CheckTip

Developer Quote: "Tired of pulling out your calculator to calculate the tip at a restaurant? Then try CheckTip!"

- COST:     Free     - APP STORE STARS:     5 ★★★★★
- Categories: Business, Calculator, Finance, Lifestyle, Native, Utilities

Many of us are aware that there are a good amount of tip calculator apps out there. But make room for a totally unique and new one. Stop and take a good look at the workings of this particular item! CheckTip is unlike the other tipping apps and is magically simple to use.

Here's the difference - you don't have to manually enter your restaurant bill amount into the app. CheckTip scans it in for you. Once scanned, it immediately supplies a tip and total amount! That's because this app uses Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Technology to get the required bill information and then calculate your tip and final bill. All in seconds! It's that clever and simple, and you can't help but admire its sheer genius. In a nutshell, here are the the features of this iPhone tip calculation utility app are as follows:

- Take a photo of your check while putting the bill amount in the red box
- Move the slider to adjust tip percentage
- Your tip and total percentages are displayed on the check

As explained above, hold your phone over the bill, and make sure the bill amount is centered in the red box, then tap the camera icon. The Optical Character Recognition will go to work and display the appropriate tip and total bill based on the input of that amount. The slider is set by default to 15%, and that is where I leave it. However, you can adjust it at any time to reflect your personal tipping preferences.

If you want to adjust where the tip and total amounts are displayed, simply drag them to the lines specified on the standard credit card bill. Like to keep track of your eating out expenses? No problem, just tap the green check mark to save the bill to your photo album. Let's count the taps it took for me to figure the tip on my dinner tonight.... Hmmm, only 1! No brain power required, no manual input. CheckTip certainly revolutionizes paying your bill utilizing OCR thus adding a touch of magic!

COOL CONCLUSION: Instantly calculate the tip on your bills while eating out by using CheckTip to scan the bill, then provide a tip and final total amount! One tap is all it takes!

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--Date/Version: Released 10/12/12 - Version 1.0
--iOS/Age Rating:  This app requires iOS 5.0 or later. Rated 4+.
--Device: Compatible with iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation), iPod touch (5th generation) and iPad
--Developer: Richmond Co.

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InstaWeather Pro

Developer Quote: "Escaping for the weekend and your friends are staying home? Make them suffer with a beach photo and weather conditions from Hawaii or Malibu using InstaWeather Pro."

- COST:     99 cents     - APP STORE STARS:     5 ★★★★★
- Categories: Instagram, Lifestyle, Native, Photos, Photography, Weather

Being in the deep south, we get excited whenever we catch a cold front gusting down from the great north! On the flip side of the coin, we get all worked up when news of a hurricane gets pushed through the media. In any event, I've been excited to find a really neat app that posts current weather conditions on your own photo.

InstaWeather Pro provides several different skins or weather themes to overwrite on your photo (either snapped on the spur of the moment, or residing in your photo album). So when you are heading down the road with icicles glued to your car, think about snapping a photo at the stop sign and having InstaWeather Pro overlay the weather insanity of that day! Conversely, if you are lucky enough to be a beach bum in Jamaica or Costa Rica, share a photo with your friends depicting that day's weather or weekly forecast. Some of the clever features of this iPhone and iPad Instagram style weather app are as follows:

- Choose your favorite skin from 9 available with various weather data: from current temperature and simple info about the location to very detailed forecast with air pressure, temperature, rain, wind power and direction

- Select the period of the displayed forecast: today, next few days or a whole week

- Measurements include Celsius & Fahrenheit, kilometres, miles and many others

- Install and share the weather with friends - make your personal weather report

- Share picture from InstaWeather to Instagram, Facebook or Twitter

Wherever you are, snap a beautiful photo and overlay one of nine weather skins for an unforgettable pic of what it's like in your current location. Change the weather themes which scroll across your photo until you are satisfied with the perfect effect. Try all the themes if you want before saving the photo. Then share the photo with your friends on Instagram via any number of other channels like iMessage, email, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

It's that simple, takes only around 3 steps, yet the end result is a clean, professional looking and personalized photo including the weather! If you want to try the free version of this app, you can also download InstaWeather Free at the App Store. Either way, don't miss out on this brilliant, simple and fun app.

COOL CONCLUSION: InstaWeather Pro is a personalized method of producing a great photo with weather conditions neatly overlaid to give friends a bit of extra information about how your day will be.

--Date/Version: Updated 10/31/12 - Version 1.7
--iOS/Age Rating:  This app requires iOS 5.0 or later. Rated 4+.
--Device: iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad
--Developer: BYSS mobile

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InsTrack Followers on Instagram...Discover Unfollowers, Mutual Friends and Fans

Developer Quote: "Discover who unfollowed you on Instagram and who is not following you back, track new followers, find mutual friends, view fans and more with InsTrack Followers on Instagram..."

- COST:     Free     - APP STORE STARS:     5 ★★★★★
- Categories: Lifestyle, Native, Photography, Social Networking

We have accounts with so many social networks in cyberworld these days, we almost don't need to have friends in the physical world! At least in the real world, we know who are our closest friends down the line to mere acquaintances. On social networks online, we tend to gather and collect "friends" like drops of water. Consequently, when our fans drop off our friendship radar, who would really know? There are far too many to count anyway! By the same realm, it would be nice to keep track of those who actually are our friends because what a nice surprise it is to see they have become our fans!

With InsTrack Followers on Instagram keep current on who's who with your Instagram account. It takes only seconds to discover your followers and unfollowers. This can be a helpful tool if you are trying to grow your social circle. Some features of this iPhone and iPad social networking discovery tool are as follows:

- Notification for followers gain/loss
- Handle accounts up to 100k followers
- InsTrack Badges and Cards
- Login using Instagram account
- Retrieve lists of followers and following
- Detect new followers and unfollowers, non-followers
- Detect mutual friends and fans
- Keep track of all unfollowers
- Open user profile on Instagram
- Create InsTrack cards and badges
- Share to Instagram, Twitter & Facebook
- Support following and unfollowing
(Instagram limit is 160 follow/unfollow per hour)
- Support multiple accounts

If you are curious at all as to who cares about your creative photography, then certainly you will want to use this app to be informed about current fans. The app is easy to navigate and instantly provides the answers you seek. Use time efficiently by browsing new photos while waiting for your personal information on followers to load. It's that simple, and so informative too!

COOL CONCLUSION: InsTrack Followers on Instagram is a simple and very useful tool to keep track of your Instagram social network. It works efficiently, quickly and can be quite an eye opener with the information provided.

--Date/Version: Released 9/18/12 - Version 1.0.0
--iOS/Age Rating:  This app requires iOS 5.0 or later. Rated 4+.
--Device: Universal: Compatible with iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation), iPod touch (5th generation) and iPad.
--Developer: INNOVATTY LLC

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PyroTouch

Developer Quote: "The people of the world are unhappy. But you know the secret to making them happy - set off fireworks - playing PyroTouch!"

- COST:     Free     - APP STORE STARS:     5 ★★★★★
- Categories: Entertainment, Games, Holidays, Native

Fireworks are often used to set off particular holidays with a spectacular bang. That could be July 4th, New Year's Eve, Christmas Eve, or any memorable occasions. Well, you can put on a fireworks show of your own without the hassle and danger when you play PyroTouch on your device! In this ultra bright and vivid game of fireworks, you orchestrate your own fabulous light shows, collect happiness rewards, and unlock new and even more brilliant fireworks. This is all done in the name of pleasing the crowd, because fireworks makes them happy! Enjoy a colorful array of features such as:

- Fireworks levels in cities all around the world. Vancouver and Taipei available now; New York, Shanghai, and more coming soon!
- Immense array of firework types, with explosions based on futuristic particle physics
- Explode fireworks in different ways with innovative tap and swipe actions
- Outstanding Retina display graphics
- Challenge your friends with Game Center leaderboards
- Social interaction with advanced Facebook and Twitter integration
- Localized for 8 different languages: English, Chinese, Chinese Simplified, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish (based on your device settings)

Expect to create and view gorgeous fireworks displays of your own making with many unique features in this dazzling display of light-equals-happiness iPhone and iPad fireworks game app. All sorts of challenges await you in obstacles. Unlock more fireworks, levels and stars as you work your way through this entertaining game for the whole family.

COOL CONCLUSION: PyroTouch is a non stop assortment of fun, challenges and gorgeous firework imagery created from a huge variety of colorful explosions with graphics of the highest quality.

--Date/Version: Updated 10/11/12 - Version 1.6
--iOS/Age Rating:  This app requires iOS 5.0 or later. Rated 4+.
--Device: iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad
--Developer: Harakoa Inc.

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Buzzam Radio

Developer Quote: "With Buzzam Radio build your own radio station using your music, your favorite news sources, weather, traffic, and more. Our DJ even reads your Facebook & Twitter updates."

- COST:     Free     - APP STORE STARS:     5 ★★★★★
- Categories: Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music, Native, News, Social Networking, Weather

Being able to hear the news you want (and not all the other distracting noise), check on your social networks, along with enjoy the songs you love is an irresistible combination! Accessing all the good stuff in one neat, tidy, intuitive and attractive package is what you get with Buzzam Radio. If you haven't heard the buzz about it yet (pardon the pun), now's the time to get acquainted with this fabulous all round media app. You will actually be able to create your own radio with only the items you want. Check out this noteworthy radio news, music and social update iPhone app below:

- Music or Playlists on Your Device
- Internet Radio Services like Spotify & Rdio
- Weather Updates Based on Your Location
- Traffic Reports When You're Driving
- Social Media Feeds like Facebook & Twitter
- News Podcasts like NPR, FOX, BBC, & more
- Sports Commentary Podcasts
- Podcasts from any other source

Sign in to Buzzam and get a brief introduction on how to start creating your customized radio. The Settings button is where you will select your fave items to include in your Radio. Find options for Music, News, Spotify, Weather, Traffic, Rdio, Facebook, Twitter and Podcasts to name about half of all the good stuff you can select. Itemize how many songs in a row you want to hear and also view the Tutorial right here in Settings under Advanced Settings. Adjust the volume from the lower blue triangle on your screen and also check the History of items you've enjoyed so far. This is just so easy to get around you'll never want to use a dozen different apps again to get this kind of customization!

Hit the forward/skip button to move from one channel to the next. Right now being in the hurricane zone, I am listening to the weather station as well as viewing the actual storm data. Then there is the segue to the Nightly News which I will be listening to as I type this. (Ah yes, the ever present Presidential Elections debate!) As you can see there are many aspects to this pretty awesome radio station. Great sound quality, ease of use and a beautiful interface make Buzzam Radio a winner in our book!

COOL CONCLUSION: For a whole new experience in radio entertainment, customize the eye-pleasing, intelligent Buzzam Radio with your favorite selections of media, networks and news in one quality package.

--Date/Version: Updated 10/12/12 - Version 1.2
--iOS/Age Rating:  This app requires iOS 4.3 or later. Rated 4+.
--Device: iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad
--Developer: Buzzam, LLC

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CardBuilder ~ Halloween

Developer Quote: "Scare your family and friends with spooktactular Award Winning e-cards from CardBuilder ~ Halloween!"

- COST:     99 cents     - APP STORE STARS:     5 ★★★★★
- Categories: Cards, Entertainment, Holidays, iPad, Lifestyle, Native, Sentiments

With Halloween around the corner, folks are planning parties, activities and events, and serving up all sorts of spook-alicious, yummy treats. If you're having a party, why not set the tone by sending out special party invitations? CardBuilder ~ Halloween provides you with the means to churn out some frightfully good invitations to your family and friends. But you can also use this colorful, easy to navigate card app to create a host of greeting cards using your photos in the background templates!

Some of the features of this ghoulish Halloween greeting card and invitation photo editing iPad app are as follows:

• Choose from over 19 unique Halloween postcard designs


• Add photos from your iPad library

• Move, scale and rotate photo for the perfect fit

• Choose from exciting photo filters

• Style your message font, size, alignment and color


• Send to one or more email recipients

• Address with contacts from your address book

• Save postcards to Photo Library


• Share postcards on Facebook
 and Twitter

With CardBuilder ~ Halloween, select from among 19 frightfully cute card templates. Just tap on the card you prefer, then watch CardBuilder go to work as it lets you do some fancy editing by inserting photos, filters and personalized text with font, color, size and alignment of your choice. Once created, you can send your scary invitations or greetings out to whomever you wish on social networks, or via email.

COOL CONCLUSION: CardBuilder ~ Halloween puts endless fun, color and delightful anticipation in your invitations and greeting cards in a charming way to delight all ages!

--Date/Version: Released 10/13/12 - Version 1.4
--iOS/Age Rating:  This app requires iOS 5.0 or later. Rated 4+.
--Device: iPad
--Developer: Tapfuze

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