Samsung’s new, open smartphone platform, bada
The mobile app just spiraled out of control last year and today we’re mesmerized and overwhelmed with just too many to choose from. Well, CNN’s Victor Hernandez sorts through the hundreds and thousands of mobile, tablet and notebook apps to give you 50 of the most buzzworthy ones. Check out the source at CNN.com.
360 Panorama - landscape photos for smartphones
Alfred - discover new restaurants
App.bg - pull up nearby instagrams
Autostitcher - create panoramic images on your iPhone
Can I Park Here - literally find out if you can park where your are now
CardMunch - LinkedIn iOS app converts paper business cards to digital contacts
Catch - mobile app to upload new content (text, web clips, photos, voice memos)
Clingle - share multimedia messages when you check in
Cuttings.me - store and showcase your online portfolio
Evernote Food - store, preserve and share Evernotes food adventures
Facebook Timeline Apps - Timeline’s integration from outside sources
Find My Friends - locate others via their Apple IDs and iCloud
Fondu - community for sharing short reviews about places to eat
Flipboard - e-zine reader for iPad now available for iPhone
Flud News - your own collection of articles and news magazine-style
Frametastic - mobile app for framing multiple camera photos
Friend or Follow - display who’s following you on social media
Google Currents - explore online magazines ‘zine style from your mobile phone
GramFeed - Instagram images larger than a smartphone screen
Hipmunk - determine neighborhoods with food, nightlife and shopping
Instagram - 16 million users in less than a year
Kyoo - aggregates all the buzz around a specific topic
LogMeln - remote access your PC or Mac from your iPhone or iPad
Mlkshk - sort through millions of online images and vidoes via shakes
Muuter - temporarily remove friends, topics, hashtags from your feed
My Secret Folder - passcode-enabled app stores pics, movies, notes, contacts, etc.
Oink - mobile app allows rating of specific dishes, not just restaurants
Path - exclusive, smartphone-centric service referred as “anti-Facebook”
Photosynth - another panoramic-photo mobile app for iOS
Picscatter - create collage of photos, images, albums
Pinterest - a virtual pinboard (and my favorite of all!)
Road Ninja - mobile app alerts you to food, gas, lodging, etc.
Room 77 - shows you the best and worst room views via Google maps
Slice - organize purchases, track orders from multiple vendors
SlowShutter - iOS camera app to fool around with light, blurring images, etc.
Snapseed - pro-level photo editing software
Springpad - virtual tool for organizing personal notes and tasks
Spool - save articles and videos even if you’re offline
Swackett - weather app for iOS recommends what to wear
Thumb - mobile app to vote thumbs up or down on anything
Total Recall - automatic or manual call and voice recorder app for Android
TourWrist - host your panoramic images here
Tweepi - Twitter app allows cleaning up followers, lists, streams
Tweetbot - iPhone Twitter client
Tweetsheet - creates an infographic of your personal Twitter universe
TwitWipe - deletes all your tweets in one swoop
Unroll.me - unsubscribe from unwanted e-mails in bulk
Voxer - walkie-talkie app for smartphones
Zite - news reader according to your interests; bought by CNN in 2011
ZocDoc - discover, research medial professionals in your area, then book an appointment online
ZoomSphere - provides stats for social networks, keep up with brands and stars
Read the entire article, including the links to all these mobile and web applications, on CNN.
Source: CNN Tech
Photo by samsungtomorrow at Flickr.com
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DISH Network Mobile TV Stations
After it’s failed $39 billion bid for T-Mobile USA last year, AT&T may be compelled to pay premium price to acquire Dish Network Corp.
Dallas-based AT&T last month abandoned its deal for T-Mobile USA that would have increased the largest United States telephone company’s 4G spectrum capacity 62 percent, helping its higher-speed LTE network compete with Verizon Wireless. Now, AT&T may consider a bid for Dish after the second-largest U.S. satellite-television provider acquired airwaves from the bankruptcies of DBSD North America Inc. and TerreStar Networks Inc. that could give AT&T two to four more years of capacity.
Dish is open to a potential acquisition once it builds out its wireless telephone and entertainment businesses, the Englewood, Colorado-based company’s CEO Clayton said last week.
Read more at Bloomberg Businessweek
Photo by pattiesolace at Flickr.com
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Real PC apps on the iPad!
Microsoft® Office on my Apple iPad? For free? Is this a joke? I kid you not. OnLive.com is now offering iPad users access to the popular PC- and Mac-based business applications – for free!
Based upon OnLive’s instant-action cloud gaming technology, OnLive Desktop delivers a seamless Windows desktop experience, with instant-response multi-touch gestures, together with a full on-screen Windows keyboard and handwriting recognition. Rich media, such as video, animation, slide transitions and even PC games, run fluidly and dynamically with instant-action interactivity. It comes with 2GB of free cloud storage in an instant-action, media-rich Windows® 7 desktop.
You can download the OnLive Desktop for the iPad free from the iTunes App Store. However, you still need to sign up and create a free OnLive account. The minimum configuration required is an iPad or iPad 2 with at least 1 Mbps Internet connection. 1.5-2 Mbps for best results.
An OnLive Desktop Pro is coming soon for $9.99/month. This comes with a priority access to the multi-touch OnLive Desktop, preloaded with Microsoft Word®, Excel®, PowerPoint®, 50 GB of secure cloud storage that appears as your Documents folder on your OnLive Desktop, cloud-accelerated Web browsing and the ability to add additional PC applications.
“What’s the come on?” You guessed it! When the Pro comes out, Pro subscribers get first crack in accessing their OnLive Desktop. I guess while it’s not yet in the market, get a feel of the OnLive Desktop and decide whether it’s worth the 10 bucks a month when Pro is available.
OnLive is only available in North America and the UK. They are expanding their service into Europe and Asia. OnLive’s technology is backed by hundreds of patents and patents pending. The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. OnLive investors include Warner Bros., Autodesk, Maverick Capital, AT&T, British Telecommunications (BT), The Belgacom Group, HTC and Juniper Networks.
Source: OnLive.com
Image from OnLive.com
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About ifttt
This could be the next, big thing in social media. “IfThisThenThat lets all your online stuff work together to do way more interesting stuff,” writes Scott Hanselman. “(It’s) is a cloud-based, open-ended, web workflow creator building on existing social APIs to create more sophisticated distributed aggregated tasks.”
John Pavlus writes: “Wouldn’t it be great if Twitter and Instapaper were connected to each other, so every time I favorited a tweet with an interesting link, it would automatically show up in my Instapaper queue ready for me to read?” Unless you’re capable of deciphering [url=https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api]this Klingon-esque documentation[/url], you’re out of luck.
You can teach your smart phone all kinds of smart tricks, from updating social networks to adding events to my calendar. With this tool you can create simple rules involving an action and a reaction. Supported programs include Twitter, Dropbox, Facebook, Google Calendar, Gmail and so much more.
Here’s an example for your mobile phone. “If I send a text message to ifttt including the word “#post” it will be posted to Facebook as my status.”
Here’s another example: “I set up this to get every email from my wife Kathy.”
Anyway, just go to ifttt.com and start your “Idiot’s Guide to Creating Awesome APIs!”
Sources & Images: Computer Zen | Make Use Of | Fastcodesign
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