Tag: WEBAPP

Google has just made another addition to the already feature-rich Gmail iOS Web app. You can now see a pop-up connection bar, that shows you what the Web app is doing, when you last checked for new mail, whether your email was sent successfully and whether you're working online or offline, plus an indicator to show you if you've got any email left in your outbox. The connection bar disappears when ...

Back when we had the chance to play with some more mature builds of Chromium OS, one feature we particularly liked was its slick, panelized Google Talk funcationality. It later disappeared, replaced by a Gtalk app in the Chrome Web Store -- but while Google talks about 'the same platform everywhere,' the Gtalk Web app only worked on Chrome and Chromium OS. What about all us Windows, Mac, ...

One of the most time consuming activities in graphic and Web design is the picking of fonts. It's basically a crap shoot: there's no way to see what text will look like until after you've selected a font -- and when you have a list of 200 fonts to get through, the process can be painstakingly tiresome. That's where Wordmark.it comes in; it's a Web app that scans your computer for installed fonts, ...

Fiabee is a relative newcomer to the cloud-to-mobile storage game, having only released its iOS app [iTunes link] back in June. The company has now begun focusing on Google's platforms and has made beta versions of the Fiabee app available for Android devices and Google Chrome. The Fiabee Chrome app is no bookmark -- it's an extension app (all its HTML, JavaScript, CSS, images, and fonts are ...

Sitting at the top of the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace is the most anticlimactic app of all time: YouTube. After installing and eagerly clicking the icon I was greeted with... m.youtube.com. Yes, the YouTube app is a shortcut to the built-in Web browser. No more, no less... just a shortcut. I suppose you could say that this is the first smartphone Web app -- but really, it's just laziness. ...

Have you ever wanted to create an archive of tweets? Perhaps of your own, or a subject, so that you can analyze trends, see who tweets or retweets a particular keyword the most, or even filter by source. Well that's where The Archivist comes in. Brought to you by Mix Online, a self declared 'opinionated group of designers and developers at Microsoft,' The Archivist is available in two ...

Openappmkt, which is apparently in subtle beta, is exactly what it sounds like: An open market for web apps. At the moment it seems to only be intended for iOS, and the selection of web apps currently inhabiting the market is minute compared to the actual App Store, but it definitely has potential. The market is fairly slick and clean when viewed with a regular browser, but loading it on an iOS ...

Dropbox has quickly become a favorite tool for people on the go, but Blackberry users haven't been feeling much app-love. Yesterday, Dropbox announced on their forums that they had begun Dropbox for Blackberry Beta -- but only for the first 500 users to hit the site and request it. It only took a few hours for the 500 slots to fill, so the Dropbox team upped the limit to 1,000 later in the ...

Despite being the largest image sharing service in the world, Facebook still has a depressingly short list of crippled features when it comes to photo albums. You can add a description, tag friends... aaaand... that's about it. When news broke yesterday about Flickr and Facebook teaming up I actually squealed with delight -- this is it! -- and then I realised it was just Flickr importing your new ...

Yup, it's been a long time coming, but the out-of-game value-added services for World of Warcraft are finally emerging. The subscriber base has seemingly stagnated at a meager 13 million, and Blizzard [or Activision...] is looking for other creative ways of milking its bulbous bovine. First we saw in-game vanity items -- like pets and mounts -- and now we're actually seeing the start of an ...

Despite its despotic, glaring omission of vowels, you can probably guess what Bulkr does. That's the power of brand recognition, eh! If you can't work it out, here's a clue: bulk + flickr = ... Specifically, Bulkr does two things -- and it does them well. First, you can download your entire Flickr stream -- either as one big stream of images, or broken into directories for each of your Sets. ...

I absolutely must preface this story by saying I do not own an iPhone. I have never used an unsecured cellular phone to arrange a booty call, and I always use cash. With that out of the way, I give you PinpointsX. Before you get too excited, it seems the mobile version of PinpointsX seem to be offline at the moment (perhaps Apple culled it!), but you can still use the web app. And boy, if ...

Quickly! Before it gets shut down! Muziic, a web app developed by a sixteen-year-old teenager, now offers YouTube and Vevo videos without ads. We originally covered it back in March and until Christmas Day, Muziic was simply a desktop-based downloadable program. Now, however, it's a full-featured web app -- and it's really rather good! It has a smooth, quick interface and a neat playback bar ...

Apple seems to be loosening up its rules about streaming video over 3G via iPhone apps, allowing streaming players and broadcasters like Ustream and Qik into the App store. EyeTV -- a streaming TV provider -- isn't even taking the chance of rejection, though. Instead, they've launched an updated web app which allows you to watch TV over 3G using the iPhone's built-in MobileSafari browser. The ...

It's hard out there for a newspaper. Even if you're the New York Times, survival still depends on finding new ways to get eyeballs on your articles (and your ads). The NYT's latest trick is called Times Skimmer, and it's a convenient, attractive new way to read the paper's major headlines online. Articles are presented in a grid, using the same fonts the NYT uses in its print edition. It looks ...