You know when you’re driving down the road looking for a refreshing, frosty drink, but only a Slurpee will suffice? Now, there’s an app for that. 7-11 launched an iPhone and Android app that will make it easier to find the beloved beverage that’s been quenching our thirst for something sweet since 1967. You can find your closest Slurpee …
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Cobra iRadar Fuses Fuzzbuster and iPhone App
Cobra’s iRadar system pairs a Bluetooth-enabled radar detector with a free iPhone app to warn lead footed motorists of nearby radar guns. The iRadar app also includes an automatically updating database of known speed traps, dangerous intersections, and red light cameras.
The radar detector hardware itself is a bit pricey at $170, though
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PayPal to Update iPhone App to Allow Check Deposits by Photo
PayPal executive Laura Chambers recently remarked that the company’s iPhone app would be updated to allow users to deposit checks directly to their accounts simply by taking a photo of the front and back of each check. The update is apparently due "in the next day or so."
This kind of deposit-by-photo technology has been used by various
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HeyWire Launches Free International Text Messaging
Free text messaging services aren’t anything new, but the recently-released HeyWire breaks the mold a bit by offering a static, unchanging phone number that you can give out to your friends to let them text you, free international text messaging to and from 114 countries, and a web-based interface that allows you to send text messages
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Reading the Tea Leaves: DC Goes Digital
DC announced its long-awaited digital publishing initiative this morning–and there’s a lot of interesting subtext to pull out of its announcements. (See Peter’s interview with DC’s Jim Lee and John Rood for the details.) Here are a few notes on what some elements of the announcement might mean.
Simultaneous announcements of …
One Man’s App-inion: For 99 Cents, The Price Is Right’s Price Is Right
The Price is Right 2010 is an iPhone app that came out about a month ago. You can currently get your hands on it for 99 cents “for a Limited time,” according to the app page. You can tell that’s important because they capitalized “limited” and put not one, but two asterisks on either side of the sentence. Don’t take this news
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Why You Need the Springpad iPhone App
I’m not the most organized man in the history of men but it’s not for lack of trying. It’s more for lack of will, determination, time, time management skills, cleanliness (both personally and around the house), money, proper genetic predisposition to organization, and more.
Mostly it’s because it seems like too much work, even though …
The 10 Best Camera Apps for the iPhone
The iPhone’s meager 2- or 3-megapixel camera is only as good as the software powering it behind the scenes. And that’s no more evident than the list we’ve compiled today. It certainly isn’t the definitive iPhone camera app list, but we’re pretty sure it’s close.
Here’s our list of favorite iPhone camera apps in no …
Urban Signals: Helping Nerds Get a Little Nookie This Valentine’s Day
“My true love is out there somewhere and they can go f— themselves.”
Oh, someecards, the way you make trivial commercial holidays like Valentine’s Day bearable is priceless. Thank you.
The modern day dating scene is a cold, unfriendly and vile environment filled with introverted, earbud wearing, awkward individuals who rarely …