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Apple Watch Might Tell You What To Shop

January 12, 2015 By Mary Duncan Leave a Comment

So far the Apple Watch has been designed to screen your wellbeing and let you purchase things with Apple Pay, but the gadget promises to change the way you do your shopping as well. The secret is Apple’s iBeacons, which send area- based signs when you’re near to them.

iBeacons ar already supported by the iPhone. For instance if users stroll by an iBeacon at a historical center, it could advise their iPhone to open the exhibition hall’s app to the specific relic they are passing by. This is how iBeacons could function with the Apple Watch to push individuals into using specific apps.

inMarket, which helps organizations create iPhone applications that work with iBeacons has come up with a new software innovation unit that allows the Apple Watch do some fascinating things with iBeacons. Beginning today, designers will have the capacity to coordinate their Apple Watch applications with List Ease, inMarket’s shopping agenda app.

What exactly does this imply? For examples, users might have a shopping list added on their smartphone List Ease. When they pass by an iBeacon in a shop, it could send the Apple Watch a ringing alert saying the shopper is near to one of the things noted in the shopping list. Then the watch would display a “short look” alert. When wearers lift their wrist it would indicate the relevant close-by goods with a “long look.” Furthermore, users can choose to see the whole shopping list.

It’s not difficult to envision different situations also. For example, the Watch could show a limited- time special offer for an item users have purchased before, when they are near to it in the store.

inMarket is mindful that individuals would prefer not to be besieged with alarms, so clients utilizing an Apple Watch application backed by inMarket will just get one alarm/ for app/for visit.

The main organization to exploit the new SDK is Marsh Supermarkets, a chain of around 60 stores in the Midwest. Only around twelve application developers are working with inMarket at this point. However that number may increase once the watch is really out. Different partners incorporate Conde Nast, Webmd, and Gannett.

Even if this is a single-case use, it demonstrates that the Apple Watch can alter every day habits. It was difficult to envision all the applications that the iPhone would support when it first rolled out. The Apple Watch will probably step into the same footsteps.

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Facebook’s Rooms App Makes for Unique Anonymous Chatting

October 24, 2014 By Brandi McCants Leave a Comment

Do you remember the anonymous internet forums that dominated the mid-2000s? Facebook has launched a new iPhone app meant to bring back precisely those experiences that the internet used to provide back when everything could be anonymous.

“Rooms” is an app that brings anonymous internet forums to your smartphone, functioning like a newsfeed or tiny message board. The Room gets a name, a wallpaper and afterwards, people are invited to share anything from text to photos or videos.

The most notable feature of Rooms, however, is the fact that users choose different identities whenever they enter a new room and because the app does not require a link to Facebook, Twitter or Google+ profiles, anonymity is ensured. Some Rooms have already been set up by the app’s team. Early users are dedicated to trainers, home-cooked food or Kendama, the traditional Japanese cup and ball toy.

Additionally, users can basically customize their Rooms to their liking, for instance renaming the “like” button or choosing an emoji-icon they like. If your room is connected to gardening, why not upvote the content in it by using a large tree or a flower? Invitations to join particular rooms are sent out by using QR codes which look like cinema tickets.

The invitation can be sent out on Facebook or Twitter, sent via text message or email and all the user has to do is screenshot the one he or she prefers and the Room automatically becomes a new board on the app’s homescreen.

Rooms is designed to allow more than just your Facebook friends to enter the chat- it’s more than just a place to organize days out. What Rooms aims is to become a place where like-minded people discuss topics they’re interested in. Rooms also allows users to make the content of the board searchable or mark it 18+ only.

However, there is something that Facebook has to overcome: the difficulty with which the app can become famous. Since it is a mobile-only and invite-based app, it will have to be spread by word of mouth and since people might not always be into what you like, users could have difficulties in actuallly finding rooms they’re interested in.

What Facebook knows for certain, however, is that the future of the web is mobile and that the pseudonymous message boards have been and will continue to be immensely popular. Rooms may just be the next best thing for Facebook, all they need is for someone to start the party.

Thermodo App Shows Transforms Your Smartphone Into A Real Time Thermometer

April 1, 2014 By Daniel Giordano Leave a Comment

The world of mobile gadgets never stands still. It’s a rough competition out there so they always have to come up with something innovative or interesting to grab our attention. Slim smartphones, phablets, new operating systems and so on. That’s also the case when it comes to those little apps that make our smartphones a lot more fun. The latest app is called the Thermodo app and it was developed by the creators of Haze. The Thermodo app is a device that we plug into our Android or iPhone and it tells us what the temperature is right where we’re standing.

The Thermodo app has a very sensitive sensor that can tell us the exact air temperature wherever we are, whether we’re standing on the top of a mountain or sunbathing on an exotic island. The app shows instantly when the temperature is rising or falling.

Thermodo App – pricing

You can get the Thermodo app and device in two versions: the basic model (red, black or silver) that costs $29.99 and the premium version (that has an aluminum finish) that cost $49.99. Both versions come with the same features of telling the temperature so if you want to pay more you would do it for the esthetic purposes.

It’s very useful to have Thermodo on your phone because you get the exact temperature despite what the weather forecasts. As we all know the weather is very unpredictable and tends to ruin our plans. With Thermodo app we will know for sure whether to put on sunscreen or take our umbrella with us.

There are a lot of weather apps out there available for smartphones but none of them are really this precise. We only wish that the Thermodo app could also tell forecasts, maps, alerts, humidity and barometric pressure. That would make it a complete weather app.

New Cloak App Tells You Where People Are So You Can Avoid Them

March 18, 2014 By Micheal Baptiste Leave a Comment

Social media’s great role is to bring people together so that everyone can be one big happy family. Fortunately, not everyone thinks that way. There are many apps that tell you where your friends are to get to meet them faster if you’re out on a Friday night and you want to hang out. But what if you’re out on a Friday night and you don’t want to see your ex boyfriend or your boss? Then you must get the new Cloak app for iPhone that will help you avoid human contact by telling you where they are.

How does the new Cloak app work? It’s very simple. By gathering the geographic info provided by the Instagram and Foursquare accounts of your friends and determining if anyone is anywhere near you. The pictures of the people who are in your area are displayed on a map that is relative to where you’re located. If there are people you definitely want to avoid, just tap on their photo and “flag” them so that they won’t see where you are.

The creator of the new Cloak app is Chris Baker, the guy who developed a system that replaces baby photos with cat photos on Facebook.

New Cloak App Other Features

You can adjust the distance so that you won’t risk bumping into that annoying work colleague because you were alerted 10 seconds before you met him. So basically there is an option of distances between half a mile and 2 miles so that the alarm will set off as soon as the person you’re trying to avoid enters your area.

The Cloak app is really helpful if the individuals you don’t want to bump into check in often and their info is linked to social media source like Facebook, Twitter or Google+.

So if you’re the antisocial kind of social person, you need to try the Cloak app.