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Going out on the town with your iPhone is great. Want to see a movie? Buy tickets in advance from your device. How about making dinner reservations? There’s an app for that too. But wouldn’t it be cool to pay for your dining or drinking tab from your iPhone?  A new app called TabbedOut from developer ATX Innovation will soon allow you that freedom. TabbedOut works by housing your credit card information securely on your device. When you visit a participating TabbedOut restaurant or bar, you provide the restaurant with a unique code generated from the app. This code enables your iPhone to communicate with the establishment’s point of sale system and allows you to view and ultimately pay your tab at the end of your meal. You can pay your tab whenever you’re ready and your receipt is automatically emailed to you. No more waiting

Maybe just a simple paint program at the least? Could you also use a stylus instead of your fingers? (And I’m not misspelling ipod , I actually mean the new.

Dell, with some help from Amazon and Google, may be releasing an iPad competitor called the Dell Streak. The Streak will be a tablet that will have access to all of the e-books in Amazon’s Kindle store and everything in Amazon’s MP3 …

As great of a media player as the iPhone is, there are situations where getting to your favorite music is not always easy. Running the treadmill at the gym or navigating through rush hour traffic while scrolling through your playlist can sometimes be a chore (and not to mention dangerous). With the newly released app  DisCover from developer Wuonm, this problem is now a thing of the past. DisCover is a handy app that allows you to create icons of your favorite album covers which you can then place on your iPhone’s home screen for easy access. This simple shortcut solution is one that is handled very well and similar to another of Wuonm’s app, FaceCall, which allows you to make shortcut photo icons of your favorite contact numbers. The process is fairly easy. Once you load the app, it automatically searches for all of the music on your device. You simply scroll to your favorite album and select the record you want to make an icon. Onscreen instructions will prompt you to how to add the icon to your home screen and in a matter of seconds, the album cover and your favorite tunes are now residing on your iPhone for simplified access. DisCover is a very handy tool

GDC kicked off today and our very own Trevor Sheridan is there getting the scoop. There are tons of announcements that will be happening all day. So keep watching AppAdvice.com for updates. Google voice has hit the iPhone… well, kind of. According to TUAW you can now get VoiceCentral’s Black Swan right on your device. Black Swan gives you google voice functionality through an in app experience – without actually being a native app. EA has slipped out the names of some new titles that will hit the app store soon. One of which is Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11. Today’s Wacky App is FaceGoo . Yea the name pretty much says it all.

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Wednesdays are apparently about games, games, and more games.  This morning we showed you a couple of quality games that were available for free, and now we have some quality games that are on sale. GT Racing: Motor Academy ($6.99 -> $4.99): Gameloft’s racing simulator features a massive Career mode that will start you off by teaching you the driving basics and then sending you all around the world to compete on 14 different tracks. By winning races you will earn money to buy new cars and equipment, which will allow you to purchase new cards and equipment. The game also features an Arcade mode, three different control schemes including accelerometer controls, the ability to view and upload replays to YouTube, online multiplayer, and over 100 licensed cars from 25 manufacturers. GT Racing: Motor Academy ’s price drop appears to be permanent. Sparkle the Game ($2.99 -> $.99): From the creators of Azkend , Sparkle features familiar orb shooting gameplay where your launcher is in a fixed position on the map and you must fire like colored orbs in order to match three or more to clear the trail before they reach the hole.

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It’s not that Brizzly’s perfect, or that it does justice to its source material (the unassailably pretty, wonderfully lean Birdfeed)—it’s that it comes close enough, and it’s free . First, a quick lesson in the history of iPhone Twitter apps ! Once, there was an app called Birdfeed. It was clever, fast, and visually distinctive . In fact, it was (up until just now) quite possibly one of the best Twitter apps available. It was also expensive, at $5. The developer, who was tired or something, sold the app to a little startup called Brizzly , which aggregates Twitter and Facebook feeds into a single interface (it’s actually kinda neat, as an online service.) And so here we are. Brizzly’s rerelease (not an update; Birdfeed is no longer in the store) of Birdfeed changes the name, tweaks the UI, and slashes the price down to zero. The interface isn’t as dazzling as it was before, and Birdfeed’s trademark lack of a menu bar has given way to a standard row of icons. Brizzly actually adds a few new features, including a trending topics-esque News tab, for explaining what’s going on in your feeds, and the same lovely pull-down feed refreshing as the other best iPhone Twitter app, Tweetie. Even its apparent shortfallings aren’t so bad: Yes, you have to sign up for a Brizzly account in order to use the app, but one you have, it’s completely transparent