Fresh iPhone Apps : Patch, Viddy, iShop Green

Hey Enjoy with Three Fresh iPhone Apps Patch, ishopGreen and Viddy ...

Patch brings hyper-local news, headlines and weather right to your iPhone for your distinct area

iShop Green is all about finding environmentally responsible products, both locally and online.

Viddy an Instagram-like app for stylizing and sharing video clips rather than photos.

Patch (iPhone, iPad) Free

Hyper-local news service Patch brings the latest and most relevant news for your area. The service covers lots of towns all over the country, so finding the news that matters the most to you is simply a matter of finding your area on Patch’s coverage list. Once you’re keyed in, the news service brings you weather, headlines, business listings and events near you.

It also comes with all the social networking functions you’d expect to see from other services, like the ability to share stories by email and on Facebook and Twitter.

Viddy (iPhone, iPad) Free

Viddy is kind of like Instagram, but with video. The free app allows you to shoot short video clips and share them within the Viddy social network, as well as to adjust the clips with stylized filters. Viddy includes “cinematic production packs,” which allow you to filter and adjust your video to create clips the way you want them.

Adjust a clip to your liking and it’s just one more button to send it out to the Internet and your friends. In addition to getting feedback through Viddy from your network of friends and family, the app also connects to various social networking services, including Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. And when you’re not sharing video of your own, you can wander the annals of films shot by other users.

iShop Green (iPhone, iPad) Free

If you’re looking to reduce your impact on the environment the economy, iShop Green is looking out for you. The app is filled with information about shopping with an eye toward being a responsible environmental custodian -- like finding foods that are grown locally and sustainable products to buy online.

In addition to using your iPhone’s GPS to track down local green shops for you, the app also contains some social networking features, including message boards where you can discuss green products and get recommendations and the ability to share what you find on Facebook and Twitter.

Download the free Appolicious iPhone app

Google Translate, Now With Voice Input

Google Chrome 11 added support for HTML speech input API. " With this API, developers can give web apps the ability to transcribe your voice to text. When a web page uses this feature, you simply click on an icon and then speak into your computer's microphone. The recorded audio is sent to speech servers for transcription, after which the text is typed out for you." Google Translate is the first Google service that uses this feature. If you use Google Chrome 11 Beta , Google Chrome 12 Dev / Canary or a recent Chromium build and visit Google Translate (Click Here) , you can click the voice input icon. Right now, this feature only works for English, so you need to select "English" from the list of input languages.

Google Calendar's Favicon Changes Every Day

When Google Calendar changed the Favicon , many people wondered why it only shows 31 . "Does it mean that starting today, every day will be the 31st ? Seriously, favicon should be changed everyday to match the date," suggested a Google Calendar user. Google listened to the feedback and the favicon will now change Every Day. "When you look at the Google Calendar icon at the top of your browser window, it will no longer always display 31 but will instead change to reflect the current day of the month. Today's date is now always a short glance away." Google Calendar is the first Google service that has a dynamic favicon, but you can change Gmail's favicon to show the number of unread messages . Click to Enable button.

Upload and View Videos in Google Docs

Google Docs , It is the popular cloud based Office Suit of Google . Google has been continuously adding new features for his users in Google Docs. Recently Google made Docs more advance by adding the uploading, storing and viewing video feature to Docs. Here is the way how you can upload and view video in Google Docs. Google provide 1GB space for upload a video with the maximum resolution of 1920x1080. It also supports multiple formats like WebM , MPEG4, 3GPP and MOV files, AVI MPEGPS, WMV and FLV. To upload a video just click on upload button at the left top. To watch your Uploaded video simple click on the file from your document list.

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