New and Interesting Augmented Reality (ARKit) Apps for iPhones and iPads

Robert Scoble published a list of ARKit Apps (Augmented Reality). I found it interesting and listing it here, in no particular order, for the records. You need an ARKit-enabled iPhone or iPad to play with these apps.

Sketchfab – drop 3D objects near you.
Orb – pull out basic shapes and then sculpt, rotate, and paint them to create your own Orbs.
PuzzlAR: World Tour -puzzle game.
Holo – see the quality of holograms.
Army of Robots – you must destroy the robots that are invading your REAL WORLD.
Paint Space AR – draw in the air with all sorts of brushes and colors.
Math Ninja AR – get kids involved in learning math.
World Brush – paint with brushes on the world around you.
Follow Me Dragon – Say hi to your new dragon! He breathes fire, does tricks, and follows you anywhere you go!
Insight Heart – explore the human heart; rotate and scale the high-resolution heart floating in front of you.
Monster Park – Dino World – Would you like to make a hilarious photo with dinosaurs, those who ruled the Earth long time ago?
Nitro Nation – For those who live life 1/4 mile at a time, Nitro Nation is the most addictive drag racing game!
aCen – a target shooting game.
Fitness AR – explore your Strava bike rides and runs in augmented reality.
powARdup – a fast-paced arcade survival game.
Magic Sudoku – aim this app at a sudoku board game and it’ll solve it for you.
Dronetopolis – Fly a virtual drone around.
Dance Reality – Learn to dance in AR.
My Very Hungry Caterpillar – caterpillar game.
Conduct AR – a train game.
Color BlastAR – find the paint buckets and treasure chests hidden in your room and start blasting life-sized zombies with color.
AR Runner – gets you to run around.
Splitter Critters – Split the world with a swipe of your finger and then rearrange it to guide critters back to their spaceship.
ARrived – The player assumes the role of a deity who must lead followers through key decisions and interacts with real environment in order to guide them reach prosperity and to all kinds of crazy stuff.
GIPHY World: AR GIFs+Stickers – Get ready to fill the world around you with GIFs & stickers in glorious AR powered 3D!
AR Sports Basketball – basketball game.
AR-Basketball – basketball game.
Drive Ahead! Minigolf – Minigolf.
Mammoth Mini Golf AR – a wacky caveman themed world of mini golf right into your home.
Stack AR – Stack up the blocks as high as you can.
CARROT Weather – a crazy-powerful weather app that delivers hilariously twisted forecasts.
Zombie Gunship Revenant – zombie shooter where you take control of a heavily-armed helicopter gunship and obliterate zombies from the sky.
Pigeon Panic – run haphazardly into large flocks of pigeons.
Phantogeist – first person shooter game.
The Machines – bring an AR battlefield to life in front of your eyes.
YuME: Alice’s Dream – a story about a dream within a dream – story, puzzles, games.
Domino World – create incredible virtual domino courses quickly and easily in the world around you, using an assortment of tiles, props and toys.
shARk – lets sharks enter your world and swim with you.
Twilight Pioneers:Dragon ARena – a story about a dragon soul controller fighting with the Dark Lord.
AR Balloons – pop Balloons in augmented reality.
Knightfall – places you into the world of Knights Templar as they seek to defend the city of Acre from an invadaing army.
The Box – every day you get new functionality.
Mancala FS5 – a board game.

mySchoolNotebook is digitizing the Classroom

mySchoolNotebook is an app for taking and sharing school notes in an easy and effective way. Nowadays, there is an increasing trend of students bringing their electronic devices to school and taking notes with them as well as school supporting integration of technology into education.

mySchoolNotebook allows students to take notes into well-arranged notebooks divided into topics and automatically numbered and dated lessons. Students can format their notes, upload files, search within the application, or convert notes to PDF and print them out if they get tired of looking at screen. When they miss a class, they simply ask friends to share the notes with them instantly.

Students can sign in with their Facebook account, which helps to automatically generate a friend list for sharing notes, or they can register with an e-mail. Another benefit is that mySchoolNotebook works offline. Therefore, students do not have to worry about an Internet connection. The application is offered in web, mobile, iOS, and Android version. The iOS and Android version can take pictures and record audios.

mySchoolNotebook is based in the Czech Republic. It was developed by a young high school student, CEO Jakub Roz, who tried to solve his own problem of taking notes effectively. He made the first version of mySchoolNotebook for himself. However, his classmates liked the service and wanted to use it as well.

Well, Jakub and the CTO of mySchoolNotebook, Jan Kuca develop a Czech version of mySchoolNotebook. It became a popular tool serving tens of thousand of students. mySchoolNotebook team then decided to release an English version at the end of 2011 to serve students at a global level. In addition, there is a version for German speaking users.

Download the App – iOS (iPhone and iPad), Android.

StockTouch app is Bringing Sexy Back to stock markets

The successful build-an-app plan seems to be: take a useful service, make it intuitive and put a shiny veneer on it. Steve deBrun’s StockTouch has done that, in spades. Although if you ask Steve what the entrepreneurial key to app-building success is a top-notch team, the ‘classic trio’ as he calls it: the “designer, hacker, hustler trio”.

Steve is the self-proclaimed tech/art geek who designed the sharp quadrant interface for the StockTouch app. For anyone not familiar with the app, it puts gargled stock market data into an easily readable format, while breaking it down into scannable sectors. That’s the quick pitch anyways; it does some other cool shiznit too, but I don’t want to spoil your fun so just download it. If you haven’t got the $4.99 for download then just keep reading.

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Tool Mobile App Maker ShoutEm Mobilizer

Mobile application revolution is changing business, social and lifestyle landscape. They complement our online and offline presence and enable us new ways of communication and interaction. They are changing the way we live. They become our lifestyle. Where is your app?

ShoutEm is tech startup located in New York and creator of ShoutEm Mobilizer – a Mobile App Maker that enables users easy creation of iPhone, iPad and Android apps. It creating new ways for publishers, organizations and businesses to share their content, message and extend their reach.

We talked to their CEO Croatian entrepreneur Viktor Marohnić who told us about his entrepreneurial venture into mobile app creating for top smartphone and tablet platforms.

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Kill a background app in iOS

Manually terminate a task in iOS

Perhaps, I’m one of the last few to discover that I can manually terminate an app running in the background in iOS. This is helpful when an app is acting up or not responsive or just want to kill it while testing your app.

How?

Double Click/Tab the Home Button.
When Multitask bar rolls up at the bottom with all your apps you ever opened, tap and hold one of the app till it start to ‘jiggle’.
Now, tap the (-) for the app you want to kill instantly.

Note: This just kills that app not its associated services like notifications, etc.

iOS Battery Life Quick Fix: As usual Apple users, not Apple, fix the problem

With the rash of Blackberry blunders the iPhone really has an opportunity to steal the smartphone limelight — and what does it do? — screws it up. In the face of the global Blackberry service shortage, Apple released the iPhone 4S, and iOS 5. iOS 5 however has been coming under attack due to it draining the battery on iPhones and iPods, drastically undoing the leverage Apple could have gained over Canadian-based RIM, makers of the currently unsuccessful Blackberry.

Thanks to the iPhone 4S’s power-mongering features, the phone seems to be dying inordinately quickly. Apple, in its usual speechless-style hasn’t responded to the claims but will likely respond once they have a quick fix — or IF they find a fix at all.

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Apple’s Passcode-Based Security Fairly Useless

Apple’s security as of late is as effective as a one-armed man clapping. Not only can anyone access a password-protected iPad if it has a Smart Cover, Apple’s new brainchild Siri can be used to pilfer personal information despite a passcode lock.

Damn You Siri

A fatal flaw in Siri was recently discovered, tarnishing the reputation of the iPhone’s newest claim to fame. The flaw allows anyone to access an iPhone via voice-activated commands despite screen and password locks, access that includes personal information. By hitting the home screen button a person, using Siri, could have access to texts, the calendar and other services — all without having to unlock the home screen.

Email luckily is not accessible, “the positive thing is that accessing some of the more sensitive services in this manner, such as email, is forbidden,” says Alan Goode of Goode Intelligence, a mobile security firm. “But I could still run up a pretty impressive and annoying phone bill if I had malicious intent and if Apple missed this pretty easy to find vulnerability then what other security threats are hiding in Apple’s latest mobile OS?”.

Users can protect themselves from Siri by manually disabling the option to enable Siri at the password lock. The default setting however makes users vulnerable and should never have been the default to begin with.

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Will love-hate relationship continue with Flash 11?

The love-hate relationship that millions of computer geeks around the world have with Flash is about to change. Flash Player has gotten a makeover and released its version 11. The widely-used browser plug-in from Adobe got an overhaul, undoubtedly due to threats to its monopoly from rapidly-growing web standards competitors like HTML5, Silverlight and Java FX. Web standards coming to market is the only threat to Flash’s supremacy though, Adobe’s brainchild has also been locked out of iOS devices and has only a small foothold with Android.

With this new release of Flash Adobe seems to be forgetting the iOS lockout and other cellphone and tablet platforms, and instead is targeting high-end technology — specifically within gaming, high-end video, in-house application building and the growing 64-bit world.

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How to wiggle and arrange/delete apps in Launchpad in Mac OS X Lion

Apple introduced Mac OS X Lion with a gradual shift towards iOS or an iOS-ish experience. Here is how you can wiggle, arrange, delete Apps on your Launchpad on Mac OS X Lion, pretty much like how you do on you iOS devices (iPhone, iPad or the iPod).

Here’s how:

Launch Launchpad or do the three finger swoop-in.
Click and Hold on an App till they started to wiggle.
Now, you can arrange, group them into folders or even delete Apps.

Adobe moves beyond Flash — finally

Adobe is finally moving beyond Flash. Sort of.

Adobe is giving up their sole focus on Flash and entering the exciting world of HTML 5. Before you get too excited — they are only releasing a first preview of their new HTML 5 tryout — Edge. Could this be Adobe’s first foray into the eccentric world of internet web standards?

Despite their efforts to push Flash on everyone — including iOS users — Adobe seems to be recognizing the abilities of programming, outside of their own brainchild Flash. This very likely comes after several technologists describe Adobe’s clinging to Flash a “living in the past”.

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