Apple on Tuesday issued a notice to its development community, asking for applications based on the new WatchKit tools for Apple Watch to be submitted to the App Store.
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Apple asks developers to submit WatchKit apps for fast approaching Apple Watch launch 3
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First look: Todoist for iOS gets smarter and better-looking with new, free features 0
March 31st at 6:00am / Macworld / 0 opinionsVersion 10 of the popular to-do list app packs a slew of free features into a clean new package.
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Gmail For Android Gets A Unified Inbox 0
March 30th at 10:23pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsGoogle updated its Gmail app for Android today, and the most important feature is probably the addition of a unified inbox. Most of us probably manage multiple accounts and until now, you had to awkwardly switch between them in the Gmail app. To get started with this new unified inbox, you simply switch to the “All Inboxes” option in the app and you’re done.
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Adobe’s New iPad App Lets Designers Quickly Sketch Out Layout Ideas On Mobile 3
March 30th at 7:23pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsAdobe is adding another product to its growing family of tightly integrated mobile apps today. Comp CC, which is now available for the iPad, makes it easier for designers to take their design ideas for new websites, mobile apps and print from the back of a napkin (or in this case the iPad) to production.As Adobe principal product manager Will Eisley told me last week, the company believes…
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Adobe and former NYT designer Khoi Vinh made a super simple design app for iPad 1
March 30th at 12:00pm / The Verge / 0 opinionsOver the past few years, Adobe has been making a concerted effort to build apps that could eventually become as important for creation and design on mobile as apps like Photoshop and Premiere have become on the desktop. As part of that effort, it ended up speaking with designer Khoi Vinh, known for overhauling The New York Times' website during the late 2000s, and using his input to create an iPad app for quickly throwing together layouts, be it for a website or a flier. Today, that app is finally...
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Secret Is Working On New Apps, Won’t Shut Down Original Product 0
March 27th at 12:03pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsSecret Inc. — makers of the”anonymish” app Secret, which lets users post notes to friends, friends-of-friends, or those in their vicinity without revealing their identities — crashed through the highs and lows of startup life in the last year, generating a lot of interest and notoriety for its gossipy, eponymous app, and then almost as quickly disappearing off the…
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The first Apple Watch apps have arrived, sort of 0
March 27th at 7:49am / Macworld / 0 opinionsThe Apple Watch won't launch until late April, but a couple dozen apps have already arrived.
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Apple Watch support comes to flurry of iPhone apps ahead of April launch 1
March 26th at 11:31pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsA collection of iPhone apps -- such as Evernote, Dark Sky, and the New York Times -- were updated today to support the Apple Watch, even though the wearable isn't shipping until April 24.
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First look: Fantastical 2 for Mac brings advanced calendaring to OS X Yosemite 0
March 25th at 4:11pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsAfter launching a successful follow-up to popular calendar app Fantastical for iPhone and iPad, developer Flexibits returns its attention to Mac with Fantastical 2 for OS X, bringing a slew of new features like Today widgets and extensibility support.
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Carrot Weather Delivers Your Daily Forecast With A Side Of Snark 1
March 20th at 6:43pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsCarrot, the makers of a suite of sarcastic apps including a to-do list app that berates you for slacking and a weight loss app that shames you about your poor eating choices, has just introduced the latest addition to its lineup: a snarky weather application that delivers your daily forecast with a twist. Like its other apps, Carrot Weather features a talking bot with a ton of personality…
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SlideMail Is An Intelligent Email App For The Rest Of Us 1
March 20th at 5:43pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsA new email application launching today called SlideMail is designed to help those of us with bad email habits sort through our inbox, while also intelligently organizing our messages and alerting us to important meetings and other events. While other email apps focus on presenting power users with a “priority inbox” containing their most important emails, SlideMail’s take is…
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Fully-functional Launcher returns to App Store, Pixelmator for iPad gets watercolors 1
March 19th at 5:31pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsPopular shortcut app Launcher has been allowed back into the iOS App Store with all of its original features, while Pixelmator for iPad has been updated with a large assortment of improvements, including watercolor tools.
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Launcher, The Banned iOS Widget That Let You Launch Other Apps, Is Back 2
March 18th at 9:43pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsWith iOS 8, Apple introduced a way for mobile applications to add widgets to its Notification Center that offered snapshots of information, like today’s weather, stock quotes, headlines, and more. But one clever app called Launcher took advantage of the new functionality to turn its widget into a tool that allowed you to tap to launch other apps installed your phone. Last fall, Apple…
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Sid Meier's Starships launches on Mac and iPad, Wunderlist gets major Mac and iOS updates 0
March 13th at 6:51am / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsFiraxis has released Mac and iPad versions of Sid Meier's Starships, an anticipated turn-based strategy game, while 6 Wunderkinder has updated the Mac and iOS editions of its popular to-do list app, Wunderlist, with folders and a revised design.
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Callr Releases A Mobile App To Make Conference Calls Less Of A Hassle 1
March 12th at 1:43am / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsCallr has solved at least some of those problems — namely the need to search for, find, and dial those elusive conference call numbers yourself. And now it has mobile apps that will make it even easier for you to manage calls you’re scheduled to make.
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Google Calendar comes to iPhone, 'Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath' hits Mac 1
March 11th at 1:51am / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsTwo significant apps hit Apple's mobile and desktop operating systems today, as the long-awaited Google Calendar debuted for iPhone and console classic Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath landed on Mac.
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Google’s Redesigned Calendar App Comes To iPhone 1
March 10th at 8:43pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsGoogle today launched the redesigned version of its mobile Calendar app on iPhone. The new app, which follows Google’s new Material Design guidelines, includes all the features Google previously announced when it launched its updated Calendar App for Android.
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Google's beautiful new Calendar app is now available for the iPhone 0
March 10th at 1:30pm / The Verge / 0 opinionsLast fall, Google released a redesigned calendar app for Android, and said it was working on bringing it to iOS, as well. That day has come: for the first time, iPhone users have a full-fledged, official Google Calendar app. While Google's calendaring system has always been supported by the default iOS calendar, a host of third-party options have sprung up over the years in an attempt to work better with Google....
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What Your Favorite Apps Look Like On Apple Watch (Plus New Ones!) 0
March 10th at 12:03am / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsIn preparation for Apple’s first wearable device, mobile developers have been busy creating all kinds of applications designed especially for the Apple Watch’s small screen. The watch, which is said by early testers to be so usable that they found they were no longer pulling out their iPhone as often, allows you to interact with a variety of apps and notifications, ranging…
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Gmail gets share sheet functions, Foursquare saves favorite places, Imgur overhauls design 0
March 5th at 10:51pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsSeveral important updates have been released at the iOS App Store, bringing share sheet functions to Gmail, a Saved Places tab to Foursquare, and a complete redesign of Imgur's official iPhone app.
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Gmail for iPhone levels up with interactive notifications 1
March 5th at 10:45pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsReplying to emails from Gmail's iOS app just got easier.
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Gmail App Now Offers Reply And Archive From Notifications On iOS 0
March 5th at 8:23pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsGmail has a new update out for iOS, which brings lots of new iOS 8-friendly features, including two that are great productivity additions: the ability to reply and archive to emails directly from incoming notifications. The reply function kicks you into the Gmail app right into a compose window replying the email you received, and the archive function makes it go away, without any additional…
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Mustbin’s New App Blends Secure Private Messaging With Cloud Storage 3
March 5th at 7:03pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsMustbin, the mobile application that began as a secure organizer for personal documents and other information captured by your smartphone’s camera, is today making a larger move to compete in the private mobile messaging space with the launch of Mustbin 2.0. The new app is now offering a solid handful of features that differentiate it from many competitors, including the ability…
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Gmail for iOS now lets you archive and reply to email from notifications 0
March 5th at 11:48am / The Verge / 0 opinionsGoogle's just released version 4.0 of Gmail for iOS, and the update includes a few significant additions made possible by iOS 8. First, you can now archive or reply from incoming email right from the notification prompt at the top of your screen. You can take the same actions whenever Gmail notifications are displayed on your lock screen by swiping. That's a feature other email clients quickly adopted after Apple rolled out the last big iOS release, so it's good to see Gmail taking advantage....
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BitTorrent Sync gains new look, Mint for iOS picks up bill reminders, Sonos adds simpler Room access 0
March 3rd at 11:11pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsA trio of important app updates were released onto the iOS App Store Wednesday, adding a new Pro service for BitTorrent's Sync file sharing, interface refinements for Sonos Controller on iOS, and bill reminders for Intuit's iOS budget tracker, Mint.