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Vine For iOS Updated, Brings New Share Button And Bugfixes

Twitter has updated the Vine app for iOS, bringing with it bugfixes and interface improvements. The Vine update adds a share button underneath posts on a users feed, allowing Vine makers to share their video clips easier than ever. Description Vine is the best way to see and share life in motion. Create short, beautiful, looping videos in a simple and fun way for your friends and family to see. Unlimited uploads and free Instantly post videos on Vine, then share to Twitter and Facebook (more coming soon!) Find, follow, Read more

Ian Kersey

MyFitnessPal Android App Gets Major Update

Popular fitness app, MyFitnessPal got a major overhaul today. Its Android app has been updated with a cleaner look and improved functionality. The app will feature a new sliding menu, a more consistent user interface, and more quickly accessible graphs and data to, making it easier to keep track of your progress. I’ve been using this app for a couple of years and I’ve found it to be the best calorie counter available for Android devices. It has a huge database of foods that users can add to including lots Read more

This week @ Appscovery

And again, we have more cool apps to showcase this week. Without further ado, here they are: MyPicTV – Parody Fun App!! This App is intended for composing pictures. EasyCharts: your infographics and data visualization wizard NicePrints + an amazing photo app Send and receive large files up to 100GB with SendItz 1.0.2 for iOS & Android Vodio – Your Personal Video Curator eWeather HD 4.9 for Android released Incrediball! a physics puzzle game 5 Tips to Simplify your Mobile Life Playing blackjack has never been more fun, please meet Read more

Digg Previews its RSS Reader – Will Be Available Before Google Reader’s Demise

The race to become the next Google Reader is on and the contenders are lining up. Early entrants such as Feedly, are steadily building a following. The rumor mill has it that Facebook’s mysterious upcoming announcement will be the addition of RSS reader functionality to Facebook. Now Digg, the once great social news site, has thrown its hat into the ring and given us a glimpse of its new feed reader for the web and smart phones. In a blog post Digg laid out the release schedule for its RSS app, Read more

Bing Improves Voice Recognition Capabilities for Windows Phone

Windows Phone users may have noticed some improvements to the voice capabilities on their handsets, as Microsoft has been rolling out updates to its Windows Phone users over the last few weeks. The updates to the Bing voice search software have brought improved speed and accuracy to Windows Phone, and can now return search results up to twice as fast as before the improvements were made. “By coupling MSR’s major research breakthroughs in the use of DNNs with the large datasets provided by Bing’s massive index, the DNNs were able Read more

Ian Kersey

Skype Video Messaging Launches For Android, iOS, BlackBerry, Mac and Windows

Skype is rolling out its video messaging service for users across platforms today, and is now a free feature for users of Skype on Windows, Windows 8, Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android and Blackberry 10. Users can now send unlimited video messages to Skype contacts, even if the recipient is not online. Skype users have the ability to record a video message of up to three minutes in length. Shooting a video message is a breeze, and goes like this: First, tap the “video message” button. Next, tap the record button Read more

Ian Kersey

Yahoo acquires photo app maker GhostBird

Yahoo is continuing its shopping spree and their latest target is a maker of photo enhancing apps GhostBird. Following the acquisition, Yahoo has pulled GhostBird’s KitCam and PhotoForge2 from the App Store adding that it has no plans to release updates in the future. Rather, they want to use GhostBird’s technology to enhance Flickr’s mobile apps. However, people who have installed any of the two apps (or both) will still be able to use the programs. Speaking of Flickr, Yahoo has recently revamped the popular photo sharing service in an Read more

Vimeo for Windows Phone 8 updated with voice controls

The official version of Vimeo for Windows Phone 8 has been updated. In version 2.1 users get the ability to do search or pause their video playback with voice commands. The Vimeo WP8 does much more than voice commands, as it lets folks watch and manage their existing Vimeo videos, use NFC Tap-to-Share to share your videos, search for videos, upload footage in High Definition. The new voice command feature is a bit buggy, but we’re sure the kinks will be worked out in the next version. For all those Read more

Google Play Music App Updated, Includes Bandwidth Consumption Controls

Google Play Music for Android has received an update today, introducing a feature to help limit data usage while streaming music with the app, as well as search quality improvements and crash fixes. The new bandwidth usage setting is great for users with tiered data plans, as music streaming can eat up a huge chunk of one’s available data allotment. The new option, called “Mobile networks stream quality” has settings of Low, Normal and High, which allow users to choose the option that suits their data plans. The low option Read more

Ian Kersey

Is That The New iPhone? iOS 7 Icon Pack Gives Android Devices Apple Look

If you’re an Android user who is curious about the newly unveiled iOS 7 but don’t want to make to switch to Apple just yet, you can now floss out your Android device with iOS 7 icons and wallpapers. A student named Gail Santos has come up with a way to transform your Android device into an iOS 7 device, using Nova Launcher, a theme and an icon pack, which she created herself. Santos tricked out her Galaxy Note II with the new configuration, then quickly switched back to the Read more

Ian Kersey

Google Updates Google+ For Android With New Notification Settings

Google has updated its Google+ Android app today, bringing with it some new notification features and an updated notifications tray. The Google+ improvements will be rolling out to other platforms such as iOS and the web, and is kicking off with the Android app. Here’s what’s new in the update, straight from Balaji Srinivasan’s Google+ page: Starting today, Google+ notifications are much easier to use across mobile and desktop. In particular: When you read a notification on one device, we’ll mark it as read on your other devices Likewise: dismissing Read more

Ian Kersey