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This Week’s Must-Have iOS Apps: Yahoo! Axis, Diet Coda, Facebook Camera & More 0
May 27th at 6:00am / Cult of Mac / 0 opinionsKicking off this week’s must-have apps roundup is a new web browser from Yahoo! called Axis, which hopes to redefine web searching on desktops and iOS devices. We’ve also got a terrific app for web editors, one that’ll help you monitor which apps are accessing your personal data, and two new apps from Facebook.
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10 Apps for Finding Apps 2
February 12th at 5:35pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsWith the bounty of apps available for mobile devices, it would take a full-time job to customize the best apps to suit our needs and populate our devices. Of course, there...
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Map Your Own 3D Space With Metaio Creator Mobile 0
February 29th at 9:06am / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsYesterday, Metaio CTO Peter Meier ran a small demo for me that describes how their new Creator Mobile software allows any user to map a 3D space with a coordinate system, so they can then add their own digital, Augmented Reality content to that space. This mobile app will work in conjunction with their desktop solution called simply Metaio Creator (video description at this link), which is where the content is actually associated with the coordinate system, via “drag and drop”.
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5 great productivity apps for iPhone-owning Pomodoro fans 0
May 17th at 4:49pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsProductivity is a biggie on the social web. Twitter is full of people sharing tips on how to be more productive and efficient. Shouldn’t they be doing something useful? Maybe…
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Easy Calendar: A Simple iOS App to Plan Your Days 0
May 14th at 12:54pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsIf you like stripped down apps that help you organize your life, we’ve previously written about the likes of Short Calendar, a simple Web app to share your plans for…
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LaCie’s Wuala Secure Cloud Storage App Encrypts and Decrypts Files on Your iPhone 0
March 16th at 5:23pm / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsThe cloud is good, yes!, but it's easy to understand how it could make security-minded folks a bit woozy, what with all those personal files just sitting there waiting to be compromised. If that thought makes you feel woozy, perhaps you should look into LaCie's Wuala service, a secure online storage locker built on technology developed at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. It now has an iOS app. You can get 1GB of space for free, or 25GB for $50 a year, which all things considered is not that...
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Daily App Deals: Get AudioManager Pro for Android for 99¢ in Today’s App Deals 0
March 28th at 9:30pm / 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. AudioManager Pro (Google Play) Previously $1.50, now 99¢. AudioManager Pro for Android lets you adjust all your volume levels straight from your home screen and schedule volume profiles for different times of day. Get it for 99¢. (via Apps-aholic) iOS iOS
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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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Onion Browser Brings Encrypted Web Browsing to the iPhone 0
April 26th at 4:20am / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsIncreasingly, as networks get faster and phones smarter, we're using our mobile devices as we would our computers. Already we've seen a few options for secure mobile web browsing, but Onion Browser—a new app from the iPhone's app store—is the first to encrypt all your data. By connecting to the Tor network through a series of virtual tunnels, the Onion Browser gives you essentially complete online anonymity. The connection speed is slower than it would be if it weren't bouncing through virtual...
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Treater Launches iOS and Android Apps 0
October 4th at 2:17pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsIt was just last month that we reported Treater had secured $2.5 million in seed funding, as it rolled its ‘instant’ social and mobile gifting service out into public beta….
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Dropcam Launches New iPad App 8
November 29th at 1:00am / Mashable / 1 opinionsDropcam has recently launched a new iPad app that allows users to watch multiple streams on an Apple tablet. The app is designed to allow you to take a peek at what's...
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This iOS App Calculates Tips Based On Quality of Service 0
December 23rd at 7:48pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsTipping. What was once a little extra something for good service is now an expectation — at least here in the US — and so tipping calculators continue to pop up in app stores, helping the world calculate those 5-25% tips (because math)....
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CalDigit AV Pro a speedy storage device for creative pros 2
February 20th at 12:22am / Macworld / 0 opinionsWith a handful of ways to customize the drive and the high-speed USB 3 interface, the AV Pro is a storage device built to help streamline the workflow of creative professionals. CalDigit offers two different models of the AV Pro: a model with a 3.5-inch hard drive, or one with a 2.5-inch solid-state drive. Regardless of which model you choose, the AV Pro has user-serviceable drives that allow easy replacement of the drive mechanism when the need arises....
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Google Chrome’s New Update Will Make You Ask Yourself Yet Again Why Apple Won’t Let You Make It iOS’s Default Browser 1
April 9th at 11:38am / Cult of Mac / 0 opinionsGoogle Chrome is the best third-party browser for iOS, and it just received a healthy update that features a number of new improvements that makes it even more of a crime that Apple won’t let any other browser but Safari act as default browser under iOS.
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10 Apps for Enjoying the Great Outdoors 2
May 25th at 10:45pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsWhen you think about enjoying the great outdoors, embracing the natural world and soaking up all of the sun's vitamin D, technology doesn't really enter the picture, does it? But using tech and being outside don't have to be mutually exclusive. There are plenty of mobile apps to help you connect with nature, rather than keeping you glued to your virtual life.
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Meet Appidemia, A Beautiful Application Guide For iOS In Case You Need More Distractions 2
August 7th at 3:03am / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsToday Appricot released Appidemia, an application guide for iOS that helps you find new software to play with, and keep track of what your friends are using. It has the added quality of being one of the prettiest applications I’ve used on any phone. Once a platform expands past a certain size, the sheer scale of its app catalog can become ponderous. How the heck do you find what you need? iOS…
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Google Authenticator returns to the iOS App Store, restoring accounts the previous version removed 2
September 7th at 3:48pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsGoogle Authenticator, the 2-factor authentication app that Google pulled from Apple’s App Store earlier this week after version 2.0 launched with a bug that removed any accounts that users already had set up, has today returned....
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Visual Search App CamFind Passes 1M Downloads, Makes Its API Public 5
October 31st at 5:03pm / TechCrunch / 2 opinionsCamFind, the visual search app that wants to be a faster and more accurate alternative to Google Goggles, recently hit two milestones. Its iOS app just crossed a total of one million downloads (an Android version will be released in two months) and its API is now available for other developers to download on Mashape. The app’s creators, Dominik Mazur and Bradford Folkens, say they made…
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15 of the best iOS apps released in December 1
December 31st at 9:48pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsDecember (and 2013) will soon be a distant memory, so we thought we’d take a retrospective look at some of the more notable apps to hit our radar over the past month. So without further ado, here’s a quick snapshot of some of the best iOS apps to launch in recent weeks....
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Another bogus Android app briefly tops Google Play charts 2
April 8th at 10:29pm / The Verge / 0 opinionsAn unscrupulous developer has managed to turn a useless Android app into a temporary hit on the Google Play store — again. As noted by Android Police, a $3.99 app called Virus Shield recently skyrocketed up the "top paid" chart. It was eventually pulled down by Google, but not before tallying over 10,000 downloads according to its Play listing. Created by a developer under the guise of Deviant Solutions, Virus Shield promised to prevent "harmful apps from being installed on your device." (Antivirus...
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Contact Center Has Changed The Way I Use My iPhone 1
August 28th at 8:23pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsContact Center acts like speed dial built for the way we communicate with others on smartphones today. You’re given a set of customizable tiles that can be edited to show common functions, like calling, texting, or sending GIFs, or to show your favorite contacts.
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For app makers, Apple giveth widgets â and Apple taketh away 5
October 29th at 9:44pm / Cult of Mac / 0 opinionsWhen you live in Apple’s world as a third-party developer, you are required to play by Apple’s rules. And sometimes those rules are subject to sudden change. James Thomson, the developer behind the scientific calculator app PCalc, was notified today…
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Updated Chrome For iOS App Gets Material Design, Support For Handoff 2
January 20th at 10:03pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsGoogle’s mobile web browser, Chrome for iOS, is the latest Google application to receive the new “Material Design” look with a new release of the app for iPhone and iPad users out today. Google’s new design motif, introduced with the latest version of Android, is meant to give Google’s mobile platform and services a universal look-and-feel, regardless of which…
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The best launcher apps for iOS 4
June 18th at 2:02pm / Macworld / 0 opinionsA good launcher app can vastly speed up many of the everyday tasks you do on your iPhone or iPad. But which ones are the best? (Hint: We love Launch Center Pro.)