Apps

Planning an Event? Yapp Makes an App in Minutes. Conferences, weddings and parties often have their own websites, but the founders of a new app builder called Yapp want to replace those online pages with mobile apps.

"The thing about events by definition is that when you go to an event you're mobile," co-founder Maria Seidman tells Mashable. "You’re not in front of your computer. " On Wednesday, Yapp launched a free private beta version of its event-focused app builder. It allows users to build an event app within minutes by choosing the design template of their choice and then adding key info like addresses, schedules and, in the case of a wedding or conference app, bio pages. The apps have news feeds where everyone invited can chat or upload group photos. SkyDrive for iPhone: A Poor Man's Dropbox? [HANDS ON] At the end of a huge year for cloud computing, Microsoft just launched a SkyDrive app for iPhone and Windows Phone.

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Test drive the space saving, eco-friendly, totally unique, smart. New App Offers Complete Facebook Profile Backup. What if you suddenly lost access to all of the photos, videos, status updates, wall posts, friends’ information, and other data on your Facebook account? It might be time to think about a backup solution. Now there’s two such solutions to choose from. A social media component of SOS Online Backup launched today. The free application competes against Backupify, which debuted almost a year ago. SOS Founder and Chief Executive Officer Ken Shaw says roughly 8 million of the social network’s 800 million members have been hacked or locked out of their profiles. The things that you can do in SOS Social Backup include: HipGeo Releases Public API to Add 'Where' to Your 'When' Silverlight 5 Goes Live, No Word as to Finality. When Microsoft premiered Silverlight as something called WPF/E in 2007, it was with the idea of enabling developers to build "rich Internet applications," and to conceivably run them outside of browsers, and on platforms other than Windows.

The "A" in "RIA" stood for "applications" - the full word, the complete class that also includes data-intensive programs such as Word, Outlook, and Photoshop. Yet such applications required full access to the file system, which was not possible given the limited trust relationship that must exist for a remote application triggered from a browser. Over four years later, Silverlight finally has perhaps its single most requested feature. New iPhone, iPad and Android Apps for November 2011. We love new apps.

It is one of the joys of our life to sift through the flood of apps that are published or updated every month and deliver the best or most interesting to our readers. November had some great apps for Android, the iPhone and the iPad. In our ongoing series of Apps Of The Month, we take a look at what November produced below. At Long Last, Flipboard Launches an iPhone App. For iPad owners, the personalized, socially-curated digital magazine Flipboard is one of the absolute must-install apps for the device.

For many, social news-reading apps like this have begun to replace printed magazines and newspapers all together. Pretty much since it first debuted on Apple's tablet in July 2010, users have been clamoring for an iPhone version of Flipboard. Today, that wait ends. Flipboard's latest update, available now in the App Store, brings the same social media-fueled reading experience to the smaller screen of the iPhone and iPod Touch. Flipboard iPhone App Launches. Flipboard, a popular social newsreading app for the iPad, is launching its long-awaited iPhone app Wednesday.

The app [iTunes link], which displays feeds from both formal news sources and social networks in a magazine-like format, has been entirely reengineered to serve the unique habits of newsreaders on the iPhone: That is, users who want to access all of their newsfeeds in quick, short spans without sacrificing what Flipboard CEO Mike McCue describes as "the notion of bringing beauty to these posts. " Browse Anonymously on Your iPad and iPhone With Tor-Powered Browser. Whether it's to elude oppressive governments or something a bit less noble, many users have a need to browse the Web in complete secrecy.

Tools that enable anonymous browsing have existed for years on the desktop and some have popped up for Android. There are some for iOS as well, but until now, none of them featured the bulletproof privacy of the Tor network. Enter Covert Browser, which was approved by Apple earlier this week. 7 Million Drivers Combine Forces to Beat Traffic With Waze. If you tote around an iPhone, Android or BlackBerry device, Waze offers an intelligent way to beat traffic.

The social navigation application gets smarter with each new driver who passively or actively reports data from the road in real time. Waze revealed Tuesday that its service has ballooned to more than 7.3 million registered users worldwide. The company also announced that it has raised $30 million in financing in a round led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. BaltTech: Hey Google: Let 410Labs show you how to launch an email app - Technology news: Digital tech, innovation, Apple and Microsoft news from reporter Gus Sentementes. 4sqwifi App Helps Foursquare Users Find Free WiFi Anywhere. Apple and Android Note-Taking Apps Make Paper a Memory. My recorder quickly gathered dust because it was much easier to retrieve ideas and reminders from good old inedible paper.

So when I first saw apps like Evernote (free on Apple and Android), PhatPad ($5 for ) and Notability ($1 for iPad) for note-taking and organizing, they struck me as software versions of those old recorders: places where ideas go to die. I was wrong.