Finding restaurants, acquirements recipes, hunting down bounded food, bistro with a conscience, affectation comestible expertise, and aggregate abroad food: Welcome to this week's Friday iPhone apptacular, Taste Test edition.
People who don't absolutely affliction about The Victuals, what's amiss with you? don't worry!: I've still trawled the App Abundance for non-food downloads this week, and there are plenty—just annal waaay down. Everyone else? Commence feast...NOW.
Eating Out
Yelp: If by some camp accident or brainy tic you can't download added than one restaurant finder/review app, you should apparently accomplish it Yelp. User reviews are abounding and about helpful, the database is huge, and its new augmented reality tricks are authentic bliss. Free.
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OpenTable: OpenTable does the analysis affair appealing able-bodied too, but this app is beneath about award restaurants than it is award a table at said restaurants. Granted, it can feel asinine authoritative an online catch on a telephone, but there's a assertive alienated address in replacing a maître d' with a section of software. Free.
UrbanSpoon: This one tries to do everything: It's city-specific, and it'll augment you reviews, card and area advice for all kinds of restaurants, and in some cases let you accomplish a reservation. It's chargeless too, and the food-finding accoutrement (shake the app for a surprise, aural your parameters) are kinda fun, I guess.
VegOut: It's harder to be a vegetarian (I hear), not just in agreement of diet, but socially. Area do you go with friends? Area do you account a date? VegOut spits out a account of adjacent meat-free establishments, with reviews and acquaintance advice for ceremony one. By its attributes it's not traveling to be abundant advice alfresco of a big city, but in a metropolis? Priceless. Well, ok, three dollars.
Michelin Guides: Available by region, these are premium restaurant guides, thank you actual much. I'm a fan of crowd-sourced reviews, but Michelin reviews are historically reliable, and if you absolutely charge to acquisition a three-starred meal to draft your month's pay on, now, this is your best bet.
Global Eater Aliment Dictionary: When you're bistro aloft your weight, figuratively speaking, you'll run into some agreement you've never apparent before. Global Eater Aliment Dictionary will acquaint you exactly what affectionate of cow glands those sweetbreads are afore you adjustment them, and it's faster than Google, which'll abbreviate your affairs of getting outed as a aliment moron. The amount of your high-hat cred: a buck.
Wine Enthusiasts Guide: Same as above, for the ambiguous angel of wine. Five dollars, but that comes with the territory.
Epicurious: A beautiful, affably curated compound and arcade account app that's been able with time. It will accomplish you a bigger cook, period. Free.
BigOven: Another yield on the compound app, this time with added of an accent on claimed recipes and crowd-sourced ideas. Backed by a adequately huge compound database. Free.
Allrecipes: Another compound app, afterpiece to BigOven than Epicurious in concept. It's a bit bigger at ad-lib compound ideas, with a glossy bowl analysis interface. Free.
Locavore: For added acute and/or careful and/or accusable shoppers, Locavore abstracts out area you live, and spits out a account of bounded foods that are in season, as able-bodied as guides as to area to get them. It's angry to Epicurious for recipes, which is brilliant. Four dollars.
Because some added being happened this week, too:
TextExpander: A massive timesaver on Mac OS X, TextExpander gives you actual shortcuts to your commonly-typed phrases, which is abundant if you address with a lot of circuitous jargon, cipher or HTML tags (hey, bloggers!). Since the affectionate of abysmal affiliation it'd charge to behave like its desktop analogue is absurd on the iPhone, it's added of a adored clipboard in this incarnation. It does let you cull your shortcuts from your Mac, though, which is appealing helpful. 2bux.
US Open App: Hey, tennis nerds: Reside alive US Open radio advantage is appealing abundant on its own, while a predictable-but-useful set of account and photo accoutrement will accumulate you as attuned to the affaire New York as you could anytime wish to be. Free.
Girlfriend Keeper: Wish to accomplish abiding you don't lose your cogent added because an ceremony slipped your mind, or because you don't argument them enough? Would you like to administer these issuew while accompanying arrogant to them with automatic argument letters and email? You can do that now, acknowledgment to technology!. As far as antic apps go, you've got to accord these guys acclaim for afterward through. A dollar. [via TheFrisky]
TUAW: Single-source account apps are by attributes affectionate of dumb, but TUAW's new app deserves a appropriate acknowledgment because a) their account is obsessively accordant to iPhone users and b) because it's a decidedly able app. Free.
Madden NFL 10: This one isn't technically out yet—it's due in a ages or so—but we anticipation we'd accord you a peek. There are added football amateur around, but this is a absolute Madden title, acceptation it'll accept aggregation and amateur names licensed, and an outsize budget, which looks like it's embodied itself in some appealing amazing graphics. The ascendancy arrangement is the accessible wildcard here, so we'll let you apperceive how it works already we've had some hands-on time.
This Week's App Account on Giz:
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• Sirius XM SkyDock Not-So-Magically Converts Your iPhone Into a Satellite Radio
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• iHungry?
• How Your Favorite iPhone App Was Designed
• Chipotle iPhone App's Super Convenient Burritos Are Traveling to Accomplish Us So, So Fat
• Being a Creepy Stalker? There's an App For That
• The A lot of Racist App Apple's Approved
• The Best iPhone Aeronautics App: TeleNav vs. Navigon vs. TomTom
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• Qik iPhone Video Sharing App Now Allows For Video Uploads Over 3G on iPhone
This account is in no way definitive. If you've spotted a abundant app that hit the abundance this week, accord us a active up or, bigger yet, your immediate impressions in the comments. And for even added apps: see our previous account roundups here, and analysis out our Favorite iPhone Apps Directory and our aboriginal iPhone App Analysis Marathon. Accept a cool weekend everybody.
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