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		<title>Are My Sites Up White Label Helps You Resell Website Monitoring [Freebies]</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 13:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Landon Miller</dc:creator>
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<blockquote><p><a href="http://amsuwl.com/aff/fuelya" target="_blank">AMSU White-Label</a> brings the same power that’s behind Are My Sites Up to you in a way that lets you easily resell it to others and manage it all from a lovingly crafted web interface.</p></blockquote>
<p>So, you&#8217;re a web designer/developer with a list of clients. In these times, we&#8217;re all looking for ways to increase revenue from, and value to our clients. What if you could do both, and keep an eye on your websites and theirs at the same time?  Now you can, and as a bonus, you can increase the effectiveness of your communication with them. Are My Sites Up White Label is a website monitoring service that was built with people like you in mind. It has plans for every budget, and a plan calculator that shows you how much money you can make from it, given a few details like how many sites you have and how much you plan to charge.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2327" title="AMSUWL Dashboard" src="http://www.fuelyourapps.com/files/overall-dashboard.png" alt="AMSUWL Dashboard" width="600" height="300" /></p>
<p>&#8220;Ok&#8221;, you say, &#8220;That covers increasing revenue and value to my clients, but what about enhancing my communication with them?&#8221;</p>
<p>Ah, you&#8217;re speaking of Broadcasts. They allow you to send short messages to all of your clients at once, or just a selected few. Here&#8217;s an example of how they help you to save time: You host email for all of your clients, and your email server has an issue. One by one, your customers realize that their email isn&#8217;t working, and they call you. You answer phone calls all day, saying to each customer that you&#8217;re aware of the issue and that it&#8217;s being worked on. Broadcasts solve this problem by letting you send a message to all of your customers at once, these arrive via Push Notification, SMS, email (and even via personalized, automated phone call) telling everyone what&#8217;s going on at once, so you get back to work.  Pretty awesome.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2330" title="Site Check" src="http://www.fuelyourapps.com/files/site-check.png" alt="Site Check" width="600" height="250" /></p>
<p>So what else is different about AMSUWL? It&#8217;s a full-fledged white label service, so your clients never have to know about AMSUWL &#8211; you can sell the service as if it were your own.  They can even build a custom iPhone app for you with your own logo, icon and colors, so that your brand is always on your clients&#8217; phone screen, or you can use the white label app if you&#8217;d like. Your clients can install the app, log in and see their site status at any time. Clients can also log into the web app and view/manage their sites.</p>
<p>All of their plans have a 30-day free trial so you can start reselling the service and make money from it before they even charge you a cent.</p>
<h2><span style="font-weight: normal;">As a special Fuel Your Apps bonus, the first 25 people who sign up for AMSUWL with the following link</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">, <a href="http://amsuwl.com/aff/fuelya" target="_blank">http://amsuwl.com/aff/fuelya</a> - will get 2 months free! Sound good? We think so!</span></h2>
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		<title>Travel Back In Time With MemoLane! (beta) &#8211; [INVITES]</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 23:21:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.P.</dc:creator>
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<p><strong>Ever wish you could travel back in time?  You know, hop in the silver Delorean like Marty McFly, choose a date, and once you hit 88 MPH, you&#8217;d be instantly whisked away to the date of your choosing?</strong></p>
<p>Well, the folks over at <a href="http://memolane.com" target="_blank">MemoLane</a> haven&#8217;t quite gotten that far, but they have developed a really cool and gorgeous way to view your internet history from some of your favorite internet services. In their own words, here&#8217;s what MemoLane is all about:</p>
<blockquote><p>Memolane captures your entire online life in one timeline making it easy for you to travel back in time and re-live great memories. Whether you&#8217;d like to re-discover your holiday of a lifetime, re-live that great party last week or get all nostalgic about when the kids were little, now with Memolane it&#8217;s easy to keep the memories alive.  With Memolane you can easily view and explore your photos, music, tweets, updates, check-ins, blogs and more from all of your favorite online services in one place. Simply search your history using the Memolane timeline to step back in time and re-live great memories.</p></blockquote>
<p>That&#8217;s a pretty big undertaking, and MemoLane does all of this relatively well.  I was easily able to add my <strong>Facebook</strong>, <strong>Flickr</strong>, <strong>Foursquare</strong>, and <strong>Twitter</strong> accounts to my timeline.  The only hiccup I experienced was with Twitter, but remember, MemoLane is still in beta!</p>
<div id="attachment_2288" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 610px"><a href="http://www.fuelyourapps.com/files/Screen-shot-2010-12-16-at-1.10.37-PM.png"><img class="size-medium wp-image-2288" title="MemoLane Timeline" src="http://www.fuelyourapps.com/files/Screen-shot-2010-12-16-at-1.10.37-PM-600x178.png" alt="The timeline view is a cool way to see what you've been up to." width="600" height="178" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">The timeline view is a cool way to see what you&#39;ve been up to.</p></div>
<h2>Here&#8217;s a breakdown of what MemoLane will let you do:</h2>
<ul>
<li>Capture all your history in one place from your favorite Internet services.</li>
<li>View photos, music, tweets, blogs, checkins, events and much more.</li>
<li>Use a simple timeline to travel back in time with one click.</li>
<li>Add friends, explore their Memolane and share memories.</li>
<li>Explore and search your entire online life in one place.</li>
<li>Search by location, people, events, time and more.</li>
<li>Create Stories and invite your friends to contribute their content.</li>
<li>Make your Memolane public so you can easily share your online memories from Twitter, Facebook and blogs.</li>
<li>Protect your privacy by controlling who can access your Memolane.</li>
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<div id="attachment_2280" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 545px"><a href="http://www.fuelyourapps.com/files/Screen-shot-2010-12-16-at-9.55.12-AM.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-2280" title="Foursquare Check-In Map" src="http://www.fuelyourapps.com/files/Screen-shot-2010-12-16-at-9.55.12-AM.png" alt="The check-in map is cool.  One hiccup - it showed me having checkins off the coast of Nigeria." width="535" height="343" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">The check-in map is cool.  One hiccup - it showed me having checkins off the coast of Nigeria.</p></div>
<p>Again, there are a lot of moving parts here, but MemoLane really works quite well for something still in beta.  We are excited to see what the future holds for MemoLane!  It&#8217;s also definitely worth noting that MemoLane was the winner of &#8220;<a href="http://copenhagen.startupweekend.org/">Startup Weekend Copenhagen 2010</a>&#8220;.</p>
<p>For the time being, MemoLane will be maintaining a &#8220;members-only&#8221; status, but they were kind enough to hook us up with 500 invites!  Jump on over <a href="http://bit.ly/bogub3">here</a>, use the invite code &#8220;<strong>fuel</strong>&#8220;, and you&#8217;ll be on your way, get them till they&#8217;re gone!</p>
<p>A special thanks to <a href="http://memolane.com" target="_blank">MemoLane</a> for providing us with these invites!  Excellent work!</p>
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		<title>Momento &#8211; Your Journal &amp; Online Life in One App</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 02:25:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Landon Miller</dc:creator>
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<p><img src="http://www.fuelyourapps.com/files/momento.png" alt="Momento for iPhone" /></p>
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<blockquote><p><a href="http://www.momentoapp.com" target="_blank">Momento</a> is a unique diary writing app for iPhone &#038; iPod touch, which provides a quick and easy way to record moments throughout your day..</p></blockquote>
<p>A moment is basically a brief post that is accompanied by a photo or group of photos.  You can save each moment with a people, place, or custom tag and rate it on a scale of one to five stars.</p>
<p>One feature that the creators really nailed <img src="http://www.fuelyourapps.com/files/momento-scr.png" alt="Momento Day View" class="alignright" />is the social media integration.  It allows you to quickly and effectively pull in feeds from Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Last.fm, Foursquare, Gowalla, Digg, YouTube, Vimeo, and custom RSS/Atom Feeds.  After adding these feeds, you can then browse a day-by-day view of all your online activity.</p>
<p>Momento makes all these moments and feeds fully searchable.  This means that if you want to find out the last time you checked in at your favorite restaurant or find an old tweet that had something you’d like to reference again it’s only a search away.</p>
<p>There are a few other features definitely worth mentioning.  Momento offers a passcode protection for those interested in keeping a more private journal.  Also, if you’re using an iOS4 device and are afraid of losing the moments you have the option to backup, restore, and export all your data within iTunes.</p>
<p>With such a solid feature set, an absolutely gorgeous interface, and $2.99 price tag I’d have to say that Momento is well worth it.  It’s currently available in the <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/momento/id347019672?mt=8&amp;ign-mpt=uo%3D6" target="_blank">iTunes app store</a> and you can <a href="http://twitter.com/momentoapp" target="_blank">follow Momento updates on twitter</a>.</p>

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		<title>FLUD &#8211; The Sexiest News Reader on the iPad &amp; iPhone</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 13:20:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Landon Miller</dc:creator>
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<p>Four months ago <a href="http://www.behance.net/ghoshal" target="_blank">Bobby Ghoshal</a> was living in Southern California with a couple very talented designers and was inspired to start working on a secret project with <a href="http://www.mausonio.com" target="_blank">Matthew Ausonio</a>.  It wasn&#8217;t long before his living room was covered with whitewashed paper, black and red ink, design books, and crushed up red bull cans.  They worked only during the night to create <a href="http://www.theflud.com" target="_blank">FLUD</a> &#8211; a constant controlled flood of relevant news for each iPad user.  A month later, they released FLUD to the app store for approval that immediately sprung into one of the top three spots of iPad news reader apps accompanied by <a href="http://www.alphonsolabs.com/products" target="_blank">Pulse</a> and <a href="http://www.flipboard.com/" target="_blank">Flipboard</a>.  At four developers strong and currently not benefiting from any investors, they have tripled their user base and continue to push the envelope of relevant news delivery by releasing an iPhone version.</p>
<p>FLUD aggregates content <img class="alignleft" src="http://www.fuelyourapps.com/files/flud-iphone.jpg" alt="FLUD for iPhone" />from various news sources into a beautiful Windows Phone 7 like interface.  The iPhone version is slightly different than the iPad because each feed has its own dedicated screen real estate.  You&#8217;ll notice on the iPad that there are multiple feeds cluttered together on the same screen, but Ghoshal said that they are working on a complete overhaul of the iPad&#8217;s interface and will be pushing it out in early January.</p>
<p>Unlike Flipboard, which depends on your social networks to generate content, FLUD gives you the option to select feeds from their featured list, search the internet to find feeds, or even add them from your Google Reader account.  Currently there isn&#8217;t any Google Reader integration on the iPhone, but this is going to be pushed out along with some bug fixes in the update set for next week.<br />
<img class="alignright" src="http://www.fuelyourapps.com/files/sharing.jpg" alt="FLUD Sharing" /><br />
FLUD also gives you the ability to share interesting articles  with others via Twitter, Facebook, and e-mail.  It comes equipped with a heart icon that allows users to &#8220;Love It&#8221; which is similar to Facebook&#8217;s &#8220;Like&#8221; and lets other Fluders know that the article is worth a read.  This feature also allows you to read an article later &#8211; even if you&#8217;re offline.</p>
<p>Overall, FLUD is an excellent way to catch up on your latest news and discover new articles and feeds.  The FLUD team does have a few bugs to fix with the iPhone including some crazy text that shows up in the feed, but i&#8217;m sure those minor glitches will be worked out in the next update.  The iPad and iPhone apps are available in the app store for free right now and you can stay up to date by <a href="http://www.twitter.com/fludapp" target="_blank">following the FLUD on twitter</a>.</p>

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		<title>Winter Land &#8211; A Board Game For Your iPad!  (Free Promo Codes, Too!)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 17:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.P.</dc:creator>
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<p>Board games are one of those things that have stood the test of time.  Even with iPads, iPods, PSP&#8217;s, DS&#8217;s, etc&#8230;, board games are still very relevant.  And as wonderful as technology is, it can be very refreshing to play a good &#8216;ol fashioned board game every once in awhile.</p>
<p>The folks over at <a href="http://tangoranglabs.com/" target="_blank">Tangorang Labs</a> have just released Winter Land, and we&#8217;ve had an opportunity to try it out for ourselves.  Winter Land costs $1.99, and is solely for the iPad.</p>
<p>We have reviewed <a href="http://www.fuelyourapps.com/abc-look-listen-write/" target="_blank">one other app</a> developed by Tangorang Labs, and the Winter Land experience is pretty consistent with our previous review in terms of quality, presentation, and ease-of-use.</p>
<p>The premise of the game is quite simple:  The first person to get to Santa Claus wins!  You move your character around the virtual board by drawing cards.  Along your way, you may encounter special cards that either help or hinder your journey towards the man in red. Additionally, there are also slides and ladders that will either aid you in moving ahead, or assist you in taking a giant leap backwards.  Picture the classic board game concept of  &#8221;Chutes and Ladders&#8221; or &#8220;Candy Land&#8221; , and you&#8217;ll get the idea.</p>
<p>Overall, this game is very well done.  The animation and graphics are fun, the music is catchy and not annoying, and the game hits a &#8220;sweet spot&#8221; when it comes to length.  If you want to treat yourself to an early Christmas present, head on over to the <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/winter-land/id406123654?mt=8" target="_blank">App Store</a> and grab a copy today.</p>
<p>Finally, in the spirit of the season, we&#8217;re offering three promo codes for a free copy of Winter Land!  Shoot me a Tweet (@jaley) with the hashtag of #fuelyourapps prior to Noon on Sunday (Eastern time), and we&#8217;ll randomly select three lucky people!  Tell your friends!</p>
<p><em>*A special thanks to Tangorang Labs for hooking us up with the promo codes!</em></p>
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<a href='http://www.fuelyourapps.com/winter-land-a-board-game-for-your-ipad-free-promo-codes-too/screen-shot-2010-12-09-at-9-31-25-am/' title='Winter Land'><img width="150" height="150" src="http://www.fuelyourapps.com/files/Screen-shot-2010-12-09-at-9.31.25-AM-150x150.png" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="Winter Land" /></a>
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<a href='http://www.fuelyourapps.com/winter-land-a-board-game-for-your-ipad-free-promo-codes-too/img_0011-3/' title='Winter Land'><img width="150" height="150" src="http://www.fuelyourapps.com/files/IMG_00112-150x150.PNG" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="Winter Land" /></a>
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		<title>Weet &#8211; The Modern Day Tweetie for Mac?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 03:14:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Landon Miller</dc:creator>
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<p>Earlier this year many of us purchased a MacHeist bundle that unlocked a beta version of Tweetie 2 for Mac.  Shortly after that, the big dogs at Twitter acquired Tweetie and developer Loren Brichter &#8211; better known as <a href="http://www.twitter.com/atebit" target="_blank">Atebits</a>.  Since then we have all been in suspense on if we will ever see Tweetie 2 for Mac.  For months I have tried various Twitter clients like <a href="http://kiwi-app.net/">Kiwi</a>, <a href="http://nambu.com/">Nambu</a>, and even <a href="http://mowglii.com/itsy/">Itsy</a>, but&#8230; they&#8217;re not Tweetie 2.</p>
<p>Today the team at Raptor Apps was <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/WeetApp/status/10410919695749121" target="_blank">feeling the Christmas spirit</a> and released a beta version of Weet for Mac.  They are also the creators of <a href="http://weetapp.com/" target="_blank">Weet for iPhone</a> which was released a few months back.  It&#8217;s currently available on iTunes for 99 cents.  Now I have obviously only been using Weet for Mac beta for a short while today, but I can see it definitely has potential of becoming a big player among the other Mac Twitter clients.  It&#8217;s minimalistic, clean, and well-polished even for a beta.  Weet comes packed with some of the more modern Twitter features and also adds a few others like muting users and blocking keywords.  The one thing that did throw me off with Weet is its inline tweet box.  I like the touch but you&#8217;ll notice that there is no submit or tweet button.  You&#8217;ll have to click Command + Enter to send your tweet.  The other option is in the General preference pane and allows you to send a tweet by pressing Enter.</p>
<p>While in beta it&#8217;s currently free and I&#8217;m not sure what the final price tag will look like or the date of an official release.  Check out the screenshots and then <a href="http://d.pr/gnxZ" target="_blank">give it a try for yourself</a> &#8211; let us know what you think.</p>

<a href='http://www.fuelyourapps.com/weet-the-modern-day-tweetie-for-mac/mute/' title='Weet for Mac - Mute &amp; Keyword Block'><img width="150" height="150" src="http://www.fuelyourapps.com/files/mute-150x150.png" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="Weet for Mac - Mute &amp; Keyword Block" /></a>
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		<title>Delibar touch &#8211; Social bookmarking for iPhone</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Nov 2010 13:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Landon Miller</dc:creator>
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<blockquote><p>Delibar is a tool for searching, managing and storing your bookmarks on the cloud. Browse, tag, edit your bookmarks everywhere with Delibar for iPhone.</p></blockquote>
<p>A little over a year ago Chad Engle <a href="http://www.fuelyourapps.com/the-last-delicious-app-youll-ever-need/">wrote a post on Delibar</a>, a <a href="http://www.delicious.com/">Delicious</a> Mac client.  If you are unfamiliar with Delicious (formerly del.icio.us), it is a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks.  It was founded in 2003 and then acquired by Yahoo! in 2005.  Delibar has also added support for <a href="http://www.pinboard.in/" target="_blank">Pinboard</a>, if you aren&#8217;t a big Delicious bookmarks fan.</p>
<p>Personally, I have found that installing the <a href="http://www.delicious.com/help/tools" target="_blank">official Delicious extensions</a> for your browser of choice is the easiest route for creating new bookmarks.   However, having an app like Delibar touch is really nice for managing bookmarks on the go.  The setup was quick and painless and the interface makes it easy to navigate your way through the app.  An added bonus is that Delibar will open a bookmark within the application so it doesn&#8217;t require switching back and forth between mobile Safari.  Although it&#8217;s labeled for the iPhone, it is compatible with most iOS devices. I am secretly hoping they will release a separate iPad version in the near future.</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Add/Edit/Delete bookmarks</li>
<li>Multi-account support</li>
<li>Global search across all your bookmarks</li>
<li>Friends bookmark  access</li>
<li>Ability to save searches</li>
<li>Navigate bookmarks by tags</li>
<li>Safari mobile integration (via bookmarklet)</li>
</ul>
<p>Delibar touch for iPhone is <a href="//itunes.apple.com/us/app/delibar/id398475945?mt=8">available on iTunes</a> for $1.99.  Follow <a href="http://twitter.com/delibarapp">@delibar</a> on twitter.</p>
<h3>Screenshots</h3>

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		<title>An App That I&#8217;m Thankful For</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Nov 2010 03:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.P.</dc:creator>
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<p>Today is Thanksgiving.  A time for remembering what and who you are thankful for.  I&#8217;m thankful for family, friends, health, etc&#8230;  But we&#8217;re about apps here, so let me share my Thanksgiving app story with you.</p>
<p>Yesterday evening, we began our 400-mile or so trek east, to the great state of Ohio.  This journey is really not too difficult, aside from the usually snarled traffic in Chicago.  To complicate matters, last evening, the weather in Chicago was reported to be lousy: rain, sleet, potential snow, heavy winds.  Include with this, the fact that it&#8217;s supposedly the busiest travel day of the year, and you have a recipe for a traffic nightmare.</p>
<p>Avoiding this traffic situation really is impossible.  But, there&#8217;s strength in knowing exactly <em>where</em> and <em>when</em> to expect the traffic snarls.  I decided to give INRIX Traffic! a try, which is available as a free app in the <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/inrix-traffic/id324384027?mt=8">app store</a>.  As you might have guessed, INRIX Traffic! was developed by INRIX, Inc.  I tested out the iPhone version, but they also offer up an iPad and Android version of their app.</p>
<p>I found this app to be really surprisingly good.  That&#8217;s not a slap at the folks at INRIX &#8211; quite the contrary.  Considering the fact that this is a free app, I had somewhat low expectations on usability, appearance, and accuracy.  I was really surprised &#8211; and did I mention the app is free?</p>
<p>Usability &#8211; This app is very usable.  It just makes sense.  I only tested the free features (there is a Pro version available within the app), but they all made sense.  Speaking of the Pro version, if you want to make that jump, it will set you back $9.99 for a year of Pro membership, or if you are a more long-term commitment type of person, there is a lifetime version available for $24.99.  Pro membership will give you additional features, such as enhanced commuting information and traffic cameras.  All of that sounds really nice, but honestly, the free app is pretty solid.</p>
<p>Appearance &#8211; I have seen some pretty ugly apps in my lifetime, but this is not one of them.  The real place where appearance matters in these types of apps is the maps; and INRIX Traffic! does a nice job at displaying maps, traffic conditions, and other potential incidents, construction zones, etc&#8230;</p>
<p>Accuracy &#8211; All of these cool features are useless if the app isn&#8217;t accurate.  INRIX Traffic! was extremely accurate on our Ohio-bound journey.  Traffic jams were accurately reflected, and construction zones were spot-on.</p>
<p>Also worth mentioning is that users can submit accidents, construction zones, &#8220;live police&#8221;, etc&#8230;  I&#8217;m not completely clear on how this is verified, and I didn&#8217;t want to become too distracted while driving!</p>
<p>Overall, I highly recommend this app for your next journey.  It does exactly what it says, and does it quite well.  And, in case I didn&#8217;t mention this before &#8211; the app is free!</p>
<p>Happy and safe travels!</p>

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		<title>ABC:  Look.  Listen.  Write.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:28:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.P.</dc:creator>
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<p>When I first purchased my iPad on launch day, I was very optimistic.  <em>This</em> was the device that was going to help me read more books, carry less laptops, and &#8211; *cough cough* &#8211; watch more <a href="http://www.netflix.com" target="_blank">Netflix</a>.  And in many ways, the &#8220;magical&#8221; iPad has delivered on that promise.  For some strange reason, I do find myself reading more books, I will only bring my iPad with me on Thanksgiving, as opposed to a full-fledged laptop, and I definitely watch more <a href="http://www.netflix.com" target="_blank">Netflix</a>!  What hadn&#8217;t occurred to me is that this thing could be a really good educational tool for our three boys, too.</p>
<p>So, my 4-year old and I decided to browse the iTunes App Store one fine morning, and came across <em>ABC:  Look.  Listen.  Write. </em>We decided to make the $1.99 plunge, and purchased the 67.6 MB app.</p>
<p><em>ABC:  Look.  Listen.  Write. </em>was developed by <a href="http://www.tangoranglabs.com/" target="_blank">Tangorang Labs</a>, a self-described &#8220;team of semi-domesticated orangutans dedicated to spreading the fun through original and innovative mobile apps for the iPhone and iPad.&#8221;  I took a brief look at their site (which is rather cute), and they offer several other apps as well.</p>
<p>Anyway, we sat down and started our <em>ABC:  Look.  Listen.  Write.</em> adventure.  And for the most part, it was a fun journey.  Whenever I review educational apps, I like to look at the functionality, and of course, what kind of educational value the app offers, but just as important, I try to pay careful attention to the &#8220;independence&#8221; factor, too.  For example, my 4-year old doesn&#8217;t read yet, but that didn&#8217;t stop him from being able to figure out how to get started with this app, thanks to the simple splash screen accompanied with a very obvious &#8220;Start&#8221; button.</p>
<div id="attachment_1943" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 266px"><img class="size-full wp-image-1943  " src="http://www.fuelyourapps.com/files/4.PNG" alt="It doesn't get much easier than this." width="256" height="384" /><p class="wp-caption-text">It doesn&#39;t get much easier than this.</p></div>
<p>Once you enter the app, it really is quite easy for a child to figure this process out.  The whole alphabet is presented to you, and the helpful voice prompts tell you to touch on a letter to get started.  Again, that all important &#8220;independence&#8221; factor!</p>
<p>After deciding which letter to tap on (that was easily a 2-3 minute process for us), you have several options available to you.  Initially, the screen will show you the letter you selected, a picture of something that represents that letter, and the lovely voice prompts will read to you as well (&#8221;K is for Knight&#8221;, etc&#8230;).  You can tap the speaker icon to hear the voice prompt again, tap the arrows to navigate through other letters, tap the pencil to enter the &#8220;tracing mode&#8221; (more on that in a minute), and there is also a home button that will return you to the letter selection screen.  So far, so good!</p>
<p>The &#8220;tracing mode&#8221; feature of this app is pretty well done.  It&#8217;s nothing fancy, but it doesn&#8217;t need to be, does it?  You are given a simple outline of a letter, and with just the dragging of a finger, you can trace that letter over and over again.  You can clear the screen to start over, tap the speaker to hear the letter and word combination again, navigate through other letters, flip back over to the word/picture combination screen, and head back to that letter selection screen.  Easy-peezy!  And, perhaps most importantly, this app was able to harness my son&#8217;s attention for over 10 minutes &#8211; which is quite an accomplishment.</p>
<p>There are a few improvements, to the &#8220;tracing mode&#8221; in particular, that would make this app even better.  My son can easily trace within the outlines of a given letter, but he doesn&#8217;t necessarily do it in the right order.  Some directional arrows of some sort would be a helpful addition for teaching kids how to create letters, rather than just learning how to outline them.  Also, when you are in trace mode, my son became frustrated because at times, when he attempted to trace a letter, he pressed one of the navigational buttons by mistake, which switched him to a different letter.  I don&#8217;t know exactly how to improve upon this, and it may have been the way he was holding the iPad.  One item that I found somewhat humorous was the words that were sometimes chosen to represent a given letter.  Maybe I am not as refined as I should be (maybe I need to read more books on my iPad), but when I think of the letter &#8220;F&#8221;, I think of &#8220;Flag&#8221;, or &#8220;Firetruck&#8221; &#8211; <em>not Film Noir. </em>I still chuckle at that one!</p>
<p>But overall, I found this to be a really solid app, and I highly recommend <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/abc-look-listen-write/id403187144?mt=8">giving it a try</a>.  $1.99 perhaps is a little pricey, but with a few refinements, I think that price would likely be well worth it.  Kudos to that team of semi-domesticated orangutans!</p>

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<a href='http://www.fuelyourapps.com/abc-look-listen-write/attachment/4/' title='Splash Screen'><img width="150" height="150" src="http://www.fuelyourapps.com/files/4-150x150.PNG" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="It doesn&#039;t get much easier than this." title="Splash Screen" /></a>
<a href='http://www.fuelyourapps.com/abc-look-listen-write/attachment/2/' title='The Letter F'><img width="150" height="150" src="http://www.fuelyourapps.com/files/2-150x150.PNG" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="&quot;Film Noir&quot;?  How about Firetruck?  Farm?  Flag?" title="The Letter F" /></a>
<a href='http://www.fuelyourapps.com/abc-look-listen-write/attachment/1/' title='Tracing Mode'><img width="150" height="150" src="http://www.fuelyourapps.com/files/1-150x150.PNG" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="Here&#039;s what Tracing Mode looks like." title="Tracing Mode" /></a>

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		<title>Foodspotting &#8211; snap a photo, share and eat</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 03:52:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Landon Miller</dc:creator>
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<p>I&#8217;m guilty of this as much as anyone &#8211; taking photos of my food to share with friends on Facebook or Twitter.  In fact, my first photo of 2010 was on January 1st of two biscuits and a piece of bacon on a plate simulating a smiley face.  The team at <a href="http://www.foodspotting.com/">Foodspotting</a> describe their app as a visual guide to good food and where to find it.  It answers the question &#8220;What&#8217;s good to eat around here?&#8221;</p>
<p>Foodspotting allows you to take a photo of your food and uses your phone&#8217;s GPS so that you can tag where you&#8217;re eating it.  After taking the photo you can choose to share it with other foodspotters or your Facebook, Flickr, and Foursquare friends automatically.  Others viewing your photos can then &#8220;Nom&#8221; them if they&#8217;ve tried something you posted and loved it.  Whenever someone compliments, wants, or noms a food that you have spotted you will earn tips.</p>
<p>Overall, I think that Foodspotting is not only a great app for sharing my foodie photos, but also for those days that i&#8217;m traveling.  Usually when I&#8217;m traveling to a new place, I have no idea where to go and it&#8217;s nice to see a picture of the food instead of just an address and rating.  The app is free and is currently available in the <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/foodspotting/id350727118?mt=8">iTunes app store</a>.  According to the website there is an Android version in the works, but until then they have a pretty snazzy web app to go along with it.</p>
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		<title>Bounce – A fun and easy way to share ideas on a website</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 22:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adelle Charles</dc:creator>
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<p>The guys from <a href="http://www.zurb.com/" target="_blank">Zurb</a> just launched a <strong>free version</strong> of notableapp.com called <a href="http://www.bounceapp.com/" target="_blank">Bounce App</a>.</p>
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		<title>Ring in 2010 With a Google Wave Invite &#8211; Winners Announced!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:03:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Olson</dc:creator>
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<p><strong>Just comment on this post with your new years resolution is going to be. We will choose 10 random comments and the winners will be picked Friday, January 8th, 2010.</strong></p>
<h2>I love it when everyone&#8217;s a winner!!!</h2>
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		<title>Best of 2009 in the App Industry</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Olson</dc:creator>
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<p>2010 is coming up on us faster than the Millennium Falcon made the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Star_Wars_planets_%28K-L%29#Kessel">Kessel Run</a>. Taking a step back and sifting through mountains of data, we&#8217;ve compiled a list of this past years biggest contributions to our industry. So without further ado, here are&#8230;</p>
<p>THIS YEAR&#8217;S BIGGEST APP STORIES&#8230;</p>
<h2>Location-Based Apps</h2>
<p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1642" title="gowalla" src="http://www.fuelyourapps.com/files/gowalla.jpg" alt="gowalla" width="600" height="300" /></p>
<p>Apple&#8217;s iPhone has opened up a whole new market for developers with location-based apps. So it&#8217;s really no surprise that 2009 gave us more than our share of these little gems from an end-user standpoint. But as developers, it&#8217;s given us an opportunity to become millionaires with the stroke of a pen. Gowalla, based in Austin, Texas is valued at nearly <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/14/gowalla-worth-nearly-30-million-after-financing-time-to-make-your-move-facebook/">$30 million dollars</a>, and when reading posts <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5B15VO20091202">like this</a>, where IAC CEO, Barry Diller is sitting on $2 billion (yes, that&#8217;s a b) looking for valuable web properties to purchase, we are very excited to see what the next year will bring.</p>
<h2>User Experience</h2>
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We don&#8217;t like hearing the word &#8220;trend&#8221; when it comes to User Experience as it makes it sound as if it will come and go, and UX is surely here to stay. User Experience, User-Centered Design, Interaction Design,  or whatever term you prefer, 2009 helped those of us who may not have understood it&#8217;s importance, drink the proverbial kool-aid and embrace it as an early necessity when developing and designing.</p>
<p>In the book, &#8220;The Brand Gap&#8221; author, Marty Neumeier describes brand as, &#8220;&#8230;a person&#8217;s gut feeling about a product, service, or organization.&#8221; User Experience Design uses this same type of philosophy, and in 2009, those of us not already riding the UX train, jumped on board.</p>
<h2>Web Fonts, CSS3 and HTML5</h2>
<p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1637" title="typekit" src="http://www.fuelyourapps.com/files/typekit.jpg" alt="typekit" width="600" height="300" /><br />
Fonts on the web have been a thorn in the side of web designers and developers since the early days of the web. If you wanted to use typefaces other than Arial, Verdana, Times New Roman, etc., you were out of luck unless you wanted to create an image and use it in place of fonts. Then came font image replacement techniques like Scalable Inman Flash Replacement (<a href="http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/sifr/">sIFR</a>) in 2005 and we&#8217;ve even seen some server-side dynamic image creation using ImageMagick in the early 2000s. In 2009 we saw a resurgence of this trend but now we are giving credit where credit is due by licensing the fonts. Sites like TypeKit and Typotheque offer these services and we hope to see a lot more sites embracing the concept.</p>
<p>Even though a final release still hasn&#8217;t been announced, we saw designers and developers taking advantage of CSS3 and HTML5.  Safari 4 and Chrome have the most feature support last I heard, with Firefox close behind.  The latest version of IE has a long way to go before they catch up. Most notable of the group is Safari Mobile, iPhone&#8217;s web browser, which makes iPhone App development pretty slick. When you can use CSS animations and transitions to mimic a native iPhone app and coupling that with the OpenSource <a href="http://phonegap.com/">PhoneGap</a>, you can develop mobile applications that will run across multiple mobile platforms. The neat thing about using strictly browser-based technologies to develop your mobile applications (mostly iPhone) is that you can modify the browser elements of your application without having to go through Apples approval process when versioning, just update your mobile site.</p>
<h2>1,000,000,000 Downloads</h2>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1653" title="billiondl" src="http://www.fuelyourapps.com/files/billiondl.jpg" alt="billiondl" width="600" height="300" /><br />
On April 23, 2009, Apple&#8217;s App Store reached 1 billion downloads, only having launched a mere nine months prior. This story could make a best of 09 list for the sheer shock value alone. But the reason it makes our list is because of Apple&#8217;s financial agreement with app developers and other potential income generating items like in-app advertising.</p>
<p>iPhone App developers earn 70% commission on every app sold which is really an amazing commission considering the App Store is the only place you can peddle your (iPhone) wares, and the massive amount of advertising Apple does to promote it&#8217;s store is a win-win.</p>
<p>In-app mobile advertising is a more slippery slope to consider. But if you&#8217;re offering your app for free, it&#8217;s certainly a revenue generating path to consider.</p>
<h2>Social Networking</h2>
<p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1659" title="social" src="http://www.fuelyourapps.com/files/social.jpg" alt="social" width="600" height="300" /><br />
2009 saw an explosive surge of Social Networking apps, enhancements, and opportunities. From Facebook&#8217;s iPhone app and site enhancements, a gazillion Twitter apps from mobile, to browser to Adobe Air. It seemed as if there would be no end to how many ways we could share information between each other and even from one social medium to another. APIs, OpenID, OpenSocial, and OpenSource. These tools made 2009 an awesome year to be a developer.</p>
<p>Social Networking isn&#8217;t an app, it&#8217;s not even a technology. It&#8217;s a concept, and it dominated every aspect of our lives in 2009. I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m going out on a limb when I say that we&#8217;re at, what Malcolm Gladwell would call, a &#8220;Tipping Point&#8221;.  2009 showed us as designers and developers that Social Networking is obviously here to stay and I can&#8217;t wait to see what 2010 will bring us.</p>
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<p>What did you think of our list? What do you think should have made the list?  We want to hear from you!!</p>
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		<title>Say Hello to: Pastebot</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:11:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad Engle</dc:creator>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://tapbots.com/pastebot/"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1628 aligncenter" title="Screen shot 2009-12-15 at 8.05.17 AM" src="http://www.fuelyourapps.com/files/Screen-shot-2009-12-15-at-8.05.17-AM-600x411.jpg" alt="Screen shot 2009-12-15 at 8.05.17 AM" width="600" height="411" /></a></p>
<p>I had the unique pleasure of beta testing this app and I am extremely excited this app is finally in the appstore and I can talk about it. Pastebot is a new way to command copy and paste on the iPhone. It allows you to save your clipboard history with images, text, emails, tweets, links or whatever else you desire. Both Mark &amp; Paul did an extremely amazing job on Pastebot &amp; I think its one of the most functional apps I have ever used on my iPhone to date.</p>
<p>Some of the features on Pastebot include:</p>
<ul style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 20px; list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; padding: 0px;">
<li style="list-style-type: disc; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Save, organize, and edit text &amp; image clippings with ease.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: disc; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Search capabilities and folders for organization.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: disc; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Apply text &amp; image filters like “find &amp; replace” on text or convert an image to black &amp; white. 14 filters total with more on the way.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: disc; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Create new text clippings within the app.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: disc; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Create a new image clipping from your iPhone camera or import from your photo library.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: disc; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Useful metadata like image dimensions, character/word count and creation date.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: disc; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Copy items back to the iPhone/iPod clipboard with 1 tap.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: disc; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Send clippings as emails within the app or save images back to your photo library.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: disc; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Push text and images from your Mac to Pastebot instantly over wifi**</li>
<li style="list-style-type: disc; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Paste text and images to your Mac from your iPhone or iPod Touch instantly over wifi**</li>
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<p>Hop over to the appstore and get yourself a copy of Pastebot because its an amazing little app that you are going to want to use again and again.</p>
<h2>More Info:</h2>
<h2><a href="http://tapbots.com/pastebot/">Site</a> | <a href="http://twitter.com/tapbots/">Twitter</a> | <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id344614116?mt=8">iTunes</a></h2>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 06:57:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad Engle</dc:creator>
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<p>Whenever you need to implement a facebook fanpage for yourself or for your business the first thing you want to do is customize it. So you changed your profile picture and added some details about the brand or the person but, it&#8217;s still the same page as everyone else. Luckily there is an app called Static FBML (Facebook Markup Language) that you can add to your facebook fanpage. This allows you to make some customizations to a specific page but isn&#8217;t a full blown application so anyone that can use some HTML can do it. So in order to see what you can do with this app on a facebook page I selected a few resources as well as some great examples of good static FBML usage. You should install FBML <a href="http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=4949752878">here</a>.</p>
<h2>Resources:</h2>
<h3><a href="http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Fb:fbml"><span style="color: #000000;">Facebook Developer Wiki</span></a></h3>
<p>The developer Wiki has everything you need for making a page with FBML. They have tons of resources, API&#8217;s, dev resources and more.</p>
<h3><a href="http://fbmlstarter.riaforge.org/"><span style="color: #000000;">Facebook Starter Kit</span></a></h3>
<p>This kit gives you a &#8216;hello world&#8217; template for building ColdFusion applications for Facebook. It is very much a barebones project, enabling you to easily modify and add to it and use it in the way you like to build ColdFusion applications. This is deliberate; its purpose it to get you passed the first hurdle of dealing with facebook, leaving the application framework design up to you.</p>
<h3><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/josephscott/fbml-facebook-markup-language"><span style="color: #000000;">FBML &#8211; Facebook Markup Language</span></a></h3>
<p>A nice little slide rocket presentation about FBML. A quick crash course or a good starting point.</p>
<h3><a href="http://www.snipe.net/2009/06/fb-fanpages-fbml-box/"><span style="color: #000000;">Static FBML: Not Every Facebook Fan Page Needs an Application</span></a></h3>
<p>An article about using Static FBML vs. Regular FBML which is also a great case study from the designer of the Sunkist soda facebook fanpage. It provides some really good content and some really good rules of thumb. Also, it</p>
<h3><a href="http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596519193"><span style="color: #000000;">FBML Essentials</span></a></h3>
<p>Do you have an idea for a Facebook application? With <em>FBML Essentials</em>, you&#8217;ll learn how to build it quickly using the Facebook Markup Language (FBML) and other easy-to-use tools in the site&#8217;s framework. This book not only gets you started with this toolkit, you also get a complete reference on every FBML tag Facebook has ever written, with advice on the best ways to use these tags in your code.</p>
<h3><a href="http://www.adobe.com/devnet/facebook/articles/iframe_fbml_flash_platform_comparison.html"><span style="color: #000000;">Comparing Flash iFrame and FBML Facebook applications</span></a></h3>
<p>A table from adobe that summarizes the differences when creating your Flash Platform application as an iFrame or FBML Facebook application. The two most significant differences are the ability to control the embedding of a Flash object and the ability to access scripts.</p>
<h2>Examples:</h2>
<h3><a href="http://www.facebook.com/sunkistsoda">Sunkist Soda</a></h3>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/sunkistsoda"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1613" title="Sunkist Soda | Facebook" src="http://www.fuelyourapps.com/files/Sunkist-Soda-Facebook-600x715.jpg" alt="Sunkist Soda | Facebook" width="600" height="715" /></a></p>
<h3><a href="http://www.facebook.com/teamtwilight">Twilight</a></h3>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/teamtwilight"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-1601" title="Twilight | Facebook" src="http://www.fuelyourapps.com/files/Twilight-Facebook-607x1282.png" alt="Twilight | Facebook" width="607" height="1282" /></a></p>
<h3><a href="http://www.facebook.com/Southwest">Southwest Airlines</a></h3>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/Southwest"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-1600" title="Southwest Airlines | Facebook" src="http://www.fuelyourapps.com/files/Southwest-Airlines-Facebook-607x991.png" alt="Southwest Airlines | Facebook" width="607" height="991" /></a></p>
<h3><a href="http://www.facebook.com/Nissan">Nissan</a></h3>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/Nissan"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-1599" title="Nissan | Facebook" src="http://www.fuelyourapps.com/files/Nissan-Facebook-607x1004.png" alt="Nissan | Facebook" width="607" height="1004" /></a><a href="http://www.fuelyourapps.com/files/Mountain-Dew-Facebook.png"></a></p>
<h3><a href="http://www.facebook.com/mountaindew">Mountain Dew</a></h3>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/mountaindew"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-1598" title="Mountain Dew | Facebook" src="http://www.fuelyourapps.com/files/Mountain-Dew-Facebook-607x905.png" alt="Mountain Dew | Facebook" width="607" height="905" /></a><a href="http://www.facebook.com/honda"></a></p>
<h3><a href="http://facebook.com/honda">Honda</a></h3>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/honda"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-1597" title="Honda | Facebook" src="http://www.fuelyourapps.com/files/Honda-Facebook-607x882.png" alt="Honda | Facebook" width="607" height="882" /></a><a href="http://www.fuelyourapps.com/files/Harley-Davidson-Motor-Company-Facebook.png"></a></p>
<h3><a href="http://www.facebook.com/harley-davidson">Harley Davidson</a></h3>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/harley-davidson"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-1596" title="Harley-Davidson Motor Company | Facebook" src="http://www.fuelyourapps.com/files/Harley-Davidson-Motor-Company-Facebook-607x736.png" alt="Harley-Davidson Motor Company | Facebook" width="607" height="736" /></a><a href="http://www.facebook.com/DunkinDonuts"></a></p>
<h3><a href="http://www.facebook.com/DunkinDonuts">Dunkin&#8217; Donuts</a></h3>
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