It’s Friday, which means for it’s time for a new round of iPhone apps. This time around, we’re giving you plenty of goodness. Between an app that gives you fake numbers, and an iPhone version of one of your old favorite magazines, you’ll have plenty of new titles to download. More »
Here’s your new edition of the best Android apps of the week. This time we’re giving you a wintertime game, a tool for managing your social networks, and so much more. It’s about time to fire up Google Play. More »
The PlayBook may not have taken off in the consumer market, but its enterprise-friendly features may help it find a home elsewhere — especially now that it’s packing a speedy 4G radio. Fresh on the heels of the LTE edition hitting Canadian shores, Intergraph has unveiled its Mobile Responder app that turns RIM’s slate into a formidable tool for police and other emergency responders. The app taps into the company’s Computer Aided Dispatch system, which pulls in data from police databases, keeps dispatch centers just a tap away and allows the immediate filing of incident reports. The suite is getting its first public demo next week at the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police Conference in Nova Scotia. For more, check out the PR after the break.
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PlayBook Mobile Responder app puts police tools in a finger-friendly package originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 10 Aug 2012 01:41:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Small things do matter. In case you were missing the “Nearby Friends” view on the Foursquare app, fret not because the company is now bringing back the feature – at least on iOS and BlackBerry. Apparently when Foursquare redesigned its app in June, the ability to switch between nearby check-ins and all activity was removed. Now, it is once again reintroducing the feature on the latest update. So if you’re running the app on your iPhone, you can switch between the two views by dragging the screen down on your friends tab.
BlackBerry users, on the other hand, can simply tap the friends icon to switch between the two views. The latest roll-out also includes a few bug fixes as well a couple of performance tweaks. In case you wondering when it’s returning to Android, the company said that it will be coming soon. Indeed, some people use Foursquare to keep up with all their friends, but sometimes users just want to know what’s going on around them. Thankfully, the developers of the highly-popular location-based social networking website realized that too soon.
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Foursquare now has targeted adds, Foursquare gets redesigned with nifty features,
Good news to all Chase customers on Android. If your bank is Chase, you will be glad to know that the Chases Mobile for Android has just been updated to version 2.7 with a lot of nifty enhancements. Probably the most significant feature in the update is the capability to scroll up to 24 months of transactions related to your Chase deposit accounts. The update also now allows Chase Liquid customers to view account info, transfer money to Chase Liquid, use Chase QuickDeposit, and manage alerts and more via the mobile app. The enhancements do not stop there. The new version of Chase Mobile now includes the ability to receive in-app notices for upcoming outages, increased character limits for amount fields for Pay Bills and Chase QuickPay, and a few system enhancements to improve app performance. You can get the app via Google Play.
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Wifarer app provides real-time indoor navigation, Spotify for Android updated with personalized radio feature,
If staring at the incoming callers’ visage just wasn’t enough, Current’s Caller ID might worth a try. The utility app adds a raft of extra detail to your smartphone when it rings, from recent tweets and status updates through to weather conditions and even location data. After loading up the app, you can connect to your Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn profiles, which Current Caller ID combines with your existing contact list. Based on your use history, the app will even offer up a time to return missed calls. There’s the nice addition of some metrics between you and your phonebook, visualizing that precarious balance between text messages and calls with your significant other — or a timegraph of when you call Mom. These stats are possibly more useful than the caller ID features, and while the design does jar a little with the typical Android aesthetic, it’s hard to complain when the app’s free. If you’re willing to forgive those minor visual flaws, the download awaits at the source below.
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The Smithsonian National Zoo is one of the best zoos in the country. Need evidence? They have pandas. And now in addition to these giant, hard to breed, black and white bears, it also has an official iPhone app. More »
Following Google’s announcement in June to bring 3D imagery on Google Maps for mobile devices, the Mountain View-based tech titan is now expanding the coverage to Denver, Colorado and Seattle, Washington. Now, folks in the aforementioned areas can now better explore and tour both cities via their iOS and Android devices. In an announcement today, Google pointed out the many things that users can do with the newly added feature.
Using the app, users can either head on over Safeco Field, reminisce the Pike Place, the Seattle Public Library, and the Space Needle, as well as the Denver Art Museum – all in a spectacular 3D imagery fashion. “We hope you enjoy these new additions to Google Earth for mobile. Being able to provide you with this comprehensive 3D experience is possible because of advanced image processing and the use of 45-degree aerial imagery,” Google said.
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Google Earth 6 Adds Realistic 3D Trees, Integrated Street View, New York City In 3D Thanks To Google Earth,
If you watch The Wire or Breaking Bad, you’ve probably seen the characters use pre-paid cellphones to make their conversations, more, like, secretive. Yo. Anyway these phones are also called burners, hence the name of this new app.
Burner lets iPhone users create temporary phone numbers that can be used to send and receive SMS or calls, just like “real” phone numbers. Users can create as many numbers as they want provided they have enough credits, which are bought in-app. Users can set expiry dates for the numbers or “burn” them whenever they want. It’s not as badass as cracking a phone in half and throwing it in the trash while sporting a mean and/or contemplative look though.
Burner is available on the iTunes App Store for $1.99 (USD). Yo. Kafkaesque. Bitch.
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If you like your tech news served on a mobile device, then perhaps Pulse isn’t so foreign to you. I personally love using the app on my Android device, although sometimes I wish I could use it on my Windows PC as well. And it turns out that the team behind the app has considered the possibility of launching a special version for the web. Today, Pulse for the Web has just been launched for modern browsers. It now works on Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Internet Explorer.
The team also announced a partnership with Microsoft to enhance the web experience on Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 8 tablets. The team said that they were able to fully optimize the app for touch and incorporated multi-touch gestures on it. Now, it takes just one swipe to move between articles, a two-finger swipe to bring up your reading list, and a simple pinch to close an article. If you haven’t tried the app yet, Pulse for the Web will be a good start.
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Foursquare’s “Nearby Friends” functionality returns on iOS and BlackBerry, Android up next, Chase Mobile for Android gets updated with tons of useful features,
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