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Linkie, Another iPhone App To Track Bit.ly Links. The One I’m Sticking With.

Last week I took a look at Clicks Count, a free iPhone app to keep track of bit.ly links posted by a Twitter account. By using the public bit.ly’s APIs, the app allows you to check on the clicks a link has received and nothing much, really. But it’s free, and I’m sure it’ll be just fine for many of you.

I, however, need more. I want mobile analytics and referrers. So I went digging in the App Store some more and found this other app, Linkie, which comes at a $0.99 but does everything I need. So I’m sticking with it. Read more

Delibar for iPhone Syncs Bookmarks In The Cloud - Review & Giveaway

I don’t really save bookmarks anymore like I used to, but I know hundreds of thousands of users out there save any kind of content every day on popular services like Delicious, Pinboard and historio.us. I’m out of the bookmarking game, maybe because my browser’s address bar became so smart I can type a few characters and get back to that post I needed. Or maybe because I save the stuff I want as starred items in Google Reader and faves in Twitter or then again, maybe I was just tired of bookmarking. Like I said, though, bookmarking services are far from dead, even if people like me stopped using them.

For this very reason you should welcome the release of Delibar for iPhone, which is, hands down, the best iOS app to access Delicious and Pinboard bookmarks. Read more

Note & Share: A Note Taking App, With Twitter and Dropbox Support

There are so many note taking apps for iPhone and iPad out there in the App Store, I don’t want to even keep a list of them anymore. Since Dropbox announced the possibility for developers to plug into the system and people remembered that Evernote has always been a great solution to store notes, developers rushed to release both great and terrible clients to create notes and save them to multiple online locations. Me? I’ve been using Simplenote all along and I’m not moving away from it, although PlainText makes a great note taking application with excellent Dropbox support.  Read more

Typo Base HD for iPad

If you’re a designer that occasionally gets a hard-on for accentuated rounded curves in the letter G, or an iOS developer eyeballs deep in PDF documents detailing the available fonts on the iPad, get yourself a copy of Typo Base HD.

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JotAgent: The Quickest Way To Save Notes and Ideas in Dropbox

A few weeks ago I reviewed Captio, which is a neat and simple application for iPhone to email yourself a note, or a picture, with one tap. How many times have you wished there was a way to easily save an idea for later? For many, quickly emailing yourself a note is the best way to save it.

For many others, though, getting additional stuff in the inbox can become a nightmare. Not only the inbox is already overloaded, but getting notes in there as well? No way. I’ve set up a nice filtering and tagging system in Gmail to handle Captio notes, but I understand some of you guys just don’t want notes to be turned into emails.

Meet JotAgent: a new app for iPhone and iPad which can be described as “Captio for Dropbox”. Read more

Meow Meow Happy Fight HD Review & Giveaway!

Japan has seen its fair share of crazed destruction through a never ending slew of anime porn and giant robots, but just when you thought lolcats couldn’t get any crazier than tackling Godzilla in the nether regions, Happy Cat appoints a legion of ramen noodles and rice balls to tear down Tokyo alongside zombie children and teen pop-star superheroes. If an invisible issue of glamour girl chasing you down the street with a barrage of homing missiles isn’t enough to get the blood pumping, fist boxing an overly ripe squid while dodging phaser lasers from a secondhand R2-D2 might do the trick. Or everything will just blow up in smoke, as usual.

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Review: FLAC Player for iPhone

If you care about your digital music library and you care about quality, I guess you know what the FLAC format is all about. The Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) is an advanced (free and open source) audio compression codec that allows decompression into a perfect copy of the original audio data. Basically, it’s a high-quality compression method that generates state-of-the-art rips and (here’s the downside) huge data files.  If you lose a CD you care about but have a FLAC digital copy, you have an exact duplicate.

To give you an example, a standard 13-tracks album can go up to 450MB in size. Now think about encoding that Beatles collection you have in FLAC and you get the idea.

FLAC is great, but isn’t as supported by hardware makers as other standards such as MP3 are. Luckily enough for iPhone owners, there’s an for that (sorry Apple, I know it’s a trademark now). FLAC Player for iPhone (and iPad, it’s a universal app) is a simple way to import your lossless albums and songs on your iDevice and listen to them. Read more