In my first review for AAWP, I look at FreeCaddie Golf GPS, a cross platform free (ad-supported) application for displaying the distance to the green. The developers claim to have data for over 22,000 courses worldwide, with the ability for users to add their own courses if they are not listed via their website. There is also a pro version of the application which offers additional functionality, which I'll hopefully look at shortly.
While Windows Phone has a functional Twitter component through the People hub, the majority of tweeters will want something with more functionality. As Twitter continues to lock down the ecosystem and pull everyone into their website and official apps, there is still a place for a well put together third party client. Could that be Tweet It?
Now we finally have the official word on an Instagram app (thanks to Stephen Elop's keynote at Nokia World this week), we know we only have to wait 'a few weeks' to have the client from Facebook's social network for images. But Instagram fans on Windows Phone have long known that Rudy Huyn's third party client, 6tag, is the way to go to interact with Instagram on your handset.
While Yahoo's photo service Flickr has been revitalised in the last year with new membership and storage options, a modern layout, and an improved application for the iPhone, other platforms have not picked up the same love and affection, at least not from Flickr. That's where Indulged takes over for Windows Phone.
While the majority of people using Facebook on their Windows Phone are looking to work with their own personal account, read messages, and the notifications they receive, there are others who need to have access to Pages on Facebook, be it for side projects, fan clubs, or business needs. They're not served well by the official app, so the smart thing to do is to install Facebook Pages Manager.
Creating applications for each mobile platform is a pain. Which is why many developers take shortcuts. They write shells around their mobile web site, they take the iPhone version and bastardise the code to run on another platform, sometimes not even taking the time to resize graphics and resources as needed. The Rightmove Group did none of those - they went the extra mile to create a Windows Phone application from scratch, taking full advantage of the strengths of the platform in terms of user interface navigation. Rightmove is a superb example of a Windows Phone application 'done right' and comes highly recommended.
It's a screen that we all see every day, but many developers have their eye on the Lock Screen with a view to making it even more useful. XAP Studios' vision is packaged up in Lock Manager, offering you wallpaper choices and personal data to be shown when you hit the power button.
NewsSpot is an RSS-based application that offers you content from your favourite website, letting you know what you have read, what you still have to read, and allowing you to share those stories with friends, the social web, and other online services. There's still a need for a solid RSS reader in 2013, can NewsSpot fill that gap?
Get a business card, wave your smartphone's camera over it, and have all the contact info digitised and available on your phone. That's the promise of CamCard, and it gets pretty close to achieving it.
If the internet is good for one thing, it's good for humour. There are countless sites out there, all with their own mix of humour. 9gag has been around for five years, racks up over a billion page views a month, and is generally seen by many as one of the drivers of many popular 'memes'. And now you can browse it through a new Windows Phone app by Rudy Huyn.
