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Redesigning for the small screen

According to this research by HubSpot, 68% of Marketers did a website redesign within the past year

I wonder how many of these folks considered (or focused) on the mobile site/app prior to the desktop version? I give it 2 years. 
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Stream music from Dropbox to your iPhone with BoxyTunes

For the low, low price of $2, BoxyTunes frees you from the confines of your computer and allows you to stream music within your Dropbox account directly to your iPhone. The app plays in the background and supports a slew of files including mp3, mp4 aac and wav formats.

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QR codes have one foot in the grave

Users will no longer find unique QR codes in their Places accounts. We’re exploring new ways to enable customers to quickly and easily find information about local businesses from their mobile phones.
Google

I’ve used QR codes in the past and I have a lot of friends that are very high on them, but I’m with Google on this one. QR codes are too limiting and near field communication is the future. QR codes have 6-12 months self-life left in my opinion (or whenever Apple comes out with their new iPhone).

If you think about it, to use a QR code, someone must have a smart phone, know and recognize what a QR code is, download an app, align their phone just right and scan it in hopes that it’s something they’re interested in. With NFC, you simply tap your phone against the target and the information is beamed to your phone.
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The one app that’s preventing me from becoming morbidly obese

Fooducate iPhone nutrition shopping app

In the past, when I went to the grocery, I usually made very poor decisions. I picked items (a) closest to the cash register so I could spend as little time possible in that hell hole (2) items with a cartoon animal on the front of the packaging or (3) items that offered a free prize.

That’s why I’m a big fan of Fooducate. So, now when I head to the grocery I simply fire up the app and scan the barcode on all my over-processed goodness.

The app makes it super easy on my feeble brain and gives each food a basic grade. It highlights the benefits of that particular food and and also cautions if it contains too much sugar, fat, additives, etc, etc. Fooducate will also go on and recommend another brand or closely related food that would work as a substitute.  Genius!

Fooducate is free in the app store so go download it today.

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Hipster: New updates to Hipstamatic app are “Nuts”

My very favorite photography app, Hipstamatic, has recently pushed an upgrade that includes a slew of cool features.  The big update is the ability to order prints right from the app and have them delivered to your door. The prints will set you back $5-$20 depending on the quantity and size of prints you select. Here’s how the entire process works.  Hooray for technology!

Another great features they’ve added this time around is the ability to automatically share photos and stacks right to your Tumblr page.  Hipsters shooting with the Hipstamatic app are now cracking open a PBR and celebrating in the streets.

One last big addition is the Mission Hipstapak which includes the Bettie XL lens and the Ina 1935 film.  The additional pak will run you $1 and gives you the ability to make your very own ‘I hate machine dryers’ poster like the image below.

Bettie's Lens, Ina's Film, Rantz'z Shirts

Version 170 includes some other settings and bug updates.  Check their site to see all of the other options.

If you’re still on the fence about the Hipstamatic app, typie type over to  Photojojo’s Ultimate Hipstamatic Guide.  They detail and layout over 300 combinations of photos available with the app.

Buy the Hipstamatic app in iTunes or find out more from the official site.

Google Goggles Coming to iPhone Soon

Google Goggles, the app that allows users to search the web by simply taking a picture and has been exclusive to Android is coming to iPhone in the next 3 months.

“We’re working on an iPhone version, and hope to have it out by the end of the year,” David Petrou, a Google staff engineer working on the Goggles project, told his keynote audience at Monday’s Hot Chips conference at Stanford University in California.

Google Goggles: How does it work?

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