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Steam Mobile (BETA)
Currently “beta” and iPhone/iPod only valve has ‘finally’ brought Steam to the iPhone. You can download it right now and sign up for the beta from within the app. The app itself looks polished and follows the same UI as Facebook and twitter. So far its features are fairly limited, but you can connect to the community. Message friends and keep up with sales. Very promising and guaranteed to be an essential for any Mac/PC Gamers. Sign up now to get in the beta queue.
Hailo – The Black Cab App
Hailo is a free app designed to make getting a Black Cab Taxi in London super easy. It’s all pretty straight forward but executed brilliantly. Launch the app let it use your current location and it will quickly estimate how quickly a cab could be with you in. If you prefer you can manually choose a different location by dragging the map and booking a cab to pick you up there. You do need to register for the first time but once this is done getting a cab around London should be a doddle. I had a chance to test Hailo out when visiting London recently and...
Weddar
Ever said to yourself those weather folk are rubbish at predicting the weather? Think you can do better? With Weddar for iPhone now you can. Weddar offers an interesting twist on your usual weather app in that its powered purely by its users rather than machines. The social element is what makes it so interesting. People compete much like becoming a mayor of your favourite hang out spot on foursquare or gowalla etc. One reviewer said: I am coming for the top spot….. This is not weddar but.. WAR! … The biggest down side to Weddar in the UK is the current lack of users....
Stratus: Cloud App
One of the problems I struggle with the most is getting information quickly from my Mac to my iPhone and vice-versa. I have tried a few solutions. but none are particularly eloquent or efficient when you just want to send a piece of copied text or a url. I also try to limit the amount of “crap” I have running on my Mac especially in the menu bar. But I do love & use http://getcloudapp.com for sharing stuff online and with colleagues so I was stoked to see a new iOS app called Stratus released. Not only is Stratus free it’s extremely well laid out....
intelliVocab
intelliVocab for SAT was built by MIT students using research released from rom MIT Computer Science and Web Semantics Lab. It’s purpose is to help you establish your vocabulary level and help you to improve it using the aforementioned research. intelliVocab may not be the best looking app but it’s free and it’s actually pretty good! When I received the submission to review intelliVocab I was honestly skeptical of how useful it could be. After loading the app a handful of times throughout the week I very surprised at the results and not only enjoyed testing my vocabulary but genuinely learned several new words and...
Springpad
Springpad is a web pp and iPhone app I have recently started using and it’s really growing on me. My most regularly used iPhone apps are ones that increase my productivity or work flow and springpad fits in really nicely. Allows for quick and easy saving of ideas and memos with an intuitive design. With the option to import Delicious bookmarks is a good enough reason on it’s own to download the app being there are not any decent delicious apps on iTunes and the recent controversy about Yahoo possibly shutting the service down!
Adobe Ideas
Adobe Ideas is pretty much Photoshop for your iPhone/iPad or iPod Touch. The basic version is completely free but there is an in app purchase price of £2.99/$4.99 to unlock the ability to use 15 layers. One layer is probably enough for most users and the app isn’t just for creating drawings you can use it for quickly writing down ideas, mind mapping and brain storming etc There are tons of included settings, a colour picker, different brush sizes and a really cool smoothing effect that makes even the messiest of hand writing look good!
Google Voice
Until Apple relaxed the App Store app restrictions it seemed unlikely the previously rejected Google Voice would ever see light of day on an iPhone. That’s finally changed and the app is now available completely free. Includes all the goodness of Google voice you would expect including push notifications. Currently only available to the US iTunes store though so brits are currently out of luck.
