Users of popular money-sending service Square Cash can now use their iPhone's location services to quickly locate nearby recipients, while fans of Amazon Instant Video will find a number of new user interface enhancements designed to make viewing better.
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Square Cash adds location awareness, Amazon Instant Video gets UI enhancements 0
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Evernote for iOS updated with Skitch support, Shortcuts, Related Notes 0
July 19th at 6:51am / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsIn a substantial upgrade to both free and premium level iPhone and iPad apps, note syncing service Evernote adds synced shortcuts, integration with Skitch for marking up images and PDFs, and a new related notes tool.
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Yandex Opens Its Free Cloud Storage Service For All 0
September 6th at 11:55am / The Next Web / 0 opinionsRussian Internet search and services giant Yandex has dropped the invitation-only policy for its free cloud storage service Yandex.Disk, which offers users 10GB of storage space free of charge and…
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Apple Pay is online, too: Apple Store, others apps accept Touch ID for authorizing purchases 1
October 20th at 11:11pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsThe official Apple Store application was updated on Monday with support for one-touch checkout using Apple Pay and Touch ID, marking the start of the online purchasing capabilities of Apple's new digital wallet service.
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Huddlers wants to take the pain out of organizing sports you play with friends 0
July 23rd at 7:08pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsIf you ever find yourself in an endless maze of ‘reply all’ emails, as you slowly start to regret taking on the organizer’s role for your friends’ weekly game of b-ball, well, Huddlers is here to help....
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Did a New Yorker Cartoonist Predict Today’s Apps in 2009? 0
September 13th at 2:30am / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsThere is an app for just about anything and everything these days. Even back in 2009, a cartoonist for the New Yorker knew what was up. Roz Chast drew "myPhone"—the cartoon marked the iPhone's first appearance in the magazine—for an issue that ran July 27, 2009....
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“Google My Business” App Now Lets Business Owners Respond To Customer Reviews From Their Smartphone 0
October 29th at 9:23pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsGoogle is rolling out an update to its “Google My Business” mobile application designed to make it easier for business owners to view and respond to customer reviews…and, of course, complaints. Where previously the app served as a way for businesses to quickly update their information, post to Google+ and track how visible their business is across Google sites, with these…
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Google to retire Google+ Local for iOS on August 7 1
July 26th at 5:31am / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsIn an email being sent to Google Maps users, the Internet search giant announced that it will be retiring localized dining, shopping and entertainment discovery app, Google+ Local for iOS, on August 7.
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Here’s Every Single iOS App Apple Updated In The App Store Today 2
September 19th at 2:27pm / Cult of Mac / 0 opinionsFollowing the public release of iOS 6 and OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.2 earlier today, Apple has pushed a host of notable updates for many of its additional iOS apps in the App Store. Apps like Podcasts got iCloud sync and iOS 6 support, while smaller updates have been seeded to bring simple iOS 6 compatibility. Other popular apps from the iLife and iWork iOS suites received updates today too. Here’s a list of all the iOS app updates Apple released today:
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Google Drive adds Touch ID support, Swype for iOS goes free, Apple apps get minor updates 2
November 7th at 12:31am / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsAs Apple introduced minor updates to iWork, Beats Music and more, a number of other key updates hit the iOS App Store, including a temporary sale on the popular Swype keyboard from Nuance, as well as Touch ID security and iOS 8 extension support added to Google Drive.
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Amazon dances around Apple restrictions with ‘free sample’ search inside Kindle for iOS app 0
July 30th at 10:48pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsAmazon has released an update to its Kindle for iOS app, and it features (for the first time ever) the ability to search its catalog of books online. This is a departure from the past versions of the app, which forced you to jump out to Amazon’s website to search for or buy books....
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The Emergency Apps Toolbox For Students 0
September 26th at 12:39pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsPersonal safety tends to take a back seat during the school year — when class assignments, part-time jobs and social responsibilities weigh heav…
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Facebook Quietly Tested Games In Messenger But Decided Against It 1
November 14th at 10:43pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsHow is Facebook going to monetize Messenger? Not by featuring games in the app like Korea’s KakaoTalk, at least for now. Instead, Facebook could concentrate on solving new problems with Messenger, like the clumsy touch-tone phone menus and wait times that plague 1-800 number calls to businesses.When I pressed Facebook’s EMEA Director of Platform Partnerships Julien…
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BioBeats Raises Celebrity Seed Funding To Turn Quantified Self Data Into Therapeutic Music 0
August 1st at 8:43pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsNadeem Kassam worked in entertainment before founding health-tracking wristwatch maker Basis Science. Now he’s combining the industries with BioBeats, a startup converts your vital signs into custom tailored music to keep you meditating, running or fighting a disease. Today BioBeats announced $650,000 in seed funding from actor Will Smith, music manager Scooter Braun, and angel Kevin Colleran.
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Starbucks app for iPhone adds Apple Passbook support 0
October 4th at 12:06am / The Next Web / 0 opinionsThe Starbucks app for iPhone has been updated to support Apple’s Passbook, in an integration promised since Apple’s WWDC conference earlier this year. The update was pointed out by reader…
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Apple updates GarageBand for iOS with exclusive RED Loop Pack, available for limited time 0
November 24th at 1:31am / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsApple on Sunday released an update to its GarageBand music authoring app that activates an option to purchase the (GarageBand)RED Loop Pack, an exclusive collections of hundreds of new instrument loops, with all proceeds going to charity.
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Spotify introduces Browse to showcase the best playlists on its service 1
August 5th at 12:08pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsSpotify has made finding music on its service even easier after it introduced ‘Browse’, a feature that surfaces the best of the one billion-plus playlists that it houses....
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This App Identifies Dollar Bills for the Blind 0
October 10th at 8:57pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsA new mobile app helps the visually impaired count dollar bills with the help of a smart…
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Review: iPhone-connected BACtrack Mobile breathalyzer with HealthKit support 0
December 7th at 12:31pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsWith Bluetooth connectivity and Apple HealthKit integration, the BACtrack Mobile Smartphone Breathalyzer for iPhone brings the "quantified self" trend to a new category: alcohol consumption.
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Shutterfly Debuts Its Own Photo Book Maker For iPad, Shutterfly Photo Story 1
August 7th at 7:03pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsPhoto and personal publishing giant Shutterfly, which has been gobbling up startups in recent months, is today launching its second iPad application called Shutterfly Photo Story, which allows you to build photo books on your tablet using photos from your iPad’s Photo Stream, Facebook, Instagram or those uploaded to Shutterfly itself. You can then choose to share those books to Facebook or…
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Check The Weather For iPhone Is a Comprehensive And Beautiful App 0
October 17th at 6:53pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsI’ve been playing with developer David Smith’s new Check The Weather app for a couple of weeks and I finally understand why people like these things. I’m not a huge…
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‘The Love Of Sports’ Wants To Connect Mobile Sportsball Lovers 0
December 15th at 2:03am / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsTechCrunch recently sat down with Avery D’Alessandro to pick over his mobile app, ‘The Love of Sports.’ The application, recently launched, wants to connect sports fans on the go. Its premise is that if you are the social sort of sports-adjacent human, you most likely want to hang out with your friends at the game, or at the bar watching game.Another higher-level social…
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Google Play Books for iOS updated with textbook rental support 0
August 9th at 5:51am / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsGoogle on Thursday updated its iBooks-like Google Play Books port, bringing in-app rentals, highlighting and note taking for scanned books, as well as other features to the iOS title.
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Inviteful Helps You Invite “Humans” To “Events” Where You Can “Chat,” Drink “Coffee” 0
October 23rd at 12:46pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsIn the old days, before Google Hangouts and sexting, kids used to invite each other to events like concerts, stonings, and bear-baitings. Inviteful hopes to bring us back to those halcyon days of dog fights and bare-knuckle, couples-only fistfights by making it easier to invite friends to stuff.
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The reason for the season: affordable tech gifts for kids 0
December 23rd at 5:44pm / Cult of Mac / 0 opinionsKids everywhere are looking to Santa to bring them the hottest tech toys around, including iPhones, iPads, Nintendo 3DSes and Sony PlayStations, but these types of gifts can certainly strain a lowly elf’s meager paycheck. If you’re looking for engaging…