Showing posts with label iPhone apps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label iPhone apps. Show all posts

Friday, July 13, 2012

Fresh iPhone Apps


Fresh iPhone Apps for July 13: Slice update, Audio Xciter, Jewels With Buddies

Spend your weekend making the best of your online shopping and tracking your shipping, spending and receipts with Slice, an app that keeps all your online shopping information in one place. It’s today’s leading Fresh App. Audio Xciter’s DSP Enhanced Music Player is an app which optimizes your iPhone, iPad or iPod’s digital output for the best sound quality, and includes full AirPlay support. Finally, Jewels With Buddies will keep you busy this weekend by providing fully asynchronous match-three gameplay with the excitement of challenging your Facebook friends.

Slice – Shopping Organized update (iPhone, iPad) Free

Slice is an app for keeping track of your online shopping, and specifically, the packages shipped to you from various locations. The app also lets you keep track of your e-commerce receipts all in one place, as well as discount opportunities from service like Groupon, Living Social and others to make buying things online easier, more convenient and cheaper.
The latest update to Slice supports more kinds of email accounts, including Hotmail, and allows you to manually input information about packages that Slice doesn’t track down from your email accounts automatically. You can also track your spending online and analyze what it says about you, and edit the categories for your purchases to better keep track of how you’re spending your money.

Audio Xciter – DSP Enhanced Music Player (iPhone, iPad) Free

Audio Xciter’s free app enhances the quality of the music players in your iOS devices. The app provides users with three professionally-made tuners that optimize your device’s output to make your music, podcasts and other audio tracks sound and work better through headphones and speakers.
The app makes it easy to search through your audio tracks and scans your music files without any delay. Audio Xciter’s interface is easy to use, and the app includes full support for AirPlay, which means that you can make use of its optimizations regardless of what speakers or other equipment you’re using to play your music or podcasts.

Jewels With Buddies (iPhone, iPad) Free

Multiplayer title Jewels With Buddies takes a page from Zynga’s playbook to create a quality competitive experience that’s all about taking on your friends in games you’re used to playing alone. Jewels With Buddies is a match-three game at its core (like Bejeweled, for example), but played against friends from Facebook or random opponents.
Jewels With Buddies is an asynchronous game, which means you can take your turn whenever it’s convenient and you can run multiple games at once. You can also use Jewels With Buddies’ in-game chat function to heckle your opponents, and enable push notifications to keep you up to date with your various games and when it’s your turn to play.

Thursday, July 12, 2012

iPhone & Android mobile apps


Twitter updates iPhone & Android mobile apps with expansive experiences

One hundred and forty characters are no longer enough for microblogging platform Twitter. As social media users gravitate towards a more visual web, Twitter has started rolling out the second phase of its “expanded tweets” tweets feature.

Both Twitter’s iPhone and Android mobile apps have been updated to include Twitter’s new expanded tweets -- enabling microbloggers to see image and video content previews from Twitter’s selected partners when they click on a link contained within a tweet.



“When you tap a Tweet linking to a Kickstarter project, for example, you can play its video directly from the Tweet details view in your app. You can also read article summaries when you tap Tweets linking to sources like The Atlantic or play videos or view images when you expand Tweets linking to websites like Etsy andVimeo,” said Twitter project manager Sung Hu Kim in a post on the company’s blog.

The change reflects a wider trend towards visual storytelling taking place within social media. As image- and video-sharing social networks like Pinterest, Instagram and Viddy gain viral popularity with users, more mature social networks such as Facebook and Twitter are updating their design to cater for a more visual community of users.

Twitter introduced expanded tweets on its website less than a month ago partnering with websites including The Wall Street JournalThe New York Times, Breaking News, TIME, WWE, BuzzFeed, TMZ, Lifetime and Daily Motion.

Twitter has also made updates to notifications and search within its mobile apps.

Both Twitter for Android and iOS now support push notifications for tweets so you can configure the app to send you a notification when one of the people you follow posts something new.

Twitter has improved the search experience on its mobile apps too with enhanced autocomplete and additional name suggestions when you search for people.

The updated versions of Twitter for iPhone and Twitter for Android are available for download now from https://twitter.com/download.