Shuv messaging app lets you set your friends’ ring tones
A new messaging and VoIP app called Shuv boasts a special feature not found in its competitors: ring forward tones. Remember how ringback tones take the place of the typical ringing you hear when you call someone? Well, ring forward does the opposite, as it lets you set the audio your friends will hear when you call them up or send them picture messages via the app. You can choose from among the free tunes or from the 15,000 songs in Shuv’s library filled with Sony Music-licensed tracks by Beyoncé, Adele, Justin Timberlake, Michael Jackson, Pharrel and Miley Cyrus, among many others. It’ll cost you $1.99 per month to access the Sony library, though, so we wouldn’t be surprised if you choose to record your own rendition of JT’s SexyBack instead. If you’re not married to any messaging app yet and want to try Shuv, you can download it right now for both iOS and Android devices.
Filed under: Cellphones, Mobile
Source: Shuv
Live soccer scores are now just an iPhone swipe away
If you’re a keen soccer fan, chances are you already use an app to keep up with all of the latest scores while you’re out and about. However, many apps rely on you opening it each time to get a quick rundown on matches, or bombard you with push notifications when a goal goes in. Now that Apple’s added widget support to iOS 8, Forza Football is putting all of that important information just a swipe away. As part of its latest update, the app now lists goals, scorers and times of goals in the “Today” screen inside Notification Center, allowing you to catch up with the matches that are only relevant to you. To get started, simply add the new widget to your Notification Center and then follow your favorite team(s). You can also add individual matches to the app’s calendar, giving you an at-a-glance look at how your team’s rivals are performing during crunch match days.
Filed under: Cellphones, Internet, Software, Mobile
Source: Forza Football (App Store)
Mailbox for Mac beta is now open to all
After wrangling email on mobile devices, Dropbox-owned Mailbox moved on to Mac with a limited beta back in August. For folks still waiting to give it a go, the test phase is now open to everyone. There’s still no word on when the final version will arrive, but at least the curious can test drive the desktop version’s minimal aesthetics, hot keys and snooze feature — without having to be one of a chosen few. If your Apple machine is running OS X Mavericks or later, you can download the beta version right here. iOS users can also grab an update that enables custom swipes, properly outfits those new iPhones and fixes push notification issues.
Wait no more! Enjoy the Mailbox desktop experience today, now in open beta 
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– Mailbox (@Mailbox) October 13, 2014
Filed under: Software
Source: Mailbox (Twitter), iTunes
SWAT app wants to help you keep a close eye on cops
After visiting Ferguson, Missouri recently, a pair of Georgetown students realized the need to access cellphone videos of police misconduct in the event a device is destroyed. With that in mind, Brandon Anderson and Joseph Gruenbaum set out to develop the SWAT app — software that sends your footage to the cloud in the event your phone itself is confiscated or smashed. In addition to safely beaming videos to a server for later use, the app also allows you to file complaints without having to visit a police station. Plus, it’ll tell you about your legal rights (using your GPS coordinates to determine the applicable jurisdiction). That way you can quickly read up on the proper local, state and federal laws should the need arise. The project is in its infancy, but there’s no questioning its utility once it becomes a fully realized mobile app. For now, Anderson and Gruenbaum are looking for tech and legal partners to get the endeavor off the ground, and you can sign up to be a beta-tester at the source below.
Via: Fast Company
Source: SWAT App
OnePlus sends Cyanogen Camera app to the Play Store
Following the lead of other manufacturers that use the Google Play Store to distribute core apps, OnePlus has made the Cyanogen Camera app that is part of CyanogenMod 11S, the special version of the operating system used for the OnePlus One smartphone, available in Google Play. By using the Play Store, manufacturers are able to push out updates more quickly and easily to end users. This eliminates the need for an app to go through a carrier’s review process to be included in an OTA update, which tend to be sporadic in their timing.
For now at least, the Cyanogen Camera app is exclusive to OnePlus devices, so don’t expect to load it on your phone if you visit the Play Store with some other device. If you just want to check out the Play Store listing or you have a device that can use the Cyanogen Camera or needs to be updated, use one of the Google Play download links below.
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Microsoft app gives you more control over the Surface Pro 3’s pen
The Surface Pro 3’s pen is arguably a defining feature, but you haven’t had official control over it so far. As of now, though, you finally get some say over the stylus’ behavior. Microsoft has posted a Surface Hub app that lets you customize both the pen’s pressure sensitivity and its top button. Right now, the software isn’t likely to please demanding artists and note-takers — you don’t have fine-grained sensitivity tuning, you can’t launch any app you like and the side buttons are strictly off-limits. The crew in Redmond is willing to add features based on feedback, so don’t be afraid to pipe up if you have dreams of launching Photoshop with a single thumb press.
Filed under: Tablets, Software, Microsoft
Via: The Verge, Surface Pro Artist
Source: Windows Store
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Skype tweaks Mac and Windows preview versions to look like its mobile apps
Skype has donned new clothes and gained new features for both Mac and Windows today, though the one for the latter’s just a preview, which means its changes aren’t final. The latest update for both platforms dresses Skype up in a new interface, which now shows thumbnails of your contacts’ photos and features a bubble-style chat. That brings the desktop version closer in design to the mobile apps, but you’ll notice larger spacing in the chat interface for Windows compared to Mac’s. In addition, both apps now come with improved group video chat and display file icons when you share documents with friends. The best new feature for Mac, however, is the app’s ability to let you do video calls and IMs side-by-side with a single click. You can download Skype 7.0 for Mac and the preview version for Windows right now, or look at the images in the gallery first if you need a bit of convincing.
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Google’s Hangouts for Chrome app offers easier desktop chatting
Fancy using Hangouts for your desktop convos? Well, Google has a new option for you: the Hangouts Chrome app. The “simpler faster” way to leverage the chatting tool offers a condensed list of contacts and conversations in a single window with alerts that allow you to quickly get to the proper thread. It’s tucked neatly on the side and separate from the Chrome browser, so the option is always available. And as long as the app is running, messages will sync across your gadget arsenal. There’s video and voice calling too, as well as Google Voice support to handle all of your messaging needs in one spot. The new app is available today for Chrome OS and Windows mahcines via the Chrome Web Store.
Source: Google Chrome Blog
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Cartoon Network’s new app offers bite-sized content for kids
In an effort to beam content to viewers who are more likely to stare at a mobile device than a television, Cartoon Network has a new app that dishes out short clips of content. The Cartoon Network Anything app for iOS and Android packs 10 to 15-second snippets from Adventure Time, Regular Show, Gumball and Teen Titans Go with games, quizzes, puzzles and more sprinkled in. Variety reports that one goal is to lure the channel’s core audience back to its TV programming by promoting shows with the mobile software. There’s no way to control the flow of clips and other items, so kids won’t know what’s coming next. The idea is that every time little Joey taps on the app, there will be something he hasn’t seen before. Of course, there’s the opportunity for ad revenue in the future as well, which could take the form of branded video segments with the network’s characters. And in what should come as a shock to no one, McDonald’s signed on as the launch sponsor. If your kids (or you, no judgement here) are big fans of the CN, both versions of the app are available now via their respective repositories.
Filed under: Software, HD, Mobile
Via: Variety
Source: Google Play, iTunes
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Turn your text messages into comic strips with this app
Regardless of which platform you’re on, text-message windows are pretty boring. The folks behind comiXchat think they have the solution to that, however, with an app that turns your 160-character correspondences into comic strips. More than just throwing avatars onto a static background, though, the app promises real-time changes to character position, facial expression and camera angles among other things, based on implied emotion, tone and attitude. And if any of that goes horribly wrong, you can share the comics either per-pane or the entire conversation via your social media network of choice. For it to work, you need to rope your friends into downloading it too. Ad-supported, free versions are available on Android, iOS and Windows Phone and if you’d like a preview of what it all looks like in action, there’s a dubstep-accompanied video just below.
Filed under: Cellphones, Software, Mobile
Via: comiXchat
Source: ComiXchat (Google Play), (App Store), (Windows Phone)
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