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Phind Is Shazam For Location — Snap A Photo, Pull In All The Info, Book Stuff 1
May 6th at 1:23am / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsYou find yourself travelling abroad or in a strange city and need to work out where you are and what’s around you, What do we all do? It’s a familiar process. You take out your smartphone and open multiple apps: Foursquare, Yelp, Maps, Wikipedia, Trip Advisor etc etc. The list goes on. After perusing multiple channels of information, you’ve basically lost plenty of time at…
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Twitterrific Now Takes Advantage Of Apple’s 64-Bit A7 Processor 0
October 3rd at 4:44pm / Cult of Mac / 0 opinionsTwitterrific, arguably the best third-party Twitter client for iOS right now, has been updated to take advantage of the new 64-bit A7 processor built into the iPhone 5s. It was one of the first Twitter clients to embrace iOS 7’s new design guidelines, and it appears to be the very first to support Apple’s new processor, too.
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Circa Raises $750K From Group Including Lerer Ventures To Revolutionize Mobile News Delivery 0
January 19th at 9:03pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsWe’ve learned today that mobile news delivery company Circa has raised another $750K on top of the $900K raised previously. The company launched its app of the same name, which allows you to follow an often-changing story in bite-sized chunked, only three months ago. A few more big names have joined in this up-round, including: Lerer Ventures, Advancit Capital, Menlo Talent Fund, Alex Bard…
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Coppertino launches Loop cloud music storage, Google Docs and Slides for iOS get direct image capture 0
May 13th at 11:11pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsCoppertino on Wednesday launched a new cloud music locker called Loop, while Google updated its Docs and Slides iOS apps to enable inserting freshly-snapped photos.
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BranchOut Launches Talk.co To Expand From Networking Into A WhatsApp For The Workplace 2
October 8th at 5:23am / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsBranchOut’s professional network cratered when Facebook muted its virality. Today the $49 million-funded startup is hedging its bets with the launch of Talk.co, a mobile-first web, iOS, and Android messaging app for coworkers that looks Yammer and WhatsApp’s white-collar love child. Talk.co ditches Yammer’s passive news feed for a list of message threads that get your colleagues to respond faster.
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TV Guide Mobile for iOS 0
October 2nd at 3:00am / Macworld / 0 opinionsTV Guide has earned cred in television listings—the company has produced a printed guide of TV show listings since 1953. However, the way we watch TV has changed quite a bit since then, and the app that bears the company’s name attempts to keep up with the times. If you like a traditional list-type guide to find what’s on, TV Guide’s free app is a solid choice. The app makes it easy to find what’s new and if streaming versions are available, though its social features lack in comparison to other TV...
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Apple Updates Its WWDC App With 2015 Conference Details, Apple Watch Support 0
May 27th at 8:43pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsApple has today updated its dedicated mobile app for its Worldwide Developers Conference, beginning on June 8. As in previous years, the app will provide attendees with access to information on upcoming sessions, news, venue maps and videos. But this year the app does something else, as well: It works on the Apple Watch.
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From Mobile Game To E-Book To Kids’ TV Show: Ustwo Spends To Keep Whale Trail Flying 0
October 10th at 4:43pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsLondon-based app developer/digital UI studio ustwo’s psychedelic Whale Trail mobile game has racked up more than 3.68 million downloads across Android and iOS since being released in October 2011. The app has also just broken even. For its next trick ustwo wants to turn Whale Trail into a kids’ TV show.
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EyeTV Mobile offers live TV on your iOS device 0
December 14th at 10:10am / Macworld / 0 opinionsElgato Systems, the maker of a number of well-received “digital media” hardware products, has introduced EyeTV Mobile, an antenna-based system that lets iPad and iPhone users watch live TV over the air, even if they don’t have Internet access....
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Yandex Launches Yandex.Radio, A Curated Free Music Service For Russian Users 1
June 4th at 1:03pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsAmid reports that Russia will be one of the first countries to get access to the new music service that Apple is reportedly launching next week, Russian search giant Yandex is enhancing its own. Today it announced Yandex.Radio, an ad-supported streaming music service that provides around 100 ready-made “stations” to users organised around moods and themes, initially available…
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Best New Apps: Frax HD 1
October 15th at 9:09pm / The Verge / 0 opinionsFrax HD is intimidating at first. It's all about fractals; visualizations of complex mathematical equations that twist and turn to create beautifully strange images. The technical explanation is enough to make your head hurt, but thankfully you don't really need to understand any of that. All you need to know is that Frax HD is an incredible tool for crafting bizarre and fun landscapes. There are 42 different landscapes you can interact with — and close to 200 if you splurge for the "pro" upgrade — and...
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Online video giant Dailymotion updates iOS app with a fresh UI and better playlist organisation 0
December 20th at 2:46pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsThe French video sharing site Dailymotion has unleashed the latest version of its app for iOS, hot on the heels of its Android update earlier this month....
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5 can’t-miss apps: ‘Mean Girls: The Game,’ Formulas and more 1
June 14th at 5:05am / Mashable / 0 opinionsThis week's list includes a tower defense game based on 'Mean Girls' and a photo editing app that automates photo effects.
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Microsoft Brings Remote Desktop App To Android & iOS 1
October 20th at 10:24pm / Cult of Mac / 0 opinionsAs promised, Microsoft has released its official Remote Desktop app for Android and iOS to coincide with the launch of Windows 8.1. The app is free to download and use, and just like the many third-party remote desktop clients, it…
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Felix is First App.net Mobile App to Add Private Messaging 2
January 4th at 11:25am / The Next Web / 0 opinionsApp.net, the ad-free social network founded by Dalton Caldwell, introduced private messages for its users last month, and now Felix has become the first mobile app to take advantage and ship with the feature....
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Google imitates Spotify and adds a free tier to its Play Music streaming service 1
June 23rd at 11:45pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsApple Music won't be available for another week but music listeners now have a new free streaming service to consider: Google's Play Music.
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Play an instrument? You might like Sheet Music Direct’s updated iPad app 0
October 23rd at 5:48pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsSheet Music Direct, one of the leading distributors of digital sheet music, has introduced a number of key updates to its popular iPad app....
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Cooliris Updates Its iOS App, Pulling In Pics From More Sources 0
November 28th at 12:00am / The Next Web / 0 opinionsCooliris, the media sharing app focused on helping share photos, videos, and an assortment of other content, has just updated its iOS application, now with more sources where users can pull photos from. On top of this, the company has announced that there have been over 250 million photos viewed on its platform....