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New AppAide App Will Recommend Apps Based on Usage

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Trying to find a good app can be hard at times because you need to wade through thousands of apps that are already in the market. Fortunately, this is a predicament that has been in the minds of other app developers and it’s being addressed with, you guessed it, an app.

AppAide is an app that will make recommendations of other apps based on your actual usage. The app, which was developed by BetaBait, uses much of the same technology that is being used by BetaNoodle, a company that BetaBait acquired recently. [Read more…]

Originally posted on August 1, 2012 @ 9:20 pm

Pearltrees Releases iPhone App

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One of the more interesting productivity apps that has come out recently is Pearltrees. It’s an app that helps a user in collecting and organizing their interests and related information.

Pearltrees does something that is also addressed by other apps but it does it differently by presenting the information in a unique, but very effective way. A few months ago, it released a web app and then released an iPad app. Now, Pearltrees is coming to the iPhone.  [Read more…]

Originally posted on July 25, 2012 @ 8:13 pm

Viddy Gets Major Update

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Viddy is quietly but also surely dominating the social video segment of the market with its easy to use app. It is on its way to becoming the Instagram equivalent for videos. Alongside its growing number of endorsers and influx of investor money, Viddy recently announced a major new update for the Viddy app.

The new update features a lot of new changes and additions to Viddy. One of the new features is an option to choose the thumbnail cover art for the videos you’ve captured. This makes the video thumbnail more beautiful to look, providing the thumbnails with an Instagram-like look because of your chosen image in place of the dull first frame of the video (which was the default thumbnail before). [Read more…]

Originally posted on May 30, 2012 @ 9:29 pm

Facebook releases Facebook Camera App; No, This is Not Instagram

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A few weeks ago, Facebook made waves when it announced that it has bought the hugely popular photo taking app Instagram for $1 billion. According to the press statement, Instagram will be developed independent of Facebook. With Facebook recently announcing its own photo taking feature that promise may have been kept but it also creates a lot of questions about the future of both Facebook and Instagram.

The new Facebook Camera is a new app that the leading social networking company will be releasing on the iTunes App Store. [Read more…]

Originally posted on May 25, 2012 @ 1:09 pm

Enhancing the Movie Theater Experience Using a Mobile App

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It was only a matter of time before movie watching in the theaters will be invaded by mobile apps. Screen Vision, a cinema advertising firm, is implementing a plan to integrate mobile devices when people go inside theaters. The plan is to enhance the pre-show experience before the movie is shown.

About 2,400 theaters across the United States are involved in this project. Screenvision developed an app for the iOS called Screenfanz. The objective is to bring a game show experience for people who arrive early in the theater. [Read more…]

Originally posted on April 9, 2012 @ 8:42 pm