On My iPhone/Android…Plague - The Network - social network via information infection

Plague - The Network

 

 

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I have been playing around with Plague over the past free weeks and it is an interesting concept for social media. There are no follower lists or other ways to subscribe, only a simple up-swipe or down-swipe to either spread the "infection" or skip it and stop the propagation of the info, photo, link, whatever. You can also comment on various "cards", which can lead to some interesting conversations. I am not sure if Plague has the ability to scale to millions of users or withstand the trolls that eventually find every new service, but I am enjoying it for the time being nevertheless.

 

 

From the iTunes App Store...

Plague is an essentially different way to spread information.
The idea for Plague is to create a perfect medium for spreading information as wide as it deserves to be spread, without any boundaries.
Plague works like a virus. When you spread information, it goes to the users who are closest to you physically. The infected users can spread information exponentially further or they can resist the epidemic by keeping the information to themselves.
Everyone has a fair and equal chance to be heard by the whole network right from the start - there is no friending or following on Plague. If your information is interesting to people, it can eventually spread to the entire world.

Previously in "On my iPhone/Android…":

• TuneIn Radio
• Instagram Hyperlapse - easily create time-lapse videos
• Google Adsense
• Linkedin Connected
• World of Tanks Blitz
• Moodies Emotions Analytics
• Swarm by Foursquare
• FlightView Free - Real-Time Flight Tracker and Airport Delay Status
• Waterlogue
• Notegraphy
• ArtKick
• Human: Move 30 minutes or more
• ActMonitor By Aeonika - Monitor lots of info about your iPhone and apps
• Sunrise Calendar for iCloud and Google Calendar
• Stevie - A customized video channel using your social media feeds
• iDashboard
• Real Racing 3
• Chronos - Life Tracking App
• iOS 7 System Software
• IFTTT (If This Then That) for iOS
• Mynd Calendar
• Toonpaint 
• Saga – The Essential Lifelogging App
• Donna Proactive Meeting Management
• Amazon Cloud Drive
• Clear To-Do Manager
• Forecast.io
• Over for iOS
• Any.DO To-Do List Manager
• Feedly RSS Reader
• Sleep Time by Azumio
• Angry Birds Seasons
• Trickle Passive Twitter Client
• Pinterest
• Stitcher Radio - Podcast management and playback
• imo
• Kindle Reader
• iMap Weather Radio
• LinkedIn
• LiveStrong CalorieTracker
• Skype
• Flipboard
• YouTube
• Evernote
• RunKeeper
• Timehop
• Twist
• Facebook/Facebook Pages Manager/Facebook Messenger
• Google+
• Waze social GPS traffic and more

"On my iPhone…" is a new series from TechnologyIQ, sharing real world examples of how I use my iPhone, interesting apps and more

On My iPhone/Android…TuneIn Radio - Listen to the world’s largest collection of sports, news, music and talk radio.

TuneIn Radio - - Listen to the world’s largest collection of sports, news, music and talk radio.

 

 

 

iOS | Android

 

Sometimes we may want, or need, to listen to local terrestrial radio, even with all the Internet streaming options for music and such. TuneIn turns in your device into a world wide radio receiver, allowing you to bring your favorite stations -- even those from your old hometown -- right to you no matter where you are. My wife still listens to a lot of radio and this app, along with her iPad lets her have her music in her offices (she teaches at several universities) and on the go. If you still have a love to traditional radio, this is one of the easiest ways to get your fix.

 

 

From the iTunes App Store...

Listen to the world’s largest collection of sports, news, music and talk radio.

TuneIn has over 100,000 real radio stations and more than four million podcasts from all over the world. Discover, follow and listen to what’s most important to you on your iPhone, iPad or iPod, all for free. This is real radio.

With TuneIn:
-Listen to over 100,000 real radio stations from around the world, including sports, news, talk and music.
-See what’s playing live on your personalized home feed.
-Find and follow your favorite stations, shows and podcasts to see their updates in your feed.

Follow college sports on TuneIn with live play-by-play coverage from 85 Division 1 teams. Listen to the remainder of the football season leading up to the playoffs with coverage of top-ranked Alabama, Oregon, Auburn, Florida State and more. College basketball is also underway, and you can listen to teams like Kentucky, Arizona, Wisconsin and Duke right on your smartphone or tablet. Listen on TuneIn and turn the game up!

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Previously in "On my iPhone/Android…":

• Instagram Hyperlapse - easily create time-lapse videos
• Google Adsense
• Linkedin Connected
• World of Tanks Blitz
• Moodies Emotions Analytics
• Swarm by Foursquare
• FlightView Free - Real-Time Flight Tracker and Airport Delay Status
• Waterlogue
• Notegraphy
• ArtKick
• Human: Move 30 minutes or more
• ActMonitor By Aeonika - Monitor lots of info about your iPhone and apps
• Sunrise Calendar for iCloud and Google Calendar
• Stevie - A customized video channel using your social media feeds
• iDashboard
• Real Racing 3
• Chronos - Life Tracking App
• iOS 7 System Software
• IFTTT (If This Then That) for iOS
• Mynd Calendar
• Toonpaint 
• Saga – The Essential Lifelogging App
• Donna Proactive Meeting Management
• Amazon Cloud Drive
• Clear To-Do Manager
• Forecast.io
• Over for iOS
• Any.DO To-Do List Manager
• Feedly RSS Reader
• Sleep Time by Azumio
• Angry Birds Seasons
• Trickle Passive Twitter Client
• Pinterest
• Stitcher Radio - Podcast management and playback
• imo
• Kindle Reader
• iMap Weather Radio
• LinkedIn
• LiveStrong CalorieTracker
• Skype
• Flipboard
• YouTube
• Evernote
• RunKeeper
• Timehop
• Twist
• Facebook/Facebook Pages Manager/Facebook Messenger
• Google+
• Waze social GPS traffic and more

"On my iPhone…" is a new series from TechnologyIQ, sharing real world examples of how I use my iPhone, interesting apps and more

Noted: Meet Plague, A Social Networking App That Spreads Information Like A Virus via Business Insider

Meet Plague, A Social Networking App That Spreads Information Like A Virus via Business Insider

Plague is a new social networking app with a fun twist that could just work.

Plague is all about discovering "viral" content, but the way you discover the next viral video or hilarious photo is what's unique.

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Noted: New Fonts: The Simplest Way to Upgrade Your Work Communication via The Muse

New Fonts: The Simplest Way to Upgrade Your Work Communication via The Muse

We’ve talked before about keeping the font on your resume, cover letter, and other business documents and communications simple and professional.

But sometimes, to stand out a little more, we want to step away from the Times New Roman. And if you’re not a designer or expert in typography, it can be hard to know how to step out of your font comfort zone—without ending up with a document that’s hard to read or looks way too gaudy.

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Noted: Using Midi And Magnets To Produce Tones With Tines via HackADay

Using Midi And Magnets To Produce Tones With Tines via HackADay

Normally you’d expect the sound of a pipe organ to come from something gigantic. [Matthew Steinke] managed to squeeze all of that rich melodic depth into an acoustic device the size of a toaster (YouTube link) which uses electromagnetism to create its familiar sound.

[Matthew ’s] instrument has a series of thin vertical tines, each coupled with a small MIDI controlled electromagnet. As the magnet pulses with modulation at a specific frequency, the pull and release of the tine causes it to resonate continuously with a particular tone. The Tine Organ is capable of producing 20 chromatic notes in full polyphony starting in middle C and can be used as an attachment to a standard keyboard or a synthesizer app on a smart phone. The classic style body of the instrument is made out of mahogany and babinga and houses the soundboard as well as the mini microcontroller responsible for receiving the MIDI and regulating the software oscillators sending voltage to the magnets.

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Noted: Dictate Any Command to You Mac with Automator via Lifehacker

Dictate Any Command to You Mac with Automator via Lifehacker

Mac: One of the lesser known features in Yosemite is a new Dictation Command option in Automator. As MacWorld points out, this means you can set up a command to launch any Automator action you want, including launching apps, ejecting disks, and more.

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Noted: Google releases set of beautiful, freely usable icons via Boing Boing

Google releases set of beautiful, freely usable icons via Boing Boing

They're licensed CC-BY-SA and designed for use in mobile apps and other interactive stuff -- there's 750 in all! It's part of Google's Material Design project.

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Noted: Announcing Flickr for iPad via Flickr

Announcing Flickr for iPad via Flickr

Today, we’re extremely excited to announce Flickr for iPad. We’ve heard you loud and clear asking for an official app on Apple’s beautiful, large retina display, which makes it easy and enjoyable to access, organize and share your stunning photos from anywhere. The new Flickr for iPad app will be available globally in eleven languages.

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Free Gulf Fritillary Butterfly Computer and Smartphone Wallpapers for November 2014

Here is a selection of free wallpapers for your computer desktop or smartphone. Click to load full-sized image, then right-click and select Save Image As… to download them to your own computer. On your smartphone, click the image to see the full-sized image, tap and hold, then select Save to Camera Roll. You can then attach the wallpapers using your phone’s preferences.

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• Mourning Dove
• Piazza Armerina
• Camellia
• Aspens
• Kousa Dogwood
• Daylily
• Old Oak Tree
• Magnolia
• Rhaphiolepis
• Native Sunflower
• Koi Pond
• White Chamomile Flower
• Palm Tree
• Water Lily
• Artichoke Wallpapers
• Morning Glory Wallpapers
• Sunflower Wallpapers
• Hibiscus Closeup Wallpapers
• Garden Face Wallpapers
• Passiflora Wallpapers
• Daisies Wallpapers
• Cherry Blossoms Wallpapers
• Paperwhites Wallpapers

Noted: Royal Society journal archive made permanently free to access via BoingBoing

Royal Society journal archive made permanently free to access via BoingBoing

The Royal Society has today announced that its world-famous historical journal archive – which includes the first ever peer-reviewed scientific journal – has been made permanently free to access online.
Around 60,000 historical scientific papers are accessible via a fully searchable online archive, with papers published more than 70 years ago now becoming freely available.

The Royal Society is the world’s oldest scientific publisher, with the first edition of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society appearing in 1665. Henry Oldenburg – Secretary of the Royal Society and first Editor of the publication – ensured that it was “licensed by the council of the society, being first reviewed by some of the members of the same”, thus making it the first ever peer-reviewed journal.

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Noted: Google's Chromecast Can Now Beam Art And Your Photos To Your TV via ReadWrite

Like many ChromeCast users, I've been waiting for this backdrop feature since I first connected it to my TV. I've had a variety of applications that allowed me to put photos on my television using ChromeCast but this direct integration is so much better.  I look forward to many other Backdrop features in the future.  I love using my television as a passive information device whenever possible. -- Douglas

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Google's Chromecast Can Now Beam Art And Your Photos To Your TV via ReadWrite

If you're concerned about Google neglecting Chromecast lately, take heart: The tech giant has not forsaken the $35 TV stick. On the contrary, this week the company finally delivered on Backdrop, a new feature it first promised at the Google I/O developer conference last June. 

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Noted: Finding Starter Projects: Free Software for Making via Make

Finding Starter Projects: Free Software for Making via Make

Learners and teachers have so many free options at their fingertips, we find that fewer are buying the higher-priced software. Just like with all kinds of making, with software these days you can do a lot with a little. Years ago, the costs of new software, especially those used by creative professionals, were prohibitive to schools. Administrators favored programs that kids would encounter in office settings, but we all know that the workplace of the future is a makerspace! The field of what’s available can be intimidating to navigate, however. Who doesn’t download with trepidation? We thought we should share our Maker teachers’ go-to apps.

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Noted: An App That Draws Impressively Accurate Floor Plans In Minutes via Arch Daily

An App That Draws Impressively Accurate Floor Plans In Minutes via Arch Daily

RoomScan is an app for iOS which draws floor plans in minutes – touching your device to a wall is the only input required. Using the iPhone’s internal sensors, RoomScan recognises a sequence of flat vertical surfaces, measuring the distance in between and creating impressively accurate plans. When you come to a door, you just tap the phone to the door frame and continue. Claiming that measurements are accurate to the nearest 10cm (or 6 inches), this app – the basic features of which are available for free - is not only great fun to play with, but also considerably useful in every day situations.

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Noted: Google Revives My Maps So You Can Create and Share Custom Maps via Lifehacker

Google Revives My Maps So You Can Create and Share Custom Maps via Lifehacker

Today, Google unleashed a new, overhauled version of its well-loved (and little known) custom maps tool, called My Maps. It's pretty powerful and cool.

With it, you can create a trip itinerary, note hotspots in any location, and otherwise personalize Google Maps.

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Noted: Panda Is a News Feed that Keeps You Inspired and Informed via Lifehacker

Panda Is a News Feed that Keeps You Inspired and Informed via Lifehacker

Web/Chrome: Panda combines top-rated stories from sites like Hacker News and Product Hunt with imagery from Dribble and Behance to keep you informed as well as inspired to make awesome things (or at least look at cool images.) You can even replace Chrome's new tab page with it, so every tab keeps you informed and motivated.

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Noted: A Mapping App That Searches Along Your Route To Plan Exciting (Or Efficient) Trips via Fast Company

A Mapping App That Searches Along Your Route To Plan Exciting (Or Efficient) Trips via Fast Company

With so many geolocation and mapping apps packed onto our mobile devices, it’s always bothered me that there’s no easy way to find a place I’d like to stop while I’m on my way to someplace else.

Say I use Google Maps to give me driving directions from New York City to Boston. Since I want to use my time efficiently, I know I’d like to make the quickest stop possible at my bank along my route, minimizing the distance I am put out of my way. Google Maps or Yelp or any number of apps can suggest branches of my bank that are nearest to my current location, and they can suggest branches that are nearest to any particular town or destination I input, but neither are smart enough to suggest convenient branches for me to stop as mapped along my entire route.

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Noted: Cardboard Dinosaur Costume via Make

Cardboard Dinosaur Costume via Make

Tanaka Satoshi created this ferocious and fully articulated dinosaur costume from cardboard.

(The original article is in Japanese, but Google Translate does a decent job on it.)

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LinkedIn misses entire point of iOS 8 Widgets in new release of app

Apple's iOS 8 comes with a new feature, Widgets, that allows apps to present up-to-date information on the Today section of the iOS Notifications pull down. For me, this improves the usefulness of the Today pane dramatically and I am eagerly awaiting more apps adding functionality to that area.

Today I noticed that the latest LinkedIn app update adds an iOS 8 Widget. "Cool," I thought. "I'll add that." This is what I got, thought.

Uh, really? No! This is NOT what I expect in a useful iOS8 Widget. I want information, at a glance, not simply a button to run the app. They have missed the entire point of iOS8 Widgets from the very start. In fact, this is exactly the opposite of what an iOS 8 widget should be.

Linkedin, how about you show me the actual data I want to see here instead of just a button to your app. Cheesy, and useless, and it shows a certain cluelessness about iOS. Please fix this now. Oh, and any other app developers thinking of doing this? Learn from LinkedIn's mistake. Provide information not buttons.

Noted: Google Voice Integration Finally Arrives in Hangouts via Lifehacker

Google Voice Integration Finally Arrives in Hangouts via Lifehacker

Google Voice integration with Hangouts is rolling out to some users right now. Yes, this is real. Though, for the moment, the rollout seems incomplete.

As Android Police points out, some users have confirmed Google Voice integration is active in Hangouts. There are still some kinks to iron out (Android Police speculates that some features still need to be rolled out as part of Google's typical "Update Wednesday"), but the promise to send and receive SMS and voicemail seems to be finally coming true.

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Noted: Pinterest Chrome extension brings inspiration to freshly-opened tabs via Engadget

Pinterest Chrome extension brings inspiration to freshly-opened tabs via Engadget

When you open a new tab in Google's Chrome browser, you're greeted with a search box, rows of recently-visited sites and a tucked-in menu for individual apps. It's really not very inspiring, is it? Pinterest doesn't think so, and thanks to an internal make-a-thon, there's a new Chrome extension that aims to remedy the gray box blues.

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Noted: Lenka for iOS creates stunning black and white images via TUAW

Lenka for iOS creates stunning black and white images via TUAW

Lenka (US$2.99) is a simple app to help you create dramatic black and white images. The app was developed by famed photographer Kevin Abosch and it's starkly simple. To begin with, you frame your photo, which is visible in black and white in real time on your iPhone. There are only a couple of options: regular or high contrast. You can change the format from rectangular to square, and then you can start firing away. The only available editing tools allow rotation and cropping.

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Noted: WunderStation iPad app: Nirvana for weather geeks via TUAW

WunderStation iPad app: Nirvana for weather geeks via TUAW

Weather Underground runs what it calls the PWS (Personal Weather Station) network, a mesh of over 37,000 individually-owned weather stations that send live weather info to the company as often as every 2.5 seconds. If you live near a PWS, you can be guaranteed that you're going to get forecasts from Weather Underground that better represent the actual microclimates in your area thanks to the company's analysis of the PWS data. Well, now there's a way for weather geeks to really dig into that data visually. The free WunderStation iPad app offers an variety of ways to slice and dice local weather information.

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Free Mourning Dove Computer and Smartphone Wallpapers for September 2014

Here is a selection of free wallpapers for your computer desktop or smartphone. Click to load full-sized image, then right-click and select Save Image As… to download them to your own computer. On your smartphone, click the image to see the full-sized image, tap and hold, then select Save to Camera Roll. You can then attach the wallpapers using your phone’s preferences.

Desktop

 

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Previous garden wallpapers:

• Piazza Armerina
• Camellia
• Aspens
• Kousa Dogwood
• Daylily
• Old Oak Tree
• Magnolia
• Rhaphiolepis
• Native Sunflower
• Koi Pond
• White Chamomile Flower
• Palm Tree
• Water Lily
• Artichoke Wallpapers
• Morning Glory Wallpapers
• Sunflower Wallpapers
• Hibiscus Closeup Wallpapers
• Garden Face Wallpapers
• Passiflora Wallpapers
• Daisies Wallpapers
• Cherry Blossoms Wallpapers
• Paperwhites Wallpapers

Noted: Check out Nav Camera if you need precise location info for photos and video via TUAW

Check out Nav Camera if you need precise location info for photos and video via TUAW

Nav Camera (US$3.99) is an innovative app that uses navigation, augmented reality and display overlays to tell you where you are, your altitude, the direction you are facing and more. The information appears on your image in real time and it's possible to save it all to your photo library.

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Noted: Internet Archive uploads more than 14 million public domain images to Flickr via Boing Boing

Internet Archive uploads more than 14 million public domain images to Flickr via Boing Boing

Kalev Leetaru programatically recovered all the images that were discarded by the OCR program that digitizes the millions of public domain books scanned by the Archive; these were cropped, cleaned up, and uploaded to Flickr with the text that appears before and after them, and links to see their whole scanned page.

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Noted: Pixlr releases a powerful free desktop photo editor for Mac via TUAW

Pixlr releases a powerful free desktop photo editor for Mac via TUAW

Pixlr by Autodesk has built its reputation on providing high-powered photo editing online for free. While it offers advanced tools for a small yearly cost -- US$2 a month or $15 a year -- the basic online editor provides plenty of power for your average editing needs. Now the service is offering up a desktop app for Mac and, yes, it's free too.

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Noted: Bioshock now available for the iPhone and iPad via TUAW

Bioshock now available for the iPhone and iPad via TUAW

Ready to explore Rapture and fight Big Daddy on your iOS device? Then we have some good news for you as 2K Games has finished its port of Bioshock, and the the popular first person shooter is now available for the iPhone and iPad.

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Noted: Google's app for presentations, Slides, launches on iOS via Engadget

Google's app for presentations, Slides, launches on iOS via Engadget

It took quite a while to get here, but Google has finally brought its Slides app to Apple's mobile platform. Roughly three months ago, the search company introduced standalone apps for creating/editing documents, spreadsheets and presentations, but Slides didn't arrive until weeks later, and only on Android. As of today, Google's application for PowerPoints presentations is now also available on iOS.

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Noted: Turn Any Speaker into a Bluetooth Speaker with this Discounted Dongle via Kinja

Turn Any Speaker into a Bluetooth Speaker with this Discounted Dongle via Kinja

Bluetooth is basically table stakes for speaker systems these days, but if you love how an older stereo sounds, it's easy to add Bluetooth streaming with this cheap Belkin dongle.

The tiny adapter plugs in via included RCA or 3.5mm cables to your speakers, and can can store six Bluetooth devices in memory for easy pairing. Today's $24 price tag is the lowest Amazon has ever offered, and a steal if you don't already own something like this.

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Noted: The Everyday Tasks Your Phone Does Better Than Your Computer via Lifehacker

The Everyday Tasks Your Phone Does Better Than Your Computer via Lifehacker

We've known for a while that your smartphone is a better PC than your PC ever was. It can't replace everything your computer does, but there are some things that are actually better to do on your phone, rather than your computer.

It should be noted that much of this is going to be subjective. There huge differences just between iOS, Android, and Windows Phone, much less individual handsets. However, the prevailing notion has always been that phones are great when you're away from the computer, but if you have a PC handy, you should use that. For things like photo editing or watching movies, that might be true. Here are some things that, more often than not, can be done more productively on your phone than your computer.

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