Group calling isn’t something most of us need to do often, but it comes in handy when you’re trying to make plans with a bunch of people or when you’re making the rounds for holiday calls. CrowdCall simplifies the process by making it easy to make calls to up to 20 people directly from your iPhone or Android phone.
Fitocracy, your favourite fitness tracking site, is now out of private beta. To celebrate the public launch, the team behind the site has completely redesigned the site and revealed a new, feature-packed iPhone app to help you track your activity and participate in challenges on the go.
Mobile apps have quickly made logging into a website on your phone to check your bank account, monitor stocks or manage your Twitter account a thing of the past — a fact that hasn’t gone unnoticed by Optus. It’s previously had several cracks at the app game and its latest attempt, “My Optus” looks like it could be its best yet.
When you roll up to your friend’s house, you usually go searching through your contacts to call them. Pocket Doorbell saves you a step by determining your location and calling your nearest friend with the tap of a button.
Can’t find a metal object? Your iPhone can actually work as a Metal Detector and help you out. The aptly named app Metal Detector utilises the compass by reading its interference with metal objects to detect where they are. Although imperfect, it helped a friend of mine find a fork he dropped in the grass at night so if you lose something, the app can be pretty useful.
Keeping your email completely private on your iPhone can be a bit tricky if you still want to retain useful timesavers like automatic login or support for multiple accounts. Secure Gmail is a simple tool that adds a passcode unlock to your Gmail accounts on iPhone to keep people from snooping around.
The Google+ app for iOS has added a new Instant Upload feature, which automatically uploads any new photos you take on your phone to Google+.
iCloud is great for swapping files between Apple-approved programs, but it doesn’t do much else. QuasiDisk is a file manager that allows you to store whatever you want on your device and gives you access to iCloud’s folders.
Like Instapaper but for physical locations, Matchbook saves locations you want to visit for another time. If you see a restaurant you like or a cool shop you want to remember, you can simply open Matchbook and bookmark it for later reference.
Popular mobile web browser Dolphin updated to 3.0 today, with a bunch of improvements to its unique “webzine” formatting of popular sites. Notably, for iPad users, there’s a new gesture interface too.
