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With the introduction of iOS 5, we saw the inclusion of another application that comes standard with the software, which was Apple’s Reminders application. While it was certainly a much needed addition to iOS, there are multiple other solutions that boast what Apple failed to include, one of which is HQ: To Do, an application similar to Reminders wrapped in a much nicer looking package and sporting additional content over its likely competitor. As you open the application, you’ll notice it’s appealing interface, which is one of application’s strongest fortes, hence the “HQ” part of the name. The plus is that it goes uphill from this bright point on. The aim of the application is to keep you on track. In essence, it’s another to-do application among the existing many that the App Store has to offer. You input a task, a date by which it must be finished, a priority, some other things and it’s guaranteed that you won’t forget to do that task so long as you’ve got notifications turned on. One plus is that the application is pretty much completely customizeable. Each of your tasks will show up in the large list that shows up each time, formatted neatly with the inputted name and the task due date. It also comes accompanied by a slick rounded rectangle layering as the acting background for that task, which can be changed for each other task. From the blues, to the greens to the yellows in between (I’m a poet, and I didn’t even know it!) the options provided add life to the interface giving you the opportunity to augment the application with the desired vivid colors. Highly navigable, the user interface is one to compliment. Everything that you can do in the application is directly accessible with a few clicks, and deleting tasks, editing them and so on can be done with simple swipes to the left on the specific task. The ability to arrange your tasks depending on various criteria, including my priority, time due and such, is incorporated, easily done by swiping the according area that layers the bottom of the screen. You’ll also be able to create lists within the same application: groceries, shopping, whatever it may be all eased. I mentioned that HQ: To Do was in some ways better than Reminders, the application included in iOS 5 by Apple themselves. The latter does have Apple’s Read More

En la App Store tenemos varias aplicaciones para crear imágenes panorámicas. De todas ellas, mi favorita es Dermandar Panorama. La aplicación funciona realmente bien y es muy sencilla de usar. Simplemente tenemos que tomar una primera fotografía e ir girando nuestro dispositivo para ir creando las demás. Su sistema de captura es automático, a través de dos partes de una esfera que al unirse captura la imagen de forma automática. Además, te muestra el grado del ángulo en el que estás girando para hacer la panorámica, señalando también si la estás tomando recta o por el contrario no sigues el mismo ángulo lineal. Como no podía ser de otro modo, podemos publicar nuestras capturas en Facebook, Twitter, mandarlas por e-mail, o guardarlas en nuestro carrete. Incluye una galería pública donde podemos ver los panoramas de otros usuarios. Incluso podemos activar los servicios de localización en la app, así nos mostrará panoramas que se han tomado cerca de nuestra ubicación. Dermandar Panorama es compatible con el iPhone, iPad y el iPod Touch. Read More

By Rob LeFebvre on December 27th, 2011 As 2011 winds down to a close, 148Apps takes a look back at some of the finest apps released this past year. In what was another fantastic year in the world of iOS apps & games, we are here to bring you the fifty titles that we, the staff of 148Apps, thought were the best of the year. Here are the app titles 16 – 25 in our Best Apps of 2011: iMovie- Video editing on the iPhone is revolutionary enough, but the extra screen space on the iPad makes this activity truly useful. Making movies is fun again, thanks in no small part to Apple’s attention to detail in this flagship app. $4.99 Released: 2010-06-24 :: Category: Photography Facebook – The wait was long for the iPad version but between its iconic look and intuitive menus systems, the official Facebook Universal app renders the competition obsolete. It’s fantastic to have this in both flavors, for checking on the go or on the couch. FREE! Released: 2008-07-11 :: Category: Social Networking FX Photo Studio HD – Offering a plethora (194 at last count) of different photo effects without forgetting the bare essentials like crop and rotate, FX Photo Studio is a one stop shop for everything anyone might need in a photo editing app. $1.99 $2.99 Released: 2010-05-26 :: Category: Photography $0.99 $1.99 Released: 2009-04-29 :: Category: Photography Dolphin Browser – With gesture based controls and a speed dial system of visiting regularly used sites, Dolphin has made my browsing experience so much faster this year. Safari continues to dominate as the default browser, but Dolphin Browser does so much more so much better. FREE! Released: 2011-08-30 :: Category: Productivity Daedalus Touch – When we’re writing complex, thoughtful pieces of journalism, we like to be undistracted by the cruft of modern computing, like Facebook, or ads. Daedalus Touch makes this possible but doesn’t forget to include useful features like iCloud and Dropbox support. $2.99 $5.99 Released: 2011-05-21 :: Category: Productivity GroupMe – We use this app all the darn time to chat amongst ourselves, even when we have nothing much to say. For private team meetings, SMS integration, and just plain great usability, GroupMe is our go to app. It’s also accessible via the web, so no matter where we are, we can join in the conversation. FREE! iPhone App - Designed for the Read More

by The votes are in and the results have been tabulated: After two months of nominations and voting by our community, Mashable is thrilled to announce the winners of the 2011 Mashable Awards! The fifth annual Mashable Awards honors the best in Mashable‘s core content areas: Social Media, Tech, Business and Entertainment. Presenting the winners of the 2011 Mashable Awards: Congratulations winners and finalists! Make sure to contact PARS for free use of the Mashable Awards logo for your website. The Mashable Awards winners will be honored at MashBash on Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at the brand new 1OAK Nightclub in the Mirage Hotel and Casino during CES in Las Vegas. You can expect a night of networking, dancing and celebration in true Mashable style at one of the hottest new clubs in Las Vegas. Come celebrate their success with us! Read More

From one-person shops to giant enterprises, if businesses agree on anything right now it's "iPad Yay." The Apple tablet hasn't even reached the terrible twos yet, but it's clearly making its presence felt across countless verticals and different industries. For at least a couple of mobile professional writers (who might have been termed "ink-stained wretches" in times gone by), the iPad's capability as a writing tool has led it to largely replace their laptops for day-to-day work. While consumers may be the drivers behind most iPad sales, chances are that the iPad-toting professional on your gift list is using his or her iPad for a combination of personal enjoyment and work tasks, so why not find a gift that supports and extends the biz savvy of everyone's favorite quasi-computer? Here's our brief list of gift ideas that you could conceivably write off on your taxes. Cloudy Days If your business iPad user is a sole proprietor or running a small business, they don't have to compromise about getting big-biz-level enterprise tools anymore. The same Google Apps or Box.com infrastructure that supports huge corporations can be theirs for a modest investment. Consider gifting a pro Dropbox account (50 GB is quite a bit of room to maneuver), or going with Box or Egnyte for more sophisticated file services & sharing. (Dropbox's Teams product is great, too, but requires more coordination with other colleagues.) Maybe a Pogoplug account, or a subscription to one of 37 Signals' highly-regarded services? If your businessperson is already a user of 37 Signals' Backpack business collaboration tool, the $9.99 Pouch app makes their iPad a fully-featured Backpack client. Another collaboration platform, Pagico, just released its official iPad app last week. Then again, what we want from the cloud, often as not, is access to the files we have sitting right there on our computer at the office or at home. With the free Polkast service and iPad app, business users can quickly get to their PC or Mac storage over local networks or remotely as long as the computer is on. It's not the sort of thing that BigCorp IT departments find particularly appealing, but for a lean and mean solo operation or small team it might just do the trick. Speaking of big IT, the pricey ($29.99) but indispensable LogMeIn Ignition client makes it easy to remotely control one or hundreds of remote computers from the iPad's Read More

by Facebook, Google, Twitter, LinkedIn — none of these companies would be able to sustain themselves without advertising. But getting your brand in front of users who’ve never had to sit through an ad in their life can be a challenge. That’s why it’s important to acknowledge the brands and marketers that are burning calories to figure out ways to get their message across in a fragmented media environment. The nominees below thought of novel ways to adapt their messages to the social media environment. Often, these are ads and campaigns that are part of the conversation, rather than a disruption to it. Here are all the nominees from the 2011 Mashable Awards Business category. Read More

Dr. Serkan Toto currently works as the first and only Asia-based writer for the TechCrunch network, mainly covering Japan-related technology and web companies for TechCrunch, CrunchGear and MobileCrunch. Serkan also works full-time as an independent web and mobile industry consultant with a focus on the Japanese market. He is sept-lingual, holds an MBA and is a PhD in economics. Serkan... → Learn More Japan-based Sanwa has announced the so-called Geiger Fukushima [JP], a portable and light (70g) geiger counter that uses the iPhone to measure beta and gamma rays in your environment. Just connect the 14cm long probe to the iPhone, fire up an app that supports the device and view the handset’s display to track radiation readings. There are many portable geiger counters out there, but the idea here is to make use of the iPhone’s capabilities to keep the price down: just the handset and the Geiger Fukushima are enough. The device can be ordered by people living outside Japan, too (it costs US$203 in the Japan Trend Shop). Sanwa says the measuring range for the Geiger Fukushima stands at 0.04-20 microsieverts per hour and that one AAA battery lasts about 200 hours. Sponsored Ads Sponsored Ads Sponsored Ads Read More

Dr. Serkan Toto currently works as the first and only Asia-based writer for the TechCrunch network, mainly covering Japan-related technology and web companies for TechCrunch, CrunchGear and MobileCrunch. Serkan also works full-time as an independent web and mobile industry consultant with a focus on the Japanese market. He is sept-lingual, holds an MBA and is a PhD in economics. Serkan... → Learn More Japan-based Sanwa has announced the so-called Geiger Fukushima [JP], a portable and light (70g) geiger counter that uses the iPhone to measure beta and gamma rays in your environment. Just connect the 14cm long probe to the iPhone, fire up an app that supports the device and view the handset’s display to track radiation readings. There are many portable geiger counters out there, but the idea here is to make use of the iPhone’s capabilities to keep the price down: just the handset and the Geiger Fukushima are enough. The device can be ordered by people living outside Japan, too (it costs US$203 in the Japan Trend Shop). Sanwa says the measuring range for the Geiger Fukushima stands at 0.04-20 microsieverts per hour and that one AAA battery lasts about 200 hours. Sponsored Ads Sponsored Ads Sponsored Ads Read More

By Rob LeFebvre on November 3rd, 2011 More app deals coming your way this fine November morning. Whew. We’re not totally sure what happened after Monday’s top 5 extravaganza of app deals, but maybe having so many without any checks and balances cause a similar reaction as that of eating too much Halloween candy. In other words, we had an App Deal hangover, which is only now starting to clear. To make up for it, here are some great app deals for today: Dink – Was $0.99, now FREE Create animations nothing more than your iPhone and your finger, then share to MyDink.net, Twitter, Facebook, Youtube or by email. A tower defense that looks like old school Starcraft, ready for your free download today. The iPhone version is also FREE. Muffin Knight – Was $0.99, now FREE If I have to hear the mellifluous voice of the actress in Muffin Knight who calls out the names of the characters players switch to after each muffin is claimed, I’m gonna scream. My kids love this game so much that I want to inflict it upon you, for free. Read More

Worldwide real-time TAXIMETER, putting YOU, the passenger, in total control. myTaxiControl has all tariff details to calculate a cab’s fare with high accuracy (flagfall, price per km/mile and/or time, slow traffic handling, thresholds, waiting time, time validity, …) All tariff details are displayed and it is available for 155 cities worldwide. Taxi passenger can easily check if driver has set the taximeter correctly. myTaxiControl updates the taximeter amount as the car moves, is stopped in traffic or is waiting upon passenger’s request. This allows immediate detection of a possible taximeter manipulation. When you type in your destination, the App will calculate the shortest route, display it on a map (in green color) and give you a quote for the fare. Internet connection is needed for this service. This is the greatest Taxi app for your iPhone. Read More