Tag Results For: Places

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Extra Mile: Voice Directions, Route Planning & Travel Logs For iPhone

iOS devices are used for a lot of purposes, not the least of which is navigation. Not only can you view detailed maps of any place on earth using your iPhone, there are also a lot of apps available in the App Store which supplement travelling and make navigation even easier. That’s exactly what Extra [...] (more…)

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SuperCompass: Find Your Direction & Overlay It With Camera View [WP7]

Windows Phone 7 does have its perks, but there is no denying that some basic features are missing in the Mango platform. Take compass, as an example. While iOS does have a stock compass app, WP7 has to rely on third party options for this purpose, but luckily, quite a few are available. SuperCompass is [...] (more…)

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Eye Spy: Find Places Of Interest With Augmented Reality View [WP7]

Even a budding platform like Windows Phone 7 has got a nice collection of apps which are focused on letting their users discover places near them, without having to gaze at a map for too long. We have covered quite a few such apps ourselves, like Poynt, Next2Me and From Here. Eye Spy is a [...] (more…)

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Waze: Navigation On iPhone/iPad With A Touch Of Social Networking

While human beings cannot match computers in terms of efficiency and speed, there are some things which can only be done properly with a human hand and mind, at least until now. Many services and apps for iOS can help you navigate while driving, but the information is, usually, pretty mechanical, and can never replicate [...] (more…)

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Travel Expert Pro For WP7 Assists You In Planning Your Trips Abroad

You have been saving up to go to some exotic location for your annual, two week vacation, but you are so busy with last minute details that you do not have the time to check the currency rates of your destination, make hotel reservations and note down the Flight number. Travel Expert Pro does all [...] (more…)

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Flava For iPhone: Virtual Scrapbook For Photos, Notes, Places & More

Flava is like a virtual scrapbook for your iOS device that can be used to arrange photos, books, music, audio recordings, notes, links and places of importance in one place. The purpose of the app is to capture all memorable or significant moments of each passing day. You can later browse through the data via the the [...] (more…)

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Around You Wiki For WP7: Discover Interesting Places Near Any Location

There is an explorer in all of us. No matter how much of a geek you are, every once in a while, you feel the need to just go out there and enjoy the real world. So if you want to go on a trek and are looking to find some interesting places near you, [...] (more…)

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Everplaces For iPhone: Create A Log Of Places & Share It With Friends

Location-based social networking is a budding field of development, especially for iOS. Many of the apps present in App Store let users suggest places like restaurants, parks, shopping malls etc, to their friends. However, most of these apps are all about sharing information, and it can be rather difficult to keep your data private. What [...] (more…)

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Stamped For iPhone: A New Social Network Concept For Recommendations

There are a lot of iOS apps that let you share with the world what you think of a particular place or item, like Oink (which we reviewed some days ago), but there is no specific system of check and balance, and you never know if the ratings a place has are authentic. Stamped is [...] (more…)

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Oink For iPhone: Rate & Share Places, Food Items, TV Shows Or Anything

Oink is an app which displays the popularity of just about anything based on how much the general public and your friends like it. By anything, we really mean anything. The app doesn’t focus on just one specific thing like food items or places; there are a bunch of other apps for that. With Oink, [...] (more…)

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Roamz For iPhone: Find Popular Places Based On Social Media Trends

Roamz is a hybrid of meta searching and location-based social networking. This handy little iOS app taps into public discussions going on at a variety of sites (like Facebook & Foursquare) and based on those discussions, suggests which places are in the vogue these days. Not only that, you can even get it to help [...] (more…)

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Next2Me For WP7: Find The Nearest Bank, Hotel, Taxi Or Anything At All

Next2Me is a location-based app for Windows Phone 7 which lets its users search for any place they want to visit. Using the app, you can also share your current location with anyone via SMS or email. But that’s not all; Next2Me also tells you which of the searched places is nearest to your current [...] (more…)