With work, stress or Netflix binges, achieving the perfect amount of shut-eye can be difficult. Here are 10 smartphone apps to help you turn off your brain.
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Goal-Tracking And Self-Improvement App Lift Adds Personal Coaching, Raises $1.1M More 1
December 16th at 7:03pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsLift, the mobile app incubated by Twitter co-founders’ Obvious Corp., launched last year to help people build healthier habits and achieve their goals by offering a simple way to track your progress while supported by a social community who provide pushes, motivation and positive reinforcement to keep users on track. Today, Lift is expanding its set of support options to focus on…
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Misfit Debuts The Flash Link, A $20 Activity Tracker That Also Controls Apps And Smart Home Devices 0
July 16th at 5:03pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsFor a company like Misfit, which got its start as the maker of an attractive health and fitness monitoring device that women would actually like to wear, it may no longer be enough to be just another Fitbit competitor. That’s why the company has been more recently expanding its product lineup to include a range of connected devices, including also a sleep monitoring system and…
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Ex-Twitter and Medium exec Jason Stirman launches Lucid, a mental training app for athletes 1
May 16th at 9:23pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsJason Stirman is part of a select group of early Web 2.0 builders in Silicon Valley. He was there at the beginning of Twitter, jumped to with Ev Williams to Obvious Corp and then Medium and is now working on a passion of his – mindfulness for athletes.His new app, Lucid, launches in the App Store today and lends advice and mindfulness meditations from expert sports coaches who train…
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5 Mobile Apps for Seasonal Allergy Sufferers 0
April 13th at 2:17pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsWith April showers, come May flowers and for many, May flowers also come with itchy eyes, runny noses, sneezing, and general pollen-induced misery. Seasonal allergies are...
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The Apps Updated for iOS 4 0
June 21st at 9:30pm / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsApple's iOS 4 has arrived, bringing multitasking and more to iPhones and iPod Touches everywhere (iTunes willing). Here are the apps that already take advantage of the new OS, and some that should be hitting the App Store soon. In the App Store NOW: • Dropbox - Sync your Dropbox files in the background. • Evernote - Download and upload notes in the background, and continue recording voice notes while you're messing around in other apps. • Zagat • LinkedIN • How To Cook Everything • Trapster...
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Daily App Deals: Get USB Disk for iOS for Free in Today’s App Deals 0
January 30th at 10:30pm / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsThe Daily App Deals post is a round-up of the best app discounts of the day, as well as some notable mentions for ones that are on sale. USB Disk (iTunes) Previously $4.99, now Free. USB Disk for iOS gives you a fast and easy way to transfer documents and images to your device. Features include an easy-to-use document viewer, the ability to drag and drop files in iTunes for transfer, restores your last viewing position within a document, and more. Get it for Free. (via Apps-aholic) iOS Android iOS...
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13 Free iPhone Apps to Make Life Easier 0
September 23rd at 11:01pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsWith hectic days and packed schedules, we could use all the help we can get. Why not let your phone lift some of the burden? Your iPhone can help assi…
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Obvious-backed habit-forming app Lift gets a clever programmatic push notification and Reminders system 0
December 31st at 5:47pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsThe Obvious Co.-backed habit forming app Lift has gotten a nice update today in preparation for the new year. Specifically, it’s gained the ability to Remind you of your specific goals and habits using push notifications....
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Bike, hike, run: 3 apps to take with you outdoors [video] 0
April 4th at 1:33pm / GigaOM / 0 opinionsNeed some inspiration to get outdoors? Spotcycle, AllTrails and WalkTracker Pro are three iOS apps that will do that.
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SmileDrive for Android brings competitive scores, stickers and check-ins to the open road 1
August 7th at 3:08pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsEveryone should enjoy driving, whether they’re heading to the beach with a bunch of friends, taking a late night cruise or a weekend road trip to somewhere off the beaten track....
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Nike releases Move app to turn your iPhone 5S into a FuelBand 1
November 5th at 9:49am / The Verge / 0 opinionsNike+ Move, the fitness-tracking app shown off by Apple at the iPhone 5S announcement event, is now available in the App Store. Move makes use of the iPhone 5S's M7 motion coprocessor, which continuously records movement data from the phone's gyroscope, accelerometer, and compass. The app collates this information to give you feedback about your activity and measures it in NikeFuel, in much the same way as Nike's wrist-worn FuelBand....
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Fitbit Goes Fashion Forward With Tory Burch Partnership 1
January 8th at 2:25am / Mashable / 0 opinionsLAS VEGAS -- Wearable computing devices are definitely one of the standout categories of this year’s International CES. But not all wearables are as fashion forward as we’d like them to be, a problem Fitbit hopes to address via a new partnership with fashion label Tory Burch. In partnership with Fitbit, Tory Burch will develop a fashionable line of necklace and wristband accessories designed to hold the Fitbit Flex.
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RunKeeper's new Breeze app goes beyond workouts to count daily steps via Apple's M7 chip in iPhone 5s 1
April 17th at 7:11pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsRunKeeper on Thursday launched Breeze, its new step tracking app that harnesses the abilities of the M7 chip found in Apple's iPhone 5s. AppleInsider was given an early hands-on with Breeze, and found it's a great way to track activity from the rest of the day, when you're not out for a run.
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Apple Cauterizing HealthKit At Launch Shows How High The Stakes Are 0
September 20th at 8:03pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsLast week, in the fevered cauldron of iPhone 6/6+ reviews, iOS 8 rolling out and shiny new iPhone hardware going on sale it was easy to miss the glitch in Apple’s oh-so-choreographed release matrix: a bug in its new HealthKit develop tool.
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Oral-B’s Bluetooth Toothbrush Offers App Features It Doesn’t Necessarily Need 1
February 17th at 10:03pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsI once posted a lament sparked by the availability of Bluetooth smart toothbrushes, so of course it was only logical for me to review Oral B’s new Bluetooth 4.0-enabled smart toothbrush. The upgraded electric teeth cleaner communicates with an app on your smartphone, receiving programming instructions and settings and sending back data on your history and track record to let you get…
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5 can't-miss apps: Burner, Pause, Sunshine and more 3
October 11th at 4:05am / Mashable / 0 opinionsThis week's list includes the latest party game from Ellen DeGeneres, a meditation app to help you relax and a weather app that crowdsources its predictions.
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20 free must-have apps for dog lovers 0
August 30th at 3:25am / Mashable / 0 opinionsThis is the last dog app guide you'll ever need.
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This Week’s Must-Have iOS Apps: Slices For Twitter, Cardiio, Posts & More 0
August 12th at 6:00am / Cult of Mac / 0 opinionsKicking off this week’s must-have apps roundup is a brand new Twitter client called Slices, which claims to be the world’s first Twitter app that allows you to break your timeline into individual streams, follow live events, browse Twitter by category, and more. We also have a “magical” app called Cardiio that accurately monitors your heart rate simply by looking at your face; the best blogging app for iPad yet called Pages; and more.
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Consmr Goes Mobile, Moves Closer To Becoming Yelp For The Supermarket 0
May 9th at 8:30pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsBack in July of last year, we wrote about a New York City-based startup, called Consmr, which was attempting to build the Yelp, or Rotten Tomatoes of consumer goods. There’s now more web research on consumer goods than ever before, but few resources that use crowdsourced data and social integration to recommend the right product. There are cool sites like Fixya, but opportunity for a service that provides ratings and reviews of consumer packaged goods. At the time, Consmr was just starting out and to ...
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Daily App Deals: Get Note & Share for iOS for 99¢ in Today’s App Deals 1
April 23rd at 9:30pm / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsThe Daily App Deals post is a round-up of the best app discounts of the day, as well as some notable mentions for ones that are on sale. Note & Share (iTunes) Previously $3.99, now 99¢. Note & Share for iOS lets you share text, including links, to any combination of services like Evernote, Twitter, email or SMS. It can also save and sync your notes as text files in Dropbox, and it's big in Japan. Get it for 99¢. (via Apps-aholic) iOS iOS
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Daily App Deals: Get Stress Check Pro for iOS for Free in Today’s App Deals 0
May 9th at 9:30pm / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsThe Daily App Deals post is a round-up of the best app discounts of the day, as well as some notable mentions for ones that are on sale. Stress Check Pro by Azumio (iTunes) Previously 99¢, now Free. Stress Check Pro by Azumio for iOS tracks your stress levels using heart rate variability (HRV) as measured by placing your finger over the iPhone's camera. Get it for Free. (via LogicBuy) iOS iOS
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Track the Spread of Flu With These Apps 2
November 6th at 8:51pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsNo one likes having the flu -- body aches, fever, laying in bed all day, but not everyone does something to prevent it. The Centers for Disease Control recommend people...
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Can Smartphone Apps Break Your Bad Habits? 2
January 28th at 9:05pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsAre behavioral apps really that effective? Read this three-week testimony.
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Download the new issue of The Next Web Magazine: MOVE 0
June 1st at 2:28am / The Next Web / 0 opinionsThe latest edition of The Next Web Magazine is now live. This month we’re looking at fitness, sports and how the latest technological advancements are helping us to track and improve our personal health....