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

Julian Oscar — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:25:11 +0000

Background Check App

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.

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White House debuts new iPhone app

Julian Oscar — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:47:18 +0000

The White House 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!

Julian Oscar — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 02:04:55 +0000

Waze: Way to go

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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Evernote

Julian Oscar — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:38:23 +0000

Evernote for iPhone

Evernote is a beautiful system for “Remembering Everything”. In essence, Evernote is an iPhone application, desktop application, and browser plugin. It lets you capture anything from the web or daily travels and organizes it for you. It’s a very simple way to keep track of your project notes, photographs, and clippings from the web.

The best thing about Evernote is that if you have a laptop, desktop, office computer and iPhone, it syncs all of them automatically. I only wish I could find something to organize my firefox and google chrome bookmarks across multiple machines!

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Evernote Home

Convertbot by Tapbots

Julian Oscar — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:43:40 +0000

Hi Everyone,

I wanted to highlight an iPhone app that is seriously well designed. Checkout Covertbot by Tapbots – a two man team that has put out a couple different apps (convertbot & weightbot). This app does what you would expect it to – it converts various units of data into other units of data – but it does so in a sleek, fun to use interface. It is obvious that the designer and developer worked closely together to keep the design pixel-perfect and tight, preserving all of the subtle gradients, bevels and shadows. Additionally, this app has fantastic transitions.

Remember, even when designing the smallest of apps, Apple and users love to reward thoughtful, great design. As one person said to me, “I bought it just because of the design”. And so did I.

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