I was very excited to hear about the new app Check in to Win. Using your iPhone you check in to the store (currently the stores offered are Walmart or Sam’s Club) and while you shop you then scan certain products and earn points. When you’ve accumulated a certain amount of points you can use [...]

How many of you upgraded to the new iPhone 4S today? Or maybe you’re like me and you missed the shipping deadline but it will be coming in the next week? When we upgrade our phones our kids inherit the old phone and get an “iPod Touch” but there are many people that sell their [...]

ShopAdvisor is one slick app and it has the potential to save me a substantial amount of time and money this upcoming holiday shopping season. Here’s how it works. First you’ll enter in a product that you’d like to search for. You can do this by typing in the product name or scanning a barcode. [...]

SavingStar is something new and very exciting! It combines your iPhone (or Android device) with a store’s loyalty card and manufacturer’s eCoupons. All together it will equal savings for you and money that is put back into your pocket. Here’s how it works. First you download the free Grocery eCoupons app and install it on [...]

Etsy Lovers has cost me plenty of lost time this week – time that I lost as I was sucked into browsing through wonderful Etsy listings. I sat down to test the app out and an hour later I pulled myself away. Then today I got back on to double check something for this review [...]

Kid Cart lets you create shopping lists just for your children. Creating a list is simple, all you’ll need to do is look at a list of pictures and then tap a button to add a quantity for that item. Items are broken down into categories including vegetables, grains, baking and household, just to name [...]

Deal.iz.io visits several deal websites and brings their deal information back into this app. The deals are constantly changing as the app continuously updates with the websites. The sites it pulls from include the following: Slickdeals.net, deals.woot.com, dealnews.com, dealspl.us, techbargains.com, and fatwallet.com. The deals show up in Deal.iz.io as a stream and you can scroll [...]

LinguPingu – LinguPingu is a series of language learning apps for young children. The apps use animation and sounds to keep children engaged in the learning. There are quite a few different languages available in the App Store. I’d suggest downloading one of the free versions to begin with in order to make sure your [...]

Great Googley Moogely! Those folks over at Google have been busy, sending application after application into the App Store. All of the official Google apps are free and they each have a different focus that is powered by the Google machine

Have you heard of Peapod grocery delivery? I hadn’t until last week and unfortunately, it’s not available where I live. But for those of you lucky enough to have access to this time saver here’s some good news. Now you’ve got an app that will make your online ordering even more convenient. The Peapod app [...]