After announcing that it would be rolling out a new Verizon Cloud service to iOS and Android users back in April, the carrier provided an update today informing us that the service is now available to iOS devices and additional Android users. The app, available for free on the App Store here, will allow users to securely back up and access their content in the cloud.

Verizon Cloud is now available for iOS devices and additional Android devices, including the Samsung Galaxy S4 and the DROID DNA by HTC… Whether customers are looking to save text messages, call logs, contacts, music, multimedia or other files, Verizon Cloud allows for up to 125 GB of storage.

The service will also allow for users to transfer some content from the cloud to multiple devices, including the ability to sync photos and videos, stream music, and access documents. You’ll also be able to backup your computer via a desktop app for Verizon Cloud. 

Verizon Cloud comes with 500MB of free storage, but Verizon also has pricing plans including $2.99/month for 25GB, $5.99/month for 75GB, and $9.99/month for the maximum 125GB.

Verizon notes, “If you are an existing user of Backup Assistant or Backup Assistant Plus, all your content will automatically transfer over to Verizon Cloud.”

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Birds! In! Spaaaaaace!

As the most popular game franchise the App Store has ever seen, Rovio doesn’t like to giveaway its prized Angry Bird apps for free, but for the first time ever you can now download Angry Birds Space for free.

Apple named Angry Birds Space as its ‘App of the Week’, which means everyone gets to download it for free for the next 7 days. If you’ve ever wanted to slingshot cute little birds into the vacuum of deep space, then here’s your chance to do so risk free.

Source: App Store

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Shazam has today launched a universal app offering iPad support for the very first time. The release boasts a number of nifty new features, including auto tagging, a dynamic home screen, the ability to flip through recent matches, and more.

Shazam’s new auto tagging feature is great. Turn it on and your iPad will automatically listen out for music, TV shows, and TV ads that are playing around you. The feature also works in the background, so even after you’ve closed the Shazam app and started using something else, it’ll continue listening.

When you open Shazam up again, you’ll be able to flick through all of the matches it has made and add the ones you like to your list of favorites.

In addition to this, Shazam for iPad has a new dynamic home screen that allows you to browse through the music and media being tagged around you in real-time (only available in the U.S. for now). You can also see the hottest tracks globally, view tags by city, and find out what your friends are tagging.

Check out the new Shazam for iPad video below:

The new Shazam app for iPad is free, and available to download now from the App Store.

Source: App Store

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Evernote has today rolled out a new Reminders service to its clients on the Mac, iOS, and the web. The new service rolls three of Evernote’s most-requested features into one, delivering in-app and email alarms, quick note-based to-do lists, and the ability to pin notes to the top of your note list.

You can use Reminders by clicking on the alarm icon located at the top of a note on Mac and the web, or at the bottom of a note on your iPhone or iPad. You can then set a time and date for when you’d like to complete the note, or when you’d just like to be reminded of it.

When the time comes, Evernote will present you with an in-app alarm, as well as an optional email the day the Reminder is due. You’ll also be able to see all of your Reminders together within the new Reminders section at the top of your notes list.

You can change the order of Reminders in this section simply by dragging them up and down the list. When they’re complete, simply tap the check box, or, on iOS, swipe the Reminder away. Completed Reminders are removed from the list automatically.

To make Reminders even more powerful, and to keep them neatly organized, Evernote has made them notebook-specific. So when you add a Reminder inside one notebook, you’ll only see it inside of that notebook — not inside others.

You can see them all together inside the “All Notes” view, however.

Just like notes, Evernote syncs Reminders across all of your devices — though initially Reminders will only sync to other devices that support the new feature. Those created on your iPad won’t show up in the Windows app, or on an Android-powered device, then.

Evernote encourages you to use Reminders for remembering birthday gifts, project planning, vacation packing, and for remembering appointments.

To find out more about Evernote Reminders, click the source link below, or check out the trailer at the bottom of this post. And if you don’t already have Evernote, you can download it now — for free — from the App Store and the Mac App Store.

Source: Evernote Blog

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After being pulled from the App Store back in April for violating Apple’s latest guidelines, AppGratis has turned to Android to keep its app recommendation service alive. The company has this week launched a new app in Google Play that promises a free app every day, plus discounts of up to 90% on paid Android titles.

The new AppGratis app has been “designed from the ground up just for Android,” but the service itself is very much the same as that which operated on iOS before its ban.

In addition to offering a free app every day and big discounts, AppGratis also provides “freemium giveaways,” including free in-app purchases, level and content unlocks, and more. It’ll send you one notification every day to let you know then the latest download is available.

Every app that AppGratis recommends has been “hand-picked and tested thoroughly (by a real human being),” so theoretically, every one you install should work well. Tomorrow’s deal will be the popular game EDGE Extended from Parisian Studio, which will be free for the very first time on Android.

Despite its removal from the App Store, AppGratis still boasts more than 10 million users on iOS. It’s unclear whether the company was already planning an Android app, but you can be sure that its iOS ban sped up its development.

AppGratis is just one of many app recommendation services that are being turned away by Apple. The Cupertino company’s latest App Store guidelines, which were introduced in October, ban iOS apps that promote other iOS apps from other developers.

Fortunately for AppGratis, this isn’t a problem on Android.

Source: Google Play

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