Once again, Where To? is nominated at the Best App Ever Awards. This time, it’s nominated in a whopping four categories at once. Here are the links to all categories:

• Best Outdoors App
• Best Location-Based App
• Best Augmented Reality App
• Best Travel App

Please take a look and vote for us in all categories! Thanks a lot!

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• business hours
• accepted cards and more

Most importantly, you can benefit from rebates, coupons or other special offers. Those are conveniently displayed with a yellow tag throughout the app.

To provide PowerListings for you, we’ve partnered with Yext, a tech startup based in New York. Yext allows local business owners to easily manage and improve their business listings. Using a single dashboard they can manage not only their listings in Where To? but across dozens of sites like Foursquare, Yahoo Local, Yelp, SuperPages, Citysearch, Yellowbook and more. PowerListings lets merchants fix inaccurate listings across the Web, and update them all at once from one central site.

Howard Lerman, Yext CEO, is delighted to welcome Where To? in the Yext partner network: “Where To? is a great local search app and we’re proud to improve search results with Yext PowerListings so that business owners can take ownership of their information and reach consumers instantly through any local search platform.”

I’m as thrilled as Howard and can’t wait to see the number of PowerListings grow! You will get a much better overview and know what to expect from found places. Combined with the recently introduced Ratings & Reviews feature you can quickly judge whether a particular place is worth visiting. By the way: Don’t forget to share your experience about places you visited! Your fellow Where To? users will be grateful!

A big thanks also goes to all our users who’ve supported us by buying the app and who’ve always been a great source of inspiration with all the feedback we received! We value your trust and will continue to add great new features in upcoming versions.

What a great coincidence that tomorrow, it’s the turn for Where To? to appear in the AppsForSale Advent Calendar. That means, there are two reasons to celebrate with a lovely one-day sale! Where To? is available for just 99¢ (0.79€) from now on until tomorrow. If you haven’t yet downloaded the free Advent Calendar app, don’t wait any longer. Every day until christmas a minimum of 3 apps with discounts of up to 50% or more will be offered.

• Stability and other bugfixes
• Added ratings stars in Augmented Reality mode
• Improved zoom to results: better fill the map
• Disabled Shake to Surprise when map is in compass mode
• Improved display of very wide location images
• Remember On/Off switch for review sharing
• Improved pinch gesture recognition in Augmented Reality mode
• Now requiring iOS 3.1 or newer

Where To? 4.0.1 is now available for download on the App Store.

As always: If you like Where To?, please rate it with every update – it helps us tremendously. Thanks!

“Which restaurant serves the best food?”
“Which hotel offers the best service?”

Where To? now helps to answer such questions. Much requested and new in 4.0 we integrated ratings & reviews. So if you enjoyed an especially delicious meal, time to give praise! Inform your fellows about the doctor’s unfriendly service or let them know that a boutique offers 10% off for purchases over $100.

Where To? collects ratings and reviews from all Where To? users. It also displays reviews from Google users and calculates an average rating for each place.

Also new in 4.0: You can share your reviews on Facebook and Twitter to let your friends know. We’ve created an awesome web microsite with the unique Where To? look & feel. So be sure to share your reviews diligently!

US users will also enjoy enhanced business listings with additional descriptions, images and special offers. More on that in the coming weeks when we officially launch the service.

Finally, we improved the place’s icon or mini map on the details page.

Don’t wait and grab the update in the App Store now. And if you don’t have Where To? yet, now’s your chance to own the best location finder for iPhone. To celebrate the launch of Where To? 4.0, we’re putting it on sale for a very limited time for a shamelessly low-priced 99¢ – that’s 66% off the normal price!

Girl selling Brezn in the Augustiner Tent at Oktoberfest Munich
(pic: constant progression)

To celebrate Oktoberfest, we’ve included a little Bavarian gimmick in the app. I don’t wish to give away too much at this point – just a little hint:

The search feature not only lets you search 700+ categories, 2,400+ brands, your address book contacts and arbitrary locations…

What are your favorite Oktoberfest apps? – Please let us know in the comments. To start with, we recommend iYodl, a fun app to learn the most important Bavarian words (“Ge bring ma no a Maß” etc.) – so you’ll sound like a local in the tent!

Happy searching and Prost!

I recommend using Vodafone. Actually, I tried Movistar (by market leading Telefónica) first – they offer a €10, 100 MB for 30 days prepaid tariff (translated) – but my experience with Movistar/Telefónica was not ideal, to say the least. Internet access was blocked on my SIM card and it took 5 (!) calls to their hotline until they finally found that out – even though the SMS message said I was good to go.

So I went to a Vodafone store. Vodafone offers a prepaid Internet tariff for €3.50 per week. Traffic is unlimited but you’ll be throttled to 128 kbps after 20 MB/day. First, I had to buy a SIM card (XS8 pack) for €9 which basically gives you credit for 2 weeks of Internet usage (that would be €7). The SIM card also has voice calling enabled with 8 cents per minute/SMS.

However, there’s one major catch: You have to activate the Internet option first by texting TPTarjeta to 22521. If you forget this, you’ll surf at a ridiculously expensive tariff. I actually sent the activation SMS but never received a confirmation message ruining my €9 credit in only half a day… (and don’t even try to get a reimbursement for that!). So my advice is to let the sales rep activate the Internet option for you right at the shop.

For larger downloads or if you’re mainly staying at a single place, it makes sense to resort to a café or pub with Wi-Fi which is very common in Spain. Usually you’ll get the (static) Wi-Fi password at your first order and are able to use it later on if you walk by again

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Another new feature is the ability to create new contacts based on the current location. You can also add the current address to any existing contact. (Feature available on iOS 4.0 or newer.)

Finally, a warning is now displayed if the selected directions app (such as Navigon, TomTom or MotionX GPS drive) is not available for the current country. A handy App Store button lets you download the appropriate version of the app for the current country. Please note: If you buy a directions app from within Where To?, you’re supporting its further development by a small commission of your purchase (your price is of course always the same).

Bug fixes and improvements:

• Improved: Augmented Reality animation performance
• Fixed: business hours after an unforeseen server change
• Fixed: Default directions app can now be saved again, also for MotionX GPS drive
• Fixed: business hours: Bolded line for the current weekday was wrong sometimes
• Fixed: Don’t play Augmented Reality intro sound if sound effects are disabled
• Fixed: Various bug fixes and improved stability

Don’t wait and download the update on the App Store.

A big thank you to all our users! With your support you helped to continuously improve Where To? over all these years! Here’s to another 3 awesome years!

To celebrate the first three years on the App Store, Where To? is on sale for 99¢ (66% off its regular price) until Sunday! Make sure to grab a copy today!