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Leaf Peepr, the Leaf Peeping App
by Amanda Arnold | October 13, 2011
A few Octobers ago, I ate no fewer than 50 boiled peanuts on the ride up to the North Georgia mountains in hopes of seeing yellow and red leaves, and arrived to a sad, leaf-free trail. But that was then and this is now — when there’s a leaf peeping app called “Foliage Leaf Peepr” right there on your phone.
Invention – an app that lets you write a ticket like a cop would
by Marshall Brain | December 20, 2010
You can now give anyone on the highway a “ticket”, just like a police officer would. And anyone can give you a ticket too. This is either one of the greatest ideas in the world because it will create much safer roadways, or one of the worst because it will be the end of privacy [...]
The app is called Word Lens. You point it at a sign and it translates the sign for you automatically. It is amazing to watch: This is so surprising that it seems like it could be made up. The YouTube channel that posted that video has posted only one video. When you go to that [...]
STD Testing? There’s an app for that.
by Cristen Conger | November 10, 2010
Smartphone apps are getting really personal these days. As in, down there personal. First came the PMS Buddy to help dudes track their girlfriends’ periods, and just this week, Betty Crocker released a menstrual calendar app that will send guys coupons for brownies to temper girlfriends’ PMS symptoms (because everyone knows that chocolate is better than Klonopin for tranquilizing hormone-crazed women). But the eSTI2 project from the University of the London may very well take the cake.
Jailbreaking is a way of hacking an iPhone, iPad or other iDevice that allows the user to access third-party apps. Chris and Jonathan explain how jailbreaking works in this episode.
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