Do you love to indulge yourself with random pieces of knowledge and impress others with your arsenal of facts and figures? Would you like to contribute your thoughts and opinions, and see how they stack against those of others? If you answered yes to any of these questions, Show of Hands is the perfect app for you. It anonymously polls people on an assortment of topics, adding two to three new questions daily. Once you answer a question, you can see the current results and post your vote along with the national pie chart and any optional comments to Facebook. Furthermore, you can browse results from current and past polls and sort responses by gender, political party, age, and income range so that you can compare and contrast the opinions of different groups. Show of Hands even links you to politicians, providing contact information so that you can get in touch with them about any pressing issues. Finally, the app enables you to suggest questions, so that you can get answers to the questions that have plagued you. Whether you’re satisfying your curiosity, making your idea known, or discovering topics for scintillating dinner conversation, Show of Hands gets two thumbs up.

While shopping for clothes can be immensely fun, it can also be a source of some serious inner turmoil, turning a simple day perusing stores into an frantic effort to compare prices, styles, and ask the most important questions of all: is this really me? Well, even if your friends can not accompany you to aid in your endeavors and ease your mind about choices and purchases, Pose is here to save your shopping day. The iPhone app allows you to snap a picture of you in your piece (from many angles, if you like), add thoughts or notes about it, and note where you got it and how much it costs. You can share it with friends over Facebook, Twitter, and e-mail, and if people give you feedback on the look, Pose automatically notifies you. Finally, if you need to re-locate a store or find a new one, Pose has GPS capabilities built-in, so that you can waste no time in getting back to claim your threads or indulge in new ones. Read the rest of this entry »

With 2011 just two days away, it’s time to start thinking about what you want the new year to bring and making those resolutions (if you haven’t already). All My New Year Resolutions 2011 is an app that can not only help you keep track of your goals for the coming year, but can also enable you to record and share your progress in the process. The app allows you to add as many resolutions as you wish to make, create events and comments for each resolution (i.e. to keep you on track, focused, and motivated), set dates and reminders in your calendar to ensure you’re on the right course, and share your endeavors (and successes) with friends and family over Twitter, Facebook, e-mail, text messages, and more. An added bonus: the app includes cute emoticons that you can add each time you update your resolution-in-progress, showing exactly how you feel about your moment-to-moment accomplishments. With all these awesome features, All My New Year Resolutions 2011 promises that the new year will not only bring a new you, but more importantly a whole lot of support along the way.

Are you an avid event-goer? Is your calendar so crammed that you don’t know where or how to begin? Well, the web service, flogs.com went live a week ago, bringing you Flogs Live for your iPhone. This app enables you not only to track and be reminded of everything packing your social schedule, but also turns your hectic (and awesome) life into even more fun than it already was. Flogs Live lets you check-in to the events you attend, share experiences with friends, and browse through an expansive catalog of events to find even more happenings to hog your time. Flogs Live also provides the most up-to-date information on any changes in events and upcoming incidents of interest, ensuring you will never miss out on, forget, or be misinformed of anything that pertains to your digital calendar. Even if you cannot personally attend an event, Flogs Live enables you to be there in spirit by following the event and living vicariously through its attendees and live updates. Integration with Twitter and Facebook allows you to flaunt and share everything from pictures to comments, and post all your winnings from the app for all to see. Finally, every action you perform through Flogs Live and flogs.com earns you badges, points, and trophies, and brings you one step closer to achieving the title of the Biggest Fan. Flogs Live provides even more incentive to grab life by the horns and milk every event for what it’s worth.