Tag: application

App a Day: Waze |Social Maps for iOS, Android, Symbian, Windows Mobile and Blackberry
Waze. The new social navigation app which provides you with real-time traffic updates as well as turn-by-turn navigation. The app is really fun to use and comes with a host of features. Since the maps are crowd-sourced, they’re always up to date and accurate in areas where google maps fail. The social aspect of the app comes from its ability to create local traffic groups, which help all drivers in the group by providing traffic updates, accident reports, speed trap data etc.

The app is more of a game than a navigation app as it has a PAC-MANesque interface that has little dots that your car can gobble up while you drive, you also have toffees that appear from time to time for extra points. If you’re in an area where there are no maps or the maps are wrong, you can re-map them by switching to dozer mode, which turns your car into a bull-dozer so you can pave your own road! This is a great feature and the first time we’ve seen a navigation app providing this level of detail. A full feature list of the app is below.

NAVIGATION FEATURES:
- Voice-guided, turn-by-turn navigation
- Live crowdsourced traffic information
- Real-time monitoring of road conditions and automatic re-routing as conditions on the road change
- Alternative route options
- Notification when approaching police traps and speed cams
- Learns and personalizes your preferred routes
- Free, community-updated map
SOCIAL DRIVING FEATURES:
- Road reports from nearby drivers – speed cams, police traps, accidents hazards and more, with the ability to add a photo to your report
- Ability to create or join local driving groups
- See your Facebook friends on the map
- Check in via Foursquare to earn the ‘Road Warrior’ badge
- Fun avatars to choose from
- Ability to ‘ping’ other wazers
- Twitter integration to share your road reports
- ‘Road goodies’ for extra points, scoreboard, plus other cool geo-gaming elements
SAFETY AND OTHER FEATURES:
- Typing disabled while car is in motion
- Voice-alerts when approaching a hazard
- Automatic shut-down after 10 minutes of no movement to preserve battery life
You can download the app from the following links. Remember to join the iGyaan Waze group called iGTraffic.

Waze – Social GPS navigation, traffic & road reports – Waze Inc.

For all other devices, visit http://m.waze.com from your mobile browser. The Blackberry version is still in Beta and does not have the full feature set.
May 14, 2011
App a Day: Superfiles for iOS
Todays app is exceptionaly useful for Businesses and people who use their phones extensively for work.Superfiles is a frontend for Google Docs, iDisk, Dropbox, Box.net, Flickr, Picasa, WebDAV, FTP, SFTP etc.

What it basically allows you to do is to upload & download documents from your cloud storage or other servers on the go to your iDevice. Edit files on the go. Preview files not supported by other iOS apps, share files between Superfiles via bluetooth, Scan documents with your camera etc.

Some of the features of the app are:
- Send/Receive files between Superfiles via Bluetooth
- Scan documents, enhance for better OCR
- OCR(Optical Character Recognition) of images
- Translate documents to 52 languages
- Upload/Download files locally to your iPhone using any Web browser
- Email selected files
- Local preview of CHM, FB2, PDB, EPUB, TXT, CSV, TSV, TAB, XCARDS, HTML, HTM, WEBARCHIVE, PHP, JS, JAVA, CSS, XML, C, CC, CPP, M, MM, H, DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, PPS, PPSX, PPT, PPTX, RTF, RTFD, PAGES, NUMBERS, KEY, PDF files
- Create/Edit Text documents
- Crop, flip, rotate, resize and enhance images
- Convert image from/to JPG/PNG/GIF/BMP/TIF format
- Create multipage PDF from several images and text files
- Upload/Download/Rename/Move/Delete/Preview for GDocs
- Upload/Download from/to Picasa/Flickr
- Upload/Download/Rename/Move/Delete/Preview for FTP/SFTP/MobileMe/iDisk/WebDAV/Dropbox/Box.net
- Zip and Upzip files
- Text-to-speech for 37 languages
Inintially, when you open the app, you might be overwhelmed with the sheer number of options that are available to you. Dont feel intimidated. Its quite easy to use the app. First off, create/log in to your account on any of the providers. After that, just click on the icon for the task you wish to perform.

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SuperFiles – ArlexSoft

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April 28, 2011
White iPhone 4 : claimed to be iPhone 5 with 64GbB storage and new Multitasking UI

Vietnamese site tinhte.vn has posted a video of what they claim is the next-gen iPhone. This time around the White version will be available straight out , the iPhone demonstrated in the videos below is a factory white iPhone with a storage of 64 GB. It is also running the new build of iOS on it (Test build 8A216).

The few other things include direct Facebook integration, as opposed to being an app in the current version. Dragging apps to create folders also shows us a brief look at a redesigned folder UI, the multitasking has been redesigned to resemble the Mac OS Expose’.

Have a look at the Video and tell us how real do these claims look?

April 20, 2011
App a Day: ToonPAINT for iOS and Android
Today we have an image editing software for you which manipulates images and allows you to re-colour them. Like the caricature artists in fairs you too can now cartoonize and re-colour your images from your photo albums or take fresh images from your camera. You can share your images in the ToonPAINT hall of fame, post them directly to facebook, tweet about them and also e-mail them.

Lets look at some of the features of the app. After you’ve selected your image, the app processes the image and you can pan/zoom to the desired region, change shading options and the sizes of various attributes that modify the image. After you’ve set the image the way you want it, we move on to the painting section. Here, you can select colours, set brush sizes and pan/zoom into a section of the image and work your magic.

The palette has a few other options to Auto Colour the image (Available as an in-app purchase) and an Alpha Brush(Available as an in-app purchase), which re-colours your image from the original. Although the interface is attractive, several of the actions are a pain to complete as you must switch between control panels constantly.

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April 16, 2011
Angry Birds coming to Windows Phone 7 Devices May 25th

Rovio’s smash hit Angry Birds game will be available for Windows Phone 7 Devices on May 25th. The game is the most successful application on several app store platforms including Android, iOS and Mac App Store. Although there is no information on pricing, we hope its either free or really cheap.

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April 15, 2011
App a Day: Times of India

We’re starting a new section to review apps from various mobile app marketplaces. These will include the latest and best releases from Android, iOS and Windows Phone 7 Marketplace.

Todays App is the Times of India App.

This particular app is a portal for the Times of India website on your mobile device. Reading news and staying up to date with current events has never been easier. It features many sections to segregate news for easier reading. You can customize what news you receive on your front page and you can also download news for off-line viewing.

The app also shows a nifty live Sen-sex ticker in the top right corner and has a separate section for Photo galleries and Video news. The only feature we thought was lacking was a citizen journalist section to report news as it happens live around you. All in all this is a must have app for your device to keep yourself up to date with the changing world around you.

Stay tuned for tomorrows app review.

Download: iPad App | iPhone App | Android App | BlackBerry App

April 12, 2011
Leaked : Google Prepping Android Music 3.0 Cloud Based Music Player

The folks over at Tech From 10 have managed to get their hands on developer version of the market place, allowing them to download the yet to be released Android Music 3.0 app. The app is identical to the current version of the music player, but the settings panel has been modified to show various streaming related options.

You can also download the app for your device if you like from here.

April 6, 2011
Rumor : RIM is ready to bring BBM to iOS and Android

As we reported earlier HERE . Several different sources are confirming that RIM may just be ready to bring the BBM goodness to the iOS and Android operating systems. It will come as a messaging only app and not the full featured messenger on the Blackberry itself, But, it gives an end to the long awaited interconnectivity b/w BB folks and Apple Lovers. The Android version should be out in the near future, or within this year atleast. The iOS version may depend on how Apple approval system looks at the whole interface in the first place.

On both ends Pricing of the app remains unknown. So feel free to speculate on how much the app should be.

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March 3, 2011
Contest : Win the Navv India Navigation Application for the iPhone !
What is happening guys, Here is a quick contest for you guys. The Navv India App review will be up shortly but in the meantime if you want to win a free copy of the NAVV INDIA Application.

This app costs US $24.99 in the AppStore. and we will be giving away 5 free copies of the application.

Simply to take part in the competition:-
- leave a comment below with your twitter handle and Facebook username
- and answer the following question in your tweets and your Facebook profile status
Question: Why is it essential to have a Navigation system while traveling in India

The most interesting and innovative answers will get the promo codes, You can answer the question with as many responses as you like.

Make sure you tag igyaan in your answers : for face book and twitter add @iGyaan in your answer

On twitter you can also add the hashtag #iGcontest

Example answer:

@iGyaan we need navigation because the cows in the middle of the road usually end up throwing us off-course #iGcontest

Remember this 25$ application could be yours and all you need to do is answer the question, the more answers you leave, the better your chances.

So leave a comment below with your usernames on facebook and twitter : and beging flooding your status with funny and interesting answers.

The winning answers will get one copy of Navv India Application and their name on the iGyaan wall of Fame.

So what are you waiting for ?
February 25, 2011