Reading Time: < 1 min I’m not convinced that it can make you better at your job, but “Button” by Blank Software is a nice little distraction. The premise is dead simple — a big button shows up on your screen. When it lights up, click it. That’s it. It almost sounds too dumb to be true. The catch is […]
Archives for August 2009
Yelp’s new easter egg is cool, but it might be bad for all of us
Reading Time: 2 min Yelp provided a sneaky way to get augmented reality in their new app, but they might have made things worse for all of us. In a post yesterday on TechCrunch, Matt Galligan thinks that this move might make Apple look even harder at each app approval — taking longer for each one, and rejecting a […]
DropBox app is coming soon
Reading Time: < 1 min I’m a huge fan of DropBox. I use it daily for personal file storage and for sharing files with others. I even made a short video a few weeks ago showing how it helped me stay more efficient during the day. When I heard they had an app coming out, I was mildly excited. However, […]
Citizen Sports has a few cool apps
Reading Time: < 1 min As TechCrunch says, “they’re not ESPN”, but the apps they’ve put out so far are much better. They have a very popular fantasy football league on Facebook, and an app that ties directly into it. It’s superb. Even better is their “Sportacular” app (free version, $1.99 version). It’s somewhat similar to the ESPN ScoreCenter app, […]
Google ties business listings to StreetView
Reading Time: < 1 min Google has just released a nice evolutionary trait to Google Maps — linking businesses to StreetView. When searching for a business in Google Maps, you’ll now often see a link for “StreetView” in the description bubble. Clicking that takes you to a StreetView of that location. When in StreetView, you’ll see the familiar red placemark […]
Yelp sneaks some augmented reality on your phone
Reading Time: < 1 min The new Yelp 3.0 app is pretty slick, with a handful of new features. The best one, however, is undocumented — a very slick augmented reality view. We talked about augmented reality a bit with the Wikitude app a few days ago, but Yelp is the first US-based one we’ve seen. To access it on […]
Facebook 3.0 is now available!
Reading Time: < 1 min We’ve gone over the details before, and now this great update is available in the app store. In addition, they’ve snuck in a few last-minute updates. The two features that weren’t mentioned last week are landscape mode and home screen organizing. I’m really glad to see the home screen organizing make it in there, as […]
Boxcar 2.0 will be a must-have for social media junkies
Reading Time: < 1 min Boxcar 2.0 is now waiting in Apple’s submission queue, and the author expects it to be live sometime between September 3 and September 7. What does boxcar do? For Twitter, it can send you push notifications of anything you want — @replies, direct message, even for all of your tweets if you want (though that’d […]
Nessie found in Google Earth?
Reading Time: < 1 min The Sun is at it again. First they claimed to have found the lost city of Atlantis in Google Earth, now they think they’ve found the Loch Ness Monster. Or maybe it’s a boat. It’s obvious they’re just trying to (successfully) draw attention to their site, but they sure look stupid. I love the response […]
Unblock Me Free
Reading Time: < 1 min This game is as simple as it gets. Simply slide blocks up, down, left and right to reveal a path for the highlighted red block to make it through the hole and off the screen. This free version has two modes, Relax and Challenge. The only difference between the two modes are whether or not […]