I was trying to think of a fancy title for this review, but quite simply, Grades is the must have application for iPhone toting students. If you’ve checked out our preview, already you know that Grades is shaping up to be the app that finally answers the question, “What grade do I need to get on my next test?” While you don’t necessarily have to shoot for an A-, certainly an application like this has huge potential for being on the homescreen. Forget pulling out a calculator - Grades makes an average calculation based on what you have in a matter of seconds.
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Grades, The Must Have App for Students
Keypoint, The Mini Keynote. Review and Giveaway.
Being the busy business man I am, suit and all, there’s always all of those sweaty meetings to attend, things to present, and doughnuts to eat (mmm… doughnuts). The presentations are the worst part. I mean, I can deal with sitting in a room full of sexy Italians while dickin’ around on my iPhone, but presenting takes effort. And what if I forget my presentation materials? Uh-oh. With Keypoint, I can not only create those presentations while traveling in my million dollar limousine, I can do it fast and professionally.
GiftList, So you’ll Never Forget
After every birthday and Christmas, I’ll often spend a little bit of time about the warm glow of my monitor, keyboard and coffee in hand. As the printer churns sheets of countless thank you letters, I cross yet another name off a sticky note with a blue pen. Yet, I wish instead of this sticky note, I had an iPhone app that could track and organize everything for me. GiftList is an iPhone and iPod Touch application designed to keep track of all the presents you receive throughout the year, so you’ll never forget to send a proper “thank you” note (you all should really).
TeamViewer, Remote Desktop Simplicity
How many mobile devices can claim that they’re actually good at allowing me to login into Grandma’s computer to inspect her Windows’ problems? Not many (does Android have anything spectacular?). There are two versions of TeamViewer in the App Store, one being free, and the other being one hundred dollars. I’m focusing on the free version, specifically because it’s most likely all you need for personal use - accessing your private computers or to help friends/family (this is straight from the TeamViewer page people).
From Personal to Project, HomeMarks Houses Bookmarks
I have a knack for collecting bookmarks, especially when they’re project related. I remember back in January of this year, when I was putting together the crafty little shack that is Apple-Bits, I was saving HTML after CSS after PHP article like crazy. I had to have folders and sub folders full of at least 40 different web design bookmarks. Without a shred of web developer in me, I needed all the reference materials I could find, and I wish that, at the time, I had HomeMarks.
Sneak Peek at “On This Day”, New App from Sophiestication
Sophia Teutschler is unstoppable. Not only she’s just released her stunning new Wikipedia app for iPhone Articles (be sure to check out our review if you missed it. Then go buy the app.), but she’s already giving the last touches to a new app called “On this Day” which will be available as soon as Articles will have sold m0re than 10.000 copies. We received an early build of the new application and, guess what, it’s awesome.
Air Contacts, When Wireless Sharing is Bliss. Review and Giveaway.
Cellphones are inevitably fragile. I can’t count the number of times I’ve logged onto Facebook, with status messages ablaze of, “Send me a text, lost my contacts.” And of course we send a quick hello, secretly hoping that we never have to do it again. We with Macs can copy everything between our Address Book and our Contacts on the iPhone, but not everyone has such luxury. Sometimes something crummy will happen, and you’ll inevitably lose every contact that has ever bestowed your device. So what the heck can you do without a Mac or a PC, to get all those contacts back? The answer is quite simple, quite brilliant, or perhaps quite amazing. Any term here can apply to Air Contacts, an excellent contact sharing application.
Ember, Campfire Client for iPhone. Reviewed.
As you may have read in our huge Basecamp and Backpack article, we fell in love with these 37signals products, and I don’t see this love fading away anytime soon. Together with Backpack and Basecamp we decided to give a try to Campfire, the real time chat communication service for small and large teams, and we’re very satisfied. The web interface is simple and uncluttered, it’s fast and reliable and when combined with a Mac app like Propane, it’s a must have for any kind of team.
Guess what, I immediately went looking for a decent Campfire client for iPhone, and Ember seemed a pretty good choice. More than decent and pretty good actually, Ember by OverCommitted is the app you have to purchase if you’re a Campfire user.
Keeping Track of Your Habits with Daily Deeds
The worst thing about having to deal with dozens of tasks and projects everyday is that I often forget about the other things I have to do, out of the MacStories context. Basic things like listening to music, walk the dog, getting through my inbox and reply to mails: daily habits I shouldn’t forget about, but I often do.
Daily Deeds is a new application for the iPhone which cleverly lets you annotate your habits, complete them everyday and forget about it.