2Do Lite and Errands have some of the same tabs for instance, the + button is used to add a project or task to your calendar, there are two different sections for work and home and they both have options that allow to add priority to certain tasks. I have to say though, overall I prefer Errands. 2Do Lite has an interface that I don’t really find appealing. Its a pretend date book, however, it is a little distracting and is not easy to use. Errands I like because the interface is simple and you can flip from work, home,errands, all tasks, focus and inbox very easily. Your tasks will appear in list format and it shows you which ones you completed today. Also, you have the option of naming your task according to a title you assign with added notes and you can choose to show the title and the notes when it is displayed so that you know exactly what that task will require. 2Do lite calls every task a To Do and you must press on the tab in order to view the notes associated with that To Do, I find this significantly takes away from the efficiency of the app and makes Errands seem like a better option. Overall, they’re both free so I would definitely recommend trying them both out in order to discover which interface suits you best, however, I would definitely recommend Errands. It just seems to make more sense and I can see it being a lot more useful when it comes to showing you exactly what it is you need to do without creating a lot of fuss or pushing of buttons.

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For whatever reason you’re using this app, you start by typing in what you want to say.  Then the app repeats your text with a monotone robotic voice.  The entertainment value comes from whatever you can think of typing into the app.  I tried the “how many licks to the center of a tootsie pop” commercial, but it seemed kind of rushed.  I’m sure you can find something funnier to type in.

I ran into problems trying to type with money signs.  The robot can’t repeat “pound” if you put in the pound symbol or “thirty five euros” if you try typing in the euro sign followed by the number 35.  I also couldn’t find a way to insert pauses between words (I was trying to add a little comedic timing).  All in all, this app isn’t on my list of need-to-buy apps.  However, it is very entertaining and it’s free so who am I to complain?

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The interface is as pleasing as the sounds the app provides. The main menu consists of a few tabs, for example, one that takes you to the ambiance store where you can download music for free, the favourites tab that compiles all your favourite sounds and the library that compiles all the songs you have downloaded. When it comes to the songs, the app has so much to choose from, a few examples are: sacred monk chant, ocean sounds and household sounds. Each song has a description and a link for where it came from. You can share songs through email, facebook, text message, look at what songs are featured and backup your sounds. It is a really pleasant, versatile app that will certainly fulfill all of your relaxing needs.

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The app is organized under “common vegetables,” “herbs and spices,” and “less common vegetables” and under these categories are over ninety vegetables and herbs to choose from.  Each vegetable has detailed instructions for growing, managing, and harvesting a plant, as well as how many of each plant is needed per person.  These instructions are easy to follow and are useful for the experienced planter as references as well as for the beginner-level grower as a tutorial.  If you want to grow a vegetable but it’s not the right season, you can save the instructions under your favorites.

For a variety of reasons, you’re probably paying more for organic and local foods than regular foods from the supermarket.  So although you’re paying $1.99 for this app, you’re probably saving yourself hundreds by building a self-replenishing supply of produce in your own garden.  Even if you’re not into the whole sustainability movement or any other environmental cause, I’d still say this app is well worth it in monetary returns.

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GPSed tracks your trip and allows you to upload pictures along the way so that your friends and family don’t miss a step. No matter where in the world your trip is taking you, Google Maps will trace your track and store it in an online archive. The app connects you to GPSed.com where you can make your tracks public to other people, it also gives you the option of making your tracks public on facebook. The app contains a map that will allow you to  view exactly where you are going, while you are actually physically moving. My favourite part of the app is the specific measures that the app uses to track your trip. The app will tell you your speed, your elevation, your moving average and will allow you to add a photo at any point of your trip. Imagine walking the streets of Paris, seeing a beautiful monument, taking a picture of it and making it public so that your family and friends can see exactly what you’re seeing. You can also add tracks and have more than one going at once. Whether you are taking that road trip you’ve always wanted to take or you are finally going on that huge trip to Europe, keep track of what you do and see while staying connected to your friends and family with the GPSed app.

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The app claims it can get your upper body in shape in six weeks with only about 30 minutes of effort per week.  And I don’t doubt it because the plan seems easy enough.  On the first day, you tell the app how many consecutive pushups you can do.  Then it calculates a program that includes the number of pushups and number of reps you need to do for each day in the six week program.  It also comes with a simple tutorial that includes a repeating clip of a proper pushup and tips on how to perform one.  If you’re worried that you’ll tired out before you make it to the point where you can do 100 consecutive pushups, the first “tip for the week” I got was that you should give yourself a rest day or two between each day of the program.  On top of that, it only expects you to put in three days per week so you don’t have to worry about crunching in a workout every day.

The program requires a certain amount of disciple, as does any attempt to get back/stay in shape.  I have not run into any problems with the app, but one of the customer reviewers raised the point that the app does not account for age and therefore does not work for older people who cannot heal as quickly as the younger users of this app.  Otherwise, I think it’s great and it’s a good buy at $.99.  You can also get the companions to this app, Two Hundred Situps; Two Hundred Squats; and Twenty Chinups, for a full body workout for the same price.

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At first, it asks you to choose a genre of music, they have everything from New Music, Christmas Music, Decade Music to Indie. Once you have done that, you choose from a list of radio stations and then just like that you start listening to music. I chose to write about AOL Radio because I believe it is one of the best of its kind of app. Take Pandora for example, I would choose AOL Radio over Pandora in a second. In my opinion, AOL Radio is so much easier to use than Pandora. The search tool in the Pandora app, by artist name, takes away the best part of listening to the radio; not knowing what song is going to be played next. It is something that is so much a part of the AOL Music app and not for Pandora.

The best thing about the AOL Radio app is that they give you so many radio stations to choose from, you could literally spend no time at all listening to commercials. In order to make the most out of the app I would definitely recommend taking advantage of the favourites tab to be able to go from your favourite stations easily especially if you don’t want to have to listen to commercials. Another great thing about this app is that you could go so easily from listening to one genre of music to another. The AOL Radio app is an app for someone who wants to mix things up with how they listen to music. It will give you the opportunity to hear all the songs in a genre of your choosing.

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On the other hand, SHAPE Services’ application Mobiscope brings the literal meaning of the All-Seeing Eye on mobile.

Mobiscope is essentially  a surveillance app that lets you view in REAL TIME your USB and IP cameras on iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. If you are worried about leaving your child/pet alone in the house, need to spy on your enemies, or want to figure out who keeps on stealing your afternoon snack(*insert a very angry face right here*), Mobiscope truly is the perfect application for you.

The features of the app include:
*Viewing several live cameras simultaneously.
*Motion detection alerts over e-mail.
*Viewing recorded video from your cameras(with the cameras connected to your Mobiscope desktop)
*Supports almost any web/network camera including Axis, D-Link, JVC, and others. (See the full list at www.mobiscope.com/cameras)
*Works on Intel-based MAC OS X 10.5 and higher and on Microsoft Windows NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/2007.

Believe it or not, using this app is very easy and simple for such a comprehensive surveillance app, requiring absolutely no configuration whatsoever, no complex ports configurations in the firewall etc. Video is send over encrypted channel. A highly rated reliable app, Mobiscope is a steal at $9.99. It is really one of those applications that is very practical and could even make a difference during a life-or-death situation(think house fire or armed robbery).

BONUS FEATURE!
The 2nd feature of Mobiscope truly makes the app the All-Seeing Eye of the mobile world.

Using Mobiscope, you can access for FREE “other public IP cameras WORLD-WIDE” in order to view in real time beaches, animals, resorts, rivers, hotels, traffic, cities, and many more sites.

The application also comes with FREE 24/7 technical support, FREE updates/bug fixes/new features, and FREE weekly updates of public camera list.

Mobiscope truly is the gem of the mobile application world. I give this app A++.

Some historical uses of Mobiscope include:
James Bond – a frequent user of Mobiscope, uses the app to spy on his enemies and make fun of them before taking them out.
Mr. & Mrs. Smith – both have used Mobiscope to make sure neither of them had extra-marital affairs.
Austin Powers – to spy on Dr. Evil and Mini-Me.

-Notice the all-seeing eye on your dollar bill? It’s actually a secret camera that you can access with Mobiscope.-

-Here, evil Sauron from The Lord of the Rings is spying on Frodo using Mobiscope. You cannot hide from Mobiscope, The All-Seeing Eye.-

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If you have no idea where to begin or what you’re looking for, the Dinner Spinner Pro helps you find a recipe by shuffling the kinds of dishes, ingredients, and cooking time.  Just shake your iPhone or iPod Touch and it will reshuffle your options.  If you like some of the options, say the kind of dish and the main ingredient, but not another, say the cooking time, you can finger over the cooking time row and hit the “Spin Categories” button to choose another time.  Once you’ve come to a selection that is to your liking, hit the “View Matches” button and you’ll get a long list of recipes that fit under the criteria you’ve selected.  You’ll get a list of ingredients, instructions, and user ratings for every dish.

I did find a few things that turned me off from it.  You have to sign up with the Allrecipes website before you can save your recipes or your shopping list.  The app is also a little pricey at $2.99.  But it’s a useful app and for me, at least, it’s a great solution to the problem of not knowing what to eat.

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uPackingList begins by allowing you to create a list that you can name according to your trip. There are sixteen categories from which you choose articles from in order to organize what and how many of each item you will need on your trip. They really cover everything too, from underwear to watering the plants before you leave, you can add anything and everything to your list. Once you are done selecting the items,there is a pack icon that will list all the items you selected and tell you the percentage of the packing that you have completed. You can save lists and add pictures to the items you have and essentially customize your packing experience. This app will pretty much pack your things for you, without actually placing the articles in your bag, until robots can do that, thats your job but this app definitely covers the bases and will take your packing experience from being a huge hassle to pleasant and kind of fun.

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Trees of Doom as a concept is a little silly. You will find yourself as a ninja, climbing from tree to tree trying to avoid the scary red flying monster and the tree gnomes with sticks. As silly as it may seem, the game is extremely clever and is constantly exposing a new character or tool, that will help the ninja to bypass the obstacles and make it up the trees. So, as you may have gathered, the goal is to make it up the trees without hitting the purple waterfalls or the red monsters. The mushrooms will allow you to bounce from tree to tree, the hourglass and the blanket will project you up the trees and place you at a more advanced spot. The game takes a bit of getting used to as there are many elements to it, however, it is easy to figure out and will leave you extremely entertained. The ninja makes a ninja-y sound and the interface is very interesting with the front of the screen showing the two trees that move as the ninja is moving up them, and the background is a forest of trees and a volcano that stays still throughout the game. All in all, this is a really neat game that I definitely recommend to anyone who is looking for something to do to fill less interesting parts of the day.

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This could mean a lot for beginners who need that extra push or an extra outlet where they can practice and try to better understand how the instrument functions. As a guitar player, iJam2 is a really fascinating app to me for the following reasons. The interface reminds me of a guitar; they have done everything they can to make it seem like you are actually playing a guitar. However, they make it easy on you, giving you the key, the chord names, the option of using a capo and preset alternate positions for most of the chords. You really don’t have to do a whole lot but can walk away from using the app with the satisfaction that you did something to further your understanding of the instrument. You can learn a lot by setting your own alternate chord positions and by experimenting with placing the capo in different positions. This app is for those who are curious about the guitar, whether you are a beginner who wants to do as much as possible with the guitar during the day when playing an actual guitar would not be possible, or for the more advanced player who wants to play around with the guitar when they also, don’t have the opportunity to play an actual guitar. Its fun, its easy and if in doubt the help they give when you press the icon in the bottom right corner is extremely useful. Two thumbs up to this app, enjoy!

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ShopListFree is an app that allows people to organize their groceries in a list, according to what category they belong to, for example, dairy, meat and fish, tinned food, fruits and vegetables, etc… What makes this app so useful is that not only is it extremely easy to use but it is free. The app as a result, is not complex, what you see is definitely what you get, however,it is an app that gives you everything you would need in helping you to organize your grocery shopping trips. The app also allows you to enter the amount of each grocery item that you need, so that you know how much to buy. If you want to go pro, i.e get more features you can pay for that version of the app, 1.99. But, I would be careful because there aren’t really that many more features to the pro version and you would be better off staying with the ShopListFree or with going to a more developed,complex grocery list app, for example, GroceryList.

Apps that are in the grocery list category really fascinate me because I am interested to see how developers add to what seems like a pretty simple topic for an app. However, the GroceryList app definitely makes ShopListFree look over simplified. GroceryList complicates what ShopListFree does so easily. GroceryList allows you to choose from a huge list of grocery store items, everything from advil to absinthe, and requires you to press on the + button to add an item to your shopping list. From there, you can make a grocery list, go shopping with your list, make a second list, add to the master list or change existing items. This app is the Rolls Royce of grocery store apps, for 4.99 there really isn’t anything else you could put in a grocery store app.  This means one thing for the efficiency of the GroceryList app, it is not as easy to use because of the extra list capabilities and all the extra options. In my opinion, the ShopListFree grocery list app is much easier to use and makes paying for the GroceryList app seem a bit unnecessary. I wont dispute that GroceryList app is a good application, but when it comes to grocery list apps, ShopListFree has all you would need and its free!

ShopListFree

GroceryList

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Save your buck and never buy again an always breaking wired headsets for your online VoIP communication. Why bother if you have quality speaker and microphone in your iPhone? The app connects iPhone wirelessly to your desktop or notebook computer (you have to only install a free dekstop software) and voila — you can call on Skype, Google Talk, AIM etc and have all your audio coming in and out of your iPhone, isn’t it great?

But there is more to it! You can RECORD your conversations! You can also have a flexibility to walk out to another room from your computer since you are connected to it via WiFi. Check it out!
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