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View Endless Streams Of Vine Videos On Your iPad With VineTube

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Countless examples have shown in the past that merely being a brainchild of some giant company doesn’t ensure an app’s success. Google, Microsoft and Apple have all been forced to shut down certain services that the masses simply refused to use. Some might have expected Twitter’s Vine to meet the same fate, but people have taken to it pretty quickly. More and more Vine videos are showing up on almost every Twitter user’s timeline, despite the fact that the app is presently available only for iOS. We are sure Vine’s popularity will soar when its Android version is released, but we've got to wait for it for now. Even the iOS app isn't optimized for the iPad yet, which is a source of frustration for many tablet users. Creating and uploading videos in Vine’s letterboxed version isn’t much of an issue, but you just can’t enjoy browsing through the service’s video collection without a dedicated tablet-optimized client. In Vine Flow, Android already has a pretty decent app for discovering and viewing Vine videos, and now, there is an app by the name of VineTube that basically brings the same idea to the iPad, albeit with a slightly different implementation. Read More

Cloze Brings Its Combined Email & Social Media Feed To iOS

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For a brief period of time, email was the most important part of most people’s online life, but then social networks came along and changed everything. With Facebook and Twitter’s rise to fame, most of us regularly check our social network accounts for messages, in addition to our email inboxes. Since email and social media are now almost equally important, it makes sense to manage and view them in one place. Cloze is a web service that that gathers data from your social network and email accounts to come up with an integrated feed consisting of updates from people that really matter to you, and its iOS app has just made its way to the iTunes App Store. Cloze calculates a person’s importance based on your past interactions, but you can also manually alter this rating to customize your stream. Posts from other contacts aren’t ignored either, and have a separate section of their own. The app has options for both viewing items and corresponding with contacts, making it a one-stop shop for your everyday correspondence. Read More

Snappn Is An iOS App Discovery Tool With Ratings Based On Reviews By Professionals

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Since there's a staggeringly large number of apps available for iOS, app discovery tools are always coming up with novel ideas to help users find interesting and useful apps for their iDevices. Some of these offer app recommendations based on your current collection, while others ask your friends about their favorite apps or go through social media feeds to look for items that may be worth a download for you. Snappn brings yet another dimension to the field of app discovery for iOS. It gathers reviews from iTunes, blogs, news websites and industry publications to come up with an average rating for apps, making it great for assessing any app’s popularity and finding out if its really as good as your friends have been telling you. As an added bonus, Snappn also features videos related to most apps, which can come handy if you can’t really figure out a specific area of the app’s usage. Read More

Sky Is A Minimal iPhone Weather App That Changes Background Color With Temperature

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Most people who rushed to the evasi0n jailbreak soon after its release got hit by the Weather app’s crashing issue. Although the evad3rs have since fixed the issue, losing access to the stock Weather app forced many people to look for alternatives. Maybe this is why some really good weather apps have been showing up in the App Store lately. Sky is the latest to join an already impressive collection of weather-related apps for iOS. The app doesn’t offer much in terms of features and customizations, but is perfect for anyone who admires minimalism. Most people want a weather app that gives them adequate information in a single view, and Sky does just that. The app displays any area’s current temperature, an icon depicting the current conditions, and a dynamic, colored background. Read More

Retouch Faces In Photos With A Tap Using Beauty Box For iPhone

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Instagram and many other iOS photo editors come with some fine image effects, but these filters might not be much help if you want to retouch photos of a human face. To make yourself look better in a photo, you need apps like Perfect 365 that have been designed specifically for this purpose. However, you have to choose the app wisely if you are looking for good results with minimum effort. Perfect 365 offers a lot of editing options, but it doesn’t work too well for all photos (like side-poses), and you also have to do a lot of manual work before you start seeing the fruits of your labor. Beauty Box Photo, on the other hand, requires virtually no effort at all to achieve this. It works pretty much like any ordinary photo editor available for iPhone, but the effects it offers are meant specifically to retouch faces in photos. Read More

Transfer Instagram Photos To Tumblr & Flickr, ZIP & Save Them With Recygram For iPhone

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In addition to all the fancy photo effects and social sharing options offered by Instagram, the world's most popular mobile photo app is also a huge repository of images. Everyone who has been using the service for a while is sure to have a decent collection of photos in their Instagram account. Most of the times, a picture that has been shared from Instagram remains there and we don’t give much thought to re-sharing it on other services. Recygram is an iOS app with the potential to change all that, by letting its users share photos from Instagram to Tumblr and Flickr in bulk. It is also possible to download these images to your device, or compress them into a ZIP file and send the archive to others via email. Read More

Rundavoo For iPhone Lets You Plan Events With Friends On The Go

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About a month ago, we covered GrouPlay - an app that lets users collaborate on choosing the music for a gathering. Before you get to the point of selecting music for your party though, you have to choose a place, invite everyone and fix a time that is convenient for all the guests. Usually, any event’s planner decides upon a venue and time before sending out the invitations, but changes can invariably be made later when people start giving their feedback. Won’t it be more sensible to collaborate with the invitees before finalizing an event’s specifics? Rundavoo is an iPhone app that invites your contacts to an event and asks them for suggestions regarding the time and vanue. All events created using the app are synced with your default iOS calendar, and come with chat rooms of their own to allow easy interaction. Read More

NaturalReader Converts Documents & Web Page Text To Natural-Sounding Speech On iPhone

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There have always been some pretty decent text-to-speech apps around for iOS, but the niche has never taken the market by storm. The main reason for this is the fact that no one appreciates listening to the contents of documents or websites in a mechanical and monotonous voice. However, there's a new app on the App Store by the name of NaturalReader Text to Speech that aims to tackle exactly this issue. It comes with a lot of different voices and accents that you can listen content from any document or web page in. You can transfer documents to the file using iTunes, open email attachments from it, use its Dropbox integration to load documents from your cloud storage, or use the built-in web browser that can read contents from out any webpage on the go. Read More

Discover & Back Projects On The Go With The Official Kickstarter iPhone App

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Kickstarter is based upon a really unique and useful concept, so its rise to immense fame in less than five years of its inception is not really a surprise. The service is undoubtedly beneficial for innovators, but it also offers a few decent rewards for contributors while keeping them apprised of the condition of their backed projects. While Kickstarter has been the birthplace of many great smartphone apps, its own official client for iOS has just debuted in the App Store. Though looking at it, the delay just might have been worthwhile, as the app impresses by letting you easily discover and monitor projects, manage your account and even make investments right from your iDevice, without having to visit to the service’s website. Read More

Official Android & iOS Apps Of Cloud Storage Service Klink Released

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The number of cloud storage services out there has been increasing at a really fast pacee over the past few years. While the likes of Dropbox, Box and SugarSync have managed to enhance their reputation by frequently introducing innovative features, there have been numerous other candidates vying to compete in this ever-growing market. Relatively new to the scene, Klink is yet another neatly built cloud storage service that aims to impress with its online data backup, restore and cross-platform syncing capabilities. Currently available for Windows, iOS, Android and web, Klink offers each registered member 2GB of free cloud storage space. Using the service’s mobile apps, you can access your cloud files on any device you own. In addition, you can share files from your cloud both publicly and privately. Klink also offers a unified interface for your photos, videos and documents shared from various devices, and lets you search for content by file name, device type, date added, and folders. Read More

Minus Releases iPhone And Android Apps With Chat Feature [Review]

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Popular image sharing service Minus has released an app for both iOS and Android platforms. While Minus’ web interface encourages you to share files, the mobile apps encourage you to make friends with other users of the service who are nearby, making it more of a proximity-based people discovery service in addition to merely being a photo sharing app. Minus for iOS and Android allows you to take pictures, add filters and edit pictures via the Aviary image editor that’s integrated in the app, and lets you find pictures taken near you by other users. ‘Pictures nearby’ is how you are encouraged to find friends to connect with, though you can search for users by name as well. A chat feature allows you to share messages, images and your current location with any user.  Interface wise, the app has a lot going on and it will probably take you a little time learning where everything is. Read More

Forgot Your Passcode? Bypass iPhone Lock Screen On iOS 6, 6.1 With This Trick

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iOS 6.1 has been problematic for many iOS device users out there ever since its release a few days ago. iPhone 4S users are facing unexpected battery drainage, while all iOS devices appear to have issues with setting appropriate brightness when Automatic Brightness is enabled. Today, we’ve come across an all-new, very serious security issue: you can bypass the lock screen on any iPhone running iOS 6 by following a list of simple steps. We’re discussing the set of steps that allow you to bypass your lock screen with the hope that it will be put to good use like, say, when you forget your passcode in an emergency situation. Using this method allows you to access the Phone application which, as a result, means you can make calls, access contacts and even edit them. Read More

Winston For iPhone Reads Aloud Stories From News Sites & Social Media

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Siri’s rise to fame demonstrated quite clearly that people are always willing to explore newer ways of interacting with their smartphones. Many developers picked up on this vibe and added speech capabilities to their apps. You can make a case for such features in almost any kind of app, but the ability to read text aloud or converse with users is appreciated the most in news apps. However, most news apps that can read stories to you do so in a mechanical tone, with lots of missing words and inaccurate summaries. Fortunately, Winston overcomes all these shortcomings, and creates fully customizable newscasts using content from all your favorite news topics, Twitter and Facebook, read in a voice that is pleasantly human. Read More

Event Book Is A Calendar App For iPhone With Weather, Maps & A Flipboard-Like UI

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You can find all sorts of feature-rich third-party apps for your iPhone, but if there is a stock app already there for it, most people prefer to stick with that. Many good to-do and task list apps have failed to make their mark because people are rarely willing to part with all the data they have stored on their existing calendars. Event Book is perfect for those of us who want to get a taste of something new without sacrificing the use of all the services synced with the stock Calendar app. The app displays all your appointments and upcoming events from every calendar service associated with your iPhone. It also shows you the current weather conditions on its main page, and you can embed location data pinned on maps in all the events you create within Event Book. Read More

Fix iOS 6 Auto-Brightness Issues By Calibrating iPhone Light Sensors

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With every major iOS update, Apple announces some great new features, but a new feature addition is deemed successful only if the masses grasp its usage correctly. Siri rose to fame almost overnight due to its simplicity, while on the other hand, iCloud took months to catch on since most users were thoroughly confused regarding its configuration. Siri and iCloud are marquee features, but there are always a lot of smaller goodies in iOS that can make your life easier. In iOS 6, Apple rolled out over 200 new features and changes, but you might not be able to notice all of them right after updating your device. If you were waiting for a jailbreak until now, chances are that you are quite new to iOS 6 and haven’t yet mastered the use of all the new options added in this OS update. One thing that has bugged a lot of users is the revamped auto-brightness function, which has fooled many into thinking that their iPhone’s ambient light sensors just don’t work anymore. Fortunately, it can be fixed simply by recalibrating the light sensors. Read More

Host Your Own Cloud Service On PC, Mac, Android Or iOS With SelfCloud

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While iCloud is great for keeping your data synced across all your Apple devices, it isn’t really useful if you want to share files from your iPhone to an Android device or a Windows PC. In addition to that, people shy away from iCloud due to all of its complexities. SelfCloud on the other hand, is really easy to understand and offers top-level security for your personal files. Services like SkyDrive and Dropbox are quite reliable, but they upload all your data to their own servers. There have often been reports of Microsoft deleting content from SkyDrive accounts without the consent of users. SelfCloud tackles all these troubles by letting you host files on your iPhone, Android, PC or Mac, effectively creating your own cloud service. You can then share the link to this personal cloud with anyone, even with those who aren’t using SelfCloud. Read More

Online Project Management Service Basecamp Releases iPhone App

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There might be plenty of project management services and tools around today, but Basecamp is among the pioneers of this niche. The web service has become more and more polished with the passage of time, without getting riddled with unnecessary features. Basecamp lets you keep track of all your ongoing projects, offers options for collaborating on notes or to-do lists with other team members, and can also act as a platform for sharing files related to a particular project or task. Like most of its competitors, Basecamp has been confined to the web until now. Times have changed however, and many of us want to keep track of our work using our smartphone on the go. This has prompted the Basecamp team to release an official app for the iPhone. The iOS app offers almost all the features that are available on the web version of Basecamp. In fact, some of the tasks (like conversations and image sharing) seem better-suited to the iPhone compared to the web interface. Read More

Easily Mail All Attendees Of A Calendar Event On iOS With ‘Reply To All’

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Organizing a successful event requires frequent correspondence among the host and invitees. Trying to make a new mailing list for every new event is not very practical, and leaves room for some contacts getting left out from the correspondence. There are third-party apps that offer some pretty neat solutions to this problem, but most people prefer using the stock Calendar app in their everyday routine. Reply To All is a really simple app that lets you mail all the contacts that have been invited to a particular event. Reply To All uses the stock Calendar and Mail apps to ensure that you aren’t forced to switch to a new email client or calendar to get such a simple functionality. Read More