#smartphone app

[s2z]

Swanston Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. 2025-07-02 11:33:11

Testing Adobe's new experimental camera app Indigo.

Pretty impressed so far.

[nintendocafe]

Super Nintendo World wrist bands interact with the smartphone app and can be used to collect coins and character stamps. They can also be used to complete “key challenges” that will lead to working together with other attendees in boss battles.

[roccondil]

So there’s this whole issue of the contact tracing and the APIs being nearly unavoidable in the two major smartphone manufacturers’ products, followed by what may become an involuntarily enforced installing of the actual apps that do the tracing.

If so, rather than resist the apps, are there any ways to overwhelm the tracing system? Make it useless to use on those who don’t want their every interaction to be tracked?

[intelligentliving]

RespondASAP App Locks Kids Phones Until They Respond To Parents

A dad from the UK had difficulties getting his kid to reply to him until he came up with RespondASAP, an app that locks a child's phone until they respond.

[odaclan]

This is an interesting visual novel(?), because its main sell is that unlike most other anime games, you can type your own response and not just select from pre-existing options.

The premise is that a mysterious boy named Yoshirou 与四郎 approached the main character, and connected their cellphone to the Sengoku period. With that you can chat with samurai young lords. You can choose to make friends with Hikotarou (Mitsuhide), Kippoushi (Nobunaga), Bontenmaru (Masamune), or Benmaru (Yukimura). Yoshirou, as it were, is the childhood name of Sen no Rikyuu, so I’m not sure what’s that supposed to mean. 

If you’re an older player, you can treat this as a babysitting job and have cute conversation with a little kid. If you’re a younger player (maybe 10 or so? The game is marketed as 12+) and are interested in pursuing them romantically, it’s also a valid option. The game also has a dress-up feature to change your young lord’s costume, and I’ve seen screenshots of scenes where the little samurai are in the modern day. 

As I do not play it, I’m not entirely sure how everything works within game logic. Maybe the phone can also summon the little samurai to the modern day like a portal or something? Also I don’t know why the samurai lords have cellphones to chat with in the first place. But, well, it looks like it’s aimed towards very young audience so I guess it’s best to not think too much about it.

[goodblacknews]

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[intelligentliving]

This New App Let's Your Phone Judge Your Fashion Sense

Researchers have designed a smartphone app that let’s you know whether your outfit is fashionable or not, and it can make clothing suggestions too.