In their new iPhone commercial “Dilemmas,” Apple continues to highlight individual apps, this time showing off Urbanspoon. Urbanspoon is a gimmicky restaurant-finder that works like a slot machine. It allows you to set some conditions like location, type of restaurant, and price range, and then you shake the phone to bring up a random restaurant idea.
The app is interesting for its novelty, but it’s doubtful you’ll use it to make many restaurant decisions.
The commercial also introduces a new tagline: “Solving life’s dilemmas, one app at a time.” I like it, as it focuses our attention on the strength of iPhone apps to solve common problems like, “What’s on TV tonight?” (See my review of the i.TV app.)
You can download the Urbanspoon app for free in the iTunes app store (
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#1 by Ross Grady on November 10th, 2008
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Hmmmm . . . do you not eat lunch? I use the urbanspoon randomizer all the time, to solve the age-old dilemma: BBQ or vietnamese, or ???
More to the point, the slot machine is only a tiny portion of the whole urbanspoon app — it’s location-aware, and it’s driven by the same database that drives their website, which is pretty-darn-comprehensive for those locales where they have a presence. You can search on proximity, price, or genre; view menus, upload photos, etc. There’s a lot more going on than just the slot machine.
#2 by D.J. on November 13th, 2008
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So you wanna’ be a scratch D.J.? Here’s your chance to shine with iTurn! Scratch to any tune.
Great with any style music – pop, rock, hip-hop, jazz and rap .
Just play song from your music and then start up iTurn. Move your finger back and forth on the
turntable to hear your D.J. magic over your song!
Touch control Scratch volume.
Features include:
- Scratch sounds vary based on direction of motion.
- Pitch of scratch varies based on speed of motion.
- Adjustable volume control.
- Drag horizontally or vertically across the turntable for a single beat scratch.
- Drag your finger for a variety of multiple beat scratches.
Entertain friends. Great for parties – just plug into your system and use iTurn to add your D.J.
touch to the music.
Get the beat!
#3 by mikeantony on November 25th, 2008
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Hey its nice app i also want to share one new app for the iPhone just have a look at this.
A fluorescent firework is filling your screen. A bundle of light follows your finger. Ever changing rainbow colors come down like a never ending meteor-shower. When you double tap on the screen the little shooting stars combust into thousands of particles. The composition of colors are beautiful and you won’t get bored watching the spectacle for hours. The truly amazing thing about this application is how well the automatic generation of particles blends together with the explicit control of your finger. It feels like your action is an extension of the intelligence that the light objects posses already. It’s a true unique application that has come to the iPhone that you will not regret buying. Oh and if you want to save your art you can simply use the screen capture function (hold home & lock) of the iPhone. Those patterns make for great artistic images for Christmas cards. Let the show begin!