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App Genie is 26 apps in 1
App Genie [iTunes link] takes a lot of little apps and combines them into one for U.S. $0.99. Even if you only use 4 or 5 that's a good price. Some of the apps require web access, some require the 3GS iPhone, and the weather app only works in the U.S. Here are a few I found useful... and some not so much: Product Search uses your camera to scan barcodes on 3GS phones. It worked well, and linked the barcode to products with price comparisons. There are apps that only do this that sell for more than this app. Language Translator. Type in one language. Translate to another. This app needs web connectivity. You can email the results which is a nice feature. There are dozens of languages. My check of German looked good. My Icelandic isn't so hot, but if you need this function, it appears to work well. There are all kind of Country Facts, i.e. population of Angola or ethnic group distribution in Canada. Lots of facts, in a handy place. Then there is Amazing Facts. Tap it and you'll get some piece of obscure information. Tap it again and you get more. There's a Unit Converter, a Tip Calculator (natch). a Magnifier that lets you zoom in digitally with your camera. There is a Battery Level meter for your iPhone with voice, that gives you the percentage of battery on your iPhone, talk time, and estimates for how long you can play video or audio files. It also provides an estimate of how long you can browse the web. There is a nice Checklists app with templates for a variety of activities like shopping, trip planning and house chores. Each checklist has sub items, and those are reasonably complete and helpful, or you can create your own. There's a Where am I? app that shows your location on a Google Map, which I think is reaching since it's already available on your phone. There is an up to date Currency Converter. It's web based, and handy if you are on the road a lot out of your native country. For less than a dollar this is a great app, even though it may duplicate some functionality you already have on your iPhone or iPod touch. I thought the product scanner app alone was worth $0.99. The rest is gravy. Some screen shots below: %Gallery-84514%
Win a copy of Convert for your iPhone or iPod touch
Convert is, as you might suspect, a tool for converting ducks to witches. No, wait! It's a simple conversion tool for your iPhone or iPod touch. Convert bears a slight resemblance to ConvertBot with a big, blue readout and simple gray icons, but I prefer Convert's simpler interface. You'll find the same features as in any converter, only in a compact, easy-to-use format.Polar Bear Farm gave us 40 promo codes to give away, and that's what we're doing over the weekend. To enter, tell us if you prefer good ol' English units like inches and feet, or the nefarious but accurate Metric system, beloved by nerds all over the world. As per the usual, the giveaway is only good in the US (we didn't make that rule), you must be over 18 and winners will be chosen randomly. Good luck!Here are the rules and a link to the legal statement: Open to legal US residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia who are 18 and older. To enter leave a comment indicating your preference in unit measurements: English or Metric. The comment must be left before Monday, August 10, 11:59PM Eastern Daylight Time. You may enter only once. Forty winners will be selected in a random drawing. Prize: Promo code for one copy of Convert (Unit Converter by PBF), US$1.99 value Click Here for complete Official Rules.
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First Look: Equivalence for iPhone
Keeping with the famous science teacher saying of "every number must have a unit," Equivalence (iTunes link) is the one-stop converter for all things units. Did we say "one-stop?" Why yes we did, because Equivalence can convert between over 260 units in 31 categories. Once of the nice features of Equivalence is the ability for the application to auto update the unit conversions over the air, instead of through the App Store. So, if the developer decides to add a unit, or if a unit were to change, updates could get pushed out to the application. The beauty of this application is when you flip your iPhone into landscape mode. Just like the built-in iPhone calculator, this application adds much more functionality when horizontal, including a calculator that can add units together. Bottom line: This is the best unit converter for the iPhone, hands-down. Be sure to take a look at our gallery of Equivalence screenshots. You can buy Equivalence from the iTunes App Store for $4.99 (US). Update: The developer has dropped us an email to let us know about a special promotion. Equivalence will sell on the App Store for $1.99 until October 6th. The pricing changes have already been submitted to Apple for approval and should appear soon. Also, we have added two new screenshots in the gallery showing off the landscape mode in Equivalence. %Gallery-32369%
iPhone firmware hints at new widgets, including MobileRadio
Tyler over at iPhoneology went diving into the iPhone's firmware, and found a preference file called "DefaultApplicationState.plist," apparently a list of widgets placed by Apple inside the iPhone.Except that there's a few that we can't actually use yet... com.apple.unitconvertercom.apple.widget.phonebookcom.apple.widget.translationcom.apple.widget.worldclockcom.apple.mobile.radio That mobile.radio one looks especially enticing-- while built-in FM radio would be nice, it's more likely that Apple is expecting the iPhone to support streaming radio, just like that already found in iTunes.Of course, this is all just speculation-- just because Apple laid out plans in the software for features like these doesn't mean that they're actually coming. And as a few folks have noted, they could just be holdovers from Apple's translation of OS X to the iPhone firmware. But because we know that more widgets and features are planned for the iPhone, these could be the groundwork of things we'll see implemented later.Thanks, Reggie!
