Articles Tagged ‘web app’
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Street View Is Back And Here's How To Get It
BY Robin Rhys on Thu October 04th, 2012
On today's show we're walking down the streets of Hollywood and Paris on our iOS device, since Google's Street View is back.
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Manage Your Permissions With This Simple Site
BY Lenny Liang on Thu January 05th, 2012
In a nutshell, mypermissions helps you track the sites you've given access to, by giving you a direct link to the relevant pages of eight of the most popular permissions-granting sites.
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Create Personalized Quizzes And Surveys With Tabletquiz
BY Lenny Liang on Mon December 26th, 2011
Tabletquiz is a neat concept. It offers some useful features, such as the ability to include picture, video, or audio. However, its user interface could still use a bit of polish. It's been proven that Web apps can be successful outside of Apple's App Store ecosystem. But the installation process for Tabletquiz involves a number of tedious steps, which most casual quiz/survey takers won't want to take.
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Web App Allows You To Fake Siri Messages
BY Lenny Liang on Sun November 27th, 2011
There has been much fascination with the things that Siri says. Now, you can put words in Siri's virtual mouth. A Web app has been released on ifakesiri.com which allows users to create their own conversations with Siri.
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The Financial Times Infographic Celebrates One Million Registered Users
BY Lenny Liang on Sat November 19th, 2011
As previously reported, The Financial Times chose to eschew the App Store in favor of a Web app for the iPhone and iPad. It has done well. It has done so well, in fact, that it now celebrates its one millionth registered user.
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Reuters: Financial Times' Web App Has Attracted More Than 700,000 Readers
BY Joe White on Thu September 22nd, 2011
Back in June, the Financial Times decided to ditch the App Store and produced a Web app, due to Apple's controversial in-app subscription policy. Now, in a report recently publish by Reuters, it is claimed that the Web app has attracted over 700,000 readers, making it more popular than the iOS application was before it was removed from the App Store.
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Gmail Mobile Web App Gets Updated: Adds Retina Display Support And Pull To Refresh
BY Joe White on Thu August 04th, 2011
Google has recently updated its Gmail mobile Web app, adding a "pull to refresh" feature and support for the Retina display.
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Rumor: Apple Isn't Afraid Of "Project Spartan," Will Even Lend A Hand
BY Joe White on Sun June 19th, 2011
According to a recent report, Apple "is not afraid of [Facebook's Project Spartan] at all," and the company is even rumored to be "lending some minor support."
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Home Screen Web Apps Zoom In iOS 5 - Apple Adds Support For JavaScript Nitro
BY Joe White on Sat June 18th, 2011
In iOS 5, Apple has given the Web.app a boost. Read on to find out how.
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Twitter Rolling Out More Realistic Web App Based On Newest HTML 5 Standards
BY Andy Faust III on Wed May 11th, 2011
With its completely rebuilt mobile web interface, Twitter's looking good on more than just the iPhone.
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Google Adds "Undo" Bar To Gmail Web App
BY Joe White on Tue April 19th, 2011
Google has recently added an "undo" bar to its web app for iOS and Android devices. You can navigate to the web app by heading over to http://mail.google.com in Safari on your iOS device.
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Old-School Sierra Classics To Hit iPad As Unofficial Web Apps
BY Joe White on Wed October 20th, 2010
If you're a fan of old school video games, then you're in for a treat. Because one avid fan has promised to bring the Sierra classics of the '80s to the Apple iPad, as web apps. And, what's more, a multiplayer feature is also planned. Read on to find out more...
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Make Web Apps Look More Native With The AppMode Bookmarklet
BY Alexander Vaughn on Fri September 10th, 2010
A lot of Web Apps don't include a feature that allows you to save them to your home screen and then launch in full screen mode. Well, here is a little workaround that will allow you do it anyway.
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OpenAppMkt: Download Web Apps, App Store Style
BY Joe White on Sat July 31st, 2010
If you enjoy downloading the odd web app every now and again, be sure to take a look at OpenAppMkt, the App Store for web apps!
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U.S. Government Releases More Content For iDevices
BY Scott Grizzle on Tue July 06th, 2010
Among the developers releasing more and more content for the iPhone is the U.S. government. In fact, they just released two new iOS apps and two new web apps that might interest you.
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The App Store Now Available From Your Browser
BY Alexander Vaughn on Thu February 18th, 2010
Just two weeks after extending its iTunes preview service to apps, Apple has just made another step in this direction and now allows you to consult pretty much the entire App Store directly from your browser.
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Google Voice Hits The iPhone As A Webapp
BY Tyler Tschida on Tue January 26th, 2010
During Google's highly publicized bout with Apple over the placement of a native Google Voice app in the App Store, the company declared that their exclusion wouldn't stop them from offering their service to iPhone
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Google Announces New Google News For Mobile
BY Tyler Tschida on Thu November 19th, 2009
Google has announced that the company has rolled out a new Google News for mobile format for the iPhone, Android, and Palm Pre. Most of you who visit Google News daily on your iPhone may
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Google Latitude To Be A Web App
BY Tyler Tschida on Thu May 28th, 2009
Google announced that they would be creating a mobile version of Google Latitude for the iPhone and iPod touch way back in February, and at that time they stated it would be available "very soon."
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