The Instapaper for video service, Watchlater has updated its iOS app today with new features, including an improved user interface, the ability to discover public playlists, browsing through podcast and YouTube channels, and more. The company announced this release just as it also shared that it has amassed over 100,000 users, all of whom contributed towards the 1.15 million monthly video views the service has generated....
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Watchlater Updates iOS App As Its 100k Users Amass 1.15M Monthly Views 4
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With 3.5m registered users, Wunderlist takes its rebuilt, redesigned task-management app to iPad 4
February 14th at 9:48pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsIt was way back in November 2010 when we first reviewed the Mac OS and Windows desktop apps for Wunderlist, a gorgeous task-management service courtesy of Germany-based 6Wunderkinder. “Simple, easy and beautiful” were the three words that sprung to mind a the time....
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Artkive, the winner of Startup World LA, helps you save a digital record of your kids’ artwork 0
March 8th at 9:28am / The Next Web / 0 opinionsAt yesterday’s Startup World LA competition, ten startups battled it out with The Kive Company’s Artkive iPhone app emerging as the winner. The app, which lets families archive children’s artwork and important moments, isn’t for everyone, but it’s definitely tapping into a massive market....
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Fly Or Die: Sunrise Calendar 0
February 24th at 1:32pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsA calendar is a tool created many millennia ago, a tool that is vital to our very functionality as intelligent beings. Yet, when technology has ventured far beyond a simple grid of numbers, the Calendar applications we use haven’t seemed to evolve beyond that. Sunrise, a new application built by ex-foursquare engineers, finds a way to turn a traditionally consumptive tool (the calendar) into a…
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Hands on: Osito is your personal concierge for iPhone 0
April 19th at 1:01pm / Macworld / 0 opinionsThere’s been a lot of talk lately about how Google Now is Android’s secret weapon in the mobile platform wars with iOS. If Siri is a digital “assistant”—taking your instructions, sending messages, and updating your calendar—Google Now is more of a concierge, reminding you of that next appointment, checking the weather for you, and generally anticipating your needs. No good idea remains unexploited for long, though, and this week brought forth Osito, a free “predictive intelligence” iPhone app that...
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Mailbox ends reservation system, iPhone app now available to all 0
April 16th at 12:04pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsThe popular Gmail iOS client "Mailbox" on Tuesday became freely available to all, ditching the reservation system that previously required new users to wait.
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Artkive Turns Your Kids’ Artwork (And More) Into Printed Books 0
May 22nd at 6:43pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsArtkive, an app designed to eliminate the overwhelming guilt you get tossing your children’s brilliant artwork into the garbage, now has another purpose, too: you can order printed out books of their creations. Instead of just hiding the child’s crumpled up drawings and precious finger-paint covered handprints that school sends home – what is now, like every day? – under…
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Gmail for iOS gets support for the new inbox with categories, improved notifications, and more 0
June 4th at 9:28pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsGoogle today released its much-anticipated Gmail update for iOS. You can download the latest version of the app now directly from Apple’s App Store....
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The best ways to edit and view Microsoft Office docs on your iPad 2
June 19th at 11:47pm / GigaOM / 0 opinionsMicrosoft finally made a native Office app, but it’s for the iPhone. Here’s a roundup of your best options when it comes to accessing and editing your Office documents on an iPad.
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New IFTTT app launches with iPhone-only photo, reminder and contacts recipes 1
July 11th at 2:11pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsThe versatile Web-based productivity tool IFTTT (an acronym for "If This Then That") released an iOS app on Thursday that marries the utility of its Internet-connected actions and triggers with the convenience of an iPhone.
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FindIt Lets You Search Dropbox, Gmail & Google Drive All At Once From Your iPhone 2
July 29th at 8:44pm / Cult of Mac / 1 opinionsYou know the document you’re looking for, but you can’t remember where it’s saved. Did you upload it to Dropbox or Google Drive, or was it sent to you in an email? Fortunately, a new iPhone app called FindIt lets you quickly search all three — all at once.
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Waiting for iOS 7? These iOS 6 apps aren’t, as developers eye unique opportunity 0
August 21st at 9:00am / GigaOM / 0 opinionsMany apps are already adopting the new look of iOS 7 before it launches. You may find some new favorites as developers scramble to update.
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iPad App mem:o Is A Simple Data Visualization Tool For Design Lovers 2
September 13th at 9:23am / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsTechnology makes it easy to turn the minutiae of our daily lives into useful data sets, but sometimes it feels bleak to see every experience or memory broken down into pie charts and bar graphs. mem:o is a unique visualization tool that takes life-logging beyond spreadsheets by transforming data into striking images influenced by Dutch graphic design. The iPad app is free for download and includes…
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ReadQuick and Velocity review: Increase your reading speed using your iOS device 2
September 27th at 7:22pm / Macworld / 0 opinionsMove over Instapaper, Pocket, and Readability—some new read-it-later iOS apps have arrived on the scene that not only help you read online content later, they also help you read it faster. The $5 ReadQuick by Action Now and Lickability’s $3 Velocity do this by helping you break a habit called subvocalization, which is just a fancy linguistic term for silently sounding out words as you read. According to Velocity’s short tutorial, the average person reads at a speed of about 200 WPM (words per minute),...
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App Roundup: New iLife and iWork apps for OS X, iOS go live 0
October 23rd at 3:11am / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsFollowing Apple's announcement of retooled iLife and iWork apps for both iOS and OS X on Tuesday, the company has started rolling out the new software to users via the App Store.
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Lightweight iOS to-do list app Begin gets more useful via a new in-app purchase 1
November 20th at 10:28pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsThe Clear task management app for iOS has a lot to answer for. The simple, gesture-based interface that it used has spawned multiple imitators, but at least Begin builds on the concept with the idea of putting tasks off to tomorrow with a left-swipe. The idea is to make your task list feel a little less cumbersome by making you feel that you don’t have to do everything at once, although it does limit you to a single to-do list rather than multiple lists....
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15 Underrated Apps Every Entrepreneur Should Use 2
December 7th at 6:45pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsWhether you have a tech question or a fashion concern, there's probably an existing app that can help you out. But frankly, with all the apps out there, it's easy to get stuck with the same icons on your home screen -- and never so much as click on the newer ones that would benefit your business most. See also: 10 Must-Have Tools for Entrepreneurs That's why we asked 15 successful young entrepreneurs to share their go-to yet underrated app of choice.
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Sunrise's beautiful calendar goes big on iPad, adds background updates 2
January 9th at 9:29pm / The Verge / 0 opinionsPopular social calendar app Sunrise is now available for iPads as part of a free update that went out today. Now a universal app, Sunrise has a new week view, along with background updates to keep whatever's on your schedule up to date. The new week view is actually just three days on the also-updated iPhone version, something that shows all your events by the hour. iPad users get a fuller view of the entire month or seven day week. Sunrise also changed its logo from a flat calendar view to a a red-...
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22 of the Best iOS Apps From January 6
February 3rd at 10:08pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionscame and went, and we served up a gargantuan summary of some of the best apps to hit the App Store over the 12-month period ending in December. Now, with 2014 well and truly underway, here’s a quick snapshot of some of the best new iOS apps from January....
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Goodbye pokey Inbox refresh: Gmail for iOS gains background updates 1
March 5th at 9:07pm / GigaOM / 2 opinions -
Fantastical 2, The Best iPhone Calendar App, Is Now Available On iPad 0
April 2nd at 4:23pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsThere are only a few companies whose mobile apps are so well done or engaging that they actually earn one of the precious few spots on your iPhone's homescreen. Flexibits, the makers of Fantastical 2, one of the best mobile calendaring apps for iPhone, is among them. And today, the company will have a shot at claiming a spot on the iPad's homescreen as well, with the long-awaited release of…
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Adobe Voice for iPad combines user narration and simple animations to create impactful videos 0
May 8th at 10:31am / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsAdobe Voice is a free iPad app that allows users to "show their story" by streamlining the process of overlaying a customizable voiceover track atop a variety of animated images, music, icons, text, themes and more.
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Office for iPad update adds support for third-party fonts, ability to send as PDF 0
July 31st at 10:11pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsMicrosoft's Office for iPad suite, which includes Word, Excel and PowerPoint, was given a significant update on Thursday, giving users the ability to utilize third-party fonts in Word, and the option to export files as PDFs in all three programs, among other new additions.
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Get to know iOS 8: Customize your Notification Center with handy new widgets 4
September 20th at 4:22am / Macworld / 0 opinionsAmong iOS 8's many new features are some cool ways to let you interact with your apps without actually having to open them. Interactive notifications are one example, and another is the brand-new widgets available in Notification Center. Apple is a little late to this game—Android has had widgets for years, and users can put them right on their home screens—but at least what we have is both elegant and functional....
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Conquer your inbox with the best email apps for iOS 3
November 11th at 4:22pm / Macworld / 0 opinionsApple’s stock mail app got some nice upgrades with iOS 8, but it still lacks many of the more powerful features found in other third-party email apps....