Apps

Apps, short for applications or application programs, can mean a wide variety of things today but are almost always associated with a technology product or service powered by software. Apps can be the basis for an entire company, or can be something that a solo developer builds and deploys in his or her spare time.

Apps are often associated with exciting areas of innovation and popular technology products or services. iPhone apps, for example, have greatly enhanced what people can do with the popular Apple mobile device. Entire songs are being written and performed only using an iPhone app, for example.

Other hotbeds of activity surrounding apps development include Twitter apps and Facebook apps. Popular Twitter apps include Twhirl, Twitteriffic, and TweetDeck.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Apps”

• Dropzone – A great way to get things done?

  
  The Next Web — Authority: 767
  Dropzone is another one of those handy little Mac apps whose soul purpose in life is to make things easier and simpler for you to do. Is it successful at it? After using it for a couple of weeks now I have to say that it is… taking tasks as mundane (although not all together difficult) such as installing a new ...
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• The True Power of the Wolfram Alpha Knowledge Engine

  
  MakeUseOf Directory — Authority: 723
  Earlier this week, I heard Conrad Alpha speak at the TEDxBrussels convention. The man, a big force in the popular mathematics company, argued that computational aid at school should not be considered cheating. Computational aid, like Mathematica and Wolfram Alpha. In fact, declining these readily available tools ...
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• Firefox 3.6b4 Fixes Facebook Chat, Other Bugs

  
  WebWorkerDaily — Authority: 682
  Yesterday, while many WebWorkerDaily readers were taking a well-deserved day off and chowing down on Thanksgiving turkey, the team at Mozilla was busy pushing out beta 4 of Firefox 3.6. This new update includes over 140 bug fixes , but perhaps most importantly (to me, at least) it fixes the problems that beta 3 had ...
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• iGizmoz Lets You Add Widgets to Your iPhone (No Jailbreak Necessary)

  
  iPhone Download Blog — Authority: 518
  iGizmoz is a new application available in the App Store that will bring widgets to your iPhone without having to jailbreak it. There are currently a few applications such as Cydget and SmartScreen that let you set up widgets on your iPhone but the downside, if we can call this a downside, is that you have to be ...
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• Waze’s “Road Goodies” Makes A Game Of GPS Improvement

  
  Gadgetreview — Authority: 585
  You may not have heard of a Waze lately, but it’s a GPS application that started out as an Android only app, but quickly expanded to iPhones, WinMo and Symbian, and all for free besides. Well, recently, Waze changed just a bit by turning itself into a kind of mobile game.  Called “Road Goodies”, it essentially ...
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• MLH Software 50% Off Through Saturday

  
  CrackBerry.com blogs — Authority: 718
    The guys at MLH Software let me know that theyre running a 50% off sale on all their apps through Saturday. Youll be able to pick up Blurts Pro, Missed Call Alert, Space Ace or Swine Flu - The Game for half price. All of these apps ring in at under $3 during the sale, so they are definietely worth checking ...
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• Black Friday App Store Sales

  
  iPhoneFreakz _ All The Latest And Greatest iPhone News — Authority: 438
  Lots and lots of apps are cheaper today because of the famous Black Friday. Games that previously cost several dollars now cost $0,99. Ofcourse there are also games that are a few dollars cheaper but still cost several dollars. Some deals only last today, other deals will last till Sunday. Below is a big list with ...
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• Creator Of iFart Is Not Happy With App Store Approval System

  
  iPhoneFreakz _ All The Latest And Greatest iPhone News — Authority: 438
  Joel Comm, creator of the application ‘iFart’, has a personal message for Steve Jobs and he is delivering that message via a YouTube video. He wants Steve Jobs to improve the App Store approval system. His newest app, the ‘ka-ching’ app, has been rejected, because there was not enough functionality. Comm ...
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• Get BerryWeather For 50% Off Today Only! [Deal]

  
  BlackBerry Rocks! — Authority: 512
  The Black Friday deals aren’t over just yet. For today only you can save 50% off on the BerryWeather BlackBerry application by Bellshare . BerryWeather includes all the following features without being a subscription application: Current conditions including “Feels like” temperature, wind, pressure, dew ...
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• New Anatomy Education iPhone Apps Now Available

  
  Mobilewhack.com — Authority: 643
  Three new anatomy educational apps for the iPhone has been released over at the iTunes app store that should provide students additional content customization and learning assistance not readily available today. The three new anatomy apps are:Clemente’s AnatomyRohen’s Photographic AnatomyMoore’s Clinical ...
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• OmmWriter: The Weirdest Writing Experience I’ve Had on a Computer

  
  WebWorkerDaily — Authority: 682
  Eliminating distraction is a constant concern for the at-home worker. My PS3 is around three feet from my workstation, and the TV is just another foot beyond that. When I want to sit down and do some writing, I’ll try anything to make sure my attention stays focused where it should. That includes OmmWriter , a new ...
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• Fring: VoIP for Your Mobile, Now also Do Video Calls

  
  Crenk — Authority: 547
  Israel based company Fring have been offering VoIP calls from your mobile handset to their own users, but now they’ve introduced the ability to make video calls over your compatible mobile phone’s data connection. More than this, you can also video call people on Skype, Facebook, Google Talk and a few other ...
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• Facebook Nokia E Series app arrives

  
  Electricpig.co.uk - The UK's fastest-growing tech news site — Authority: 719
  Nokia E Series owners, attention! A Facebook app made specifically for your blower’s just hit the Ovi Store, so you can poke and prod when you should be filing that urgent memo. Although Facebook already has a Symbian S60 5th edition app, the new Facebook app is designed specifically for the Nokia E71 and ...
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• ScrumEdge

  
  Listio Web 2.0 Directory - Recently Added — Authority: 142
  ScrumEdge enables agile development teams to better organize and manage project deliverables, allowing them to deliver high quality products in short time-frames. With ScrumEdge youll no longer need to deal with shared excel-sheets or walls covered in post-its! The icing on the cake is the ease with which ScrumMasters ...
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• Deal of the Day: Save 50% on BerryWeather!

  
  CrackBerry.com blogs — Authority: 718
      BerryWeather is perhaps the best weather application for BlackBerry. It has an insane amount of features, and its totally customizable. It features a homescreen icon with temperature and conditions, weather alerts, multiple locations, forecasts, radar and more. The $9.95 tag may be a bit high for some users, ...
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• One Billion Minds

  
  Listio Web 2.0 Directory - Recently Added — Authority: 142
  One Billion Minds is a powerful open innovation platform connecting students and alumni of top universities to Corporations and Non Profits seeking innovative solutions to challenging problems in Business, Technology and Social Innovation. Each Challenge has a Prize that includes cash, professional recognition and ...
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• Black Friday Online Deals on iPhone Apps and Games

  
  Redmond Pie — Authority: 648
  Its Black Friday today! If you own an iPhone or an iPod Touch, then you must be wondering what kind of deals are up for your stylish Apple gadget. Many iPhone developers have announced special offers on their apps, which results in both free, or special discounts on these iPhone apps and games. We have listed down our ...
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• Track Your Trails with BerrySki for BlackBerry

  
  CrackBerry.com blogs — Authority: 718
  [ youtube video link for mobile viewing ] BerrySki is an application for all you BlackBerry owners who love to ski or snowboard. It is a fully functional GPS app supporting maps from the United States and Canada (Europe coming soon). BerrySki if packed full of features including the following: Offline Usage: ...
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• 5 Free Tools To Quickly Convert A CD To An MP3 Collection

  
  MakeUseOf Directory — Authority: 723
  I love my audio CD collection. I really do. But carrying a hundred CDs with me on a vacation just so that I can listen to that one song when I have to, isn’t exactly my idea of fun. On the other hand, my iPod lets me take more than a hundred CDs worth of songs and is perfectly at peace sitting in a corner of my ...
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• Gameloft unleashes $0.99 Thanksgiving Sale

  
  iWorld — Authority: 145
  EA started it, and now, Gameloft is joining in the merriment with a few of their popular games reduced to 99¢ each. Just take a look in the App Store Top 10 right now under the ‘Games’ category, it is either dominated by Gameloft or EA at the moment with one of the heavily discounted titles. These are the ...
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