iPad nDrive
NDrive’s
navigation application turns your iPad into a fully functional map viewing machine with route calculation and full USA maps which is great for finding and discovering where, when, and how to arrive at your destination as planned. If you enjoy adventure and excursion with definitive accuracy, NDrive’s HD
navigation application comes graciously purposed at a price under $ 5.00. All map data is stored on your iPad so it is incredible fast and you can use it without a data plan, to plan your trips, check distances and find places.
Features :
Simple and intuitive user interface
MULTI-TOUCH TECHNOLOGY with gesture recognition for menu, zooming and panning will enable you to control and display maps easily
Highly effective search engine that enables you to find the streets you are looking for all over.
POIs (Points of Interest) and favorites with phone/fax number, description, email and website address
Search city centers, street names and numbers, crossings, postal codes, favorite places, recent locations, coordinates and nearby POIs
Simulate routing and demo it, so you can measure the distance under different conditions as well as understand how to go to places.
Advanced itinerary with multiple waypoints for enhanced planning
UNLIMITED NUMBER of customizable favorites entries and user defined categories
Automatic Portrait/Landscape display mode
Free access to the NDRIVE COMMUNITY where sharing POIs with other users anywhere in the world is possible.
Search Online from your NDrive using search engines like GoogleTM and find additional POIs in any location.
Uses Wifi location so you can center the map where you are for faster search.
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Skype 2.0 on the iPhone now has FREE 3G Voice Calling. Looks like the free part is only valid till August 2010. Calling
Skype-to-
Skype has always been free on the desktop client but unfortunately
Skype plans on charging for that feature on the iPhone. ( I have a feeling this is the reason the app got approved in the first place, Apple would not want to piss off the network providers now would they ). Anyhoo when you start the new
Skype 2.0 you get a friendly message stating:
Free Skype trial
You’ve got until at least August 2010 to make and receive free Skype-to-Skpe calls over your mobile network.
After that, you’ll need a mobile subscription
BTW do you think we might get free Video calling through skype on the iPhone 4G / HD ?
With Skype on your iPhone or iPod touch you can call and instant message anyone else on Skype for free. You can also call landlines and mobiles and send SMS anywhere in the world ( Skype Rates apply ). The app itself is free to download.
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Agendus2
Agendus integrates your Calendar, Contacts and Task List into one application. Your Contacts are automatically populated in
Agendus, because it seamlessly accesses the native contacts database and enhances and extends the built-in iPhone Contacts App. Along with this is a full-featured Task Management solution, allowing users to get things done quickly and efficiently when on the go on their iPhone or iPod Touch.
Agendus has full calendar support, utilizing over-the-air synchronization with your Google Calendar.
What’s New in Version 2.1
- Added Duplicate option to Tasks and Events
- Added colors to Task categories
- Enlarged the expand/collapse buttons on the Today view
- Improved the sensitivity of swiping in the Week view
- Fixed Notes and Contacts sync with Google calendar
- Fixed a bug preventing associated contacts from showing up in Day view
- Now start with a blank title when creating a new event
- Set default Calendar Sync option to sync 1 Month of Past Events
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WOW
The
World of Warcraft Mobile Armory application for your iPhone is a portable reference that helps you keep track of your characters, access the Auction House, plan your adventures, and keep up with the activities of your guild, similar to the
World of Warcraft Armory on the Web. This convenient app is easy to install and contains these powerful features:
* View all of your World of Warcraft characters, along with their stats, equipment, achievements, and more.
* Access key guild stats, your in-game calendar, the leaderboard, and other informational and planning tools.
* Browse the full complement of items available in the game, use the talent calculator to decide the best spec for your character, and stay up-to-date on the latest World of Warcraft news.
* Browse any Auction Houses your characters have access to. With a subscription to Blizzard Entertainment’s World of Warcraft Remote service, you can also make purchases or post items up for sale from your bag, bank, or mailbox.
In terms of cost , you can search and examine auctions for free, but if you want to post auctions or buy items from the auction house, it’s going to be an additional $2.99 per month. This price allows you to post auctions from your bank or character inventories and also includes the ability to collect gold from your in-game mailbox.
Feature comparison between Free vs Premium
nDrive
NDrive’s latest campaign to sell 1,000,000
navigation applications at $2.99, is part of the company’s global strategy to gain traction in USA market. The promotional price of $ 2.99 is available for the first 1 million users in USA. All map data is stored on your iPhone so you don’t need to use data for day to day use.
Features
- Fully functional SIGNPOSTS AND INFOLANES
- Embedded store-inside-store to allow an easy download of extra features to your Application
- Highly effective search engine and fast calculations derives benefits such as fast and easy calculation of alternative routes and re-routing
- Car, Pedestrian and Adventure Mode
-ADVENTURE MODE will guide the way while trekking, bike riding, off-road in cars, on boats and even on light aircrafts
- Simple and intuitive user interface
- MULTI-TOUCH TECHNOLOGY with gesture recognition for menu, zooming, tilting and panning will enable you to control and display maps easily
- POIs (Points of Interest) and favorites with phone/fax number, description, email and website address
- UNLIMITED NUMBER of customizable favorite’s entries and user defined categories
- Search and navigate to city centers, street names and numbers, crossings, postal codes, favorite places, recent locations, coordinates and nearby POIs
- Advanced itinerary with multiple waypoints which enhanced planning
- Keyboard available in either ABC or QWERTY mode
- Integration with iPod, offers listening to music while driving
- Automatic Day/Night mode
- Sound and visual alerts for desired and fixed maximum speed limits
- Automatic Portrait/Landscape display mode
- Free access to the NDRIVE COMMUNITY where sharing POIs with other users anywhere in the world is possible
- Search Online from your NDrive application using search engines like GoogleTM to find additional POIs in any location
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Recently Opera announced that 100 million people were currently using Opera’s browsers. As of March 2010, 50 million active users were browsing using Opera’s desktop browser for Windows, Mac and Linux computers and 50 million users were using Opera’s mobile browser and it looks like they have no plans to take it slow , what many of the experts saw as impossible , opera browser on the iphone , has been achieved. For reasons unknown to anyone Opera Mini has been approved and is now available on the app store.
Opera Software claims Opera Mini for iPhone is up to 6 times faster than the native browser thanks to its compression and server-side rendering technology. I downloaded the app straight away , did I mention that its free, I would advice you to download it soon coz you will never know when Apple might decide to pull it off the app store. I found the page load time to be better ( don’t know about 6x faster , but it was faster ). One thing I disliked from the few minutes I tried it was the fact you can not pinch to zoom , its one tap to zoom all the way or no zoom at all. The app does have some bugs and does not load some web pages properly.
Opera Mini vs Mobile Safari
Mobilecrunch.com did a speed test with Opera Mini vs Safari Mobile , you guys might want to check it out
ihomeSleep
iHome+Sleep is an interactive, sleep-lifestyle app for iPhone users. The alarm app is quite feature-rich and has a customizable alarm clock functionality, with a beautiful full screen clock display that includes weather, iPod controls, and your choice of custom photo backgrounds. The app can shows you a recap of your
Twitter and Facebook feeds from the night before. You can even have it tweet for you when your alarm goes off!
The app is free so why not give it a shot.
