Utilities

First U.S. Augmented Reality App – Yelp

It seems that Yelp has decided that reality isn’t good enough, so they augmented it. After opening the app, make sure you are on the “Nearby” screen & shake the device three times slowly. (like counting to three). A button in the upper-right-hand corner will appear named “monocle” tap on it...

Shorten a URL on your iPhone With bit.ly Bookmarklet

While you can navigate to the bit.ly website and copy & paste your URL to be shortened, it is the long way of doing it and clunky. Here at The iPhone App Blog, we found it too hard to be constantly attempting to copy and paste all the URLs that we...

Fizz Weather – Updated to 1.4!

The developers of Fizz Weather (Fizz Software, Ltd.) have updated their app to version 1.4. It seems that they have really improved their interface this version. Most noticeably, there is now a 15-day forecast & graphs can be seen within the Now weather section of the app – very cool! What’s...

VLCRemote – Pick of the Week

This is a very nifty app for those of you that enjoy watching videos on your PC or Mac. VLCRemote controls VLC player via Wifi (my mac was using a LAN line, but it’s on the same network). The app lest you control all the basics, plus view your play...