The popular app AroundMe has just posted a new update.  This one includes:

• Show the compass on iPhone 3GS
• Setting for Units and Temperature
• New theme “Black & White”
• Support for Facebook posting
• Improved detail view
• Minor bug fixes

For those that haven’t used it before, the app is pretty cool.  It asks for your location, then presents a list of options (Banks, Gas Stations, etc).  Choose a category, and it’ll show a list of the locations nearest you.  From there, you can get information about the establishment, and even get a map from your current location to help you get there.

The app remains free, and is one that virtually every iPhone should have loaded on it.

AroundMe posts a nice new update is a post from: iPhone App Tips

The new Yelp 3.0 app is pretty slick, with a handful of new features.  The best one, however, is undocumented — a very slick augmented reality view.

We talked about augmented reality a bit with the Wikitude app a few days ago, but Yelp is the first US-based one we’ve seen.  To access it on the app, shake the phone a few times and you’ll enable a feature called “the Monicle”.  This will show the world through your camera, and overlay locations of nearby restaurants, bars and other businesses.

It’s really more cool than useful, but it’s fun to play with.  Here’s a quick video that shows how to activate it:

I expect we’ll see many more of these types of apps in the near future, so it should be an exciting year.

Yelp sneaks some augmented reality on your phone is a post from: iPhone App Tips