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Flickr Opens An App Garden Full Of Photo Tools
12:30AM Kevin Purdy | There are a lot of mobile, desktop and helper apps tied to Flickr. The team at the photo sharing service decided to make those apps easier to find and install by opening a free “App Garden” to everyone. More »
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Remember The Milk For iPhone Gets Smart Add
2:05AM Kevin Purdy | Smart Add, the command-line-like task adding tool for users of to-do manager Remember the Milk, just got added to RTM’s iPhone client via an App Store update. Grab it if you prefer little text tricks to lengthy menu searches. [RTM Blog via jkOnTheRun]
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PicTranslator Uses Your iPhone Camera To Translate Languages
5:30AM Adam Pash | iPhone only: Whether you’ve found yourself in a foreign land or you just need a little help with a foreign-language menu, snap a pic with PicTranslator and let it translate for you on the fly. More »
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NFB Films Brings Hundreds Of Free Films To Your iPhone
5:00AM sarahrae | iPhone/iPod touch only: Need a little something enriching to pass the time on your non-driving commute? The National Film Board of Canada’s NFB Films iPhone application brings access to hundreds of free animated movies, documentaries and experimental films to your iPhone. More »
Travel
10:30AM Angus Kidman | Having rolled out an iPhone application back in August, Air Canada is continuing to beat the smart phone drum, launching a free BlackBerry application for online check-in and flight information. More »
Air Canada Offers BlackBerry App For Check-In
10:30AM Angus Kidman | Having rolled out an iPhone application back in August, Air Canada is continuing to beat the smart phone drum, launching a free BlackBerry application for online check-in and flight information. More »
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FlyScreen Puts Calendars, Weather, On Your Phone’s Lock Screen
3:30AM Kevin Purdy | Android/Symbian: FlyScreen saves you the trouble of unlocking, clicking and waiting for an app to open to get calendar items, weather updates, SMS messages or just about anything else by putting swipe-accessible widgets on your “lock” screen. More »
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Layar Augmented Reality Browser Hits The iPhone 3GS
1:00AM Kevin Purdy | Layar, the (somewhat) augmented reality browser previously available only on Android, has hit the App Store. If it seemed cool on a G1, it’s probably going to zoom at showing you what’s nearby and where on a 3GS. More »
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9:00AM Angus Kidman | Apple loves to fling out statistics about how many iPhone apps have been downloaded (two billion at last count), but there’s a slightly annoying corollary to its success: companies feeling obliged to announce iPhone apps even when they haven’t released them yet. More »
iPhone Apps More Useful When They’re Actually Launched
9:00AM Angus Kidman | Apple loves to fling out statistics about how many iPhone apps have been downloaded (two billion at last count), but there’s a slightly annoying corollary to its success: companies feeling obliged to announce iPhone apps even when they haven’t released them yet. More »
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gTasks Syncs Google Tasks To Your Android Phone
1:00AM Kevin Purdy | Android: If you’re an Android user who’s keen on Google’s Tasks to-do manager, a beta application can give you offline access and syncing to the tasks you’ve stashed away in Gmail, Google Calendar or iGoogle. More »
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