With Google Reader set to close up shop on June 3oth there have been a number of apps competing to replace the dying RSS service. Digg and Reeder have emerged as popular replacements, but Feedly has seen tremendous growth thanks to Google Reader’s death....
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Feedly For iOS Updated With New Discovery Features And ‘Must Read’ Section 2
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The Week in iOS Apps: Music all around you! 1
May 24th at 9:42pm / Macworld / 0 opinionsLike music? Like making it? Discovering new artists? Figuring out who the heck is singing that song on the TV commercial? We’ve got you covered in this week’s roundup of new and updated iOS apps....
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The Best iPad Apps of the Week: Not Worse Than Food Poisoning 1
July 5th at 10:54pm / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsI bought a case of flavored "wild berry" bottled water this week. It was an accident, I thought it was just regular old water, but no, it's some foul mix of whatever the dentist gives you right before he gives you the water cup to spit that crap out and tin foil. But it's what I have here, so I'm drinking it. And so, here are this week's iPad apps. Metaphor....
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Before and after: The best iOS 7 app redesigns (Updating) 0
September 18th at 8:08pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsWith the release of iOS 7 comes a new look and feel for the operating system, and with only tweaks and changes having arrived since its first introduction back in 2007, it couldn’t come a minute too soon....
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Why Canada Is a Testing Ground for Apps 1
November 22nd at 6:25pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsDevelopers worldwide are using Canada as a testing ground for apps before rolling them out to other markets.
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Your iPhone Can Now Alert You Every Time The U.S Launches A Drone Attack 0
February 12th at 3:04pm / Cult of Mac / 0 opinionsNew app Metadata+ tells you whenever a drone strike kills somebody overseas. Working by pulling data from the UK’s Bureau of Investigative Journalism, the app plots the location of each strike on a map, and then sends a push notification…
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Vingle Lets You Mingle With People Who Share Your Interests 0
July 24th at 9:43am / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsVingle is a fun, community-oriented site from the founders of Viki, the crowdsourced subtitling platform that was acquired by Rakuten for a reported $200 million last year.Viki’s founders, Changseong Ho, Razmig Hovaghimian, and Jiwon Moon, saw how devoted fans on Viki were to translating and subtitling the dialogue in their favorite movies and TV series, and wanted to create a network…
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5 can't-miss apps: Scannable, Adobe Lightroom and more 0
January 18th at 6:45am / Mashable / 0 opinionsThis week's list includes Adobe's Lightroom on Android, a new app focused on hyperlocal discovery and the latest title in the Words With Friends franchise.
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Google debuts on Apple Watch with disappointing News & Weather app 1
May 13th at 7:02pm / Macworld / 0 opinionsThe company's first Apple Watch entry isn't all that great.
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Microsoft Launches A Bing-Powered News App For iOS Devices, News Pro 0
January 26th at 11:23pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsMicrosoft today unveiled yet another application aimed at iOS users, with the launch of a news application that greatly resembles Apple’s own News application that comes built into iOS 9. Called “News Pro,” Microsoft’s app aims to offer readers a personalized experience by connecting them to articles that match their current interests, while also uncovering…
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Readability Gets New Reading Lists, YouTube & Vimeo Integration & More 0
July 10th at 4:11am / Cult of Mac / 0 opinionsThe official Readability app for iOS has received a major update today that not only promises to deliver “huge performance improvements,” but also adds a number of new features, including new “Top Reads” and “Longform Picks” reading lists, YouTube and Vimeo integration, and more.
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5 iPhone Twitter Apps that Do More Than Just Tweet 0
February 3rd at 2:59pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsWhen Twitter recently launched the newest version of its iPhone app, the company focused on streamlining and simplifying the user interface. Ryan Sarver, head of Twitter...
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10 Canadian Apps for the iPhone & iPad 0
December 31st at 6:43am / The Next Web / 0 opinionsWe thought we’d give Canadian developers & app creators a shout-out so we’ve rounded up some iOS apps from various categories — all 100% Canadian made. Hootsuite iPhone & iPad…
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The Week In iPhone Apps: FCC Inquiry Edition 0
August 16th at 11:20pm / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsLet's take our minds off all this nasty Google Voice business for a minute, and focus on the apps that we do have. Google may not make an appearance this week, but how about Wikipedia? NPR? The Discovery Channel? Simplify? NPR News: The unaffiliated Public Radio Player was great great great, but this is somehow better. It brings twice as many stations, adds written news content along with offline reading, on-demand NPR shows and a surprisingly navigable interface. Guiltily free, since you don't even...
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The Best App Discovery App for iPhone 2
February 1st at 6:30pm / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsThere are so many apps in the iTunes App Store that it can be hard to find new ones. While several apps exist to help you get the job done, Discovr Apps makes it easy to find what you're looking for by mapping apps you like (or any app at all) to related options you may enjoy as well. Platform: iPhonePrice: $1Download Page Discovr Apps is pretty simple, which is refreshing when all the other app discovery apps for iOS tend to be a bit overwhelming. All you do is pick an app as a starting point, whether...
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Circa’s New iOS App Will Change The Way You Consume News 0
October 15th at 10:00am / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsThe way that we consume information on the Internet has changed dramatically over the years. The main reason is because there is simply more content available to us than we could ever consume during our time on Earth. Back in the day, our only options for news were newspapers and then eventually the local TV or radio station telling us what’s happening in our immediate area. Circa has launched its…
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The Week in iOS Apps: Zombies! 0
October 26th at 10:00am / Macworld / 0 opinionsGet organized! Or get zombified! Either way, this week’s roundup of iPhone and iPad apps has you covered....
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Watchlater Updates iOS App As Its 100k Users Amass 1.15M Monthly Views 4
February 6th at 9:48pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsThe 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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iOS users, meet Drippler, a personalized how-to manual for your iPhone 0
April 25th at 6:00am / GigaOM / 0 opinionsDrippler arrives on iOS after racking up 5 million downloads on Android. The goal is to automatically curate content relevant to an iPhone user based on their device model, carrier, software version and app preferences.
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Video discovery app Vodio finally lands on Android and brings $800k of funding along with it 0
June 12th at 8:48pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsThe video discovery app Vodio is now available to download on Android for the first time, following its iOS debut last year....
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Flipboard for iOS joins the Android version in letting you watch animated GIFs right in the app 1
August 14th at 11:28pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsFlipboard added GIF support to its iOS app today. This addition comes more than a month since its Android counterpart allowed users to watch GIF images over and over again....
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Shadow Puppet Lets You Create Helpful Tutorial Videos on Your iPhone 1
September 29th at 8:05am / Mashable / 0 opinionsSometimes an explanation requires more than just words. A new iPhone app called Shadow Puppet lets users generate narrated tutorial videos or photo slideshows straight from their phone. See also: Top 25 Free iPhone Apps of All Time Users simply select images from their library, arrange them in the order they wish to share them, and use the phone's voice recorder to narrate the slideshow as it plays.
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20 social apps that got us talking in 2013 5
December 23rd at 12:08am / The Next Web / 0 opinionsAs we wind down the year, The Next Web compiled a list of some of the social apps that have made some significant moves in 2013. How did we qualify what a social app was? In our mind, it was a service that had a core functionality that enabled users to interact and engage with other people, either online or offline....
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Newsbeat app reads you stories from hundreds of newspapers 0
March 20th at 7:29pm / The Verge / 0 opinionsApps that read the day's news aloud aren't exactly a new concept, but Newsbeat — launched today by Tribune Co. — is among the sleekest we've seen yet. Newsbeat pulls in thousands of articles every day from hundreds of newspapers including The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and websites like CNN. From there, stories are converted to audio for easy listening during your morning commute. Sometimes the recordings are produced with the help of text-to-speech technology, much like SoundGecko; other...
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Google Currents For iOS Now Called Google Play Newsstand Following Big Redesign 2
September 23rd at 9:03pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsGoogle Currents, Google’s magazine-like news reading iOS app and a competitor to Flipboard, is rolling out a redesign and a handful of new features, including a way to subscribe to topics you’re interested in, instead of only subscribing to publishers, blogs and RSS feeds. The company is also ditching the name “Currents,” and renaming the app “Google Play…