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mTrip Offers A Fresh Take On The Traditional Travel App
mTrip Offers A Fresh Take On The Traditional Travel App is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website
While there are hundreds of travel and city guide apps for iPhone, it looks like mTrip will blow them away with its unique spin on the traditional tour guide app.
While mTrip offers users the default sightseeing tips and direction tools for a location, it goes one step further helping users plan their trip itinerary. Better than that, the app can even create an itinerary for you based on your preferences, trip duration and accommodations. Daily schedules can be edited at the user’s discretion and the app is even intelligent enough to list attractions based on their opening hours and proximity to the user.
Once you arrive at your destination you can make use of augmented reality to see where sites are in relation to your current location as well as point out restaurants, bars, hotels and other points of interest. Travelers can also swap tips on locations via the app by adding notes and viewing those of others.
All of these features make mTrip a very useful and fully featured tool but its ability to function offline is the real jewel in its crown. Your itinerary can be customized and reworked without an internet connection and augmented reality also functions in the absence of a network. Pretty much the only feature that requires the internet is the fun little postcard tool that allows users to send messages to friends from their vacation via email or Facebook.
mTrip travel guides are currently available for London, Paris, Amsterdan, Berlin, Rome, Barcelona, New York, San Francisco and Chicago in a choice of five languages. Many more locations are also planned with more information available here.
If you’re heading to one of the above locations, tack another $5.99 on to the cost of your trip for the ultimate travel experience and do it quickly before the app returns to its regular price of $9.99
$5.99
iPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Released: 2010-06-21 :: Category: Travel
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Prepare For Your Summer Vacation With Your iPhone
Prepare For Your Summer Vacation With Your iPhone is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website
If you’re planning a vacation this summer or you’ve already booked, make sure you have a copy of Packing Pro installed on your iPhone to ensure perfect planning. Packing Pro, available on the App Store for $2.99, has been sitting pretty in the upper echelons of the App Store travel section for a year or so now and picked up a four and a half star rating in our review earlier this year.
As summer approaches, the app has been updated with some exciting new features to enhance the way you plan your packing. First up, the Master Catalog, that includes all of the items you are planning to pack, has been expanded by a whopping 60% and now includes over 800 items. If you can’t find something on this list, you’re probably not meant to be packing it! All of your items can now be found quicker within the app by using the new Smart Search tool and users can also now use the app in landscape mode to take advantage of the larger keyboard.
If you want to be sure of having everything in your suitcase when you reach your getaway destination this year, make sure you’re using Packing Pro.
$2.99
iPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Our Rating: 
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Released: 2009-04-17 :: Category: Travel
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It’s Payback Time With Mr. Moneybags
It’s Payback Time With Mr. Moneybags is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website
Price: $0.99 Score: 7/10 By Jose Ralat Maldonado
For whom does that bag of change toll? For thee, deadbeat! And it’s held by Mr. Moneybags, an app that adds levity and motivation to what is otherwise a potential social quagmire—the monetary lending of and borrowing from kin and kith. The burden can strain even the oldest and dearest of relationships.
Imagine being in the hole to your life-long best friend for a measly $50 without the means—however unlikely—to fulfill your debt. Then you should beware of Mr. Moneybags by Bacon Bear Productions. You better think twice about donning your brand spanking new gold lamé Converse All-Stars for a night painting the town red—when you’re in the red. You might run into the buddy to whom you owe dough. And then comes the Shame!
The Shame is a valuable feature of Mr. Moneybags. If your “friend” hasn’t repaid the cost of the tickets for the classic rock band’s only reunion show in a reasonable amount of time, you can click the Shame button in the debt profile, which posts to the bum’s Facebook page. What’s more, you’re probably not the only one the freeloader is indebted to. That makes clicking the Shame button even more chilling (and hilariously sadistic). It’s a debtors prison of ones and zeros for all to see.
If you aren’t prepared to go as far as using the Shame option, an email reminder can be sent in either simple text or with the inclusion of a colorful CSV (comma-separated values) table, further exhibiting your thoughtful nature to the moocher. Nothing says “I’m thinking of you” like a technicolor IOU.
Mr. Moneybags is especially useful for vacations, when a rolling tally of who owes what to whom is complicated by currency exchanges and the hundreds of expenses incurred daily. A spring-break trip to Tijuana may be cheap thanks to the favorable dollar-to-peso exchange rate (approximately 1:12), but the endless stream of shots, cervezas, tacos as well as the hygienically dubious matching tattoos you and your traveling companions got in some back-alley parlor, not to mention the consequential trip to the hospital, add up. You can even consolidate the debts into Contexts, which outlines who owes you what in specific categories like “Tijuana.” As you might have guessed, the user is able to set preferred currencies for debts. Among those included are the aforementioned Mexican peso, the Thai baht, the Israeli sheqel and Kazakh tenge. Group trips is where Mr. Moneybags shines like a newly minted $100 bill, something rarely seen in circulation, something remarkable.
The porcine Monolopy Man on the app’s start-up screen leads the user to believe the app he/she has downloaded a facile means of acquiring a repayment. This is where Mr. Moneybags fails to deliver. Unfortunately, much like getting up the gumption to embarrass those who owe you moolah, the apps’ interface is deceptively difficult to use. On several occasions, I couldn’t save new debts, even though I had followed the directions to a T. When I attempted to Shame a friend on Facebook, I received a prompt stating said friend didn’t exist. That friend was my brother! (“That’s cold!” you might say. Indeed, I might be Mr. Moneybags‘ target audience.)
Aside from its initially shaky nature, Mr. Moneybags is a shrewd way to track and call in IOUs, balanced by the user’s ability to keep tabs on what he/she owes others. (You didn’t think this app was that greedy, did you?) It’s a useful tool in this recessionary climate. And for less than a dollar, a worthy investment.
Mr. Moneybags is compatible with iPhone and iPod touch and requires iPhone OS 3.1 or later.
