148Apps was started shortly after the iTunes App Store launched by Jeff Scott. This is a site dedicated to getting the word out about the very best in iPhone OS applications through editorial reviews and news. We spend way too much time downloading and using applications to find and review only the very best.
In addition to the reviews and news, we keep track of what’s selling, what’s new and what prices are dropping in the iTunes App Store. We are also on Twitter, Facebook, and Friendfeed.
And we are growing quickly. In November, 2008 we got over 500,000 visits and over a million page views for the first time!
Contacting Us
You can send us an email at review.monkey@148apps.com or catch us on Twitter (@148apps) or on AIM at jeff148apps.
Info on Submitting Applications for Review
You can submit your pay application for review by sending us a promo code for the app. This is the best way as it guarantees it will work.
Pre-release and prototypes are also cool — if you’d like to send us a copy using the ad-hoc distribution method, email us at the address below for details.
However you send us your app, free or paid, send it with a complete description of your application, screen shots, links to videos, etc. to: review.monkey@148apps.com
Note that while we wish we had the time to review every single application sent to us, we do not. We will only review the applications that best fit our editorial guidelines (see first paragraph).
Advertising on 148apps.com
We are currently doing a limited test of selling 125×125 ads through BuySellAds.com. If this works out we’ll expand the offerings in the future. If not, we’ll look for something else. Send us your feedback.
Editorial Staff
Jeff Scott - Editor / Writer
Contact: Email - AIM: jeff148apps - Twitter: @148apps
Tom Hesser - Writer
Contact: Email - Twitter: @scifi_guy - Homepage: http://www.caregiverhints.com
Steven Wong - Writer
Contact: Email
About Promo Codes Given Out on Twitter
Some notes about the codes we give away occasionally on our Twitter stream. For one thing they are single use only and currently work in the US only (Apple decision, not ours). If you enter the code and it doesn’t work, someone else was faster than you were at copying it into iTunes.
To use the codes, paste them into the redeem box in iTunes (Click Redeem Code on the right side menu on the iTunes Store home page). Here’s a direct link that will work for most people to the Redeem Code page.
We post these codes that developers send us at random times and don’t generally give any info on what it is when posting them.
If you are a developer and want us to give out free copies to our anxious followers, just Email us the codes along with a description. We reserve the right to not send out every code we get. We’re getting a lot of them all of a sudden.
And of course this promo will probably end as soon as Apple realize that we are doing this…
Some legal mumbo jumbo from Apple regarding promo codes:
Code expires on [in a few days] and is redeemable only on the iTunes Store for the U.S. Requires an iTunes account, subject to prior acceptance of license and usage terms. To open an account you must be above the age of 13 and in the U.S. Compatible software and hardware, and Internet access (fees may apply) required. Not for resale. Full terms apply, see www.apple.com/legal/itunes/us/gifts.html. For more information, see www.apple.com/support/itunes/ww/.
Why 148 Apps?
148 is the maximum number of applications you can install at once on the iPhone OS device. (9 pages x 16 = 144 + 4 in the static bar at the bottom = 148) But 148 includes the default applications. As of 2.1 that is 19 apps leaving you with 129 installable apps. We know because we tried it! What happens if you try to install more? Nothing, iTunes lets you do it, but they just don’t show up on the menu.
