Style community Polyvore released its second standalone mobile application today with the debut of Remix, an app aimed at the larger community of style enthusiasts who generally use the service not to create outfits for themselves, but to browse those created by others for inspiration. With Remix, Polyvore users can check in on what’s trending on the site, get styling advice and buy…
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Polyvore Launches Remix, A New App For Style Advice And Shopping 1
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Amazon's one-hour delivery service is now available in central London 0
June 30th at 12:49pm / The Verge / 0 opinionsAmazon has launched its Prime Now one-hour delivery service in London, marking its first expansion outside of the US. The service, which first launched in New York late last year, promises one-hour delivery of "thousands" of items for a fee of £6.99 for Amazon Prime members in select areas of London. Two-hour delivery between 8 AM and midnight will be free. An Amazon Prime membership costs £79 per year in the UK, and the minimum order for either Prime Now delivery option is £20. Prime Now is...
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Spacio Pro Plans To Supercharge Open House Showings With A Smart App 0
October 29th at 6:43pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsIf software is eating the world, it’s also eating our houses. The real estate market changed radically when companies like Zillow unpacked the data around house sales. In theory you’d think there wasn’t much to do on house sales, but there remains a relatively untapped area. One of the next areas of change could be be in the ‘open house’ market, where houses…
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Find runway fashions with these apps 2
March 22nd at 7:03am / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsSpring is here, which means it’s time to put away those coats and get out those dresses. But is your wardrobe still in style? Fashionistas, take note. These apps will help you find the latest styles.Moda OperandiStraight from fashion week, Moda Operandi makes it easy to shop the runway on its iPhone app. The team compiles the outfits seen at the shows and makes it easy to preorder…
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9 apps that'll help you make a positive impact on the world every day 0
September 23rd at 8:45am / Mashable / 0 opinionsEthical groceries to helping fund cancer research -- these nine apps have got you covered.
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7 Mobile Apps for Discovering and Creating Poetry 0
April 8th at 6:02pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsEntertainment April is National Poetry Month, when thousands of publishers, booksellers, non-profits and schools celebrate poetry and its cultural influence through readings, festivals...
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Back to School: 15 Essential iOS Apps for Students 2
August 17th at 8:06pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsForget Sharpies and highlighters, the new back to school essentials this fall are apps for your iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. While cellphones used to be classroom...
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Baby Connection: The Two-Part Baby Making App That Brings Dad Into The Process 0
April 6th at 12:31pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsMaking babies is hard work. First you’ve got to find someone to make the baby with — which, depending on the status of your face and how often you do Borat impressions, might be the hardest part. Then you’ve got to spend the next 9 months eating right, avoiding illness, picking names, and remembering to not go skydiving. I’ve yet to have a kid (mainly because I’m still pretty young and I saw enough after-school specials as a lad to scare me away until I’m at least 70), but it seems pretty much impossibl...
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Total Film Launches Fully Interactive iPad App 0
May 11th at 4:46pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsMovie magazine Total Film has rolled out an all-new version of its iPad app, featuring interactive pages, full-screen trailers and galleries. The UK-based magazine is a property of Future Publishing,…
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All the iPhone Apps on Sale Right Now 0
October 14th at 5:30pm / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsYou have a new iPhone 4S! Or you don't! Whatever, it doesn't matter. Everyone is getting cheap apps today! There are a ton of apps on sale right now and we've gathered 'em all for you in a nice little list. Download and save monies. Let us know if we're missing any apps or games! • Madden 12 - $3 (originally $5) • Dead Space - $1 (originally $7) • The Sims 3 -$1 (originally $7) • Battlefield Bad Company 2 - $1 (originally $3) • Fight Night Champion - $1 (originally $5) • RISK - $1 (...
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Daily App Deals: Get Photaf Panorama Pro for Android for Only 99¢ in Today’s App Deals 0
February 15th at 10:30pm / 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. Photaf Panorama Pro (Android Market) Previously $1.99, now 99¢. Photaf Panorama Pro for Android makes and displays HD panoramas easily using your phone or tablet's orientation sensor, and can set your panoramas as live wallpapers. Get it for 99¢. (via Apps-aholic) iOS iOS Android Windows
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Did a New Yorker Cartoonist Predict Today’s Apps in 2009? 0
September 13th at 2:30am / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsThere is an app for just about anything and everything these days. Even back in 2009, a cartoonist for the New Yorker knew what was up. Roz Chast drew "myPhone"—the cartoon marked the iPhone's first appearance in the magazine—for an issue that ran July 27, 2009....
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App Turns Smartphone Into a Sex Toy for Couples 0
October 26th at 11:46am / Mashable / 0 opinionsNothing says sexy time like loading an app and connecting to Bluetooth technology. But for long distance couples or those who travel a lot for work, a new app called...
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Grokr: One Psychic App For a Hundred Different Uses 2
December 20th at 3:10am / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsImagine you threw a bunch of the most useful apps you have into a blender. The end product would be something like Grokr, a new app that's being billed as the iOS version of the instant results engine Google Now....
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10 of the Best Apps for Home and Work from 2012 0
December 21st at 2:30pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsIf you’re thinking of moving house or changing jobs, 2012 saw a slew of handy apps that could help you in your endeavors....
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nFluence Media Gets an Extra $1.6m for 'Opt-in Interest Graph' Tech 0
February 1st at 5:08pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsnFluence Media, a startup that offers technology allowing users to create a graph of their interests in 30 seconds, so that content can be recommended to them, has raised an additional $1.6 million from the same investors it received $3 million from one year ago....
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BrightNest for iOS Gives Advice For Home Improvements 0
March 22nd at 4:48pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsBrightNest is a new iOS app that wants to make looking after your home a more interesting, enjoyable and generally less stressful experience. It’s been designed to complement BrightNest’s existing website, by offering useful tips and detailed guides for maintaining, organizing, cleaning and decorating your current pad....
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Lettrs for iPhone Takes Your Letter-Writing to the Cloud 0
April 23rd at 7:43pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsI don’t know about you, but I can count the number of times I pick up a pen each week on, maybe, 3 fingers....
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Here Come The Bespoke Apps: Dolo Is Just For Finding Friends In SF’s Dolores Park 2
July 4th at 4:03am / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsApps don’t have to be for everyone. Development tools, reduced costs, and the trend of nailing a single use case are spawning a generation of homespun applications. The latest is Dolo. Useful for finding friends in San Francisco’s crowded Dolores Park, useless for everyone else. Bespoke apps designed exclusively for little groups of friends, neighborhoods or jokes could be the next big thing.
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Zagat for Android and iOS: All the Zagat Reviews (Finally) for Free 0
July 30th at 2:10am / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsS The Google+ Local iPhone app mysteriously disappeared from the App Store this past Friday—and now we know why. The Google-owned Zagat has just released a new app for both iPhone and Android today, all coming in Google's new card-based UI....
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WePopp Wants To Cut Down On The Back And Forth When Planning Nights Out With Friends 0
September 3rd at 8:03pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsA neat iOS app called WePopp promises to do one thing only, and do it well: Help you plan events with friends in just a few taps with a simple way to poll the group to find a date, time and place that suits everybody.
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Google’s same-day local delivery service opens to all in San Francisco area, hits Android and iOS too 0
September 25th at 9:08pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsAlmost six months after it started trialling a same-day local delivery service in San Francisco, Google has announced that it’s now open to all users in the San Francisco and surrounding Peninsula area....
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Flipp Delivers Circulars To Your Tablet Instead of Your Porch 1
November 5th at 8:30pm / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsSmartphones and tablets may have replaced a daily newspaper for many of us, but saying goodbye to the morning gazette also meant losing those weekly circulars and a surefire way to keep track of when dish detergent's on sale. Thankfully, a new free app called Flipp, available for iOS today and Android early next year, promises to deliver all of those lost (but not forgotten) circulars directly to your smartphone or tablet....
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Last Minute Holiday Shopping? San Francisco-Based SixDoors Raises $600K To Courier Gifts, Well, To Your Door 1
December 13th at 9:23pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsSame-day mobile shopping app SixDoors has been iterating on its idea of local product delivery since August, but only with the latest version released just weeks ago has the app really found its footing. With the new release, SixDoors has since doubled its user base, and now offers San Francisco residents a way to shop from over 60 local retailers from their iPhone in order to have their items…