The company recently released its iTunes Rewind 2011 lists, counting down some of the most popular content of the year. The annual recap looks at Apple's favorite apps across 21 categories, including Books, Games, Music, News and more. Apple has also listed its own picks for the "App of the Year" and has selected its favorite downloadable content from iTunes, such as best musical artist, best nonfiction book and several others.
As for users' overall favorite paid and free apps available on the iOS platform, gaming app "Angry Birds" topped the lists of paid and free iPad apps and took the number-one spot among paid iPhone apps. While the game also cracked the top four free iPhone apps of the year, it came in behind a social networking app, a music app and another game. View the slideshow to see free iphone apps you will be glad to have.
Action Movie FX: Action Movie FX lets you capture create that moment. The free app, developed by Bad Robot, the same folks behind many of todays Hollywood action flicks, includes the missile strike and car crash effects that you can add to any movie you shoot with your iPhone. Other effects, sold in sets of two and cost US$0.99, include Airstrike/Firefight and Tornado Action/Downed Chopper.
Glympse: With iOS 5 and iCloud, Apple gave us Find My Friends, an interesting app that lets you and your friends and family keep track of each other. Apple wisely chose not to make this a built-in feature, given how rightfully touchy people can be about their privacy. Even if you have the app you don’t have to let people know your whereabouts. But there are times when you do want people to easily locate you. Maybe you’re meeting friends and you want them to know where you are waiting. If those in your group allow it you can see where they are, and they can see where you are. No one has to waste time searching for each other.
The problem with Find My Friends is that you have to have an iOS 5 device and an iCloud account to use it. Many of my friends and family have iPhones, but not all. That’s where Glympse come in. Like Find My Friends, Glympse lets you see where your Glympse using friends are, but only if they want you to see them and for however long they want to advertise their locations. Unlike Find My Friends,Glympse is platform agnostic.
What’s also cool about Glympse is that you don’t need an account to get the location of your Glympseusing friends, though you do need an account to send your location. The app uses SMS to send a message containing a link to a map showing your locale. You have full control over. You can set the duration of the link and how often it updates and the link can be cancelled at anytime. Even better, the map shows your speed and direction to your friends, making rendezvous much easier to coordinate. Glympse does not monitor your whereabouts and can’t if you have no active Glympse sessions.
Redbox: OK, here’s the situation. You’ve had a rough day at work and all you want to do is go home, order pizza, and watch a movie. As you pack to leave your mouth waters at the thought of hot pizza, but then you pause. You realize you have no idea what to watch.
Well, if you have the Redbox app you could see what’s available at the many Redbox kiosks on your route home. If you find something you like you can reserve it and pick it up when you stop to get pizza.
It’s cheap. It’s easy. It’s on the way. The app is free and does a great job helping you pick a flick. You won’t use it all the time, but at the end of a long and tiring day you’ll be glad it’s there.
And that’s a wrap for this week.
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