Okay, okay – retrospective “best of” pieces are sometimes best delivered with a 12-month time-frame in mind. But we’ve had so many Android apps hit our radar in the year…
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A Twitter iPhone App For Hello Kitty Fanatics 0
June 4th at 5:40am / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsYou'd have to be quite the crazed Hello Kitty fan to pay four bucks for a Twitter iPhone app with a nauseatingly cutesy user interface like this, but it's available on iTunes now anyway.
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Daily App Deals: Get 100 Cameras in 1 for iPad for 99¢ in Today’s App Deals 0
April 25th 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. 100 Cameras in 1 HD (iTunes) Previously $1.99, now 99¢. 100 Cameras in 1 HD for iPad not only comes packed with effects for your photos but also sports a smooth UI and exports its effects to Instagram. Get it for 99¢. (via Apps-aholic) iOS iOS
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5 iPhone Apps That Run Google Talk 1
August 27th at 3:35pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsAs other instant messenger services fade into the background (sorry, AIM!), Google Talk takes on a large share of users, thanks to ubiquity of Gmail. But as more users...
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iCloud 101: Find My Friends app gets iOS 6 update 0
October 7th at 12:00pm / GigaOM / 0 opinionsWith the release of iOS 6, Apple has accordingly updated many of its homebrewed mobile apps. Here is a look at how the software upgrade has improved the Find My Friends app, and how you can use it to track your friends’ locations.
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Rounds Social Video Chat App Goes Mobile, Recreates Hangout Feel With Shared YouTube Viewing, Photo Uploads 0
November 29th at 5:08am / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsSocial video chat app Rounds has reason to be proud: the company has raised a total of $5 million in funding and now has more than six million users across the breadth of its platform, which includes Facebook, Chrome, and desktop. Today, however, the company is launching a brand new mobile app for the first time called Rounds Video Chat Hangout. Along with facilitating a standard video chat…
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This Week’s Must-Have iOS Apps: Wunderlist, Scanner Mini, Static & More 6
December 23rd at 7:04pm / Cult of Mac / 0 opinionsThe latest version of Wunderlist for iPhone kicks off this week’s must-have apps roundup, with a brand new look and a whole host of new features. It’s accompanied by an awesome new app from Readdle, a great way to monitor your social statistics, and a brand new app from Facebook.
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Facebook Poke Slides Down App Store Ranking List 0
December 26th at 9:19am / The Next Web / 0 opinionsTalk about rise and fall. Facebook has been heavily promoting its new app Poke but, as quickly as it rose, so the app that sends ‘destructible’ messages has plummeted in app store ranking lists following Christmas Day downloads....
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Apple adds new "App Store Notes" section to select iOS title descriptions 10
January 26th at 3:11am / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsA select number of featured apps on the iOS App Store are seeing a new section titled "App Store Notes," with the top box containing a short blurb in which Apple offers its take on the software.
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Apple’s App Store, Mac App Store, iTunes Store, and iBookstore down for some, slow for many (Updated: Fixed) 4
February 13th at 2:28am / The Next Web / 0 opinionsOn Tuesday evening, Apple’s App Store over at itunes.apple.com started experiencing significant slowdowns. We first noticed the store’s pages stopped loading properly at 4:23PM EST, meaning the outage has already lasted over half an hour at the time of writing....
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Foursquare Now Lets iPhone Users Check In Way Faster 2
March 6th at 9:08pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsFoursquare has just updated its iPhone app, allowing power users to check in significantly faster in the event they’re not interested in commenting on their check-in, adding a photo, or sharing across other social networks....
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Chat app Line releases safety guide for girl teens after string of incidents 2
March 28th at 12:02am / Macworld / 0 opinionsLine, the chat app that is exploding in popularity in Japan and other Asian countries, has published an online safety guide for teens after a string of incidents in which it was used to maliciously target young women....
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Vizible for iOS lets you view photos shared on Twitter nearby 4
April 2nd at 6:48pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsAPIs are a wonderful thing. They empower developers to build things they otherwise wouldn’t get a sniff at, such as Instalook, which we previously reported lets Instagram users discover photos by location. And now there’s Vizible, which surfaces photos shared on Twitter based on their proximity to you....
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Now In 20 Cities, Grouper Brings On-Demand Group Dates To The iPhone 0
April 30th at 8:43pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsSince graduating from Y Combinator in 2012, Grouper has been on a mission to help busy, overworked young people get away from the glow of computer screens and out into the real world to meet new people. To do that, the startup sends its members on “Groupers,” which are essentially blind, group dates between two groups of friends, designed to take the awkwardness out of one-on-one dating.
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Meet three startups that participated in Microsoft’s Azure-focused Israeli accelerator 2
May 20th at 12:48am / The Next Web / 0 opinionsTNW recently met with three companies from Microsoft’s Azure-focused accelerator in Israel in San Francisco. For an inside look at the program, we went there last year and took pictures. Innovation is not partial to Silicon Valley, and Israel is a rising star in the technology world....
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Want to give your app store’s long tail a tug? Try the new Xyo 0
June 4th at 7:27pm / GigaOM / 0 opinionsXyo continues its quest to surface the apps no-one finds by introducing Facebook-derived recommendations. It’s a step beyond the firm’s fine-grained category approach, and one that might develop into a useful predictive tool.
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Skype For iOS Gets Free & Unlimited Video Messaging, More Improvements 1
June 27th at 7:24pm / Cult of Mac / 0 opinionsThe official Skype apps for iOS have today been updated to add free and unlimited video messaging, which previously required a $4.99 per month Skype Premium subscription. The updates also bring a number of other improvements to things like photo sharing and call stability.
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iPad Apps of the Week: Guide, WunderMap, and More 1
July 13th at 2:10am / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsThe iPad offerings were all over the place, jumping from intensive weather details to a news-reading puppy to enough emoji to ensure that you never have to use words for feelings ever again. But then again, that's what life is all about, after all—anthropomorphized dogs and avoiding face-to-face human interactions at all costs. Or something like that....
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Ding Dong. Who’s there? This app helps you share locations with friends in one tap 3
August 1st at 10:08pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsWhat the world needs is another location-based, social-centric, photo-messaging app, right?...
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Localize this: A beginner’s guide to translating your mobile app 1
August 14th at 10:28pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsAt its annual I/O conference back in May, Google teased the public with a number of significant announcements – such as a new Maps product for desktop, and a Samsung Galaxy S4 running stock Android....
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Sina, China’s answer to Twitter, enters the mobile messaging battle with its own app 0
August 26th at 12:08pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsSina, China’s equivalent to Twitter, has jumped on the mobile messaging bandwagon after it began promoting its new app WeMeet, known as ‘Weimi’ in Chinese....
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Facebook 6.5 to launch today with refreshed, iOS 7-savvy design 1
September 19th at 12:31am / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsFacebook is launching an iOS app update today that includes a new menu at the bottom of the app for enhanced navigation, along with design elements inspired by Apple's just released iOS 7.
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Mindie is like Vine with a pop music soundtrack 0
October 17th at 5:48pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsLaunching today, Mindie is an iOS app based around the familiar idea of allowing you to create short, looping videos. In this case, you get seven seconds to play with (a whole one second more than Vine), but what’s interesting is that before you start recording, you get to choose a song as a backing track....
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Gamers, unite: First is a slick, 8-bit inspired community mobile app for discussing video games 0
October 28th at 6:08pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsMessage boards, more so than Twitter, Facebook, or the comments section of any reputable online news outlet, act as the connective tissue for the video game community. Built primarily for desktop browsers, they provide an open space to discuss the latest issues, releases and announcements....
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Tumblr redesigns its iOS app, adds activity tab to track new likes, reblogs and followers 1
November 21st at 6:48am / The Next Web / 0 opinionsTumblr, the Yahoo-owned blogging platform, has given its iOS app a redesign to bring it in line with the style of Apple’s new iOS 7 platform, while adding new features....