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Moving Floats: Point Your Android Device Towards A Place To Identify, Explore & Discuss It

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Based on the concept of crowd sourcing images and ideas on various topics from the people in your vicinity, displaying all the useful shopping deals from nearby, keeping you apprised of upcoming local events and letting you know all the famous places around you, Moving Floats is a new location-based Android app that can certainly help you know your place and the locals better. Although there are quite a few apps already present on the Android Market that employ the aforementioned concept, Moving Floats brings something unique to the table. It includes an "explore mode" wherein users can point their devices towards a place to identify it and view ongoing discussions and uploaded images relating to it. Read More

Navigation Made Easy On Windows Phone Mango With Compass VO

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Recently, there has been a boom in the Marketplace for apps related to navigation and maps. Nokia Maps was hacked to work on any unlocked WP7 device, and a few days before that, Navigon finally made its way to Windows Phone 7. But most navigation apps for the metro OS can gain more in terms of productivity if they have a compass incorporated with them. WP7 has suffered a few issues regarding the internal compass of devices, but with Mango, the compass seems to have been fixed and is working just fine. So it was about time we got an app like Compass VO, which not only lets you use a compass anywhere, but can also be superimposed on images of maps. Read More

Nokia Maps, Drive & Music Apps Available For All Unlocked WP7 Devices

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Nokia launched its first ever series of Windows Phone 7 devices just a few days ago. There are many other manufacturers currently making Mango phones and many of those phones have got better specs compared to Nokia's new Lumia series (like the HTC Titan), so what makes the Lumia series so special? The sole reason is that Nokia has been granted the rights to make alterations to Microsoft’s mobile platform and customize it any way they want. Even though Nokia didn’t make any significant additions to their Mango firmware, there are a few native apps which are extremely useful but are slated to be Lumia exclusive, but not if the XDA community can help it. An avid WP7 user over at the XDA forums has released XAP files for Nokia Maps, Nokia Music and Nokia Drive, which any WP7 user can install as long as their device is developer unlocked. Read More

MyRoute Safe Drive For iPhone Alerts You When You’re Driving Too Fast

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Navigation and maps apps for iOS are usually pretty expensive, especially if they support offline use. So it’s a pleasant surprise to see a free navigation app for the iPhone, which lets you drive through any city or area while giving you complete information about your current speed and location. Not only that, using MyRoute Safe Drive, you can even get alerted each time you get close to exceeding the speed limit for a particular road or highway. Read More

Oink For iPhone: Rate & Share Places, Food Items, TV Shows Or Anything

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Oink is an app which displays the popularity of just about anything based on how much the general public and your friends like it. By anything, we really mean anything. The app doesn’t focus on just one specific thing like food items or places; there are a bunch of other apps for that. With Oink, you can basically rate the whole world around you and then let everyone know what you think of a particular item or place. Read More

Location-Based Hotel Tracking App HolidayCheck Hits The Android Market

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If, like me, you too have missed out on celebrating Halloween with your mates, no need to fret. With Christmas just around the corner, you’ve got ample time to make amends and plan a vacation at your favorite resort. But how to find a hotel that offers the best services and is in the good books of general public? Well, if you have a smartphone (iOS or Android), then you needn’t conduct any hectic searches over the web as HolidayCheck can do that for you. Initially released as an iOS-only app, HolidayCheck has finally brought its location-based hotel tracking services to Android. With HolidayCheck, you can find any hotel, restaurant or resort of your liking on the go and you can, without having to pay a dime, take a peek into some of the most gorgeous and luxurious hotels around the planet via pictures and videos. The app fetches results via its rich online database, displays  user reviews/ratings for each and keeps you up to date with all the latest offers going around. In addition, the app features a QuickCheck option that lets users manage their check-ins at various hotels and post reviews with images and videos. Read More

Location Navigate: Record Cursor Positions & Navigate Between Them [Notepad++]

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Notepad++ is one of the most powerful alternatives to Window Notepad, which supports a wide range of programming languages with syntax highlighting and code editing features. The main reason for its superiority over the default Notepad is the plugins available for performing advanced operations. The Plugin Manager contains a massive number of plugins that allow users to perform, both plain text editing, and programming language related functions from within the interface. Normally, to perform different levels of editing, we have to switch between different applications, but the available plugins for Notepad++ provide users with everything they need from directly within the interface. Location Navigate is a plugin for Notepad++ that automatically records cursor positions, allowing you to navigate between recorded cursor positions later on. It supports hotkey combinations to jump to next and previous cursor positions in the list. When you modify the text, it automatically updates cursor location history. It also supports jumping between both currently open and closed files. This allows users to easily re-check their previously accessed locations in the document. Read More

GeoReminder: Location-Based Reminders For Windows Phone 7

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Watching the launch of iPhone’s latest model, the iPhone 4S, many users were awed by the Reminders app in iOS 5 and its ability to trigger alerts when near a certain location. Similar third-party apps have been around in app stores of all currently leading mobile platforms for quite a while, and now, Windows Phone Mango has an app for that too. GeoReminder will let you set location-based reminders, which will set the alarm off whenever you get near a certain location. Read More

IM / Social Network App WNM Live Adds Support For Voice Calls [WP7]

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The Windows Phone 7 community finally got voice calls for Mango a few days back with Mobile VoIP. And now, WNM Live, which is a pretty old and popular WP7 social network app, has added the functionality to make voice calls to your WNM contacts, and that too completely for free. Of course WNM Live still has all its social networking features, and you can use it to connect to strangers and friends alike, but the voice call feature has surely converted it into a utility app rather than an app that is in the Marketplace just for fun. Read More

Cell Phone Spy PRO+: Remotely Track Phone Calls/SMS/Location [Android]

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Cell Phone Spy PRO+ is a comprehensive (and free) app for Android & Windows Phone that, once installed, remotely transmits information pertaining to the location (via GPS coordinates), incoming/outgoing calls, as well as messages of your device over the internet to the official PDASpy website (link provided at the bottom of the review). The feature that distinguishes Cell Phone Spy PRO+ from other similar phone tracking apps, is its ability to display each SMS with full text along with the phone numbers to/from which it has been sent/received. Similarly, a log of call records is also maintained, viewable on the website. This accounts for a pretty handy remote tracking mechanism, as you can secretly monitor selective (or all) activities taking place on any phone on which the app has been installed. Read More

Roamz For iPhone: Find Popular Places Based On Social Media Trends

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Roamz is a hybrid of meta searching and location-based social networking. This handy little iOS app taps into public discussions going on at a variety of sites (like Facebook & Foursquare) and based on those discussions, suggests which places are in the vogue these days. Not only that, you can even get it to help you find and navigate to important places near you (or anywhere else for that matter). Update: The app is now available for Android as well. Read More

Next2Me For WP7: Find The Nearest Bank, Hotel, Taxi Or Anything At All

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Next2Me is a location-based app for Windows Phone 7 which lets its users search for any place they want to visit. Using the app, you can also share your current location with anyone via SMS or email. But that’s not all; Next2Me also tells you which of the searched places is nearest to your current location and displays it on the map along with the directions to get to that place. In addition to all this, the app combines a lot of features for which you usually require two or three separate apps. Read More

Track & Share Your Travels With Friends Using HipGeo For iPhone

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HipGeo is an app for iPhone and iPad (models with A-GPS) which lets its users share complete details, photos, places and routes with their friends whenever and wherever they are travelling with their iOS device. Even if you are not a very social person, the app is very useful for maintaining a comprehensive travel log of your treks. Read on for an overview of the app. Read More

Gogobot: Manage Trips And Create Photo Postcards From Your iPhone

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Gogobot is a travel management service which allows its users to share their travelling experiences with fellow users through photo postcards. This kind of service is tailor-made for an iOS app, and that’s exactly what it has released just recently. Now you can manage your travelling plans and send picture-perfect memories of your trips to your network on the go. Gogobot brings a really humane aspect to travelling, and the app does not give the impression of a robot just saving all your boarding passes and reservation details, this app will make sure that you would not need any other app if you are going on a vacation. As a photo editor, there are some really cool effects and filters on offer in the app, and you can get some useful user-generated tips about the places you are planning to visit. Read More

Vibe: Anonymous, Location-Based Thought Sharing For iPhone/ iPad Users

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Most of us are on Facebook or Twitter, or any of the other social networking websites that have been rocking the cyber world since the days of Orkut and MySpace. There are, however, times when you wish that you could enjoy the perks offered by these services minus the social part of them. Google+, and even Facebook, lay special stress upon users to join their sites using their original identity. What none offers is a Hyde Park to express your thoughts without revealing your identity. It's those times that Vibe iOS app looks to cater to. Using this app, iPhone and iPad users can broadcast what’s on their mind without having to think about the consequences. Read More

Ban.jo For iPhone: Integrate Your Social Network According To Location

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Ever since Facebook became a hit, social networking has been a favorite field of development for iOS developers. There are so many apps available in iTunes App Store which deal exclusively with this phenomenon that at times, users being to feel overwhelmed, and all these apps start feeling redundant. However, every once in a while, there comes an app that stands out from among the crowd and adds a new dimension to the whole social media scenario. Ban.jo might turn out to be one such app. It’s all about connecting with people around you in real life with the help of people around you in the virtual world, i.e. your social network. Read More

Keep Track Of All Your Contacts With Find My Friends For iOS 5

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Android may be catching up fast, but iOS is still the most widely used mobile operating system out there. So, that is why there was a lot of hype surrounding everything that was announced in Apple's much-awaited iPhone event last week. Although it turned out to be a bit disappointing for some fans due to the absence of an iPhone 5, iOS users are finally getting over the disappointment and getting excited about iOS 5 and iPhone 4S. If you've upgraded to iOS 5, there’s some good news for you. The apps that Apple announced at their event have finally arrived on the iTunes App Store. Find My Friends is one of them and can be considered a new way of staying in touch with your friends and always knowing where they are. Find My Friends can be considered a combination of tracking and social interaction. Read More

Rendezvous: Create/Manage Facebook Events & Find GroupOn Deals Nearby [WP7]

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Windows Phone 7’s latest version, Mango, comes with detailed integration of Facebook events with the stock Calendar app. But there is always room for improvement and Rendezvous is an app which brings literally each and every thing related to Facebook events to your WP7 device. iOS and Android have got quite a few apps from Facebook in addition to the official Facebook client, like the Groups app and Facebook Camera. While WP7 lacks any such app, this void is filled by a lot of third-party apps. Rendezvous will let you manage and create Facebook events with complete ease, but it does not stop there. Not only does it allow you to view your own events but those of your friends as well, and every once in a while, you can stumble across some pretty useful GroupOn deals. Read More

Spotvite: A Fun Way Of Arranging Meetups With Friends [Android]

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Planning to watch a movie with your friends in that cinema nearby? Why not plan your activities with Spotvite – a free app for Android that lets you organize meet-ups right from your device for free. With Spotvite, you can keep a close tab on others’ recreational activities and add your own. The app lets you create custom ‘Spotvites’ (activity plans) and throw up an invitation to other users so that they may join in the fun with you at your desired location and time. Through notifications, the app makes sure that you never miss out on an event of interest. Read More

Locate ‘N Share For WP7: Find And Text Your Current Location To Anyone

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If you are one of those people who are bad at memorizing directions (like me), then having a smartphone with any maps app must feel like a real blessing to you. However, if your navigation skills are as bad as your memory, such apps won't do you much good either. That’s the philosophy Locate ’N Share seems to have been based upon. It’s a free app for Windows Phone 7 that is designed to help people find where they presently are and text their current location along with complete directions to anyone. Read More