Every other startup out there is trying to become the new big thing in email, but what we get more often than not is a bunch of half-baked tweaks that sound nice on paper but don’t really do all that much to change the experience. Ping, however, actually is probably unlike any other email client you’ve used before.
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While it’s been on the market for iOS for almost a year, Silent Text is finally hitting Android, and with concerns over cyber security reaching critical levels, it couldn’t come any sooner.
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Now, there’s only so much you can really do as far as shortcuts go on an (non-jailbroken) iPhone. But if you’re set in your ways and still want some of the saved seconds a neat and tidy app launcher could afford you, Push Launcher is about as close as you’re going to get.
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While this generally goes unsaid, the internet has become a huge crutch—but more than that, we’re pretty much blind without it. What do you do when you need to convert meters to feet? Hit a few buttons on your keyboard and bam, Google tells you all you need to know. But the thing is, you’re not really gaining anything from having a contextless answer spit at your eyeballs. The Converted can help where Google fails.
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Everyone’s busy. Now, whether it’s for legitimate reasons or own anxious need to feel like we’re busy at all times is a different story. Regardless, anything we can do to save time is going to free up precious minute we (think) we so desperately need. Speed-reading app ReadQuick is here to do just that.
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With most of the documents released by the NSA being an exercise in fitting as few letters as possible between strings of black bars, it’s no wonder that a whole slew of [Redacted]-oriented games have been cropping up. The newest comes in the form of a surprisingly engrossing, interactive app composed entirely of text.
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Look at the text message conversation between any two people in the 12 to late 20s age range and there’s a pretty decent chance you’ll get a deluge of brightly colored cartoon icons that, just a few years ago, would have seemed entirely nonsensical. Now they can tell entire tales
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Everyone loves wine—or rather, everyone likes to seem like they love wine. And what better way to give off an air of sophistication than to be able to offer perfect recommendations, pairings, and analyses on any wine at a moments notice? Delectable lets you do all that with absolutely no preparation required.
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While most educational apps are generally intended for children, let’s be honest—anyone not in the field probably remembers next to nothing about how the human body works other than the fact that, you know, it does. Fortunately, The Human Body by Tinybop is just as fascinating for adults as it is for children, letting you explore every excreting, beating, and oozing crevice of human biology, all at your own pace.
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After a successful Indigogo funding campaign and a closed trial period, design startup Whirlscape is finally making its Minuum Keyboard available to the public—giving you all the screen space you need by condensing your full, QWERTY keyboard into one, itty bitty line.
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