Founded by Aaron Franklin and Joshua Runge, LazyMeter makes task management quick, simple and rewarding. It filters your overwhelming to-do list into a today list so you know what to do, when you’re done, and how you did each day. Each day you only see the tasks you have to do today, and you can either start them, pause them and push them to tomorrow, or mark them completed. - "Play" button to add things you want to do today, - "Pause" button to add to-dos you want to be reminded of in the future (and when you want to work on
Read MoreThere are few ways to find your lost or stolen phone, but they all require that you set up the system beforehand. But if you ever lose your phone and don't have a contingency plan in place, you can remotely install Plan B (free, Android 2.0+) on your phone and locate it instantly. If you never installed a security app to begin with, it's a good second plan of attack in finding your phone. Lookout's Plan B is the app you turn to for stolen phones that don't have tracking software or remote location capability. Simply put, it lets
Read MoreApple's iPhone 4 can serve as a great little camcorder but it's never been our go-to cam for video shoots. Not only is its small sensor not best suited for high-quality HD shooting, but the smartphone form factor can be awkward to hold, resulting in shakier than normal footage. A new app DollyCam (iPhone 4, iPad 2 Wi-Fi, and iPad 2 Wi-Fi + 3G, $2.99) helps soften the blow of the latter, letting you successfully stabilize videos with a few drawbacks. With DollyCam you can record videos and then stabilize them to remove camera shake. DollyCam also corrects wobble caused
Read MoreGoogle has released a number of features which make Gmail for mobile look sharper and feel smoother. Pull down to refresh you can now pull down to refresh your message list and conversation on all iOS and Playbook devices. To refresh, simply touch the message list, drag downwards and release. High resolution icons for those of you using Gmail for mobile on an iPhone 4 Retina display, the icons and graphics are now at a higher resolution, making Gmail for mobile sharper. Transitions when you tap on a conversation, tap back to the inbox, go to the menu or go
Read MoreGLMPS a startup releasing its eponymous iPhone app (free, Android, iPhone, iPod touch, iPad), which offers an experience the startup likens to a “visual status update”. Put simply: GLMPS blends video with traditional image capturing, so that the 5 seconds or so before one snaps a photo is captured by the app in quick, abbreviated video form. No need to create a new account, simply sign in with a Facebook or Twitter account. Every photo snapped in the app is also stored in your camera roll. You can share in real-time on Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, through email or via SMS or
Read MoreThe XDK is the world’s first HTML5 powered mobile application development tool. With it, you can create, debug and build customized, robust HTML5 apps in hours. appMobi's cloud-based build system turns your HTML5-based apps into 100% native API-compliant mobile apps for iOS or Android, or you can deploy them as webapps or Chrome apps. All from a single code base. It’s clear that HTML5 has become the unifying technology for the mobile space. However, creating great HTML5 apps requires great HTML5 tools and that’s exactly what the XDK is. As a Chrome ‘web app’ itself, the XDK can also be
Read MoreMaking international VoIP calls from your iPhone just got slightly less complicated, and slightly more expensive. Vonage's new Time to Call app (iPhone, iPod touch, iPad) lets you make short, 15-minute calls to 190 countries with rates ranging from 99 cents to $9.99 per call. Payments are processed through iTunes, so you don't need to create an account with Vonage, giving the app a slight advantage over services from competitors like Skype. The app works over WiFi everywhere, and 3G in the US and Canada, and you'll pay the same rate when calling both mobile phones and landlines so you could
Read MorePDF is now a standard with almost every mobile and eBook reader supporting it. Papercrop is (free, opensource, Windows, Linux) simple utility that automatically restructures PDF files to fit more comfortably on small smartphone and eBook reader screens. Papercrop recreates PDF files with smaller margins and larger, more readable text. Papercrop crop, resize, and optimize the PDF file in such a way that the experience wouldn’t change but the file will take less space than the original document. The app works its magic by identifying the different pieces of content on each page, then putting each of these pieces on pages
Read MoreZootool (free, iOS, Android) is a ‘visual bookmarking’ service that lets you gather text, video and image bookmarks from your web browsing – perfect for designers or anyone else who wants to keep a virtual scrapbook of visual inspiration. ZooTool is a bookmarklet which allow users to organize bookmarks as they add them and quickly reference them later. The ZooTool system includes color thumbnail images to make it even easier to browse previous bookmarks. You can also connect ZooTool to your Delicious, FriendFeed, Twitter and Tumblr accounts to share their favorites and see what friends are looking at. You can
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