The first thing you learn upon beginning to type in Tom Hanks' new typewriter app, Hanx Writer, is how reliant you've secretly always been on autocorrect. The second thing is that the sound your iPad is making is going to annoy a lot of people. (Sorry Dieter.)...
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EasyJet extends its mobile check-in and boarding pass trial to 38 European airports 1
July 3rd at 6:08pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsBack in May, we reported that European budget airline EasyJet had added mobile check-ins and boarding passes to its Android and iOS apps. But at the time, the trial was restricted to just six airports, four of which were in the UK....
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Paper for iPad Hands-On: So This Is What Microsoft’s Former Courier Employees Were Working On 0
March 29th at 1:36pm / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsLike Tapose, which made its debut on the iPad yesterday, Paper is a place to store ideas. But unlike the former—which is backed by former Microsoft honcho J. Allard—the latter is more sketchbook than scrapbook, and comes from a group of individuals who once worked on the now-defunct Courier project. Paper is not only brimming with ideas on how an app like this should be used on an iPad, it's full of ideas on how we should interact with the iPad in general. In this regard, it's much like the to-do...
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N3twork surfs the web for you to serve up a personalized stream of videos on your iPhone 1
August 21st at 6:09pm / The Verge / 0 opinionsSilicon Valley plays host to two very different opinions about how we should find great videos online....
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The Best iPhone Apps of the Week: You Know, For Kids 1
July 5th at 10:54pm / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsOne of the very great pleasures of being an (imbecilic) adult is going to department stores to buy something painfully mundane and taking a detour through the toy department. YOU CAN BUY ALL OF THIS STUFF. It's there, for you, to buy, and you don't have to ask anyone's permission. I've, uh, been at Target a lot the past few weeks, and now there are way too many Nerf guns in my apartment. iPhone apps!...
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An App That Promises Riches, Travel, and Love—In Your Dreams 0
February 11th at 11:00pm / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsCompanies make a lot of claims about their products to help sell them, but this new app from a Japanese ad agency goes to the extreme, promising wealth, travel, love, and even the ability to fly, at least while you sleep. Yumemiru, or See the Dream, is available as a free download from the iTunes App Store for iOS devices, and includes eight different scenarios designed to stimulate and influence your dreams through various audio cues. After you select your nocturnal adventure and start to drift off to...
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7 Tech Upgrades to the Old-School Science Class 1
August 29th at 2:45pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsWith tech breakthroughs and innovative ideas, science class isn't what it used to be.
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App Store at 5: A Good Ride That Could Go on Forever 0
July 10th at 6:25pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsApple's App Store remade the world of software and mobile and, as I see it, all for the better.
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If You Use This iPhone App You Will Be Forever Alone 0
December 13th at 9:20pm / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsI Just Made Love may be the only free application that you must never download. I mean it—you wouldn't like to have this foursquarish app any closer to your iPhone than what you would like to have herpes near your genitals. Can somebody tell me what kind of helpless imbecile wants to broadcast where he or she just have had sex, down to the GPS location and sexual position? Why would anyone want to click that big "Tell the World! ...make everybody jealous!" button? WHY? Can we survive as species after...
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Sesame Lets You Order Themed Gift Sets From Your iPad 0
September 12th at 9:43pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsWeb and mobile gifting service Sesame, which lets you browse and order themed gift sets online or from your iPhone, has now rolled out to iPad. The updated application lets you get a better feel for the gifts you’re ordering, by including “unboxing” videos that show how the gifts were packaged and what they look like in real life. In addition, “hot spots” now…
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Hands on: IFTTT for iOS automates your online life 1
July 12th at 1:22am / Macworld / 0 opinionsWith all the advances and conveniences that iOS offers, there’s one place that OS X continues to trump Apple’s mobile platform: automation. But with the appearance of IFTTT for iPhone, that gap is perhaps narrower than it once was....
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30/30: An App That Won’t Let Your ADD Get the Best of You 0
June 11th at 11:00pm / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsDo you ever get lost in a project and wonder where the time went? If so, you should consider downloading 30/30, an app that keeps you on task. It lets you set up a list of various jobs, each with a designated amount of time to complete them. Start the clock, and when it runs out, it will tell you to move onto the next thing. 30/30 helps you focus in a clean, colorful interface that you can control with gestures. Say, hypothetically, you tend to get lost down a YouTube rabbit-hole (not that any of us...
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5 Can't-Miss Apps: A Goblin-Themed RPG, Storehouse and More 0
September 21st at 3:05am / Mashable / 0 opinionsThis week's list includes a goblin-themed RPG, Findery coming to Android and a big update for one of iOS' best photo apps.
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Uber launches new fare splitting feature, making it easy for groups to split the cost of trips 0
July 15th at 8:28pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsUber has just launched a new feature which lets users split the cost of a trip when riding together in the same car....
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Any.DO 0
August 27th at 12:30pm / Macworld / 0 opinionsAny.do is a free productivity app for iPhone that delivers in just about every way. It’s great to look at, easy to use, and effective at helping users get stuff done.
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Noice Lets You Send Emoji With Sounds To Friends’ Phones 1
October 1st at 2:03am / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsYes, my friends, there is an app more annoying than Yo. If having your phone randomly shout “Yo!” at you (or “Hodor!,” if you preferred the spin-offs) drove you batty, wait until you get ahold of this: Noice, an app that lets you communicate using only emoji and sounds. Really!OK, OK, I kid. Noice is actually kind of fun, in a very juvenile, very silly way.In…
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Dollarbird: A smart calendar app for tracking your income and expenses 0
July 17th at 1:48pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsWhat do you get when you cross a smart calendar app with a budgeting app? You get Dollarbird....
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Audiobooks.com Arrives on Android, iOS 0
August 29th at 1:40pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsAudiobooks.com today announced free Android and iOS apps that allow the downloading and streaming of audio books on Android phones and tablets, as well as iPhones, iPod touches, and iPads. You…
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Square Cash adds location awareness, Amazon Instant Video gets UI enhancements 0
October 7th at 10:31pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsUsers of popular money-sending service Square Cash can now use their iPhone's location services to quickly locate nearby recipients, while fans of Amazon Instant Video will find a number of new user interface enhancements designed to make viewing better.
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Evernote for iOS updated with Skitch support, Shortcuts, Related Notes 0
July 19th at 6:51am / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsIn a substantial upgrade to both free and premium level iPhone and iPad apps, note syncing service Evernote adds synced shortcuts, integration with Skitch for marking up images and PDFs, and a new related notes tool.
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Yandex Opens Its Free Cloud Storage Service For All 0
September 6th at 11:55am / The Next Web / 0 opinionsRussian Internet search and services giant Yandex has dropped the invitation-only policy for its free cloud storage service Yandex.Disk, which offers users 10GB of storage space free of charge and…
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Apple Pay is online, too: Apple Store, others apps accept Touch ID for authorizing purchases 1
October 20th at 11:11pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsThe official Apple Store application was updated on Monday with support for one-touch checkout using Apple Pay and Touch ID, marking the start of the online purchasing capabilities of Apple's new digital wallet service.
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Huddlers wants to take the pain out of organizing sports you play with friends 0
July 23rd at 7:08pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsIf you ever find yourself in an endless maze of ‘reply all’ emails, as you slowly start to regret taking on the organizer’s role for your friends’ weekly game of b-ball, well, Huddlers is here to help....
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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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“Google My Business” App Now Lets Business Owners Respond To Customer Reviews From Their Smartphone 0
October 29th at 9:23pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsGoogle is rolling out an update to its “Google My Business” mobile application designed to make it easier for business owners to view and respond to customer reviews…and, of course, complaints. Where previously the app served as a way for businesses to quickly update their information, post to Google+ and track how visible their business is across Google sites, with these…