SpotMe helps you manage sharing expenses in groups

December 22, 2011 |  by  |  Apple, Apps  |  No Comments

SpotMe, a handy little tool for sharing expenses in groups, Zornitza Stefanova, the CEO of SpotMe’s maker Boomerang Digital, describes the app as “a social messenger for payments.” What that means is that the app takes over the often uncomfortable job of having to ask your friends for the money they owe – it does that for you. Going to the movies? Buying concert tickets? Planning a family gift? Or splitting the rent? SpotMe helps you manage your group's money. Aided with features like messaging and email summaries, SpotMe is now a top 10 mobile app in the finance category

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PocketCloud Explore for Android, enables file searching and viewing across multiple computers

December 16, 2011 |  by  |  android, Apps, Cloud  |  No Comments

A new product has hit the Android Market Wyse PocketCloud Explore mobile cloud app, the app allows users to search for and view files across their PCs and Macs, all without ever needing to surrender data to the cloud. The app also pioneers multi-device search, allowing users to easily access files anywhere on their device or remote computers. For example, if a user wanted to find the folder of photos from a combined business and vacation trip but could not remember whether it was on their home computer, work computer or office server, they could search all the devices at

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Yahoo Hub offers free text messaging and group conversations to anyone

December 6, 2011 |  by  |  Apps, Yahoo  |  No Comments

Hub (beta) is a fast and easy-to-use mobile messaging app that allows you to send text messages and have group conversations for free. Hub allows you to easily add participants to any conversation thread so it's easy to switch from private messaging to a group conversation. Whether it is just keeping up with a close group of friends or making spontaneous plans, you no longer have to deal with scattered messages. There are no text messaging fees – messages are sent over WIFI or using your data connection. And it doesn’t matter what phones your friends have, they don’t

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Send free SMS from your smartphone via JaxtrSMS

November 28, 2011 |  by  |  Apps  |  No Comments

Sabeer Bhatia (fame Hotmail) along with Yogesh Patel, announced the launch of JaxtrSMS, a cross-platform (free, android, iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, Blackberry), texting application that allows one to send SMS over the Internet to any other cell phone user around in your country or any where in the world. What makes JaxtrSMS stand apart from other over-the-internet SMS application is that JaxtrSMS allows you to send messages from your own number i.e recipients see your number and name and on top of that the recipient doesn’t need to be a JaxtrSMS user in order to receive messages. JaxtrSMS features - Automatically integrated

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Arrived – No check-ins required, Meetup with friends without planning

November 12, 2011 |  by  |  Apps, Sites  |  No Comments

Arrived new app (web, iOS - iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPad Wi-Fi + 3G, and iPad 2 Wi-Fi + 3G) which instead of checking in, paves the way for you to simply “arrive.” It automatically checks you into locations based on your phone’s GPS data and tells friends that you’re there. Works on straightforward logic - You select locations which can be as specific as an address or as broad as a country, these addresses are for which you’d like to alert friends of your presence. You add friends from your phone book (Facebook friends coming soon) to

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ShopSavvy – barcode scanning and product search app

November 3, 2011 |  by  |  android, Apple, Apps, Windows Phone 7  |  No Comments

ShopSavvy is a mobile app (free, iOS, Android, Windows Phone 7, Nokia phones) that allows you to scan in a barcode, do a product lookup and find comprable deals on products nearby or online. Using the phone’s camera and the app, you point your phone’s camera at any barcode and it will read it, do a product look up, and give you information about the product, as well as where you can find it online or at nearby stores and for how much. ShopSavvy has over 10 million current unique users and counts over 40,000 partnerships with retailers, including Walmart, Target,

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‘Codify’ brings touch based programming to iPad

October 29, 2011 |  by  |  Apple, Apps, Tablet, Video  |  No Comments

Tablets are ideal for gaming, surfing, movies and any multimedia activity which you can think of but programming aaaah is not typically among them. Much like writing text, you can write code on the iPad, but it's more cumbersome without an external keyboard. Yeah you are not going to see developers ditch their laptops anytime in near future but a new breed of apps for the iPad help make the device more coding-friendly. Coders, geeks, developers welcome Codify ($7.99, iPad, iOS 4.0 or later) which lets you build simple games and simulations using a combination of hand-coding and touch-based visual

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ViBe an android app which identifies callers by custom vibration patterns for specific contact

October 27, 2011 |  by  |  android, Apps  |  No Comments

If you use custom ringtone identifiers for different callers and don't want to loose when your phone is on vibrate mode. Whether you’re in an office meeting, class, or on a movie date, there’s no need to pull out your phone anymore to see who’s calling because you’ll feel it. If ringtones can be customized to help you recognize a contact, why not let your phone’s vibrations indicate who’s on the other end of the line? ViBe (android, free) sets specific vibration patterns for specific callers. Feel who’s calling you. “Vibe” is like Caller ID but with Vibration Patterns. Pick

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