Top 5 iPhone and iPad Apps to Use During Commercials

Twitter (free) – Check your Twitter feed and catch up with your social media conversation. Another great thing to do is search for the show you are watching and see what other viewers are saying.



IMDB (free) – Find out more about the show, actors or other people related to your show. IMDB also has showtimes and TV show listings so you can plan your TV viewing for the rest of the night or week or look for a movie to watch so you don’t have to sit at home and watch TV tomorrow night.







Instagram (free) – If you like photos, you will like Instagram. A short commercial break is jus the right amount of time to check out the latest pictures from those you follow. Instagram is kind of like Twitter for photo enthusiasts. Plus the pictures you take can be doctored to look pretty cool with all the filters included. You can select a photo from your camera roll and make it look cool and post it just in time for the show to come back on.iOS Only for now.







IntoNow – This app watches TV with you. It will listen to the audio of the program and offer information about the TV show you are watching. Keep it on between the commercials and then look at the content during the commercials. You can also share your thoughts about the show on Facebook and Twitter from within the app.



Bumpy Road ($2.99) - “A love story on wheels!” That is what the developers call this horizontal scroller. Drive through the environment and change the road by pushing with your finger. The couple in the car is going for a romantic ride and you are tasked with safely getting them through their trip and collecting memories. It can be fun and addictive. If this game doesn’t suit you, pick another one that doesn’t last for a long time. Short quick games are best for commercial distractions. Long games will end up distracting you from the show, not just the commercials. iOS only

iPhone, iPad and iPod touch latest applications

New apps for iPad only

• Alan Mascord Design Associates has introduced Mascord Living Spaces 1.0, their new magazine app for Apple’s revolutionary iPad device. Mascord Living Spaces includes feature articles, slideshows, video, and 360 degree revolving renderings for new home designs. The app, available for free download, also includes an easy to use menu system featuring interactive table of contents, page thumbnails, and a story view.


• Pixite LLC has introduced PhotoFresh 1.0.1, their Facebook sharing app for iPad. PhotoFresh offers a new way to view, upload, and share Facebook photos and videos. PhotoFresh focuses on the users’ photos and videos, which are often the most interesting content on someones Facebook page. PhotoFresh includes stand-out features such as navigation, photo caching, and slideshow options. Users can pan, zoom, and quickly sift through all their media using the intuitive navigation.


• Cyril Godefroy has announced Meta Editor 3.0, an update to his popular metadata editor for iPad devices. Professional photographers will find all the tools they need to quickly mass-edit the meta information of IPTC fields directly on their iPad before sending pictures to an agency by ftp, uploading to Flickr, or sharing with their PC later. More useful, powerful and easy to use, version 3.0 takes advantage of all the power of the iPad 1 and the iPad 2.


• Polar Bear Farm has introduced Air Forms 1.0, their most powerful database tool for iPad devices. Built from the ground up specifically for Apple’s iOS platform, Air Forms enables businesses and individuals to quickly create native looking and feeling, interactive interfaces into their data, without writing a line of code. Air Forms serves up an amazingly powerful web app, called Air Forms Builder, for creating and modifying your database solutions right from your computer.

New accessories

• While many people are excited to get their hands on the new white iPhone 4, many are also wondering how to pay for it. For existing iPhone users, the $499 can be a high price to pay, but NextWorth, a leader in consumer electronics upgrades and trade-ins, is offering high trade-in values for black iPhone 4 models to help subsidize the cost.

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iPhone, iPad and iPod touch new releases

New iPhone, iPad and iPod touch apps

• Doodle Kart Multiplay has driven into the iTunes App Store. Doodle Kart is a Doodle style top down driving game. The unique racer is a very different driving experience on iOS, featuring stationary-related weapons to fire at your opponents during the several cups and championships users can make their way through. For some special items, you can even enlarge your car to run over the other cars.


• Coconut Island Studio contributes their in-game ad slot to serve Japan Red Cross’s earthquake donation advertisement for free. What they are going to do is to serve the Japan Red Cross’s Earthquake Donation advertisement for free for a whole week in their most popular iPhone casual game iDragPaper Free. To do that they will give up all their advertisement revenue during their charitable activity of iDragPaper Free which serves 200,000 impressions daily.


• Felix Mo has introduced Locational 1.0, his new location aware and sharing app for iOS. Locational allows users to manage all of their locational information and have it presented to them through an easy-to-use and beautiful interface. Users can obtain and share detailed information on their current location, such as the full address, the coordinates, the heading and direction, the speed at which they are traveling at, as well as the altitude of their location.


• iZooLu LLC has announced Ring Reminder 2.0, their best selling silent mode alarm for iOS. Ring Reminder has 10 slots to create a variety of custom timer alarms when one must put the iPhone in silent mode. Start the timer and it will vibrate after your meeting, church or lunch time. Version 2.0 includes a face lift to Ring Reminder with a new theme and a Nag Feature which checks the state of the ring switch and continues to remind you to turn the iPhone back to ring mode.


• iGotIt Games has introduced Colorflys SD 1.0, a visually pleasing butterfly capture experience for Apple’s iPhone, iPod touch and iPad devices. The goal of capturing butterflies is simple, but the experience surrounding the goal is what creates something unique for the iOS platform. Perfect for kids and family, the game will challenge players memory, dexterity and ability to recognize opportunity.


• Brisk Mobile is hosting a contest for all creative minds. Your design could be featured in their next Drake’s Tower update. Are you interested in designing and creating mobile applications? Create and illustrate a weapon/contraption that can be added to their recent game, Drake’s Tower. The submissions will be judged and the best weapon/contraption will be featured in the next update for Drake’s Tower. Submissions will be accepted now through the 1st of June 2011.


• Paul Solt has announced Wallpaper Evolution 1.0.1 for iOS, a new App designed to showcase original abstract and psychedelic wallpapers in addition to personal photos. Wallpaper Evolution enables the next generation of photo interaction and wallpaper discovery applications. The App features a wooden coffee table where images slide onto the table for multi-touch interaction. Users can tap, flick, zoom, and rotate the images in any configuration.


• Heidi Wittlinger & Shape Minds have developed a bedtime app for the Apple iPhone: Nighty Night! 1.1. The book is read by the well-known actor Alistair Findlay. The elaborate design, an animated mix of photos and drawn elements, comes from Heidi Wittlinger.  Heidi was nominated for an Oscar for her short film in 2002. After the iPad version topped US book charts in the App Store also the iPhone version also went straight to Number 1 in the iPhone book charts.


• Retina-X Studios, LLC has announced Mobile Spy LIVE Control Panel for iPhone, BlackBerry and Android devices.. Using this groundbreaking mobile surveillance technology, users can visually monitor their child or employee’s smartphone instantaneously. Mobile Spy runs in total stealth mode and no mentions of the program are shown inside the phone. The new LIVE Control Panel is part of a broader release of Mobile Spy’s latest version 5.0.


• Gormaya has announced Substitutions 2.0, an update to their popular cooking app for iOS devices. Substitutions features a simple list of substitution tables that are very handy when cooking. Easily view tables of Baking & Cooking, Dairy, Gluten-Free, Seafood & Meat, and much more. Now with nearly 400 substitutions, version 2.0 has been enhanced with customer requested features, including the new index with additional substitutions, as well as adds an index of all substitutions.


• Velocomp LLP has announced that the iBike Dash CC (Cycling Computer) and new iBike Phone Booth Bicycle Mount are now available at all Apple retail stores, starting today.


• Kima Ventures-backed YellowBrck has announced the launch of a new social network for iPhone that enables parents to stay in touch while earning coupons and discounts from local and online retailers by “checking-in” to day-to-day parenting activities like mealtime, laundry and playtime. Designed specifically for the growing demographic of connected on-the-go parents, YellowBrck allows parents to share and exchange ideas or activities, tips on parenting and even discover the latest family hot-spots and events, nationwide.

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