How to Find Quality Applications for Your iPhone or iPod Touch
The iPhone is a terrific device, made even more amazing by the huge number of applications available in the iTunes App Store. It can, however, be very difficult to find a particular type of application for which you might need or want. Even more difficult is finding the BEST applications of a specific type.
The iPhone App Store in iTunes will allow you to search for certain type of applications. For example, you can search for Card Games, but the results can appear quite random and often offer no way to sort your results. With some searches in popular categories, like games, you can end up with more than a hundred pages of applications with limited ways to sort.
There are so many thousands of applications in the App Store that we all need a way to find really great applications! Here are some steps that can help you find the best application to suit your need!
Step 1: Point your browser to www.yappler.com. There will be a search box titled “Search for Apps:”. Enter your search criteria and press the search button. For example, you could enter “card games” in the search field. Press the search button.
Step 2: The screen that you see will include all of the iTunes applications that meet your search criteria. They will be sorted by “Best Match”. Go to the “Sort by” fiend and choose “Rating” in the drop down box. This will sort the applications on a scale of 1 to 5 in how actual owners of the applications rate the app. Click the search button again to find the best apps within your search criteria.
Step 3: Click on the names of the top applications returned by your search where you can get more information about the app, read more reviews and sometimes see video of the app not available anywhere else. This will all help you to make a better buying decision!
Step 4: When you are ready to purchase, you can click on the “Download in iTunes” button. iTunes will open, showing the app that you selected, ready for your purchase.
Tips: In the “Minimum Rating” field, you can eliminate the lower rated applications by choosing 3 or 4. You can also limit your search results based on the price. Yappler also allows you to view videos of some applications to allow you to make a more educated decision before purchasing an application. Yappler also lets you save favorite apps to return to make your buying decision later. Very useful…lots of times I’ve seen an app go by, but didn’t remember the name when I wanted to find it later.
I have no affiliation to Yappler. I just find it an incredibly useful site for finding new apps.
Here are a few new articles for you. Twitter and Facebook have caught much of my attention lately. It’s amazing to see how fast a social networking site can go from a virtual unknown to the general public, to becoming verbs that will probably be in the Webster’s dictionary by the end of the year! Facebook did it last year and Twitter is doing it this year!
The interest in Twitter has been skyrocketing in the last few months. The concept of micro-blogging invites users to update whenever and wherever they are, which makes an iPhone application a natural fit. Unfortunately, lots of developers have recognized that fact and have presented us with dozens of choices of iPhone Twitter clients.
