Pandoras Box 4.0 – Convenient Pandora Radio App for Mac
Pandora is an innovative online streaming music service that uses the digital fingerprints of music to suggest tracks you might like. And it’s got a vast library too, so the odds are that you’ll get to hear lots of great tracks you’ve never heard before.TriggerTrap for Android – Released Today
TriggerTrap is one of our favourite products. It’s an app and hardware solution for photographers that enables you to create incredible timelapses or record spontaneous moments. It can be used using a smartphone’s internal camera, but it most useful when paired with a cable and used for ramped time lapses and the like. More details here.
Read MorePosts – The First Decent Blogging App?
I have no idea why it has taken so long for developers to come up with a decent blogging app. The first one that came anywhere near being usable was Blogsy by Fomola, prior to that a WordPress blogger was basically stuck with the utterly wretched official app and users of other platforms like Blogger were basically screwed.
When you first open the app you see a dashboard full of posts arranged Pinterest-style in date order. You can edit one of these existing entries or you can create a new post, page or draft. You can also search for content or quickly go to a specific date using either the calendar or the slider.
At the top of the editor screen are buttons to access the properties windows, media, previews and HTML. The properties windows enables you to change post title, tags, categories and article visibility. The media window enables you to insert photos directly from the iPad or from an online image or movie somewhere like Flickr or YouTube. The HTML button gives you access to the raw code to do any markup styling or further additions.
At any time you can save your draft post either locally or online, meaning you can easily switch between iPad and a browser window. The ability to save locally also means you can write blog entries without Internet access and upload your work when you’re online again. If there are any downsides to the app it’s that it doesn’t give you access to any plugins you might have installed – for instance SEO management.
If you’ve never been tempted to try updating your blog on your iPad, Posts is probably the app that could change your mind. It’s a beautifully designed app, thoughtfully created and is sure to become one of the essentials. It’s available now for $9.99.
Read MorePencils From Old Printouts
Here’s a terrific gadget which we’d love to see go into full production. The P&P Office Waste Paper Processor takes ordinary A4 printouts, combines them with lead and a bit of glue and spits out perfectly formed pencils in seconds.
[Via YankoDesign]
Read MoreImprove Your Memory Skills by Bouncing Your Leg
So I’m a leg bouncer. When I’m working, sitting daydreaming or otherwise involved in any pursuit that does not require ambulatory movement, I bounce my leg. Turns out that this habit (which infuriates some people) is fairly common and, amazingly, very useful. According to this excellent question on Quora, leg bouncing and fidgeting in general (if allowed to happen) improves cognition. Apparently skipping can also greatly benefit memory retention.
Read MoreGrid – Awesome New ‘Visual’ Spreadsheet App
Grid is a spreadsheet app that’s better suited to lifestyle than regression analysis or loan amortization tables. It uses voice input, images, calendars and embedded social media tools to streamline the planning of activities, events or anything else that needs a bit of forward thinking.
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Get Lost – Trust an App
There are hundreds of mapping and GPS apps for all the brands of smartphone, enabling people with a poor sense of direction or map reading skills or both to get out into the world. However according to The Guardian, the apps just don’t cut it when used for their intended purpose and hikers are getting lost. The Guardian quoted the head of a UK mountain rescue team who said, “Last night alone, we were involved in two separate incidents, involving a total of 16 people, who had relied on smartphone apps to navigate on the high tops, were very poorly equipped for the conditions, and become lost.” Today’s takeaway – learn to use a map and compass as well as your smartphone.
Cardio – Heartbeat Detection for iPhone
You might be familiar with the Heart Rate app which can detect your pulse by pressing your finger against the iPhone’s camera. Well Cardio is a new app that takes such voodoo to a whole new level – it can detect your heart beat just by being pointed at your face. It works by analysing the amount of light reflected off of your beautiful visage – you just hold your phone and look into the camera to see your BPM. It’s out now for $4.99.
Read MoreiPhone 4S Glow in the Dark Skins, Covers & Cases by Slickwraps
They probably won’t catch on with burglars or spies, but for everyone else a glow-in-the-dark iPhone case could prove very useful. If you’ve ever spent some time searching around in the dark for a phone after a regrettable sexual liaison or if you’ve dropped your phone while out dogging then I imagine it would be worth its weight in gold. SlickWraps glowing iPhone covers are available in five lurid colours, the retail at $24.95.
Read MorePiano Apprentice – Keyboard and App for iPad
It’s great to encourage kids to try new things, but it can be costly testing them out and finding which ones they show an aptitude for. Ion’s Piano Apprentice is a great first step on the road to proper piano lessons for kids and adults – it enables them to test the water without great expense. The package comprises a 25-note lighted keyboard with touch-sensitive keys and a free piano teaching app. It’s also MIDI compliant so you can use it for creating your next dubstep opus too.
Freebies UI Kit
If you’re designing a website and find yourself a bit lacking in the User Interface department, then this UI kit should prove interesting. Freebies – Clean and Usable UI Kit is an incredibly slick layered PSD file with all the elements you’ll need to create buttons, dialog boxes and frames.
Read MoreReditr – An Awesome Reddit Client for Mac OS, Windows and Linux
Reddit continues its march to domination of the link-sharing scene and as such is attracting the attention of developers. Reditr is a terrific looking client will make the famously bland Reddit website look like something Johnny Ive would be proud of. It sports a column based design that enables you to drill down through the Reddit architecture and slick comment threading.
fēnix™ Outdoor GPS Watch from Garmin
While multi-function devices like Android and Apple smartphones are all well and good, there’s still a lot to be said for specialist single-function devices like the Garmin Fenix GPS wristwatch. Garmin are doing a great job reinventing themselves in the face of the smartphone assault on GPS devices as evidenced by this watch built for explorers. It features an altimeter, barometer, compass and waypoint-enabled GPS in one sweet looking unit and can even send data wirelessly to your phone.
Outgrow.me – All the Successfully Funded KickStarter Projects in One Place
Here’s a terrific website for KickStarter fans. As anyone who’s ever used the KickStarter website will tell you – it’s crap and painful to browse. Outgrow.me meets a great need – the ability to quickly view only those projects that got funded and taking orders or pre-orders.
Wikiweb – Nodes Meets Wikipedia on iPad and iPhone
Love the thinking behind this iOS app. It’s like an information themed marriage of mind-mapping style nodes and all the information in Wikipedia. Initial searches enable you to build a custom map of interlinked subjects which you can then save out in ‘web’ format. It’s available now in the App Store for $4.99.
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