OCCASIONS
There’s nothing like a birthday
greeting to make your loved ones
feel, well, loved. If you continually
forget those little remembrances,
Occasions will keep track of
all your important dates. The
app culls from birthdays and
anniversaries already entered
in your Contacts, or you can
add customized entries. Even
better, Occasions can push date
reminders to your device (just
note that iPod touch users need
to rely on Wi-Fi to receive alerts).
Once notified, you can call, email,
or text that special someone from
within the app. The best part is
you don’t have to remember to go in
to the reminder app to be reminded
to remember.—Jan Hughes
Your smartphone steps in when your
memory for special occasions fails you.
OCCASIONS 1. 1. 2
Hand Carved Code, LLC
handcarvedcode.com
$0.99
GREAT
MIXOLOGY
The Mac|Life editors do not
support the irresponsible
consumption of alcohol (except
maybe Susie). Nonetheless, there
might come a time in an iPhone or
iPod touch owner’s life when one
is asked to concoct an alcoholic
beverage. Simply turn to the vast
7,900-recipe database offered in
Mixology, and proceed with, um…
“sober” confidence.
You can browse recipes by
ingredient (e.g., liquor, mixer, or
garnish type) or category (e.g.,
martinis, shooters, or punches).
Poke around and you’ll quickly
find unfamiliar booze types.
Briottet Crème de Figue jello shots,
anyone? A Random feature lets you choose a single type of liquor,
mixer, and barware glass, and then push a slot-machine button for a
random recipe that can be made from your choices—oh, the humanity!
A handy set of bartending reference
tools completes the package, making
Mixology one of the best cocktail
apps available.—Jon Phillips
From a simple screwdriver to
something infinitely more complex,
Mixology has you covered.
Mixology 1. 1
Digital Outcrop
digitaloutcrop.com
Free
AWESOME
FLIGHTTRACK There’s nothing as comforting to the anxious air traveler as knowing a flight’s status—whether it’ll depart on time, which gate it’s going to, stuff like that. Flight Track provides all this, but offers a lot more than mere fulfillment for OCD sufferers. Besides checking the status of a flight—including its exact location, elevation, and speed in the air—you can overlay live radar maps, letting you predict weather delays as an amateur meteorologist. Because
of rules barring cell phone use
mid-flight, you can’t get live updates
in the air. Flight Track will, however,
provide you with whatever details you collected before you shut off
data reception.
Whether you want to find out the model of the aircraft you’ll be
boarding, email updated arrival info
to your chauffeur, or just watch
neat-o airplane icons fly across maps,
Flight Track has all the tools to keep
air-transit nerds happy.—Leslie Ayers
Tracking a friend’s flight—those
showers over the Rockies didn’t
slow it down.
GREAT
Flight Track 2. 4. 1
Mobiata
www.mobiata.com
$4.99
APPBOX PRO
“Jack of all trades, master of
none” is a perfect description of
AppBox Pro. And with hundreds
of five-star reviews in the App
Store, we’re convinced that
people are confusing “cheap”
with “awesome.”
AppBox is a collection of 18
single-purpose mini-apps—there’s
a currency converter, date
calculator, flashlight, and the
ubiquitous tip calculator, among
others. Most of the mini-apps
work reasonably well, but frankly
there’s not a single one that
excels at what it does above any
number of competitors. Still, it’s
a good deal, even if you only use
a few of the choices every now and
then.—Ray Aguilera
Need a random number generator or
a unit converter? There’s an app for
that.
AppBox Pro 1. 2. 2
AllAboutApps
www.allaboutapps.net
$1.99
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