTime for iPad (taken from the developer’s list):
- Supporting multiple twitter accounts.
- Managing your twitter home, replies, direct messages and favorites.
- Trends Viewer.
- Searching Twitter.
- Searching a user.
- Viewing other user’s timeline, favorites, and profile information.
- My profile
- Landscape Keyboard support.
- Hash tag support.
- Posting a tweet.
- Reply support.
- RT support.
- Sending and receiving direct messages.
- Uploading photos from your photo library.
- Uploading your location with Google Map.
- Follow, Unfollow users.
- Block/Unblock users.
- Mark/Unmark favorite tweets.
- Built-in web browser to view web links.
- Built-in URL shortening.(Paste or type URLs as many as you want, and then tap URL button.)
- ‘In reply to’ feature. (You can keep tracing all the replies till the end.)
- Shows the number of new tweets when you log back in.
- Supporting OAuth for Authentication for Twitter Server.
- Saving draft of the tweet if you cancel composing tweet. And you can continue to compose it continuously when you re-composing tweet.
- Geotagging Support. You can post geotagged tweets. (Go to Twitter.com, change your setting for enable geotagging to use this feature.)
- Official List Support. Create List, Delete List, Add users to your own list, and subscribe other users’ list.
- Deleting tweets you posted.
- Uploading medias support 2 different modes.
In a future version release, I’d like to see the addition of the new RT Style accessible within the retweet link. Also, it would be nice if my tweets and possibly the @ replies directed to me were color coded so that they stood out from the other tweets in my timeline.
Overall, TweetTime for iPad is a solid Twitter app that comes is a great, clean, easy to use format, while packing in many of the in depth features that power Twitter users crave.
TweetTime for iPad is currently selling in the App Store for $2.99 and this app will be a great addition to your iPad collection. Head on over to the App Store and pick up your copy .. you won’t be sorry!
- Christina G
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Frame Wiz – iPhone App Review
SneakyTweet’s Tactical Take on Twitter
Make Friends Through Music With MeetMySong
Make Friends Through Music With MeetMySong is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website
Now here’s a clever idea. Forget about meeting people on Twitter who you think might be cool to get to know, find them based on their musical taste by comparison to yours.
MeetMySong is a new social networking service and app that matches your iPhone music library with other users of the app and even lets you see them and their sonic selections in real time using augmented reality. The app scans your iPhone’s music library in order to create your Music Personality and then creates feeds based around the songs you play. Not only does MeetMySong show you what music your friends are currently listening to, it also lets you know what’s being played locally, based on your GPS location.
The existing social networks aren’t ignored either with the ability to post your currently playing track to Facebook and Twitter as well as import your friends from both services. Ideal for this kind of app is the integration with your iPhone’s iPod app, which means you don’t have to leave the application to control your music, which is monitored by MeetMySong to further develop your profile.
What’s instantly enjoyable about MeetMySong by comparison to other social networks out there is that you don’t need to type a word, just listen to the music that you feel like listening to in order to interact with the community. Of course, there is a messaging option built in, but your audio picks are what are important here. Another huge benefit is the exposure to new music that you’re probably going to like. With friends based on your preferences, their tastes should throw up a selection of new bands for you to sample and you can even preview and buy songs from within the application. Sadly, if you use Pandora or Spotify on your iPhone for music, there’s little integration to be had with MeetMySong and, until iPhone OS 4.0 this will likely be impossible. However, with some clever coding and the addition of multitasking to the next iPhone OS, it might not just be iTunes music the app pins your tastes on.
More so than Twitter, we can also see this app bringing people together through a mutual love of music, especially given the apps location aware nature and, as the network grows in numbers another interesting element, likely to pique the interest of record labels, will appear. The Top Artist feature that creates a sort of unofficial top 20 chart that could help track artist performance on a play-by-play basis or pick out musical trends in real time.
We’ve only just started using MeetMySong and so far have found it an interesting, interactive alternative to simply playing music from your iPhone. Judging by the “on air” activity within the app it seems like others are enjoying MeetMySong in a number of locations worldwide too. MeetMySong is free to download from iTunes and requires a quick account creation process in order to get it up and running. Once you are done, new songs and friends await you.
If you love your music, this app is certainly worth a go although we’re a little worried that our closest MeetMySong match is currently only 41% compatible. Then again, perhaps that’s just down to our taste in music…
FREE!
iPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Released: 2010-02-18 :: Category: Social Networking
[ Make Friends Through Music With MeetMySong is a post from 148Apps ]
TweetList for iPhone
Seesmic Social Network Aggregator Finally Hits The iPhone
Seesmic Social Network Aggregator Finally Hits The iPhone is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website
If you’re currently running Facebook, Twitter, Google Buzz and MySpace apps on your iPhone, why not update them all from one spot? Say hello to Seesmic.
Seesmic has been available on a number of mobile and desktop platforms for a while now and has, at last, made its way to the iPhone. For those who don’t know, Seesmic allows users to update multiple social networks from one place and by default offers Twitter, Facebook and Ping.fm. Ping.fm is a service bought by Seesmic this year and covers the rest of the social networks that include MySpace, LinkedIn, Flickr and more.
Seesmic offers a clean, dashboard-like interface with spaces for each network, and customization options allow users to add a space for particular social networking feeds such as trending topics and searches. Updates made from Seesmic can be sent to all of your networks and also across multiple accounts as well, so you don’t have to log in to each one separately anymore. Another cool feature is the ability to save messages and updates to Evernote for future reference. Unlike many Twitter apps for iPhone, Seesmic’s flexibility and customization options make it a very useful tool and one that will benefit those of a social networking persuasion.
If you have more social network accounts than friends and time saving time is important to you, this looks to be the application to keep you in the loop and your contacts up-to-date.
FREE!
iPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Released: 2010-05-21 :: Category: Social Networking
[ Seesmic Social Network Aggregator Finally Hits The iPhone is a post from 148Apps ]
Twitterrific 3 for iPhone Announced
Twitterrific 3 for iPhone Announced is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website
Twitterrific, a beautiful Twitter client from The Iconfactory has been forced back seat lately. Even though they got a lot of good press from their freemium iPad app, there iPhone version has had to take a back seat now that Tweetie was bought by Twitter and re-released. Twitter has been getting a lot of press for it’s new acquisition and re-release, but The Iconfactory aren’t going to take that sitting down. Today, they have announced an update for the iPhone version, Twitterrific 3 is coming soon.
The goal of the update will be to streamline the application, giving it the core Twitter features all users need while not bogging down the application with lesser used power-user features.
“As a first step, we decided to take a step back and re-evaluate our approach. We want to make Twitterrific quick and light with a focus on content and usability rather than feature count. We will continue to add necessary features and updates to Twitterrific, but we’ve decided to only add features that will enhance the experience and avoid adding them because it’s easy or just because we can.” said David Lanham, designer for Twitterrific.
The update will bring the iPhone version under the same code base as the iPad version, a move that should speed up their ability to add updates to the app in the future. This also means that the iPhone version will become a lot closer in functionality to the iPad version, losing some power-user features.
“Our days of trying to be the everything-under-the-sun Twitter client are over. Tough love has taught us saying “no” leads to beautiful things. The best is yet to come, I hope you’ll join us.” remarked Gedeon Maheux
While some won’t like this, I think it’s a good move to set Twitterrific apart from the ever increasing crowd of iPhone apps. It’s a fresh start, a new beginning. Without being bogged down by a feature laden Twitter client.
What will users think? Well Twitterrific for the iPad is one of the best received launch titles. And it is the basis for the iPhone and future desktop versions. So I think they might be on to something. What do you think? Let us know in the comments below.
[ Twitterrific 3 for iPhone Announced is a post from 148Apps ]