Hotel Tonight
Platform: iOS
Price: Free
Size: 14.5MB
Booking same day hotel rooms at up to 70%
off is what DealBase’s Hotel Tonight (Rel. Sept. 18, 2012) offers. DealBase
states that it personally vets its hotels, which users can book until 2 a.m.
This release expands the hotel selections and adds personalization features.
Additionally, the app now includes ratings from others who have booked through
the app, distance information to hotels within 10 miles, easier multi-night
booking, and more.
Hotel
Tonight may or may not be for lovers considering one-night stands, but the
startup, which only offers rooms through an iPhone app, itself aims for
quickies
My Backup Pro
Platform: Android
Price: $4.99
Size: 1.7MB
Described as the “easiest way to backup for
Android,” Rerware’s My Backup Pro (Rel. Sept. 15, 2012) includes a scheduling
option to back up data on your Android smartphone to Rerware’s servers or the
device’s SD card. Data can include applications, photos, contacts, music, text
messages, message attachments, and more. Beyond restoring backups, users can
also log into Rerware’s website to trigger a backup and view backups online.
Beyond
restoring backups, users can also log into Rerware’s website to trigger a
backup and view backups online.
My Conference Calls
Platform: Windows Phone
Price: 99 cents
Size: 1MB
Anyone who participates in conference calls
knows the pain that is dialing into those calls and entering long ID numbers.
My Conference Calls (Rel. Jan. 7, 2012) from NavaTron removes the hassle from
the process by making participation one-tap easy. In addition to gathering
information concerning conference calls from your calendar, the app lists all
calls scheduled for the day. Users then just tap a meeting to call in.
Basically
what the app does is to show all your conference calls for the day. With one
tap, you will be connected to the call. You don't need to worry about dial-in
numbers, conference id's, or leader pin. This app retrieves all the information
Stitcher Radio
Platform: iOS
Price: Free
Size: 18.8MB
Stitcher Radio is a highly touted app (Rel.
Sept. 10, 2012) from Stitcher that enables accessing and listening to thousands
of news, sports, talk radio, and other radio programming. Beyond on demand
listening, the app lets users listen to past show episodes, create custom
stations from the user’s favorite shows, share shows with others, and more. The
newest release includes an offline mode that enables listening to pro- grams
without an Internet connection.
The
newest release includes an offline mode that enables listening to pro- grams
without an Internet connection.
Tag On Voice
Platform: iOS
Price: 99 cents
Size: 3.1MB
AppBody Workshop’s Tag On Voice (Rel. July
31, 2012) lets users record audio while taking notes at the same time, an
ability the company says makes the app well-suited for meetings, brainstorming
sessions, lectures, and more. Users tap
Tag
on Voice - the new generation of audio recording App
Voice Recorder Hq
Platform: iOS
Price: 99 cents
Size: 0.8MB
Developer handsfree.ly claims that its Voice
Recorder HQ (Rel. March 30, 2012) is the only recorder that converts audio to
an MP3 file instantly. The app performs the conversion as the recording happens
via remote audio streaming to cloud storage. Thus, an hour-long recording
typically takes only seconds to convert to an MP3 file. The app includes a
streaming MP3 player to preview recordings, folder organization, the ability to
share MP3 recording with others via links, a CD-quality recording option, and
more.
The
app performs the conversion as the recording happens via remote audio streaming
to cloud storage.
Youtube
Platform: iOS
Price: Free
Size: 7.5MB
When Apple decided it would no longer
include YouTube as its default video app effective with the release of iOS 6,
Google set to work creating its own version. This standalone version (Rel.
Sept. 11, 2012) is now the official YouTube app. As with the integrated
version, this version includes access to the massive YouTube video library,
including music videos. It also supports channel subscriptions, sharing videos
via social networks and email, search, and uploading videos.
It
also supports channel subscriptions, sharing videos via social networks and
email, search, and uploading videos.
