Now this is a clever idea for the unmotivated exerciser. Playing games while working out. (check out their other apps here: BitGym)

Source: bitgym.com

There is no polite way to say this, but it’s true — BlackBerry smartphone apps suck. Even PlayBook, with all its glorious power, looks like a Fisher Price toy with its Adobe AIR/Flash apps.
Open letter to BlackBerry bosses: Senior RIM exec tells all as company crumbles around him If you’re involved in tech, or better still write software for a living, READ THIS LETTER!

Source: bgr.com

Is it just me, or does the new Google Chrome Store look like a bad copy of Apple’s App Store? Right down to the customer reviews, the star ratings, even the words, “Review helpful Yes - No” vs Apple’s “Was the review helpful? Yes | No” Oh, wait, they did change the “See all” links to say “All”. See for yourself: https://chrome.google.com/webstore Now open iTunes App Store. Now back to Chrome Store. I can see where this is going…
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Is it just me, or does the new Google Chrome Store look like a bad copy of Apple’s App Store?

Right down to the customer reviews, the star ratings, even the words, “Review helpful Yes - No” vs Apple’s “Was the review helpful? Yes | No”

Oh, wait, they did change the “See all” links to say “All”.

See for yourself: https://chrome.google.com/webstore

Now open iTunes App Store. Now back to Chrome Store. I can see where this is going…

MarkUp is really cool

So you work with designers, web developers, or you don’t, bu really need to scribble comments and doodles onto a webpage and share it with someone?

Well, then http://MarkUp.io is for you. Don’t forget to install their bookmarklet.

Can we stop the app-counting madness, please?

Well said.

Quality please. Not quantity.

Source: royal.pingdom.com

Shock! Apple Approves Opera Mini for iPhone Actually, I was surprised. According to the standard Apple app policy, they won’t approve 3rd party apps that offer a feature that is already built into the iPhone. So allowing the Opera browser was not expected by almost all the tech pundits. For Apple to reject it now amidst all the Adobe vs Apple wars was probably going to add more fuel to the raging fire, so they must have thought love and hard about approving this one. Now that I have installed (and already uninstalled it) I can see why they OK’d it: it’s so inferior to the built in Safari browser Apple knew it wouldn’t be a real threat. Go figure. (Maybe the guys at Opera were thinking that it probably wasn’t going to make the approval process and minimised their dev efforts for version 1. Well, it shows. I’t clunky, not fast - even though that’s what Opera was always good at - speed.)  Oh well, better luck next version. via Apple Approves Opera Mini for iPhone
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Shock! Apple Approves Opera Mini for iPhone

Actually, I was surprised. According to the standard Apple app policy, they won’t approve 3rd party apps that offer a feature that is already built into the iPhone. So allowing the Opera browser was not expected by almost all the tech pundits.

For Apple to reject it now amidst all the Adobe vs Apple wars was probably going to add more fuel to the raging fire, so they must have thought love and hard about approving this one.

Now that I have installed (and already uninstalled it) I can see why they OK’d it: it’s so inferior to the built in Safari browser Apple knew it wouldn’t be a real threat. Go figure. (Maybe the guys at Opera were thinking that it probably wasn’t going to make the approval process and minimised their dev efforts for version 1. Well, it shows. I’t clunky, not fast - even though that’s what Opera was always good at - speed.) 

Oh well, better luck next version.

via Apple Approves Opera Mini for iPhone

Source: slashgear.com

Runkeeper just upped their game against MapMyRun

They’ve launched “live” tracking on Google Maps of your run - so you friends and family can watch in realtime where you are. Pretty cool. MapMyRun used to be my standard running app for my iPhone - but their the usability (or lack) on their website is making me consider switching back to RunKeeper.

Watch on YouTube RunKeeper Live (via RunKeeper)

Source: youtube.com

Facebook’s iPhone app gets a major update

Today Facebook gave its iPhone app a major boost with contact syncing to your phone’s address book. It pulls down the Facebook profile pic and adds it to your contact. So now when your phone rings their mugshot gets displayed. I guess this leaves the (very buggy) FriendSync app with no reason to exist.

The other cool (or maybe irritating) new feature is Push Notifications. So now your phone will display a notification message every time a Facebook friend comments, likes, tags you or any other event. It could be useful for being alerted to those inappropriate comments some friends make, or better still, being alerted to bad photo tag!

Apple Announces Two Billion iPhone Apps Downloaded from the App Store “It took Apple almost 9 months to cross the mark of 1 Billion iPhone apps, which in itself was very impressive and the second billion iPhone apps were downloaded in just 4 months. With the iPhone soon to launch in China, the largest mobile market in the world, it will be interesting to see how quick Apple is able to reach the next billion downloads milestone.” via Apple Announces Two Billion iPhone Apps Downloaded from the App Store - iPhone Hacks
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Apple Announces Two Billion iPhone Apps Downloaded from the App Store

“It took Apple almost 9 months to cross the mark of 1 Billion iPhone apps, which in itself was very impressive and the second billion iPhone apps were downloaded in just 4 months. With the iPhone soon to launch in China, the largest mobile market in the world, it will be interesting to see how quick Apple is able to reach the next billion downloads milestone.”

via Apple Announces Two Billion iPhone Apps Downloaded from the App Store - iPhone Hacks

Source: iphonehacks.com