Kakao Talk Messenger

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Kakao Talk Messenger (free) by Kakao Corp.

I have no idea if Kakao Talk is hot in the U.S. but I can tell you this… it’s huuuuuge in Korea! It really is. I live in Seoul, Korea and just about everyone who has an iPhone or Android device here also has Kakao installed.

So why has an entire country taken such a shine to this app? Probably because it allows you to chat (read: SMS) with anyone, anywhere in the world as long as they have Kakao on their iPhone, Android, or Blackberry, and it does all that for free. Oh yeah, and Korean society is also sort of a hive mind, like the Borg in Star Trek… but I digress.

So like I was saying, if you and the people you text regularly all start using Kakao, you can probably stop paying your wireless carrier for whatever SMS package they suckered you into buying, and if you have friends or family living overseas then this app becomes a must-have.

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Pen Pals

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Dos Hombres introduces a relatively unique concept to the iPhone with the release of their app named Pen Pals. Like the name suggests, Pen Pals hooks you up with a complete stranger from another part of the world (more than likely you’ll be paired up with someone from the USA) so you can converse awkwardly about life in your part of the world. I say awkwardly because the majority of the messages I recieved were from guys looking to score and underage girls who were incapable of holding an intelligent conversation. A few messages I got read: “a/s/l” and “hi…!!!!!!11!!”.  A massive turn off if you’re the kind of person who wants to meet an interesting person and hold a decent conversation with said interesting person. I don’t blame the app though; just the people who use this app for stupid reasons.

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eBuddy Pro

User rating: (14 votes, average: 3.07 out of 5)
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Some apps you get, you use for about a week or two and then you delete them.  I call those my ‘one and done’ apps.  Games are a good example.  Other apps you get and use over and over again, week after week.  Social Networking apps for Facebook or Twitter are good examples.  I have about two or three apps for these that I go back and forth between, though I occasionally try out something new.

Every iPhone or iPod Touch owner should have a good Instant Messaging app and while you could simply download Yahoo Messenger, AIM, GoogleTalk, MSN, or Facebook’s individual apps and use those, who really wants to clutter up their homepages with all those app icons and suck up precious memory space?

Not me. Plus, some of those individual apps cost money.  If I’m going to pay for an app, it’s just more convenient to have everything I need in a single one.

Enter eBuddy Pro.  I have to say, this is one robust IM app.  Here are some of its features:

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App Sale: Quick Status – Facebook + Twitter

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Quick Status – Facebook + Twitter is on sale for free – normally $.99

Yeah we know… there are a billion apps for posting to Facebook, and another billion for posting to Twitter… but this one combines both and includes GPS and Google Maps URLs! It also lets you post to both sites at once, plus there’s the option to save updates for reposting.

If you’re one of those people who’s always updating, take this app for a spin.

iTunes Link – Quick Status – Facebook + Twitter

App Sale: TweetGlobe

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TweetGlobe is on sale for free – normally $.99

IAR World Headquarters!

IAR World Headquarters!

I’m not a big Twitterer… or is it Tweeter? …and that’s why you don’t see many Twitter-related apps on IAR but this one caught my attention. Sure, it allows you to tweet and gives limited access to reading and replying to other people’s tweets (just the 10 most recent), but the hook is that you get to see where the tweets are coming from!

TweetGlobe’s main feature is a big globe that shows each tweet’s location and the tweet itself. There are times when it can’t find the location, probably due to users’ privacy settings or something, but it’s still interesting to see just how global Twitter really is. It also has an in-app browser for following external links.

It would be nice if this app would support multiple Twitter accounts so hopefully UniqueApps will look into adding that in a future upgrade.

This app has been on sale for the past week and today is the last day it’s free, so if you want it you better grab it quick!

iTunes Link – TweetGlobe
Version 1.0

Free Codes: TweetVid

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Ok, I lied about iSteam being next… turns out the codes may have gone sour. But here’s TweetVid! It’s for tweeting videos, so you’ll need an iPhone 3GS to use the app.

iTunes Link : TweetVid

On deck: 3D Tunnel Elite (Games)

Free Codes: iForum

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Talk about stuff and share files on your iPhone with other Apple nerds.

iTunes Link : iForum

On deck: Flying Pigs (Games)

Free Codes: TweetMyFace

User rating: (1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
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Broadcast every mundane detail of your life on Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter all at the same time despite your friends’ protests!

iTunes Link : TweetMyFace

On deck: eTodo (Productivity)

Free Codes: Pirate Radar

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Arrrrrgghh. Pirate Radar can be used as either an ice breaker or just a silly joke. It’s especially funny if you’re on a boat that gets hijacked by actual gun-toting pirates! They may not get it, though…

iTunes Link – Pirate Radar

On deck: Halloween C@rds

Free Codes: Facebook & Twitter iGift4U

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Paying for “gifts” on Facebook is duuuuumb!! For the price of one Facebook gift you can give as many as you want through iGift4U. You can also post YouTube videos, and oh yeah it works with Twitter, too.

iTunes Link – Facebook & Twitter iGift4U

On deck: ShowGirl (Entertainment)

A or B

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A or B is currently on sale for free (normal price $.99)

What do u call a guy who dumps a girl for her friend?
A) Genius
B) FAT JERKY SLIMEBAG

My wife is cheating on me with an old high school love she met on FACEBOOK.
A) Should I just divorce her
B) Should I divorce her AND publish all the chat logs I recorded without them knowing to all her (friends)

These are two actual questions I found in A or B, a two-choice-only polling app that is apparently a great place to anonymously air out your dirty laundry! Not all of the questions are this juicy… in fact, most of them are pretty mild… but it’s a pretty fun time waster.

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Free Codes: Silly Songz, Part III

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Last week I put a whole lotta Silly Songz codes out there in the wild and you guys snapped ‘em all up, so Spazzles has sent over another round!

iTunes Link – Silly Songz