Shehla Mukhtar

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Cards

Evaluation

Cards is an Apple app that helps you create beautiful and creative cards with your own photos and texts. This app takes advantage of Ipad’s touch screen and make it even easier to customize your own cards.

“Just choose one of your photos and with a few taps and swipes, an elegant thank you note or “wish-you-were-here” card is on its way to any mailbox in the world.”

There are dozen of designs to choose from including holiday cards. You can even send multiple cards at once by selecting up to 12 recipients, personalizing each card, and sending them off as a single order to be mailed individually to your friends and family — perfect for the upcoming holidays.

Features that are present in this app are:

Universal app with native support for iPad

Six beautiful new letterpress holiday card designs

New layouts support up to 3 photos on a single card

Mail customized cards to up to 12 recipients in the same order

Images in iPhoto can be shared directly to Cards

Automatic image sharpening improves print quality

Enhanced Card History view on iPad

Improvements to address verification

Improvements to the checkout process

“Each card is crafted from premium cotton paper using a centuries-old printing method that presses a design and ink into the card for a unique look and texture. It’s like having your own personal letterpress.”

  Opinion

I am interested in this app because I love to make cards on special events. Though I always forget to buy one, this app helps me create card which is memorable and beautiful to send to anyone you want. You can send a customize letterpress card cheaper than buying a card at your local store. In addition, you get notified when it arrives. It is an app that is necessary and truly shows how Apple devices simplify your life. I’ve tried using various programs to make cards myself, but they always had a “home-made” look, not the nice custom look I wanted. This app definitely helps me with making cards so I don’t have to go to the shop and buy them.

The Cards app is free, and it was available in the iTunes App Store on iOS 5 release day. Creating a card in this app is pretty simple. You first select a category by tapping one of the icons at the bottom of the screen: Thank You, Holiday, Baby, Birthday, Love, or Travel. Then you can take a photo and choose an existing photo, and then you can move the picture around and center it in the photo area. Customize the inside and write whatever text you want, then select the recipients address from contacts or type it in. You completed the card and your completed card designs are saved with your iTunes account.

This app can certainly help those who love to send creative and original cards to their loved ones, and make their cards not look you only have two crayons in my box of Crayolas.

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Pulse

Evaluation

Pulse is an app that makes reading news more fun and engaging. It takes your favorite website that turns them into colourful and intriguing mosaic. You can tap on the article to see a clean and elegant view of the news story. You can even save stories to read them later and sync them with Instapaper, Read it Later or Evernote. You can also share your stories via facebook, twitter and email. It is easy as two taps.

The purpose of this app is to present news items from the web or social network in a more visually appeal format.

Pulse contains a mosaic of uniformly sized cards (news items) arranged in rows. You can Scroll up and down to see all the sources on a page; scroll left and right within rows to see the different posts and updates. The combination of text and images makes it easy to browse posts and offers an enticement to click and read. Pulse's animations are minimal, but smooth and visually appealing.

Pulse arranges feeds in five different "pages," two of which are pre-populated. Adding and managing feeds is straightforward; just tap the + bar at the bottom of a Pulse page or the gear icon in the upper-left corner. Users can choose from featured feeds, browse for individual feeds within 17 categories, search for or add RSS feeds individually, and import subscriptions from a Google Reader account.

A new feature called Pulse.me lets users star stories and save them to their personal profile created on the iPad. You can then view the stories you save on your iPad, iPhone, or Android device on the web when you go to http://pulse.me. Sharing buttons sit on the bottom right corner of the Pulse app's reader area. Users can quickly tap and post to Facebook or Twitter, or share the story via other available apps, Instapaper, and e-mail.

  Opinion:

I am interested in this app because it makes discovered news more appealing and creative. It helps understand and increases the interest of all the people to read news around the world. Pulse offers easy access to compelling content from various news sources all in one place. This app covers just about every category and top news source out there.

After spending some quality time with Pulse it became apparent that its no-frills interface and streamlined news feeds presented both pros and cons to the app.

Pulse is initiative navigation throughout and it as a pleasing interface. Pulse’s news categories cover all major interest groups that are around the world. All the users of Pulse can customize each page by selecting desired sources. Pulse offers “news packages” to fill a page by category if you are unfamiliar with that particular type of news.

It also has a social aspect of sharing content through Twitter and Facebook. Pulse is open to save news content to a personal account via Pulse.me.

There are stories on pulse that are crisp and clean, not disturbing. Pulse also has good blend of ima

gery and text to make a specific story quick and easy to read. Pulse is a fantastic news reader app for novel and hardcore news junkies alike. The app acted noticeably sluggish after maxing out the number of sources, but after I consolidated my feeds down to 3 pages at 12 sources each the app seemed to run better.

Overall, I would not hesitate recommending this app to anyone looking for a versatile news app.

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Mixr

Evaluation

Mixr is a DJ app for all the people who like “DJ-ing!” This app was designed to redefine the DJ experience for everyone out there. Mixr offer a rich variety of features. First off, you can pitch, tap to tempo, scratch, multi-cue and mix with precision. You can manage your iPod library with the revolutionary Crate Manager. Make crates with the touch of your finger in the drag-n-drop interface, you have complete control over your mixes.

You can record your mixes and play them back in sleek player. When you record a mix it automatically creates a playlist! Use Mixr and turn your IPad into the best mobile with DJ Turntable Studio.

Its features include:

Interface:

Dual Multi-Touch Turntables

Audio Waveforms

Multi Cue Loops

Tempo

Equalizer

Effects

Quick Loader

Double-Tap Slider Reset

Manual Crossfader

Crate Manager

Audio:

Tap to Tempo

Tempo control (+/- increments)

Pitch-Bend (6%, 12%, 25%, 50%, 75%)

4-band equalizer (-24 dB to +6 dB)

General:

  Pre-cueing thorough headphones (Mono Split)

Advanced recording

Auto track listings

Auto-saving (cues, crates, bpm, waveforms)

Fully optmized for iOS 5

Mixr includes pretty much everything a DJ would need to play a set at a party or any kind of social gathering. Songs are loaded from the music library in the form of two vinyl records and the user takes it from there. These songs and whatever metadata users have added – like cue points – are then stored in a virtual crate.

Opinion:

I am interested in this app because it is a very captivating and an intriguing app. Simply by using your one finger, you can create multiple crates in its drag-n-drop interface. It allows you to record your mixes and play them one by one in a sleek player. It is an app that is very easy and simple to use. Simply by using A and B buttons, you can perform automatic crossfade. You can Tap anywhere on your screen to rapidly change values. You can check out your training tutorial videos and enhance your DJ skills.

The Mixr is known as “The Modern DJ.” I think it shows potential but has some way to go in terms of refinement to win over customers from other similar apps. The crate system takes some getting used to and certainly once you've got the hang of creating Crates then you stand a chance of getting the most from the application. It will be great to see where the Mixr’s team takes this and whether it will gain more popularity over the years. After all we are still on version 1.01.

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TonePad

Evaluation

TonePad is the easiest and the coolest way to make any kind of music you like. It helps you discover an inner musician in you which would be the gateway to the creativity. You can create songs by just touching the screen and seeing notes light up. You can even share these unique creation created by you with all your friends!

TonePad features a clean minimalist user interface with a full 16x16 matrix. The sound quality remains excellent regardless of how many notes are playing at the same time.

You can save unlimited number of songs on TonePad. The current song is also saved automatically on exit. Sharing your music on TonePad is the easiest of all. You just have to press the Upload button and give your friend the song code.

TonePad makes making music much more addictive as because it lets you make TonePad ringtones and share those with your friends…..so you can get them hooked on musical crack, too.  

TonePad is known as a pad full of tones. You simply press them in a random fashion and it creates a synthesized tune for you. You can change the colours the bubbles appear in addition to saving your chosen composition. Similarly you can download the work of others to see how they’ve faired with the musical tool.

If you want to use either your own creations or those you’ve listened to as ring tones on your iPhone, you’ll need to spend a whopping 59p to upgrade to the Pro version of the app to do so. It’s a great way to while away the time waiting for something to happen.

Opinion

I find TonePad very fascinating as it lets out your crazy inner music skills. It helps you in a lot of things. For example, it can help you when you are stress. By randomly touching the screen, you are not only creating music but letting all the tension out! If you know how to tap on the iPhone screen, you can make beautiful melodies with the TonePad Pro app.

TonePad Pro simplifies music making, by removing every bit of confusion and painful complexity from the process. TonePad Pro is audibly pleasant, yet it is also visually a treat to look at. As your notes get picked up by the loop they illuminated and emit a glow that radiates away from the center in colorful waves.

You can even go into the settings and customize the 3 types of colors for the foreground, background and the pulse color to create some seriously customized songs.

You hardly need any musical knowledge at all with this app. You'll have yourself writing catchy jingles in no time at all. All you have to do is draw on the grid, filling in the dots. It's already set up in a suitable scale for you - that will work.

TonePad is by far the most original app we have seen and it is greatly recommended. You can whip out new ringtones in a blur and go crazy coming up with cool melodies.

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Hipstamatic

                              Evaluation

Hipstamatic is an app that aims to inspire the world to live more beautifully and creatively. It encourages people to use photography as a gateway to creativity. It uses the iPhone's camera to allow the user to shoot square photographs, to which it applies a number of software filters to make the images look as though they were taken with an antique film camera. The user can choose between number of effects which are presented in the app such as lenses, films and flashes. Hipstamatic is part of a retro trend in photography, which has seen a rise in the popularity of cheap and technically obsolete analog cameras.

Hipstamatic also include many social networking features that could benefit all the users using this app. The application's styling is based on the style of a cheap plastic analog photographic camera.

Hipstamatic users must pre-select films and lens that they intend to shoot with. The final result is very unpredictable and more like a traditional print photography. The app has already made its way into the interior pages of magazines like Everyday Food. Hipstamatic has been around 2009 and is extremely popular app. Apple even names it app of the year 2010.  With Hipstamatic you cannot edit the pictures that you haven’t taken with the app itself.

What really sets Hipstamatic apart from the myriads of lesser vintage look apps is the quality of the filters. The app has several ‘lenses’ available, each one giving a different vintage look, with some ‘films’ and ‘flashes’ also available to tweak the effect.

You can also order great quality prints from within the app, and share your prints to FaceBook, Flickr or Tumblr.

Opinion

This app is greatly useful to all the people who want their picture to look more creative than just normal picture. It is a first step to take with photography to enter more creativity. The app is beautifully designed, but does take a little bit of getting used to and because there are plenty of features accessed through the visual metaphor of a vintage camera it can be a little fiddly to use – just like the real deal.

Hipstamatic gives you dependable results with a vintage feel at a great quality. Hipstamatic is fantastic. I was an early purchaser of their app and have no doubts they already have a large and interesting business and will continue to grow that business.

I believe that Hipstamatic turned our smartphones into small toy cameras with all its functions. Hipstamatic involves you in the act of choosing your personal features which gives you impression of being the author or the producer of the photos.

“The Hipstamatic for iPhone is an application that brings back the look, feel, unpredictable beauty, and fun of plastic toy cameras from the past."

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Glympse

Evaluation

Glympse is the easiest way to share your location with anyone you want in real time. No sing-up needed nor any new social network required. Recipients receive a link allowing them to view your ETA and location in real-time for the length of time you choose. There is a timer on your Glympse which helps people identify your location, but when it expires your location is no longer visible. In addition, recipients do not require any special software to view a Glympse.

Glympse is an app that helps to coordinate several people who are meeting at the same place coming from different directions.  Want to know where your friends are, just send them a Glympse via SMS, email, Facebook or Twitter and they can view it using any web-enabled device. It’s free, users do not need to sign up with them, just download a little app to your cell phone.

                                     Its features are:

 Easy: no sign-up required or friend lists to manage

Safe: your Glympse automatically expires

Live: share location in real-time

Open: share with anyone – no app required to vie

Passive: runs in the background

Global: works anywhere you have GPS and a data connection

One big difference about this app is that you have to initiate if want to broadcast yourself and also you can be selective about who gets to know it. You’re also able to set a time limit on the availability of your location. This means that Glympse isn’t constantly broadcasting your position throughout the day without your knowledge, and allows you to be entirely in control over who sees where you are.

This app surely makes you more efficient in your day-to-day activities. As it helps you coordinate with your friends, family, or co-workers in a very simpler way. Simply select a contact, set duration, and hit send.

Opinion:

I am interested in this app because it is very fascinating as it puts in control of who sees you and for how long. It is particularly safe for families, friends, colleagues, and one-time meetings. This app can greatly affect your personal life because it might be useful if you want to negotiate an extra hour of curfew with your parents, or make sure a loved one knows you are safe while running or cycling, or find family members at a theme park. This app might also be a great tool for parents who want to see where their children are on the road. Glympse appears to be one of the best cell phone location trackers out there. Glympse is the simple and safe way to let others know where you are. Imagine asking a friend to meet you at a new restaurant in your neighborhood. With Glympse, you wouldn't text her address; you'd merely send her a Glympse of your current location and with a tap on her screen, she'd navigate her way there. It can surely enhance your life. One thing users should know is that Glympse eats battery life voraciously. But considering it continuously transmits real-time information that should be expected. To try it out, especially when you are travelling and decide to provide a glimpse of your whereabouts to select family and your selected friends.

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Fandango Movies

    Evaluation:

Fandango is an android app that helps you find movies and theater listings. You can watch trailers, view fan ratings, and buy tickets fast! Fandango Movies-Times &Tickets is #1 movie ticket app. Fandango, the nation’s leading movie ticketing service and one of the Web’s top moviegoer sites is available as a free app for your Android! You can find out what is in theatres at anywhere, and anytime of the day. No matter where you are. Fandango movies makes the moviegoing experience more exciting and fun than ever!

Application Features are:

·         Use our "Next Hour" feature to quickly find movies playing within the hour in your area – sort movies by start time or distance

Find out what’s playing – use Voice Search, our search function, browse movies by “In Theaters” and “Coming Soon” lists or view by ”Most Popular” and "Top Box Office"

 View high-quality trailers and movie photos

View the most accurate show times; read fan ratings and reviews, genres, synopses, run times and director and cast lists

Find theaters closest to you using Android phone's GPS feature

                                             Add theaters to a "Favorites" list for faster searching

Purchase tickets seamlessly without leaving the app

Buy tickets for more movie screens – 20,000 and counting! -- Than on any other app, including all AMC Theatres locations!

Synch your purchases made on Fandango’s website

 No matter what device you’re on, your “Favorite Theaters” lists will sync when you sign into your account

 Fandango movies does what’s supposed to do and simple. It is free and available at anywhere and anytime of the day. This app is available as free and also charge money.  

                           Opinion:

I’m interested in this app because it makes movie outings more thrilling and entertaining. This app provides all of the information you'll need to make your next movie one that you'll enjoy, including movie synopses, reviews, ratings, trailers and content information. You can access these awesome features from your web browsing or PDA. By just few clicks you have everything you need to plan for your next movie night. This app helps you dodge long ticket lines and never encounter a sold out blockbuster. Fandango movies greatest feature is the ability to purchase tickets directly from your phone, something no movie app currently offers. This will surely enhance everyone’s personal life. Make your next night at the movies fantastic with the help of Fandango.

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Waze

Evaluation

Waze is a free social app that enables the drivers to build and use live maps, real-time traffic updates and turn-by-turn navigation for an optical commute.

It is also free to download and use, as it gathers map data and other information from users who use the service. People can also report accidents, traffic jams, speed traps, and police and can update roads, house numbers and many other things. Waze also helps users find the cheapest, closest gas station around them or along their route. Waze is available for download and use anywhere in the world, but while some countries have a full base map, other countries still require users to record the roads and edit the maps. Waze is also known for its crowdsourcing. This crowdsourcing allows the Waze community to report navigation and mapping errors and traffic accidents simply by running the app while driving. Over 3.2 billion miles have been driven by Waze userss.

                                                      I am interested in this app because not only this app is useful, but also has impressive set of features to it. For example, you can get voiced turn-by-turn directions with spoken street names, a lively map plus the ability to contribute information to other Waze users.

This app is free and available at Apple Store, Blackberry App World, and Google Play.

The creation of Waze has joined forces with other drivers nearby to outsmart traffic, save time & gas money, and improve everyone's daily commute. By simply driving around with Waze open, you're already contributing tons real-time traffic & road info to your local driving community.

Its features are:

Live routing based on community-generated real-time traffic and road info

Complete voice-guided navigation

Live maps, constantly updated by Waze community map editors

Meet-up! Pick up friends, share your drive on a live map, and see friends also on the way to your destination

Automatic re-routing as conditions on the road change.

Opinion

This app is useful because it helps us drive safe. It is hand-free and voice operated. It assists to help all 30 million drivers on the road to work together towards a common goal which is outsmart traffic and get everyone the best route to work and back, every day.                                                                                      

This app can help us in our personal life because it alerts of police, accidents road hazards or traffic jams, all shared by other drivers in real time. It's like a personal heads-up from a few million of your friends on the road. It helps us coordinate your driving with your friends when you connect with them on any social network. Now you can effortlessly drive in synch when you drive with your friends. Mainly it helps you save gas! Just by using Waze you can navigate to the cheapest gas station on your route, powered by community shared gas prices. Waze drivers can always save some gas money. This app should be an immediate download for everyone who hates traffic and has to drive to work. 

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Songza

                                    Evaluation

Songza is a free music streaming and recommendation service. The service is recommends playlists based on time of the day, mood or activity. The playlist is made by music experts. Songza offers playlists for waking up, working out, commuting, concentrating, unwinding, entertaining, sleeping, and more. Users can vote songs up or down, and the service will adapt to the user's personal music preferences. This service helps you find music not only by genre, or artists, but also on themes, interests and eras likes 80s or 90s. Songza's mission is "to play you the right music at the right time".

Billed as a "music concierge," the free service and universal iPhone/iPad app is packed with playlists for any situation — relaxing on the beach, soothing traffic-jam road rage, getting work done (with lyrics or without), by genre, and even music recommended by some top-notch artists.

This service is free service help people relate to their music. No audio ads, no listening limits. You can buy the track on iTunes, mark the playlist as a favorite, or share a link to the playlist via Facebook, Twitter, or email.

This service already exists and is headquartered in the Long Island City neighborhood of New York City. This service is easy to understand. It contains visual and oral instructions for a person to follow up.

Opinion

I am really interested in this service because it helps me relate to music. I use Songza daily in my life. Either while relaxing, working or entertaining. This service is helpful in many ways. First off, it is 100% free and No audio advertisements & no monthly listening limit required. It streams thousands of original playlists handmade by music experts which can very useful at different times. Yes, this might enhance your personal life as it might be something that can become as a motivation for people around the world. The music you are listening basically narrates the mood that you are feeling at the moment. If you are sad, then just play sad music. If you are happy, then you can play happy music. There are various types of music for all the emotions experience in a human being.

Songza not only has thousand of playlists, easy navigation, at no cost but is also one of the most downloaded services in the world.

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PlayerPro

My Evaluation

PlayerPro helps you organize, browse, and search your music in many ways so that you don’t have to waste time looking for mp3s.

The browsers that PlayerPro include: albums, artists, album artists, genres, songs, and playlists.

PlayerPro is currently the best music player that helps you manage your music efficiently. It also offers a browser folder that lets you organize and browse your music by folders.

PlayerPro automatically records music stats for you, including play counts, play dates and skip counts.

PlayerPro also supports a 5 star rating system that gives you the ability to tag your favorite music. PlayerPro also collaborates with iSyncr app so that your ratings can be automatically synced with iTunes each time you make a sync with the latter.

To make it more amazing, PlayerPro supports gestures. For example swiping left or right the album artwork moves to the next/previous song. Swiping a song to the right in the song browser adds the song to the now playing list. PlayerPro offers many different home and lock screen widgets to always keep your music a tap away. The widgets come in different sizes and styles (transparent, artwork, controls etc) to suit your needs.

This product already exists and is very easy to understand. It uses appropriate texts and videos to teach everyone the basics. This product is accessible to everyone who likes to listen to music. This product is definitely ready for the next generation of learners as it is already advance enough. It strappingly engages everyone who has a high interest in their music. This product will change and adapt you to be more organize throughout your life.

My opinion

I am really interested in this app because it helps me organize my music in a more efficient way. It helps you get your music back on track. If you are bored of seeing the same artwork after a while, you can ask PlayerPro to download a new one for you or even better, browse and select one yourself. This app can enhance your personal life in a very resource able way. This music player even has advance setting and options that allow you customize your library in a more restrict way.  This app can definitely keep your music organized and updated for your own benefit.

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Words With Friends

Evaluation:

Words with Friends is a multiplayer word game developed by Zynga with Friends (formerly Newtoy Inc.). Players can take turns building words crossword puzzle style with an opponent in a manner similar to the classic board game Scrabble (the rules of the two games are similar, but Words with Friends is not officially associated with the Scrabble brand). Players may look up friends either by username or through Facebook, or be randomly assigned an opponent.

This game was released on July 2009. Words with Friends is available for cross-platform play on devices running the operating systems Android and iOS (iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch).

Features of This App:

Simple and familiar gameplay you know and love

• Turn-based design lets you play up to 20 games simultaneously

• Play with your friends or match-make instantly with a random opponent

• Connect to Facebook to find even more of your friends to play

• Stay in touch with friends and family with in-game chat messaging

• Push notifications tell you when it’s your turn

• Access your games across your iPhone, iPad and/or iPod touch

This product is very self-explanatory and is easy to understand by everyone. This product already exists after 2009. This product is definitely help you become a better learner as this would enhance your vocabulary. 

My opinion:

I am interested in this tool because I like learning new words. I love playing Words With Friends which is similar to Scrabble. It helps build your vocabulary stronger and better. This product can surely help you in your professional life and your career life as it would enhance your vocabulary. This app is a way people can learn new words without getting bored or tired. It also appeals to people who love reading books. You can surely develop your use of terminology by just playing this game.

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Gridditor

My opinion

  Gridditor is a new way to edit photos quickly and easily. It make photo editing faster and more creative by showing you filters in combinations you may never expect! Gridditor shows you four filters at any given time, one in each cardinal direction with your original image at the center. There are many different filters to use in this app. For example,

Black & White (with 3 color filters)

Bleach Bypass

Brightness

Contrast

Crumpled

 Darkness

Vignette and many more

By arranging the previews in a grid, you can see the effect of applying multiple filters at once letting you edit faster, and showing you creative possibilities you may not have considered otherwise.

It is a very original way to edit your pictures. Gridditor helps you see when an edit is “too much” without having to take a guess and possibly undo the edit to find the correct level. Gridditor is helpful in your professional learning life because it provides you with creative and artistic pictures. You can change the picture in whatever way you want. This app can help you at any time in your life; while doing a project, a scrap book for memories and something more professional. Gridditor can significantly enhance many people’s life. It is an app that has been created to make people’s life easier and quicker. It has been created to help people not sit at there computer and try editing one picture for a very long time. People using Gridditor can finish editing their pictures in a realistic time and not waste any moments from their busy lives.

My Evaluation:

  I am interested in this app because it is something that is unique and is very helpful in many ways. For example, when you’re done applying filters to your photo with Gridditor, you can share it on any social network. For example, Facebook, Twitter, Mail, assign it to a contact, save to your Camera Roll, anything you want. There are a lot of features presented in this app. For instance, Gridditor has 19 filters and effects that you can choose from. You can also individually choose each filter each time. To get a closer look at what one of the versions of your photo looks like, just tap it to make it bigger. If you like how it looks and wants to apply the effect, tap the checkmark. Gridditor will then consider this new version the original and randomly choose 4 more effects.

Yes, this product already exists, and has been used by many people around the world!

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