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Best Office Fitness Apps & Lazy Bookworm Apps: Top Stories of the Week

Jason Boog — Fri, 25 May 2012 16:30:47 +0000

For your weekend reading pleasure, here are the most popular AppNewser headlines of the week, including our blog’s expansion, office fitness apps and the best iPad stylus.

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1. Instagram Inspires Real Life Camera
2. How to Convert EPub Books for use on Kindle
3. What is an App?
4. Free eBooks of the Week
5. Free Fitness & Workout Apps for the Office
6. ShelfLook – An App For the Lazy BookWorm
7. Best iPad Stylus for Writers
8. Not Even Siri Can Stand Chris Brown
9. 5 Ways to Cope with Google’s Penguin Update
10. Free apps of the week

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Siri Tells John Malkovich a Better Joke

Nate Hoffelder — Fri, 25 May 2012 14:38:17 +0000

Apple has been advertising the iPhone 4S with cameos by famous people. John Malkovich is the latest celebrity to star in one of Apple’s commercials, but it was pretty lame. All of the commercials have been rather boring, but luckily jokesters have taken the videos and improved them.

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5 Apps To Help Avoid Holiday Traffic

Dianna Dilworth — Fri, 25 May 2012 14:08:58 +0000

It’s a holiday weekend, which means that the roads will be busy as people across the country try to get out of town. To help you avoid the holiday traffic, we’ve put together a list of iOS and Android apps that will give you a leg up. Below you will find the name of the app, links to the download page, as well as the app’s description.

1. Sigalert.com: “Save time, save money, and save yourself from the hassles of traffic jams with Sigalert.com. Sigalert features constantly updated, real-time road speeds, round-the-clock traffic reports from the country’s top traffic company, and the largest network of roadside traffic cameras in the U.S. Avoid traffic with Sigalert.com.”

2. Beat the Traffic: “Beat the Traffic is the easiest way to enjoy a hassle-free commute in the USA and Canada. Quickly check the latest road traffic conditions in your area and discover the best route to take to avoid traffic jams.” continued…

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Soldier/Geek Is Free eBook Of The Day

Dianna Dilworth — Fri, 25 May 2012 13:11:43 +0000

In honor of Memorial Day, Soldier/Geek: An Army Science Advisor’s Journal of the War in Afghanistan by Glenn Dean is today’s Free eBook of the Day.

Here is more about the book from Smashwords: “In 2009, an Army Major deployed a small team of specialists to Afghanistan to identify new technologies needed to fight the war. Braving rockets and IEDs, fighting the Army bureaucracy more than the enemy, this small team worked to improve everything from robots to mine-resistant trucks, boots, and parachutes. This is their story, from the team leader’s journal.”

~~Smashwords has the download available~~ For Soldier / Geek: An Army Science Advisor’s Journal of the War in Afghanistan, follow the link and enter coupon code LF95M at checkout to get the free download.

For more free eBooks, check out our Free eBook of the Day archive.

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Make Animations With FlipBook HD iPad App

Dianna Dilworth — Fri, 25 May 2012 11:55:21 +0000

Want to use your iPad to draw animations? Check on the new FlipBook HD app for iPad from Anon Arts. The latest app from the Pixar technical director Josh Anon, is based on the original iPhone app (which has been downloaded more than 2 million times), but has been designed with the iPad in mind.

The $4.99 app lets users draw frames and then render theses drawing together into an animation.
Here is more about the app from iTunes: “When you’re ready to move beyond frame-to-frame drawing in the Filmstrip, the Timeline lets you set keyframes, adjust splines, and focus on your movie’s timing, taking your motion to the next level.”

The animations can be shared via email and social networks. We’ve embedded a demo of the app above so that you can check it out.

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Apple Launches Free App of The Week

Nate Hoffelder — Fri, 25 May 2012 11:18:54 +0000

It looks like Apple has finally woken up to the value of a sale. They’re launching a new weekly promotion in iTunes today which will feature a paid app being given away for free. The first app is Cut the Rope: Experiments. There’s both an iPad and iPhone version, and it’s the first paid app to be discounted to free by Apple.

Apple is also rolling out out new “editors’ choice” promotions which highlight apps that are currently in popular or trendy. Right now that includes Facebook Camera, Air Mail, and Sketchbook Ink (via)

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What Do You Get When You Cross Yelp & Twitter?

Jason Boog — Fri, 25 May 2012 11:14:52 +0000

In the latest installment of MediabistroTV’s Elevator Pitch show, we meet a review site called Fondu.

Fondu is an iPhone app that allows users to share bite-size restaurant reviews with their friends (sort of like Yelp meets Twitter).

For more videos, check out our YouTube channel and follow us on Twitter: @mediabistroTV

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Apple Designer Jonathan Ive: “We try to develop products that seem somehow inevitable.”

Dianna Dilworth — Fri, 25 May 2012 10:22:54 +0000

In an interview with the Telegraph, long time Apple designer Jonathan Ive discusses his approach to design. The British designer, who has worked for the Cupertino company since 1992, is responsible for leading the design for such groundbreaking products as the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad.

Modestly, Ive explains that his choices are pragmatic. He told the Telegraph: “We try to develop products that seem somehow inevitable. That leave you with the sense that that’s the only possible solution that makes sense. Our products are tools and we don’t want design to get in the way. We’re trying to bring simplicity and clarity, we’re trying to order the products.”

Follow this link to check out the whole interview.

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First Look at a Video Shot by Google Glasses

Nate Hoffelder — Fri, 25 May 2012 08:58:15 +0000

Google has been teasing us lately with driblets of information on Glasses, their new heads up display. And this morning someone finally posted a video which had been shot with the device.

The clip is 15 seconds long. It’s shot in 720p and is a first-person view from someone bouncing around on a trampoline. The video quality is quite good considering the size of the camera and all the electronics shoved inside the Glasses.

Google has also shared a number of photos over on the Google Glasses fan page on Google Plus. Some are pretty decent.

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54 Developers Collaborate on Insanely Huge Indie Game Sale

Nate Hoffelder — Thu, 24 May 2012 17:06:31 +0000

If you’ve got some spare change rubbing together in your pocket then you might want to pull it out. A huge sale was launched today which spans over 200 games on many different platforms, including iOS, OSX, Android, and Windows.

So, why the sale? The developers don’t really give a reason other than they’re putting their apps on sale because they could do it. Sounds good to me. continued…

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5 Free Fitness & Workout Apps for the Office

Jason Boog — Thu, 24 May 2012 15:30:10 +0000

How long have you been sitting behind a computer today?

Your desk job and screen time could be killing you. A recent study found a significant increase in death risks in people that spend more than eight hours sitting every day.

To help AppNewser readers cope with this major medical problem, we’ve found five apps that will help you get up and move every day. Links to Amazon, Android and iOS apps follow below–add your suggestions in the comments section.

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YouMail: An App For When You Don’t Want To Pick Up The Phone

Dianna Dilworth — Thu, 24 May 2012 13:46:10 +0000

Do you screen your phone calls? If you are looking for a newer and more exciting way to do so, check out the YouMail app.

The app gives you details about the caller like their photo, name and location, even if they are not in your address book. You can also use it to create personalized outgoing voicemail messages that incorporate the caller’s name into the greeting. One of the best features is the “caller ditching” tool that lets users forward unwanted callers directly to voicemail where they are told that the number is disconnected. You can also tweet out voicemails using the app.

The app is supported by various carriers including: AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile and Sprint). It does require you to forward all unanswered calls to YouMail. It’s available for free for Android and iOS devices.

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Bump Photo App Update Adds More Sharing Options

Nate Hoffelder — Thu, 24 May 2012 13:22:05 +0000

The popular photo sharing app got an update today which adds a feature which I would have wanted long ago. You can now use the app to share links to your photos, thus removing the need for the recipient to have the app.

This two-year-old app first captured everyone’s attention by offering a unique method for sharing. As you can probably guess from the name, you bump two smartphones together. Both have to have the app running, of course, but this is still a unique physical way to carry out a common act.

Bump has been used to transfer over 630 million pictures in the past couple years, and Bump expects that to only grow thanks to the new update. “One of the comments we always hear is ‘I wish my computer worked just as well. I wish there was Bump on my computer’ so we decided to build that,” Dave Lieb, co-founder and CEO of Bump told Mashable.

The process for transferring photos to your computer is supposed to be simple, but the Bump website doesn’t quite seem to be working right. It took me several refreshes before it loaded properly. But when it works you’ll have a link that can be emailed, tweeted, or shared with anyone who has an internet connection.

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INFOGRAPHIC: Lulu.com Authors Have Earned $36M

Dianna Dilworth — Thu, 24 May 2012 12:42:09 +0000

Think there’s no money in self-publishing? Think again. Lulu.com has produced an infographic exploring some key metrics about self-publishing and it is pretty compelling. According to the graphic, Lulu.com authors have earned a total of $36 million in 10 years.

We’ve embedded the whole infographic below–all publishers should be aware of the growing business of self-publishing.

Check it out: “Who’s making the money? [Out of] authors earning over $25K, 56 percent of authors earned more than $25,000, 28 percent earned more than $50,000, 15 percent earned more than $100,000.”

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Not Even Siri Can Stand Chris Brown

Nate Hoffelder — Thu, 24 May 2012 11:30:19 +0000

Apple released a couple new videos yesterday featuring John Malkovich and Siri. As much as I like the fellow, his commercial isn’t nearly as entertaining as the many parodies that have been made.

Take, for example, the following video, which was created by Jest. It makes fun of Chris Brown. Okay, it’s more insulting than funny, but he makes an excellent punching bag. The conversation in the video is NSFW so I am putting it after the break. continued…

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