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Launch Apps from iOS Notification Centre using LaunchCode

Mike Hudson
Intelligent Apps Releases LaunchCode Shortcut With Notification Center

Intelligent Apps Releases LaunchCode Shortcut With Notification Center

If you love your iPhone and your Apps so much so that your iPhones pages are crammed full with many apps, you’ll know how painful it can be searching all those icons for that app you’re after. Sure you can use Spotlight to quickly search and launch your app, but if it’s a collection of apps you launch all the time check out LaunchCode.

Using LaunchCode you can launch Apps from iOS Notification Centre, or by drawing predefined custom symbols inside the launch pad of the app.

The ultimate goal of LaunchCode Shortcut Center is for users to use their iPhone as an extension of themselves and not as the focal point of their attention. They will be able to complete tasks, call contacts, listen to their favorite radio station, and even open Maps with directions to their home all without looking at their phone. Muscle memory will take over. All that is required is for one to draw their symbol on the screen and the phone will obey their command.

With the ease of this user interface, this is the only app iPhone users will ever need in their iPhone dock. Unlike other productivity apps, LaunchCode injects the human interface into the iPhone. Humans communicate nonverbally in ways such as with gestures, letters and symbols, and now can communicate with an iPhone the same way.

Intelligent Apps plans to release two versions of LaunchCode. A free version which users can program with up to 5 app shortcuts and 5 action shortcuts and a paid version with which users can program unlimited app shortcuts and action shortcuts.

For more LaunchCode information, including more features, screenshots and videos, check out the official LaunchCode website.

Device Requirements:

  • iPhone and iPod touch
  • Requires iOS 6.0 or later
  • Size: 40 MB

Pricing and Availability:

Full version is available for £2.99 while the lite version is available for Free. Both apps are available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Productivity category.

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TextExpander touch 2.6 Adds the Fleksy Keyboard

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tetouch iOS7 icon Smile, a developer of productivity applications for Mac and iOS, has released TextExpander touch 2.6, an update for the iOS version of their customizable typing shortcut tool. The update adds support for the Fleksy keyboard as well as various minor fixes.

TextExpander touch is £2.99/$4.99 available on the App Store and requires an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch running iOS 7.

What’s new in TextExpander touch 2.6:

  • Support for Fleksy, a new color keyboard that makes touch typing easy and accurate
  • Various minor bug fixes

TextExpander touch Features:

  • Type faster on your iPhone/iPad/iPod touch using short abbreviations that expand into long snippets of text
  • Compose notes quickly and easily that contain frequently-used text like addresses, phone numbers, email signatures, URLs, etc.
  • Automatically insert your notes into Mail, SMS and Twitter clients, or copy-and-paste messages into other apps on your iOS device
  • Use your snippets directly in many TextExpander-enhanced iOS apps
  • Sync your snippets using Dropbox, or import your snippet groups from your Mac via your local wifi network
  • Share snippet groups with other iOS devices and Macs on your local network
  • Save composed notes in an archive for reuse
  • Organize snippets in groups
  • Sort snippets and organize groups via drag and drop
  • Add Predefined Groups such as emoji, accented words, symbols, and HTML/CSS
  • Add snippet groups available online via URL
  • Create “fill-in-the-blank” snippets including text fields and multiple choice options to quickly customize a snippet upon expansion
  • Create and use formatted text and plain text snippets in notes or when sending to email
  • Add macros to your snippet with the “Insert” menu to include things like the current date and time, clipboard contents, nesting of other snippets, and more

System Requirements:
iOS 7

Pricing:
£2.99/$4.99
For more information on TextExpander touch, please visit:
http://smilesoftware.com/TextExpander/touch/

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Popular Calendar App FREE for 48 hours

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Calendars 5 is an extremely popular Calendar app alternative which normally sells for a premium in the AppStore. However, you can currently grab it completely free of charge for the next 48 hours!

Calendar App

Calendars 5 not only manages your events, but also seamlessly hooks into iOS reminders too. Giving you a one stops hope experience in time keeping.

Unlike the stock calendar app, appointments can be made using natural language input. For example “meet Dave for lunch at 12 on Tuesday”

Calendars 5’s iPad variant makes full use of the iPads large display, and looks nothing short of first class!

The app is only 23mb, and will work on any iOS device running iOS 6 or higher.

You can download Calendars 5 from the AppStore using this link

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Flappy Bird Multiplayer to land in August

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Flappy Bird

Flappy BirdBack in February a game took the AppStore by storm, causing mountains of controversy at the same time… That game was the brain child of Dong Nguyen, and was of course called Flappy Bird. The crazily addictive game split people into two groups, those who played and loved it and those who didn’t play and hated everything about it.

Although the game was only available on the AppStore for 26 days, it caused a phenomenon never seen before from one small app. People where actually buying and selling devices simply because they had the game installed! Totally insane..

Dong has since ‘leaked’ to the press that a new Flappy Bird variant is on it’s way.. He expects to have it published to the AppStore by the end of August. It it’s predecessors success is anything to go by it’s going to be a huge hit!

It’s also reported to be a multiplayer variant of the game, meaning you can pit your bird flapping skills against your friends and family. At this stage it’s not known if it will be a local network multiplayer game or if it will be hooked up to Apple’s Game Centre.

Maybe – just maybe, this time it will manage to survive more then a calendar month in the store.. One things for sure, it’s going to make Dong a very rich man..

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Facebook 10.0 for iPhone released

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In an unexpected twist from Zuckerbergs illogical timeline sorting, the latest release of the Facebook app for iOS features a new setting… One that 99.98% of Facebook iOS users have been crying out for!

You can now actually sort your feed by most recent posts! Who’d have thought it.. Finally you don’t have to see what Facebooks algorithm thinks you want to see.

All be it slightly hidden away, under the right hand side menu system, and not at the top of the screen like in past app updates.

Facebook Settings

Stay tuned for a more in-depth review of the Facebook app and it’s updated features.

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