These days, technology has so permeated our everyday lives that you practically have to spend a lifetime learning if you want to understand the inner workings of each gadget you use. In truth, it simply isn’t practical for most of us. So we pay plumbers, electricians, and handymen to services our homes, IT specialists to keep our computers virus-free and of course, mechanics to care for our transportation. But there are certain people who make it their business to comprehend the cars that get them from point A to point B. They want to know the difference between disc and drum brakes, they’d like to be able to look at a schematic and make sense of it, and above all, they’re keen to get down and dirty in the engine, wrenching away and making their car run better than before. It is for these home mechanics that Garage Buddy was made. Continue reading this post ->

In this “there’s an app for that” world you aren’t at all surprised anymore by what you can find on the iTunes store, from apps that tell you how to eat and what to wear each day to those that simulate zombies chasing you in order to motivate you to exercise. Yes, it’s a brave, new world of technology, and the best part is that once-complicated tasks have become ridiculously easy to carry out. Take for example the act of buying a home. Whereas you used to rely heavily on your realtor to find you properties that met your criteria, you can now use sites like Zillow and Trulia to track down homes that suit your wants and needs. Instead of depending on a loan manager at your bank to calculate your potential monthly payments, you can simply plug the numbers into one of several mortgage calculators for your smartphone and crunch them yourself. But what about when you get into your home? Are there apps that can help you to track your mortgage payments and see what you still owe? As a matter of fact, there are several and the one that seems to be the most foolproof is Mortgage Payoff Track for the iPhone and iPad. Continue reading this post ->

There’s just no getting around the fact that we live in a beauty-obsessed culture. We’re not the first, either. You can look back through history and see depictions of the beauty ideals that permeated Victorian England, ancient Greece, and other societies across the globe. These days there’s simply a lot more access to media (magazines, billboards, TV ads, fashion websites, and so on), not to mention beauty products and services meant to transform the average man or woman into something worthy of a runway (we wish). But what if you can’t calm your frizzies or your stress level has resulted in a monster pimple right before a big event? You might need some beauty intervention, stat, and have nowhere to turn. Well, the days when you couldn’t get last-minute beauty bookings may be at an end thanks to a little app called Beautified that seeks to give users an instant beauty fix. Continue reading this post ->

Most people who have an iPhone must be in love with it. Why would not they be? From unique alarm apps to exotic recipes, the iPhone can bring in everything to accompany and entertain a person the entire day long. iPhone practically introduced a whole new way of gaming on portable devices along with other entertainment means like playing music and watching videos through amazing downloadable apps. Following are the top iPhone apps available for entertainment of its users.

Tonepad

Bored and got an iPhone? Then all anyone would need is the Tonepad app downloaded there. There can be nothing more fun than tapping on the piano keys on the phone and making own songs while a boring journey or being stuck at home on a rainy day. Tonepad turns any such gloomy situation into a light and fun one. Plus, anyone can polish their music skills even if musicians are very deep inside them.

iBooks

Well, not everyone uses an iPhone to get glued to its flashy apps. There are book lovers who find only the best entertainment in reading great books. For those people this app is just the thing. It has been a huge hit and people surely love to have it on their iPhone. Apart from just downloading and reading the books, you can also fine-tune your reading process: make notes out of your favorite parts, share them via your social networks and even choose the color and layout of the text you’re reading.

PhotoSynth

This must be one of the best photography-related apps out there. It is all about panorama and the panorama option of this app is surely the best. This makes photography even more fun with the iPhone. What is also important you can let others see your images too via Facebook, Twitter or Bing.

Comics

Who does not love comics? That must have been the question the developers of this app asked themselves when were designing the app. A user can zoom, download, and get even more comic strips to make it fun. This free app includes a nice collection of well-known comics for both free and paid downloads.

TuneIn Radio

TuneIn Radio has always been one of the best ways of entertainment for those who like to listen to music. You can listen to more than 50,000 radio stations and an enormous amount of live programs and recorded podcasts. It is also good news for Apple fans that have iPads — after the update in April, you can view the amazing album covers displaying with every new song or concert playing. Continue reading this post ->

Weight loss is a multi-million dollar industry and a rising trend in that industry is the use of smartphone and tablet apps to help organize a weight loss program. From calorie counters to recipe builders, these apps are designed to help you eat healthier, shed those extra pounds, and tone your body into the shape you want it, and even have fun while doing it.

Calorie Counting App

• Calorie Tracker was created by Livestrong.com, a website that focuses on health and fitness. This is a free app that allows for the look up and tracking of calories, carbohydrates, fat, and protein that you intake on a daily basis. The app contains over 450,000 food and restaurant items in its database. It also has the option to track calories burned by factoring in physical activity.
• Lose It! is a full service weight loss app. Goals can be set, tracked, and progress viewed in the form of a graph. This allows for a daily calorie limit to be set, the recording of food and exercise, and projection of when the goal should be met.

Recipe Building Apps

• Epicurious recipe building app pulls recipes from the Epicurus recipe database. This app is simple, allowing for several different filters, as well as searching for a specific recipe. It also makes shopping easy by providing a shopping list for recipes. Favorite recipes can also be saved to a profile, for easy future reference.
• All Recipes Dinner Spinner puts the fun and ease into choosing and preparing a meal. The first step in using this app is choosing the meal that’s being prepared, such as lunch or dinner, the main ingredient that will go into the dish and how long the dish takes to prepare. The app then searches the database, and gives all the recipes that meet the criteria given. For $3, the pro version can be purchased that allows for further organization of recipes into folders, as well as choosing several ingredients to be in the dish.
• Mapmyrun is an excellent tool for tracking distance for running or walking. It uses the phone’s internal GPS, and gives real-time distance, pace, speed and time. Once an account is created, workouts can be saved, and allow for future reference. Which makes keeping track of personal bests easy.
• Pret-a-Yoga Lite is great for beginning yoga users. It provides a personal yoga instructor via the app, which will guide through breathe and poses via images and audio instructors.

Educational Weight loss Game Apps

• Eat This, Not That app turns weight loss into a fun, interactive and informative game. It allows for the education on what foods are actually healthy and which ones are not. Using this app will educate an individual on different food items, helping you to learn how to spot high fat and high caloric foods. Which will help you make wiser choices and show how easily mistakes can be made when choosing foods and portions.
• Locavore allows for the keeping track of fresh food. It is recommended to eat fresh foods at the peak of freshness in order to get the best possible nutrients. This app will tell what foods are in season and how long is left to enjoy the full benefits and flavor of the food. This is a great tool for those that claim they don’t like vegetables, because the problem may be they haven’t had fresh foods.

There is an app for practically anything. Why not take advantage of the mobility of using apps to make the process of weight loss fun and easy! Continue reading this post ->