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Weather Bug Turns Your iPhone Into a Meteorologist

Weather Bug

Free
Weather
Developed by WeatherBug

iTunes Link

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Weather Bug allows you to view the weather conditions, weather radar, and web cams for any city in the world.

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• Weather Bug puts live, local weather conditions from over 45,000 locations in the world on your iPhone or iPod Touch.
• Features:
  • Severe Weather Alerts
  • Weather Cameras
  • Detailed Forecast
  • Current Radar
  • Satellite Maps 

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• Everything you could possibly want to know about the weather (from temperature to humidity index to radar)
• Accurate (Weather Bug allows you to choose a specific weather station)
• Works fast even on 1 bar of 3G service
• Radar is well integrated with the iPhone
• It's free!

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• The buttons often seem difficult to press and take several tries

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SportsTap App Puts SportsCenter On Your iPhone, Free of Charge

SportsTap

Free
Sports
Developed by SportsTap

iTunes Link

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The home screen of sports tap presents you with the all the above sports.

MLB - all games are displayed on one screen and updated live. Click a specific game to get more details about the game.

The "Boxscore" feature presents you with more detailed game information, such as pitching, batting, last play, inning details, etc.

In "Settings" you can toggle Save Last Viewed Page and Disable iPhone Sleep on and off.

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• SportsTap is the ultimate sports iPhone portal.
• It allows you to access scores and stats wherever you are for any team and any sport.
• Provides detailed box scores with in-depth team and player statistics as well as season statistics and transactions for many leagues.

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• Very appealing home screen design
• Live updates
• Provides information for any game in any league in any sport
• Boxscore feature will make you feel like you're at the game
• It's free!

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• Should have video integration
• There is a Google ad at the top of the screen (but hey, I'd rather see an ad than pay $10)

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Talking Spanish Phrasebook Eliminates The Need To Learn A Language

Talking Spanish Phrasebook

Free
Travel
Developed by Coolgorilla

iTunes Link

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Once you select a category and a phrase, the Talking Spanish Phrasebook app presents you with the Spanish translation. Just tap the audio button to hear the proper Spanish pronounciation.

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• The Talking Spanish Phrasebook is a simple audio-enhanced English to Spanish translation app for the iPhone
• "Impress the locals with a selection of holiday-survival phrases translating English into written and spoken Spanish."

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• Simple design
• No translation errors
• Audio is loud and clear
• Extensive variety of categories and phrases
• It's free!

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• You can't "sync" the app to any online English to Spanish translators
• Only one voice (Female)

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Epocrates RX Brings The Pharmacy To Your iPhone

Epocrates Rx

Free
Healthcare & Fitness
Developed by Epocrates

iTunes Link

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The Pill Pictures feature - identify your "mystery pill" by seaching by shape, color, scoring, coating, and imprint.

Epocrates Rx offers a list of alternative medications to the medication you search for.

Epocrates Rx allows you to search by formulary - however, at this point, only Aetna is available.

In the Interactions feature, you can search for drug interactions for up to 30 drugs at a time and read which drugs shouldn't be mixed and why.

The general menu for a drug presents you with a generic name, drug class, adult dosing, pediatric dosing, black box warning, contraindications/cautions, adverse reactions, common reactions, pictures, and pricing.

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• Epocrates Rx is a drug reference app
• It enables healthcare professionals and patients to find medical information more quickly and easily on the go and at the point of care
• A continually updated drug database with over 3,300 brand and generic drugs
  • Includes dosing, adverse reactions, interactions, pharmacology, pricing, and images of the medication.
• Check for potentially harmful drug-drug interactions.
• Use the Pill ID feature to identify a "mystery pill".
• Free updates and messages from the medical news alerts database.

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• Good design - no clunk, straight to the point
• Great functionality - the app does what it promises
• Extremely large database of information
• Information is well integrated between multiple features of the application
• Extensive Help menu

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• The only "Formulary" available is for Aetna
• Images aren't available for all medications

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