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Record Anonymous Video Confessions With the ‘Awkward’ App

By Hazel Chua on 07/18/14 • Leave a comment!

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Got something that you want to say out loud, but can’t because it’s something that’s meant to be kept private? Then download the Awkward app and start filming. It’s an app that lets you record blurred video confessions so you can get them off your chest without compromising your identity.

Created by Redcyan, Awkward lets users film themselves for up to ten seconds. It then provides options for the degree of blurriness that the user wants his or her video to be. They can also opt for zero blur, if they’re ready to let the world (or whoever uses the app) about their deepest, darkest secrets. After the videos are uploaded, they can be embedded to websites and shared via email and social media.

Awkward can be downloaded for free from the iTunes App Store.

VIA [ Mashable ]

‘Moments’ App Shows You How Much Time You Spend on Your Phone

By Hazel Chua on 07/14/14 • Leave a comment!

Moments App

 

How much time do you spend on your phone in a day? A few minutes? Half an hour? Probably more, especially if you use instant messaging or check for emails a lot during the day. Giving you the exact figure is Moments, an app which tracks how long you used your phone and where you were when you were using it. It uses the collected data to build a map to show you the most frequent location of use.

If you feel like your usage is excessive, then you can set a maximum daily limit for your phone usage using the app. When your time’s up, an alert pops up letting you know it’s time to put your phone down and start living (and interacting) in the real world. It’s available for iOS and can be downloaded from iTunes for $3.99.

VIA [ Laughing Squid ]

eBay Valet is For People Who Are Too Lazy to Sell Their Own Stuff

By Hazel Chua on 07/02/14 • Leave a comment!

eBay Valet

 

If you’re too lazy to list stuff you want to sell on eBay, then here’s an app that you might want to check out: eBay Valet. It’s like a valet, only instead of parking your car for you, it sells your stuff on your behalf instead. Here’s how it works: just take a picture of whatever it is you want to sell, and send it to your valet via the app.

eBay Valet will then take care of the rest, from evaluating your stuff and giving you an estimate of its worth to listing it and eventually selling it for you. They’ll even send you a prepaid box so you can ship your item to eBay. If it ends up getting sold, they’ll send you 70% of the profits–all for taking a picture.

You can get the app here.

VIA [ Uncrate ]

Fart Code App Evaluates Food According to Fart Power

By Hazel Chua on 06/10/14 • Leave a comment!

Fart App

Everything you put into your body eventually comes out on the other end. If it’s bad to begin with, then you can expect it to be a wee bit worse by the time it passes through your digestive tract. An app that checks out the nutritional value of food by way of “fart power” is the Fart Code app.

Once it’s all fired up, just use your phone to scan the code on your processed food of choice. The app checks out the food’s individual ingredients and uses an algorithm to determine how toxic a fart would be, based on those ingredients.

Fart Code is available for iOS and you can download it for free here.

VIA [ Laughing Squid ]

Yell ‘Marco’, Wait for ‘Polo’: App Turns Finding Your Phone Into a Game

By Hazel Chua on 06/06/14 • Leave a comment!

Marco Polo app

 

Remember Marco Polo? Not Marco the explorer, but Marco the game, where the person tagged as “It” yells “Marco” and waits for other players to respond with “Polo” so he can locate them? Well, now you can play the same game with your phone whenever you’ve misplaced it and need to find it.

Marco Polo runs silently in the background on your iPod Touch, iPhone, and iPad until you need it. All you have to do is shout “Marco” and your device will respond with “Polo.” Simple enough, right?

You can download the Marco Polo app for $0.99 from the iTunes App Store.

 

VIA [ C|NET ]

Find Pets That Look Just Like the Ones You Had Before with PetMatch

By Hazel Chua on 05/23/14 • Leave a comment!

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What do you look for in a pet? Some consider looks above all else, while others take note of activity level and the specific needs of the breed before making a choice. If you’re of the same mind with the former, then you’ll find the PetMatch app useful. It promises to help you find a pet that looks just like the one you had in mind. You could even use it to find a pet that looks like your old pet before he died and went to heaven.

All you have to do is fire the app up and upload a picture of your desired pet or of your pet that just passed on, and the app will do the rest. SuperFish, the parent company behind PetMatch, explains: “Our sophisticated algorithms (and our registered patents) allow us to analyze every picture and provide similar and near identical images in real time — no text tags, no human involvement.” Once a match is found, the app will send you info on where you can fetch your new companion.

You can download the app on iTunes.

[ PetMatch ] VIA [ C|NET ]

Got Extra Food? Share It With Others Via the Ratatouille App

By Hazel Chua on 05/23/14 • Leave a comment!

Ratatouille

Got some stuff in your fridge that you want to give away? Perhaps you’re going on a trip soon, but still have a lot of produce and fresh food in the pantry. Or maybe you’re thinking of changing your diet and have food that you won’t be eating anymore as part of that change. Don’t throw everything down the garbage disposal or let them rot and go to waste.

Give your food away instead to people who might need or want them. That’s exactly what you can do with Ratatouille, where you start by uploading an inventory of the stuff you currently have and want to get rid of.

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Going, Going, Gone: Auction Off On-Street Parking Spots With MonkeyParking

By Hazel Chua on 05/15/14 • Leave a comment!

MonkeyParking App

Good parking spots are hard to find these days. So much so that some people are willing to fork over money to secure a parking spot. Case in point: the MonkeyParking app, which lets people auction off and bid on prime on-street parking spots in San Francisco. The interface is simple enough: just type in your current location, list your spot on MonkeyParking, and wait for someone to bid on your spot. If someone else does want your spot, drive away as they’re driving in to your parking space and wait for the money to be wired to your bank account.

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PareUp Pairs Restaurants With Customers Who Want to Buy Leftovers

By Hazel Chua on 05/15/14 • Leave a comment!

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On one hand, we’ve got people going to sleep on empty stomachs. On the other, we’ve got restaurants throwing away leftovers (AKA perfectly good food) every day when it’s time to close up. It’s unfortunate, but that’s just how things work–or is it? Aiming to change this, even on a small scale, are the folks behind PareUp.

It’s an upcoming app that will let diners “pair up” with participating retailers and restaurants that will be selling their leftovers at discounted prices.

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