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How to find apps using CultofMac.com's App Finder tool.
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welcome to app tap on cult of mac app
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tap is a new service that allows you to
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find and share great apps for your
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iphone and ipad this is a brief tutorial
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to help you get the most out of your app
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tap experience the home page of app tap
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gives you a number of different ways to
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find and discover apps we have a
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powerful search feature you can browse
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by category or you can see what the
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community recommends through top
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recommended apps and apps making it
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round additionally in the happening now
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section on the right you can see what
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the community is exploring in real time
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and you can see what our app gurus are
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expert reviewers think of different apps
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but the real power of the app tap
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experience is the social discovery and
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targeted recommendations features so as
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a first step in getting the most out of
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app tap we recommend that you join app
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tap by logging in with your Facebook
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account this will allow you to see your
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friends apps get personalized app
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recommendations and share your favorite
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apps in your app collection with your
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friends once you've logged into Facebook
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you'll see your profile picture and your
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name and several options the first thing
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you want to do is add in your apps to
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your collection you do that by simply
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clicking the add apps button this will
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prompt you to launch the app collector
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the app collector will automatically
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sync your iphone apps with your app tap
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account once you've done that the number
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of apps in your collection will display
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right here the next thing you want to do
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is to add your friends you do so by
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clicking the fine friends button this
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will find your Facebook friends that are
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also on app tap I have nine friends
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found and I'm following all nine of them
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this allows me now to see all the apps
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in my friends collections as well as any
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new apps that they'll find along the way
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once you're done click on done the more
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friends you have on app tap the better
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recommendations so we encourage you to
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invite your friends at this point app
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tap has the information both your
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friends and the apps in your collection
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to give you the best recommendations
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possible now with your friends under my
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people section in happening now you'll
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be able to see when your friends look at
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other apps what they think of those apps
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and when they share those apps I
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recently saw the movie avatar again and
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I've heard from a friend of mine that
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there was an avatar app from their
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iphone I don't remember exactly what
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it's called so I'm going to sit for
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avatar and it's the first result the
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next experiences see the app detail page
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yeah detail page provides you everything
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you'll need to know to make a decision
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about whether or not you want to get a
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nap we have videos images the
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description and also reviews now I've
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already rated and reviewed this app as
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have two of our appt gurus you'll get a
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brief overview of what they thought of
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the app as well as access to the full
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review on their website if you'd like to
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share this app it's as easy as clicking
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one of the share options and that gets
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posted to your wall purchasing the app
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is also quite easy you have three
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options you can scan the QR code you can
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email yourself a link and download it on
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your phone or you can access the app and
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download it via itunes on your home
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computer
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now that you've added your apps to your
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collection on that tab and you've added
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your friends as well as their apps the
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apt App Engine is giving you the best
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recommendations possible for apps for
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your iPhone and your iPad now it's time
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to discover apps and have fun
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