Tag Archives: free apps

Review: Waze for the iPhone

by on August 30th, 2010 at 12:13 pm

For those of you who read my Epic Follow-Up Review of Navigon MobileNavigator a couple of weeks ago, I will invoke a little Monte Python before I begin: “And now for something completely different.” For the sake of comparison, if MobileNavigator is considered to be a dependable, luxurious, but expensive …

Review: Skobbler, a free GPS navigation app for iPhone

by on August 20th, 2010 at 1:19 pm

Skobbler, a free Internet based GPS navigation app based on the OpenStreetMap project’s crowsourced maps, has been updated to version 3.0. This upgrade adds interface improvements, iOS 4 Background Navigation support, and improved search. To be completely honest, I hadn’t heard of this app before Patrick let me know about …

Should Free iPhone Apps Be Eliminated?

by on December 28th, 2009 at 5:41 pm

My friend Joshua Schnell wrote a good post the other day at his Macgasm site “ in which he talks about the iPhone App Store, something being rotten in the state of it, and how it is currently broken and in danger of losing more good developers. He also argues …

Boxcar 2.0 Now Free After App Store Policy Change

by on October 15th, 2009 at 4:57 pm

I just saw this post on Jonathan George’s (Boxcar’s developer) Twitter stream (@jdg). It looks like he’s going to try an experiment and offer the premium push notification app, Boxcar 2.0, for free, with additional services increased from $.99 to $1.99. This comes on the heels of a change in …

Free Reign: Free iPhone Apps Roundup #12

by on September 20th, 2009 at 2:56 pm

It’s actually getting tougher and tougher to find decent, free applications on the App Store with the flood of LITE and FREE versions of retail applications. I’d really like to see some sort of dividing line so that Lite versions would just go away to their own section to be …

Free Reign – Free iPhone Apps Roundup #10

by on August 22nd, 2009 at 4:03 pm

This is Free Reign #10, ladies and gentlemen. We’re gathered here today on this page to celebrate a decade of the finest free apps coverage known to man. Okay, so it’s really more like three months (we skipped at least two weekends), but “hurray number #10″ all the same. This …

App Review: LightBike

by on March 12th, 2009 at 8:36 pm

I know how awesome was when you where a little kid watching Disneys Tron and thinking WOW that’s so cool!  Well now you can make that long time fantasy come true, thanks to Pankaku iPhone Applications now you’re able to download one of the hottest games right now at the App …