Tag: #ios

Be a better driver and get rewarded with #Drivies. (Spain) #Android #iOS #Driving #App

The years on those boring and cumbersome to use GPS systems when driving are more than over now. Each day, more and more of us use our phones as a main tool on this activity.

Well, what would you say if I told you that now you can prove you’re a good driver to your insurance company and besides, get discounts while doing it?

Let me introduce Drivies a new app to help you achieve that goal.

Well! Unfortunately not all of you out there, as right now, the app is mostly focused on Spain, and ruled by deals with Telefonica.

But lets hope this changes soon, as the app is really promising.

First of all, How it works?

All you need to do is use your phone as you’d normally do with any other app, using the GPS and others sensors, the app will tell “everything” about your driving technique, how much time you spend on it and so on.

With a deal made with “Pléyade” an Spanish ensuring company, using the app will help you to get discounts. The better you drive the more you get.

Within the app you’ll find the DrivieCoins which you can exchange for discounts on the ensurance, Taxi bonus or even on GAS comsuption.

And if you’re worried cuase you are not that good while driving, the app will help you to improve and also get some money for it. (sounds good, doesn’t it?)

As you can see, the app is fairly simple but helpful. Available on Android and iOS is also totally free to download.

 

 

So, if you live in Spain and want to try it out:

You can get the Android version HERE and the iOS version HERE

What do you think of these? Would you use it if available on yout region or your insurance company?  Let us know in the comment section down below.

 

 

Hear any muted TV with Tunity. #Apps #TV #Tunity

Something that has happened to almost all of us at least once, has been sitting in the airport, bus terminal, bar or even at the gym doing nothing when something on the TV caught our attention.

There’s just one tiny little problem, most of TV’s are muted or with a really low volume, what makes impossible for us to hear… Until today!

Lets welcome Tunity

This app does something so simple but yet so useful that is incredible no one has done it before.

Following a similar path as Shazam, the app with give you the info you need about something in TV.

All you need to do is “scan” the program you want the audio from with your camera and the sound will be sent to your phone’s headphones for your hearing pleasure.

The only catch in here is the fact that only works with live broadcasting (like an urgent news, the Oscars or a live football match) and you need to use GPS to know where you are in order to give you the correct audio stream.

This means, the app will not work on every single channel, but at least that random but “important” things we wanted to listen for a moment will be available for us.

 

 

 

 

As of today, Tunity works with approx. 100 channels including ESPN, TBS and even TNT (so Oscars are an option) among others.

Right now the app is available on Android and iOS and only in the US but is aimed to reach other countries soon.

What do you think of this? Do you see yourself using this app at some point? Let us know in the comment section below or joint the twitter conversation.

 

Make awesome multi-angle videos with GroupClip. #iOS #iPhone #App

If you’re one of those who love to record your extreme tricks while doing sports or something similar, then you’ll love this app.

GroupClip is an iOS app the lets you add multiple angles to your videos, using nothing but your smartphone.

Having multiples shot during recording is usually result of a hard and exhausting work on various programs to make it work.

Things are different this time around with this curious innovation, all you need is your iPhone, the app, a Facebook account and another four (4) friends with their respective iPhones.

When you initialize the app it will ask you to log with a FB account, once that’s done you can invite the rest of the team to the same session to star recording at the same time.

The footage gets synchronized automatically on the cloud, from there, you can use the main user phone to start editing.

Also, the rest of the team can access and edit their own footage, so it’ll have a different perspective in every clip.

There are a bunch of templates to use in order to finish the editing part,  so as soon as you finish you can share you creation on Social Media with ease.

Just a quick drag and drop and you’re ready to go. No tons of programs, no uncountable hours to processes.

The app is currently only available on iOS with an Android version soon to come.

Would you give it a shot? What are you thoughts on this kind of apps? Let us know what you think in the comments below

 

 

Hub Keyboard from #Microsoft now available for #iPhone by @Tiwaash #GarageProject

The Garage Project from Microsoft is a hit with rolling out feature packed apps at regular intervals. As a part of Garage Project “Hub Keyboard” for Android was released back in February and now the app is available for iPhone users too.

Hub Keyboard gives you quick access to all important documents and contacts, and do multi-tasking without exiting the app, lets you share URLs of Office 365 documents in OneDrive and SharePoint and the Contacts icon allows you to search for a contact to get their address, phone number, or other details without exiting the app.

You can try this intuitive keyboard for yourself on your iPhone from here.

Features of Hub Keyboard:

  • Clipboard: Easily insert one of your recently copied items
  • Documents: Grab and share URLs of Office 365 documents in OneDrive and SharePoint
  • Contacts: Share information of a contact from your phone or your Office 365 account

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Enjoy longer videos on #Instagram by @Tiwaash

Good news for Instagrammers who enjoy sharing videos. You can now record and share videos that are more than 15 seconds in length. Instagram on its official handle as well as blog announced that it is going to increase the video time limit to 60 seconds.

Instagram said that people have been watching more videos and the video viewing time has increased by more than 40 percent. Similar to Facebook, Instagram has been focusing on videos as it an important part of the internet ecosystem. Last month, Instagram introduced video view counts something like Vine loops in hopes of encouraging more video posts.

Instagram added, it is bringing back the ability to make videos out of multiple clips from your camera roll for iOS app. Instagram said that it is rolling out the update and it will be available for everyone in the “coming months”.

Stay tuned for more tech buzz

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Apple has its own #VR headset now on the App Store By @VicenteA_George #iPhone #Apple

Every day more and more companies are joining the VR wagon, but some of the most promising ones like Oculus are too expensive, some others just go an choose the Google cardboard which is way cheaper.

But today we have just discovered that now Apple has its own VR headset, the View-Master Virtual Reality Starter pack (hope the name changes )

Putting the name aside, this is and actual step into the right direction from the fruit company.

This headset was created following the same principles as he Google cardboard, using your iPhone’s screen, you’ll get two split images that when seen through the cristal on the device will simulated the 3D impression on your brain.

Unlike the former, this model is made of plastic, but with a strong resembles of those little toys we use to have when kids, the ones that came with a reel of different images. It even comes with a lever to control your phone.

Well, actually is practically the same as this device works with the same kind of mechanism, the app to control everything on your phone is totally free on the store, but its just a sneak peak of the entire content, such as Space and NATGEO wildlife and destinations.

Something that we did see coming, was a way to charge more for something that should have come ready, in order to unlock the full VR experience, customers will have to buy a separate reel that will free the true power of the app.

And although the device is compatible with iPhone 5 and up running iOS 8.1 or later, there’s a warning saying iPhones 5 and 5c may have issues as the app is not totally optimized.

The View-Master Virtual Reality Starter Pack it in pre-order stage at $29.95

And you can have yours HERE

Stay tuned for more info

 

 

Google adds “Smart Suggestion” to #GoogleCalender by @Tiwaash #Android #iOS

With the new update rolling out for Google Calendar, Google has just updated its Google Calendar with a smart yet unique Smart Suggestion feature for event tiles, places and people in as many as 30 different languages.

Wondering how does it work? Well it’s pretty simple, all you have to do is start typing and the Google Calendar will start giving you suggestions, you can choose to select one or keep typing to refine the suggestions or manually input one fully. You can tap “at” to add the location and tap “with” to add people to the event. Further tapping “on” will allow you to specify the exact date, time and duration of the event and so on. This is done with the aim to improve productivity and save some valuable time.

This new feature is available for both Android as well as iOS devices.

Below are the list of supported languages:

Arabic (ar), Chinese (Simplified) (zh-CN), Chinese (Traditional) (zh-TW), Dutch (nl), English (UK) (en-GB), French (fr), German (de), Italian (it), Japanese (ja), Korean (ko), Polish (pl), Portuguese (Brazil) (pt-BR), Russian (ru), Spanish (es), Spanish (Latin America) (es-419), Thai (th), Turkish (tr), Bulgarian (bg), Catalan (ca), Croatian (hr), Czech (cs), Danish (da), Farsi (fa), Filipino (fil), Finnish (fi), Greek (el), Hebrew (iw), Hindi (hi), Hungarian (hu), Indonesian (id), Latvian (lv), Lithuanian (lt), Norwegian (Bokmal) (no), Portuguese (Portugal) (pt-PT), Romanian (ro), Serbian (sr), Slovak (sk), Slovenian (sl), Swedish (sv), Ukrainian (uk), Vietnamese (vi)

Stay tuned for more tech buzz.

Word Flow keyboard is coming to iPhone By @VicenteA_George #Windows #iPhone #Keyboard

Windows fans all over the world has always been proud of the built-in keyboard of W8 and W8.1 as it broke a Guinness World Record for the fastest typing when it was launched.

But ever since Microsoft took over the Nokia Cell phone Division some of those key features of WP are starting to be ported to other platforms, one of the “most infamous moves” was when Cortana became available in other platforms even before being completely available on the WP ecosystem.

Well, this time is the same famous keyboard the one being ported, as accordingly to an e-mail sent to some Windows insiders, they want to have the app available on iOS and possibly on Android.

What does this mean to the WP ecosystem?

Well, it depends on you and if you see the glass half full or half empty.

The Word Flow keyboard resembles what third party apps like Swipe or SwiftKey can do on both operative systems, which is not a warm welcome.

The app is apparently being developed for iPhone 5s and above, although the real question is:

Would you use the WP Keyboard on your device if you already have some of the aforementioned apps?

What’s you opinion on Microsoft and multiple apps going outside of their “home”? Let us know in the comment section or tweet us using #techbuzzireland

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Discover the 2-in-1 StikBox case By @VicenteA_George #Stikbox #Iphone #Photo

Apparently the more we want to avoid it the more common they get but let’s face it, even when not all of us are fan of these sometimes they come in handy like when you’re with a large group of friends or simply want to showcase the place where you and your wife are spending the honeymoon.

Well the solution could be here already, meet StikBox the 2-in-1 case and Selfie Stick.

This beautiful design case has a secret but useful purpose, the patron that can be seen on the back is in fact allows you to have a full length selfie stick with you all the time.

How do this works? Simple! Just pull the rails, rotate the phone, adjust the camera and that’s it!

The Full aluminum rail will hold the phone secure while you take your photo.

This whole idea is brilliant but needs your help to become a reality, right now the project can be found on a Kickstarter campaign that still has a month to go and already has backed almost half of what they need.

There are several options to choose from with all of them offering the StikBox in different combinations, of color and quantity.

The case is just 0.6 inches deep and the case fully contains the 28.3-inch stick that also acts as kickstand for viewing content on the when your hands are full.

So as you can see is a pretty great idea, which can be seen during CES 2016 as the guys are going to be there showcasing their product.

But why don’t you take a look:

https://vimeo.com/144301943

So quoting the CEO of the company Yekutiel Sherman “why carry two things, when you can carry one?”

The case was made with Iphone in mind but due to a high demand of their product they are going to make it also available for the Galaxy S6 / S6 Edge too.

If you want to have one for yourself just go HERE