I know, SUBERAPPS has been quiet for quite a while now. But this is going to change.

If you’ve been following us on Twitter, you may have noticed it starting to become more active. Lots of tweets are being marked as favorites, this is a good sign as I know most of you has been liking the new tweets so far. And little do you know most of the new tweets has been shared by our new editor!

Yes, meet our new editor, Leslie A Joy! I know you’re going to love the new posts that will be coming up shortly.

Leslie is a passionate and enthusiastic writer who have posted three times on Web.Appstorm, not counting other blogs. I’m not just singing praises because she is our new editor, but because she really is a driven individual with lots of knowledge about apps, some great ones I never even heard of. You should have seen the massive list of apps she’s planning to cover over here at SUBERAPPS, it’s hard to reach the bottom of the document!

Now that she have the editorial calendar planned out, you can expect to see more app reviews, tips and tricks, how tos, interviews and giveaways on a regular basis.

Also, we have an awesome surprise coming this Christmas.

Stay tuned!

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If you have an iPad, you are probably wondering what apps you should load up your iPad with. If you don’t have an iPad, bookmark this post and come back later when you get yours.

I received my iPad a few weeks ago and the first time I got it, I surfed around looking for iPad app round ups. But the Apple community seems to be lack of posts like this, so I hope this will help you find something useful.

Below are 40 carefully handpicked iPad apps that I find useful and well designed. Some of which are free, some are paid, some I have used and some I have not.

Enjoy!

Weather Station Pro

[$1.99 | Website | iTunes Link]

Turn your iPad into a weather station and check weather conditions and forecasts at your current location and other locations worldwide.

NewsRack

[$4.99 | Website | iTunes Link]

NewsRack is a full-featured RSS reader for your iPhone and iPad.

Evernote

[Free | Website | iTunes LInk]

Evernote is the popular note taking app you should have known by now.

Articles

[$0.99 | Website | iTunes LInk]

With Articles, you can easily read and discover Wikipedia articles on your iPhone, iPod touch and iPad.

SoundPaper

[$2.99 | Website | iTunes Link]

SoundPaper is the best way to take notes in meetings, lectures, and interviews. It tracks what you type while recording audio, so you’ll never have to worry about missing anything.

Ego

[$4.99 | Website | iTunes LInk]

Ego gives you one central—and lovely—location to check web statistics that matter to you. You can quickly view the number of visits to your website (including daily, hourly and monthly numbers), feed subscription totals and changes, how many people are following you on Twitter and more.

Deliveries Touch

[$4.99 | Website | iTunes LInk]

Delivery Status touch will help you track packages from UPS, FedEx, USPS, DHL, TNT and many more.

Instapaper

[$4.99 | Website | iTunes LInk]

The critically acclaimed, award-winning app to read web pages on the go, in the air, or on the couch.

Penultimate

[$2.99 | Website | iTunes LInk]

The ultimate notes app for iPad®. Write, sketch, imagine and remember. Your touch creates beautiful ink. Organize your ideas into infinite notebooks, and share by email with your coworkers, classmates, and friends.

Things

[$19.99 | Website | iTunes LInk]

The famous GTD application for Mac, now on iPad.

iMockups for iPad

[$9.99 | Website | iTunes LInk]

For rapid wireframing and app design. Mockup your app ideas in seconds and iterate on them faster than ever.

1Password for iPad

[$6.99 | Website | iTunes LInk]

Login to websites, encrypt your documents, and keep your bank accounts at the tip of your fingers. The most beautiful security vault for iPad is at your service

Gusto

[$9.99 | Website | iTunes Link]

Gusto is a full-featured website development environment designed exclusively for the iPad with a focus on workflow and usability.

The Early Edition

[$4.99 | Website | iTunes Link]

The Early Edition is an iPad application that takes what’s great about print and what’s great about online media and combines them in a format that is familiar, stylish and intuitive.

Pages

[$9.99 | Website | iTunes Link]

Pages for iPad combines robust writing and advanced layout tools with the simplicity of Multi-Touch. So you can create all kinds of documents — including newsletters, reports, brochures, and flyers — using just your fingers. Text is crisp, clear, and very readable on the large, bright iPad screen. And the handy page navigator lets you scroll through your document in thumbnails, so you can quickly jump to any page you want.

Numbers

[$9.99 | Website | iTunes Link]

Numbers is the most powerful spreadsheet app designed to work with iPad and Multi-Touch technology. With a few taps, you can create tables and charts, add photos and graphics, and enter and edit data. Numbers isn’t just a spreadsheet application — it’s a flexible canvas. Which means you can add multiple tables and charts anywhere on a sheet and move them wherever you like.

Keynote

[$9.99 | Website | iTunes Link]

Keynote is the powerful presentation app you love from iWork, completely reworked for iPad and Multi-Touch. So you can do everything on iPad with a tap or drag of your finger — from creating your first slide to presenting your work.

Weather HD

[$0.99 | Website | iTunes Link]

Weather HD is a radically different kind of weather app that lets you check the current weather in a visually stunning way.

Photogene for iPad

[$3.99 | Website | iTunes Link]

Photogene is the ultimate editing tool for your iPhone photos. With Photogene, it’s easier than ever to edit and decorate your photos right on your iPhone or iPodTouch.

Digits Calculator for iPad

[$0.99 | Website | iTunes Link]

Digits Calculator is a simple, elegant calculator with scrolling history tape, scrollback, autosave and customizable background.

Bento

[$4.99 | Website | iTunes Link]

Bento for iPad is a new version of Bento, the popular personal database from FileMaker. Manage contacts, track projects, plan events, and so much more – all in one iPad app that you can use standalone or synchronize with Bento 3 for Mac.

Sorted

[$0.99 | Website | iTunes Link]

Sorted is an intuitive to-do list app for the iPad.

Twittelator for iPad

[$4.99 | Website | iTunes Link]

Twittelator needs no introduction. The design of the iPad’s version looks awesome.

iBooks

[Free | Website | iTunes Link]

This should be the first app you should download when you get your iPad!

Wikipanion for iPad

[Free | Website | iTunes Link]

Browse Wikipedia on the iPad with this free app.

Sociable

[$4.99 | Website | iTunes Link]

Sociable is all of your favorite social networks rolled up into one easy to use, elegant iPad application.

Twitterrific for iPad

[Free | Website | iTunes Link]

Twitterrific is a beautiful iPad app for Twitter that lets you check statuses with style.

Analytics HD

[$6.99 | Website | iTunes Link]

Google Analytics in a native app.

PhotoPad

[Free | Website | iTunes Link]

A free and good looking photo editing app.

TweetDeck for iPad

[Free | Website | iTunes Link]

Need I say more about TweetDeck? But the truth is, TweetDeck is very slow, at least for me.

Headline

[$4.99 | Website | iTunes Link]

Beautiful RSS reader app that syncs with Google Reader. But I won’t recommend buying this app until they turn up the speed. My only complain is that when you first launch the app, you are not able to browse to any articles until the app has fully synced with Google Reader. If you have a large number of feeds to sync, prepare to wait before you can read anything.

Touchpad

[$3.99 | Website | iTunes Link]

Transform your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch to remotely control your computer through WiFi. Extended keyboard, Multi-Touch Trackpad and Apple Remote.

Layers for iPad

[$5.99 | Website | iTunes Link]

Built on the feedback of hundreds of mobile artists, Layers packs in everythingyou need to be creative on the go. An art studio in your pocket.

Synotes

[$1.99 | Website | iTunes Link]

Synotes is a note taking app that brings advanced features such as sync, search, icon selection, previous versions into a user friendly and polished interface.

Phases HD

[$1.99 | Website | iTunes Link]

Phases is a beautifully crafted app that shows you all kinds of useful information about the moon—and a little bit about the sun.

WeatherBug Elite for iPad

[Free | Website | iTunes Link]

A sweet weather app that lets you see all kinds of thing related to the current weather condition. My only problem? It uses Bing!

Sketchbook Pro

[$7.99 | Website | iTunes Link]

Autodesk® SketchBook® Pro for iPad™ combines high-quality digital pencils, pens, markers and airbrushes with a Multi-Touch gesture-based user interface, enabling users to create everything from quick sketches to high-quality artwork on the iPad. Using the same paint engine as its desktop and mobile counterparts, Autodesk’s new SketchBook Pro for iPad delivers a complete set of sketching and painting tools through a streamlined and intuitive user interface.

GlobeConvert

[$0.99 | Website | iTunes Link]

One of the most good looking converter app for iPad so far.

Speedtest X HD

[Free | Website | iTunes Link]

Use Speedtest X to evaluate the speed of your EDGE, 3G, or WIFI connection.

Dropbox

[Free | Website | iTunes Link]

Dropbox, a cloud file storage app now available on the iPad. Very pretty! Dropbox users will love love love this.

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Thanks to all who participated on the Chronicle giveaway!

We have 3 winners and here they are:

1. HBB
2. Red Leader
3. Tyago Neres

You will hear from the developers via email regarding your free licenses.

Congrats!

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Truth be told, I just missed making a payment for one of my credit cards, not because I forgot to pay but because the letter wasn’t sent to me. I’m not sure why, but had I used Chronicle, I would have noticed something was amiss when the payment was soon to be due. This is the second time I missed a payment, the first time was because the date reflected on the internet banking site wasn’t updated.

Using Chronicle, you can organize and track your bills but most importantly, it helps prevent a missed payment.

While spending some time using Chronicle, I can understand the other crucial mission of this app. It is to let you set it and forget it. Forget about your bills with confidence!

User Interface

Chronicle spots a wood like interface but it doesn’t stop there. You can change the theme to other alternate colors eg:

Dark Theme

Tranquil Theme

Right from the interface, you can see at a glance how many bills you have, how many are paid or due. If you’ve made a payment for any bill, click “Log Payment” and this will go down in a graph of payment histories which we will talk about later.

Adding A New Bill

From the screenshot, it may look a little busy but there are only a couple of simple fields to fill in. Name of the bill, payment due date, if the bill repeats or not and what is the frequency, amount due and how many days before do you want iCal to remind you.

If your bill is paid online, enter a URL so that you can pay a bill online with a click of a button.

Lastly, choose one of the many colorful icons to represent the bill.

When you hit “Save Bill”, Chronicle opens up iCal to insert a calendar event for your bill and quickly closes iCal.

iCal Integration

By automatically creating a calendar event in iCal, you will be reminded when the due date for a payment is near. Not only will you get reminded on your Mac, if you have an iPhone, you will automatically be reminded via your iPhone too if your iCal is synced with your iPhone.

Logging Payment & Add Receipts

When you log payment, you have the option to add a receipt. This is handy if you ever get audited by the accountants.

Optionally add a note and say something like “I bought an iPad for my loved one”.

Spending History

Seeing your spending history on a graph are both fun and useful. You will be able to tell a lot from your spending trends. See which months you spend money most and rectify. If you are disciplined and is serious about your finances, the spending graph should be enough to scare you into spending lesser.

Goals

This is more for people who are in debt. Setting a goal gives you a higher chance of achieving something. If you have a reasonably large balance on your credit card for example, set a goal on when you want to have the debt paid off.

Conclusion

If you are a working adult with many bills to pay, you definitely need some sort of system to manage your bills. It is like project management, there are just too many things floating around your head which you need to settle them down.

Chronicle lets you do that in a well designed and customizable interface. With many useful features pertaining to bills management like iCal integration, adding of receipts, spending history reports and setting of goals to pay off a debt, Chronicle is hell of an app to save your sanity and money.

Giveaway!

Thanks to Mike from Littlefin, one of you will get one of 3 free copies of Chronicle worth $20.95 each.

Just leave a comment and tell us what kind of bills are you paying every month, eg. rent, credit cards, mobile phone, web apps subscription etc.

This giveaway will end on the 25th April, so go on and comment to get a chance to get Chronicle for free. :)

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It’s been really long since I give my Macbook Pro a clean. You know, over the years, in order to keep your Mac lean & snappy (as the title suggest), you need to clean it up.

Unless you’re a geek, forget about manually going through directories to clean out cache, duplicates, unnecessary language files, logs etc. You need a software to do this.

There are many app of this sort out there, but few gives you the kind of care that you really need.

Imagine the phone number of the company displayed on every section of the app, telling you that a representative will answer any of your questions if you call. MacKeeper is the first, at least for what I’ve seen so far.

Using MacKeeper, I effortlessly wiped out cache, logs, old files, some languages and universal binaries. I also deleted files that are way too big.

As a result, my Mac does feels snappier, especially when launching apps. If you’re curious how much space I have reclaimed – it’s a whopping 20.5GB!

MacKeeper is a robust all in one system care for your Mac that combines cleaning utilities, standalone tools and online services into one. Read on to see how MacKeeper can help clean out unnecessary data.

Binaries Cutter

MacKeeper is split into three parts, cleaners as one of them. I used every cleaner function except old files finder as I want to keep archives of my work no matter how old it is. Some functions like Duplicates finder, I took extra precaution to make sure I don’t delete anything important.

For Binaries Cutter, it was a no brainer. There is no reason to keep the other part of the core that supports PowerPC architectures. If you’re wondering what universal binary is – Every application contains two parts of code, one that will support old PowerPC architectures and one for modern Intel based Macs. The truth is, you only need one of these cores, so MacKeeper cleans out the other to save disk space.

Cache Cleaner

Your Mac caches data so that applications can run faster. Overtime, this may be counter-intuitive because your Mac is loaded up with cache and in turn cluttering and slowing down your Mac. MacKeeper deletes your entire system’s cache with one click.

Duplicates Finder

This function is easy to understand, but Mackeeper takes it one step further, by searching for duplicate files even if they were renamed, leaving no stones unturned.

Language Cutter

With this function, I got rid of a huge list of languages that are redundant to me, except for English of course. Most applications are loaded with many languages that you will never need in your lifetime, unless you speak and read those languages. MacKeeper helps you find and delete these unnecessary language files to save more space.

Logs Cleaner

This is the function that I am most grateful for. I have never needed logs, so do you? Unless you’re a developer of an app. Otherwise there are no reasons to keep these. Applications create log files that store usage, error, statistics etc. Overtime, these files becomes larger.

If you don’t need them, get rid of them!

Old Files Finder

Unless you just started to use a computer, you hard disk is filled with old files dated several years back. If you take some time to review these files, chances are, you don’t need most of them. Especially those that are not used for a long long while. MacKeeper searches for files of this sort and let you remove them with one click. Caution though, you may want to uncheck files that you still want to keep, eg. work archives.

Tools

The rest of the features are under “Tools”. You can backup or encrypt your data. The backup feature lets you create automatic backups of your data on your FTP, ZeoDisk (an online storage service by Zeobit, coming soon), USB or external hard drive. Data encryption will hide the filename and fully encrypt the data. You will only be able to access this encrypted data through MacKeeper app.

Default Apps

I remember being used to opening .doc files and launching it with Mac Office when I really want it to open with Pages by default instead. This tool will let you set app associations with file types. A nifty tool to get rid of that little bit of annoyance.

Disk Usage

This tool gives you the easiest way to see what are the largest file sitting on your Mac. There might be movies you’ve watched and don’t need it anymore, but you forgot to delete. This tool comes in handy for this instance.

Shredder

You may have some very private files that you are hoping that no one will ever find even after you delete them. The shredder eliminates any possibilities that your files will ever be discovered once you throw them into this zone.

Undelete

Undelete on the other hand will help you retrieved files that you have deleted, less the files that were “shredded” with the previously mentioned tool of course.

Wise Uninstaller

When you delete an application from your Applications folder, you’re only half done. There are many files associated with it hidden in not very obvious places.

With Wise Uninstaller, you can rest assured that the app is completely deleted. With this utility, you can also easily delete widgets, preference panes and plugins.

Services

There are three tools under this category.

Anti-Theft is a helpful feature that will send a report of your Mac’s location to the police if it’s stolen, giving you a higher chance of retrieving your Mac.

Conclusion

With so many features, MacKeeper is certainly one of the most comprehensive housekeeping tools for your Mac. One license cost $39.95, a small price to pay for the longevity of your Mac. To get it free, read on!

Giveaway!

Thanks to Zeobit, we have 2 x free MacKeeper licenses to giveaway!

To win this, just leave a comment and tell us how long it was since you last cleaned your Mac!

This giveaway will end on Wed, 14 April. So, leave your comment now! :)

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Thanks to everyone who participated in both Snippets & iDocument giveaway.

Here are the winners!

Snippets

1. Christine
2. Jeremy Buff

iDocument

1. Marius
2. Mark McDonnell

The developers will send you your licenses shortly.

I want to say “thank you” to all my readers. Stay tuned, I’ll continue to find more great apps to review and give. :)

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I want to thank our sponsors who choose to advertise on SUBERAPPS.

They have some really useful apps and services to offer which I think you should check them out:

Fuel Collective

Beautiful and awesome apps built by designers/developers for designers/developers. If you are a developer, check out Snippet. Designer? Check out Swatch. Freelancer? Check out PunchClock. All of the above? Check out – Fuel Collective.

MacKeeper

For a long lasting Mac experience, you need to keep your Mac clean and clear of unwanted files. MacKeeper is an all in one housekeeper for your Mac, keeping it clean, foolproof, secured, fast, reliable and attended. Learn more at MacKeeper’s site.

Park’n Find

I know the feeling of not being able to find your car. Frustrating! Park’n Find puts an end to this problem by offering a wide range of features to get you back to your parking spot every time. In addition to a map which automatically zooms and pans as you move closer to your parking location, iPhone 3GS users are guided by a “go this way” arrow. You can also add a description, attach photos, record a voice note, or set a reminder to pay the parking meter.

Kiwi

Kiwi is the customizable Twitter client for your Mac. It is indeed the unique selling of of Kiwi among so many other Twitter clients. You can either choose a theme, or build your own. One other cool feature is that you can manage your tweets with rules and regular expressions to satisfy the inner geek in you. You can also combine multiple Twitter accounts to create personalized timelines.

Chronicle

If you’ve ever missed paying an overdue bill, you know the pain of paying for these late fees. Chronicle is a beautiful app to help you manage and organize your bills so that you will never miss a payment. Useful features includes being able to store scanned receipts, see spending history and trends with stats etc.

MacAds

MacAds is an advertising network for the Mac community. If you have an app to sell, be it an iPhone, Web app or anything related to the Mac, you can advertise for free at MacAds.

DesignersCouch

DesignersCouch is a community for designers/developers to share their work and inspiration with each other. Only designers with decent quality work can get in. This is such that they can maintain a high level of quality in their community.

DesignersCouch also features articles related to design, job board, events and more.

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Most of you should have known Fluid by now. With Fluid app, you can create “Site Specific Browsers (SSB)”, basically turning any web apps into a desktop app. Essentially what Fluid does is create a browser that is dedicated to a single application. To read more about Fluid, read my previous review.

The best thing about Fluid in my opinion, is the ability to let you add another app using the Browsa plugin so that both the main web app and the “browsa plugin app” runs side by side.

This is incredibly useful when you mash-up two web apps that compliments each other – with the “browsa plugin app” being an iPhone web app.

To get what I mean, here’s a couple of examples:

Gmail + Google Calendar

I created a Gmail SSB using Fluid, thereafter adding the iPhone’s version of Google Calendar as a browsa plugin that runs on the right side of Gmail. There you have it, Gmail and Google Calendar running side by side! You can send emails and check schedules at the same time.

SUBERNOVA + Google Calendar

SUBERNOVA gives you an iCal link in which you can subscribe to your projects and milestones calendar using Google Calendar or any calendar of your choice. Here’s an SSB that runs SUBERNOVA and Google Calendar side by side.

Gmail + Remember The Milk

If you are a Gmail + RememberTheMilk user, you’ll like this.

Threadsy + Hahlo

Threadsy is my new favourite web application. I can check my MobileMe email, work email (hosted on Google Apps), Twitter and Facebook all in one interface. Sparing me from opening too many browser tabs or desktop apps. This, really simplifies my life, moreover the UI is delicious! If web apps are edible, this surely leaves a sweet after taste.

The only problem I have is that Threadsy doesn’t support Twitter Lists. Hence, running Hahlo beside Theadsy may be a good choice for stranded Twitter users like me.

Seesmic Web + Facebook

The good thing about Seesmic as a Twitter web app is that it lets you split different tweet categories into horizontal panels, eg. mentions, dms, lists etc. This makes it easy to scan through tweets. If you’re a Twitter user but don’t want to miss out on Facebook updates, pop an iPhone optimized version of Facebook to the right of Seesmic!

Google Wave + Google Buzz

Doesn’t mean some people don’t get Google Wave and talks rot about Google Buzz, it makes them any less useful. If you like both of Google’s latest innovation, this is a good match.

I hope you find these tips useful and your imagination running wild by a little. :)

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Ever since launching SUBERNOVA, I was dealing with Paypal almost on a daily basis. What I disliked about Paypal is that it takes some time to login, navigate between sections and view transaction history. It was difficult to filter through transaction history to view only the details you want to.

I realize I am not alone when I discovered GaragePay while googling the internet.

Developed by iwascoding, GaragePay is amongst other popular apps like GarageSale and GarageBuy the company had developed. With GaragePay, you can view, search and archive transactions without having to log into Paypal and more.

Transactions

What GaragePay does is downloading your transaction history from Paypal to let you manipulate the data locally. This tremendously speeds up reviewing your transactions and saves you from dealing with Paypal’s slowness. This saves me a great deal of time when checking balances and transaction history.

Send Money

I was able to send money easily to not one but multiple Paypal users. Sending money is fast, not saying that this is your favorite activity in Paypal, but when you do need to send money, as far as I’m concerned no one can match GaragePay’s speed and ease of use.

Smart Folders

This is the gem and my favorite part of the application.

A life saver!

If you’re familiar with iTunes’ smart playlist and Mail’s smart mailboxes, you already know how to use this.

With smart folders, you can sort your transactions by whatever you like. For me, I sort my transactions by subscribers and transactions in the last couple of days. Taking a glance through how well business is doing is now a breeze. Saves me tons of time.

Refund Money

Again, this is not a fun part of the application. But when you have to, you have to. I am glad that I do not have angry customers yet.

Refunding money is easy and quick, just click on the transaction you want to refund and hit the refund icon at the top.

Export CSV

Depending on the kind of user you are, some like to archive transactions, export to a spreadsheet for keeps. This feature is there to help. Even comes with lots of options to customize your csv export. One of the best parts is being able to manage everything locally.

Conclusion

I find that after using GaragePay to manage and view my transactions, it really saves me from wasting time logging and helps me filter my transaction history better so that it makes more sense.

If you’re selling a product or just a heavy Paypal user, GaragePay is worth checking out.

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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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