I have tried too many iPhone RSS apps and I still couldn’t find a good one. Until MobileRSS came along, at least for now.

Apps of these categories I’ve tried are either slow, too fancy, crashes often, doesn’t let you navigate your folders etc.

MobileRSS seems to solve these problems. It’s blazing fast (I am impressed), easy on the eyes and there are some features that are just plain useful, although they seem to be copied from Tweetie and ReadItLater (which is a good thing for this instance!).

User Interface

MobileRSS spots a straightforward interface, but they didn’t just leave it as that. You can also choose a darker theme if you like.

You can hit “Show All” at the bottom if you also want to see all your folders, otherwise leave it as “Show Updated” so that your screen won’t be cluttered.

This is the alternate theme of the interface which the developer call it “Black”, doesn’t look exactly black to me but, it sure looks like a decent alternative to the default theme.

Set your preferences or add a feed all on this screen.

Speaking about “add a feed” function, I never get it. I have never added a feed on the go (have you?) because if I do, I must be spending way too much time on my iPhone when I’m out. But MobileRSS’s “add a feed” function is different. It allows you to search for a feed using a keyword instead. Type a keyword and boom, you’re able to add the feed in an instant via the search result. But please note that this function is only available on the Pro ($4.99) version. Read on to see the differences between different versions of the same app.

Pull Down To Refresh

NibiruTech aren’t the first to copy this useful feature.

In fact I wish that more developers would follow this, if Loren wouldn’t mind.

Swipe For More Functions

Swipe and you will be able to do more with a feed, star, share, write a note etc.

For even more functions, hit the very familiar arrow icon on the right most side of the interface.

Sharing

You can share articles on Twitter, Facebook, ReadItLater, Instapaper, Delicious and good old email.

Don’t use some of them? Turn them off from the menu in settings.

Orientation Lock

Guess what? This is actually copied from ReadItLater.

When you see this “lock” icon, you can choose to lock it so that your orientation will be locked and vice versa.

Remembers Last Position, Offline & More

MobileRSS also remembers your last screen so that when you re-launch the app, you won’t feel like you left the app. Though, I find it sometimes buggy especially when I’m on the main article reading screen.

When I re-launch the app and the feeds are refreshing themselves, the article I was reading changes to another random article. This is what I hope the developer will eventually fix.

On a train, underground, or at anywhere with no internet access? Your articles (and images too) are stored offline so you can read it when you’re not connected.

Conclusion

The only problem I have is that there isn’t much distinction between the paid and free versions, except that the free one has ads. I used the free version for quite some time without getting annoyed at the ads as they’re surprisingly unobtrusive, but decided to part with my money just to support the developer.

If you decide to buy this app, here’s the differences between the three versions of MobileRSS:

• MobileRSS Free (Free, green icon) – Full Featured | Ads supported | No search and subscribe function
• MobileRSS ($2.99, orange icon) – Full Featured | No Ads | No search and subscribe function
• MobileRSS Pro ($4.99, blue icon) – Full Featured | No Ads | With search and subscribe function

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With native iPhone apps over shadowing Safari web apps since the App Store first launched, web apps had since received lesser attention. Before you decide that native iPhone apps are the way to go, think about how web apps are spared from going through dreaded App Store approval procedure before you can get your app updated with new features and bug fixes.

Lots of people have this notion that Safari web apps can only function with an internet connection. This is not true. Since Safari 4.0 for the iPhone was introduced, Mobile Safari supports HTML5 client side storage specification. Meaning web apps can store data on the client side (on your iPhone) and also store files like CSS, javascript, images into the iPhone’s cache.

Checklist

Checklist is a classic example of an offline web application that lets you get things out of your head by creating a quick to do list.

If you’re looking for an extremely simple to do list app, look no further.

Probable Uses

How I see Checklist can be really useful is when you’re packing your stuff to go on a holiday trip. I can see myself entering stuff like, slippers, cap, 5 t-shirts, chargers, toothbrush, shaver etc, you get the idea.

Because Checklist loads everything offline, you can use it at lightning speed. Pack one thing, launch, check it off, until everything is packed for your trip.

You can also use it for groceries. Doing groceries tonight? Launch the app, quickly enter the list of items to buy. Check them off at the super market, no need to wait for the internet to slow you down.

Maybe even write your goals and resolutions for the new year.

Conclusion

The thing is, Checklist is free, incredibly simple and fast, works in Airplane mode. Perfect for quick to do lists anywhere anytime.

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Web app URL for iPhone Safari – http://miniapps.co.uk/checklist

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Milton Keynes, UK – d3i just released Momento, a unique diary writing application for the iPhone and iPod touch, which provides a quick and easy way to privately record moments throughout your day. Connect with popular social web services, such as Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and Last.fm, to collect and display your online activity as part of your diary.

Whether you already write a diary, or like the idea but struggle to find the time, Momento can help make it quick, easy and rewarding.

With Momento in your pocket you can write your diary on the go, capturing moments throughout the day in the short  paces of time you find free. Tag memorable events, people you meet and places you visit for a fast and effective way to browse and search your moments. You can also create custom tags to categorise and keyword moments however you wish.

Momento can import your online activity from social web services and display it as part of your diary. See your history of Facebook status updates, tweets, Flickr photos and Last.fm loved tracks, all in one place and fully searchable. Even if you’re not interested in privately writing a diary, this is a great way to record and look back on your day-to-day life.

All of this great functionality makes Momento the perfect way to record, recall and reflect on the moments in your life.

Make every moment last with Momento.

Features:

Write privately about your activities, thoughts and experiences quickly and easily.

• Tag memorable events, people you meet and places you visit for a fast and effective way to browse and search your Moments.
• Custom tags provide the flexibility to categorise and keyword Moments however you wish.
• Attach multiple photos to each Moment from your iPhone’s camera or photo library.
• Rate Moments to see your best days at a glance.
• Connect with popular web services to import, search and browse your online social activity.
• Passcode protect Momento to keep your Moments safe and secure.

Supported social feeds:

• Facebook statuses
• Twitter tweets
• Flickr photos
• Last.fm loved tracks
• + More coming soon!

Pricing and availability:

Momento 1.0 is available now worldwide and can be purchased from the iTunes App Store for a limited introductory price of $2.99 (£1.79).

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Winners! – 8 Dec 09
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Congrats to the winners for this giveaway! You’ll receive an email shortly with your promo code, if you don’t receive it, please check the spam folder.

1. pemmax
2. Ethan
3. Chris H
4. abulafio
5. Mathieu

Previously, I reviewed Foobi and I mentioned that the developer was running low on free promo codes.

The good news is that Tap.plox contacted me for more promo codes to giveaway!

I have not one but five free promo codes that you can redeem Foobi for free on the U.S. App Store.

How To Win?

Very simple, the first 10 readers to leave a comment will be entitled a chance to win a free promo code. That’s 50% chance of winning! If you follow @SUBERAPPS and @tapplox, tell us in your comment and you have an even higher chance!

Also worth noting is that Tap.plox also have other apps in development, so follow @tapplox to get notified of future apps.

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1Password Pro iPhone App

[Discount: FREE! | iTunes Link]

The best and wildly popular password management tool for the Mac also comes with an iPhone version, the pro version of the iPhone app normally cost $7.99. But today, it’s absolutely FREE! Download it now already!

Textexpander

[Discount: 50% off $12.95 | Coupon Code: SMILEONFRIDAY | Website]

Textexpander is a utility app I can’t do without. Type an abbreviation and Textexpander (as the name suggest) will expand the abbreviation into a full text, image or both that you previously defined. Saves me so much time! Also worth noting that all other apps by SmileOnMyMac are also on 50% discount!

Fuel Collective’s Snippet & Swatch

[Snippet Discount: 20% off $12.95 | Coupon Code: thanksgiving | Website]
[Swatch Discount: 20% off $4.95 | Coupon Code: thanksgiving | Website]

Snippet & Swatch are beautifully crafted by Fuel Collective to help designers and developers save time on managing code snippets and colors. Very useful utilities for passionate designers and developers!

Layers

[Discount: 50% off $24.95 | Website]

Layers is a great screen capturing tool that takes screen captures even further. Taking a snapshot of your screen immediately turns every single application into individual layers perfectly sorted out in Photoshop waiting for manipulation. Latest feature includes web shots!

Equinux Family Of Apps

[Discount: Stationery Pack Bundles ($39.95) & Top 10 Mac app bundles ($79.95) | Website]

Equinux is bundling their top Mac apps that saves you up to 66%! Key apps included in the bundle are CoverScout, SongGenie, iSale and more.

JumSoft’s Money

[Discount: 50% off $39 | Coupon Code: BF2009 | Website]

I have used Money before and I can vouch for its quality, even though my needs have changed (need a more scaled down version) and no longer using it, I think it serves lots of others’ needs for finance management, invoicing etc. Even comes with an iPhone app that syncs with the Mac counterpart!

Postbox

[Discount: $10 off | Coupon Code: EP24355 (via @storiesofmac & @MarcEglon) | Website]

Postbox lets you work with email the way you’ve always wanted. Powered by an ultra-fast email engine and a sharp-looking, intuitive interface, Postbox will help you focus, save time, and get more done.

284 iPhone Apps on Sale!

[Visit 148Apps for full listing]

148Apps compiled a monster list of iPhone apps that are currently on Black Friday sale! Sale items include apps from lots of big names like Namco, EA Mobile, GameLoft, Konami, Pangea! Be sure to check out the page!

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This is one app that I absolutely love in terms of functions and looks, 5 upon 5 stars. I finally took a break from iTunes and off to exploring more new music from the realm of internet radio stations. SUBERAPPS readers gets a 20% discount code! Read on.

When I was a kid, I used to love listening to the radio. I didn’t have much money to spend on CDs, so I bought empty tapes to record songs played on the radio so that I can listen to my favorite songs over and over again!

Times have changed very quickly, tapes are a thing of the past. You can now listen to radio on the internet. Internet radios are great ways to discover new music, wouldn’t it be great to be able to record internet radio so that you can keep the song permanently with you?

With Snowtape, this is possible – and more!

Meet Snowtape

Snowtape lets you listen to internet radio, record them and even export recorded songs directly to iTunes with just one click!

To me, Snowtape is like iTunes but for radio stations and even more beautiful.

Features

Radio Stations
Snowtape is able to store thousands of radio stations to let you explore the almost infinite world of internet radio stations. Found one you like? Mark it as favorite to quickly listen to that radio station later.

Record

Snowtape not only lets you record broadcasts from radio stations, it took recording even further by helping you cut the tracks at audio track boundaries automatically. This means that the songs you record are complete soundtracks stored in your repository as individual songs (with album artwork fetched from Last.fm!), rather than a long piece of audio track. Snowtape can also identify commercials or interludes, automatically excluding them from the recordings.

What more do you need to do? Just hit the record button and let it run on auto-pilot!

iTunes Integration

For every recorded track, Snowtape will check if the track is available on iTunes. If it is, it can bring you to the artist directly in iTunes with one click! I don’t know how this can be useful when you can export the recorded track to iTunes, saving you one buck or so. The only thing you might want to buy the track off iTunes is when the track wasn’t recorded properly which is rare, or you simply want to support the artist.

As you should know by now, iTunes also lets you play internet radio. But if you want to streamline and manage radio stations all on Snowtape, just drag the item from iTunes into Snowtape and it’ll do the rest.

Importing

Not only can Snowtape import radio stations from iTunes, you can also import URLs of any radio station and Snowtape will check if it is valid before importing.

Controlling Mini Controller

You can either run Snowtape in a window, or as a mini controller. As gorgeous as the app window itself, you can park the mini controller anywhere on your screen with full controls for playing, pausing and recording.

Want to control Snowtape on your couch? You’re covered! Just download the Snowtape remote from iTunes (for iPhone and iPod Touch at $0.99). The remote is everything you would expect from Apple’s remote for iTunes. Play, pause, record, volume control, select radio stations, favorites etc.

Conclusion

For $29, Snowtape gives you maximum satisfaction on your music needs, digital radio style. Download it and give it a try, and if you decide to buy, take advantage of the 20% discount by using the coupon code – SUBERAPPS.

I hope you enjoy Snowtape as much as I do!

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Developer’s Site | iTunes Link | Price: $1.99 | Free Promo Codes: 1 code (U.S. store only)

For most things I dread to do, I need a reason. I have never “want” to track how balanced my diet is, or how much of what I’ve eaten. Not after I discovered Foobi.

Just like how Nike Plus makes me want to run, Foobi makes me want to track my diet!

If you’re a body builder, nutritionist, vegetarian, or anyone who just wants to track their diet, there has been no easier way to do it.

Not only does Foobi look absolutely gorgeous, it is extremely easy to use. Tracking your diet doesn’t require you to type any numbers. As they say “.. if you can flick, you’re an expert”.

Meet Foobi

Foobi greets you with a beautiful opening screen unveiling the app itself.

Launching Foobi

Whenever you consumed a category of food, launch Foobi, flick the screen left or right to choose the type of food, tap “+” to add a serving to the record.

Clicking the 3 stripes button on the left lets you take a quick glance at your diet for today or any date that you select:

For Foobi to be useful, you need to tracking your diet daily. Overtime, weekly summaries of your diet will be displayed on a graph. To see the graph, just flip your iPhone / iPod Touch into landscape mode.

As you can see from the graph below, I have been eating more meat (red) than vegetables (green).

If you have been wanting to eat more vegetables than meat, this graph will tell you you’ve been doing otherwise.

Planning Your Diet

Foobi is great for planning diets. In order to have a well balanced diet, you need to consume more of this and less of that. How do you know how much of what you’ve already consumed? By using Foobi to track your daily servings, it is easy to maintain a well balanced diet.

To plan your diet, simply go to Settings by clicking the “i” icon on the bottom right.

From here, you can set a daily servings limit for each food category or change the category name. If you don’t like the name “Poultry”, you can name it “Birds”. :D

If you can’t find a category from the default list, you can add your own. You can also change the color label of the food category, for example vegetables would most logically be green, not red! By using the right color to label your food category, it’ll be easier to read your weekly consumption graph.

Conclusion

I have not been able to find fault with the app except that I was not able to subtract servings. Other than that it does what it says and does it well.

Foobi might be the best looking diet tracking and balancing app you can ever find on the App Store yet.

Giveaway

The developer is running low on promo codes. Unfortunately I only have 1 promo code to giveaway! The first commenter gets the promo code to download Foobi on the U.S. App Store!

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Developer’s Site | iTunes Link | Price: $0.99 | Free Promo Codes: 10 codes (U.S. store only)

I usually receive a number of request per month from app developers about their new iPhone apps. As a designer myself, I tend to pay more attention to well designed apps and icons.

And yes, I mentioned icons, far too many apps have great functioning apps but less than attractive icons. A good icon should be easily identifiable, iconic and ties in well with the actual app itself.

Pleasant wood design

Jukebox ($0.99) is one of those apps with a beautiful design topped with a consistent icon.

For me, I’m not a hardcore gamer, I don’t get addicted easily. It’s usually because most games requires too much thinking and learning of controls. Call me lazy, but I use too much of my brains in my day to day work as a designer/developer so when I unwind I want to “shutdown” as much as possible.

Jukebox really lives up to how they describe their app, “..addictive, attractive music quiz.”. Apart from it’s addictive gameplay, Jukebox also spots a pleasant looking design.

Swipe Interactive sent me a promo code sometime ago, I redeemed the app, started playing and boy it got me hooked within a minute or so!

Gameplay

Tap the correct song

Basically Jukebox tests you on your entire music collection. It plays a a random portion of a song for a few seconds and you’re suppose to choose the right title from a list of four.

Sounds simple, but the longer you play, the more nervous you will become. Jukebox progresses on a relatively fast speed leaving you no time for dilly dally which increases the challenge. This game actually gave me an adrenaline rush. With each incorrect song I chose, it made me want to play on and choose more correct ones to increase my score percentage.

Scoring System

Your Statistics

One good thing about this game is that whenever you end the game, your current score will be accumulated as a total score under ‘Statistics’. When viewing your statistics, your results will be optionally uploaded to Swipe Interactive’s servers which will in return your ‘World Ranking’ score.

It’s pretty interesting to see how well you fair compared to players around the world, a good incentive to keep on playing.

Conclusion

All in all, an addictive game coupled with a well designed interface.

Jukebox is great for situations like “in a queue, waiting for the next train or bus etc”, as there is no limit to how long or short you should play this game in order to achieve your best score.

Certainly a good game to keep!

Giveaway

The developers are kind enough to provide 10 promo codes for SUBERAPPS readers to redeem the game on the App Store for free!

The first ten readers who comment will be sent an email almost immediately with the promo code!

The promo codes works in the U.S iTunes store only.

Comment now to redeem this wonderful game!

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I’ve just got an opportunity to review a spanking new to-do iPhone app, thanks to Nick from Spiffing Apps. This app will be out in the App Store next Monday is now available at the App Store. But now, I want to share with you my experience with this lovely iPhone app.

The Laid-Back Todo List

We have seen way too many feature packed ‘to-do’ lists apps on the App Store. Having lots of functions in an app of this genre works for some people but there are also people I know who cannot be bothered with the GTD system, the hassle of syncing with a desktop counterpart, sub grouping tasks and so on.

This group of people only need something as simple as a “pencil and paper” type of system. Only needing a place to quickly pen what they need to do.

Put Things Off fulfills this beautifully with a cute wooden interface coupled with subtle sounds to compliment the experience. Using this is a joy, it kinda makes me feel happy using it, mainly due to the light hearted design.

Launching The App

Launching the app greets you with a wooden background and the name of the app.

I am not a fan of splash screens as most of them I’ve seen are outright ugly and inconsistent with the app itself.

This one makes me a little more forgiving because of its consistency and it’s lovely laid back design.

Interface And Function

Using the app is extremely straightforward. Can’t get any simpler than that:

Tap the ‘+’ icon and add your tasks right away! Whatever you have added lands in your Inbox, ready for you to file to other boxes of different context.

There are only 3 boxes for you to file your tasks:

1. Today (tasks you need to complete today)
2. Put Off (tasks you will complete later)
3. Done (completed tasks)

Very straightforward and logical. This simple way of organizing tasks gets you up to speed very quickly. It doesn’t force you to learn and adjust to complicated systems.

Navigating Around

Navigating to other sections is only a matter of taping on the other boxes at the bottom.

You can move your tasks around or delete them as you wish.

Once you’re done with any tasks, just tap the “tick” icon.

Price

This app will require $2.99 to own. I must say the price is directly proportional to its feature set, definitely reasonable for its concept, design and execution.

Watch The Video!

The above images probably won’t do much justice to the actual usage of the app itself, so i suggest you end off by watching this cute video featuring the app. Once again, this app will be out in the app store next Monday. Stay tuned!

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If you run any kind of business (freelance, a company etc), you’ll need to keep receipts for any purchases made under the name of your business. The problem with keeping receipts is that the ink wear out very quickly. In the course of one year when it’s time to do your taxes, you’ll realize that most of your receipts become unreadable.

Scanning receipts and keeping them digitally, either on a dedicated folder on your Mac, or attach them in a finance software like Cha-Ching, can be a much better idea. But most people don’t like the idea of spending too much time scanning receipts with their scanner (steps include powering up the scanner, loading a preview and scan). Yes you can conveniently use Shoeboxed to scan your receipts for you if you don’t mind forking out a monthly fee ($9.95/month to start).

2 iPhone Apps To Digitize Your Receipts

If you have an iPhone, you only need to get two apps (5 bucks in total) to handle the digitizing of your receipts:

JotNot Scan
[$3.99 | Website | iTunes]

JotNot can scan your receipts by taking a picture of the receipt (can be done in the app itself), define the four corners of the receipt, the app will process the image of the receipt into a sharp looking version. I was skeptical about the image quality at first but was impressed by how the end result looked so sharp and “scanned-like”.

QuickPic
[$0.99 | Website | iTunes]

QuickPic basically lets you get an image out of your iPhone’s photo library or camera roll easily. You only need a web browser to do this. This is a time saving tool to get the scanned receipt using JotNot Scan out of your iPhone.

Here’s 4 steps to digitize your receipts with your iPhone:

Step 1

Take a picture of your receipt using JotNot Scan or import the image of the receipt you’ve previously taken before launching JotNot Scan:

Step 2

Define the 4 corners of the receipt by dragging the red circles to every corner:

Step 3

Once done, hit the “Process” button at the top right and you’ll see the result after the app processes the image. Save the image (your saved receipt will appear in the camera roll).

Step 4

Use QuickPic to get the receipt out of your camera roll easily, without this app you’ll need to email the receipt to yourself or use iPhoto to extract the image after docking your iPhone.

Launch QuickPic and choose your previously processed receipt using JotNot scan.

You’ll see your receipt in the window with a URL to download the image.

Enter the URL into your web browser and you’ll be able to view / download the receipt simply by dragging and dropping the image onto your desktop!

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The process looks like a long one with this seemingly long post, but I just want to be as detailed as possible by listing down all the steps clearly with the appropriate screenshots. Try it and you’ll find that it’s actually just two simple steps, snap your receipt with JotNot Scan and getting the image out of your iPhone with QuickPic.

I hope you find this tip useful, if you have any thoughts or suggestions please leave a comment.

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