FStream

FStream is a free music streaming application that allows you to play icecast streams on your iPhone. It supports formats like .m3u, aiff and more. You can also record the music stream you are listening too.

Fring

Fring [link], is yet another Instant Messenger client for the iPhone/iPod touch. The biggest thing about fring is that it includes Skype support, something that MobileChat, Palringo, IM+ and Beejive don't have.

But that is the only good thing about fring, It still has a long way to go if it wants to be the top free IM app in the App Store. Fring currently doesn't allow you to to change your status, so as long as you are logged in, you are avaliable. Also, it will show contacts as online when they aren't. The latest update was said to fix this, but so far, this is not true.

 

I would reccomend you go with Palringo for now, if you want a good IM client for the iPhone

FlyCast Updated

FlyCast Mobile [link] was updated yesterday and it included some minor tweaks.

Twitxr

Twixtr [link], is a Micro-blogging site like Twitter that is focused around sending pictures rather then just short status messages. Yes it does have the 140 caracter limit so in many ways it's just like Twitter but far less popular.

The iPhone application has a simple interface with three options at the bottom of the screen so that you can view your profile or send a message/picture and change prefrences. The app does use the iPhone's location based service. This cannot be turned off, it requires that you enter your current location if your location can't be found. Of course you can deny the application to use the iPhone 3G's GPS, but either way, you still must manually enter your location.

Twitxr is free and can be found in the Social Networking category of the App Store.

FlyCast Mobile

FlyCast Mobile [link] is a internet radio application for the iPhone/iPod touch that brings together many different radio stations from .977 and 1.FM, it also covers local stations like the great KGO. I find that most of the sations are high quality. The app has a built-in internet connection tool to test your connection speed to tell if you can play EDGE, 3G, Wi-Fi or video broadcasts. It also comes with a built-in web browser so you don't have to leave the application to browse the web.

 

This application is free and is available in the Music category of the App Store.

App Store Reviews

Rooms Price Raised

Hey guys,
I'd just thought I'd let you know that Rooms (the IRC client I reviewed) has had it's price raised to $2.99.

App Store Reviews

Yahoo! oneConnect

I recently downloaded oneConnect from the App Store and so far, I love it, it allows you to update your status across many social networking sites like Facebook, YouTube, MySpace and Twitter. It also allows you to view the updates of your friends of the above networking sites. It also acts as a Yahoo! Messenger client as well.

This application is free and can be found in the Social Networking category of the App Store.

App Store Reviews

Rooms: A follow up review.

Alright guys, here's the deal. A new update was just relesed for Rooms and it has added all of the features that I siad that it lacked in my previous post. I highly reccomend this iPhone Application now. It is now worth the 99¢ it costs. You can follow the link to Rooms in the App Store in the other post or you can click here to go to the Rooms download page.

- App Store Reviews

P.S: Another thing that I didn't mention in the other review of Rooms is that it does cost 99¢. I think 99¢ is perfect for this app.

Rooms - Your Mobile Chat Client

As this is the first review that App Store Reviews has reviewed (notice how I am using the word "review" in all of it's pretenses) I decided to do it on one of my most favorite apps, Rooms. Rooms is the first and only non-web based IRC client for the iPhone/iPod touch. according to the discription on the App Store page, it is based on "The Colloquy Project." Now I use Colloquy on my Mac and I must say that it is the best IRC client that I have ever used and has a great UI. It is the same for Rooms, it has a simple UI that anybody can learn in about 5 minutes.

Now, time to move on to the features (or lack there-of)

Now, unffortuneatly, there are some downsides to Rooms. First of all, it is still in a beta form, so a lot of features that you would expect in a good IRC client are not there quite yet.

To start this off, one of the features needed for anybody with a registered username on an IRC server is some form of password input. Rooms lacks this feature. Why? I don't know, maybe the creator thought that people could just add [iPhone] to the end of their username. Who knows.

The next feature that is not present in Rooms is the basic "/" commands for instance, if you want to change your nickname, you have to go into the settings for the server that you want to change your nick for. If you enter /nick you get a message that says "/nick is not a valid command." This could be a for channel owners that do not have a bot in there channel.

Over all, Rooms still needs a lot of improvements, but it is usefull if you just want to look at a channel that you own while on the go. If you want a IRC client that can do more then what Rooms can do at the moment, I would suggest Mibbit, it works on the iPhone/iPod touch and is web-based.

Welcome to iPhone App Store Reviews!

Another blog by WB2Colorado.

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Hey everybody, welcome to my App Store Review Blog! I will choose iPhone/iPod touch apps that I have downloaded from the App Store and post quick reviews and screenshots. You probably all already saw my Post at WB2Colorado.wordpress.com about Palringo, well the reviews here are going to be like that, but I will try to make them longer the that review was.

So, anyway, welcome Apple fans! (NOT Fanboys)