July 8, 2011
Text messaging is a relatively new form of communications for most people, but it is also one that’s surging towards massive popularity. There are many situations where quick messages are more convenient than phone calls. The only problem is the price. On most carriers, text messaging is a bit of a racket. Each message is [...]
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June 24, 2011
With the rise of gas these days, it pays to use whatever resources are available to get better gas mileage, through good car maintenance and low as possible gasoline rates. The iTunes App Store has a wide selection of free and affordable iPhone gas and vehicle maintenance apps that are practical and easy to use. It's easy to download and collect these apps so they’re available whenever you need them.
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June 23, 2011
If you love your podcasts and love your smartphone, you may have noticed that this should be a perfect meeting of technology and that there's just not a lot of great applications out there that can do the trick. Well, there wasn't. Not until recently, anyway. Pocket Casts by Shifty Jelly has now jumped on to the scene with an incredibly feature-filled application.
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June 22, 2011
Last week we ran an article about How to Create an iPhone or Android App Without Any Coding Skills, which is an introduction to a program called Buzztouch. In this follow-up article, I will share five model iPhone applications developed using Buzztouch. Imagine not only handing your clients your business card but also a portfolio mobile app of your work. It's really simple with Buzztouch.
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June 13, 2011
Geo-tagging is a wonderful thing, and has many valid uses. Exploring the world around you with pictures just happens to be one of them, thanks to an army of apps that make use of location-based photography.Trover is one that is available free for your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch, running iOS 4.0 or later.
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June 11, 2011
Stay is a free fun web-based tool we have reviewed previously. Basically, it offers a great feature set for planning and mapping your traveling and then saving and sharing your plans with friends, relatives or random people. Just a few days ago, the site launched their official free app for the iPhone which makes downloading and accessing your travel guides much easier.
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June 10, 2011
If you're really eager to make a mobile app, a website called Buzztouch may well be the web-based solution for you. Buzztouch is essentially Content Management Software for iOS and Android. It provides a template-based process in which you import your app's information into the online software, and in turn it will create the code that you need to compile the data for your application
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June 8, 2011
When a big story breaks, and there's no journalist around to hear it – does the news still have a voice? The guys behind Meporter, an intriguing new location-aware news app certainly think so – and they'd like to put you forward for the job. Everyone's a citizen journalist these days, and the recently launched Meporter is your chance to streamline the citizen journalist role.
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June 6, 2011
From the comfort of your pocket-sized smartphone it is now possible to record detailed information about your travels and location. The recently launched CheckMyTour offer a completely wireless and comprehensive tracking service that doesn't cost a penny. At the time of writing there is an iPhone app and an Android app in development.
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June 3, 2011
Right behind the Nikon D90, Apple’s iPhone 4 is the most popular camera in terms of pictures taken and uploaded to the photo sharing site, Flickr. While this little camera in your pocket has its limitations, there are hundreds of apps that provide it with some truly professional features and enhancements. There are hundreds of [...]
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June 1, 2011
Creating a panorama from multiple images is no longer the arduous, drawn out tweak-fest it used to be. Microsoft released a tool that could make a 3D panorama automatically, called Photosynth, and it really has to be played with to be believed. Luckily iOS users can now create panoramas on the fly. You don't need a tripod, existing images or money – the app is free and startlingly easy to use.
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June 1, 2011
Photos taken with the camera app on the iPhone have become sort of an art form, typically referred to as iPhoneography. It’s not that the iPhone camera is superior to other mobile camera apps; rather, it's the assortment of artistic processing apps that make iPhone images unique, and sort of a genre of their own. Not all images taken with the iPhone can put into the iPhoneography category, so what does an iPhoneographic image look like?
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May 31, 2011
Photo sharing apps have officially taken off, thanks primarily to mobile devices. These kinds of apps let you take pictures on your phone and share them with your social graph. Enter Mobli, the app that instantaneously uploads your pictures and videos in the background while taking them. This app is hot on the scene with plenty of interesting features to get us all excited about.
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May 30, 2011
How do you promote a physical iPhone accessory when most people wouldn't think of buying much beyond a bluetooth headset and maybe a case? According to Joby, you release a free app that fully demonstrates what you're missing out on – an iPhone tripod.
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May 24, 2011
The popular implementation of the "learning by repeating" method is flashcards usage. Thanks to the power of technology, flashcard learning is not limited to physical cards anymore. It has been adapted as countless web and desktop applications. One of those web flashcard services is Brainscape. This one is unique because it has a different method of utilizing and presenting the cards.
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