Evernote, an application that has gained momentum by providing an easy way for people to quickly capture things they want to remember, is determined to branch out past its humble note-taking origins. First, the company bought Skitch, a drawing application, to improve the image-capturing and editing capabilities of the service. Then it built Peek, a flash-cards app designed to be a study aide for Evernote users. On Wednesday, the company unveiled its latest addition: Clearly, a browser extension that aims to simplify online reading by stripping away links, advertisements and other clutter from Web articles. “It’s really about setting the right mood and environment online for reading,” said Phil Libin, the chief executive of Evernote.
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“Is My Son Gay?”
Apparently there’s an app for that.
Turns out there truly is an app for everything. This one will let cops translate graffiti gang symbols on their smartphones.
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Gimme Bar, a new visual booksaving service, takes bookmarking to a new level by allowing you to save, not merely bookmark, cool content you find online — from videos to images to recipes — to your Dropbox account.
Knocking Down Apple’s Walled Garden: HTML5 vs. iOS Apps | ReadWriteWeb
Today Amazon launched an HTML5 browser version of its market leading eReader application, Kindle. Called Kindle Cloud Reader, it’s a direct response to the 30% cut of sales that Apple now takes from in-app purchases and subscriptions via iOS apps. The 30% Apple toll hits businesses like Amazon hard, because the margins on book sales are slim enough as it is.
The HTML5 Kindle site appears to be optimized for the iPad. It’s accessed from the Safari browser in the iPad, so it routes around Apple’s App Store. That means Amazon doesn’t need to give Apple 30% of an eBook sale. Because the HTML5 site is very close to the functionality of the iPad Kindle app, this is going to have huge ramifications for Apple. Yes, Apple’s walled garden has just been structurally weakened. I’d go as far as to say that it’s a matter of months, not years, before Amazon pulls its iOS Kindle app from the App Store.
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The iPhone Goes to War
On Wednesday at the 2009 Intelligence Warfighting Summit in Tucson, Raytheon, the military contractor, announced an iPhone application that tracks friends and foes, shows their positions on live, real time maps and provides secure communications.
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Type n Walk iPhone app enables you to see in front of you, via the iPhone’s camera, while typing.
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You’ve loaded up your iPhone with Yelp for restaurants and Shazam for music. Now get ready to download a dose of “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall” from a popular political figure of the past: the Gipper.
The Ronald Reagan iPhone app, introduced this week, promises to “deliver Ronald Reagan right to your fingertips,” offering the speeches, sayings and photos of the “Great Communicator” to a potentially wider and younger audience, thanks to the popular mobile technology.
”There’s a new iPhone app to help you worship Ronald Reagan. And it’s free.
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Apps to Make iPhone Shutterbugs Smile
A basic tenet of photography is that the best camera is the one you have on hand when you need it. For many people these days, that means an iPhone.
…Roughly 2,000 camera apps are available at prices that start at the unbeatable free and typically top out at $2.99. Here are 15 that will help you capture, edit, enhance and share your images.
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Best Obama iPhone Apps
Megan Berry: Obama iPhone Apps: 5 Best Presidential Apps
