The read-it-later service Pocket has updated with a couple new features including a new pagination mode that makes it easier to flip through your saved articles and support for more video types.
April 19 was a dark day for users of Victoria’s public transport system. The perfectly serviceable Metlink iPhone app, developed so travellers can plan their trips on the state’s trams, trains and buses, was abruptly overridden by the Public Transport Victoria app, which I can only describe as a nightmarish piece of software. To say the backlash was fierce would be an understatement, going by the one-star review average from over 2000 customers.
Fans of the previously mentioned Mindbloom Life Game, which rewards you with levels and points for doing healthy, positive things for yourself, will love the Bloom app for the iPhone, which helps you stay motivated on the go, get quick activities to help you keep going through a tough day. The app picked up a major update today and now allows you to use your own music and photos to build custom reminders to eat lunch away from your desk, connect with your loved ones, relax and de-stress over the course of the day.
Breaking down the language barrier is tough when you aren’t fluent and need to constantly look up words and phrases for basic communication. SayHi Translate takes the effort out of this by letting you speak in your native language and then repeating what you said in most any language you choose.
There are plenty of tools that allow you to take simple text notes and organise them so you can search and filter them later, but Fetchnotes is the first one we’ve seen in a while that’s coming out of the gate with full cloud syncing across multiple devices, an easy-to-use webapp, Android and iOS apps and desktop widgets so you can stay on top of your notes, all right up front on launch.
I’ll come right out and say it: I’m not a big fan of Instagram. And no, it’s not because iOS users have had their underpants in a knot over the Android release, but because for me, it really doesn’t live up to the hype. Here’s why, and more importantly, here are some just-as-good alternatives for Android users (and some for iOS users too!) who want to take and share photos with or without those filters that make a 5-megapixel phone camera look like a 70s’ Polaroid?
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.
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.
