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Georeme is Free in the App Store: Location Based Alerts like iOS 5

You read our review of Georeme right? The app allows you to experience 'geofence' alerts just like the new Reminders app in iOS 5--but on your iPhone running iOS 4.3.3 today. Georeme is currently free in the App Store for a limited time. Click here to download it and let me know what you think!...

WordPress For iOS Updated, Brings Minor Bug Fixes

WordPress for iOS was updated today to version 2.8.1. The update brings minor fixes to the app to prevent crashes and various bugs. The updated also brought better statistics charts with number formatting and labels. New in 2.8.1 ----------- - Fixes crashes around the Quick Photo feature - Improved stats charts (number formatting, better labels)...

Apple Design Award Winners at WWDC 2011

Image via @erator The Apple Design Awards are rewarded to apps that are well designed, innovative, and have technical excellence (here are last year's winners). Here's the criteria from Apple: Design: Well designed apps are delightful, elegant, intuitive, engaging, exciting, compelling, and reliable. Innovation: Innovative apps are revolutionary, inspirational, unique, and do things in completely new and exciting...

Georeme: Location Based Push Alerts Just Like iOS 5

When I first heard of Georeme, I was quite impressed with the concept. It's quite simple: you can set alerts to go off when you enter or leave a particular area. We were shown this feature in iOS 5, as part of the new Reminders app. Well, the developer of Georeme clearly inspired Apple because...

Apple Updates iBooks To Version 1.3 With Read-Aloud And Auto-Play

This afternoon Apple released an update to iBooks bringing the app to version 1.3. The update delivers several new features and improvements to the popular eReader app. The changes are detailed below: • Help your children learn to read with the new read-aloud feature included in select children's books from the iBookstore. The read-aloud feature uses...

Hanging with Friends for iPhone Launches in Canada–First!

Yes! That's right folks, Canadians aren't always shut out after all. Zynga, the folks behind the popular hit Words with Friends (my ID: iphoneincanada) have launched a new game: Hanging with Friends. The cool part is the game has launched in Canada FIRST (yes, first) and will soon be rolled out to other countries. The...

Find My iPhone 1.2 Released

Along with the many WWDC announcements today, Apple released an update to the Find My iPhone app. The app is a universal iOS app and is now at version 1.2. The update added the ability for users to remove offline devices from the list of iOS devices or be notified via email when an offline...

App Store Updated with ‘Purchased’ Section for Your Apps

Looks like Apple has just pushed out an update to the App Store and updated their terms and conditions. If you go to the Updates tab in the App Store on your iPhone, you'll see a new 'Purchased' tab. From here, you'll be able to download apps 'Not On This iPhone' and see your apps....

400,000 Apps Now Available In App Store

This week, as reported by AppAdvice, Apple now has just over 400,000 iOS apps available for download in the App Store. However, since the App Store's debut Apple has approved over 500,000 iOS (iPad, iPhone, iPod touch) apps. 400,000 apps is a major milestone for Apple and you can be sure to hear about it...

Instagram Featured in the New York Times; Growing 1m Users Per Month

Instagram is one of the most simplistic and enjoyable social networks on the iPhone. Why? For starters it's a free app that is incredibly easy to use. Not only that, it's a tonne of fun, and it's becoming a massive photo-sharing juggernaut. The New York Times has an article featuring Instagram, and here are some...

Apple Releases WWDC App

Today, Apple released the official app for WWDC for iOS devices. The app is a mobile guide to Apple's annual conference, giving users access to conference information on-the-go. Using the app, users can search the conference schedule, make event reservations, view floor diagrams of Moscone West, and create a custom schedule of the sessions, labs, and...