It seems that thousands of mobile apps are released every week, but most of them will have little to no appeal for the casual smartphone or tablet owner. Here are some of the newer or recently updated iOS and Android apps that are highly functional and could very well become mainstays on your device?s home screen.
Yahoo! Weather provides weather data galore, radar data and beautiful photos to go with it. Typically, weather apps are barebones, but Yahoo! has done a fine job breaking the stereotype with Yahoo! Weather, which is one of the most beautiful and visually appealing mobile apps. For a start, it includes big, beautiful photos (pulled from Flickr) to go with its weather forecasts. You get the kind of data you expect ? temperatures, precipitation, and so on ? as well as live radar feeds, extended outlooks, interactive heat maps, satellite feeds, and sunrise and sunset times. The app?s design is breathtaking and condenses all pertinent weather report information on one scrollable page.
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Turn your iPad or Android tablet into a drawing pad with Sketchbook Ink, developed by the reputable Autodesk Inc. team, which includes a number of powerful tools for creating detailed artwork on your mobile devices. Once you download Sketchbook Ink, you?ll have a full art kit at your fingertips, without any of the hassle of actually procuring art supplies. The app includes features like the ability to work on multiple layers, a color editor to create custom swatches, multiple presets for line weights, the ability to zoom in and out and more. You can save your Sketchbook projects and return to them later, or export them through email, Dropbox or an SD card so that you can access them on your other devices.
Google may be a company hell bent on taking over the entire world, but it's always quite possible that they'll be benevolent and merciful new overlords, ushering us into a new age of peace and prosperity! At least, that's what you might conclude thanks to their new app One Today by Google. Probably the most noble app to be put out by such a massive company, One Today brings a different nonprofit group or project to your attention every single day, and asks that you donate one single dollar to the cause, hopefully sharing that donation with social media and getting larger chunks of change to the people who are trying to make the world better. We're all philanthropists in Google's new world order!
SendHub from InfoReach is the latest in a long line of apps that seek to make business communications easier, while also keeping your personal number as personal as possible. Offering a voice over internet alternative phone service, you can make a free business line in any area code, text and call right from the app, plus enjoy nifty features like call forwarding, group texting, voicemail, and the rest. It's also got a few bugs skittering about in its system, but it works quite well as is, and is definitely a great place to look if you want to keep your business and personal lives separate.
Evernote, the software suite for organizing and note-taking, has really outdone themselves with the latest update to their Skitch mobile app, which is for making collaborative annotations to documents and images. Skitch?s recent April update adds a ?Summary? feature that lets you see all the annotations on a particular document, among other features. In order to remain trendy, Skitch also includes the ability to add stickers and text to PDF files. When you?re done, you can send your annotated documents either through email or through your Evernote account. You can search through everything you create with the app?s search function, as well. Skitch is for anyone who wants to stay productive. It?s great for businesses, study groups, family members and friends.
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Once you’ve had a few drinks at a bar it’s easy to let loose and blow off steam. Unfortunately, while you’re having fun, you could end up annoying others around you, namely the staff at the venue you’re at. By acting like a fool, you’re jeopardizing your future visits, since bartenders tend to remember who was a jerk and who was a great customer. A project at our Disrupt Hackathon called “Bar Power” is an app that will remind you to “not be a douchebag.” It’s somewhat of a game, walking you through nice things to do when you enter a bar. For example, the app will suggest that you say “hi” to the bartender and introduce yourself. If you do it and mark it?down in the app, you get some karma points. The really interesting part of the app comes into play when you’ve done something wrong. Did you drop a glass? Fall down? Mark that down, too. Naturally, you’ll lose those karma points that you gained by being the perfect customer. I chatted with the team who built it, Patricia Ju and Chris Baily, and they discussed their reasons for creating Bar Power, mostly stemming from Baily’s professional experience in the bar scene. While Bar Power might complicate what you’ve set out to do, which is drink, it is a good way to have a little fun and learn how to be a better customer. Ju explained: “It’s so much better to go out to places where you know people. Bartenders gave us feedback and that helped us make Bar Power’s rules. Once you’re in the app, you select the bar that you’re at and then start doing the nice things that it tells you to do. Slip up? Check that off on the list, too: The map below will track how you’re doing throughout the city, alerting you to areas that you should avoid since you were a freaking jerk the night before: As Baily explained, if people understand what to do and what not to do from the bartender community, their experience will be a better one. If the team can build relationships with venues to get them to interact with customers through the app, this could be a neat rating system that goes both ways, ? la?apps like Lyft and Uber. It sounds like Bar Power has potential past being “just a hack,” and I
