Thanks to crowdsourcing platforms like Kickstarter and Indigogo many aspiring smartphone accessory makers are actually able to turn their dreams into reality. Last month we covered about Alcohoot that claimed to be a low cost high grade breathalyser and now a campaign showcasing another breathalyser, Breathometer, took off on Indigogo with a goal to raise $25000 raise much more than that in less than a week after kicking off. Breathometer is an accessory that can be attached to the 3.5mm jack of the iPhone, accompanied by its iPhone app will help drinkers to monitor their blood alcohol level and alert if it exceeds the limit. Drinkers can now be safe by avoiding to drive if their blood alcohol limit is beyond permissible limits.
Well, this doesn’t come in the form of surprise. But Apple’s approval process continue to lack in approving apps which doesn’t comply with their policies. There’s now another application on App Store which lets you delete system applications on your iOS device. In other words, you could hide all those pre-installed application which you don’t use anymore.
We think that the actual reason for HiddenApps app to go unnoticed from the eyes of reviewers is due to the fact that it offers much more functionalities if you simply neglect the name. Also, if you read the description of the application, it doesn’t say much about it. According to the developer, it’s an application that tells you tips and tricks about your iDevice. On the contrary, it does more than that. [click to continue…]
You might have a flood of apps with promising feature that enhance the photo with visual effects and other visual balances. Instagram is famous for its filters, snapseed is famous for its intuitive UI and great deed of image enhancing features and so on. But here comes a new photography app that does something different and amazing, “Path On” which is available for $1.99 on iPhone and iPad. This app basically aims at allowing the user to draw a freely drawn path or go for a template of shapes and then type text on the hand drawn path or the shape. It might seem simple but the final results are really good. Read on to know more about Path On.
On Monday, PC Mag’s Glenn Rubenstein and his friends from TWiT had a simple task of reaching Apple’s campus at 1, Infinity Loop. As a real world experiment they wanted to test out how well Apple Maps directions will fare against Google Maps and Waze. The testers were Leo LaPorte from TWiT who was using the Waze app, John C. Dvorak who had Google Maps and finally Glenn Rubenstein who had Apple Maps. Surprisingly the much bashed and hated Apple Maps won the test. Though this is not a professional test of all kinds Apple maps seems to be not that bad afterall.
On Thursday, the US Patents and Trademarks office published details about three patents filed by Apple in the last two years that patent an exclusive system to sell and loan used Digital content like books, music and movies owned by users. The whole proposed system by Apple is quite similar to a system Amazon has patented (applied in 2009) recently with the only difference being Amazon is planning for a central market place like its Music store and Movies store unlike Apple which is planning for a decentralised peer to peer exchange system.
The whole system is more about managing the digital access rights of various owners of the same content and transferring the digital access rights to new owners. There is high probability that Apple might be taking help of its iCloud service to maintain all the digital content on cloud and provide cloud service to access the digital content rather than the content residing on the owners device. That way managing owner right sand restricting access will be much easier for Apple.
In May 2012 Twitter Announced that it bought over the famous twitter client TweetDeck for a whooping $40 million. Things were quite fine ever since but yesterday twitter sent out disheartening news that TweetDeck will be killed by May 2013 on iOS, Android and Adobe AIR platforms and their support for Facebook integration on TweetDeck. For now Twitter wants to maintain TweetDeck only on web and dedicated desktop versions of Mac and Windows. But due to decreased support there is a high chance that even the remaining versions will be phased out soon.
We often come across instances where her about people being too drunk to even make a phone call with ease. In US alone there are a reported 10000 number of deaths caused by drunken driving in the year 2010 alone that proves the need of better monitoring services to prevent drunken driving. Alcohoot seems to be the perfect smartphone solution yet that helps drinkers with various options to reach home safely or to find a place to crash safely for the night.
Unlike many keychain breathalysers that are fairly inaccurate Alcohoot claims to as accurate as the ones used by the police to monitor alcohol content in drivers but cost only 99$, a fraction of what the current high grade breathalysers cost. Alcohoot connects to iPhone either by bluetooth or by the 3.5mm jack on the phone.
Are you a user of App.net? The check out this cool tweak from developer Steve Streza that integrated App.net messaging and file sharing into OSX native messaging application, iMessage.
Steve Streza is the person behind last year’s Apparchy that pulls out App.net timeline updates and displays them on native twitter client on iOS, but Apparchy failed to take off later on due to high dependencies on third party APIs and a proxy server maintained by Steve Streza. Whenever the proxy server went down or new versions of twitter clients are released Apparchy would go dead making it unusable.
After Facebook, Apple and Twitter it is now Evernote’s turn to fall prey to the unknown hackers on the prowl. Evernote released a note saying its servers were hacked and the hackers tried to gain access to sensitive information like usernames, passwords and other content but failed to do so. Yet, as a measure of safety Evernote pushed a mandatory password reset for all its users on all platforms where Evernote is available. After the reset users were automatically taken to the password reset screen where users can change their passwords.
TypeStatus, a free app on Cydia is a simple tweak that notifies you in the iOS status bar with a simple icon of message bubble with dots when someone is typing an iMessage to you. No matter what you are doing on the phone the alert on the status bar still appears, this incredible tweak is simple yet very useful. The only downside of the app is that it doesn’t tell you who is sending you an iMessage but hey, it does let you know that an iMessage is about to be delivered!
Unlike many keychain breathalysers that are fairly inaccurate Alcohoot claims to as accurate as the ones used by the police to monitor alcohol content in drivers but cost only 99$, a fraction of what the current high grade breathalysers cost. Alcohoot connects to iPhone either by bluetooth or by the 3.5mm jack on the phone.
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