There are hundreds of thousands of iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad apps for just about everything — so how come the one you need, the one you know just has to be there, is so hard to find? Enter TiPb’s new weekly feature where staff and readers alike sort through the App Store and help you find just the right App for That. This week, George asks:

Next Month, I’m going to a YouTube gathering in London called Summer In The City. As its a YouTube gathering there is going to be alot of video taking. However, I’m only going to take my 16GB iPhone (and clothes and stuff), so was wondering if there was an app that would let me store the videos when I ran out of room, as I can’t put it on a computer or anything.

To see what we found for George, follow along after the break!

Dropbox [Free - iTunes link] is the perfect solution for George! Dropbox is an iPhone and iPad apps that allows users to upload videos, as well as other files, that can later be accessed from a computer or other iOS device.

A free dropbox account provides 2 GB of space (with incentives to increase that). If George is concerned about space, he can subscribe to the 50 GB or 100 GB plan. They are priced at $10/mo and $20/mo, respectively, but he can cancel his subscription after returning from his trip and transferring the videos to his computer.

Anyone else have any App for That suggestions for George? Let him — and all of us — know.

Having trouble finding what you need in the app store? Send us an email to iosapps@tipb.com and let us know what you’re looking for, and we’ll do our best to find you just the right App for That!

Every week a few of us from team TiPb will bring you our current favorite, most fun and useful App Store apps, WebApps, jailbreak apps, even the occasional accessory, web site, or desktop app if the mood strikes us. As long as they're iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch related, they're fair game.

To see what we picked, and to tell us your pick, follow on after the break!

Tapatalk – @Alli_Flowers

If you’re reading this review on TiPb, you probably read the TiPb forums too. And you’ve probably tried perusing the forums on your iPhone…which is admirable, but can be a a less than pleasant venture.

Tapatalk gives you the large screen experience on your iPhone’s small screen. Not just a mobile view, Tapatalk has to be activated on the forum server – and it’s been activated on TiPb. So when you view the TiPb forums from Tapatalk, you see everything you would from the desktop, but neatly arranged rather than just squished into a smaller space.

You can choose to view avatars, and they will appear in tiny thumbnails above the posts. Of course, Tapatalk gives you the option to turn them off. I rather like having the avatars on. I recognize them and know who’s posting from viewing the picture.

Do you view only certain sub forums? You can choose just the ones you want to see. I prefer to read all new, and there’s an option for that as well. Anything you can do from the desktop, you can do through Tapatalk. The latest update even gives you all the moderation options, so I can zap spam from anywhere!

Tapatalk comes with a wide variety of forums listed. You just have to navigate to the one you want. I’m hoping that at some point they add in a search feature to make it faster to go straight to the forum you want. Available for both Android and iPhone, you can read all the forums you want, provided their admins have activated the Tapatalk plugin.

[$2.99 - iTunes link]

HulloMail – @chrisoldroyd

One of the frustrations of moving your iPhone from the O2 network in the UK, is that it is currently the only network to support Visual Voicemail. Vodafone, T-Mobile, Orange and 3 all skipped this really nice feature. So what are your options? Well HulloMail does a really good job of filling the gap. It is basically Visual Voicemail with loads more additional features.

The HulloMail iPhone app offers an easy way to manage your voicemails visually, send, receive and share voicemails, instant voice messaging to mobile and email, no matter which operator you use. There are two versions of HulloMail, a free version which is ad supported and a paid version which costs $6.99 a year. The paid version gives you some extra features like an ad-free service for a year, individual greetings, longer voicemails of up to 5 minutes and priority access to more features in the coming months.

If your network does not support visual voicemail, give HulloMail a try, it is an excellent voicemail management tool.

[Free - iTunes link] [$6.99 - iTunes link]

AirDrop – @iMuggle

Ok, it isn’t an iOS app but it’s still awesome. This past week I’ve been digging through Mac OS X Lion more and more. AirDrop is one of my absolute favorite features. I bought a new MacBook Pro recently and I prefer syncing my devices to that instead of my iMac since I always have it with me. AirDrop easily allowed me to copy certain pictures, files, and other items I want on my Pro quickly and easily.

The interface is dead simple. All you do is drag the item you want to transfer to another Mac to their circle and they accept the transfer. Easy as can be. I can see myself using this a lot at home when family or co-workers need to transfer files quickly. Dropbox is great but for quick access to files you need on your hard drive, AirDrop is a much better solution that’s built-in.

[$29 for Mac OS X Lion - Mac App Store link]

Tweetbot / Birdbrain – @sethclifford and @llofte

Leanna – Now with push notifications, my favorite Twitter app of all time is even better! I haven’t been using Tweetbot exclusively because of lack of push, but now that it’s here, I’ve deleted all other twitter apps from my phone. Such a great Twitter app!

Seth – I’m doing a Twitter Two-Fer this week, mostly because they’re apps that other writers have either chosen as previous picks of the week, or covered in reviews already. However, they’re both getting heavy use from me this week, and they’re both useful.

Tweetbot, as everyone knows already thanks to Leanna, is a gorgeous Twitter app made by Tapbots, who are collectively responsible for some of the nicest looking apps in the App Store. I wasn’t sure how I felt about it initially when it launched because I felt like there was too much shoved into the interface, even though some of it was hidden in cool, little easter-egg-y ways. I’ve since changed my tune, as the recent addition of Twitter push and my tiring of the native Twitter app coincided this week and I gave Tweetbot another look. It is solid. I’m still finding cool little functions as I play with it, and the UI makes complete sense to me now. As with so many things in life, sometimes you just need to walk away and give something a second look later to truly appreciate it.

Birdbrain is an app that Ally reviewed a long time ago, and it hasn’t had a ton of updates since then, but I love using it regardless. It’s basically a statistics dashboard for your Twitter accounts, showing you all kinds of useful stuff: followers, who you follow, replies, retweets, et. al. in the frame of changes over time. So you can see a chronological history of your Twitter activity and perform all kinds of actions from within the app relating to your account. If you’ve turned off the Twitter email follow notifications (and who hasn’t at this point?), it’s a cool way to see what’s changed on your account and who’s currently listening to you spew nonsense into the void that is the interwebs.

Both great apps, especially in tandem. Have at ‘em.

[Tweetbot - $2.99 - iTunes link] [Birdbrain - $2.99 - iTunes link]

Deadly Exchange – @reneritchie

You might have heard about this new podcast we’re doing, Superfunctional, which is all about dealing with the wrist, neck, and other pain we geeks are often prone too, including using cool stuff like standing desks and Vibram shoes (of course!). The host of the show, Geoff Gluckman, likes to say that if we get ourselves functional, feed our bodies the motion they crave, and move through our lives, we’ll be able to sprint across the street when we’re 90. I plan on taking him up on it and finding out.

Geoff has another side to him, however — he’s an author and his novel, Deadly Exchange, is now available on iBooks and Amazon Kindle. I’ve just bought. If you’re looking for some summer reading and like spy thrillers, give it a try. It can be like a book club. Only totally disorganized.

[$2.99 - iTunes iBooks link - Amazon Kindle link]

Command & Conquer Red Alert for iPad – @skeetobite

My pick of the week is Command & Conquer Red Alert for the iPad. This is a real time strategy game, where you undergo a variety of missions with various objectives. As you progress through the levels, you get more skilled units to asset in your objective. Starting out is easy – you have simple tasks and relatively little opposition. You move your pieces around the board and try to outmaneuver, outthink, or just out-muscle you opponent (although I have found that luck is limited in the long run). As you progress through in campaign mode, however, it becomes more and more difficult. The large iPad screen makes this game easier to play (easier to control your units) as well as visually more appealing. As an added bonus, there are multiple game play modes as well – I was mostly playing campaign mode, but there is also a multiplayer mode (for head to head action). There is also a skirmish mode for a quick battle. I have found myself spending too much time this week with this strategy game – it’s one that can suck you in easily!

[$4.99 - iTunes link]

Pocket God – @applecpugeek (Reader’s Choice)

I just love Pocket God so much! It is very very addicting and fun. In the game, you basically try to kill pygmies or save them from getting killed. The pygmies like us playing with them, so now it seams like mean is the new fun! My favorite mini game in Pocket God is the underground runes.

[$0.99 - iTunes link]

Your pick?

You're part of the team as well, so we will be choosing one reader to make a submission each week! Just look for the announcement on twitter or our Facebook page each weekend for a chance to be picked! In the meantime, jump into the comments and let us know your pick of the week!

Touch Expense, by MobiApps, is an iPhone application designed for tracking your expenses.

Touch Expense is an innovative and easy way to put your daily expenses. Insert and tracking your daily expenses has never been faster and enjoyable.

• Navigate between days easily through the dynamic calendar control;
• Enter your expenses with an innovative slider;
• Optimized for iOS 4 and Retina Display;
• Categorize your expenses with icons ready for use;
• See your monthly expenses based on categories through a pie chart;
• Multi language.

I’m not sure how I feel about the UI for entering in expenses. You must slide your fingers up (and down) the big circular sliders to enter the amounts – the left one is for dollars and the right one is for cents. Having a keypad pop up would be faster, in my opinion. The look of the UI, however, is really neat and makes me want to get used to the entry method. In fact, the look reminds me of my favorite weight tracking app, Weightbot.

Touch Expense is available on the iPhone for $1.99. Screenshots after the break.

[iTunes link]

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The new, longer 90 second iTunes music previews seem to be finally rolling out internationally. They aren’t available on all songs yet, and in my testing of the Canadian iTunes Store, it seems hit in miss as to whether you’ll get them or not, but at least some songs are going the full 90 seconds.

After a November 2010 notification to record labels Apple originally switched to 90 second previews in the US back in December of last year. Why it took that email so long to reach beyond American borders is unknown, as is how long it will take to fully roll out now that it has begun.

In an effort to crowd source this, let us know if you’re seeing the 90 second previews, what country you’re in, and whether or not the 90 second previews are everywhere or just on a few songs.

Do you want to add NFC to your iPhone 4? If you do, there is now actually a way to do it; but it is not for the feint hearted. NFC is an acronym for Near Field Communication. NFC enables you to pay for items by waving an enabled card or phone in front of an NFC enabled credit card terminal. There is no need to input a pin number or sign anything; it is all done with a wave of your phone. NFC has been widely rumored to feature in the iPhone 5 too.

NFC is currently available on certain Android handsets and now you can add it to your iPhone 4 too; if the jealousy is just too much to bear. According to Unplggd, all you need is one of the new credit cards from your bank that supports NFC; it should have a logo on the card that looks similar to a WiFi logo. Some banks call these cards Tap & Pay.

Once you have the card, all you need to do is remove your iPhone 4 back panel, position the credit card behind the battery then replace the back cover. You now have an iPhone 4 with NFC payment capabilities. The glass back apparently does not interfere with transactions and it can even work when you have a case on too.

Now I do not know why you would ever want to risk opening up your iPhone 4 to do this. NFC is hardly a killer feature yet. I don't think I have ever seen it being used in the UK. Also the additional pressure this may put on the glass rear panel worries me greatly. This could stress the glass making it much more susceptible to cracking. Is anyone remotely interested in giving this a try?

[Unplggd]

 

According to M.I.C. Gadget, those iPhone 5 cases we caught a peak of earlier in the week are pretty much “everywhere” in China.

What we are hearing now is that the Chinese case makers are distributing their iPhone 5 cases.

Again, we won’t know for certain what iPhone 5 looks like until Steve Jobs or another Apple exec holds it up on stage this fall, but these manufacturers certainly seem confident enough in their knowledge of Apple’s iPhone 5 plans to risk their money on producing mass quantities of these Skittle-colored cases — with the mute switch on the “wrong” side…

TweetFire – a Twitter client with Speed and Push Notifications – is now available for iPhone.

TweetFire was built with speed and performance in mind. Are you tired of other clients that take forever to load and try to download all of your data at once? TweetFire is perfect for you! Fast loading and smart refreshing means that you can navigate Twitter at lightning speed.

• A unique interface giving you shortcuts to all your favorite views in Twitter.
• Shortcuts for Home Timeline, Mentions, DMs, Favorites, New Search, and User Profile view
• Add more shortcuts for User Timelines, Searches, and Lists
• NATIVE PUSH NOTIFICATIONS for mentions and other Tweeps you want to follow in real-time.
• Multi-account support
• A comprehensive URL scheme so other apps can interact with TweetFire
• Flickr integration for posting pictures and tweeting them
• A bunch of other photo sharing providers
• Instapaper for saving links to tweets and urls
• Kik Messenger for sharing tweets and urls with other Kik users
• Deep Favstar.fm integration for viewing Favstar pages and awarding “Tweet of the Day”
• Other sharing options for Facebook, Pinboard, Read It Later, Email, SMS, etc.
• Save Tweet and DM as Draft, with images
• Instagram integration
• One tap search
• One tap user profile view
• Quickly add users to lists
• Add other people’s public lists to your home screen

I haven’t had the chance to try out TweetFire, yet, but I’ve seen many great things said about it on Twitter – particularly that it’s blazing fast. With a name like TweetFire, it better be!

TweetFire is available on the iPhone for free. Screenshots after the break.

[iTunes link]

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Calendar with Alarm is an iPhone calendar app that, well, lets you set alarms.

Never miss an appointment again! CalAlarm is an elegantly designed user friendly calendar that adds an alarm to your appointments, so that you are no longer committed to the two short standard calendar beeps.

• Easy and quick navigation through days and weeks and years.
• Quickly add/edit multiple alerts.
• Copy events.
• Set defaults for new events.
• Custom week numbers.
• Distinguishes calendars with the same name but of different type.
• Lists upcoming and overdue alarms.
• Repeats continuously till acknowledged.
• Snoozes with variable intervals.
• Customize Quick Alert values, Snooze screen and birthdays alarms.
• Choice of 25 alarm sounds.
• Customizes sounds for different calendars.
• All CalAlarm alarms on/off switch.
• Sets local notifications.
• Works with all calendars that use the iPhone calendar database (iCal, MobileMe, Exchange, CalDAV, Google calendar, etc.).
• Syncs with these calendars.

It drives me crazy that the iPhone’s native calendar only allows two alerts for an event. For entries that require more alerts, I normally add them to MobileMe in iCal on my Mac. Calendar with Alarm seems like a much better solution.

Calendar with Alarm is available on the iPhone for $1.99. Screenshots after the break.

[iTunes link]

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Annoyed by Google+’s constant stream of email notifications and wondering where and how to turn them off? It’s amazing how the next generation of social network feels the need to pollute our inboxes with massive amounts of old school email, but not to worry — it’s easy to shut off. We’ll show you how after the break.

Here’s how to de-clutter your inbox from the deluge of Google+ emails.

1. Log into your Google/gmail account.

2. Hit the gear icon at the top right and choose Google+ Settings from the drop down

3. Uncheck everything imaginable (or at least everything you find annoying.)
4. That’s it, you’re done.

If you have any other Google+ tips, or tips for avoiding email “bacon”, let us know!

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