Ever went to Spain and would have loved getting some Tapas & Drinks the proper way (in Spanish)? Want to appear more “local”?

There are a few options if you don’t already speak Spanish:

1) Take a course, spend money and time, repeat that a few times till you get the right level.

2) Marry a Spanish girl or guy and try to see if you get to learn the language

3) Get Jibbigo on your iPhone!

Jibbigo won’t let you look less geek but will make you “automagically” speak Spanish helping you out in any foreing country where Spanish is the main language. So how does Jibbigo work?  Jibbigo is an iPhone application that costs about 25$. This application is able to listen to somebody speaking English and translate it to Spanish (and other way around). Looks promising, isn’t it? Well, the video is actually even better! Check it out.

The other good thing is that it doesn’t need an internet connection to do its magic but a 3Gs is recommended.

(Thanks to Appadvice for the news)

Rejoy! How many of us played Command & Conquer till late at night (early in the morning)? I remember loving the game.

Finally the Realtime strategy genre of the Appstore got some beef: here is Command & Conquer Red Alert for the iPhone (and iPod Touch).

Single tap to choose units, drag to scroll, pinch to zoom… All the gestures we’re used to in the iPhone, now to control your tanks and other units in this nice remake of the original 1996 hit. You ge to choose between the Soviets or the Allies and then play with the same set of units as the original game, plus a few extra that belong to this new release.

12 levels of pure strategy… I know I’ll be running to the Appstore… Now!

(Thanks to Appadvice for the news)

Sympass is a program for companies that offer special discounts to their employees in a miriade of different services in Luxembourg, Germany, France and Belgium including cheaper cinema tickets, zoo visits, Phantasialand, perfums etc…Sympass members get a card and a booklet (that I lost on day 1) with all the shops that offer their discounts up to 50% but most often in a range between 10-25%…Sounds great on paper but the reality is that besides cheaper movie tickets, I have never taken advantage of their service because I didn’t know if the shop was a sympass partner or not and that their mini-booklet with hundreds of adresses wasn’t very readable and never at hand.

How handy would an iPhone app be in this case? I’m psyched! I always carry my phone with me (unlike that booklet) and the feature list of the app is impressiv, making full use of your iPhone’s potential.

Feature list:
- Standard search (keyword based)
- Around me list
- In Region finder
- In Branche finder
- Tickets list with details: (billeterie ex: Phantasialand, Europapark, Zoo’s, Cinema etc)
- Promotion alert list
- Latest Partners

Obviously this app is exclusively addressed to Sympass Members but I bet that the app will improve the way those members have been handling their card and advantages.

Thanks to Patrick Jeitz (IT manager of the project, also worked on the Yellow.lu app) for the inside infos. I’ll wait impatiently for the first screenshots and a beta-version If you’d like to follow the dev behind this app, read Patrick’s blog here

Just a quick post to notify whoever doesn’t check the Appstore at least 4 times a day (for updates or new apps) that a new version of Dropbox (what a good service this is!) has been posted to the Appstore yesterday.

This update is meant to fix a few things, most notably, the compatibility with OS 3.0. Lot of people didn’t upgrade to 3.1 either because of the know “random shutdowns” or because no jailbreak was available, those same people couldn’t use Dropbox on their iPhone as the application simply would not run on an iPhone running an OS lower than 3.1

We could argue the speed of the approval process as this update came out AFTER 3.1.2 was released and a JB being available, still, always good to see updates flowing in.

My recommendation? Signup with Dropbox (using this link we’ll get a bit more space each) and install the iPhone app right away. Personally love it!

Luxembourg can already count on some local and specific apps. That’s nice already…

What’s even nicer is when one of our favourite applications announces an update. Yes, Yellow has published an update to the AppStore for approval! That’s not it, we from LuxiPhone will be able to get a full hands-on preview beforehand!

Here is it how it looks right now:

That’s the way it looks now….and I guess soon we can reveal all the improvements exclusively here

What? Are you that one person who doesn’t have yellow.lu on their iPhone? Thank God we make your life easier..get it right here

(Thanks to Yellow for the info an the pic!)

There are people that just can’t stop having ideas, some even very good, or so simple that you say:”Why didn’t I think about it???”

When you are Jack Dorseay (co-founder of Twitter) then your mind must be filled with good ideas. With his new company called Square he developed the Square iPhone Payment System. A tiny cube to be mounted on the headphone jack (iPhone and iPod Touch) and a software to be installed (to make the little cube card reader work) that will allow to accept credit card payment by swiping the card in the reader.

How clever?!?

Can you imagine people travelling around with a payment system in their pockets? Shops where any employee can accept your payment wherever you are without having to queue? That sounds pretty good to me…

(Via TUAW)

Photoshop has been released in the US AppStore. Finally I can get rid of my Mac and do all my flyers on the go. Anyway too bad we can’t put our hands on it yet. But from the screens I’ve seen it looks like a trimmed down version of the Photoshop.com application. Wait and see…

Not really, but still somehow… Yes.

We now have in the Appstore “Boundless” (Featuring Photography by John Covington), an application that displays tiny thumbnail images (on which you can click, yes, you can).

There about fifty “erotic” (as labelled by Appadvice) images in this app, but here comes the clever bit… Before some of you rush to buy the application. While the thumbnails lead to think/see that the full picture is of a naked body, once you click to see it big, the parts that could make someone blush are automagically gone because slightly offscreen or via other smart mechanisms

But this could be the start of Applestore getting a bit more relaxed on their application process, hopefully, let’s see.

(Via Appadvice)

Dear all, LuxiPhone’s popularity has been growing by the day and we tried to give you the latest info as fast as we could and by any means possible. I mean you can read us on the blog, on facebook, twitter, or subscribe to our newsletter, read our posts from within the webapp… One (logical) way to deliver the info was missing so far. A native iPhone App.

Lately we’ve been working on several projects at the same time, and for legal reasons couldn’t use the trademarked iPhone word nor the iPhone shape.

We gave birth (literally) to ViKa. Our 2 next projects will be named ViKa”Something”…One project we can’t reveal just yet (it has something to do with the iPhone ) but in the meantime enjoy those teasing screens.

This is part 1&2 of the Pragma Consult’s interview.

Recap: For the ones that have been living under a rock for the past year, those are the guys that brought you apps like Tageblatt, BCEE, Hot City Walker and Hot City Esch.

Obviously being there I took the chance to ask them as many questions as I possibly could and the visit turned out into an exclusive interview that took us most of the afternoon (sorry guys, I know time is money).
Due to the amount of information I got and the little time I have to write posts I tought it would be a good idea to split the interview into several parts and repost the whole interview into one single post once I’m done.
read part one of the interview after the break…

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