Microsoft is bringing a fully featured version of Outlook to iOS and Android today. The launch comes less than two months after Microsoft acquired email app Acompli in early December, and the software maker is turning Acompli into Outlook mobile. Available for free in the App Store or Google Play, the new Outlook apps are identical to Acompli. This is simply a rebrand for now, but that wonât be the case for long. Microsoft is planning to update its new Outlook apps regularly....
Messaging apps and social networks have overtaken email for many consumers as their primary way of communicating with people — with some collaboration startups like Slack specifically aiming to kill email altogether. Now a new email app hopes to reverse that trend, bringing people back into the email fold by adopting messaging characteristics.
Since around March of last year, Pushbullet has done a damned good job of forwarding messages and notifications from your Android phone to your Mac.Today, Pushbullet gains support for iOS — and while they’re at it, they’ve launched a dedicated Mac app and raised $1.5M.
While there’s no shortage of mobile calendaring applications on today’s App Store, most are designed to serve the needs of office workers who need to carve out time for things like conference calls or meetings. A new calendaring app called Shifts, launching today on iTunes, is instead focused on a different demographic: those employees who work in shifts, like nurses, servers…
This week's list includes Adobe's Lightroom on Android, a new app focused on hyperlocal discovery and the latest title in the Words With Friends franchise.
As you may know, the power-duo of Yosemite and iOS 8 make moving documents between your Mac and iOS devices a piece of cake thanks to AirDrop, Apple's cool and useful peer-to-peer file sharing service. But AirDrop comes with a caveat: It's not supported on older Mac OS and iOS devices. To resolve this little conundrum, I've resorted to a number of hacks and alternatives, including Dropbox, Pastebot, and, my all-time favorite, emailing myself a file or photo on devices that don't support AirDrop....
Pick is a desktop and iOS app that aims to help you find time a good meeting time for a group of people. Instead of blasting an email out to everyone with a bunch of random times in hopes one of those works out, it collects info from all your calendars and determines when everyone has time to get together.The app quietly launched on the App Store a couple of days ago without much fan fare.
Apple Design Award-winning slacker-productivity app Finish is announcing its biggest update in a year today with the release of version 3.0 on the App Store.
Following a somewhat rocky, high-profile debut, the makers of Duet Display -- an app that allows users to press their iPad into service as a secondary display for their Mac -- have rolled out an impressive update that narrows the gap between a Duet-connected iPad and a traditional monitor.
