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Box acquires Folders, in what sounds like the least exciting acquisition deal ever

by Mike Schramm (May 23rd, 2013)

File-sharing service Box has acquired the technology behind a French app called Folders, which was never released, but is also centered on browsing and sharing files on the iPhone. Terms of the acquisition weren't revealed, but Box said that Folders would be a big influence on the next few ...

Pandora app revamps interface, adds Facebook publishing

by Mike Schramm (May 22nd, 2013)

Pandora Radio is the granddaddy of streaming music apps, and for years now, the company's iPhone app has been one of the most popular ways to use and interact with the service. Just today, the app has nabbed a big update, bringing it to version 4.3. The new update adds a redesigned interface, ...

DabKick for iPhone lets you share photos, watch videos and now listen to music in real-time

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 3rd, 2013)

There are a lot of communication tools that help you stay connected with family and friends. One that recently caught my eye is DabKick, which stood out because it lets you share and communicate in a variety of ways. It's a real-time photo viewer, video sharing tool, walkie-talkie, instant ...

SugarSync gets a fresh, new UI and improved search in version 4

by Mike Schramm (Apr 16th, 2013)

SugarSync, which allows you to share your documents, photos, music and other files between computers and mobile devices, has updated its iOS app to version 4.0. The new version features a major redesign which, as you can see above, looks quick slick and functional. In addition to the new ...

Bump removes ability to share iTunes tracks in latest update

by Mike Schramm (Apr 11th, 2013)

We see tons of app updates come through the App Store every single day, but it's very rare that one of those updates removes functionality rather than adds it. The latest update for Bump for iPhone does exactly that, unfortunately. Bump is an app that came out very early in the App Store's ...

Daily iPhone App: Horizon puts a weather report in a calendar app

by Mike Schramm (Feb 27th, 2013)

Horizon is an interesting little app that comes from a very simple idea: To combine your weather report and your calendar in one place. That may not sound like a big innovation, but it's actually not a bad one. Horizon's simple and straightforward design (put together by a young developer named ...

Givit makes video editing, sharing easier

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Jan 31st, 2013)

Every year at Macworld/iWorld I see another great video application for iOS. Last year one of the Best of Show winners was Game Your Video, a nifty app for adding effects to video. While I enjoyed the app, it wasn't very straightforward, and editing wasn't a great experience. Givit, on the ...

Bump adds support for sharing files via Dropbox

by Mike Schramm (Jan 18th, 2013)

I remember Bump from its early days on the App Store, when it was one of the first "contact sharing" apps with a unique gimmick: where you simply "bumped" your iPhone to someone else's to share contact information. Since then, however, Bump has been steadily upgrading its app, adding lots of ...

Dropbox buys photo aggregation and sharing service Snapjoy

by Randy Nelson (Dec 19th, 2012)

Snapjoy announced today that it has been purchased by cloud storage firm Dropbox. Snapjoy is a startup focused on aggregating photos from various sharing services -- such as Picasa, Flickr and Instagram -- and devices, providing users access to them in one place via a web interface and iOS ...

Dropbox for iOS updated to version 2.0 with all-new design

by Mike Schramm (Dec 14th, 2012)

Dropbox is our filesharing workhorse of choice around these parts, and the company has just updated its iOS app (for iPhone and iPad, of course) to version 2.0. The update is a big one, featuring an all-new (and "shiny," according to the release notes) design, as well as a new Photos tab, for ...

Audiobus claims to mix audio sources on your iOS device

by Mike Schramm (Dec 10th, 2012)

We've seen before that iOS can be very powerful in terms of producing audio, but there's one big drawback, and it's that iPhones and iPads are still only designed to be used for one task at a time. If you want to do more than one task at a time (like combining beats with a synth, or processing ...

Dropbox hits 100 million users, looking for great Dropbox stories

by Mike Schramm (Nov 14th, 2012)

Dropbox has announced that it has reached 100 million users, an impressive number to be sure. For comparison's sake, here's Wikipedia's list of virtual communities with more than 100 million users, which currently has seven companies on it, so Dropbox has just joined a very exclusive club. ...

Box makes a deal to add more global servers

by Mike Schramm (Nov 12th, 2012)

I find it a little hard to believe that until now, Box (formerly Box.net) didn't have any servers running outside the US. But apparently that was the case, as the company has just made a deal with Equinix to host six data centers around the world, including places such as Amsterdam, Sydney and ...

AT&T announces cloud-based storage, 5 GB free for iOS users

by Mike Schramm (Nov 1st, 2012)

AT&T's apparently jumping into the cloud storage fray with a new program called AT&T Locker. The service will provide up to 5 GB of free storage via an app to iOS users, with extra charges for any storage above that. To get started, AT&T users can grab the app right now, and then ...

YouMail updates, now allows 'numberless messaging'

by Mike Schramm (Oct 2nd, 2012)

We covered YouMail back in February of last year -- it's a voicemail replacement app for iOS, which allows you to access and send voicemails completely outside of the standard voicemail interface. If you use voicemail a lot, YouMail features a lot of extra options and ways to handle all of ...