Private chat with other Instagramers using an iPhone and InstaMessage

When posting pictures to Instagram, you can post a title, description, location and hashtags. Others can view and like as well they can comment. Sometimes, a comment needs a bit more privacy for the reply rather than blasting out for all to see in the comments area. That is the need that InstaMessage wants to …

Ultimate iPhone Case Survivor now allows for mix and match colors

When the Survivor case from Griffin Technology first came out, I gave it a test similar to what they showed in their promotional videos. I let my (previous) iPhone 4 take a tumble down two flights of stairs which had required some skill as it had to round a corner. Happily, the iPhone was unaffected. …

Draw Book, it’s like having the Paper app on our iPhones!

Paper is a fun and very useful sketch app on the iPad. Rather than rethinking how electronic pen/paper should work, the developers duplicated the joys and pains of the limited physical world we all still live in. Since no one needs to do more than type notes or draw very detailed art on our iPhones, …

Collect and share Ideas in all forms quickly using a Free iPhone tool

It seems that fresh app ideas are released by multiple developers close to the same time. I always wonder what the catalyst was for different groups around the world to start thinking through a particular issue needing a solution. This is of particular interesting because I have spent the last couple weeks putting a variety …

Do skins on an iPhone Simple UI make it less Simple?

I mentioned Minu Timer before as an app I use as a iPhone based timer that removes the clutter and just gets the job done. Upon launch, twist the face one way to start a stop watch, the other way to a time as a count-down timer. A recent update to the Minu Timer offers …