BeenVerified: run background checks on your friends and be creepy.

BeenVerified.com has released an iPhone app that allows you to conduct 3 free background checks per week. You can find anyone’s criminal records, property info, relatives, neighbors, age, etc.

Generally speaking, this is probably a super great and super bad idea at the same time. Part of me wants to say, “Yes, it’s the best! Muhahaha”. But, upon conducting a background check on myself, I was instantly horrified. Either way, background checks are quickly becoming big business on the web. However, regardless of what site you use, they always seem to require hordes of money before letting you close to anything resembling information. This app gets you closer to discovering the location of your friend’s secret lair and does so for free.

White House debuts new iPhone app

The White House may have lost their filibuster-proof strangle hold on the republicans, but all is not lost. The White House iPhone app is now in the app store – it’s free and it’s pretty sweet. With this app you can get “up-to-date information directly from the Obama administration right to your iPhone”. Sounds great. Also, you get the latest in videos, blog posts, and events.

All said, the Obama administration has always pushed to use technology to communicate effectively and swiftly to the American public. Whether this app helps them to pass Health Care reform, is another story.

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Waze – avoid traffic at all costs!

The Waze iPhone app debuted to the App Store this week giving drivers a new tool to tackle the road with. It allows you to pull up real time traffic reports, check traffic speeds, and watch out for time-sucking accidents. In addition, it provides turn-by-turn directions, which means, yes that’s right – forget the expensive Tom Tom or Garmin. We here at iPhone App Design are city dwellers and use Hop Stop extensively. So if anyone is a regular driver and wants to test it out, please do us a favor and contact us.


P.S, another app to check out is Trapster. Shhh. You didn’t hear it from us.


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