When Clear for iPhone launched 18 months ago, it introduced an unparalleled degree of simplicity in getting things done using an iPhone. The app's bare bones mentality might rub some people the wrong way, but there's no doubt that Clear, with its vibrant color palette, chromeless interface, and intuitive gestures, has been highly influential on app design since it launched. Today, Clear is finally coming to iPad as part of a brand new version of the app for iOS 7 that works on both iPhone and iPad, and...
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Popular to-do app Clear hits iPad, but at what cost? 0
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With Its New iPhone Application, Shutterfly Is Ready To Compete On Mobile 2
December 20th at 11:03pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsShutterfly, the photo and personal publishing company founded in 1999, is today making good on its September acquisition of Penguin Digital, with today’s launch of a new iPhone application for photo prints and gifts. The app has been completely redesigned from the version released a few years ago, and now includes everything from photo uploads and storage to mobile ordering of prints and gifts…
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Periscope's new follower-only mode keeps strangers from trolling you 1
April 8th at 6:49pm / The Verge / 0 opinionsOne of the beauties of Twitter's Periscope live video streaming service is how easy it is to start a broadcast and instantly have a bunch of strangers not only watching it, but interacting with you too. Yet the very same features that make it so easy to engage with others also ended up turning Periscope into a potential troll den. Anyone watching your public stream could come in and leave comments seen by you and everyone else. There was also a record of it for a potentially embarrassing 24 hours...
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Google Wallet Comes To iOS After Dropping NFC Requirement On Android 0
September 19th at 8:03pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsEarlier this week, Google rolled out a new version of the Google Wallet app for Android, which dropped the requirement that phones had to feature NFC technology for in-store payments to run the app. Now that this requirement has been dropped and Wallet has a new focus on loyalty cards, coupons and offers, the company is also bringing it to iOS today.
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Cinemax iOS app may violate Apple's no-porn policy on App Store 1
August 16th at 2:08am / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsCinemax's newly-approved Max GO iOS app is making waves because it allows streaming of late night adult programming that may violate Apple's ban on pornography on the App Store.
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AppleInsider's iOS app gets support for native iPhone 6 and 6 Plus screen resolutions, Apple Watch companion app in update 0
April 16th at 4:51pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsWith the updated AppleInsider iOS app, iPhone 6 and 6 Plus owners can get the day's freshest Apple news delivered in screen resolutions native to their handset, while Apple Watch owners will be granted quick access to headlines when the device launches next week.
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Photoshop Elements 12 review: Mobile albums and content-aware tools dominate new release 0
September 23rd at 7:42pm / Macworld / 0 opinionsAdobe’s annual update to Photoshop Elements, its consumer image organizer and editor, offers a satisfying array of new features. While changes in version 12's Organizer focus on syncing and sharing photos for access on mobile devices, the Elements 12 Editor includes slick Instagram-inspired effects, textures, frames, new guided edits, and a content-aware move tool. Even more exciting is an intuitive image correction method that remembers how you use it and a Red-Eye tool that works on animals—two...
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Microsoft brings Wordament to iPhone, first iOS game with Xbox Live achievements 0
December 25th at 7:09pm / The Verge / 0 opinionsAfter starting life as a Windows Phone game, Wordament soon picked up Xbox Live achievements on Microsoft's mobile operating system and made the jump to Windows 8. Microsoft is now taking it cross platform. Available for iPhone, Wordament is the first iOS game to use Xbox Live achievements. Similar to other Microsoft iOS apps, you simply sign in using your Microsoft Account and the game is then linked to your gamertag....
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Browse The Web Like It’s 1995 With Cufflink For Apple Watch 0
April 23rd at 2:43pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsAn iOS developer has built what he reckons is the first browser app for Apple Watch — and managed to get it approved by Apple. It’s called Cufflink.
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Photo service Cooliris adds integration with Baidu’s cloud platform to deepen its presence in China 0
September 26th at 7:08am / The Next Web / 0 opinionsUS-based photo service Cooliris has announced a partnership with Baidu, tapping on the distribution channel that the Chinese search giant offers as it seeks deeper integration with the Chinese market....
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Games for the weekend: Cubemen 6
January 5th at 12:07am / GigaOM / 0 opinionsCubemen, a combination real-time shooter and tower defense game, is one of the few games available in Apple’s App Store that has managed to implement multiplayer gaming across different platforms, iOS, Mac and Steam.
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Apple updates iMovie for iOS with fix for incorrectly cropped photos 0
April 30th at 11:51pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsApple on Thursday issued a minor update to its iMovie video editing app for iOS, addressing an issue that sometimes caused portrait photos to be cropped incorrectly.
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Korean accelerator SparkLabs showcases social and e-commerce startups at its second Demo Day 0
October 1st at 6:08am / The Next Web / 0 opinionsSparkLabs, an accelerator program in South Korea that is bringing a Silicon Valley-like approach to the Asian country’s startup ecosystem, showcased its second batch of startups to investors at Demo Day today....
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Inaugural 2013 app lets you live stream the beginning of President Obama's second term 0
January 16th at 6:10pm / The Verge / 0 opinionsIf you're unable to make the trek to Washington, DC but still want to witness President Obama's second-term swearing in, for the first time ever we can say, "there's an app for that." Obama's second inauguration, the 57th in US history, will be the first to have an official smartphone app of its own. The Presidential Inaugural Committee launched the app today for both iPhone and Android, offering features for those visiting our nation's capital for the big day as well as anyone watching from afar. If...
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You Should Play: Tales from the Borderlands serves up a colorful, comedic adventure 2
May 9th at 3:02pm / Macworld / 0 opinionsAnd you don't have to be a fan of the shooter games to enjoy this entertaining, phone-friendly spinoff.
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Games for the weekend: Heroes of Loot 1
October 4th at 12:00pm / GigaOM / 0 opinionsRunning down a long dark corridor for the first time, clearing a room full of monsters, and collecting loot after you win. The basic formula of what makes a classic dungeon crawler fun to play.
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Pageonce Now Processes $1M In Mobile Bill Payments Each Day And Expects Payment Volume Run-Rate To Hit $1B By Mid-2013 2
January 23rd at 6:03pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsThe mobile payments space gets a lot of attention, especially as it seems that a new startup or financial institution launches “a new way to pay, issue rewards or power transactions from a mobile phone” every second, to borrow Leena’s words. Yet, while this “fustercluck” draws most of the headlines, there’s an equally large opportunity on the slightly-less-crowded side of the “mobile payments”…
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The Click Wheel keyboard makes it impossible to type on your iPhone 3
May 17th at 7:49pm / The Verge / 0 opinionsDo you pine for a simpler time, when your phone was for phone calls, your iPod was for music, and watches were... well, watches? If so, have I got the app for you. Just in time for your weekly dose of nostalgia, developer Adam Bell has released his groundbreaking (and free) Click Wheel keyboard on the App Store. The third-party iOS keyboard brings the past to life, and is complete with authentic iPod scrolling sounds. Fancy. Now you, too, can scroll through one letter at a time as you compose your next...
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AppSeed Turns Your Sketches Into App Prototypes 0
October 9th at 12:25am / Mashable / 0 opinionsIt's one thing to sketch out an idea for an app, but turning it into a working digital design is another story. AppSeed makes that entire process much more seamless. Take a photo of your drawing -- making sure to capture the image within the app's specific markers -- and let computer vision do the rest. The app turns your sketched-out features into user interface (UI) elements such as a map or street view and even input text.
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How to use transcription with Dragon Dictate 3 for Mac 0
October 30th at 3:30am / Macworld / 0 opinionsWe've covered Dragon Dictate—a program that allows you to dictate into your favorite application, to save time and effort typing—over several iterations now. But the recently released Dragon Dictate 3 () adds a transcription feature that can be useful in certain situations. Here's how that feature works and how you can take advantage of it....