Air Projector ★★★☆☆ ($2.99 / App Store) for the iPhone and iPod touch “projects” PDF documents and photos wirelessly to any computer with a web browser that are connected on the same local network. So while its not technically an actual projector, it cleverly does a similar job. Setup is easy as all you need to do is open the app and on the receiving computer browser, type in the URL (like a website address) and now whatever is on your iPhone screen within the app will be shared in real time. While its limited to PDF’s and photos, it could be perfect for business presentations or simply to view photos on the big screen.
Newstream ★★★☆☆ ($2.99 / App Store) for the iPhone is a newspaper style RSS feed news reader. The idea is similar to the modern and sophisticated news reader PULSE, but Newstream is a simple and classical paper newspaper design with a minimalist approach. It takes the RSS feeds of your desired blogs and news sites and displays them in a clean and very readable showcase cutting out all the unnecessary elements most websites have that can be distracting such as ads and widgets. In the current build (1.1) of this iPhone app, there are somewhat frequent crashing but not too terrible to make it unusable.
My Secret Folder ★★★☆☆ ($.99 / App Store) for the iPhone and iPad is a secret file storing app with security features. There’s no shortage of apps that hide files like photos, videos, contact and text data with many of them perfectly good, but My Secret Folder is unique because of these two features; 1) the app icon is indistinguishable from the iOS folder icon, 2) the app logs in the GPS coordinates as well as the culprits break in attempts at opening the app. It’s a pretty well made app but we have yet to get the photo taking of break in attempts to work - although the GPS seems to work fine.
iTrans NYC Subway ★★★★★ ($3.99/ App Store) for the iPhone is a Google Maps like app for the MTA New York City Subway. It can even be mistaken for a Google made product - that’s a very good thing. There are many other NYC subway map apps with varying styles but iTrans is the most usable, accessible and efficient. It features timetables, off/online service advisories, push alerts and even walking directions to any subway stop. Unlike Google Maps or any other map apps, this does not require a data connection to fully work. Some of the other MTA map apps for the iPhone use a proprietary maps design which some look cool but can be confusing - but iTrans use the official licensed map which is the same you see plastered everywhere.
360 Panorama ★★★★☆ ($1.99 / App Store) for the iPhone is a full featured panoramic camera app capable of taking full 360 degree images. There are nearly a dozen other apps that offer panoramic pictures for the iPhone but this is by far the best one, arguably better than Pano. The ease of taking pictures is effortless, you just pan the from left to right (or even up and down) to the desired areas of your shot like your filming video. Then the app does the rest of the work by “stitching” your shots into one beautiful and interactive photo. If your even slightly into iPhonography, 360 Panorama belongs side by side with your other photography apps.
MobiUs ★★☆☆☆ ($.free / App Store) for the iPhone and iPad is the “world’s first” HTML5 specific web browser. For those who do not know about HTML5, this will be the new coding standard for websites which offers significantly more options and features online. The developers called this app the “the next generation of mobile browsing”, which it is in some ways but there are two major issues stopping it from being just another web browser (although a big update could fix it). First the user interface as well as the supposed full screen browsing is just not really well implemented and looks dated. The second and immediately visible problem is that it doesn’t support the retina display making it look like last generation, not the next.
