Augmented reality and location based apps are big trends in the mobile application world. A new app called Stickybits is looking to integrate these technologies and create a social and personal way to digitally tag objects in the real world.
Stickybits works like this. Using the free app and your iPhone’s camera, you scan a barcode [...]
Our lives are getting increasingly cluttered with ideas, things to see and obligations to fulfill. Fortunately being an iPhone owner, making it all make sense can be as easy as using the new note management app Springpad.
Springpad is the newly released companion app for the popular note taking and information organizing website. It takes note [...]
Grocery iQ is a full featured grocery list app for the iPhone and iPod Touch. When I bought it in the summer of 2009 it wasn’t associated with Coupons Inc. At that time I felt Grocery iQ swooped in and saved my bacon, so to speak. But, since the buyout, and the updates have things changed significantly? Read on to find out.
If, like every other year, your new year’s resolution is going to be to lose a little bit of that holiday weight, you need to start counting calories. The iPhone makes that task quite a bit easier and a lot more entertaining with apps like FoodScanner, which is on sale for a limited time.
FoodScanner is [...]
RedLaser is currently one of the hottest “paid” apps on the App Store. I took it for a test drive at a local big box retailer to see if it lives up to the hype!
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CardStar is a card manager program that takes all of your membership cards and puts the info and barcode right into your phone. The idea is that you can lighten your wallet now that you won’t have to carry around a ton of cards. I can’t stress the word “idea” enough. Because that’s really all [...]
While messing about with his camcorder’s NightShot function a member of the Australian Whirlpool forums uncovered a little tidbit of hidden iPhone gadgetry: a DataMatrix 2d Barcode. The tiny barcode, hidden behind the 3G’s plastic clamshell, can host up to a 50 character sequence.
What’s it all mean? Well Engadget [...]