SugarSync announced an update to the company’s iPad app, jumping up to SugarSync 3.0 and bringing a collection of new features to justify the big bump.
Of course the new SugarSync app (iTunes) is optimized for the iPad display, thanks to an all out to re-write of the new app from scratch with features that take advantage of the large iPad display. The new SugarSync iPad app has a very nice looking interface that now relies on gestures like drag, swipe and more to make it easier to manage files stored in the cloud service.
Another cool new feature is the ability to see the contents of multiple folders at once. As you can see in the screenshot below, this allows you to see which folders you are browsing in, much like the accordion view on OS X’s finder. You’ll also find easier access to backup options that allow you to backup photos or videos to any folder on your computer. Sure, you have iCloud and PhotoStream, but it’s nice to have this extra ability to backup specific media files to your computer.
SugarSync is a free cloud storage service with 5GB of free storage for every user who signs up. The service offers more control about what syncs to each of your devices than Dropbox, which makes the larger storage plans attractive. SugarSync also allows you to share large files easily, and it doesn’t count the files you share against your co-worker or friend’s storage like many competitors do. What is SugarSync?:
InstaGamer is a curious little app — half game, half companion app, it's basically Concentration with a little twist: you discover new Instagram images while you play. Before starting, you define a search term, featured feed, or photos from your own or friends' albums, and they're then placed face-down and the game begins. You can "like" photos and follow users from inside the game as long as you're already signed up for Instagram (although you can still play without being a member). It's a pretty simple concept, but certainly good fun and a nice way to discover new content. The app is available now as a free download from the App Store.
A new iOS application has been created called InstaGamer which is a small Instagram companion application, that provides you with a game to discover new content on Instagram. InstaGamer has both a single and double player mode. To start game simply select a search term featured feed, or photos from either your or your friends Instagram photo album. Then to start playing simply place the images face down and your are away. With access to 400+ million photos from over 15 million users, you are sure not to get bored with all the new photos available.
The new InstaGamer application has just been made available to download from the Apple iTunes App store for free. So if you enjoy Instagram don’t delay jump over to iTunes now and start playing.
Instagram iOS app hits 27 million users, tests Android version:
Cashier Live have launched a new iPhone application for their POS system that in a similar way to PayPal could be looking to encroach in Square’s payment service territory. There are differences though between to the two companies as Cashier Live is firmly targeted at retails, specifically small and medium-sized retailers and franchises. Unlike Square which is aimed at allowing even individuals access to taking payments whilst out and about use using a dingle and smartphone.
Cashier Live offers its service via monthly plans that start at $20/month and go up to $75/month. For more information on the new Cashier Live iPhone application jump over to the Tech Crunch website, or visit Cashier Live’s site directly. You can also view a video on the new Cashier Live iPhone application here.
Polycom has launched a new solution for smartphones rolling out Polycom RealPresence Mobile. Which is now available to download from the Apple iTunes App Store for the iPhone 4S.
Polycom RealPresence Mobile has been created to provide a similar experience to that of the iPad application. Polycom account holders will now be able to benefit from face-to-face video conferencing with up to 16 other callers directly from your iPhone 4s. The Polycom RealPresence Mobile system has been created to provide a secure, high-quality HD video collaboration environment that allows users to swap from video calling directly to a presentation mode that enables them to see documents and spreadsheets, which they can then discuss.
The Polycom RealPresence Mobile app is free to download from the iTunes App Store, however you and your connects will require and account with Polycom to be able to use the 16 way video conferencing system.
Vimeo has rolled out a new update to its iOS application this week taking it to Vimeo 2.0. The update comes just under a year since the launch of the original iOS application, and brings with it a number of great new features for iOS owners.
The new Vimeo 2.0 brings with it support of Apple’s iPad with a specially tailor made iPad user interface, and is compatible with iOS devices running iOS 4.3 and above. As well as supporting the iPad the new updated application also now enables you to edit, manage, upload and watch your videos right on your iOS device. Allowing you to watch one while you browse for another. Joseph Schmitt, lead mobile developer at Vimeo explains in and interview with the Venture Beat website. Vimeo Official iTunes App for iPad / iPad 2 / iPhone / iPod Touch HD:
SprintTV has finally launched an iPhone application for users, enabling iPhone owners to now view selected live and on-demand programming from partners such as ABC, CBS, NBC, ESPN, The Disney Channel, MTV and Comedy Central to name a few.
SprintTv also provides premium packages allowing you to watch to more than 40 paid premium packages with popular shows including “Keeping Up With The Kardashians,” “SpongeBob Squarepants” and “The Daily Show with John Stewart.” Which start at $4.99 rising to $9.99 per month. You can now download the new Sprint TV Applcation for free from the iTunes App Store. The entire lineup of options available through the Sprint TV App can be viewed over on the MobiTV website.
Use of Sprint TV is included in plans with unlimited data. Sprint is the only national wireless carrier offering truly unlimited data plans for all phones, with no throttling or overages. Casual data charges of $0.03/kb and standard text messaging charges will apply to customers not on a plan with unlimited data and messaging.
Major League Baseball’s MLB At Bat 2012 app launches on both Android and iOS. The app brings the widely praised franchise back for another season and it has several important changes for baseball lovers.
Among these is the fact that it will be one of the first apps outside of the publishing world that will have access to Apple’s recurring monthly subscription option right in the app. The radio streaming app Pandora got them last November. The new app is also now free to download from the App Store and there are some nice subscription options. The Next Web had a chance to speak to the MLB about the app and the new features and it looks like it will be another great version of the app.
For the first time ever, MLB At Bat 2012 will be one universal app, free to all, with Android and iOS feature parity. That means that the app is identical, across all platforms, with all features available. Previously, due to technical restrictions, Android users couldn’t access some of the video highlight features, among others. Now, every version of the app has all of the features available, which is very cool. The iOS app is also a universal binary, which means that one download will work on all of Apple’s devices. There was a ton of work put in to combine the codebases of the apps and to bring them into a harmonious package that will work across all devices.
Another big change for At Bat 2012 is the cost. The app is freely downloadable from the App Store and the Android Market, which is a change from last year, when it was a $15 download on the iPhone and iPad. The free app is roughly the equivalent of the ‘At Bat Lite’ app that has now been done away with. Instead, the MLB is letting you grab it for free, and then will offer several ways to unlock the app’s additional functionality. Any feature unlocks you purchase, say, on an iPhone, are also available on the iPad via a ‘restore’ purchase button.
1. The default app is similar to the ‘Lite’ version from last year, which offers a bunch of stuff including: Scores Standings News Team Content
2. The second tier is an annual $14.99 price. This brings you everything that you get with the standard app and also includes:
Pitch FX (the pitch-by-pitch calling) Game Day Audio Stats Highlights Live Look-ins (video) Condensed Games and video library archive Free live game of the day
3. The third tier has exactly the same features, but bills at a monthly $2.99. This subscription level is available to iOS users only, but the MLB indicated that it was working to bring it to Android as well.
4. All features are free to MLB.tv subscribers, who just authorize account after launching the app. This essentially makes the app free on any and all platforms for anyone with an MLB.TV subscription. In addition, live video broadcasts of some of the 150 Spring Training games and all 2,430 regular season games are available to subscribers.
If you’re not familiar with the At Bat App, then you don’t know just how great a job the team has been doing over the past couple of years. Since the app launched in 2008, it’s been the gold standard for sports apps. Really, anything from the NFL, NBA or NHL pales in comparison to the level of detail at work in the flagship MLB app. You can tell that the team respects baseball, but also loves building great apps, something that you just don’t find in a lot of sports apps, where more often than not you’ll find a web view embedded in a crappy looking native frame, with all of the stink of a cash grab. Conversely, the At Bat App is s a joy to use and has become an integral part of my baseball watching experience. Grab the MLB at Bat 11 iPhone/Android app - AppJudgment:
The popular photo sharing website SmugMug has released a new iPhone app called Camera Awesome. It is getting some glowing reviews ever since it hit the iTunes App Store. The app offers 297 presents, filters, textures, and frames, along with many other interesting features like burst modes and image stabilization. Instagram is one of the most used camera app on iPhone, but it lacks many thinks that Camera Awesome offers. App’s user is quite slick, and competes well with apps like Camera+ and Instagram. It offers an exciting way of using the presets, filters, textures, and frames. You just need to swipe rather than tapping on each of them like other apps.
The Camera Awesome app is available for free in the App Store. You don’t a SmugMug account to activate it. However, SmugMug members have an option to automatically upload photos taken using the iPhone app to SmugMug servers at full resolution. It also allows them to automatically share a photo o Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, and YouTube. You can use this direct App Store link to download Camera Awesome app. Do let us know that you think of this new iPhone app. Camera Awesome for iPhone - App of the Week:
If like me you find the idea of exercise a little boring when compared to playing a great Zombie first person shooter game. You might be interest in the new Zombies Run! game which has now arrived in the Apple iTunes App Store.
Zombies Run! game has been created to add a little more fun to your daily running routine and allows you to partake in a game that provides you with essential items to fend off zombies and improve your defences along the course of your run. When you return home you can then use these items with the accompanying game to help achieve bigger and more advanced missions for your next run. Watch the video below to hear how the game works from its creators.
The Zombies Run! game started its life on Kickstarter and has now achieved its goal by creating a app for iOS with another for Android users arriving shortly. The Zombies Run, game is now available to download from the iTunes App Store for $7.99. Zombies, Run Android Apps Review - AndroidApps.com:
If you are a new owner of an iPad 2 then you have probably been shocked to find that some of the key stock applications are not there when you turn it on. These are all natively installed on the iPhone and the iPod Touch. You may have spent some time searching for these items on your new iPad but Apple has decided that it is not necessary to have the likes of Weather, Calculator, Voice Memo, Compass and clock on the iPad.
If you want these apps then all is not lost and the jailbreak community is here to the rescue. Ryan Petrich who is an iOS developer has produced his latest iPad enhancement which brings these native applications to the iPad's springboard. This tweak is called Belfry and it has been released into the BigBoss repository free of charge. It is available to download for all jailbroken iPads. Installing this tweak will add six additional icons to the SpringBoard and you can launch them as normal apps just the same as the iPhone. This is something that has been talked about for quite some time with the jailbreak community and if you intend to download Belfry make sure you read the information in Cydia first. Belfry is only available for iPads runnign iOS 5 or higher and users will definitely experience some visual anomalies after the iPad has rebooted. There may be some graphical errors when running these apps and this is due to the way the iPad handles the running of native iPhone applications. This can be partially rectified by installing a tweak called RetinaPad along with Belfry which will render the applications in full screen mode in the best possible way for the iPad. In order to use Belfry you will need to jailbreak your iPad and you can jailbreak iOS 5.0.1 using Absinthe. How To Install Native iPhone Apps (Weather, Clock, Calculator, Etc.) on the iPad:
After finally issuing a version of its TWC TV app for Android tablets and phones (sans-live TV streaming, for now) Time Warner Cable has finally made its iOS version, which launched last March on the iPad, compatible with the iPhone and iPod Touch. There's no additional charge for the app which allows for the aforementioned live TV viewing (as long as you're on your home WiFi) and DVR scheduling, and the accompanying blog post reveals the available list of channels has reached 196. We should probably mention that the app is unlikely to play nicely with any jailbroken iOS devices it encounters, so some extra hackery may be in order to get things working there.
iPhone owners can now watch what’s on Time Warner Cable even if they are not at home as TWC has updated its iOS app to allow live streaming. The new app also allows you to control your Time Warner cable and access an interactive programming guide, aside from the direct streaming to the phone mentioned above.
The remote control function is pretty straightforward, as it gives you control of your set-top box right from your phone. The interactive programming guide, on the other hand, is a great addition as it allows the user to manage DVR recordings and even set your unit to record a programme at a certain time. Now you don’t have to miss your favourite shows as you can schedule them beforehand, with Time Warner Cable allowing TV listings up to seven days on its interactive programming guide. WatchESPN live streaming app for iOS, coming to Android soon:
Microsoft's Windows Phone Marketplace isn't immune to having apps being uploaded that appear to be one thing but in fact are something else. WPCentral.com reports that seems to be the case with someone who has uploaded an app that appears at first to be the official Windows Phone version of Spotify. The app, which was actually made available to download on December 20, has the Spotify logo but costs 99 cents to download. The real Spotify app, which uses an icon instead of the logo, is free to download and was first released in November.
Whoever uploaded this app clearly wanted people to think they were downloading the real Spotify application. Instead, this imposter app simply offers up some news feeds and YouTube videos. It's not clear how this app got past Microsoft's Windows Phone Marketplace application process.
In any case, consumers should definitely be aware of this issue since it can cause some confusion, especially among non-tech savvy Windows Phone users who might think that Spotify would charge people to download an app for their streaming music service.
It's actually a genuine app (it doesn't perform anything malicious) other than a copied name, if you were to rename it, there would be nothing wrong with it. So it must be a case of the reviewer making a dodo when checking the name. It is the application provider's responsibility to determine if the application provider has the right to use the chosen name, content, logos, copyright, trademarks, online services & API's."
On Microsoft's side of the certification policy, they do nothing themselves regarding copyright - and as can be seen waive the need to themselves check. It's not part of the certification policy for Microsoft to check, so on Microsoft's part, this is all fine. They only validify copyright directly relating to Microsoft products. Spotify for iPhone preview:
All Grand Theft Auto fans will be pleased to know that, as advertised earlier this month Grand Theft Auto III : 10th Anniversary Edition has now landed in the Apple iTunes App Store, and is now available to play on the iPad and iPhone.
Rockstar Games celebrates the 10th anniversary of one of the most influential games of all time. The critically acclaimed blockbuster Grand Theft Auto III comes to mobile devices, bringing to life the dark and seedy underworld of Liberty City. With a massive and diverse open world, a wild cast of characters from every walk of life and the freedom to explore at will, Grand Theft Auto III puts the dark, intriguing and ruthless world of crime at your fingertips.
You can now purchase Grand Theft Auto III for the iTunes App Store and Android Market for $4.99. Grand Theft Auto III is supported on iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPod Touch 4, iPad 1 and iPad 2, as well as Android devices and will be coming soon to Samsung Galaxy Nexus.
Spotify is a great music service that allows you to enjoy music from over 15 million tunes. But its not always easy to make the most of them. If you are looking for a quick way to create Spotify playlists, then Spotiseek might be worth a look. Spotiseek is a new website and iPhone application that allows you to quickly generate playlist by simply entering a band or artists name. Spotiseek will then generate a custom playlist for you of similar music, which you can then refine.
Once you are happy with your playlist you can simply drag the tracks across to your Spotify desktop app to save it and start playing. The Spotiseek iPhone app is currently priced at $1.99 or £1.49 and is a great way to search for similar tracks but there is currently no easy way to add the created playlists to your Spotify account.
If you have ever wanted to send an email with just doodles or scribbles, now you can with the Gmail app for iOS and Gmail for mobile devices. "In the Gmail app and Gmail for mobile you can now open up a canvas and scribble a message that will be attached to your email. The Gmail blog states. "It's perfect for sending a quick sketch that is hard to express in words or adding a fun graphic to make your email more personal."
Scribbles offers 10 different colors, three brush sizes, lines, erasers and spray paint. As The Next Web notes, you can now have arts and crafts time inside of your Gmail app. As part of the update, you can also set a custom signature for mobile messages and a vacation responder. The Gmail app also features improved labels with support for nested labels. Users with iOS5 can also enjoy a new notification sound for email. When Google launched the Gmail app for iOS in November, it quickly pulled it from the App Store due to a bug that broke notifications. After a couple of weeks, Google re-launched the app after addressing the bugs.
Behind the scenes, we're continuing to work on highly requested features like banner notifications, multiple login support and the ability to send-as from any account already configured in Gmail. The blog states. "We want to make sure these are done right as we continue to improve the Gmail app." You can download the updated app here and works for all iOS 4+ devices.
Today Hipstamatic is launching it new D-Series App, which will bring back a retro style of photography, long forgotten with digital cameras. The new Disposable Series iOS app, or D-Series is a free program that does’t allow you to view your images as you take them. But forces you to wait until a virtual real has been fully used. But thats not all you can also invite others via Facebook to use the virtual roll. Just like a real old school film real, once a person in the group takes a shot the, real image counter clicks down on everyones app in the group.
Once the real is finished a push notification and the completed roll is delivered both to your iPhone camera roll and to the entire group that was using the virtual camera. Creating a virtual gallery in the sequence of the snapped photographs.
Microsoft has just launched SkyDrive for the iPhone, which will let you save and share files, photos and documents with Microsoft’s cloud service SkyDrive, and the app is available as a free download.
The SkyDrive cloud service is available for free, and you get a total of 25GB of free storage when you sign up to SkyDrive, Microsoft has also released a new application for their Windows Phone devices.
Earlier this month we reported that the BBC would soon be releasing a new iPhone iPlayer application. Following on from the launch and success of their popular iPad iPlayer application, launched some time back.
Well if you have been patiently waiting for the iPlayer app to be released on to the iPhone. You will be pleased to know that it has now been officially launched, and the BBC’s iPlayer application is now ready to download on smaller iOS screens.
We heard recently that Flipboard was getting ready to launch a version of their popular iPad app for the iPhone, and the app is now available from the iTunes app store as a free download. What Flipboard does is take all the information that is being shared with you, stories, photos, facebook posts, tweets and more and turns them into a personalized magazine for you to read.
Fill Flipboard with the things you like to read, from the smallest blogs to publications like Rolling Stone or Vanity Fair, and use Instapaper or Read It Later to save articles to read later. Connect Flipboard to all your social networks, and you’ll have a single place to enjoy, browse, comment on and share all the news, photos and updates that matter to you. Flipboard is available as a free download from the iTunes app store for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, you can find out more details over at iTunes.
This week Warner Brothers has launched a new Batman game called Batman Arkham City Lockdown for Apple iOS devices, in the New Zealand iTune App Store. Indicating that the new game has now launched and will be rolling out world wide. The new game is a one-on-one brawler style game, featuring some great tablet graphics and gameplay. Watch gameplay and a walk through video after the jump.
The inmates have escaped and Batman has his hands full defeating an army of henchmen and some of his most iconic villains. Scour the rooftops and the seedy underbelly of Gotham City through a series of one-on-one battles with the Joker, Two-Face and more, as well as the Batman: Arkham City Lockdown exclusive – Deathstroke. Choose from several Batman skins and power-ups as you punch, kick and combo your way to cleaning up Gotham City. The new iOS Batman Arkham City Lockdown game will be rolling out worldwide very soon, probably at this very moment.
SugarSync announced an update to the company’s iPad app, jumping up to SugarSync 3.0 and bringing a collection of new features to justify the big bump.
