| A review of the Yarn U app for iPhone, available at the apple iTunes store for $2.99 I installed the app, read the instructions and was ready to go. The first thing that popped up was a list of yarns and miliage, hmmm I thought, milage .... the furthest yarn away was 2,971mi, and the closest was 243 mi. Now before you think I live in the middle of no-where, I don't really, I just happen to be in Canada, and obviously this app is geared towards American residents. Just to make sure I loaded maps, I was the big blue dot in Canada, the yarns were little markers peppered all over the US, no markers to join me at all, in Canada :(, thank good ness for online shopping. The location feature I'm not sure about, obviously it's just set up for the US. The app lists a yarn and pins it's location, for me, here in Canada I can get a lot of the yarn online, and as well some of the yarn listed as 300 mi away is actually here at my LYS. This app is another reason why I miss living in San Francisco. So many awesome things designed for living in the States. Moving on from my geography issues (which of course haunt most Canadians ....) | 
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| The app was really great. There are hundreds of yarn choices, they're listed, pictured, described, reviewed and projects for them are recommended. Definately a great yarn shopping companion. I also love that it's not all obsure yarn in the app, many of the yarns I use myself regularily, so I find the content to be really useful. It is also great that that you can find the yarn, favourite it, make a comment about it and then email the yarn to share your choice with someone else. This way when I'm out buying yarn for hubby's socks (or sweater), I can email him the yarn I've found and get his opinion. Another super useful feature is the app's ability to store a lot of information and provide access to it offline. This is great if you're not in a 4G location or if you don't want to use us your data time with items you've already accessed. Definately an app I'll be using for a while !! PS - Yarn U has a facebook page, you can go there as well to find out more | 
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