Snap a photo of the item you want to sell, write a short description, and set a price. Sounds familiar, right? After soft-launching in Italy where it was incubated, Depop gets its official launch today with an iOS app that, at first glance, is the spitting image of other “flea market” mobile apps. However, the company says that its ultimate competitor is probably Ebay, while it also has vintage…
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Depop Is Another Flea Market For iOS But Also Has Sights Firmly Set On Etsy 0
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Skype iPhone App Updated, Supports Multitasking, Scraps 3G Service Charge 0
July 21st at 2:42pm / GigaOM / 0 opinionsSkype has updated its iPhone application, making it compatible with iOS 4. The free communication app, which was originally released back in March of 2009, can now be run in the background thanks to iOS 4 multitasking capabilities. And 3G service charges have also been scrapped.
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Glu Mobile launches Britney Spears: American Dream 0
May 18th at 7:43pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsGlu Mobile, the maker of games like “Kim Kardashian: Hollywood”, “Deer Hunter”, and “Diner Dash”, is today unveiling another celebrity-branded game. This time, we’re taking a caricatured look into the life and times of pop queen Britney Spears with “Britney Spears: American Dream.”As with these types of games, the exact goal is unclear.
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Apple expands Apple ID two-step verification to more countries 1
February 21st at 9:31am / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsApple on Thursday rolled out its two-step authentication system, including verification via SMS, for Apple ID users in Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Spain.
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The Best Roguelike Games On Mac & iOS 0
April 18th at 9:00am / Cult of Mac / 0 opinionsIf you love to game, and you’ve never played a roguelike, shame on you. You can hardly call yourself a gamer at all.
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Wanna get paid $5 for iPhone photos? Foap makes it easy 0
June 27th at 7:00am / GigaOM / 0 opinionsFoap is a Swedish company started by travel industry veterans disappointed in the availability of stock photo art. Their elegant and easy app lets anyone upload and sell iPhone photos. It also lets stock art shoppers request specific photos through a concept called “missions.”
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Hangouts 10.0 is improving its sharing capabilities on both Android and iOS 0
June 2nd at 9:42pm / Macworld / 0 opinionsAndroid users will see support for the direct share feature, while the iPhone app now supports universal links for access to Hangouts from other apps.
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Jelly Q&A App Gets a “Good” Button for Marking Useful Questions 1
February 27th at 3:48am / The Next Web / 0 opinionsBiz Stone’s Jelly app for sharing photos to get answers from your friends has gotten a minor update that lets you mark a question as “Good” to improve its reach. Previously, you could mark responses as Good, but this now extends to questions....
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6 Coffee Apps to Help You Savor Every Sip 0
April 29th at 11:53pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsCoffee is just a means to an end for some; it's a way to wake up and stay that way. But to others, coffee is a way of life, an art form, a drink to be savored with each sip. Here are six of our favorite apps for coffee making and drinking. Although coffee and technology haven't always been a great match (think pourover coffee fanatics who do everything by hand), at April’s Specialty Coffee Association of America Expo in Boston, a new piece of tech was what generated the most buzz.
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5 Free and Essential iPhone Games 0
July 30th at 10:32am / The Next Web / 0 opinionsI have to admit that I don’t have an iPhone, but I’m addicted to my iPod Touch. In fact, I’m pretty sure that it’s the adult version of a DS…
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Netflix's iPad app now supports Picture in Picture multitasking 0
June 14th at 9:29pm / The Verge / 0 opinionsYou can now watch shows and movies from Netflix while doing other stuff on your iPad. Today the company rolled out an app update that takes advantage of the Picture in Picture feature of iOS, which lets you shrink videos down to a smaller window and use another app at the same time. Netflix says the new functionality supports compatible iPads running iOS 9.3.2 â the latest version â and beyond....
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With $96.7M In Funding, Powa Technologies Debuts PowaTag For Mobile And Audio-Triggered Commerce 0
March 4th at 5:43am / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsPowa Technologies, a UK-based e-commerce startup that has raised nearly $100 million in outside funding in the last seven months, is today finally taking the wraps off its flagship product: PowaTag, an e-commerce app that combines elements of mobile payments, QR Codes and audio recognition to provide an all-in-one solution for brands and retailers to target customers in different physical and…
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Rockmelt Abandons Social Browser, Launches New Web Feed and iPhone App 0
April 11th at 9:14pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsRockmelt has discontinued development on the desktop version of its social browser and pivoted to release a new Web version of its social feeds and a redesigned iPhone app with @mentions and hashtags....
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10 Best Creative Apps of 2010 0
December 30th at 1:32pm / The Next Web / 0 opinions2010 has seen some really inspiring creative apps become available and here’s our round-up of some of the best. We’re not including expensive pro software here, just mobile and web…
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Get the most out of America's largest July 4 fireworks shows with your iPhone 0
July 4th at 5:11pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsSome of the biggest Independence Day fireworks displays in the U.S. also sync with special iPhone apps, enhancing the spectacle with sounds and visuals on your smartphone to celebrate the Fourth of July. Here's how you can take advantage of these free apps, as well as some camera enhancement apps that will allow you to take better fireworks photos.
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CloudMagic's new cards link your inbox to Evernote and other apps 1
March 11th at 7:49pm / The Verge / 0 opinionsUnlike other email apps, CloudMagic's goal isn't to help you reach inbox zero. Before today, its standout feature was an incredibly quick search function. "Once you use CloudMagic's lightning fast search to get to your emails quickly, you'll find yourself spending less time sorting your email and more time being productive," reads the Android app's description. Instead of taking after Mailbox's obsessive quest for a clean inbox, CloudMagic aims to help find what you're looking for — and do it faster...
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Wikimedia Commons’ new iOS and Android apps make it easier to donate photos to Wikipedia 0
April 29th at 6:58pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsIf you’ve ever wondered where all those images come from when perusing Wikipedia, the answer likely lies in Wikimedia Commons, a project set up by the Wikimedia Foundation to create an online repository of license-free images and other media files....
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FX Photo Studio HD: An iPad app bursting with effects and filters 0
April 5th at 6:55pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsUsing the iPad is a beautiful way to showcase photography and with the use of the touch screen, editing images is equally as ideal. FX Photo Studio HD is jam-packed…
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Writers rejoice: Scrivener for iPad and iPhone is finally here 0
July 20th at 9:45pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsYou can finally write your epic geek romance novel on your iPad using Scrivener.
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Burger King to take e-wallet purchasing nationwide with new mobile app 0
March 20th at 4:31am / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsFast food giant Burger King will roll out a mobile app in April that will let users pay for food at more than 7,000 locations in the U.S., expanding on the company's BK Crown Card program already available on Apple's iOS.
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Twitter's #music app for iOS leverages massive user base to recommend new tunes 0
April 18th at 5:04pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsTwitter on Thursday opened up public access the new "Twitter #music" service and corresponding iOS app to its 200 million users, effectively creating an instant social network for music lovers to listen to trending hits, discover new artists and get crowd-sourced recommendations.
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Attachments.me Adds New Features 0
July 14th at 8:55am / The Next Web / 0 opinionsWe recently reviewed the Toronto-based startup Attachments.me, a service which makes it easy to retrieve long-forgotten attachments from your inbox. Since then, they’ve been hard at work adding many new…
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Netflix's speed test tool is now on iOS and Android 0
August 9th at 11:09pm / The Verge / 0 opinionsNetflix launched an internet speed test at Fast.com back in May, and this week it rolled out dedicated apps for the tool on iOS and Android. While the apps are identical to the website, Fast's launch as an app could go a long way toward getting people to use it. And that's a big part of the goal here: the more people using Fast, the more data Netflix has on where internet service providers are doing a poor job....
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Chris Burch & Others Put $1 Million Into Split, An App For Avoiding Your Exes And Others You Don’t Want To See 0
March 26th at 6:23pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsSplit, a newly launched “anti-social” application and competitor to the recently buzzed about app Cloak, is offering yet another way for users to tap into their social networks in order to avoid other people, instead of connecting with them. The app is backed by $1 million in seed funding, which includes an investment from entrepreneur and fashion mogul Chris Burch. (Wonder who…
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EasyJet trials mobile check-ins and boarding passes from its iOS and Android apps in 6 airports 0
May 1st at 4:48pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsBudget European airline EasyJet has added mobile check-ins and boarding passes to both its Android and iOS apps, the latter of which includes Passbook support for iPhone owners running iOS 6 and above....