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Pair, un’applicazione gratuita per i possessori di iPhone, risponde con semplicità alla domanda che gli utenti dei social network si pongono di continuo. Qual è il giusto numero di “amici” da aggiungere? Solo uno, quando si parla di relazioni sentimentali. L’intento di Pair è proprio quello di condividere le esperienze col partner.

Messaggi, fotografie, filmati e “schizzi” da abbozzare col proprio lui o la propria lei — per un social network che resta all’interno della coppia. Pair è un modo di sentirsi più vicini, quand’è fisicamente impossibile. Nulla vieta d’utilizzare l’applicazione con persone diverse dal partner: magari, con un amico o un figlio lontano.

Una caratteristica interessante di Pair è il “bacio”. Grazie alle gestualità del multi-touch, quando le dita degli utenti sfiorano contemporaneamente lo schermo entrambi gli iPhone vibrano. Una soluzione molto geek per sublimare la distanza: al più presto, l’applicazione sarà disponibile pure su Android. L’idea è davvero simpatica.

Via | Technology Review

Pair, un’applicazione per mantenere la propria relazione in mobilità é stato pubblicato su Downloadblog.it alle 10:00 di domenica 01 aprile 2012.

Clipica is a new web app that leverages abilities recently introduced in Google Chrome to allow you to upload and host images in the cloud just by pasting them into the browser.

Clipica is totally free and back-ends on ImageShack, so your hosted images will always be available. You don’t even need to sign up: just go to clipi.ca and start pasting!

One thing that’s proven tricky in the past when advertising or promoting your event or product (or yourself, if it comes to that) on Facebook has been the virtual seminar. Evinar may well sound like a Arthurian adventure but in this case it’s a rather wonderful event promotion application for Facebook to host any number of live events for your business (ad)venture. Here you can arrange casual hook ups, host group chat sessions and watch promotional videos with your fans and, if you are just running the one Facebook page, it’s totally free. Evinar is a safe and secure app that let’s you host awesome live events on Facebook pages. Whether its a casual meet up, a product launch, a Q A session, a group chat or share videos, photos, docs and slides or even if you just want to watch a video with your fans – Evinar is the perfect place to do it. By keeping your fans and followers interested and informed, Evinar helps you promote your special events, connect with new fans and get more likes. So how is this app different to similar business promotional tools? Well, for a start it features a media rich stage that lets you host your event like a professional performer. You can broadcast live or share videos, photos, slides or docs with your audience and use super cool transitions and animations to make your event stand out and look professional – all done on the fly. Interact with your fans like never before by conducting an open or a moderated chat session where you and your moderators decide what goes public. Instantly publish the event on your Facebook page and let attendees subscribe so you can notify them about your future events. You can then customize and promote your events easily on Facebook and Twitter. There’s even a good array of statistical to analyze how your event has fared in terms of facts and figures and how your audience has reacted to it. Evinar is a crackingly fine and all-encompassing business app for the promotion of your event on Facebook that is as free as a bird if you are a single user with no more than 50 users. Even if you are a major organization it’s still a very cost effective way of getting your message across to your adoring public on all of your events. It also doesn’t harm it’s prospects by looking great and being simple to use. Next time you have something to promote, Evinar should probably be in your thoughts.

There’s always one person in your group of friends who seems to have an opinion on everything. Who’s going to win the election? Who’s going to win the game? Is Prince Harry really Charles’ son? Hang on, how did that get in there? Correctnicity is a crowdsourcing news prediction application that let’s you predict the outcome of any number of events to see how accurate they turn out to be. Not only will Correctnicity measure the king or queen of predictions it will also increase your knowledge of whats going on in the world. All of us make predictions everyday, but until now there hasn’t been a consistent, reliable way to measure how accurate those predictions turn out to be.That’s where Correctnicity comes into play. It asks questions related to the latest news stories and asks you to predict the outcome you think is most likely to occur. Your Correctnicity Score measures the accuracy of your predictions across a broad range of subjects with new questions added daily. So how does it work? Everyday, questions are posted related to the big stories making headlines in the areas of politics, sports, entertainment, technology and more. These questions are objective each one has a clearly defined correct answer and window of time within which you can make and change your prediction. Every question has a short summary with some background about the issues involved, as well as a seed link with further reading to get up to speed on the story. Likewise, after a question expires, Correctnicity adds a closing link to a source related to the correct answer. After a question has expired or events themselves have provided the correct answer, Correctnicity calculates a score for everyone who made a prediction whether they are right or wrong. This score is measured in what is called CX or Correctnicity Experience. Correctnicity is a fun way to increase your world knowledge as you make predictions by answering questions related to the day’s news. Your Correctnicity Score is based on accuracy, time and the votes of fellow users. But here s where it gets interesting. Here is a crowdsourcing app that works on several levels. On the one hand it’s a fun game of one upmanship where you can win points for predicting future events and prove to your friends that you are top dog. But, without a doubt, it also has what some could feel is it’s more interesting side. It increases awareness of world events and, if you wanna be good at it, literally forces the gamer to research their subjects – and that’s gotta be good. So, back to Prince Harry…

Skrittle helps user discover new websites based off the current site they are on and what other similar users like. Have you ever heard the saying that people only use 10% of their brain? It is debated if it is true or not but all that it is implying is that we can be better as people. What we do know is that we probably only use the internet to 10% of its potential. Part of the problem is that we as users don’t know where to look to find better content than we already have. Instead of only going to sites that big companies tell us to go to, we need to actively seek out and spread the word about sites with great content. Skrittle is working to do that and working to help users discover great content on the web.

There’s little to match a poor payment platform to ruin the reputation of your prized mobile application. Nothing is more frustrating then to go through the whole buying process only to find that there is a problem at checkout time. ZooZ is a totally complete, safe and secure answer to the problem of being able to accept payments for goods or services in a mobile application. It’s a payment application for android, iPhone and smartphones in general that provides an entire payment process that is easy to use and where security is a high priority. ZooZ’ payment platform is a complete and secure solution that makes it easier than ever to start accepting payments in mobile apps. It handles the entire payment process and enables access to multiple payment options in one secure in-app checkout. The quick checkout process has multiple payment options and credit cards are stored for repeated use in app or across ZooZ enabled apps. Users do not need to re-type their details at each purchase and no user pre-registration is required. The combination of a cross-app platform and a quick checkout process ensure the highest conversion rates which goes some way to maximizing your app monetization. Only a few lines of code are needed so you can start accepting payments in your app within minutes. No merchant account or payment gateways are needed and ZooZ take care of the payment process from end to end. With simple and transparent pricing and no hidden fees, ZooZ can lower your processing cost and allows you to maximize your margins. All sensitive details are kept in a highly secure and PCI compliant cloud environment. You can accept payments in your app within minutes with a quick checkout process for higher conversion. Multiple currencies and languages are supported and the costs involved are 3.5% + 19 cents per transaction with no hidden fees With ZooZ, you know just what you are getting. You get a fast and clean complete payment process for your smartphone that you can access and be using quickly and securely. You know that all you will be charged is 3.5% + US 19 cents per transaction with no other hidden charges so it’s easy to work out what your bottom line really is. It supports multiple curriencies so it’s easy to go global with your product or event. ZooZ is an easy way to solve your mobile payment predicament.

WebMobi is a cloud-based SaaS platform that aims to provide its users with a competitive advantage when enhancing mobile presence. With its scalable cross-platform application development and user-friendly interface, WebMobi provides a fully integrated single solution that allows both consumers and business to easily create and deploy customized mobile applications to engage their audiences.

All it takes is minutes to create the app. One can create a mobile web app, design the layout, choose themes, add video, photo, polls, twitter, forms and more. Monetize traffic with flexible options.

If you’ve always wanted to be a part of an epic fantasy saga then this is going to really interest you. Askaryl’s Grimoire is an interactive role playing book and game application developed by Blue Flame that enable you to be in control of the storyline’s direction. This is the first part of a beautifully illustrated and epic story based in the fictional world of Hamnasya. This is the first part of a stunningly detailed, epic fantasy saga within the interactive world of Hamnasya, the third largest continent among the nine that make up the intense world of Anarkm. It has been rife with conflict and civil war for many centuries. Playing as Edhan, a young but fierce barbarian, you must embark on a dangerous and gruelling quest to retrieve an ancient book of magic, stolen from its guardians. Will you follow the right paths to uncover Hamnasyas secrets? You are in control and the game follows the format of a roleplaying game adventure. You will attempt to fight monsters, adversaries and evil creatures while uncovering the truth behind an intricate plot which will ultimately jeopardize the balance of the world. The path you choose will have a significant effect on how the rest of the story evolves and the problems which you encounter thereafter. Split-second decisions, fight-or-flight actions and life-threatening choices all await you in this detailed world where evil strives to overthrow good and both sides battle for victory. Will you choose to help someone in mortal danger or will your vital mission take precedence? Will you take a sudden opportunity to avenge you mother or will the safety of your people come first? Following a deeply engrossing RPG structure, Hamnasya allows you to develop and change your characters, increase their abilities and learn new skills and spells that will help you during your quest to victory. Askaryl’s Grimoire is the first in a series of roleplaying applications about to burst onto your screens. Its byline says – read a story, play a game, become a hero – and that’s really what it’s all about really. It looks amazing and enables you to create characters in a cool RPG interface that uses weapons and magic spells with a glorious new world to exist in. This roleplaying app takes you on a trip of discovery and adventure.

Say you’re sitting at your laptop, listening to music while responding to emails, writing code, or reading blogs. Then your phone rings, and the typical scramble ensues: You minimize your browser, maximize your music app, and search frantically for the pause button or volume control — all, hopefully, before you miss the call. Sound familiar? That’s a problem that Flutter, a startup in Y Combinator’s latest batch of companies, has solved.

Flutter is an app for Mac that lets you control the play function on Spotify or iTunes by simply waving at your computer. You can watch it in action in the video embedded above. That in itself is pretty nifty — as evidenced by the 11,000 people who downloaded Flutter in the first 11 days it was available, and the 400,000 gestures the app logged from those users. In the near-term, Flutter expects to expand its functionality to control other media apps such as Pandora and YouTube, as well as to other operating systems and devices beyond the Mac.

But the really interesting thing is the company’s long-term vision, which goes well beyond the ability to start and stop a Rihanna song with a wave of your hand. Ultimately, Flutter co-founders Navneet Dalal and Mehul Nariyawala tell me, Flutter wants to power the eyes of our devices — in the same way that Siri functions as the iPhone’s ears.

It’s a big ambition, but it makes a lot of sense. Webcam hardware has become so inexpensive — about 50 cents a pop — one is included in practically any new laptop, tablet or phone that enters the market today. But we really only use them for two purposes: Shooting photos or videos, or video-chatting with others. The guys at Flutter envision a future where we use gestures along with our voices to tell our machines what to do, rather than pressing buttons or clicking a mouse. It’s all about interacting with our devices in a more natural, human way. As an expert in computer vision, Dalal especially is well-positioned to lead this push.

For now, though, Flutter is keeping it simple, trying to make the best tool for easily controlling the music playing on your computer. Maintaining a narrow focus is smart for a tiny six-person startup that’s just starting out. But it’s the long-term potential of the technology and the team that really makes Flutter one to watch.

Ritrovarsi ad avere a che fare con una gran quantità di schede aperte quando si naviga in rete e, ancor più nello specifico, quando si è intenti a lavorare online non è poi così raro e, di certo, molti tra voi lettori di Geekissimo saranno d’accordo con quanto appena affermato.

Si tratta di una situazione che, per ovvie ragioni, risulta tutt’altro che rilassante e che il più delle volte genera, inevitabilmente, non poca confusione.

Onde evitare di ritrovarsi a dover fare i conti con una situazione di questo tipo e nel caso in cui il browser web impiegato sia Google Chrome è però possibile ricorrere all’utilizzo di una semplice ma apposita estensione quale Tab Bundler.

Quest’estensione, ovviamente completamente gratuita, consente di organizzare e gestire le schede aperte suddividendole in appositi gruppi che potranno essere definiti dallo stesso utente.

Questo, per fare un esempio, sta quindi a significare che sarà possibile creare un gruppo di schede facenti riferimento all’ambito lavorativo, un altro a quelli che sono i propri hobby etc.

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