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Great Brain Experiment makes your phone a crowdsourced neurology lab

, Mar 11th 2013 Discuss [0]

A new app that aims to bypass expensive neuroimaging scanners and bring brain research to your smartphone screen hopes to use "big data" principles to unlock more of the mind's secrets through the familiarity of games. The iOS and Android app, The Great Brain Experiment, is the handiwork of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at UCL, and tests memory, impulse control, happiness, and visual perception, with tests that would traditionally have meant extended stays in an fMRI scanner. Read The Full Story

Barnes & Noble expands Nook Free Fridays with apps

, Mar 11th 2013 Discuss [0]

Barnes & Noble produces its own line of digital readers called the Nook. The company has offered Nook Free Fridays for a while allowing customers to download free digital content each Friday. Barnes & Noble has announced an expansion of its Free Fridays offering allowing more content to be downloaded each week at no cost. Read The Full Story

Takes app turns photos into video on the iPhone

, Mar 11th 2013 Discuss [0]

If you're one of the hordes of people who enjoy taking video to share using your iPhone, a new app is available on the App Store right now called Takes. The app promises to take your photos and turn them into videos with music from its own pre-defined library or your personal music collection. The videos can then be shared like any other video. Read The Full Story

Apple finally enables HTTPS for App Store

, Mar 10th 2013 Discuss [0]

Elie Bursztein, a Google developer, reported several vulnerabilities in Apple's App Store that could lead to extreme privacy breaches and attacks on users. The reports, made back in July 2012, led Apple to enable HTTPS for its App Store. By having HTTPS on, users are protected from the various types of attacks that Bursztein pointed out. It also helped that Bursztein made the attack codes public in order to light a fire under developers to enable HTTPS for their apps. Read The Full Story

Path 3 now available, offers private messaging and stickers

, Mar 7th 2013 Discuss [0]

The latest version of Path, Path 3, has been announced, bringing with it a new private messaging feature and expressive stickers, giving users the ability to express an emotion that a text-based emoticon can't. While the stickers are interesting, it's the new ability to privately hold a conversation with friends that is the big feature in this release, adding an element of privacy that was previously missing. Read The Full Story

TouchPal keyboard for Windows 8 brings gesture typing

, Mar 1st 2013 Discuss [0]

When it comes to gesture based typing we often think of Android. Some of the apps for Android include Swype, TouchPal and now the default keyboard in Android 4.2. But on that note, it looks like TouchPal has recently released an app for another platform -- Windows 8. The one catch, the keyboard is not yet available from the Windows Store. UPDATE: This app is now available in the Windows Store - go out and grab it! Read The Full Story

Kickstarter for iPhone update brings fixes and improvements

, Mar 1st 2013 Discuss [0]

Kickstarter for iPhone was released earlier in the month and it looks like an update has already arrived. This update will bring the Kickstarter app to version 1.1 and as one would expect with a point release, it is heavier on the fixes and improvements as compared to the new features. Thankfully though, that is not to say there is nothing new. On that note, lets begin with the new addition. Read The Full Story

Spike TV launches Bellator MMA app for iPhone and iPad

, Mar 1st 2013 Discuss [0]

If you're a fan of mixed martial arts and enjoy watching Bellator MMA on Spike TV, a new app has launched offering a co-viewing experience for fans. The app is simply called the Bellator MMA app and is available for the iPad and iPhone. The app is available at no cost on the App Store right now. Read The Full Story

Koozoo turns old smartphones into streaming web cams

, Mar 1st 2013 Discuss [0]

A new service called Koozoo has launched and promises to be the first platform dedicated to unlocking the potential of sharing live video of public places around the world. The service is able to do this using a new mobile application that runs on a network of smartphone video cameras. The idea is to create a crowd-sourced network of continuously broadcasted video that is streamed to the Internet via smartphones. Read The Full Story

Foursquare updates iOS app to version 5.5, improves Explore feature

, Mar 1st 2013 Discuss [0]

During what appears to be today's trend of updated iOS apps, Foursquare has just rolled out an update to its app for the iPhone, improving its Explore feature and taking it to version 5.5. With the updated feature, users can explore nearby places with less hassle, seeing more options on a single screen so they don't have to toy around in search of the perfect location. Read The Full Story

Autodesk launches Socialcam 5.0 for iOS, offers HDR video

, Mar 1st 2013 Discuss [0]

Autodesk has released its latest version of Socialcam for iOS, version 5.0. For those who don't know, Socialcam - which is available for Android as well - is an app designed to make sharing videos with friends and various online social networks, such as Facebook and Twitter, relatively effortless. With this latest release, Apple device users get some pretty major new features, as well as a couple improvements. Read The Full Story

Stick-N-Find Technologies updates its tracking system

, Feb 28th 2013 Discuss [0]

Back in November of last year, we talked a bit about the Stick-N-Find object tracking system. The system uses little Bluetooth-enabled stickers that you can adhere to just about anything from your keys to your smartphone to your notebook allowing you to find it if you lose it. The system also has a number of other functionalities allowing you to perform other tasks. Read The Full Story
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