Its certainly a world of apps these days and its ever so becoming more true that there is an app for just about anything,some may be a cause for concern and some not and this app has certainly turned heads so far and what its intention is to have one lend their vision as an act of kindness and people are signing up for it too..
Be My Eyes makes life easier for the blind, by connecting them with sighted helpers through a smartphone app. This allows the blind to handle big and small tasks, while sighted get the joy of helping someone else in a easy and informal way.
It only takes a minute to choose the right tin can from the shelf, look at the expiration date on the milk or find the right thing to eat in the fridge – if you have full vision that is. For visual impaired individuals smaller tasks in their home can often become bigger challenges. Be My Eyes hopes to change that!
Through a direct video call the app gives blind people the opportunity to ask a sighted volunteer for help, for tasks that requires normal vision. The blind person “lends” the helper’s eyes all through his or her smartphone. The sighted helper is able to see and describe what the blind person is showing the sighted helper by filming with the video camera in the smartphone. That way, by working together they are able to solve the problem that the blind person is facing.
The team behind Be My Eyes
Be the eyes for a blind person in need of help remotely through a live video connection if you are sighted or be assisted by the network of sighted users if you are blind.
Be My Eyes is all about contributing to and benefiting from small acts of kindness, so hop on board and get involved!
Blind users can request help from a sighted person and the sighted users will then be called for help. As soon as the first sighted user accepts the request for help a live audio-video connection will be set up between the two and the sighted user can tell the blind person what she sees when the blind user points his phone at something using the rear-facing camera.
As a sighted user you don’t need to worry about missing a call and ‘leave a blind person hanging’ – you are a part of the bigger Be My Eyes helper-network and we will find the next available sighted person in the network. The challenges that the blind person needs help with can be anything from knowing the expiry date on the milk to navigating new surroundings.
Note: We encourage blind users to be patient when requesting help because we rely on real people to help you.
– Live audio-video connection between blind and sighted users
– Add the languages you know under settings
– An easy way you can make a difference for blind people
So what do you think of this app and will you help out the blind ? Its a great idea… The app is only on iOS at the moment..
Alarms are important in most peoples life and we all hate them,we often hit snooze and keep hitting it im a great offender of this and i hate alarms and here is a new alarm that might make you hate alarms even more,or maybe not..
This alarms works by simply not turning itself off until you smile,not the face people will want to see first thing in the morning but with this app you can also share your lovely morning self to all.Lets be honest most of are not morning people,myself included..
What rise and shine can do….
• Setup multiple weekly repeating alarms
• Beautiful dynamic interface adjusts to the current time of day where ever you are.
• Bedhead! Rise & Shine can snap morning photos of your bed head to laugh at later. (Can be disabled, only stored locally)
• Full Photo Editor for your bed head photos. (Brought to you by Aviary)
• Use built in alarm library or your own iTunes Music
• Add Vibrate or Strobe to your alarm if you need more push to wake up. (Only active while Rise & Shine is open)
• Dark Room mode intuitively adjusts to any light to recognize your smile (Can also toggle manually)
• Suggests optimal sleep times when setting an alarm to wake up most rested.
Dubsmash is a new app thats gained much attention of late and its easy to see why,i have had a few clips sent to me from friends but never looked into it that much partly to been too busy but i have had the chance now to have a good look at the app and the feedback its been getting and in short is that everyone loves it.
How it works..
Well its simple ,you download the app to your compatible device and its simple to proceed from there.There is a huge array of preloaded scenarios for you to pick from such as Animals,Comedy,Horror,Cartoon,Swag,Business,Sci-Fi,Love,Food,Musicals,Parody,Action Heros,Video Games,Politicians,Sports,Names,Tv Shows.
On opening the app you can create a Dub,see your dubs,send feedback,pick a language,In Settings you can decide if you want push notifications on a daily or weekly basis or no notifications,im sure that option will never be used,you do not use an app like this not knowing what others are doing with the app.
Above is a portion of the list as mentioned earlier which is pretty impressive there is no shortage of items to pic from at all ,once in this list there is a drop down menu then hosting more to pick from so you will not fall short on being creative or funny or whatever your mood maybe there is plenty here to pick from and you will also have fun looking at what is there too..
Overall im impressed with this app and its a great idea, the fact you can share the recording to WhatsApp or facebook messenger direct from the app itself, you can also save it to your gallery and share further afield,all my samples came through Viber so we can say it works a treat..Dubstep is free to download too..
There is no shortage of alarm clock apps on any OS today which its fair to say but we now how a new alarm clock which gives you windows phone users a taste of lollipop on your device,and been an Android user myself these two are more or less identical to each other as pictured below on the Nexus 6 and Lumia 535
Clock o Matic does however give you much more that just the time. It gives you alarms,stopwatch and countdown timers just to begin with..
Clock O’ Matic Unique than other Apps
– It’s All Purpose
– It functions even if the App is switched OFF the Stopwatch and Timer will continue ticking
– Notification Center Access for Adding Quick Alarms,Timers,World Time and Stopwatch
-Live Transparent Beautiful Background
-Randomized Textured Background
– Complete User Customization with 300+ Color Swatches
Alarms:-
1. Adding Unlimited Number of Alarms
2. Alarms can be DISABLED and Old Alarms can be RE-ENABLED
3. Collection of Alarm Sounds from Soothing Sounds to Extreme Wake up Sounds
4. Clockface Animation in Adding Alarms for Retro Effect
5. Alarms added via Timepicker option also available
Clock:-
1. Digital Clock with Changing Shades during the Day similar to Android Lollipop Clock
2. Tapping On Clock will open a Night Shade Clock with dim lights
3. World Clock includes ALL TimeZones
4. Clocks Update Every Minute
Stopwatch:-
1. Clean UI with only Necessary Buttons under an Event
2. Faint HeartBeat Animation
3. Results are in TEXT Format that makes it Easy for Sharing unlike .csv formats
4. Stopwatch Clock Ticks In and OUT of App without Battery Loss
5. Remembers your Lap times
Countdown Timer:-
1. Clean UI with Elegant Design
2. Add Unlimited Number of Timers
3. Timers Tick IN and OUT of App
Live Tile Clock Updates Every Minute when Start Screen is Awakened
Transparent Tile Clock.
We all enjoy good times in life. We capture those beautiful moments so that we can cherish them over time and share with our close ones. It would be great if we could just snap a photo and customize it to suit our taste and share the moment right there with our friends and family. This was the idea behind the popular app Momento by Madina Technologies which later on came up with the premium service Momento+, which turns 1 today.
In celebration of Momento’s 1st Anniversary, Madina Technologies is giving everyone the opportunity to download Momento+ for free. Momento+ is the premium version of Momento – the best photo editing application on Windows Phone to capture your special moments. This offer is for 3 days only, from January 2-4, 2015. Throughout the 3 days, Madina Technologies is running a creative photo campaign on twitter using Momento with the hashtag #HappyBirthdayMomento.
Momento
For those who are fond of capturing moments and enjoy editing photos, Momento App allows users to add different details to their photos to portray the ambience of each particular moment. Users will also find various filter effects, frames, and over 250 stickers that they can add to their captured moments. Photos that have been edited can be saved to users’ mobile phones or OneDrive, which later enables them to be sent through various social media networks. Currently, Momento already supports 11 languages including English, Indonesian, Turkish, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, French, Italian, German, and Mandarin.
Throughout its one-year journey, Momento has reached over 1.5 million users and is awarded the best photo editing application in more than 20 countries. Momento has also won several competitions including Winner of Vserv App Competition Indonesia 2014, Runner-Up of Microsoft Imagine Cup Indonesia 2014, and Runner-Up of Nokia Imagin8 Mission Worldwide.
Momento+ App is able to run on all types of Windows Phone 8 and Windows Phone 8.1. Momento+ is available for download on Windows Phone Store.
Start making the best of this wonderful opportunity and get the best of this deal and do not forget to share your moments with us on Twitter and Momento. Do not forget to use #HappyBirthdayMomento. We whole heatedly wish the whole team all the very best for their future and may they win more and more awards while improving this app in the best way possible.
Typically we have apps and tonnes of them but none for our beloved pets,BarkCam is a new app which can make your dog a star.This app would be like the picsart or meme generator apps we are used to today and are used so much by people..You could call it an instagram for dogs..
What can you do with the BarkCam app?
– Choose a sound that will get your pup’s attention and snap a great photo.
– Add filters, fun stickers, quotes, or meme text to the image.
– Share it with friends directly from the app.
Its Christmas and all the toys are probably opened by now and the kids still want more ? Here is an app for Frozen fanatics which will pass some time for them.Apps can also be a good stocking filler and a nice treat for the kids too..
Featuring music and film clips from the movie, the “Disney Karaoke: Frozen” app allows you to sing along with your favorite Frozen songs, record your voice with the original instrumental tracks, create a gallery of your performances, and share your recordings with others!
FEATURES:
•9 songs from the original Frozen soundtrack
•Music videos taken directly from the movie
•Follow the lyrics with a Frozen snowflake
•Listen to the vocal performances, or mute the voices to sing by yourself
•Record your voice with the original music
•Save your recordings to an in-app video gallery
•Export your recordings to your iTunes library
SONG LIST:
Frozen Heart
Do You Want to Build a Snowman?
For the First Time in Forever
Love Is an Open Door
Let It Go
Reindeer(s) Are Better Than People
In Summer
For the First Time in Forever (Reprise)
Fixer Upper
This app will set you back €6.99 Download by clicking store image. This is for iPhone and iPad.
Buying and selling cars is nothing new and it will never be old but its nice to have life made that bit easier,and now its possible with Distilled Medias new App Adverts cars.Distilled media are the same folk that have brought the well known Journal.ie and Daft.ie etc ,they also own probably the best app for selling items here we all know so well Adverts.ie, for buying and selling all sorts of items,we have been using the app many years now and find it great.
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On opening the app we have the same set up as the current Adverts.ie app with the same features and functionality and menu structure,those who already use the Adverts app will find this easy to navigate.You can also chose to login via your Facebook,Twitter or boards.ie ID which is handy too..
When it comes to searching for a car it could not be easier,the app lets you fill in selected fields and the app does the rest,this will be quite easy for people to navigate and simple to follow so its quite good even for newcomers,there is nothing difficult about it at all..
You can also refine your search when done and start over again when you have finished looking at whichever motor you may have been searching for.
Description
Adverts Cars is Ireland’s brand new car app, from Adverts.ie. Now it is faster and easier than ever to browse our huge collection of cars, from both dealers and private sellers.BUYING
– Price Guide
Using the Adverts Cars app, you can search for up to date information and price history on any make or model in our database. This information can be used to help evaluate purchase options
– Search alerts
You can set up search alerts to notify you as soon as any particular car that you are interested in is listed. Do you have your heart set on a Bentley Continental, with less than 30,000 KMs, and for under €5,000? Set up an alert! If one ever comes on, you’ll be the first to know.
– Saved searches
Engine size, year, mileage, price, location, even colour. Refine a search to be however detailed you want, and then save it for quick access again later.
– Security
Buying from strangers shouldn’t have to be scary. Buyers and sellers on Adverts Cars have profiles with history and feedback ratings from other users on previous transactions.
– Watchlist
See a car you like? Add it to your watchlist, where you can get quick access to it again, and be notified of any price changes or updates to the ad.
SELLING
– Place an ad
The fastest way to place a car ad is using the Adverts Cars app. Take photos, auto-populate all your car details by using our registration look-up, and have your ad live in no time. You can also use the Price Guide to help you settle on an asking price, and if you don’t sell it, we won’t even charge you for the ad.
– Quick communication
Sellers interested in your ad have the option to phone you directly from the app, or by sending you a private message, which makes it easy to have quick communication with any interested parties.
The all new Adverts Car App is free to download on Android and iOS so grab it today,so far we like the app,its smooth and easy to use and works just fine..
It’s been a while now and we all WinPhans or WindowsPhone users have had enough of patience as far as app updates are concerned and in some cases even a decent workable app, which is slowly but surely becoming a threat and WindowsPhone as people are slowly shifting to other OSs than getting another WindowsPhone. So we decided to compile the apps which are desperately needing an update on the WindowsPhone Store. Continue reading and you would surely agree that yes these apps are dated now and need a new life.
TWITTER
Earlier in July this year when Twitter updated the it brought lot of excitement in the community and the app was greeted and applauded for because it provided WinPhans a new way to use twitter which was updated with a host of features. Sadly the app fails in most of features which were added to it like the notification aren’t accurate now, the photos do not appear in the timeline anymore and many more issues. On the other hand the same app on Android gets updated every week which definitely adds some valuable feature and bug fixes. So Twitter for WindowsPhone needs a desperate update.
FACEBOOK
The Facebook app from Microsoft is worst compared with the one on Android or iOS, it doesn’t allow you to wait a post or comment, doesn’t allow to post photo on a page. The cover photo cannot be changed using this app, doesn’t allow to comment on a note and many more shortcomings. This app was recently updated during the last week but nothing essential came in and just gotta some bug fixes and usuals. We wish that it gets updated soon so that we don’t have to always switch to android or PC to use Facebook as we want to.
INSTAGRAM BETA
Being a photography hobbyist I love sharing photos on Instagram but this app for WindowsPhone has never got updated since it made its way to the store in layer March, 2014. This app lacks way behind 6Tag which is a third party app available to WinPhans to use Instagram with enhanced functionality. Compared with android and iOS this app is just elementary which savor be used for advanced functionality like regraming or direct messaging or editing the captions or even copying them. Instagram is in desperate need of an update to even make it workable.
VINE
I don’t remember when was the last time I saw Vine getting updated on WindowsPhone. It hasn’t got any kind of support since December last year whereas the app on Android and iOS rocks with host of new features. Vine for WindowsPhone is just the basic app, where you can only upload the videos made on vine and not upload videos which are created and then edited from hard disk, you cannot tag anyone (it doesn’t work) hash tags don’t show suggestions, notification is very poor. The third party app 6Sec works pretty well but lacks those features too. Vine deserves a full fledged update soon.
WHATSAPP
Undoubtedly Whatsapp is the only app which is almost on par on WindowsPhone when compared to Android & iOS but it still lacks some features related to audio, like we cannot send an audio file other than directly recording nor can we save one, which is pretty frustrating at times & this definitely needs to be fixed. This issue isn’t only with Whatsapp, it continues with all the messengers on the store and needs to be fixed.
YOUTUBE
The world famous video sharing and streaming service from Google has an app on the WindowsPhone store, but which just works as the bookmark our shortcut to the mobile site of YouTube and isn’t an app in real as on Android & iOS and this definitely needs to be fixed because it is not the way an app should look or work. It’s a shame to even call it an app. WindowsPhone deserves a much better app which goes well with the experience than the mobile site.
TUMBLR
This app just take forever to open on WindowsPhone. Also it fails to show the notification which gets irritating while we use it. Tumblr on Android is much better with the UI and functionality. The WP app is a pain, be it anything it at times even fails to load the app and the posts, hence it seriously need to be updated.
EMAIL
The email client on WindowsPhone is sharp and clean which works well but attaching multiple files other than media is just not possible. The only way out is to send separate mails for every additional attachment be out Word document or excel or even PDF file. This needs to be fixed so that the experience to users is enhanced.
FILES (MANAGER)
After a long long wait WindowsPhone got a complete manager, but in true sense it is not a complete file manager, still doesn’t show a lot of files and formats. For instance a video file received over Bluetooth, which is not in .mp4 would not be displayed, likewise a PDF file if opened with Adobe Reader does not show up in the files app, so these should be worked on so that the user gets a holistic view of the files saved on the device. The file saving system needs to be updated so that the user gets an idea of where the file is saved and can be located.
DIALER
There is no native smart dialer, an essential these days on the smart phones, though Cortana & third party app comes in handy here but not always. It gets difficult to look up for a contact on the phone. Forget Android or iOS, this feature was even available of Windows Mobile 6 and onwards so this isn’t anything new which we require but which had evolved over the years.
VIDEOS
This all needs a serious update not only to improve the functionality with support for various video codecs but also for the way files are saved on the phone. Even though there is a video folder all the videos captured or saved are found only in the pictures folder and this needs to be fixed.
There are many other places and apps which needs an update but this process is rather very slow on WindowsPhone and which is surely frustrating the users and might go against Microsoft if the continue to ignore the need to get these fixed at the earliest. Hope the officials at Microsoft take things seriously since it’s not just the camera or photos or videos which are important but these apps are essential too and need to be updated at the earliest.
Let us know in the comments below what you feel and which other apps still needs to be included to this list.
Disclaimer: This list isn’t exhaustive, it is just indicative.
