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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.

From its recent partnership with Nike or the recent update to the app itself to allow users to share books and movies that they’re watching now, lots of improvements are being made to the service. The move to the iPad is an obvious choice for Path, and today’s launch wasn’t unexpected. But why focus on the iPad? In building the startup’s first tablet application, Path needed to make sure that it would work across all the different devices (i.e. iPad, iPad 2, the new iPad, and the iPad mini).

But perhaps the newest concept to grace the application is the ability for it to revert to landscape mode. 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. RockMelt for iPad lets you connect your Facebook and Twitter accounts, pull in feeds from sites you Like, follow friends, and get hooked up with recommended publishers.

It combines these all into an omni-feed and vertical specific streams you can peruse without ever pulling up the keyboard. And get this: it has no address bar. The iPad app comes from the makers of the RockMelt social browser, a desktop app built on Google Chromium that is designed to innovate where Internet Explorer, Firefox, and even Chrome stagnate. Once RockMelt has imported your social feeds and interests, you can auto-subscribe to a personalized set of outlets you’ll probably enjoy or choose from a huge list of the world’s top blogs and sites. 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. The front page of Digg will also be editorially driven instead of entirely based on a Digg score algorithm. Such rapid development has meant that some features had to be left by the wayside.

Digg also has launched a new iOS app, which offers a similar news reading and new sharing experience — including Digging stories, naturally. 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. It does, however, have its own set of fantastic features that I wish Drafts had. When you launch Scratch, you will be taken right into the editing mode so you can immediately jot down whatever it is you need. Sitting right above the keyboard will be gorgeous two-tone bar that contains three buttons: Delete, History, and Share. The first set of shortcut buttons can be customized. While the second set of buttons are not customizable, they have many of the commonly used Markdown formats: bold, italics, hyperlinks, block quotes, dividers, headers, and lists. When you “delete” a note, don’t fret!

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. The company has launched a brand new iOS app called Flock (not to be confused with the social web browser), and it’s for sharing photos with friends, but in collaborative albums with context.

Yes, yes, you probably think you’ve heard of something like this before, but Flock absolutely blew my mind when I started playing with it. Here’s the gist: - Sign up with Facebook, Flock finds all of your friends who have the app - Flock scans your Camera Roll for photos that match the time, date and location of photos of your friends - You’re invited to share those photos with one another, in a collaborative album Boom, you now have a private photo album with your friends who might have been at an event with you. This app is truly magical. 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.

Today, Showyou is launching a major update to its iPhone app, which follows five months after Showyou 3.0 landed on the iPad with better video discovery and sharing features. The iPhone/iPod Touch app has been rebuilt from the ground up, with a new interface and features created exclusively for the iPad’s little brothers. What’s new? When you first launch the app, you’ll be asked to sign-in with Facebook, Twitter or simply try it as a guest. The Showyou feed sits right at the heart of this new launch. Also, to help users decide what to watch, social context is evident in the feed. 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. American cities and communities are embracing Path all over the place.” That growth surge — not the development of the 2.5 update — is the reason Path has had slowness and service interruptions over the past couple weeks, Morin said.

Books And Movies So, what’s new in Version 2.5? The new “Nudge” 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. “I figured there’s got be a better way to reduce that anxiety and help people save time,” Lee said. The Twist application, released on iPhone Wednesday, is a mobile utility that addresses Lee’s frustrations, along with a number of other common “when” scenarios, with precise updates on a user’s arrival time.

Then Twist takes over. 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. He showed us a spreadsheet he had been personally using for the past five or so years to manage all of his relationships. Steve had built a prototype that ran on the web and the vision was all there. But Steve knew that he had to launch this as a mobile app that will eventually replace your current address book and he knew he had a lot of hard technical problems to solve in order to do it right and do it at scale. Today, Steve and the amazing team he put together are launching Brewster, initially as an iOS app.

Here's how Brewster works. 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 Search Collaboration Pricing. 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. . ➤ App Store. 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). Songza has a feature called Concierge, wherein the app takes bits of information, like your preferences, the day and time, and the fact that you’re on a mobile device, and gives you a list of activities common for that specific moment in time.

Foursquare simplifies iPhone and Android apps in striking redesign. Any.do task manager launches for iOS and Chrome, now syncs across platforms (hands-on) 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. Facebook Camera hands-on. LinkedIn Fans Rejoice: Your iPad App Has Arrived. Spotify for iPad review. Jolicloud. Read It Later Rebrands as Pocket. Save Articles, Videos, Images & more.. 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 | Yahoo! Advertising Blog. 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.