Explore the city, meet new people, and see things from a different perspective with web-based urban exploration app Derive (free, www.deriveapp.com). The app offers up simple instructions for pedestrians to really get to know the city around them, but as always, use caution when crossing streets or walking in unfamiliar areas.
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Eliminate the guesswork of whether or not those leftovers are still edible with StillTasty ($1.99, iOS only). StillTasty provides you with instant shelf life information for thousands of foods, as well as proper storage tips to maintain freshness. For now, Android users can access the app’s parent website at www.stilltasty.com.
This chart shows the 10 most used smartphone apps, according to GlobalWebIndex. While there aren’t really any surprises in these top 10, what is interesting is what this says about mobile users.
Obviously, we depend on our smartphones for much more than making calls-we use it to navigate, to connect with friends and to be entertained. But overall, these top 10 apps show that people gravitate towards mobile devices in order to make better sense of the world around them.
Mobile has changed the way we interact and communicate. What’s your mobile lyfestyle? Tell us about your favorite apps and why you like them so much.
There are many ways that productivity apps can help to make people’s lives easier, such as convenient list making for shopping, paper free calendars, day planning and note taking.
But having such a variety of productivity applications out there to choose from can be a tad overwhelming especially if you’re just looking for a good list-taking app and you find yourself faced with options ranging in price from free to 40 bucks or more. It’s a personal choice as to which app or apps you want to try out, but if you’re just testing the productivity waters, perhaps start out with a free app or two and see how you can incorporate them into your daily routine.
Here’s a list of apps we like, broken down by category:
List making apps
Calendar or day planner apps
Task management apps
Project management apps
Writing apps
All of this in one apps
- Omnifocus
- Things
What are your favorite productivity apps for getting things done and staying organized?
If you like the idea of getting free data for your smart phone, or you’re an advertiser and wish your mobile ads were getting more engagement, you may want to check out Boston based startup Aquto.
Aquto has essentially incentivized mobile advertising by partnering with cellular carriers to provide free data in exchange for a certain amount of engagement with a mobile ad.
How it works is that you download Aquto’s app Kickbit and then using the app you can earn data by watching videos, taking surveys, etc. From inside the app, you then have the option to transfer the data you’ve earned to your mobile carrier. You’ll have to check their list to see if your carrier is supported though-not all carriers support this yet.
Did Aquto figure out the best way to monetize mobile ads? Is free data enough of a hook? It might be. The number of smart phone users continues to grow, and so does the amount of data we’re using on our phones. A VentureBeat article on mobile data usage cites new research by Strategy Analytics, which projects that people will use 300% more data by 2017.
Does free data for your smart phone sound like something you would be interested in?
Want to learn how to capture video and still pictures at the same time, how to create 360 degree panoramics or what’s the best app to edit pictures on your phone? Check out these tips.
Photo burst takes a multitude of photos of the same scene and picks the best shot for your approval. With all this technology, there’s almost no excuse for taking a bad photo!
But, if you do take a picture that you want to edit, or if you like editing your pictures in general, Aviary is a great app that can adjust color, brightness, saturation. you can crop, rotate, enhance get rid of red-eye and remove blemishes. If you fancy goofing up your pictures there are stickers and effects available and even more to download. I primarily use it to crop, and sometimes adjust brightness but it is really the best app I have found for overall editing of my photos.
If you like the nostalgic effects of Instagram, there is a cute app called Roidizer. The “Roid” is from Polaroid. Its another app to add fun to your photos. It gives the picture the classic Polaroid border and you can add text to the bottom.
Another great photo app that has quite a few cool features is called Camera Zoom FX. This can be used as an interface, which means instead of opening your normal camera button you’d use this app instead. It has all the options your camera has and then some. One of the things I like best, as simple as this may seem, you can touch anywhere on the screen to take a picture.
Lapse It is the ultimate time lapse app. You have a multitude of settings to create a cool time lapse video. The only thing you need to consider as you don’t exactly have a tripod mount is how to prop the device up.
Use the camera on your phone and do what I do, experiment! You can find some really cool effects while you are snapping away.
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