With just a day to go until Thanksgiving, it’s hard not to be excited and full of gobble-tastic spirit. If you’re looking to share some turkey cheer, send out a last-minute invite to Thanksgiving dinner, or find an entertaining manner to tell others how thankful you are, Thanksgiving Turkeynizer is the app you need. Since we all love turkey, the app takes your picture and turns you into one. Then, you can add customizable messages to your new look and e-mail humorous, memorable greetings or invitations to your friends and family. Even though Thanksgiving is always filled with smiles, Thanksgiving Turkeynizer ensures there will be much laughter as well, and spreads the joy in a whole new way.

If you have a smartphone, why rely on standard SMS? Pinch iMessenger takes texting to the next level. Not only will it save you on SMS-related fees (even internationally), but it also enables a previously unheard of experience: location-based texting. This means you can communicate with friends while finding out where they are and how to meet up with them, keep track of where you’ve been and how many places you’ve Pinched, all while earning the points and rewards associated with location-based technology (many people have earned iTunes credit and even iPads just by texting through the app!). Furthermore, the app includes hundreds of emoticons and animations to make the experience even more expressive and provides unlimited storage so you can keep your dialogues forever. While the app only works between Pinch users, it enables a whole new form of smartphone-to-smartphone communication; your friends don’t even need to have an iPhone for you to be able to Pinch them! Pinch iMessenger takes all the fun of texting to a more entertaining and rewarding realm.

We are less than 2 weeks from being launched into the holiday season, which means travel is inevitable. If you happen to be driving home for any of the holidays, then the trip alone risks ruining the good cheer. Well, not to fear; Waze is here! This app makes driving infinitely more fun (and informative) by combining the best elements of a social networking app AND a GPS. Not only does it give you voice-guided step-by-step directions, inform you of traffic conditions and other potential hindrances on the road, and provide you with alternative routes and re-routing options, but it also enables you to connect in real time with other drivers battling the roads. Learn information from others (and empathize with them), earn cool badges, and connect with friends (new and old) via Facebook, all while enduring the endless trip home or wherever. Now that the danger of boredom and frustration is significantly decreased, the only danger that exists is being able to keep your eyes on the road…

Checking in drives a lot of social interaction, but there is one major problem. Say you find out your friend has just checked in at a restaurant. You go over to meet him, but once you arrive, he’s no longer there. He’s gone off and checked in somewhere else. Thus starts an epic chase all over town to catch up to your friends’ updates. Since check-ins only reflect present activities and not future intentions, these instances are all too possible, creating the need for a way to track where your friends plan to be and for how long. Read the rest of this entry »

One of the most anticipated and celebrated features of the iPhone 4 was its addition of front-facing cameras and Face Time, enabling users to take communication on-the-go to a visual realm. However, it’s been over 4 months since that revelation and yet not many are engaging in this new form of mobile contact. It’s not that Face Time is technologically flawed — many exalt it for its seamless way of enabling video conferences from a phone. The real issue lies in the fact that Face time can be used only by iPhone 4 users with other iPhone 4 users. This element is not only extremely limiting, but renders this iPhone 4 feature virtually unusable — a fact that is apparent by the lack of people actually taking advantage of Face Time. Read the rest of this entry »