Mar 06
Flickr and Hunch co-founder Caterina Fake has been building her location-based exploration service Findery for years, with access only available to a select group of testers. Today,it goes live to the world.
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Feb 25
Fire your babysitter, because Disney just dropped a brand new app that lets you watch Disney, Pixar, and Marvel movies you bought on iTunes and ones you own on DVD from your iPhone or iPad. Eureka.
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Feb 03
Paper, Facebook’s new standalone reader app, is now available for download.
Posted in: Today's ChiliPaper, Facebook’s new standalone reader app
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Jan 30
SwiftKey is one of the best keyboard replacements you can get on Android, and now it’s bringing its note-taking talents to iOS with the launch of a new app called SwiftKey Note.
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Dec 19
Not every photo you take on your phone will be good. Many will be terrible. Until now, we’ve used filters in Instagram or Twitter to give these flops a little spunk. Well a new iOS app called Fragment takes a different approach to filters: Rather than adding a gauzy haze over your images, it shatters them.
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Oct 21
Best Google Voice Apps for iPhone
Posted in: Today's ChiliThis article was written on November 16, 2011 by CyberNet.
Google Voice is a great service for having a single phone number ring multiple phones, plus you also get unlimited text messaging for free. A deal like that is pretty hard to beat, but iOS users aren’t able to get the integrated experience without jailbreaking their iPhone. There are some apps, however, that try to make using Google Voice a little more seamless.
The commonality I found between most iOS Google Voice apps is that since there is no public API for Google Voice many of them can feel sluggish if you don’t have a good network connection. This is because they are essentially loading and parsing the desktop version of the Google Voice site with each operation. When you’re trying to send or receive a simple text message the last thing you want to do is wait a minute for the app to finish what it’s doing.
The developer of Think Messenger ($2.99 on iTunes) and Think Dialer ($1.99 on iTunes) decided to take a different route. Instead of using the desktop version he went with the mobile version, which meant everything would be a lot faster, but some limitations would also be imposed. The speed improvements over some of the other apps like GV Mobile+ is rather noticeable to me. It even feels faster than the official Google Voice app released by Google themselves.
You may be wondering why there are two apps instead of just one, but I think that’s what makes me love this integration even more than the others. By separating out the calling and SMS text messaging it feels more like the native iPhone experience, and overall the apps feel a lot more polished than the others I’ve bought. The only thing that feels a little out of place is that the voicemail retrieval is done through the Think Messenger app, which I suspect is because the Think Dialer does not yet support push notifications. With Think Messenger you get native push notifications without any subscription fees, and it works very well.
Think Messenger Screenshots
Think Dialer Screenshots
Think Messenger Homepage ($2.99 on iTunes – Universal iPad/iPhone app)
Think Dialer Homepage ($1.99 on iTunes)
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Oct 14
Until now, augmented reality has been mostly used as a way of giving you more information about the world around you, but a new iPhone app uses your surroundings to remix the music you’re listening to.
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Oct 02
You don’t have to open Instapaper for the read-it-later app to update anymore–the iOS version of th
Posted in: Today's ChiliYou don’t have to open Instapaper for the read-it-later app to update anymore—the iOS version of the app now automatically adds your saved articles in the background.
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Jul 19
iOS 7 is basically going to cure cancer, save the world and figure out which coconut water brand is the best. Or well, probably not. What it will do is put every current iPhone app on notice. The visual changes to iOS 7’s core functionality is so dramatic that it will make every other app look like outdated garbage. Like stayed out in the baking Sun in the middle of July for three weeks garbage. Your eyes won’t be able to look at it.
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Jul 18
Hey now! VLC, the bestest fastest sweetest codec-iest easiest to usiest and every positive -est adjectie there is video player around, is now available (again) on iOS. If you’re looking to play videos on your iPhone and iPad, VLC is probably going to be your best bet.
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