All you iPad users can now banish Apple Maps into that folder you never open because Google Maps 2.0 has been released and adds support for the iPad and iPad Mini. That means BIG MAPS HELL YEAH....
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Google Maps Now Works with the iPad and Has Better Navigation 0
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Chrome for iOS Now Lets You Share Pages on Facebook and Twitter 0
August 22nd at 11:33pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsGoogle has announced its first update to Google Chrome for iOS, adding the ability to share pages from the browser directly on your favorite social n…
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Cirqle Debuts A Photo-Sharing App For Groups That Works Offline 0
October 6th at 8:23pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsA mobile application called Cirqle – no, not that Circle or that one either – launched last year as a way for users to share and collaborate on photo and video collections in groups, both public and private. Now Cirqle is rolling out version 2.0, which introduces an interesting new feature: offline mode. That means users can now share and collaborate on photo sets via Bluetooth…
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Superfly brings its smart travel planning tech to hotel bookings, with a new iOS app 0
July 18th at 8:08pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsSuperfly, a service that takes your personal itineraries, receipts and frequent flyer balances into account to recommend the best flight booking options, has today expanded into hotels by way of a new app....
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Clever Connect: T-Mobile Trials Mobile VoIP Service 0
September 3rd at 1:16pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsLast October, we reported that T-Mobile’s Bobsled service, a VoIP communication platform that initially allowed smartphone owners to call their Facebook friends from their mobile device, had expanded to provide…
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GoldieBlox, The Toymaker Trying To Get Girls Hooked On Engineering, Goes Digital With New iOS App 2
October 16th at 9:03pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsGoldieBlox, the San Francisco Bay Area startup focused on building toys for girls aimed at getting them hooked on engineering, has this morning taken its first steps into the digital realm with the debut of a new iOS application – the company’s first – GoldieBlox and the Movie Machine, as well as a “digital playground” called Bloxtown.com.The new app works as…
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Glasses.com for iPad: Test Glasses on Your Virtual Head Before You Buy 0
July 23rd at 2:10am / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsS We've become a lazy, lazy people. If there's two things that really bring us together, it's an irrational demand for instant gratification and a desire to have as little face-to-face interaction as is humanly possible. Now on the one hand, this is probably the beginning of society's grand demise. But on the other, doing things sucks! So we might as well give in to fate and enjoy sweet, sweet laziness while we can. Which, thanks to glasses.com's new app, now included eyewear shopping....
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Feedly's mobile app updated with new look to take on the likes of Flipboard 0
September 10th at 8:00pm / The Verge / 0 opinionsFeedly's mobile app is a solid tool for checking out your Google Reader, Facebook, and Twitter feeds on the go, and its latest redesign attempts to merge that ability with the look and feel of social reading apps. Available today on both iOS and Android, the updated version of Feedly features a new look akin to apps like Flipboard, with an emphasis on a clean interface and big, bold images. By combining this with the relative flexibility of RSS, the developers believe that the app now offers the best of...
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Reserve wants to be like Uber for dining out, with help from Uber's cofounder 0
October 28th at 7:05pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsReserve, an app that launched Tuesday, promises to change how users choose restaurants, make reservations and pay for their meals.
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Djay 2 launches for iPad, Nike+ Running gains fitness challenges 0
July 25th at 6:51pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsThe successor to Algoriddim's Djay app hit the App Store on Thursday, while Nike's Nike + Running app got new tracking and bragging rights features in the form of Nike+ Challenges.
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Box Accelerator supercharges the service's upload speeds to twice that of Dropbox 0
September 17th at 1:00pm / The Verge / 0 opinionsCloud storage and collaboration company Box today launched Box Accelerator, a new technology that will increase the speed of uploads to the service by up to ten percent. In Washington D.C., for example, accelerated uploads to Box were four times faster than uploads to Dropbox and twice as fast as uploads to Google Drive. In Tokyo (which is much farther away from Box HQ) uploads to Box were more than ten times faster than uploads to both Dropbox and Google Drive. Box doesn't yet offer a file-syncing...
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Google Maps overhaul coming to iOS with new 'material design' look, OpenTable reservations 1
November 5th at 9:11pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsGoogle announced on Wednesday that its popular Maps platform, including the free downloadable iOS application, will receive a major update in the near future, including a new look and new features, such as the ability to make restaurant reservations through OpenTable without leaving the app.
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Moped adds Google sign-in and Dropbox’s file chooser to its enterprise messaging service on the Web 0
July 29th at 9:28pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsMoped is updating the Web version of its business-focused messaging platform today with deeper Dropbox integration, giving users the ability to select and share files stored through the cloud-based storage solution without ever leaving the site....
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CanWeNetwork Finds People You'll Want to Connect with on LinkedIn 0
September 25th at 12:59pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsApps that recommend people nearby who are similar to you, like Highlight and the now Facebook-acqui-hired Glancee, were the talk of SXSW this year yet they’ve failed to take off…
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PhotoTime Is A Mobile Photo Gallery Capable Of Image And Facial Recognition 0
November 13th at 7:43pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsA computer vision company called Orbeus has just launched a photo gallery replacement app for iOS users, PhotoTime, which uses image and facial recognition technologies to allow users to search for photos based on who’s in them, what the photo is of, or where it was taken. This goes far beyond the capabilities of Apple’s native Photos app, which organizes photos by location and…
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Imgur for iOS brings viral images to iPhone and iPad 0
August 1st at 6:11am / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsImgur released its first official iOS app this week, offering a browsable and searchable version of the popular online viral picture, meme and GIF repository to Apple's portable devices.
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Facebook Pages Manager for iOS Version 1.5 Released 0
October 3rd at 3:34am / The Next Web / 0 opinionsFacebook today updated its Pages Manager for iOS app. You can download the latest version now from the official Apple App Store. Apple iPad users will be happy to learn…
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Goat Simulator gets even weirder with MMO herd mode 0
November 21st at 11:24pm / Cult of Mac / 0 opinionsWhat’s better than goats? Goats you can control in a weird physics-simulator, of course. What’s better than that? A full-on massively multiplayer online version of the goat sim. Duh. The hilarious developers at Coffee Stain Studios (Sanctum, Sanctum 2) just…
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iPhone Apps of the Week: Imgur, Commercial Break, and More 0
August 3rd at 2:10am / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsS Imgur: Imgur, everyone's favorite super simple image hosting site, has had an Android app out for about a month now. As of today, though, the app is also available for iOS users, and now nearly everyone can be just a little bit less productive, together. You can do virtually everything you'd be doing on the web: browse images, upload, and manage your account and albums. And of course, all the interactive features that make Imgur such a huge draw are in teh app in full force. You can comment and vote...
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5 Soul-Crushingly Expensive Apps 0
October 8th at 11:27am / Mashable / 0 opinionsApps are generally free or cheap, setting users back a few bucks here and there, a slight blip in the bank account. But amid the flurry of inexpensive games and photo...
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Trucaller Brings Smarter Features To Its Calling App As It Passes 100M Registered Users 0
December 3rd at 4:23pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsCall ID and blocking service Truecaller has made its Android app more intuitive today and simultaneously announced that it has crossed 100 million registered users.
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Airsleep for iOS: Drown Out Airplane Noise and Get Some Shut-Eye 1
August 7th at 2:10am / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsWhat's everyone's favorite thing to do on a plane? Sleep, of course. Coincidentally, it's also one of the hardest thing to do. Airsleep aims to fix that....
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Starbucks Brings Passbook Support to iOS Apps in the UK, Canada 0
October 16th at 9:49am / The Next Web / 0 opinionsPushing a new update for its iOS application earlier in the month, Starbucks became one of the first major brands to back Apple’s new Passbook mobile wallet app, but functionality…
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Google introduces 'material design' to iOS in app update, Apple fixes TestFlight app bugs 0
December 12th at 2:11am / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsAn update to Google's flagship search app for iOS on Thursday brings the company's new "material design" user interface and Google Maps integration, while a new version of Apple's TestFlight beta testing app fixes minor bugs.
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Rise alarm clock named iOS App of the Week, available for free download 1
August 9th at 12:09am / The Verge / 0 opinionsIf for whatever reason the default alarm clock in iOS isn't doing it for you, Rise happens to be one of our favorite third-party substitutes. And this week, Apple is giving away the app — normally $1.99 — at no charge as part of its revolving App of the Week promotion. Rise's dead-simple interface (you slide a finger up or down your iPhone's screen to set a wakeup time) and elegant design make its normal price easy to part with, but when it's up for grabs at no cost to you, we're pressed to find any...