It seems like just yesterday Square, the mobile payment company, introduced their mobile payment system to the world. About four new apps later, they’ve launched Square Order for mobile food ordering. What can get better than food? (maybe alcohol) But seriously, having the convenience of ordering food right at your fingertips is all of the glory anyone needs.
Getting a table at the club can make your already drunken night, an even more complicated one (I speak through experience). Integrating the nightlife industry with the tech industry and making your night a lot less complicated, a new app called Tablelist wants to help you pop bottles at the club and avoid the troubles of obtaining a table.
Like it or not, eventually you’re going to have a little one (or two) of your own, with the woman you love (hopefully) and eventually you’ll have to learn to step up and be a man. First-time fathers should be thanking technology right about now because the Who’s Your Daddy? app want’s to really help you out with the serious responsibilities you’re about to take on.
Coffee-heads out there are getting more and more precise about how their coffee is being brewed, pressed, or whatever the hell you’d like to call it. These are the people who buy the finest bean and brew that shit at home to their precise liking. You might be getting into this type of stuff too, so the Brewseful app wants to help by calculating water:grounds ratios, set custom brew times that can be saved for later and even add events partway through a brew time. A clean interface makes an easy to use app for the everyday coffee drinker or the guy just realizing that a 9 to 5 really does suck. [Download HERE]
It would actually be kinda scary if you wanted to be a hitman, but if you’d like to get your fix without really going out there and killing someone, Hitman GO for your iPad is the right solution. You’ll be known as Agent 47 trying to conquer challenging puzzles that let you show-off your assassination skills, trek through secret passageways and off-limit areas, all while you use the tools of the trade. The visuals make the game easy to navigate, while different ways of completing each level make a nice little twist on the game. Start thinking of strategies now because you’ll be needing them later.
For frequent travelers by plane, jet lag can start becoming an issue after years of constantly sitting on the damn plane for hours upon hours. Well, a mathematician might have found the solution to the problem (like they should do right?) with his newly developed app called Entrain. It’s our understanding that “jet lag is the result of a disrupted circadian clock.” When the app steps in, it simulates your circadian clock on the phone and makes mathematically optimal lighting recommendations to help you adjust as fast as possible to new timezones and schedules. If you’re thinking it’s all bullshit, think again, because the recommendations (which tell you when to seek light and/or dark) are based on new research in the journal PLoS Computational Biology, so beat that!
Obviously there’s a Starbucks on every corner of New York City, but what about those independently owned shops that have yet to be discovered? Well, the CUPS app was developed to connect its users with those independent cafe’s within the NYC area. Purchase a membership with prepaid plans and you’ll receive discounted drinks at some of the city’s best coffee shops that you didn’t even know existed. So, get out there, support your local small business’ and let the big guy feel a hit for once. Oh, and visit the CUPS website it’s pretty damn cool.
Adobe Lightroom has hit the iTunes app store in an iPad app version and we couldn’t be more excited. An important tool in a photographers editing process, Lightroom mobile serves up most of the same features you’ll find on the computer version. Features like the usual exposure, color temperature, highlights, shadows and saturation are all part of the new mobile version of the software. However, true mobile capability reveals itself with by using an Adobe Creative Cloud account to sync collections back and forth from your desktop to you iPad. It also allows users to edit pictures on the go and automatically updating to the latest version of each photo – for example if you begin editing a photo on your iPad, you can continue exactly where you left off on your desktop. Subscribe to Adobe’s Creative Cloud service for $10 per month to get Lightroom for free along with Photoshop CC and the desktop version of Lightroom.
Communication is key and we’ve learned that with the rapid growth of computers, internet and cell phones. But, what happens if the service that powers the process of communicating is no longer available to you? It’s a simple solution (or at least we think), FireChat. It get’s straight to the point – no fancy graphics or eye-capturing images – just a simple mean of communication where WiFi hotspots or cellular networks are never needed. It works by allowing smartphones to connect to each other directly which in-turn eliminates the need for hotspots and networks. All of you have to do is choose a username — no password required — and you can talk to anyone who is nearby. There is still some work to be done with the app, but downloading it to your phone and working through the kinks is what life is all about.
These guys found themselves in a heap of trouble after Google dropped them from page 1 of their search rankings after bad SEO practices (that we won’t get into because its super complicated). They ended up getting all of the scuffs sorted out with Google and found themselves back on page number one after a day or two. Around the same time, they released the Rap Genius app and I’m not even sure how we overlooked it. If you’re familiar with Rap Genius, then you already pretty much already know how it works and why it was created. If not, the concept is simple. They take rap lyrics or any lyrics and break them down to provide you with the meaning and line by line annotations of those lyrics. Taking that same exact idea, they’ve integrated it into an app so when you’re on the move, misunderstanding a song is not an option.
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