This app lets you set any RSS/ATOM feed as a source for Push Notifications. I can honestly say it works very well.
App Notifications is an iPhone app that acts as a client for the Apple Push Notification Service.
Use our ready-made Twitter, GMail, Google Voice, and RSS notification services to instantly receive new tweets, search results, emails, RSS feeds, or create your own custom notifications with our simple REST API.
Price: FREE (App Store Link)
Popularity: 16% [?]
Price: FREE (link to App Store)
This is a phenomenal app that syncs all your travel data seamlessly. The Gold edition ($19.99) features push notification of things such as flight changes or itinerary confirmation.
This app brings all your travel information to your iPhone in a beautiful manner. Check it out!
From Techcrunch:
“WorldMate begins winning you over in the itinerary building stage. It offers a couple of ways to automatically build it for you. One way is to enter the info directly on WorldMate.com. The second is by email—manually, or using an Outlook toolbar. WorldMate is able to parse confirmation emails from over a hundred travel agencies, airlines, hotel chains, and car rental agencies. Once it has automatically pieced together all of your trip details and stored key data such as confirmation numbers, phone numbers and seat numbers, the itinerary is synced over-the-air to the iPhone app.”
Popularity: 53% [?]
Price: FREE (link to App Store)
This is a service I use fairly regularly. It allows you to forward the confirmation emails from your travel providers to the TripIt.com and they will automatically add the details to your itinerary.
From TUAW:
Tripit.com imports and interprets your itineraries from airlines, hotel chains, ticket outlets, and other travel companies. When you receive an itinerary from one of these providers, you forward it to a special Tripit email address to have it translated into a trip plan automatically (the site supports hundreds of travel providers, and the translation from email into structured itinerary is really quite amazing). You can share your travel plans with friends or colleagues via LinkedIn, and see when your fellow travelers are heading to a city near you or when their plans align with yours.
That collection of trip plans is what you view with the Tripit.com app. The app is linked to your Tripit.com account, and displays a day by day list of flights, car rentals, and other events that make up your trips. Each event can be opened in further detail to show information such as arrival and departure times, confirmation numbers, and more. Links for airport codes bring up Google Maps of the airport vicinity, and other links can check your flight status with a touch.
Popularity: 83% [?]
Price: Free (link to App Store)
If you were around for the first iPhone, you remember that everything that Apple didn’t provide came in the form of a web app. And they were pretty awful. And then the App Store cometh from Apple. And it was good. All of a sudden, web apps were a thing of the past. Why would we need to be limited by apps of the web when we could have apps of the store?
Well, we all turned our backs on the poor little web apps, but some of those gangly teenagers grew up to be hot. And WebApps Finder is sort of like the “where are they now” to our yearbook. Seriously, have you checked out some of these new and improved web apps? It’s worth it.
WebApps Finder provides an App Store-ish interface that features some web apps while providing categorical listings for the others.
Know of any good web apps? Leave them in the comments.
Popularity: 100% [?]
Price: Free (link to App Store)
Inquisitor for iPhone — a new app from Yahoo! — searches. Easily. As much as I hate to admit that any search other than one that rhyme’s with “oogle” is valid, Yahoo’s release of Inquisitor for iPhone is really easy.
The application uses suggested keywords, similar to a normal, web-based Yahoo search, which is really handy on a mobile device like the iPhone. The app also acts as a “search-enhanced browser,” with the destination site loaded within the application itself. You can then go back to alter a search term or look at a different result.
You should definitely check this one out to see how you like the user interface compared to Google Search App for iPhone.
Popularity: 91% [?]
The TED Conference (Technology, Entertainment and Design) is truly a gathering place of great ideas. Attendance to this annual conference is basically by invitation only and features a series of talks by some of the leading thinkers, creators and innovators. Basically, this is the conference I dream to attend!
For years, none of the TED Talks were ever shown outside the conference, but that changed a few years ago, with the addition of the TED videos on their website as well as on iTunes.
Now, you can get them on your iPhone or iPod Touch with the TED App for iPhone. If you are stuck at the airport or on a bus, you can feed your brain. The videos are good quality on both wifi and 3g.
Popularity: 95% [?]
Price : FREE (link to App Store)
Amazon released the Kindle for iPhone app this week, and it is free! This is fairly surprising since the Amazon Kindle 2 just started shipping within the past few days or so. This free app allows you to sync any Kindle purchases from your Amazon online account with the iPhone app.
Amazon claims they have over 240,000 different titles available for immediate download to your Amazon Kindle for iPhone app, with most books available for $9.99.
What do you think about the difference between the Amazon Kindle and the Kindle iPhone app?
Popularity: 79% [?]
Price: FREE (link to App Store)
Pandora Rocks. Plain and simple. This free app uses literally hundreds of taste points to determine what it is about music that you like. In use, this app has basically replaced the need for satellite radio, providing me with new, commercial-free music at astounding clarity.
The interface is very easy to use, and with the release of Version 2.0, adds Cover Flow type functionality. This is a must have application.
Popularity: 46% [?]
Price: Free (Click to download)
Backgrounds is a free, simple iPhone app that lets you easily find and download free backgrounds for your device. You can browse by category and once you have found a background you like, you can easily save the image and set it as a background, all from the app. Simple, but effective.
Popularity: 44% [?]
Price: Free (link to App Store)
Woot.com may be my favorite online shopping site, with it’s 1 item per day, WootOffs! and Random bag o’ crap. I actually have a friend who has an alarm set to 10pm PST to see the daily Woot before it gets sold out.
WootWatch (available here) does a great job of showing the daily Woot deals, including those for Sellout.Woot, Shirt.Woot and Wine.Woot. Also, if a WootOff has been detected, it will automatically update you when a new item is available (providing you leave the app open.) Best of all, WootWatch is free!
Popularity: 25% [?]
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