Kicking off this week’s must-have apps roundup is a beautifully simple timer app for the iPhone that could mean you never need to set timers manually again. There’s also a terrific app for beaming your photographs to almost any display — without additional hardware or software. Plus lots more.
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This Week’s Must-Have iOS Apps: Timer, Scalado PhotoBeamer, Quip & More 0
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5 Free iPhone Gardening Apps for Your Green Thumb 0
June 24th at 4:18pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsHere at Mashable, our garden grows with some digital assistance. We have previously rounded up 10 great options to help you get more greenery, and now we're topping up...
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4 Free iPhone Apps for Making Home Movies 0
May 30th at 8:39pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsIt's summer: Time for outdoor festivals, picnics and anachronistic celebrations of our fading youth (see: crochet matches, clambakes and ironic sock hops). And what better...
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Photo-Sharing App LiveShare Adds News Feed, Local Groups 0
October 5th at 6:56am / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsCooliris’ photo-sharing app LiveShare is all-new today, with two major additions: a Facebook-like News Feed and enhanced geolocation features that let you share photos with others in your same vicinity. The latter feature, seemingly reminiscent of the failed location-based photo-sharing app from Color, is different in that it doesn’t just work on mobile – it works in a Web browser, too.
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Best of 2010: Travel Apps for the iPhone 0
December 27th at 5:41pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsWhether or not they came out in 2010, these apps rocked for travelers this year. I spent most of my summer studying the intersection of tech and travel, as well…
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Viadeo Launches a BlackBerry App 0
February 2nd at 1:34pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsViadeo, the social network for professionals, has announced that its mobile app is now available for BlackBerry smartphones. The free app can now be downloaded now from BlackBerry App World….
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Jolicloud launches on iPhone with Sparrow-style interface 0
April 30th at 9:58pm / The Verge / 0 opinionsWe first saw social organizing tool Jolicloud Me last month when we went hands on with its HTML5 web app, and today the service is finally available on iPhone. Functionally the new iOS app works much the same as its web counterpart — you can connect to a number of services (including Facebook, Flickr, Instagram, and Twitter), and use Jolicloud to search for content you've posted, whether it's a link to an article or a picture of your cat. You can also create Pinterest-style collections to share...
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Kik Updates to Do Group Messaging and Picture Sharing 0
March 8th at 12:36am / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsKik Messenger is fantastic. It's too bad RIM doesn't want to work with them to make the messaging app tri-platform, but the iPhone and Android versions both still work fine. The latest update (4.0) adds picture sharing, group chat and speed improvements. That's pretty great for a free app.
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Daily App Deals: Get Rockmate for iPad for Only 99¢ in Today’s App Deals 0
January 20th 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. Rockmate (iTunes) Previously $2.99, now 99¢. Rockmate turns your iPad into a sound studio and lets you create your own music with up to four people playing along on one iPad. Features include multiple drum and keyboard styles, audio samples, and guitar effects. Get it for 99¢. (via Apps-aholic) iOS iOS Android Windows
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Photography App Avatr* Makes Self-Portraits Social 0
September 17th at 2:29pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsWhat’s the most important part of social networks? According to Noiselab‘s co-founder and Mexican digital pioneer, Hector Mijangos, the answer is simple: You. This led his music holding to develop…
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Now You Can Upload Multiple iPhone Photos to Facebook at Once 0
November 5th at 4:04pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsPhoto uploading just got a whole lot easier for users of Facebook's app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices. Facebook released version 5.1 of its iOS app on Monday,...
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Wink: Instantly Share Your Photos With Friends So They Stop Bugging You 2
December 14th at 4:10am / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsEmail me that photo. Hey don't forget to Facebook those pictures. That kind of nagging you hear over and over from your friends gets annoying. But if you all download Wink, then they no longer have a reason to beg you to post your pics....
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Deko, Temple Run 2, and More 2
January 19th at 3:10am / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsAddictive games? Retro-style photos? Delicious food? What's that? You like all of those things. Good news—you've come to the right place. This round of the best iPhone apps of the week has the follow-up to your favorite game, an abstract wallpaper maker, and more....
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Free Messaging And Calling App Viber Hits 140 Million Users 0
December 18th at 10:59am / The Next Web / 0 opinionsViber, the mobile messaging and voice calling application that lets iOS, Android and Windows Phone 7 smartphone owners communicate for free over 3G or WiFi, has attracted 140 million users in 193 countries to date (up from 100 million last September and 90 million in July)....
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Facebook adds voice and video to iOS app 6
February 4th at 7:22pm / Macworld / 0 opinionsFacebook released an updated version of its universal app for iPhone and iPad over the weekend, adding voice and video features. The update also improves the app’s ability to let users know when a friend is nearby....
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Facebook updates its iOS app to allow users to call friends for free within the US and Canada 0
February 23rd at 1:28am / The Next Web / 0 opinionsFacebook has released an update to its iOS mobile app that includes several new features, the most noteworthy being the ability for users to call friends for free within the app. This feature was released earlier for its Messenger app, but now the social network is bringing it to its main app....
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Pheed: The Next Social Craze for Teens? 2
March 11th at 2:45am / Mashable / 0 opinionsHave you sent your first "Pheed" yet? Launched late last year, Pheed is a new social media platform that lets you share text, photos, videos and audio. Propelled by teenage users, Pheed topped the App Store's social networking category in late February. Though the company says the app is not just for teens, Pheed told Mashable the user base is 81% between age 14 and 25. Pheed's popularity with teens was spurred by several influential teenagers on Twitter sharing that they'd discovered the app.
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Skype Competitor Viber Hits 175 Million Users, Up From 140 Million+ In December 0
February 26th at 3:03am / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsMessaging startup Viber, which lets users of most smartphone platforms send free texts, calls and messages via its app, is continuing to ramp up its user-base. Speaking at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona today, CEO Talmon Marco announced the startup now has 175 million users. Viber has been around since early 2011, but growing rapidly in the past 12 months. In December it…
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Despite Foursquare’s struggles, Chicago’s Evzdrop isn’t scared of the check-in — or “drop” 0
April 26th at 8:34am / GigaOM / 0 opinionsA small startup trying to gain traction in the Windy City, Evzdrop has designed geo-social network that doesn’t connect you to your friends but to strangers wherever you happen to be.
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Manage multiple social media accounts with your Mac 0
May 8th at 5:42pm / Macworld / 0 opinionsKeeping up with just one social media account is tough enough. But if you personally hang out on even one or two more services, or are in charge of socializing with your business’s customers online, juggling it all starts to feel a lot more like work, and not the fun kind. Here are a few tools and tricks—some for power users, others for business cases, and even a slightly nerdier option—that can help take the drudgery out of managing social media....
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Apple's removal of Voice Memos in iOS 7 beta leaves space for third-party alternatives 0
June 19th at 12:51am / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsApple made no small amount of changes to its mobile platform with iOS 7, and among those was the removal of its native voice recording app a development that surprised both users and voice memo app developers alike.
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Likemind Wants To Help You Meet Local People By Posting Virtual Flyers Through Its iOS App 0
July 8th at 5:03pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsLikemind is another take on solving the ‘how to meet local people with shared interests’ problem. The iOS-only app, with an Android version to follow, lets you post and browse geo-fenced virtual ‘flyers’ outlining what you’re looking for based on topic, interest or activity. It’s a nice visual and modern day approach to the personal classified ads or pin-board notices of yesteryear.
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Branch's Link-Sharing Service Potluck Lands On iPhone 0
July 17th at 9:08pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsBranch, the Obvious-backed discussion service, has just released Potluck for iPhone after launching the service on the Web just three weeks ago....
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Facebook Battles Snapchat For Visual Communication By Letting iOS Messenger Send Instagrams 0
August 8th at 6:03am / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsSnapchat sends 200 million private photo messages a day. WhatsApp sends 325 million. These are scary numbers for Facebook which prove the visual communication is on the rise, so it’s just began allowing Messenger for iOS users send Instagrams and photos from other non-camera roll albums. It shows that while Poke failed, Facebook is serious about getting in on the visual communication trend.