• Microsoft Introduces Send, A Short-Form Email App That Works More Like Instant Messaging

    July 22nd at 5:43pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinions

    Microsoft today is introducing a new application aimed at reducing the time it takes to check and respond to email while on your smartphone. With Send, as the app is called, the idea is to make email perform more like instant messaging, as it does away with more formal email constructs –  like the subject line, for example – in favor of quicker, shorter messages that you can dash…

  • Apple offers 99-cent sale pricing on 24 apps for limited time

    July 17th at 6:31am / AppleInsider / 0 opinions

    Apple on Thursday rolled out another of its limited-time-only iOS App Store sections, this time featuring 24 apps on sale for 99 cents each, including popular titles like Pixelmator and GoodReader, as well as hit games Shadowmatic and The Room Two.

  • Convo Follows Its Desktop Revamp With New Mobile Apps

    July 14th at 5:03pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinions

    A week after launching new web and Mac desktop applications, collaboration is releasing new versions of its mobile apps, too.CEO Faizan Buzdar has said that the relaunches reflect an attempt to rebuild Convo “from the ground up,” and that the company would be bringing these changes to all its platforms. (The redesign hasn’t been a huge hit with the TechCrunch team, though…

  • Scanner Pro 6 simplifies scanning documents with your iPhone

    July 5th at 8:09pm / The Verge / 0 opinions

    If you need to scan a document these days, you're often presented with two choices: find an actual scanner (good luck), or use your phone's camera. Many of us opt for the latter, but scanning apps can be clunky, and sometimes produce unreadable images, which completely defeats the purpose of using one. The newest version of the Scanner Pro app, which came out this week for iOS users, suffers none of those problems and even offers a few clever options that make scanning documents even easier....

  • The best apps you might have missed this week

    July 4th at 8:04pm / Cult of Mac / 0 opinions

  • SQFT is a Real Estate App to Help Homeowners Slash Broker Commissions

    June 22nd at 11:23pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinions

    If you’ve ever bought or sold a home, you know how expensive a six percent real estate commission can be. SQFT is an app that helps reduce these fees by allowing you to buy and sell a home without the need of a real estate agent.After downloading the app and deciding you want to list your home, SQFT walks you through all the steps needed to create a listing. The software will help…

  • Stripe Now Has An iPhone App For Monitoring Payment Activity

    June 9th at 8:43pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinions

    Stripe, a service that companies can use to accept payments, has a new way for businesses to track purchases and user activity — an iPhone app.The new iPhone app does basically everything its existing online dashboard does, but brings it to an interface more suited for a mobile device. Businesses can also set up notifications for whenever a payment or purchase is made or set up a…

  • “Slack For Data” App Chartcube Launches On Desktop And iPhone

    June 4th at 1:03pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinions

    Collaborating on data is burdensome and often results in increasingly unwieldy email chains loaded with multiple PowerPoint and Excel attachments. A startup called Chartcube wants to make sharing and editing charts as easy as texting.