Tag: Apps

The site can now provide summaries and stats that offer a window on your life months or years in the past.

Facebook won the loyalty of more than 800 million users largely by getting them into the habit of visiting again and again to see the latest updates, comments, and photos posted by friends. Now the site will also let outside apps provide even more content, and it will encourage people to spend time looking back over activity from months or even years ago. New features introduced at an event in San Francisco last night will enable users to automatically record their eating, reading, exercise, and other habits over time, share them with friends, and review their previous actions.

This week's apps are an audio-enhancement app that gives your music 3D surround sound and a snowboarding game that might be the best in the App Store.
3D Music Player Pro

Hit the 3D Sound button for immediate results or hit the gear icon in the upper right to tweak sound settings.
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Old friends, family gatherings, homeward-bound travel all go hand-in-hand with the holiday season--and, of course, so does taking photos of these special moments.

But can the iPhone camera really deliver the goods? Can you trust the iPhone to record special moments? After all, holiday photos will be treasured for years.

It could be argued that 2009 was the year of the App Store, as Apples bustling storefront for downloadable iPhone programs caught fire with consumers. The store with more than 100,000 apps has seen more than 2 billion downloads. It has also become one of Apples most powerful marketing tools, leaving competitors scrambling to catch up.

So what are all those people buying? The company has just released its year-in-review look at the most popular apps, providing a window into the purchasing habits of millions of iPhone and iPod touch users.

Microsoft software clones the environment running on a user's machine.

Nowadays, it's easy for developers to build fully fledged applications that run inside the browser. Keeping these applications safe from hackers is another matter.

With this in mind, scientists at Microsoft Research have unveiled a new way to secure complex Web applications by effectively cloning the user's browser and running it remotely.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc said more than 2 million businesses now use its online office software, and the Web search leader is going global on Monday with an advertising campaign to lure customers away from Microsoft Corp and IBM products.

The campaign, which starts Monday in countries including France, Japan and Britain, represents a rare foray by Google into mass-market advertising and underscores increasing competition to provide businesses with email and other office software.

iPhone users can choose from thousands of applications (or apps) designed to enhance productivity, simplify social networking or provide other useful benefits. There are also tons of games for the iPhone, many of which offer rich graphics and action-packed play that rival high-end game consoles.

With new apps being introduced daily, it's not surprising that a few of them would cause iPhone and iPod Touch users to scratch their heads, wondering how they came to be developed and, most of all, why. In this article, we'll explore a few examples of iPhone apps that appear to reflect the developer's desire to march to a different drummer.