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Yet again we want to inform you about cool apps we caught at our mobile app portal, Appscovery. Here are the titles we want you to check out: Annoy sleepy Uncle Mike in addictive arcade romp Couch Terror today! StoryPress: Record Your Favorite Memories Fantastic Rush – Android Game made in Game Maker Studio Don’t…
Microsoft released an updated version of its Lync app for Android. If you recall, the original Lync application for Google’s mobile OS was released in December 2011, which was before Ice Cream Sandwich was unveiled, hence it has the outdated UI (that frankly looks ugly). The new version is improved in that front, featuring a…
Users of public transit, rejoice! Your commute just gotten a whole lot easier. Google Maps Transit has been updated to reflect real-time arrival and departure of public transit systems in some U.S. cities today. Users of the service can now access public transportation information for seven lines in the New York City Subway (MTA) as well as…
One of iOS‘ most popular Twitter clients, Twitterrific, has received an update today providing users with support for push notifications. Push notifications are still in beta, and users are being added to the service in groups of 1,000 to ensure that the service is seamless for all users. Also in the update are features such…
One of the most popular iPad apps of all time, Flipboard, is out with version 2.0 of its app. It’s nothing too radical, but it does bring an abundance of new features. Overall, it helps move the app into the future and intensify competition with other personalized magazines like Zite. The main attraction in Flipboard…
If you stop by the Google Play Store on your Android tablet, be sure to check for an update for Play Movies and TV today, as it adds a pretty nifty feature. Using facial recognition, Play Movies will detect the actor you’re watching when paused, and bring you relevant information for the actor or actress. The feature…
Evernote just released a very useful update for Android owners of the app. It brings a handful of new photo features within notes, better document organization, and a special offer for Deutsche Telekom subscribers. The first of the additions is Page Camera, which helps improves the scanning of documents (as well as pages from the Evernote…
Google+ for the iPhone just got a major update that brings in a bunch of awesomeness. One of the biggest features in this new release is the addition photo filters. Yes, Google has joined the wave. The app can also rotate and crop pictures, which is a much-needed feature for those annoyed with having to…
The Windows Phone platform just landed another major app today. Pandora, the wildly popular internet radio app, is now available for all Windows Phone 8 users to download. This addition basically completes a list that has the top streaming services, which includes Spotify and Rdio. Albeit, Pandora finally hitting the Microsoft platform is five months…
RIM BlackBerry is looking to hit and surpass the 100,000 apps mark by the end of this month. According to the company’s CMO, Frank Boulben, BlackBerry 10 was launched “with the highest number of apps,” namely 70,000 titles, and adding an additional 30,000 apps shouldn’t be a problem. Sure enough, many of these are Android…