Albumatic first launched earlier this year to promising reviews, but has since gone through some major changes to address flaws in the app. The new app is a redesign of the entire sharing and collaborative experience with the new iOS7* platform in mind.

Albumatic’s founder, Adam Ludwin, has to this say about their decision to remake the app:

You realize that creating value and something that people want to use is just an infinitely hard task. I’d have to say, being an entrepreneur is a very humbling experience, and being a VC is about constantly having people feed your ego.

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Heard is a funtime-shifting app that lets you record audio in the immediate past. It uses the same princicple as TiVO and other time shift TV recording technology.

With HEARD installed on your iPhone, you have a powerful time-shifting app that lets you customize how far back you want to go so you can grab that otherwise missed audio. The HEARD app runs silently (and seamlessly) in the background and ‒ with a simple tap ‒ the instructions / driving directions / jokes / stories / first words / laughter you would have previously missed are now saved and stored on your iPhone.

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Fuel 3D is an amazing scanner camera – it’s the only 3D camera to date that can capture 3D information with a handheld, portable point and shoot interface. The data collected is a 3D mesh that also includes color. Mesh object are standard .STL, .OBJ and .PLY file formats which can be used to print in 3D or to be manipulated for renderings and animations.
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Snapchat photos just found a way to lengthen their ephemeral lives with Screenshot Save for Snapchat, an app that promises to save all of those short-lived messages. The sender won’t even be notified! The best way to keep pictures private now that there’s a screenshot saver? Don’t send them.

Scary features:

View your Snapchat photos and videos permanently!
Save your Snapchat photos and videos to your device!
Will not tell your Snapchat friends that you saved the photo!
Saves photos and videos even if you’ve cleared them from Snapchat!

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Singles are raving about the new flirting app, Twine, because it lets them meet and talk with strangers without revealing their identity. Unlike other dating apps, Twine ensures balance by queuing users until there is an equal number of men to women. Plus, their video is a great demonstration of dating diversity. Watch it below.

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As someone who lives in a major city, I always have a running list of favorite locales for visitors, and now there’s an app for that – Citymap. It’s a mapping app unlike others, and it’s very social. The app lets you create the equivalent of a Google Map of listings, albeit in a more visually and social way.

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In a truly progressive shift, the developers at Globacore combined the Oculus Rift with Atari’s Paperboy and Kickr’s stationary bike fitness regimen into a fun and experimental exercise routine. When Atari created Paperboy in the 80′s, they didn’t have access to Oculus Rift or Kickr’s fitness app or we would all be world class cyclists by now since newspaper delivery jobs are pretty obsolete.

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The internet is getting faster at Starbucks now that Google is replacing AT&T at the nation’s largest coffee chain and home away from home workstation. Google is promising a 10x boost in speed with up to 100x boost in speed in Google Fiber cities like Austin. The transition will start in August and take about eighteen months to complete. Just look for the “Google Starbucks” SSID.

Official announcement:

Coffee shop + Internet—it’s a pairing that many of us have come to rely on. WiFi access makes work time, downtime, travel time and lots of in-between times more enjoyable and productive. That’s why we’re teaming up with Starbucks to bring faster, free WiFi connections to all 7,000 company-operated Starbucks stores in the United States over the next 18 months. When your local Starbucks WiFi network goes Google, you’ll be able to surf the web at speeds up to 10x faster than before. If you’re in a Google Fiber city, we’re hoping to get you a connection that’s up to 100x faster.

The makers of the Myo armband at Thalmic Labs are using wearables to simple gesture interfaces. Unlike other software that requires light for infrared sensors, the armband attaches to the user’s skin and can detect electrical impulses to power electronics and computers. According to the founders, a small movement of a finger is as easy to detect as a wave of the hand. The best part about the interface is walking around and opening window blinds and controlling UAVs like Darth Vader.
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FEMA’s latest app feature came out in its Android update this week – a social tool for disaster efforts that allows anyone to upload geotagged photos of ongoing disasters. In addition to location specific images, users can also add a small description of the images prior to submission., All photos go through an approval process to ensure authenticity and then placed on a publicly accessible map for everyone to view.

In a statement to Mashable, Craig Fugate, FEMA’s adminsistrator said, “The public is a resource and oftentimes the initial and first reports we get are people putting up information, from tweets, from Flickr. Rather than waiting for that to come up, they would be doing that in the app that will allow it to be shared with other responders.” The next logical step is to use social crowdsourcing to fund  disaster relief efforts. Read more