Daily Interesting iPhone News

Flipboard (free) is already many people’s go-to app for flipping through the latest news and social network updates. But today, a new update lets you connect Flipboard with SoundCloud to offer audio clips created by major news services like NPR, and audio clips created by your friends and people you follow.

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With the paint barely dry on Chrome 19, there’s word from Business Insider that Google may finally be submitting Google Chrome for iOS to the App Store. Full-on Chrome for your Apple phone? Don’t get too excited, Apple’s got rules about these things.

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Instacorder is an iPhone app that is extremely simple - push the record button, make a voice memo, and when you release the button, the memo is sent to your email inbox for safe keeping. Boost your productivity by tying it to other functions like text or Google Calendar.

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In a nutshell: Postagram lets you easily choose a pic from your Instagram, Facebook or smart-phone photo library, add a short message, then publish it onto an actual postcard that’s sent to a snail-mail address of your choice.

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Twitpic, a widely-used service for posting photos and videos on Twitter, took a step towards direct competition with Instagram, which was recently acquired by Facebook. It has released a free app for iPhone and iPod Touch includes basic editing tools, filters and a comments section. Users can also see daily popular content and photos or videos from people the user follows.

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Your living room is the setting of your next first-person shooter. Or maybe its your front yard. Or your office. It’s up to you. Real Strike is a 3D augmented reality FPS camera app that gets you an array of guns to fire through your iPhone.

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Facebook has updated its iPhone and iPod Touch app Facebook Messenger to version 1.7, primarily adding the ability to text friends for free using one’s existing data plan. This extends the program’s ability and enables messages to reach friends even if they don’t have the Messenger app on their own device, either on the web or directly on their phone.

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Complementing the latest trailer for the July 3 release of The Amazing Spider-Man feature film reboot, Sony Pictures Entertainment has launched The Amazing Spider-Man AR, a free augmented reality, 3D app experience based on the movie.

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There are any number of apps that can help you pinpoint a friend’s location, but they all have one thing in common: they require that friend to have the same app installed and running, and usually to sign up with YAS (Yet Another Service).

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Children fighting cancer have to deal with chemotherapy, hair loss and hospital stays. Now, an iOS app is taking a bit of the load off their shoulders by making pain diaries — the daily log of their experience with the disease — easier to manage.

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An iPhone app which takes your picture - and then tells you on a scale of 1 to 10 how ugly you are - has gone to the top of the app charts.
Ugly Meter scans the contours of your face, before rating your appearance and coming back with stinging barbs such as: ‘You’re so ugly, you could make a glass eye cry’.

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It was a comical idea, me writing about apps to organize your life. I’ve always been fairly organized, but my organization system? A disaster. Until recently, it was a jumble of sticky notes (both virtual and paper), draft emails of lists, Google Calendar entries, and things floating around my own brain but nowhere else. For the first year I had an iPhone, I didn’t have a single productivity app.

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Corvallis Microtechnology, Inc. announces the release of the iGPSGIS II application software for use on the Apple iPhone. This powerful GPS/GIS data collection and mapping application can be used in a wide range of applications such as resource management, agriculture, forestry, archeology and the utilities industry.

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Apple is famously strict with the apps it approves for use on the iDevices, but it has just approved one uncharacteristically useful utility called Bluetooth OnOff. This app adds a simple Bluetooth toggle to the home screen of an iOS device, thus saving numerous taps to get at the settings.

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Sometimes, two dimensional photos, even those taken by a 41-megapixel sensor, simply aren’t enough to accurately depict a three dimensional object. Enter Arqball Spin, a free app that lets anyone with an iOS device create high-quality 3D models of whatever they like.

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With the skyrocketing popularity and billion-dollar sale of Instagram, there’s an ongoing race to apply Instagram’s wildly successful photo sharing model to mobile video. There are a number of startups vying to claim the “Instagram for Video” title, with Socialcam, Viddy, Klip, Mobli, and even the infamous Color all in the running.

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Looks like Apple might be loosening its grip even more on voice recognition apps? Or, it simply just feels that the competition is not as good as its own native Siri. We’ve just gotten word from Netherlands-based developer Sparkling Apps that its voice-response app, Voice Answer — rejected by Apple for the nearly three months — has been approved by Apple and is now live in the App Store, and usable on any iPhone, iPod or iPad running iOS 4.2 or later.

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Whether it is a stroll on the beach, sitting in a tranquil garden or a trip in the space shuttle researchers are testing a new iPhone app in a mass experiment to see if it is possible to craft the perfect dream.

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Sensopia Inc. announced today the release of MagicPlan 2.0. This multi-award winning floor plan capture application has been improved by leveraging “MagicAR”, a unique and proprietary technology that perfectly showcases how Augmented Reality can power a new breed of applications.

MagicPlan 2.0 enables users to create comprehensive floor plans with a click of a button. Floor plans are drawn based on the captured corners within your room, and are visualized in real-time. MagicPlan 2.0 provides instant feedback and is easy to use.

More info: ww.sensopia.com

Of all the countless apps that allow users to share photos online, why did Instagram become such a huge fad, downloaded 30 million times since it was launched in October 2010? Why did Facebook Inc. choose to buy Instagram over any other, paying $1 billion for the Silicon Valley start-up last week?

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