AdaptiveBlue

By Leanna Lofte, Wednesday, Jun 15, 2011 | Every day, TiPb gets flooded with announcements for new and updated iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad apps and games. So every day we pick just a few of the most interesting, the most notable, and simply the most awesome to share with you! do@ (doAT): A revolutionary mobile search experience. Start by typing a short query, which can be as simple as a movie title, a band, a product or any other subject or topic. Instead of links, your results will appear as mobile web-apps from the best publishers and app developers. [Free - iTunes link] GetGlue: Connect with friends and fans around the TV shows, movies, music, and sporting events that you love. Now with push notifications and in-app alerts, easier access to your messages, and more! [Free - iTunes link] Catalog Spree: Browse familiar catalogs, discover new brands, search for items, save them as favorites, and shop directly from your favorite stores… all from the comfort of your iPad! Now with over a dozen new classic retailers, visual search, and portrait HD. [Free - iTunes link] Brickzors: A retro-style brick breaking game with a twist. [$0.99 - iTunes link] Sticker Worlds: A creative scene building activity which will fire your child’s imagination. With colourful background environments, fun characters and objects, and easy drag and drop play, kids as young as 2 can create and save their own Sticker Worlds storybook. [$0.99 - iTunes link] Any other big apps or game releases or updates today? If you pick any of these up, let us know what you think! Have an app you’d love to see featured on TiPb? Email us at iosapps@tipb.com, tell us about your app (include an iTunes link), and we’ll take a look. Read More

By Leanna Lofte, Tuesday, Mar 29, 2011 | Every day, TiPb gets flooded with announcements for new and updated iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad apps and games. So every day we pick just a few of the most interesting, the most notable, and simply the most awesome to share with you! BallFallDown Deluxe (give-away): Construct your own marble run or build brand new toys. Now with 8 new backgrounds! [$2.99 - iTunes link] Circus Pain: Control the destiny of Igor, a former explosives expert that figured getting shot out of a giant cannon would be a safer choice of job descriptions. [$0.99 - iTunes link] Strava Cycling: New social training app for avid cyclists. Log and analyze your rides, and compare and compete with friends. [Free - iTunes link] GetGlue: Connect with friends and fans around the TV shows, movies, music, and sporting events that you love. Now with Facebook integration, ability to check-in to sports and rewards from NCAA, NHL and major sports networks. [Free - iTunes link] InstaRadar: Search and explore Instagram geographically. [$0.99 - iTunes link] The good folks at FlatPack Interactive gave us some promo codes for BallFallDown Deluxe to give-away to you. For a chance to win, just leave a comment below! Any other big apps or game releases or updates today? If you pick any of these up, let us know what you think! Update: Congrats to winners Morgan Stephens, Bosque Bill, and jbkilluh! Read More

The 2011 Academy Awards will be held today Sunday, February 27th and movie fans are gearing up for the big day. While the world is discussing which movies will be receiving awards for being the best of the best, many of you will be frantically planning a last-minute get together. To help you with that process, we have compiled five must-have apps to help you with the party preparation. Punch Bowl is an event planning app that lets you host an event, invite guests, and create and manage a list of food items for a potluck. A message board feature lets you share information with your guests, especially helpful for large groups. You can also use the app to find local vendors for those hard-to-find party items. Punch Bowl is available for free in the App Store. Want to cook but not sure how to prepare those scallops? Then check out “How to Cook Everything”, an app that does exactly what its name describes. The app has a database of 2,000 recipes and 400 how-to illustrations that will help you refine your cooking technique. Extra benefits include support for the iPhone retina display, multi-tasking in iOS 4 devices, metric and standard measurements, built-in timer and the ability to add recipes to the iOS calendar. Last but not least, How to Cook Everything includes social network support so you can easily share your cooking adventures with friends and family. The app is available both for the iPhone or the iPad and will set you back a mere $4.99. Allrecipes is an excellent resource for cooks, regardless of their cooking level. The website has a variety of recipes along with user reviews and community-submitted changes. The iPad version of the application brings the power of the website to your tablet device. You can search recipes by course, cooking method, or prep time. Once you have you a list of recipes, you can narrow your results using a filter which sorts recipes by popularity and/or member rating. The app is available for free, but if you are an Allrecipes member, you will want to upgrade to the Pro version. The $4.99 Pro version lets you tap into your online recipe box and removes any ads that are present in the free version. Love dips, but lack the creative flair to come up with your own? Then you should check out Dip Diva, an iPhone app with Read More

The guys at GetGlue have updated their mobile check-in app for just about everything with a handful of usability improvements. Now check-ins will display specials if they’re available (pretty sure True Blood is the only one right now), tidied-up pages for check-in subjects, a dedicated tab to see all of the stickers you’ve earned, and the ability to do searches for stuff when rating. Both Android and iPhone apps also play nice in landscape mode. Finally, the iPhone version is now clever enough to tell what you’re listening to on iTunes and immediately pull up the band or album in GetGlue for quick and easy check-ins. I’m kind of surprised that GetGlue hasn’t plugged in with Foursquare yet. None of the check-ins include any kind of location data, and my impression is that isn’t a direction GetGlue wants to go in. Still, anyone who’s the type to use mobile check-in apps will likely already be on Foursquare, and if they can do GetGlue at the same time, they’re pretty likely to. Jussayin’. I’m all for TV shows, but it seems like the vast majority of the new stickers they’ve been releasing are as a result of their TV network partnerships. C’mon, let’s see some video game rewards – us gamers already have a lust for shallow achievement-style stickers. And why aren’t gadgets included in the mobile app? You can check-in to and like all sorts of gadgets on GetGlue’s site, but aside from the roundabout access through the Topics category, there’s no access to electronics check-ins on either the BlackBerry-friendly mobile site or the iPhone app. Humbug! Anyway, GetGlue also has new custom stickers if you check in when watching Glee or Fringe. If you’re into those shows, definitely hit up the download links below so you can share with your friends on Twitter and Facebook when you’re watching. – Download GetGlue for Android (Free) [Market Link] – Download GetGlue for iPhone (Free) [iTunes Link] P.S.: BlackBerry version? C’maaaaan. Simon Sage’s education largely surrounded writing, technology and online community, leading him to begin his blogging career at www.BlackBerryCool.com and to quickly discover a vibrant and active community surrounding BlackBerry and mobile technology. In exploring RIM’s platform, he has learned what enterprises are looking for in mobility as well as what makes the innocuous BlackBerry so appealing to them. Recently Simon’s been covering RIM’s gradual move into an already-crowded consumer market, and Read More

The GetGlue mobile check-in app for just about everything has expanded their catalog of stickers to include rewards for checking into USA Network and ESPN shows. Burn Notice, Psych, White Collar, Royal Pains, and E:60 will all offer three tiers of stickers depending on when and how often you check-in, as well as some secret rewards for that added element of surprise. They’re also offering special stickers for a live Halowe’en episode of Ghost Hunters and fresh rewards for the movies Unstoppable and Love and Other Drugs. GetGlue is an all-encompassing mobile app that lets you share what books you’re reading, what TV shows or movies you’re watching, what video games you’re playing, what wines you’re drinking, which celebrities you’re gossiping about, and more. For anything but location, GetGlue is awesome, and these tailor-made, official stickers are the perfect way to reward loyal fans. Of course, there are also concrete rewards that GetGlue is starting to dabble in, which I’d definitely like to see more of. For TV buffs, this network is gaining a lot of steam, but there are a lot of other directions these guys will be able to expand in. I really wish they’d get around to a BlackBerry app, but for those with an Android handset or an iPhone, download links are below. – Download GetGlue for Android (Free) [Market Link] – Download GetGlue for iPhone (Free) [iTunes Link] Simon Sage’s education largely surrounded writing, technology and online community, leading him to begin his blogging career at www.BlackBerryCool.com and to quickly discover a vibrant and active community surrounding BlackBerry and mobile technology. In exploring RIM’s platform, he has learned what enterprises are looking for in mobility as well as what makes the innocuous BlackBerry so appealing to them. Recently Simon’s been covering RIM’s gradual move into an already-crowded consumer market, and the impact of burgeoning challengers, such as the iPhone, as well as long-time leaders, like Nokia, on BlackBerry’s advancement. With plenty of content under his belt, Simon will be branching off a bit to see what other smartphone manufacturers are working on while still using BlackBerry as a barometer. At IntoMobile, you can count on his posts being even-handed, well-informed and thought-out. Read More

Fresh and great! Yojimbo for iPad is a companion app that syncs effortlessly over WiFi from Yojimbo 3 for Mac OS X (required; sold separately), letting you take all of your Yojimbo data anywhere. Yojimbo for iPad even handles your encrypted entries. The “Official” Etch A Sketch application. Re-live the classic drawing fun of Etch A Sketch on your iPad. Dazzle your friends with doodle masterpieces. Teleprompt+ is a simple yet powerful professional teleprompter for the iPad. Perfect for presenters, lecturers, students, teachers, broadcasters, podcasters, filmmakers, musicians, business professionals, or anyone who would benefit from having a powerful visual aid while engaged in a speaking activity. Tweet Library — the advanced Twitter app with archiving, collections, and filters. If you have ever wished that you could find an old tweet after it fell out of the Twitter search index, Tweet Library was designed for you. The PBS Mobile apps enable our viewers to watch PBS programs and stay current with our most popular series, access local PBS station schedules, and stream a variety of content from the PBS archives. The PBS for iPhone and PBS for iPad apps make it possible for our viewers to learn more about and watch PBS programs when and where they want. GetGlue is a social network for movies, tv shows, music, and books. Check-in and rate things to discover new favorites, see what your friends are into, get stickers, and win free stuff. With Typo Base you can explore all the types on your iPad in every detail. See a font with a variety of sample texts and in different layouts, sizes and colors. Compare Fonts, take a detailed look at individual glyphs and even see how a website would look like, rendered with a different font. Read More

By Leanna Lofte, Monday, Oct 18, 2010 | Every week a few of us from team TiPb will bring you our current favorite, funnest, most useful App Store apps, WebApps, jailbreak apps, even the occasional accessory, web site, or desktop app if the mood strikes us. As long as they’re iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch related, they’re fair game. To see what we picked this week, and to tell us your pick, follow on after the break! TLert is a quickreply SMS app available to jailbreakers via Cydia. It simply allows you to start a text message or respond to an incoming text from anywhere on your device without interrupting what you’re currently doing. TLert is also heavily customizable. In settings, you can choose different chat bubble colors and types as well as how you want TLert to present notifications. You can lock into portrait or landscape, or choose auto rotate. You can also change whether or not you’d like TLert popups to appear on the lockscreen. This is nice for people that run programs such as LockInfo or other information programs. I’ve got TLert disabled from presenting on my lockscreen as LockInfo already shows me that info. One bug I’ve noticed is that once you unlock the phone, the alert is there, which is sometimes redundant if you’re clicking from another app on your lockscreen to text back. I hope we see a fix for this in a future update. TLert is extremely user friendly and easy to setup in comparison to some other QuickReply apps. It doesn’t replace your default texting program, it simply enhances it. Since you can set gestures for quick texting, I rarely find myself using the default SMS program. TLert is available on Cydia for $6.99 (also comes with a 3 day free trial). Posterous is a neat little app made specifically for the Posterous blogging community that was just released in the App Store this past Tuesday. The app allows for posting of blog articles directly from the iPhone itself without being tied down to a laptop, PC or Mac in order to help get your ideas out onto the web — no matter where you are, no matter what you’re doing. The app allows for great features and functionality like geo-tagging your posts, auto-posting to other social services like Twitter and Facebook, the inclusion of pictures and video into your post and so Read More

With all of the social networking and "check-in" services that are available these days, you might think you've seen it all. But there's one currently untapped, check-in-able experience left and that's . GetGlue, a free app by AdaptiveBlue, thinks it has that niche covered, and in essence, it's like Foursquare for media. The idea is that every time you watch a TV show or movie, listen to music, read a book, or even drink wine, you use GetGlue to check-in to that particular experience. GetGlue is free, and you can get it almost anywhere that you're likely to consume media. It gets a thumbs up from me, but if you're not convinced, hit up the gallery for a walkthrough of the iPad version. GetGlue - iPhone - iPad - Android - Read More

by Social sharing and recommendation service GetGlue has just released its iPad app. Get Glue for iPad comes just two months after GetGlue was released for the iPhone and a few weeks after GetGlue for Android. Like the other apps, GetGlue for iPad lets users check in to their favorite TV shows, movies and music; share their check-ins with friends; and get personalized suggestions based on their interests. The app also lets users earn points and stickers from GetGlue and its brand sponsors. The iPad’s larger screen means that viewing streams of conversations and checkins from friends is easier and more manageable. You can also vote up or down within the stream and to go directly to profile, objects and conversations. This video gives you an idea of what all the GetGlue mobile apps are about: In addition to the new iPad app, GetGlue has also signed a new partnership with Fox for the fall TV season; users can earn stickers for current hits Glee and Bones and new shows Raising Hope and Lone Star. HBO and Showtime are also branching out their partnerships to include Boardwalk Empire, Eastbound and Down and Dexter. For Boardwalk Empire, HBO will be doing special stickers and rewards for users who engage with GetGlue and watch the show each week. Although we’ve always loved the recommendation engine that is built into GetGlue, the website isn’t always conducive to checkins or recommendations because unless you’re viewing all your content in a web browser, you probably aren’t at your computer when sitting down to watch a movie or TV show. That’s why we think the mobile apps have added such a cool element to GetGlue. It makes sharing what you like and what you are watching much easier while also making it easier to get recommendations from others. GetGlue for iPad puts recommendations front and center, and we think it’s a great couch companion when trying to decide what to watch or rent. The social element of the gaming aspect of GetGlue is great on mobile apps too. We’re not the only ones that think mobile has given GetGlue a new dimension. GetGlue tells us that usage and user sign-ups are way up since the release of the first iPhone app, and it’s a cycle that continues to grow. Today, 24 hours after the iPad app’s release, GetGlue is second only to Twitter in the Social Networking Read More

Browsing the App Store this weekend?  Here are twelve new or updated apps for the iPhone and iPad worth taking a closer look at if you are: We covered this when it was announced a short while ago, and now the iPad version of Chinatown Wars is ready for download.  Enhanced graphics and improved controls await.  $9.99/£5.99. Gameloft’s new golf game has seven game modes, a variety of courses and even the chance to upload replays of your best shots to YouTube.  The graphics have been specially enhanced for the iPhone 4 too.  $6.99/£3.99. Do we really need to tell you what the pigeons use to bomb the cities in the game?  There are 45 missions to complete, simple controls and you can access your iPod music collection within the game.  $0.99/£0.59. The social network for all forms of entertainment gets its own, dedicated iPad app.  It looks great too, with easy check-ins and the chance to rate movies from the public stream or from recommendations.  Free. Something like Flipboard for Flickr, you can browse your own pictures, those by your contacts, or just explore what’s out there!  There is also a mapping feature to allow you to use geo-location to find images.  $4.99/£2.99. The official app from NASA now on your iPad with thousands of pictures, NASA videos, NASA TV, a wealth of information on NASA missions past and present plus integration with Facebook and Twitter.  Free. An unusual app for the iPad, which encourages you to let loose your inner poet.  An ideas generator joins a rhyming dictionary and a thesaurus, plus note-taking and export options.  $6.99/£3.99. An action role-playing game with some stunning graphics.  Beware of the in-app purchases though.  $4.99/£2.99. A physics based game which claims to be the iPhone version of the Soccer Balls Flash game.  A total of 36 levels and 8 soccer teams are included.  $0.99/£0.59. An invoicing app that lets you create custom invoices complete with your own logo and send them as a PDF via email.  $1.99/£1.19. A meal-planner for those who want to lose weight, but don’t want to count calories.  The app does all this for you by creating a personalized meal plan and a shopping list.  The current price is listed as promotional, so expect it to rise sometime in the future.  $3.99, US Only. It’s whack-a-mole but with an alien farming twist!  Kill the nasties, harvest the good Read More