Sunrise Brilliantly Redefines Calendar Apps On iOS. Meet Sunrise, the calendar app that will replace every calendar app that you’ve tried so far.
It’s the best calendar you’ll ever use. Behind its apparent simplicity, there’s a server component (like Mailbox), making it significantly smarter with data from Google Calendar, Facebook, LinkedIn and others. The app was made by ex-Foursquare designers who believe they may have finally figured out how to make the calendar a powerful tool. Sunrise first launched as an email newsletter that delivers your calendar information in your inbox everyday. At the time, UX designer and developer Pierre Valade said in an interview that “calendar apps today are mostly broken as they don’t show you useful information, even though you spend a lot of time adding items every day.” With a brand new iOS application, this statement sounds even more true today.
“We looked at this underestimated issue because nobody wanted to redefine the underlying principles of existing calendar apps,” Valade said. Gorgeous Photos, In Your Pocket: 500px Arrives On iPhone. Hot on the heels of acquiring the makers of a popular iPhone app for browsing the photos on its service, the Toronto-based photo-sharing startup 500px is debuting an iPhone application of its own today.
The move comes just over a year after the company launched its first iOS application, 500px for iPad, which is also seeing a minor update today, as the two apps are now launching as a universal binary for iPhone and iPad. Like the iPad app before it, the new iPhone app shares the same black-and-white user interface, which makes photos really pop. However, it also introduces its own unique navigation instead of relying on the now common single-screen interface with navigation tucked off to the left side (similar to the Facebook or Google+ app, for example). The company, apparently staffed by perfectionists, actually tried that style of navigation in an earlier iteration, and decided it didn’t work. Lightt App Compresses Time, Collapses Space and Creates A New Kind Of Social Stream. Path Finally Releases Its Long-Awaited iPad App.
Finally, Path, the personal social network, has come to the iPad.
A day before the release of Apple’s new iPad mini tablet, the company is releasing its long-awaited and highly-demanded app for the tablet. Over the past two years, the company has been on a roll making some advancements to a social network that is akin to being at a family gathering and sharing what you’re doing on the weekend. RockMelt For iPad: A Browser Built For Touch That Turns The Web Into A Feed So Content Comes To You. Surfing the Internet can feel like you’re running in circles, constantly checking your favorite sites for updates.
The RockMelt team believes that content should be delivered, not hunted, so its new browser app for iPad is built around a stream instead of a blank window. Digg launches redesign and new app with editorial curation, no comments. Digg's "Rethought' redesign after its acquisition by Betaworks has just gone live, just one day after the company showed off its v1 preview that was the result of a very rapid 6-week redesign process.
It's technically a day earlier than its original goal of August 1st, which could be a sign that the site intends to be just as "fast and thin" as the new look itself. Old features like the Newsbar and Newsrooms have been scuttled in favor of a simpler site that emphasizes top stories, popular stories, and "upcoming" stories. Betaworks also says that it's changed the Digg score to take social sharing from Facebook and Twitter into account when ranking stories. Digg for iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation) and iPad on the iTunes App Store. Scratch Looks Like A Beautiful Alternative To Drafts, But Is It Better? Scratch — Your Quick-Input Notepad ($2.99) by Karbon is quite possibly the best competition for Drafts, which is one of my other favorite apps. Scratch, like Drafts, is a quick note-taking app that makes it incredibly easy to jot down anything at a moment’s notice. Even though I’ve called Drafts the “Launch Center of Text”, Scratch works in a similar manner, though not as comprehensive as Drafts.
Flock From Bump Makes Your Old Photos New. I’m a big fan of photosharing apps, and I mean fanatical.
I shared my thoughts a while back in a piece called “What are we going to do with all of these photos?” And popular app and company Bump has come up with an answer. Showyou Rolls out Redesigned iPhone App. Showyou launched way back in April 2011, with one underlying mission: to deliver the best mobile app for watching and sharing videos.
Available for both iPhone and iPad, Showyou lets you browse videos shared by your Facebook and Twitter friends, while also enabling you to follow video feeds form other users and channels, covering the likes of The Daily Show, TED, Reddit TV, Pitchfork and more. Path Debuts Version 2.5: Bigger Photos And Videos, Book And Movie Sharing, New ‘Nudge’ Feature. Path, the mobile-based social networking app aimed at helping people connect with their close circles of friends and family, is rolling out the latest update to its app: Path Version 2.5.
The update, which will roll out tonight to the 17 languages Path supports on its iPhone and Android apps, doesn’t have any groundbreaking new features, but there are some very clever incremental updates. It comes just as Path’s new user growth is booming, CEO Dave Morin told me in an interview this week. “The past 2 weeks we’ve experienced our biggest growth weeks of all time, with higher levels of traffic than we’ve ever seen,” Morin said. “Most of the growth is happening here in the United States. Twist, an app for iPhone, saves time with accurate ETAs. “Where” is yesterday’s news. The next big opportunity in mobile is “when,” according to serial angel investor Bill Lee, who’s backed the likes of Posterous, TweetDeck, and Yammer.
Add Twist to that list, a startup backed and co-founded by Lee that today unveils its time-saving application for iPhone. “Twist is about time,” Lee told me in an interview. “If you’ve ever wasted time waiting for someone, then you know the problem we’re trying to solve.” The story goes that Lee got so fed up with waiting for late entrepreneurs to arrive to meetings and so frustrated by the lack of communication and last-minute time-juggling that he set out to create Twist.
Brewster. Twenty years into the personal technology revolution and we are still using address books that work pretty much like physical address books.
It makes no sense. The mobile address book should be hyperconnected to our digital life, informed by it, and responsive to it. I remember back in early 2011, Steve Greenwood walked into our old offices on the 14th floor and told us that he intended to build that hyperconnected mobile address book. Wikiweb - A Delightful Wikipedia Reader. Hands On With Google Drive On iOS. As promised at this morning’s Google I/O conference, Google has launched a version of its Google Drive application on iOS today, which offers native support for the service formerly known as Google Docs on both iPhone and iPad.
The app is live now in iTunes, and looks to give competitor Dropbox a run for its money. Although Google Drive has offered a mobile web version of its service for some time, many people prefer using a native application on their smartphones or tablets. This is somewhere Dropbox has previously excelled, but it no longer has that same advantage after today. Navigation Where Dropbox uses the more traditional iOS layout of having buttons at the bottom of the app (for Dropbox, Favorites, Uploads and Settings), the Google Drive application uses the layout popularized by Facebook involving a button at the top left which you tap in order to slide the screen over to the right, revealing the navigation. Details Screen, Offline Access & Editing. Google Chrome for iOS hands-on. Airbnb. Tumblr Releases Revamped iOS App Version 3.0.0.
Tumblr has introduced version 3.0.0 of its iOS app which features a raft of changes included a revamped dashboard, support for high-resolution images and Spotify, a new image viewer and offline support. Speaking last week, CEO David Karp said it would launch the new app, and the company describes the new release as a “completely rebuilt app that’s better in every possible way.” A significant number of changes have been made as it aims at making blogging from an iPhone easier — and more appealing — than ever before.
Version 3.0.0 has increased the tap-based functionality within the app and, for example, swiping up on the ‘compose’ button brings up the camera while swiping left brings up the text post shortcut. Significant changes have been made to images within the app. As a regular Tumblr user, I can say that support for offline is arguably one of the most significant introductions. Moped Lands $1M In Funding, Releases Messaging App For iOS, Web. Moped, a Berlin startup that is ‘rethinking messages from the ground up’, has raised $1 million in seed funding from Germany’s Earlybird Ventures and high-profile U.S. investors like Lerer Ventures, SV Angel and Betaworks.
Still early in its development, Moped is building a private digital messaging service on the Web, desktop and smartphones – the company is launching its iPhone app today – that aims to eventually enable anyone to start conversations from anywhere, at any time, as long as they’re connected to the Internet. Currently, users are required to log in via Twitter – TNW readers can sign up here. The app supports familiar features like @-replies, search and hashtags and comes with a useful Chrome extension for speedy Web-based messaging.
Interestingly, Moped also integrates with third-party services like Dropbox for file-sharing, with more integrations and authentication possibilities down the line. Earlybird’s Ciarán O’Leary explains why the firm led Moped’s financing round: Music Streaming App Songza Surpasses 1 Million iOS Downloads In 10 Days. Last week, music curation and streaming service Songza launched an iPad app to join their already-available iPhone, Android, and web apps. And over the course of the last ten days, the company’s iOS apps have been downloaded more than 1.15 million times. This is a testament to how startups can disrupt crowded spaces as long as the core idea is solving the problem differently. Songza achieves that with some added user delight to boot.
Unlike Pandora’s algorithms or Spotify’s blank canvas approach, Songza offers up playlists that have been curated by music experts, like Rolling Stone writers and DJs. But the way these playlists are delivered is what really makes the app special (and likely abutting threatening to the other companies in the space). Foursquare simplifies iPhone and Android apps in striking redesign. Any.do task manager launches for iOS and Chrome, now syncs across platforms (hands-on)
Any.do is one of the most popular and acclaimed to-do list apps for Android, and today the company behind it is bringing the same app and experience to the iPhone and the Chrome browser. Circle: If Highlight And Path Had A Beautiful Ambient Location Child. Get photos from your phone onto your computer with a simple bump to the spacebar.
Bump has done it again. Facebook Camera hands-on. Facebook has kept itself rather busy in the last month or so with such tasks as going public and purchasing popular photo-sharing app Instagram, but that doesn't mean it stopped working on other projects in the meantime. This realization is apparent with the launch of Facebook Camera, a photo-centric application that chooses to remain separated from the company's general mobile representation. LinkedIn Fans Rejoice: Your iPad App Has Arrived. Spotify for iPad review. Jolicloud. Read It Later Rebrands as Pocket. Save Articles, Videos, Images & more.. I recently met up with the team behind Read It Later over a drink in San Francisco.
Wavii Launches In Public Beta, Aiming To Be Your Big Data News Aggregator Of Choice. Tracking everything, Placeme is the smartphone assistant of the future — Mobile Technology News. No More Buttons: Clear Demonstrates the Power of a Purely Gesture-Based Interface. Atomico Invests $4.2M In 6Wunderkinder: German Name, Global Ambitions. Path’s Second Iteration Is Less Photosharing And More Everything Sharing. Have Arrington and Conway screwed up big time with their investment in Highlight? Google launches Currents, new social reading platform for iOS and Android. Storify Launches a Slick and Friendly iPad App. Ebuzzing. Streamglider Takes On Flipboard And Pulse With Sleek Social Interest And News Reader For The iPad. Zite Debuts its First iPhone App.
Kevin Rose’s Oink Hits The App Store. It’s Here: Download “Livestand,” Yahoo!’s Living Magazine App for iPads. Gmail's 'Pretty Fantastic' iPhone App Is On The Way. “Batch” May Be The Perfect Mobile Photo Sharing App (No, Seriously) SoundCloud Lands on the iPad - Peter Kafka - Media. Fab.com Design Inspirations & Sales. Quora. Evri Comes To iPad With New Topic-Based News Reader. Empathetic vs. Personalized: News.me Spun Off to Compete With Flipboard. Last but not least, Dolphin Browser comes to iPad.
Eeve - Collaborative photo experiences made easy [Invites] - TNW Apps. News360 is Changing the Content Delivery Game. Sequoia-Backed Dolphin Brings Its Popular Browser To The iPhone. GetGlue for iPad for iPad on the iTunes App Store. Slidelight iPad App Is A Flipboard-Instagram Hybrid. Photovine Grows Ready For Public Use; Easily Google’s Most Ambitious Photo-Sharing App Yet. With Search And Big Publishers, Showyou Turns Your iPad Into A Visual, Social Remote Control. Boxee's iPad App is (Almost) Like Flipboard and Instapaper For Web Video. Rdio’s iPad App Now Available In The App Store. Turn every photo you take into a video, with GLMPS - TNW Apps.
Facebook’s Secret iPad App Exposed [Pictures] The iPad Was Built For Something Like StumbleUpon, Now They Have A Worthy App. Square’s Disruptive New iPad Payments Service Will Replace Cash Registers. Get Posting With Gorgeous New Tumblr iPhone App. Zwapp builds a social network for app discovery. Songkick launches iPhone app to connect location to concerts. With Full-On Twitter Integration, Path Launches A Second App. Hunch Mobile demo Pulse News Reader Takes Baby Steps Towards the Web. Sonar Finds You The Most Relevant People In The Room. Do@ Plizy, moteur de recommandation intelligent de vidéos sur iPad. Plizy, moteur de recommandation intelligent de vidéos sur iPad. The tablet and mobile news war just keeps getting hotter; Exclusive first look at new SkyGrid. The Boundless Library: Explore the New York Public Library Collections on Your iPad.
My New Favorite iPhone App for Music: Hype Machine Radio. Socialcam: The easiest way to share video with friends. Feedly. Social Photo Aggregator Pixable Raises $3.6 Million. Taptu delivers the news. A lot. LocalMind. Color. Yobongo. Flow: Task Management and Online Collaboration for Teams. Everyday for iPhone. Move Over Flipboard: Qwiki is the iPad's Newest Killer App. Appsfire.