June 14th, 2010 by admin

The iPhonegizmo team get all excited when they find another free iPhone download that is designed to work on user-juice! Waze is one of these apps - and is also currently offering users a fun way to get an iPad as well!

Waze is running a competition along side the world cup fanfare. All you have to do is compete in the “International Waze Worldcup”  for a chance to win a new iPad! The way it works is best explained by the people at Waze:

Like in the regular world cup competition, it’s an epic battle, country against country, to see who’ll come out on top – and in the Waze Worldcup, the final country left standing will not only get all the glory, but three lucky users in that country will also get a brand new iPad! Woo hoo!

You can get all the details from the Waze site Basically it involves collecting - or “munching” soccer ball goodies from all over ‘the map’ (Waze is a user-generated traffic warning system).  Users from the winning country will be in for a chance to win the iPad.

You just need to click on the Waze image above to get the app.

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June 10th, 2010 by admin

You will have to be quick to grab these great iPhone games that are on offer FOR FREE for a short period (the time they will be free is not announced but often it is for only a day! They are all normally priced at $1.99 but are currently (as at the time of posting) available for free download. There are 6 games listed below - so that is $12 worth of iPhone games up for grabs for free.

The games are varied - some have recently been released and so are somewhat untested and others have been around for some time and have been rated at 3 stars or more by over 12K raters.

The five games are: BLOOD LINE + HAYPI KINGDOM (which has had over 12000 raters giving it a 3-star thumbs-up) + SPACE BUBBLE, + CUBZ + TANK - RUN AND GUN!, and WORLDWAR V2 which has had over 16,000 raters give it 3.5 stars.

Don’t forget to share with your iPhone game buddies!

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June 5th, 2010 by admin

The PayPal App has been massively successful - not only in the USA but in UK, Canada, Australia, France, Germany and Italy. So it was only gonna be a matter of time before other big players decided to try and get some of the action!

The release, a week ago, of Master Card’s rival Money Send, is the first of the big finance company attempts to grab some of the PayPal success. BUT….

Its only available for use in the US and its initial ratings in the iTunes store has not been impressive. And then, of course, there is… Ebay!

The big bonus for PayPal was Ebay “requiring” traders to have a PayPal account in order to do business on the site (whatever happened to “tied selling” being illegal per se?)  Well, Ebay purchased PayPal and that may give them a certain license to insist on its use!

The Ebay requirement, however, may have been a major factor in the adoption of the PayPal app.  In which case, Master card are going to have a big problem getting their App adopted. Especially when they charge for the “send” part of the transaction.

Still, if you are not a PayPal fan but still are looking for an “on the go” transaction system, and want to join American Express!! then the new app does make some maney transactions a bit easier. But there is the catch:

The Bancorp Bank will issue a MasterCard Prepaid debit virtual account that has the MoneySend service included.

So, to use the app, you must sign up with Mater Card. PayPal is not tied to any one bank - so is a bit more flexible - another likely problem for the new App that will limit its adoption. But if you are already with Mastercard, then the App could be appealing.

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May 26th, 2010 by admin

Starbucks are kindly giving away ten free songs from iTunes in their “free Frappuccino^® Beverage Music Mix” as part of their promotion of their Frappucinno brand.

The music mix includes ten excellent selections (band - song): Frightened Rabbit - “Nothing Like You“; Hot Chip - “One Life Stand“; Wintersleep - “New Inheritors“; Goldfrapp - “Rocket“; The Bamboos - “On The Sly“; Macy Gray - “Kissed It“; Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - “Bad Blood“; Yoav - “Greed“; Shout Out Louds - “Walls“; Wye Oak - “My Creator“. All great music to frappucinno by!

Downloading the music is easy - just copy the code (sorry only valid in US and Canada), open the iTunes store,  select “redeem” from quick links in the right hand bar:

Then enter the code, and click redeem again :

Your free music will begin downloading immediately. So …. what are you waiting for? (And tell your friends.)

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May 19th, 2010 by admin

There are already free iPad wallpaper apps in iTunes. In fact Photobucket had an App released on 1st April. But, despite beating Cool Wallpapers for iPad by a day, they have not been as popular with only 270 reviews (with average 3 star rating) compared to 2328 reviews  (also with average 3 star rating) for Cool wallpapers. It has also been pipped at the post by backgrounds HD which was released two weeks later but has had 1122 reviews (again 3 stars).

The fact that both these are the most popular wallpaper apps for iPhone has probably helped their acceptance with iPad owners.

Still, we suggest that both iPhone and iPad users can do better! There are some pretty exciting wallpapers on offer on other apps and outside iTunes. We suspect that these two apps have been so popular (the iPhone version of backgrounds HD has had over 179K reviews - with a whopping 3.5 star rating) because of the variety of wallpapers they offer. Single purpose wallpaper apps (eg, car wallpapers) have done poorly! Also, “do it yourself” wallpapers have not gone over well. It looks as if browse-select -click is what iPhone users, at least, are wanting.

So the release, yesterday, of the first Flickr wallpaper app (free, of course) for both iPhone and iPad may not get the attention it really deserves. This app allows us (iPhone and iPad users) to choose free wallpapers from some of the most stunning images from around the planet. How cool is this?

Of course, there are some web-based wallpaper sites that are also providing some stunning wallpapers for our iPhone and iPads. These are now often ignored as sources of wallpapers because of the simple browse-select -click action that apps allow us. But they do chew up less battery juice and give us extra options so are worth a look. Check this out:

Stretch yourselves folks - there are plenty of exciting images just waiting to be discovered and enjoyed!

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May 14th, 2010 by admin

Or perhaps you have been hankering to get some iPhone accessories that just seem a mite too expensive to buy - like the cables that will hook you up so that you can watch iPhone movies on TV?

Or perhaps you have been drooling over the new iPads? or would love a 13″ Mackbook Pro? All are up for grabs in the “Win An Apple a Day” retweet contest announced just three hours ago on DealsPl.us.

Every day for the next week Dealspl.us will be giiving a way (in random order) a $25 iTunes card, an iPod Nano, an iPod Shuffle, iPod Touch, iPod 3GS, a 16GB iPad, and the 13″ MacBook Pro.

So where are the free 200 iPhone music downloads from iTunes? Well, the small print in the contest says:

1. iPhone 3GS winners will receive an Apple giftcard in the amount of $199.
2. MacBook Pro winners will receive an Apple giftcard in the amount of $1,199.

Which means you have a choice about how you spend that giftcard! So, how many iPhone Music downloads can be got for $199? That’s right - over 200 (depending on whether you buy singles or albums).

Just click the link to get the details of how to enter this Twitter-based contest. If you already have a twitter account, then one click is all it takes to enter the contest! It doesn’t get better than this.

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May 9th, 2010 by admin

Free listings, free App, free to use AND the chance to win one of two iPhones (one via Twitter and one via Facebook).

What’s not to love about this handy new app?

The people at GarageSalesTracker have made the whole business of advertising and finding a garage sale both simple to do and easy to follow.

And to kick off their new free app, they are also offering us the chance to win an iPhone. You can either Tweet this give away, Share this give away - or both!! Details on the Garage Sales Tracker site! The nice thing about this competition is that it usually takes a while for an app to get known - so chances are there will only be a few entries giving iPhonegizmo readers a good chance of winning.

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