| Drive Mode Platforms: Android, RIM How often have you seen erratic drivers on the road fumbling with their smartphones. AT&T has created an app that helps you avoid ever receiving a distracting text while you’re behind the wheel. When enabled, the app sends a customizable auto-reply message to incoming texts, letting your friends know you’re behind the wheel and will reply when it’s safe. Price: Free |
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Friday, February 3rd, 2012| BodyFate Platform: iOS One of the biggest obstacles to finding and sticking to a workout routine is time. Especially for those of us who don’t like to work out, finding 30-45 uninterrupted minutes to go to a gym or class, or follow a DVD/streaming routine is tough, and even if you find some time… What exercises should you do? Enter Body Fate. You tell the app how many minutes you have, what equipment is at your disposal, and what level exerciser you are, and it gives you a series of exercises to complete. It times each one, shows you proper form, and your workout is different each time. It’s part game, too; you can only skip one or two exercises during the workout and before you’ll need to “make a deal with the devil” to skip another, among other things. Price: Free |
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Thursday, February 2nd, 2012| Houzz Platform: iOS Amazing ideas for interior design, and tips for DIY. You can search by room, by color, by style, even by Metro area, and save photos that inspire you in to your own ideabooks. Lots of tips from pros, too, on how to incorporate certain looks or ideas in to a “real” home. Price: Free |
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Wednesday, February 1st, 2012| Tap Times Tables Platform: iOS Independent developer, Peter Easdown, from Melbourne, Australia has several apps in the iTunes App store. Two of his educational apps are a big help for kids learning addition, subtraction, and multiplication (and parents needing a refresher course to assist their children with homework). These apps have been used all over Austrailia. In fact, the Victorian state government has a policy in place whereby iPads are being trialled and introduced into secondary school en-masse. Both of his children assisted with the development of these apps making them essentially kid-produced and kid-approved. Price: $1.99 |
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Tuesday, January 31st, 2012| Thumba Platform: WP7 Thumba is a terrific photo editing tool for windows phone 7 which includes making adjustments such as contrast and applying special filters and effects such as HDR. It will also allow you to more easily share your photos. Price:.99 |
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Monday, January 30th, 2012| Zedge Ringtones & Wallpaper Platforms: iOS, Windows Phone, Blackberry, Android Customization of your phone is the way to go. Custom ringtones, custom wallpapers, etc. But sometimes its hard to find the customizations you want. Zedge provides easily searchable ringtones and wallpapers to make your customization even easier. With over 634,000 ringtones and 5.6 million wallpapers to choose from, your phone can truly be unique. Price: Free |
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Friday, January 27th, 2012| Awesome Drop (File Sync) Platform: Android Trying to get your photos and music on your android device can be a real hassle. Either you pull out a cable and connect your phone to your computer, or you have to go through some complicated process of creating an ftp or some other crazy approach. Awesome Drop simplifies everything by giving you a web based system to easily and seamlessly transfer media content to your phone without a wire and even through a 3g connection. Price: Free |
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Thursday, January 26th, 2012| SoundHound Platforms: iOS, Windows Phone, Nokia, Android Never ask the question “What’s the name of that song?” again. SoundHound enables you to, with the push of a button, listen, identify, read lyrics, and even buy any song that you hear. Even more, you can even sing lyrics to your phone and get the desired search results. Finally, you can share the songs you find with your friends through social network integrations and see which songs are highest trending. Price: Free |
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Wednesday, January 25th, 2012| Good Morning Platform: Android Some of the first questions when you wake up in the morning are, what is the weather? and what do I have to do today? If only there were an alarm clock that would tell you this information…Well Good Morning does just that. At its core its an alarm clock, but you can set it to also tell you the local weather, and all appointments for the day. In addition, it can play your favorite songs at the same time. Price: $2.95 |
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Tuesday, January 24th, 2012| Uber, MyTaxi Platforms: iOS, Android Disruptive technologies challenge existing marketplaces with innovation or new business models. Incumbent industries may seek to entrench themselves to avoid transformative change, but that head in the sand strategy seldom brings long-term success. Through an innovative use of mobile apps, we are seeing a new way of hailing taxis that doesn’t involve standing in the street whistling at cars. It’s so obvious that it makes you wonder why we haven’t seen it earlier. Uber in select U.S. cities, and myTaxi in Germany and Austria, both offer its customers the ability to order a taxi with a mobile app. Smartphone GPS localizes this process and supplements, or provides increased demand for, existing transportation services. In Europe, over 7,000 taxicab drivers and 800,000 subscribers use myTaxi to help find, book, rate and estimate fares for taxi rides. The app has proven so successful that Daimler has invested 10 million euros to acquire a 15% stake in the company. Stateside, Uber provides a more upscale service enabling customers to use their smartphones to order limousine travel. This has proven very popular in New York, San Francisco and Washington, DC. Surprisingly, however, the municipal authorities in the nation’s capital have taken a hard line on the new service. Just recently, the D.C. Taxicab Commission Chairman himself conducted a sting operation on the new service, impounding a driver’s car after enjoying a ride. In a city where the powerful taxicab lobby provided considerable support to the mayor’s campaign, these recent developments are hugely disappointing to Washington consumers. Most confusing to Uber officials is the lack of communication from the taxicab commission which refused to explain the infraction or respond to emails, using only twitter to express its displeasure. Disruptive change is clearly underway in Washington. Let’s hope city officials recognize sooner than later that this is a positive development for the consumers and drivers, and let innovation take its course. |


























